Jail Bird Blues
IC: Diziara suddenly shot to her feet from her stunned state, and her head swung around looking to see where she was. She patted herself down for any of her weapons and growled as she found she had nothing. Noting the security officer sitting watch on the other side of the room, past the force field in front of her, she narrowed her eyes on him as he sat reading something on a PADD.
"Which one of you honorless taHqeq 1 shot me in the back?" She demanded, thinking she and Storvik had disarmed all the security goons by that point in the fight.
"That Andorian shot you, the one you'd been sharing a table with when we came in, ma'am." The security officer didn't even look up as he replied. Diziara slammed her forehead into the forcefield on the holding cell, and muttered obscenities and death threats at therav. "Ma'am?" He looked up as her forehead met the forcefield again. After a couple more collisions between Diziara's forehead and the forcefield, she took a deep breath and stepped back.
"Can I see the list of charges against me?" she forced herself to request in a calm manner, even though her fists were so tight that a couple drops of blood appeared where her finger nails broke the skin on the palm of her hands. Before the security officer could reply, Mouse burst into the room and crossed directly to Diziara's cell.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" he demanded.
"The list of what's not wrong with me seems to be shorter at the moment. However, being accused of murder seems to put a lot of the other flaws into perspective," she snapped back and sat down on the floor of her cell. His face went blank as he looked down at her.
"They think you killed Jefferies?"
"That is what I just said. Navarro decided she needed a brute squad to haul me in, and you know me, can't resist a good fight. It was going fine until someone took away my music and some Andorian petaQ 2 decided to shoot me in the back after I'd thought he wasn't a half bad guy, and even returned the phaser I'd borrowed from him. Clearly not a mistake I'm making again."
"If you were going to kill him, he would have been armed and facing you," Mouse pointed out.
"I already pointed that out to deaf ears, but you're welcome to testify at my trial. I haven't had a chance to see the evidence against me though, so who knows what half assed crackpot garbage that bitch has to justify pinning the blame on me."
"Forensics found your access codes used on the transporter and command access logs, after some digging of course. It sounds like you did a good job covering your tracks, just not good enough," the security office spoke up. "And after that concert you provided for us briefly while you were being hauled in, forensics should be able to prove you had the ability to do the job once they can match the hacking techniques."
"Rob McKay programmed the music thing before he decided he hated me!" Diziara slammed her fist into the forcefield. "The only thing I can program is a holodeck or a flight computer."
"I'll look around and see what I can find out," Mouse offered as he knelt down to eye level for Diziara. "Meanwhile, try not to get more legitimate charges added on top of what's already being thrown at you. I'll see if Captain Gallaway will do anything about Navarro's mishandling of the situation so far. Is there anything I can get you?"
"You mean other than out of here?" Mouse stared at her silently, and she sighed. "Something a little more comfortable than my bar crawling clothes would be nice. Also, if they plan on keeping me in here much longer, Delilah's going to need food."
"Feed the cat and get comfortable clothes, got it. Hang in there, I'll do what I can," Mouse stood to leave.
"Thanks," she called after him and he shook his head slightly with a slight grin.
"You owe me," he shot as the door closed behind him. The security officer looked at Diziara with an eyebrow cocked and she ignored it.
OOC: Translations provided as a courtesy again.
1. taHqeq is simply listed as an epithet in The Klingon Dictionary. No further translation/explanation is provided.
2. petaQ was covered last time.