BACKLOG | Capt Neyes, Cmdr Neyes - "Drawing Dust from Blood" Pt I

Posted on Sun Apr 5th, 2015 @ 10:18am by Captain Landon Neyes & Commander Tristan Neyes PhD.

1,105 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: A Spot To Kill

=/\= On the USS Horizon, shortly after Vindicator entered the wormhole...=/\=

The Horizon continued to barrel away into deep space. Putting distance between the Vindicator and the Neyes brothers at the best speed the advanced runabout could manage.

Landon resigned himself to the aft cabin after Tristan declared there was nothing more to talk about. His uniform had been shed in favor of more civilian clothes, and after all... he wasn't a Captain in Starfleet anymore. At least not officially. Not until this all blew over, and the likelihood of that became more distant as the space between him and Rochelle grew. Part of him was grateful for a moment to think. Now being on board a small ship with his estranged brother, and the nephew he didn't know, still felt like a new prison altogether. Flashes of Rochelle permeated his mind from time to time, as it wandered through the decisions he'd made to bring them all to this point.

His younger brother was a man lost to Landon, and in many ways there was no fixing that. Tristan had grown into his adult life without Landon, having been swept away into hiding after their parent's ship was destroyed by power hungry Ferengi mobsters.

Tristan was always the one who took to the unknown. Given the ability to travel back in time 15 years, someone could see them for who they were deep inside. Landon was the careful and cautious one for so long, carefully crafting his career and taking all the right steps to make himself a success. Tristan defied that part of his Trill upbringing, choosing instead to do what he wanted. Tristan, a few weeks before their parents were killed, completely abandoned his part in one of their company business meetings in order to go with some girl. She had a penchant for collecting planet-hoppers, and would frequent one of the more party-friendly planets in their system. Tristan was taken with her immediately, and shirked his responsibility in the name of 'living life'. Naturally Landon was furious, but didn't have the time to get upset over it, so he simply brushed the whole incident under the rug and played the meeting like Tristan was never supposed to be there in the first place.

When the attack happened, and Landon joined with Neyes, that exact sense of control faded into the person Landon was now. A man who threw caution to the wind because there was no reason to believe caution saved anyone...

'I bought the best.' He'd told himself afterward. The Irelle family company spent its fair share of revenue keeping the Ferengi business out of the real workings of the company, and eventually it had caught up with them. Landon had himself been an outspoken opponent of allowing the Ferengi network to get their money-grubbing hands into their company. He'd done everything in his power, including some daring, dangerous sanctions, in order to achieve that goal. In the end it wasn't enough. Not even the most advanced security firms, or the most secure contractors, were safe from some form of internal subterfuge by the Ferengi. Landon ran his family from the safety of a tower of finances and wealth, and didn't even realize how threatened they'd become until he was told the news their family shuttle had been destroyed in mid-flight.

He wouldn't know Tristan had bailed on the trip to spend time with his girlfriend until they met again on the Vindicator.

Afterward, Landon went on a tyrannical rampage across the space his company essentially controlled. He halted all his interstellar transports, and used his influence to isolate his targets as they tried to move through Trill sectors. With the newly acquired abilities of the Neyes symbiont, the effort was simple enough. Some of them managed to secure their own travel, but Landon hired mercenaries to bring them to him personally. He'd dipped his hands into the darkness to pluck his enemies from their hiding places, and it left a scar inside him.

There was no doubt in his mind Tristan was forced to disappear from view because of the crusade inflicted upon their inner circles by Landon. After being joined the man had nearly lost all sense of self, and went on a blood stained journey from one end of Trill space to the other hunting down the men and women who were responsible for their deaths. Landon had thought his brother a victim of that attack for so long, it had ultimately shaped the change between them.

When he'd taken the life of the last one, at least that he could find, sanity came back to him too late. The space between his head and his heart shrunk back down, and he spent weeks picking up the pieces of his own sense of self. Now it was a part of himself he guarded against sharing with Tristan...

Landon entered the sleeping quarters in the cabin, where Zed slept soundly. It was a roughly 0200, and there was no reason to think the little guy would be awake. He sat down on the mildly soft bed, quietly making sure not to wake the sleeping child just a few feet away. In many ways he envied the innocence of someone so young. Stealing away just a few moments of time without the memories of more than a dozen people screaming away in his mind would be a welcome surprise. With the abilities he gained through Neyes, there were an equal amount of things he knew he's probably lost in the process. For one, there was little in common between the man Landon was now, and the boy Tristan would recognize from their childhood. That could be true for anyone, but Tristan didn't have the advantage of being around for Landon's joining. The brothers had only just begun to explore the changes time and etched into them, and Zed was just one of many of those differences.

Zed stirred a little, his small frame shifting subtly beneath his bright blue bed sheet.

Tristan's voice came over the comm system."Landon. We're almost to the coordinated you gave me. Why did you want to stop here again?

Quietly, Landon responded, "I have someone I need to speak with."

"Is there something wrong with them comm system? Wait... you don't mean-"

"Yes I do. Give them the docking code. We own this station, remember, so don't let them try anything." Landon said sternly. "Let me know when we're locked in."

=/\= END LOG =/\=

Capt. Landon Neyes
Liaison
USS Vindicator

Cmdr. Tristan Neyes
Chief Counselor
USS Vindicator

Zed Irelle
Adorable

 

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