So Tell Me What You Really Feel

[Nicole Decker]

Nicole Decker had arrived at the Presidential Compound's main lobby. Her high heels clicking along the marble tile floor, it was oddly quieter in the lobby than it usually was.

"Director Decker, here for your meeting with Mrs. Price?" Stacy, one of the newer receptionists, said with a smile.

"I am. Quieter in here than usual." Nicole said as she looked around. "Usually this place is always packed."

"New security protocols. People didn't update their credentials, so they don't get past the front gate. Their fault not our's, we gave them plenty of notice, months in fact." Stacy shrugged her shoulders. "So, if they want a personal meeting with someone here, they have to get their credentials updated. Eli is tired of security breeches."

"Prudent move." Nicole agreed and walked to the elevator. "Keep up the good work."

The ride took only a minute, but she was in the lower section of the office complex. A quick walk down a windowed corridor, she was at what they had taken to calling 'The Range'. It was an old garage but was recently turned into an archery range and shooting gallery.

"Isabella, it's Nicole... are you here?" She called out. Usually there was music playing or the sound of gunfire."Bella?" she called out again.

[Isabella price]

“What!” Bella yelled in an angry tone as she rolled out of the bedroom and bumped the side of the door jam. “They won’t let me out of this fucking chair. It’s a damn nuisance always getting caught on shit. Three more week I have to be in it. Three! Jon’s already walking around and I’m stuck in this thing!”

[Nicole Decker]

"I won't tell if you won't. Are you able to walk without it?" Nicole asked as she put hand on her hip. "You're looking more like you again. I like seeing you angry, tells me you're getting the mojo back." she helped guide her chair out and gave the jamb a look. "That's really a narrow doorway, thought they made all of them big. Hmph. Lowest bidders. The quote unquote new carpet in my office, I already have to replace it, looks like it's been there for ten years." she rolled her eyes and sighed. "So I am serious, if you want a hand out of the chair, I won't tell your doctors or Jon."

[Cece Ryder]

"It's for her own good." Cece said as she looked at Decker. "Jon didn't practically have his back broken like you did Bella." she shook her head. "But if you think you can walk without it... go ahead, but don't complain to me when you get arthritis."

"I was hoping for a private meeting." Nicole said with a slight tinge of annoyance in her voice.

"I heard you calling out, was in the Range's kitchen restocking it for them. Jon never tells anyone when they run out. I think he believes it all magically gets restocked." Cece said with a wink to Bella. "Especially since you two seem to be spending more time here, I'll admit, the living quarters here aren't bad... RJ and I almost moved down here." she blushed slightly. "RJ asked me to move in with him. I... think he is testing the waters as it were with proposing."

"So that's the real reason why you were here, you wanted to talk to Bella as well hmm?" Nicole softened a bit and nodded her head.

"That and I sensed you were here and I wanted to talk with you as well." Cece said and handed them both padds. "I found two Dominus spies, they were in the serving crew, blended in with all the other food servers, but I sensed something strange when I was meeting with the Chef. I followed them and handled them... but I think he wants to know what's going on here. I've got them in stasis chambers right now, I considered feeding them false information, keep him off balance." she closed her eyes. "I fear for the future, my original timeline is not coming to pass, we ensured that, but there are other possible ones that I am concerned about. Reality is being fractured all the time. More than it has, that's where the rifts came from."

"All the more reason why we need our Isabella back on her feet. The Alliance is going to need your strength. Face it sister, you're the new Queen of Terra Alpha and both Alliance and Imperium listen to you when you speak. Even if you're telling them their out of their fucking minds and need to pull their heads out of their arses." Nicole said as she held Bella's hands. "And in your words, you're Isabella Fucking Price and no chair is going to keep you down, no dark alternate of your father is going to win and certainly no electro freak with a dipshite name like Dominus is going to stop you."

Cece smiled and put her hand on Bella's shoulder. "What she said. I won't tell the Docs if you and she don't... so get out of that chair Madam President and try and take ME down in hand to hand."