Following Orders

Captain Jon Phanan sat alone in the security office aboard the USS Leviathan. Captain Devore, Commander Toran, Lieutenant Shaka, and Ensign Ambrose had already departed for the Catatonian city. As they passed by the office, Jon went out to greet them and wish them safe passage on their journey. Devore looked more happy then usual, but Jon placed that type of face easily.

*Shore leave just came in for the Captain.* He thought, as he watched the group move on. He grinned, and then made his way back into the office.

Now, everything was quiet. Just at that moment, the doors to the security office opened, and one of Toran's shadows entered, code named Beta, so that the person wouldn't reveal their true name.

"I have my reports for you Captain." Beta said, handing the Acting Chief of Security a PADD.

Jon took it and looked it over. Mostly the same details from the previous reports. The report just cataloged T'Kul's normal every day routine. Nothing out of the ordinary. "Thank you Beta. You are dismissed back to return to normal duties. Gamma shall take over for you."

"Thank you sir." With an about face, Beta left the office.

Jon took the time to download all of the information into Toran's personal computer terminal that was not linked to the rest of the ship and closed it up, being sure to activate the anti-incursion devices that he had installed on it. Now, to deal with his next task, the re-hiding of the evidence that Toran had against T'Kul. Another security officer walked through the door, into the office. "Mr. Murphy. You are in-charge of Security until I return."

"Yes sir !" Murphy took a seat behind Toran's desk. Jon made his way out of the office, and headed towards his destination, the Captain's quarters.

Arriving at his destination, he looked around to see that there were no other crew members in site. Then, going into a catcher's position, he reached in and removed an engineering panel from the corridor wall, and produced twosmall boxes. Jon had never opened the boxes and figured that they contained PADDs or isolinear optical chips. He then replaced the panel to the corridor wall. As he stood, the doors to Devore's quarters opened and Mrs. Devore walked out. Noticing Jon, she turned to him and asked, "And what are you up to Captain ?" With a smile.

"Nothing ma'am," Jon replied. "I had just dropped one of my containers."

"What's in them ?" She asked. She was asking too many questions to Jon's liking pertaining to these boxes. However, he kept his cool and his manners.

"Some personal things ma'am. Medals, photo emitters, and things of that nature."

"I'd love to see them."

"Actually, Mrs. Devore, I'm late to the holodeck. I wanted to drop these off at my quarters before I had to go train Ensign Truman in some more combat exercises."

"Oh, I understand." She said, looking a bit glum for not having been able to talk a little more. "Another time maybe ?"

"Of course." Jon smiled, trying to get a positive response.

Mrs. Devore smiled as well. "All right, sounds good. Another time then." She headed off on her way.

Jon started down the corridor again. *Lying to the Captain's wife. You've stooped low Phanan. However, better for her to think something, then for her to know what you're actually carrying.*

Jon looked around once more after reaching his site and determined that there was no one in site. Reaching up, he removed a panel from the wall and slid the two containers into their resting spots. Then, taking a device from his pocket, he put them on top of the two containers. The device would mask their presence from any shipwide scans done by the computer, all the way down to a personal hand held scanning device. Taking another look around, he saw nothing, then exited the room, mission accomplished !