Bar stewards Inoculation

Posted on Wed Apr 12th, 2017 @ 12:21am by

Mission: The Trial of Cor Cordale
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: Current.

There was no time like the present Kevin thought to himself as he entered Sickbay to get his inoculation over and done with. Once he was settled on a bio-bed he was given the hypo and left to relax until the effects wore off.

Closing his eye's he began to listen to his steady breathing and it relaxed him.

"So, what now?" the voice asked.

Keeping his eye's closed, Kevin sighed and replied "Dad, you're dead, what could you possibly want?"

"Oh, and that's an excuse to not answer my question is it?" the voice said.

"Are we really going to do this, are you really going to reach out from beyond the grave and lecture me on heaven knows what?" Kevin asked.

"Why not, now's as good a time as any with you high as a proverbial kite and talking to a dead person!" the voice answered.

Sighing for a second time, Kevin opened his eye's, sat up, swung his legs round and looked right at....... a six foot high Goblin!

"What the fu........." he started.

"Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!" the Goblin said, "Not what you expected was it?"

"Not really!" Kevin shouted.

"Hey, this is your hallucination, not mine" the Goblin said "This is how you must have perceived me, your Dad, sometimes."

"Well, now you come to mention it you curmudgeonly, grumpy, twisted bar steward. yes" Kevin said "but only when you were being difficult!"

"Well, that's by the by now, let's get back to you" his Dad said.

"What about me?" Kevin asked.

"When are you going to stop being a stuck up toss pot with a stick up his arse and the manners of a mongrel dog?" his Dad asked.

"What are you talking about, I'm nothing of the kind, I'm a generally nice guy!" Kevin answered huffily.

"Oh yes shit for brains, what about that perfectly nice Cardassian officer who came to see you to find out about these 'Jenny' people, you were very rude to her!" his Dad said.

"Jenarri" Kevin corrected him.

"Whatever..." his Dad replied "You were still rude to her you twat!"

"Listen to who's talking!" Kevin shouted at the Goblin "What are you doing???"

"Making you see the error of your ways moron!" his Dad replied "You should be ashamed of yourself, acting like you did. The least you could have done was share what you knew!"

"Why?" Kevin replied "She knew that it wasn't going to be easy to get integrated into this crew."

"Not with pricks like you acting up it wouldn't be" his Dad said "You didn't have to be all defensive."

"Oh, and who taught me to be like that I wonder?" Kevin replied "Let me remind you of some things Dad.....Kevin, never let anyone brow beat you...Kevin, keep information close to your chest and share it only when the situation is to your advantage...Kevin if the advantage is not with you then create subterfuge that shifts the balance and be ruthless about it...Kevin remember that the more knowledge you gain the more power you have to dictate the outcome of a situation...Kevin have few friends and that way you can't get betrayed easily...do any of these things sound familiar Dad????"

"Of course they do, you idiot, that was what I was trying to teach you when we thought you were going to be a diplomat instead of running off and being 'Butch Cassidy' or 'The Sunblest Kid'

Kevin rolled his eye's "Sundance Kid Dad, it was 'The Sundance Kid' not 'Sunblest', that was the make of bread we had at dinner."

"Bite me" his Dad replied "You just apologise to that nice Cardassian officer and hope she accepts it and forgives you."

"Fine, you know what, I'm going to close my eyes and go to sleep and hopefully wake up and you'll be gone" Kevin said, swinging his legs back round onto the bed and lying down again.

"I'll haunt you in your dreams if you piss this up the wall!" his Dad said in finality.

"Like you don't already...." Kevin replied, closing his eyes again and listening to his steady breathing........