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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:30 am
James shook, he was so angry. right now he was seriously wanting to throw Lillia out an airlock. But he forced himself to be calm at least in appearance.
"I'm listening."
The voice was hard, a drill commander's voice, or a battle-tested commander. he stood still, waiting for her explaination, to tell him what she was going to. his eyes were cold while he looked at her.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:48 am
And now was her chance. She could tell him....what? She didn't know. She was as shocked by the article as he was. And she still denied the fact that teh writer was DJ. It just wasn't possible that he could have held her the way he did and then betrayed her.
"James, I don't know how all that information got in there. I am guilty of some of it, I won't deny that. There were things, just little things that I said that I probably shouldn't have. But at the time I had no idea the man I was talking to was a reporter." Pain slashed across her face as that truth set in and then after only a glimpse it faded.
She bit her lip for a moment, and after a short pause continued.
"You have to understand that I never intended for any of this to happen. I didn't know..." she whispered. "I would never do anything to hurt Echo and especially not Jelena. God...Jelena..." her voice wavered for a moment. "I...I don't know how all the other information got in, but I didn't leak it and I certainly didn't get paid for what I did say." Her eyes pleaded with him to believe her, to understand.
Her whole world was falling apart around her and it hurt more than she could ever express.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:33 am
Little lying...then a click on his little brain. he'd gotten an email before, hadn't he. Those pictures...those had to be from Lillia. but if she didn't send them who could? Who else woudl have the pull to get that kind of private information, pictures from lillia, and feed thrm to the press if she didn't do it as she claimed. He still wasn't sure wether to beleive her or not..but years of interrogations made him know that as far as she coudl see, she was telling the truth. or had convinced herself of it.
"then answer me a question. If you didn't sell us out, whom do you know that coudl get these pictures, obviously taken by you, with this information, out to a newspaper."
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:38 am
And the reality of it all hit her. She was guilty, at least in his eyes and anyone else who looked at the article. She hadn't taken any pictures, she hadn't downloaded any documents she wasn't supposed to have and she certainly hadn't sold anything to a newspaper. But no one would believe her.
"I...don't know."
She was going to lose her job. Echo would probably be shut down, the whole Fleet would be destroyed. All the good that would have been done would be gone. She took a deep breath and felt teh insane urge to cry. Everyone's life was ruined, because of her.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:46 am
"Alright, you don't think it was your DJ. I want his name, full that you know, and any phone number you have for him. I'll be contacting him. and I'll have my friends still on bases in the military look into things. IF nothing comes up to clear your name in fourty-eight hours, I'm going to tell Jelena to have you fired and shipped back to earth as a security threat. Now who else do you know that could get that information. parents, friends of the family, former coworkers, anyone you can think of to save your job."
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:53 am
She suddenly glared at him. "James, anyone who is an expert hacker can get that kind of information." She looked at him for a few moments and then ran a hand through her hair. Moving away from him she shook her head.
"I don't know who did it. DJ's name is Daniel Juniver, he's a writer but he doesn't work for the newspaper." Scribbling his number down on a sticky not, she handed it to him. Soon after, she stood at teh door and finally said softly, "You can get whoever you want to look into this. I've got to go find Jelena. She's probably going insane right now."
Then a sad shake of her head, "Besides it's not going to matter anyway. I'm goign to lose my job no matter what."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:17 am
"You won't lose anything if it's not your fault. I find it's not, I'll stand in your corner."
That's all he said, and he sat down at the computer, plugging his coin in and doing a search on this writer. bank accounts, tranfers, withdrawls. phone records. oh, and lets not forget. calling him up on his phone itself. bracing the phoen on his shoulder, he hit the GODD.
Erik, come to Dr. Trevale's office immediatly.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:23 am
Lillia was completely unsure of what to do now. She was...lost. There was nothing seh could do. James was going to check out DJ and she knew what he would find. Jacob Daniels...one of his many pen names. She didn't know it for sure but something in her mind pointed out to her that the quotes in the article could only have come from DJ.
Why? She had started walking around the Envision a little while ago but she didn't know where she was going. Her mind was lost so deeply in her thoughts and she kept repeating the one word over and over. Why?
She ended up just going back to the office, glancing at James for a moment adn then she calmly sat back down and started organizing. At least if she was fired, she could be absolutely sure that she had tried to do her job and Jelena would have some sort of order to her files.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:38 am
James looked up, thinking it might be Erik, then went back to work when he saw it was Lillia. He'd been thinking since she'd left teh first time, and felt rather bad. He'd treated her poorly, despite the evidence agaisnt her. Foolish was more the term. chances are that 'writer' had done everything to appear harmless, especially when he figured out who she was.
"I'm sorry for mandhandling you earlier. That was uncalled for. Which reminds me, I need you to come look at something. See if you recognize this number, it's been called several times."
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:08 pm
She looked up at James and nodded. "I would have done the same in your position but nevertheless your apology is accepted and I forgive you."
She didn't want to look at any numbers, didn't want to know who DJ had been calling. She didn't care. But she stood up and walked over. "Which one?"
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:20 pm
"This one."
Pointing to teh number that was her mothers.
"There's been quite a few calls. not very long ones. at random times. You recognize it?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:59 pm
She should lie. She really should lie. But she couldn't.
Her brows knit and she nodded, "That's mine...my mom's I mean."
"But it doesn't prove anything. He could have called me at home. He did...once or was it twice? I called him and he was probably just returning my phone call." AT least that's what she told herself.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:20 pm
"this particular numbr there's lke three or four times he called it. the rest are all calls to him. and I'n sure you would remember if you called him this many times. So odds are then, it's your mother calling. Now why would your mother be calling? She not approve of him or soemthing and was trying to convice you two not to see eachother?"
a glance at her. this was easy for him to figure out, but she was so guilty and depressed looking he wanted her to get to this conclusion. Her mom had used her pull to give lillia's boytoy the article information. Of course JAmes knew the Nikko family still had strong military supporters, mostly people James didn't like anyway. the kind that hated when the military got unplugged on teh fleet in teh first place. And with how devestated she was, obviously she wouldn't have done this. but she was the only one on earth to get this kind of info handed out..so if it wasn't her, it was her folks. and mom's number pointed to mom as the suspect.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:41 pm
"And don't...let him blame...Lilia...she doesn't know...all that stuff....that's things only I....you...and Radiance....knows."
Slowly mumbled into Erik's shoulder as she was cradling her against his chest as she made his way back down the halls of Envision. The GODDS announcement had been put on the back burner for Erik right now. First things first, get his friend to rest. He had convinced the Radiance med bay tech to release her, and had sent Joey to find anything out he could.
Already a few were talking about it, and no doubt that would spread like wildfire. Erik highly expected security around project leaders to be beefed up and if worse came to worse, the Projects locked down for the time being. Lord knew, the Radiance staff would be calling Jelena up for questioning about this all. And he Jostled her lightly to wake her up more. "Come on now, you can't sleep after getting a concussion...may never wake up and then who would I have to tease?" A little humor to lighten the mood.
He just got her hand tightening on his shoulder that it was holding as she basically lay limply against him...all she wanted was to sleep. But no, wasn't allowed to. And she barely registered her office as hers when the two came in, Erik setting her down at the chair of his own desk in the room. Jelena looked absolutely smashed...damn muscle relaxers.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:35 pm
James looked up as Jelena and Erik came in, and got up, unplugging himself from the computer and looking at Lillia, before moving to Jelena and Erik.
"What happened? I've been looking through the phone records of Lillia's...friend...and foudn some calls I think that lead to her mother as being part of this mess. and I know a few military people who would love to get us in this kind of a shitstorm as well."
A glance at Erik.
"As of right now, I'm putting Fleet on lockdown. nothign comes in, nothign goes out without express authorization from either me, you, or Jelena. anything else trying is going to find out when I say lockdown I mean lockdown. provided they live through it."
He walked back over to the computer, typing in teh sequences.
"Activate Heaven's Gate, Sword of Damocles, and Micheal's Fire protocols. Authorization James Moria, code G-A-B-R-E-L-4-6-6-6"
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