[ussgeorgetown] "Stepping in"
- From: DrNellieCoyne@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:32:18 EDT
"Stepping in"
Rear Admiral Darius Murgo
The walls of the room were a pale Robinâs egg blue. The border around the
top edges of the walls showed tiny little starships as they weaved in and out
of
the Sol system. Hand built model starships hand from the ceiling, while
others were displayed on the night stand next to the tiny little bed and on
the
top of the dresser. The dresser also held a small hair brush, a miniature comm
badge, and a hand built back yard rocket that never got lunched. The tiny
desk in the corner of the room next to the window had a medium sized gift box
wrapped in blue metallic wrapping paper and sported slowly yellowing white
bow.
This was his room, his things, the models they built together, the present he
âd bought for his fifth birthday. The first of many birthdays that his son
never got to see come. There was so much that his son was never going to see or
do because his son was dead. His son was killed just shy of his fifth
birthday in an attack that wasnât suppose to have any survivors. Heâd
tried to
save them, heâd been coming from them, but his superiors were faster and
stronger. There were not suppose to be any survivors and yet there were. The
boy
that John had found. The little Oliver Twist whoâs overalls said he was
Joshua
Garrity.
Why was that little son of a bitch so special? Why had he been allowed to
live when Daniel hadnât? And now was he being given the life that his son
would
never had? Garrity had made it out of those mines, heâd gotten a place in the
academy, he was serving on one of the finest ships in Star Fleet, and now he
even had a girl! His was being handed a possible future that included love,
a wife, children of his own, while Daniel would forever be a nearly five year
old little boy forever lost to the father who loved him.
Darius stood in his sonâs bedroom with anger flashing in his brown eyes.
Heâ
d be damned if that boy had a happy ever after life. He wasnât Daniel which
meant he had no right to be happy. His anger dulled a little at the sound of
someone in the hallway out side Danielâs door. After taking a deep breath and
putting on a warm smile, Darius walked over and opened the door.
âYes Frankie?â He asked the little girl who stood on the other side of the
door.
The little girl with her fatherâs eyes and his curls in a lighter shade of
brown, looked up at her father. She knew she wasnât allowed in that room, and
she knew better then to bother her father when he was in there, but her mother
had sent her. âMommy says that if your going to make dinner then you need to
get the grill goes or sheâs gonna do it herself.â
Darius laughed. âTell mommy I need another half hour and then Iâll start
it, I promise.â
Frankie nodded as she smiled up at her daddy. âIâll tell her but she
isnât
going to like it.â
Darius laughed again as he watched his oldest daughter head back down
stairs. He turned back around an looked over the room one last time before
clicking off the light and closing the door tightly shut behind him. He then
made
his way down to his study.
âComputer record message.â Darius called out as he lowered his tall
slender
frame into his desk chair. When the computer told him to begin recording he
looked right into the screen. âI over heard the most interesting conversion
yesterday, John. It would seem that Joâs girl has a crush. Now I know Iâve
warned you over and over and that it goes in one ear and out the other, but
Iâm
not going to allow your oversights to hurt Joanna. Either you keep that so
called boy,â The words stuck in Dariusâ throat like dry sand. âof yours
away
from Joannaâs girl or I swear old friend Iâll do it myself.â
After pressing a button on his screen Darius nodded to himself. âComputer
send message to Captain Johnathan Hale on the Georgetown.â He then picked up
a
padd and started to tap out a second message.
âMessage sent.â The computerâs soft voice replied.
âSend second message to Lt. River Langdon at JAG.â
âMessage sent.â
Darius sat back in his chair for a moment. He had to look out for his
family, which included John, and for those his loved ones loved. John would be
pissed for a while, but heâd get over it. Their friendship had gone through
to
much for it to be totally lost. Besides, when this was all over, Darius had a
surprise for his old friend. That would cheer him up.
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