Coming to light

Posted on Wed Jun 30th, 2021 @ 10:41am by Commander Caressa Melanick

Mission: Knock Knock
Location: CMO's Quarters

Caressa was pacing in her quarters, to say that she was bored was an understatement. Her minions where stationed outside her door. She was not sure if any more incidents had taken place. All her access was being monitored, so that anything that was happening Edrju would be notified.
There was a stack of books that were on her side table. She had read everything that was in her quarters. New medical manuals, novels, even the books that she brought from her ranch in Montana. There was no more cleaning that could be done, her quarters were sparkling. Rearranging the furniture, she had moved each piece to any possible position. Crew member performance evaluations where not something she was allowed to do.
Enough was Enough, she was going to find answers even if it was something that she had to investigate on her own. She reviewed that timeline that she had given Edrju. It looked to be completed. Her arrival, time on earth, seeing the kids off, her time alone at the ranch, her departure, arrival on board and her shenanigans in the past few weeks.
Wait, did she think to peek at her security cameras at the ranch. She pulled up a PADD, hopefully they had not severed her link to her home. She crossed her fingers, it was glitchy, but she was able to link in. She entered the date and time. It was like watching grass grow, but it was necessary. She went to the replicator. “Popcorn please, heavy on the butter.” The bowl materialized and the smell wafted through her quarters. She wrapped her robe around her and settled in. The imager started to run the footage. She smiled at times, watching the kids banter and play in the house. Nothing seemed amiss as she was eating her popcorn something caught her eye. There was a blip and blur in the footage. “Computer, rewind to time index 0425.67.” The image was replayed. “Computer, stop, enhance the top right corner and resume.” There was something there, normally she would have just considered it a glitchy moment. “Computer, are there any other anomalies as the one just reviewed in the footage at the Melanick ranch image files for the reviewed star dates.”
She sat straight up in her chair as the computer worked its magic.
“There are 25 similar anomalies for the star dates selected.”
She was flabbergasted. “Computer, list each time the anomaly occurred in date and time sequence, with the area in the Melanick Ranch.”
She waited nervously. The listing appeared. It almost made her sick. In each occurrence the anomaly was with her. The fact that the kids were also there was making her angry.
“Computer, has this anomaly occurred aboard the Merc.? She was pacing in her quarters again, but at least she was getting somewhere.
“The anomaly has occurred 113 times aboard the Mercutio.”
She kicked herself for not checking this initially. She grabbed the padd and ran out of her quarters, her minions where no where in site. She just shook her head and headed the Edrju’s quarters.

Lieutenant Commander Caressa Melanick
Chief Medical Officer, USS Mercutio