Re: Day 33 [1400 hrs.] Spooks Should Be Spooky, Damn It
Reply #13 –
Lt. JG Dantius Thi Anh-Le | Mess hall | Deck 13 | USS Theurgy | Attn: @Griff
Anh-Le chuckled along with the Romulan. "Haha, oh, man, you wouldn't believe who some of 'em are in bed with. Like I said, I'm fairly sure Ross is either fucking or working with a domestic terrorist--Anderson's had an entire unit trying to track these guys down, but last I heard there wasn't anything actionable." She shook her head. "Frankly, with how many assholes are trying to either destroy us or fuck up the entire point of the Federation from the inside, I'm surprised we've made it as long as we have."
"And hey. Don't sell yourself short! Look at me, I'm an office drone who sometimes gets to prance around in costume eavesdropping on people. Black ops are way overrated in the media. At least you get to fly around in a metal can equipped with phasers that can burn through tritanium. I'm lucky if I have to stick a holdout pistol in my boot." After a moment, she added, "Not that I want there to be a need for me putting a phaser in my boot. But, you know, the adrenaline rush of being at risk, it's seductive.
"As for dramatic adventures...well, I once caught a guy who was smuggling ex-Borg as slaves with this Ferengi creep. Other than that, my coolest story is being born on the transporter pad at a museum, that one wins me a lot of drinks. As for seduction..." She grimaced. Just thinking about that made her uncomfortable. "I take my meds, I get my 'nads off by playing Vulcan Love Slave like anyone else, but I'm not comfortable with seduction. Or very good at that. And we actually try to avoid that anyway, the whole, 'you just bedded a gorgeous babe but she's really a Colonel in the Obsidian order' thing, it doesn't work as well as Kirk's record advertises, and it's loaded with ethical issues, since you're basically asking your agents to go and fuck a bunch of horrible people out of patriotism. It's not cool, or sexy, it's like being a Bajoran comfort woman except with a little bit more consent to entry. There was a pilot program back in the 23rd century but it got shitcanned after internal review, recruitment problems, and a series of mandatory mental health leaves. The dipshit who thought it was a good idea was shitcanned too." Anh-Le shook her head, then took another sip of her coffee. And then there was the personal part of it, which was also an uncomfortable topic. "I've only actually seduced people on the job once. And even then it was half an accident, I was off my meds 'cause of an active terrorist attack and hostage situation on the ship I was posted to, I whammied all the goons on the Bridge, and the entire assault party I was with, with my pheromones. Never doing that again. I was apologizing to people for weeks, and you know, they said it was OK, but they were a whole lot more wary around me after that.
"So. Yeah. I don't do seduction. Sorry to, uh, burst your bubble. But it's just...not a thing I'm willing to do."
She turned back to her sandwich, sure that t'Jellaieu was about to bolt. Nobody wanted to be around the sexy mind-melting green babe. Unless they had a kink for that or wanted to gawk, of course.