We Can Ask Nicely Or...

[Jack Ryder]

Kinsey's Office - Presidential Compound

Jack was rocking back on Kinsey's chair behind her desk, he had already managed to set up a scheduled communication with the Andorians in an attempt to get them to share what they found about the rifts and possibly a way to navigate or manipulate them like Dominus. That was one thing he had been unsuccessful with figuring out while he was a prisoner of Dominus months ago and the casual way they managed to slip between realities and find 'like minded' alternates always frustrated him. When Kinsey had telepathically contacted him, he jumped at the chance, plus being on the Science Council he did have some influence.

"You're going to break her chair." Daisy said as she was going through reports.

"I am not, it's sturdy." Jack said as he sipped his tea and rocked back and forth.

"She reclines back and falls off, I'm kicking your butt." Daisy replied casually. "It's taken months to get her back here, with you two off on Xenex making booze. And I've been sitting in that chair and I'm telling you the hinge is weird." she looked up from her padds and looked at Jack. "So you think the combination of the two of you is going to make the Andorians share what they have?"

"That's the hope. Good cop, bad cop. I love watching her be 'bad cop'. That angelic voice telling someone if they don't listen to her, she's going to do something incredibly violent and nasty and utterly fucked up." Jack said with a laugh. "I have no idea where she got the rep she's got, I've worked with far crazier, but perhaps because she's a 'wild Xenexian woman' they just instantly assume."

"Kinda why I like her." Daisy agreed. "She doesn't take crap but she's fair."

"You've been the only assistant she's ever kept around this long, says something." Jack said as he took another sip of tea and glanced at the chrono. "Wonder what's taking her, unless Jon is talking her ear off. I thought my father was bad sometimes."

"Oh he is, I just said 'Good morning Mr. Ryder, how are you?' and we talked in the hallway for about a half hour and would have gone longer if I didn't have a page come through." Daisy rolled her eyes. "How does he get as much done as he does when he's like that?"

"He multi-tasks. Part of him is entirely engaged in conversation, while a part of him is working on something else, then it'll hit him like a bolt and after he's done distracting himself, he'll dive into it and come out with something. I'm similar, but when I'm working on a project I don't like to chatter like he does. Drove Julie insane sometimes." Jack chuckled and shook his head. "Now Alice... she finds a way to turn the conversation to his project and then they work on it together so it's finished twice as fast and then they... get up to whatever it is they get up to when they finish a project."

"Oh, like you and Kinsey after hours." Daisy teased. "I do have a UV light and I know full well what you two get up to in here, see that little circle? That disinfects the office so it doesn't look like a Jackson Pollack. Still intensely jealous of you two. I have never had a boyfriend that wanted to do it at work."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“Please don’t tell me someone caught Kassie and Jason again.” Kinsey said with a sigh as she stepped into her office. “Be careful Jack the hinge on that chair felt off the other day. Hill can you make a note to get a new one?”

[Daisy Hill]

"I'm waiting for Jack to break it and fall on his ass so I can laugh at him." Daisy said dryly as she listened to the hinge sound more and more weird as he rocked back on it.

"Whatever you did fixed it. Hill is just being a mother hen." Jack said dismissively.

"And to answer your first question... no, but Captain Stewart from Capitol PD did show me some blurry, dark security footage of a skinny blonde girl and a well built brown haired male having sex on one of the footbridges downtown. At least they aren't using the offices after hours. Course, your son is determined to get Kassie pregnant after that false alarm." she smirked. "Maybe Kassie will actually put in a full day once she's pregnant and too tired to run around all over the place."

[Jack Ryder]

"If it happens, it happens." Jack said with a smile. "Kassie has told me she enjoys working in the Compound. As long as she's able to help out on the 'Star of Xenex' she's happy." he reclined back on the chair a bit. "You know... if the Andorians have figured out how Dominus is able to multi-dimensional travel, then we could find a way to assemble an army of our own or at least, more key people. Time and space is one thing, but other realities, that would entirely change the game." he glanced at Kinsey. "Wonder what y..." he started to say before the hinge let loose and he fell backward and hit his head against the wall and slumped to the floor.

Then he got a mental flash.

"I GOT IT!" Jack sprang up to his feet just as Daisy went over to him. "Kinsey... your mother. I got it. Contact the Andorians, tell them we need their Intel, otherwise, we're going to let Dominus wipe his feet on their planet."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

Kinsey arched an eyebrow, “what does that have to do with my mother? Hill call a medic my husband is delusional.”

[Jack Ryder]

"I'm not delusional." Jack said as he snapped his fingers. "I just got a mental blast... I think I know..." he looked around the office for a stylus and a padd. "I think our visit to meet your mother wasn't just some random fluke. There's something at play here. Call the Andorians, tell them we need their intel, fate of the galaxy and all that."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“Daisy get the Andorians on the line.” Kinsey said eyeing Jack skeptically as she walked over to the broken chair. She righted it and pushed it out from behind her desk so it could be disposed of. “Are you sure about this Jack?”

[Jack Ryder]

"I am luv... more sure than I've been." Jack replied. "I think we may have answers in what they have."

[Daisy Hill]

"It's 'ringing'" Daisy said as she sat on the edge of Kinsey's desk and handed her a padd. "Putting it on the 'big screen', she said as the picture on the wall separated into two and revealed a large display screen. "Cool huh? Young Zeke helped design and install it. If he wasn't married... " she sighed.

"Captain Calhoun... I had a feeling Price was going to sic you on us... what part of we do not want to share does he not get?" a rather angry looking Andorian said as he answered the call. "We may be allies, but we are not simply..."

"Director... if I may... the fate of the galaxy could rest in that data you possess." Jack said. "I understand that you do not want to simply give away that information, but I know how to control it. I have a rather ancient technology that my ancestors, the Siofrans and their offshoot the El'Aurians developed, it allows for travel anywhere in time and space, but realities... that's another matter entirely... or so we all thought. If we know how he can move and bring people from one reality to this one or go to another, we can find the allies we need and... we can potentially stop him from doing it, try to fix what he's ruined."

"Or you could bring over someone or something far worse... we will not share that intel, it's far too dangerous." the Andorian said with a shake of his head.

"Then Dominus will conquer your planet next... just like he did with Thessia, just like he did with all those other planets, and each time he did it, a rift opened and things shifted. Do you really want the next shift to affect your world?' Jack said. "Please Director... it goes no further than this office, but I need that Intel."

"Then we want something in return." The Andorian Intel Director said with a sigh. "But we can discuss that later... come to us we cannot trust this data being transmitted and falling into the wrong hands... " he looked at Kinsey. "Just you and her. And I want her to apologize, in person for the thrashing she gave one of our agents a few months ago. On her knees."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“You know he deserved it.” Kinsey said bitterly. Hell would freeze over before she got on her knees for anyone especially the Director of Andorrian Intelligence. DAI was a organization severely lacking in intelligence since the fall of the Federation. “We’ll arrive shortly. Calhoun out.”

After Daisy ended the call Kinsey turned glaring at Jack.
“Whatever the hell you have planned better be worth it.”