Codebreaking

Posted on Sat Jul 19th, 2025 @ 1:32am by Lieutenant Lily Marlow & Lieutenant JG Vanya Karolyi

1,507 words; about a 8 minute read

Mission: Mini Mission-Dark Lilies
Location: The Crypt

Lily had become distracted, not having taken the code to Vanya as of yet. She had duties to perform, and also she was slightly hesitant in trying to figure out the code. However she couldn't hesitate anymore. She tapped on her combadge, to get in touch with Vanya.

"Vanya, I need to get some help with something. Where is the best place I can meet with you? Its of a sensitive nature." Lily drew in a breath to wait for Vanya's answer.

"I'm in the crypt...I mean, my office in intel. You're welcome to drop by."

The crypt, Lily mouthed to herself. " I will be right there." closing up the communication. She went to the SCIF and was ushered in by the one who kept watch.

"I'm here Vanya." Lily called out, announcing herself. Feeling a bit nervous, she licked her lips to moisten them.

"Down the hall in the back," Vanya called, coming to stand in the doorway so Lily could find her. As the archivist, her office was naturally farther from the entrance.

Lily made her way to Vanya's office, "Thank you for seeing me, so I have a strange story to tell. And also a code for you to break. The code is from some suppressed memories that have come to light. For the longest times I've thought my adopted sister died, many years ago. Now though I am finding out that may not be so. That she is alive."

"Really?" Vanya paused to look at LIly, her eyebrow raised. "Come in and tell me more. Ignore the game. I set it to let you in." A large, three-dimensional holographic Tetris game played in the middle of the room. One side wall was lined with medium-sized viewscreens. Some were also playing Tetris, but others were scrolling data. As soon as Lily crossed the threshold, they went dark.

Vanya's desk sat in the back corner, opposite the screens. Next to it was a couch that was long enough to sleep on. Several nature prints were on the wall above it. The rest of the other side wall held a shelf with books and knickknacks and musical instruments. A comfortable chair sat next to it, near the desk. "Have a seat.

Lily nodded, taking the indicated seat, after looking curiously at what the office contained. "Love your office." having an approving look in her eyes. "Well, when I was younger, about ten years ago, or more, I got caught in the outer edges when my friend's cabin blew up. Injured me, and caused problems with my memory. For the longest time, I thought she was dead. Then I started having dreams, or flashes of memories. Long story short, my memories are being pieced back together, and--there is a puzzle to be solved. Such as this." Lily bringing out the image of the code, it having been captured from her memory. "I am not certain as to what language this is."

The image is that of some symbols upon the lip of a well, and Lily's friend a woman with blonde hair reading it and smiling.

Vanya looked at it carefully for several moments. "This isn't a language, exactly. It's more a code." She raised an eyebrow as she looked at Lily. "Is this woman your friend?"

"A code? And yes that is my friend. Her name is Annabelle. Annabelle Trevor." Lily's brow furrowed into an upside down V, "Does that smile mean she knows what that code means? I remember she brushed it away before we went back into the cabin. Then I left to go get ingredients to make her favorite desserts."

"Possibly. Or she has an idea of what it might represent. Either way, you should ask her. She might have information that will help. To break a code, you often need some sort of reference."

"That is the mystery here. For many years I thought she was dead. Now though, with my memories being unlocked, as far as I know now, she is alive. Where she is at, I don't know. I feel she is being hunted, i know that I am being hunted, in order to find out where my friend is at. And her significant other. I had been questioned by someone when I had temporarily regained conciousness, in a hospital bed, the person wanting to know where my partners were." Lily shrugged with a look of confusion. "I haven't any idea as to what that person was referring to. My partners? It sounded like he thought I was part of a team of operatives for a group."

"That is...most irregular. And interesting." She looked at Lily with a speculative gleam in her eye. "There are ways to help unlock memories, but they need to be handled with care. Have you tried deep tissue massage? I could also run some images through a few intel databases to see if I get anything."

"Well I do have another image that you could use to look." Llily bringing out a photo of herself with her best friend Annabelle, her ex boyfriend and Annabelle's fiance'. "That is my former boyfriend who is hunting me, he's apparently a part of a rogue intelligence group. Also why would Thorton be wanting to find unless... Annabelle's love, was in intelligence?" she paused and looked at Vanya. "I had a fuil betazoid, Aisanna Denae come and restore my memories."

Vanya just nodded. She would have gone to a Vulcan herself, but it wasn't worth mentioning. She took the images and entered them into her computer. "I don't know why. But I want to find out. Do you have full names for the others?"

The man near Annabelle was tall, with black hair, eyes of green, the hair medium length which brushed it back from his forehead.Square jaw with a cleft in it. Athletic build, A handsome fellow by human standards. His name was Lucian Parker.

Thorton Stiles age 39 from recorded birth records. Star Fleet Intelligence. MIA Known languages, Romulan, Ferengi, Orion, French, Tradespeak, English. Joined Star Fleet in 2377. Rank Lieutenant. Description: Dark brown hair which he tends to keep rather short. Dark brown eyes. Height 5'10"


The writing would be in Cyrillic And the message would be 'I am here love, I am alive, there is danger--LP'

To Lily it was some symbols that she wouldn't know. They resembled some Latin symbols but it was confusing.

Vanya repeated the message aloud for Lily. "I am here love, I am alive, there is danger--LP."

Then her computer gave a trill to alert Vanya that she had a response to her search. She pulled up several faces, then turned to Lily. "Do you recognize them?"

"LP, Lucien Parker. He is alive, and that is or was my friend's fiance'. Of course that was my ex boyrfriend. "Pointing at Thorton. " Hmnn.. so uh, is there a way to see if Lucien has family? Those are rather distinctive eyes and that jawline with the cleft chin."

"Yes. In fact, I think I've seen it before," Vanya said, changing her search parameters. It took a coupld of minutes while Tetris played on her other monitors, but finally Vanya had the results. "Here. I thought so."

She turned the monitor so Lily could see it.

Lily's mouth gaped open with surprise. "Wait, what?!" She exclaimed. "Lucien has family? He never said anything about that. He said he had no family. I took what he said at face value. I feel rather stupid now. And Stefan Zamfir looks just like his brother. Stefan.. Stefan."

Lily took out her PADD thumbing to a file she had there she looked at it giving a slight frown then looked up at Vanya. "Zamfir sounded slightly familiar, I had to check. It appears that Stefan Zamfir had been on Captain Rutherford's previous ship, the USS Nighthawk for a short time as part of the intelligence team." she looked at Camelia's image. "And their sister, Camelia is here on this ship? What the heck?!"

Lily was feeling a bit more perplexed, "I've not encountered her as of yet. Just... this is so strange. Well maybe not, there are quite a few crew members on this ship so, if she has been in Medical, it wasn't where I would have noticed. I've not checked personnel records since I took a step back from being CMO. Maybe I need to get a bit more informed now. I've been slacking a bit." She opened up the medical file of Camelia. "Triplets, interesting."

"You might want to talk to her. She could give you answers," Vanya said, nodding to the file. "Be open and honest with her. She might surprise you."

"I will have to do just that." Lily responded. " I am now rather curious as to what ends up being the story of Annabelle and, Lucian. Thank you Vanya."

Vanya smiled. "You're welcome. Please, let me know how this turns out--or if you need further help."

"I most definitely will do so." Lily had brigtht smile. "Thank you"

 

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