Ensign Clifford Peck was wondering what was going on there. All he was hearing was the one of the aliens who attempted to take over the earth, Lieutenant Commander Benson, then a man’s voice, then Carvalho’s voice, a woman’s voice. From what he heard there was a reference to a boy, who was the son of the man who was being held hostage by the alien.
He couldn’t see that what was going on, all he saw was Lopez on the deck ready to fire, Carvalho what ever possessed her to go out in the open was blocking his view of the situation. Lieutenant Commander Benson on the other hand had his body to the wall and in the darkness, Lieutenant Commander Benson should be able to see the alien and the hostage but the alien unless he was able to see in the dark should not be able to see Lieutenant Commander Benson. However because Lieutenant Commander Benson had his body to the wall it blocked his view of the situation so all he can do was to hear what was going on.
He then heard Carvalho say “What do you want?”
“Want?” asked the alien
“Yes, what do you want such that you will let these two go” said Carvalho
“What can you do?” asked the alien
“You be surprised. You want to be in charge of this world, I can help make that happen” said Carvalho
Cliff then thought what could Carvalho do about that?
“You?” asked the alien
“Yes, you want off this world? I can arrange transportation back to your home world.” said Carvalho
Could she Cliff thought, it could be possible.
“You lie, you do not have the technology to reach the stars.” said the alien
“And I can stop the attack on your orbital weapon” said Carvalho
Yeah, he thought, one call and Carvalho could stop the attack but would she given to what these aliens had plan for Earth.
“How dare you, there is no way for you to do that.” said the alien
Then Cliff heard the boy yell “No don’t hurt my dad!”
“Listen to her, she can do things. You shoot me now and what ever you had in mind is not going to happen.” said the man being held hostage
“What is it going to be?” said Carvalho
“You are lying to me.” said the alien
“No I am not.” said Carvalho
There was a pause of about five to six seconds and then the alien says “Five!”
“So what’s it going to be Ashlo?” asked Carvalho “Do we go down to the personnel office and fill out the forms so that you become the ruler of this world?”
“Carvalho, what the hell do you think you are doing?” asked Commander Benson
“I am trying to resolve this situation peacefully Commander.” said Carvalho
“Come on Ashlo” said the man being held hostage “She knows what she is doing. Right Karen, you do know what you are doing right?”
“Yeah I am” said Carvalho
“You are lying to me.” said the alien
“Why should she lie to you Ashlo” said the man being held hostage “You are not lying are you Karen?”
“Jack would I lie to you?” asked Carvalho
“No, you have been real honest to me in the past Karen.” said the man being held hostage
“And I will continue to do so now.” said Carvalho
Cliff then noticed some thing on the floor just a few feet away.
“So I take it you know the way to the personnel office?” said the man being held hostage
“Yeah I do, been there myself earlier this week, I had to clear up a misunderstanding.” said Carvalho
“Oh how come you in trouble?” said the man being held hostage
“Me, no” said Carvalho
“What happen?” asked the man being held hostage
Cliff then tapped on Commander Benson’s shoulder, the commander turned around to look at him and Cliff made some hand gestures to indicate that he needed to check some thing that he saw out.
“My room mate in Honolulu.” said Carvalho
“You have a room mate? Who? Any one I know?” said the man being held hostage
“I don’t think so, this room mate is a gynecologist, obstetrician too I might add too.” said Carvalho
“How long?” asked the man being held hostage
Commander Benson then replied to him, it was okay to check the thing out. And Cliff silently left to check the thing out.
“Gee I don’t know how long Dale has been a doctor.” said Carvalho
“No I meant how long have the two of you been room mates.” said the man being held hostage
“Oh, about a year and half now.” said Carvalho
“So how did you two meet?” asked the man being held hostage
“Two years ago, you know.” said Carvalho
“Really? How?” said the man being held hostage
“Was my sisters’ O B G Y N.” said Carvalho
“You don’t say, which one, Jean, Joan or Jane?” asked the man being held hostage
“Would you believe all three of them.” replied Carvalho
“I bet that doctor had a time with the three of them?” asked the man being held hostage
“The doctor didn’t see all three of them at the same time but after a while came to know them” said Carvalho
“I bet that doctor was real curious about you when you showed up at the wedding?” asked the man being held hostage
“Not really.” said Carvalho “Got invited to the reception though.”
“You had the reception?” asked the man being held hostage
“Yeah, as my mom used to say, never let good food go to waste.” said Carvalho “I mean it had already been paid for.”
“Sorry about that.” said the man being held hostage
“That’s okay Jack.” said Carvalho “I have no problem with what happen that day.”
“You don’t?” said the man being held hostage
Cliff then just heard silence for a five to ten seconds and then the alien said “Enough of this! Six!”
Posted by Helen at November 30, 2004 09:31 PM