From The Halls of SCIS and DTI: The Sinkhole, Part II

Posted on 28 Jul 2016 @ 4:24am by Lieutenant Benice Gyce Ph.D.

756 words; about a 4 minute read

Location: SS McKinley, Station Hospital's Surgical Ward
Date: March 18th, 2383
Time: 1600 Hours

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Gyce had been waiting outside the OR for several hours. Whatever happened to the older Avok, he was clearly a ginormous mess. And the longer she waited, the more questions she was forced to ask to herself.

Why break about fifty laws and regs for a time jump? What must of happened to him to cause the older Avok to be so reckless? Why did he risk everything to bring that little girl with him?

"Obvious answer is that the girl is his daughter."

Gyce thought she was hearing voices until she looked up from the waiting room chair she was sitting in to see two figures in black-tie suits. The female that spoke to her was older. Graying-dark hair. Dark eyes. A Betazoid.

"Agent Kallen," she introduced herself officially. Thin, gangly. Age was starting to take away her vitality.

A bald, chunky dark skinned man reached out his hand to shake hers. His voice had a low booming resonance as he spoke. "Agent Vanoy. We're with DTI."

Gyce shook his hand politely and then checked their badges before she pointed to the OR door. "Lieutenant Jay-Gee Benice. They have yet to come out and update me."

"This must be overwhelming for you," Agent Kallen spoke in a motherly tone.

Gyce recognized the tactic instantly. Empathizing with Gyce to get her guard down. She did not respond at first, which allowed the telepath to continue her covert interrogation.

"Your head says what you see it not possible, yet your heart knows the truth of it," Kallen explained. She was not wrong either, for Gyce suspected the origins of the child long before the moment the child was rolled into the OR room beside the older Avok.

"In the Resistance, you learned quickly to compartmentalize in order to get the job done," Gyce countered with a dark grin to Kallen. "So let's drop the mind games and do just that."

"Any reason why he chose to come down time to a place that would likely arrest him?" Vanoy asked in a soft boom.

Gyce had mulled over that question herself for the past four hours. The kid was the defining factor of that equation. Dare she share her theories with a rival department? DTI had a very bad habit hiding things they did not want anyone else part of.

"We understand your unease - " Kallen tried to console.

"Stop it! You get in my head again, I'll arrest you for a Second-Degree Telepathic Assault and a Third-Degree Violation of Privacy charge," Gyce spoke almost violently as she stood up and stared her rival down.

"It think we started on the wrong foot," Vanoy spoke calmly as if trying to defuse a bomb's timer nearing zero. "We all want to know what is going on and it is likely, knowing the suspect's background, neither department can do this alone."

"...Do I need to call security?" came an uneasy male Bolian's voice. Gyce turned her head to see he was in red scrubs. A doctor.

"No... How are they?" Gyce asked as she deliberately ignored Kallen's presence.

"The girl is stable but under heavy sedation until some of her new skin grafts have fully integrated," the doctor explained. "Mister Avok, however, is stable vitally. But he sustained extensive cranial trauma. We flooded him with neural radiation to rejuvenate his ability to create new pathways... We do not know if he will maintain a steady central nervous system or not, but he asked to see you, Lieutenant."

"I'll be there... what room?" Gyce asked the middle-aged Bolian doctor.

"Post-Op ICU room eight. I told the staff to give you no more than five minutes."

"Thank you," Gyce nodded, waited for him to leave, and then looked to both Kallen and Vanoy. "Full disclosure on everything we find. And no more mind-reading. Deal?"

Vanoy looked to Kallen, for Kallen was the one that nearly set off the Bajoran. The Betazoid frowned and nodded, "We will work with your conditions, Lieutenant."

"Good. This way then," Gyce spoke with a frown while she led the other two detectives down the corridor with her cane and signature limp.

If the DTI agents thought Gyce was gullible, they had another thing coming. Secrets and manipulation was a key part of DTI's clean-up ops. And The Prophet's be damned if she let them take the future Avok away from her without her knowledge.

 

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