Out There Part 10
“What the fuck are you doing to me, Pops?” Lieutenant Commander Preston Bell had worked out new watch and quarter bills, changed into his scrubs, and still had a few minutes before he was supposed to report to the the captain in the galley. “I’m embarrassing you, you little shit.” “Pop…” “Look, Preston,” he said. “Megary has a reputation for …
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Captain Liam Megary and a yeoman sat in the tiny briefing room of the Prince Henry, signing off on Readiness Reports, when his new Executive Officer entered. “You wanted to see me?” he asked. Megary looked up. “Mr. Bell,” he said, putting down the tablet. “Welcome to the Hank. I apologize that we had no quarters prepared for you. The …
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Lieutenant Commander Preston Herbert Bell had been in trouble enough times to know how it felt, but this… This was a particularly scary-bad kind of trouble that he may not be able to get out of. Normally, there was some sort of escape hatch, a Commanding Officer eager to be shed of him, or a call to Pops with a …
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Arguments with Admiralty always put Megary into a contemplative mood and his mind wandered, as it often did, back to the Coleman Disaster. To the Admiralty, it was the loss of one ship and 349 people, and a warning never to go into The Shambles again. To Megary, it was about everything. Order and chaos, life and death, dominance and …
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