EXETERRPG: (03 0045) COO Ensign (sg) Paul Sleeford

[Paul Sleeford]

Mission: Murder on the Exeter Express
Day: 03
Stardate: 2445: 12 : 03

(USS Exeter - Holodeck 3 - COO Ensign(sg) Paul Sleeford 00:45)

Sleeford stto, hand behind his back, his fingers touching the hilt of the
knife that permanently lived there, as it has since he began training at
the age of eighteen.Seeing the anguish in Iras face and the tears as he
cradled the body of Greta, the hatred for the thing at the front welling up
inside of him.

Hmmm, I have an idea, lets make things more fun. Lt. Cortez, oh Lt. Cortez,
always the victim, never the bridge and peg leg Paul Sleeford, do you want
to play?"

Looking up at the insult Sleeford snorted, "Pegleg Paul, PFFFT, my nephews
come up with better insults and their only five years old.
Pegleg...Pathetic, just like you pathetic and don;t know when your beaten. "

"I know, how bout, Erin, you pick for Paul and Paul picks for Erin. If you
say truth, the other has to answer a question truthfully, but if you say
death, then the other person has to face a death trap. So what will it
be. Truth or Death?"

"No.”

Sleeford turned as Cortez spoke, "Erin don't she wants us to be divided,
don;t let her get under your skin"

 "Excuse me?"

 “You heard me. No.”

"Are you sure that is your answer?"

Erin laughed softly, “You don’t seem to understand what i said. I said NO!”
she yelled, looking at the woman with utter contempt as she continued,
“You…. you think that this scares me? That this whole situation is bad? I
refuse to choose. I will not choose for one of my friends, my colleague. I
will not make a choice that will have long lasting effects on him. You …..
Think that you know me, think that because i have cracked before that you
can do it to me again? NO! I will not choose and i will not have a
colleague choose something for me. My choice, my life.  You have no power
over me. You are the weak one here. So, go ahead. Do whatever you wish to
me. You have no hold on me. SO DO IT!” she screamed, taking several deep
breaths and feeling the pain in her palms as her nails dug into them.

Maxine began laughing maliciously. "Stupid, stupid girl. You still think
you are playing a game you can win. In my universe, before I escaped it, I
was responsible for the death of more than half the beta quadrant, do you
think I am scared of your little rants." Maxine stood up and smiled. "I may
be trapped here on the Exeter, and yes any moment now your command team
will probably stop you. I hadn't counted on a captain as deliciously
determined as your Trip or a first officer as beautiful and intelligent as
Bracken. Hell even those two Romulans are more trouble than I accounted
for. I am a trapped animal. Which means I am more dangerous now than ever
before. And you choose to test me, no child. It is I who will test you. I
will make them all suffer, and you will watch. You don't get to choose
anymore. I will wait until each and everyone of them is dead, and when they
are. I will leave you alive to live with the pain."

(reply Erin)

"And because of your insolence I will kill one of your colleagues. Will it
be Ire. No he is already broken. Will it be Lana, no Stan, or Sleeford, no,
I still have hope for them. Oh I know the cousin of your good friend Ravok."

(Reply Erin, Nesha iyw)

"Goodbye Nesha, take solace in knowing you aren't the first Romulan I
killed."

(reply Nesha iyw)
.
Sleeford watched in mounting horror as another bolt of energy snuffed out
the life of a colleague, gritting his teeth he glared at 'Maxine' vowing to
cut her scrawny throat at the first opportunity.  Looking across to where
Ire stood, then back to where Stan and Cortez stood Sleeford nodded, if the
way to beat her was to play her sick game then so be it.

(reply Erin iyw, any iyw)

Maxine then returned to her throne and sat down. "Now then Sleeford, I
guess you are choosing for you, Truth or Death?"

Grinning Sleeford shook his head, "If you knew anything, you wouldn't ask,
I'd rather sacrifice my own life the have my friends suffer anymore, so
death, bitch, bring it on, do your worst, nothing you can say or do can
hurt me anymore."

(Reply Maxine)

(Posted by Alistair)
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