"And, Audra, be careful. Parties can be really dangerous."
She nodded in response before heading out of the office.
K'Tael watched her go. A part of him was sad that she was in command rather
than Security, but he was glad that he had the opportunity for her to help
out. He turned back to his desk to access the files that Uglara had given
him.
K'Tael finds a treasure trove of information. In addition to the
complaining about Garibaldi being more talk than substance, and the
complaining about the hand being found there was this...
"Look, this is starting to get out of hand. We had to eliminate O'Neill
because he was talking to security chief, K'Tael. If he were not running in
circiles after his tail and other cases we would have bigger problems.
Dropping off the dead of O'Neil was a good move, but poorly executed. I
should not have let security find it, I should have cut the damned thing off
and left it in the bar where all of the other would be informants would find
it first." came the voice of Relik the Bajoran Chief of Security. (K'Tael
recognized it because he had spoken to him many times regarding security for
the embassy)
Another voice, which sounded like the Chief of staff, Rivik... "Well that
is in the past, and we can not worry about it now. More important things are
ahead of us. Like getting Lasiter. He has an agenda, and to make it work he
is going to need political help. Help that we can provide. We need him to
feel some serious heat. Heat that only the Ambassador can make go away, at
least for a while. Long enough for him to be ours. Once we have him in the
fold we can make more agressive moves to take control of Starfleet."
"As long as do not forget our past, or it may bite us... ABout the
Lasiter thing... is that not why Garibaldi was brought in? He is supposed to
be doing something for us in that respect, why has he not been paying off? I
think we should terminate him, possibly Lasiter as well. They are close, and
I do not trust Garibaldi. For all we know he is telling Lasiter everything."
Relik replied a bit testy and anxious.
"Just calm down. Nothing will happen to either of them until I say so..."
"Or the Ambassador gives the word..."
"Whatever... now what about that last shipment?"
"It made it fine. There was a snag though. We had to eliminate a third
party weapons supplier. There was no other way. They were getting greedy."
Relik replied switching tones as topics changed.
"What happened?"
"Torus had to kill him and his crew. I made the transfer and left it to
Torus. He had borded the small craft at that point. I did not want to watch
his sloppy work, and I had to get the Starfleet frigate back to it's assigned
mission."
"You did not make sure that he finished the job right? Stupid..."
"Hey!... you were bitching so I had to get back. Starfleet would have
known something was up if the the frigate went missing for too long. It was
a small time smugglar named Jackson Hardcastle and a band of shoddy rabble...
"
K'Tael got more evidence on more crimes... illegal use of a Starfleet
vessel, piracy, extortion, and an admission that he (Relik) dismembered
O'Neil- his first informant...
K'Tael had to admit that the Tellarite had definitely not exaggerated what
she had here. Just the information about the dismembered hand alone would
probably prove to be helpful. He was going to have to give a copy of the
recording to Joe Garibaldi and Commander Dais as soon as possible.
"Computer, location of Joe Garibaldi and Commander Dais?"
(response)
}}}=) Lisa
