<USS Avalon> "A Greater Duty"

"A Greater Duty"
by Lieutenant Commander Javan Sierra



It was the only thing that Javan hated doing. Being a department head wasn?t all it was cracked up to be. Javan figured he?d have a nice team of competent and loyal workers by his side doing his bidding and following orders. Instead, to Javan?s dismay, he gets an arrogant and inflammatory worker that is hell bent on threatening and bringing Javan down. There was something about this new Ensign Michael Bailey that pushed his buttons, but it wasn?t something he could put his fingers on.

The young ensign had that flare for the blatantly obvious and spoke his mind. Which, Javan noticed, was something that had probably gotten him in trouble a time or two before. It was a trait, at least, that Javan admired and wasn?t going to stifle. If Javan was wrong, and he was on rare occasions, about something or other he was the first one to wish someone would point it out. Unfortunately for Javan and his reputation, people who had pointed things out like that before were promptly beaten or killed ? but that was another story.

His walked down the corridors to his quarters and stepped inside. The drab interior resembled a typical Starfleet crewmen?s quarters, but there was a distinct difference. Holo-emitters sprouted up from the ground floor and hung off doorways and were visible in lights, but they?d never been activated. Javan enjoyed having his quarters simple and tidy, rather than bustling with anything more than the occasional guest. A beach island resort with floods of tourists weren?t his thing, so standard his quarters had remained.

He removed his boots and shirt. He walked around the quarters picking things up and opening up the console in the wall. The Allegiance was his new decoration, he thought to himself as he tapped the console?s control panel. It was a great addition to the Starfleet gray walls. And there was something about the titanium alloys in the ship?s hull that brought the area alive.

Recruitment for the Section was becoming more tedious and boring as time wore on. People slipped into the docket that contained all those that should be completely ignored by Section 31 on terms of stupidity, irrationality, or emotional distress. The only ones that seemed to be on his list of potential recruits was Dodge Thomas, and Gregory Orton. Everyone else seemed to be unworthy; but then again, he had been unable to meet with everyone.

Javan put the docket aside and then sealed it again. There was someone on the Allegiance that he had to take care of, someone who had betrayed their mandates and orders, someone who had completely turned their back on the way of life that they chose to follow so long ago. He was under orders to administer protocol thirty-one alpha.

He always followed orders.

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