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Captain Beckett Mariner of the U.S.S Cerritos was on her ready room, trying to fight off a headache that was forming, the cause of said headache you ask? Boimler, of freaking course, who else would be?
Things were going so nicely today,the Cerritos was doing a secont contact misson with a species of humanoids that suffer from a weak immune system, something about no insect life evolving on their homeworld, as captain of her own ship Beckett was now in a position were she could help their civilization, without star fleet bureaucracy standing in her way.
In this case she was going to help by supplying vaccines, medical equipament, herbal supplements and immunobosters so they could interact with other species of the federation and explore other worlds without having to live trapped inside suits , and without the fear of infection.
Them... Boimler comes in and stops her right on her tracks, bringing star fleet regulations and rules, something about supplying them with vaccines so soon being against regulation because the federation didn't have enough data about their biology to know how their bodies would react to the vaccines, how is against regulation giving away state of the art medical equipament without filing in the RIGHT FORM!
The worst part? Boimler, the little weasel, did this in front of the entire crew and the alien delegation! now the alien government was fearful of receiving the supplies, of causing a diplomatic incident by receiving said supplies, can you believe that?
"come in" she answered the sound of someone at her door, and guess who entered her ready room? "what it's Boimler?"
"ah, i see you're still angry about earlier"
"oh? you think?" tacking the cup of coffe he was offering her "get to the point"
"we managed to salvage the situation" he took the seat in front of her "they're going to receive the vaccines.
"that's a relie..."
"but only after we ran the tests and get the bureaucracy in order"
"that's going to take weeks" groaing as her headache got stronger by the second " we could've been helping these people now!"
"it's best this way" boimler was trying to reassure her that bureaucracy was best, just great "if star fleet got word of this breach of protocol you could lose the ship"
"i had enough" she was done with that weasel, and she was going to make it crystal clear " i'm throwing her in the brig"
"you can't do that, she was following the rules"
"how about insurbodination?"
"she was just trying to protect you"
"protect me? she undermined my authority in front of the crew and an alien delegation!"
"i'm sure no one noticed"
"yes! they did!"
"baby" oh no, he was not caressing her cheek and giving her that sweet smile that makes her kness go weak, no no, not this time.
"don't you 'baby' me!" slapping his hand away she got some satisfaction on the scared sound that left his throat "this is all your fault, you had to made me fall in love with you and have kids!"
"ok, i have to go, first officer things to do"
"don't you dare leave, she's your daughter too"
"sorry i'm opening the door"
"don... d... don't you... dare"
"my foot is already outside"
"if you leave, you're sleeping on the counch tonight" if only there were someone, somewhere in the galaxy who could understand what she's going through.
.....
Meanwlie on Hawaii.
.....
"everything alright there sweetheart?"
"mmm? yes, of course" retired star fleet captain Carol Freeman turns to see her husband frowing in his hawaiian shirt and sun glasses "why're you asking?"
"you giving a smile that just screams 'evil'"
"oh, i just feeling a rush of satisfaction, like someone who caused me a lot of grief is suffering exactly as i have"
"well that's weird, because i just felt a rush of symphaty, like another man is suffering the same way i have suffered"
"eh, i'm sure it's nothing, let's go back to enjoying our retirement"
"yeah, you're probably right"
As Carol take a sip of her drink she felt not the taste of alcohol, but the sweet, sweet taste of revenge.
"suffer Beckett" the malice and happyness on her smile increasing ten fold "suffer"
"what was that sweetheart?"
"oh i was just saying that we should go surfing sometime"
The end.