Shadow Games

Posted on Wed Nov 15th, 2023 @ 8:06pm by Ensign Kate Kono

Mission: Hard Earned Peace
Location: Kate Kono's Office
Timeline: After the lounge incident

Kate watched from her side of the desk while Kevin Mitchell fumbled his words and scratched at his slightly pointed ears.

"... As you know. You're on the list of candidates for consideration if certain conditions arise. That whole 'budding romance' thing... If you wish it to be strictly business, I would understand." Kevin's feet moved so much under his side of Kate's desk that she thought the ships inertial dampeners would have to issue the Washington a yellow alert.

Kate however, remained calm about the situation. Q always was a meddler. She found herself smiling at the multiple situations this man put her in so that she could make the most difference. She wondered if it was a big game to him or if Q actually had a heart. This 'list' she was on at first seemed like Q was being a big perv, but that wasn't until she searched deeper into the situation...

Kate looked at her computer monitor a moment while she sat back and considered.

'Promising young Starfleet Officer vaporizes herself in a tragic accident.'

She looked from the monitor to Kevin and sighed.
"It's too bad you just don't find a girlfriend, you know? How does guy as hot as you not have one?"

"I did," Kevin said. He looked solomly at the floor. "... She died when I was eighteen. I focused on my career since then. Now that I'm twenty-five..."

Kate tapped the top of her ears.
"... And Daddy's a Vulcan. I gotcha. I know it's been seven years but I'm really sorry for your loss." Kate said. "Do you know for sure if you're going to get that bug? Or is this like, 'just in case you do'?

Kevin shrugged his shoulders.
"The doc says it's sixty-forty..."

Kate gave a slow-nod, "... The sixty being."
"- most likely," Kevin acknowledged.

Kate took a deep breath and stood up.
"Let's put that on the back burner until it becomes an issue. If it does, yeah... The things I do for Starfleet." She joked while Kevin blushed. "We obviously have bigger problems right now." Kate pointed her thumb to the door while talking about their run-in with Hela.

"Thank you, Ensign Kono."
"You're going to have to call me 'Kate' under the circumstances."

Kevin blushes and fumbled out the door. Kate's cute little smile turned to a dark glare as the doors to her office closed. She sat down in her chair and flipped the monitor back on.

'Murder Investigation Report - Starfleet Command'
Subject file, Mitchell, Kevin J - Ensign, Intelligence Department.