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dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">(USS Illuminar - Deck 1 - Main Conference Room - 2/O&COps CMDR Dieter Gregory - 0808)</span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Gregory sat listening as the Captain admonished him. He wasn’t sure why everyone thought he was being aggressive. He was here to protect Leeza and her rights. So far, he was concerned by everything that had been said.</span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">He looked down to see his hands were trembling, so he slid them off the table and into his lap. He needed a PADD to get caught up on what had happened while he was in a coma. He could also access SPOTS and see how Leeza was recovering from the shock that Michael to her little world. </span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The tremble in his hand wouldn’t stop. He started wondering if Kylee was right. On the whole he was wrong and a little girl was going to suffer in the end. </span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">He listened quietly as the Ambassador spoke about all the consequences of not turning over Leeza to the Trill. Gregory wasn’t going to let that happen. </span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Weston got up and started pacing. Gregory listened to his impassioned speech, detailing a plan to take Leeza and a shuttle and leave. </span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Gregory met Westons gaze, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">“The rest of you have careers and lives to consider. Plus the whole destroying the new alliance with the Trill thing. I’m already an outcast in most of the universe. Adding the Federation to that long list of people who want me dead won’t be that big of a stretch. Sorry, Dieter, I know what you’re going to say, but I won’t let you throw away everything that you’ve built away.”</span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I am sorry Michael, you’ll need an engineer once you dump that shuttle, you will not prevent me from doing what is right for Leeza. We started this together, and by god, we will finish it together. But it won't come to that. We must draw a line here, now. We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight.” the second officer said as Dr. Solace walked over to him. </span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">He was feeling light headed as she started to poke and prod him. When she lifted his eyelids, he had to break his eye contact with Weston. She made some noise about catechism or chasms or something. He drifted off as she talked to Doctor Kylee. He heard a buzzing in his ear, a strange ringing. </span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dr. Solice spoke to him again, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">“When Dr. Kyllee or I give the word, you will be escorted out. You should not even be standing.”</span></p><br><p
dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#201f1e;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">“But Doctor, I’m sitting down right …” he said as he swayed slightly before starting to fall forward. </span></p><br><p
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