Getting Bad News

Posted on Tue Feb 28th, 2023 @ 4:52pm by Lieutenant Sineade Darnel

581 words; about a 3 minute read

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Sineade had been waiting for Tholan for a while. Flower and Kayila had helped pass the time by taking her out to ‘celebrate’. But she could not stop wondering what had dragged Tholan away from the Medical center and where did he go after that during their impromptu celebration. She’d had tried to contact Tholan through his com badge but she got no response, and he hadn’t retrieved the message she had left for him at their assigned quarters either.

Returning to the room she immediately knew he wasn’t there as the lights were off even though it was starting to get dark. She entered the room and walked back to the bed room to change out of the clothes she’d been wearing all day. When looked in the closet she knew something was wrong. All of Tholan’s things were gone. She stood there staring at the empty space where his clothes had been hanging just that morning.

“What is going on?” She cried out, “What happened to you?”
She walked slowly back to the main room and then she saw the PADD sitting on the table. She picked it up and pressed her finger to the screen to activate it. It was a message from Tholan.

*My Dearest Sineade,
I don’t quite know how to tell you this. But something has happened back on Andoria. They have ordered me to return immediately. *

Sineade blinked at the words she was reading, not quite understanding what he was saying at first.

*I still love you, but I must return to my home to deal with this... problem. So, I have decided to resign my commission in StarFleet effective immediately. We won’t be able to contact each other, at least not for some time. I know this must be coming as a shock, just as it did to me.

I hope that whatever the reason for the doctor’s visit today, it is easily treatable and you are not seriously ill. I will be thinking of you, and wish that things had been different, but with the recent events and this sudden call home, we were not meant to be it seems.

Please take care of yourself, Sineade. While I know I cannot be with you, I ask you to forgive me for having to break off our engagement this way. I wish I could have been there for you, but I can’t.

May you find peace and happiness, even if it is without me.

Tholan*

Sineade sat stunned as the recording ended. She stared at the PADD for a moment and then tossed it across the room where it bounced off the wall and landed on a chair, seemingly unharmed. Sineade felt her tears falling. She wanted to talk to someone and the only person she could think of was Flower. Maybe she could catch her before she left. With that in mind she ran out the door and straight to B’Raitha’s apartment. She rang the chime, but got no answer. She knocked on the door a few times and rang the chime a few more times to no avail.
She felt like the entire universe was crashing around her and she leaned back against the wall next to the door. “Why? Why Me? Why Now?” She cried out before she slid down the wall and pulled her knees to her chest and just let the tears flow.

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