Bruce Johnson wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote:
> 
>> A couple of days into the jump between Serbia and Newton, Jac asks
>> Ricardo to convene a meeting of the partners, and other crew members.
>>
>> "Captain, I think we need to discuss Lessa and Rachel's presence
>> aboard the ship, so you might want to exclude Del." Jac says,
>> "Unless you've decided we can trust him with the possibility that we
>> have a wanted woman aboard and are hiding her."
> 
> Ricardo shakes his head. "He's the damned chief engineer, Jac, odds  
> are he already knows she's aboard, just because of the life support  
> readings. I'll sound him out..."
> 
> OOC> Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!! I KNEW I forgot something before we left  
> Mark!! We needed to get a Richelieu-ish "get out of jail free" note  
> for Lessa from Mazie before we left.
> 
> 

OOC: I thought about that, but *I* wasn't going to bring it up. :)

> IC>
> 
> Ricardo catches Del in a quiet moment in the Engineering spaces.
> 
> "Del, remember you told me about that little girl on your last  
> flight, seemed very un-Hooter like?"

"Yes?" Del says wiping his hands on a rag. He is dressed in slightly 
stained coveralls and is standing next to a workbench where he has been 
working on a disassembled gravity module, "I remember."
> 
> "Well, in fact she wasn't. She'd been kidnapped on Mark to use as  
> leverage against her mother who was in possession of some rather  
> incriminating documents.

"Oh? Ah!" Del's mouth drops open and then snaps shut.

> "Well, that whole bit of excitement the other night, ships blasting  
> off unexpectedly, racing across the planet, firefights that no one  
> admits to having..." Ricardo shrugs, "Well that was all decoy for an  
> extraction: to wit, one little girl, to be reunited with her mother,  
> which she was, quite happily."

Del nods, "I wondered..."

> Ricardo sighs, and continues.
> 
> "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of kind of  
> wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She was framed, there  
> is proof of it and in the hands of the *right* authorities on Mark,  
> but to the outside world she's still in trouble with the law, because  
> it's all tangled up in some rather nasty on and off-world plotting  
> against the government."
> 
> "With me so far?"

"Yeahhh!" Del drawls out putting the rag down and scratching his head 
with one finger, "Wouldn't be that MNN reporter that everybody was 
looking for, the one that supposedly blew up the MNN building, would it?"

Eris
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