The Sherlock visitation

Posted on 01 Nov 2019 @ 3:51am by Captain Jonathan Reynolds & Lieutenant Commander Aidan Datari & Lieutenant Emmony Safford

Mission: Mission 2 - The Agora crossroads
Location: CO's ready room
Timeline: MD2 12:15
1084 words - 2.2 OF Standard Post Measure

ON:

Jon was happily asleep. In his dream him and True were in a hot spring, somewhere in her native Alaska. He had his arm round her lost in her embrace when he heard a noise. He pulled up. "I can hear something flapping,"

The dream irritatingly shifted True and the spring melting away, leaving Jon stood in a forest. He looked up trying to locate the source of the flapping which was getting louder.

As soon as Sherlock realized something was wrong, he shrieked, swooping agitatedly through his master's quarters. He felt the pain his master experienced, felt the humiliation but obviously couldn't really convey it. Not wanting to wake or worry his master's mate, he swooped out of the quarters and instantly transported himself to the captain's quarters.

He hovered above the bed for a minute, wings beating furiously before he gave a worried hoot, trying to wake the man.

"An owl?" Jon murmured. In his dream walking and looking up in the trees. There was a fairly frantic breeze in his face suddenly.

Eyes whirling red, Sherlock swooped down to nip at the man's nose, screeching loudly. He grabbed the covers with his claws and started to pull at them.

Jon sat bolt upright his hands going to his nose, a stream of rapid Betazoid coming out of his mouth. Then he noticed the red eyes in the darkness and felt his covers being dragged off him. "Reynolds to security …." he said loudly fishing around for anything he could use as a weapon against this invading alien force suddenly in his bedroom.

Sherlock fanned his wings, still pulling at the covers, screeching loudly. When he felt they were pulled far enough and the man was sat up, he hovered lower, almost nose to nose. He chittered and twittered, clearly afraid about something.

"Get out of … LIGHTS," Jon demanded ready to face this attacker. The room illuminated and Jon half held a boot up ready to sock the creature then lowered it.

"Security Captain are you alright?"

Sherlock winged himself back a little, putting some space between him and the man. He continued to chitter though, almost desperate to somehow tell the man something.

"I think so but can you get Emmony Safford down to my quarters immediately," he replied

"Emmony Safford ermm yes sir," came the confused reply.

Jon got out of bed and eyed the creature carefully. "You are not meant to be here," he said firmly. Then realised he was naked. He fished around in the nearest drawer for something to throw on.

A lack of dress wasn't something that bothered the mini dragon. he craned his neck to follow the man around with his eyes. Why didn't the man understand?

Emme came out of a deep sleep when her communicator chirped. She sucked in a breath as a wave of nausea hit her but managed to answer her comm. The Captain wanted to see her, it was odd but she replied that she'd be right there and hurriedly dressed, leaving their quarters in just a few minutes.

Jon, still having adrenaline flowing through him from that startling wake up walked past the flapping pet and into his lounge. He ordered a whiskey from his replicator. Two fingers knocked it back then looked at the creature.

"Okay I get that your trying to tell me something? But its weird. Not like normal telepathic communication. So I'm a little stuck. Plus you just scared the crap out of me and ruined a lovely dream about my girlfriend," he groused. "So this better be good."

Emme pressed the chime and found the doors sliding open. Almost immediately she could hear the sound of Sherlock in distress. "What's going on?"

Upon seeing Emme, Sherlock darted towards her, then back to Jon, hovering in front of him. He continued to make distressed screeches.

Emme's heart rate spiked as she looked at Jon. "Aidan must be in trouble, there's no other reason for him to freak out like this." She tried to keep her voice calm but inside she was a complete mess.

"Thats not what I wanted to hear," Jon said, "But you know your husbands pet better than I do. Although next time I would prefer he didn't just ….. how did he get in here to be hovering over my bed?" he asked suddenly. Was this a security risk allowing this creature onboard if he could somehow zap into any where.

"Umm, he can sort of teleport places. I thought you knew? Sherlock is honestly harmless. He's been known to pull a practical joke now and then but unless someone attacks him or Aidan, he'd never harm anyone." Emme assured him, hoping she hadn't made things difficult for Aidan when he returned. "Are you sending help?"

"We need the away team to make contact with us otherwise we could be blowing their cover and put everybody in danger. I know its worrying, but I know Fox will call us in if its something over her head. We just need to try not to worry. Can you communicate that to Sherlock?" he asked.

"He can understand English, I think he'll get it. He seems to understand me when I talk to him." Emme replied, a bit more quietly. Not worrying wasn't an option. She just didn't know how not to.

The little blue continued to hover, tousling the Captain's hair at the steady fanning of his wings. He seemed scared and frustrated, why didn't the man understand? His master was in distress, he was in pain!

Jon shrugged. Okay he would give that a shot. Locking eyes with the minidragon he said clearly. "Try not to worry. And please stop flapping in my face." It was very late and he still had adrenaline coursing through his veins from waking up with a start to find him in his bedroom.

"If I have any news I will be in touch with you …." he looked from Emme to Sherlock … "both."

Sherlock warbled worriedly as he settled on Emme's shoulder at last, hiding his face in her hair.

"Okay," Jon said awkwardly. "Could I ask you both to vacate so I can get back to bed?" There really wasn't much further he could do at this point.

OFF

●●● Commander Jonathan Reynolds
Commanding Officer
USS Andromeda


●● Lieutenant Aidan Datari
Chief Science Officer
USS Andromeda

Lieutenant Emmony Safford
Science Officer
USS Andromeda