The Mobius Loop - Part Four

Posted on Mon Mar 31st, 2025 @ 5:55pm by Lieutenant JG Rachael "Ripcord" Yamaguchi-Cullen & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 121: The Mobius Loop
Location: Various Locations - USS Grey Wolf
Timeline: 0915Hrs - February 4th, 2394

Rachael reached her mother. "Oh, you are just evil, thats cruel Mom." she grinned back at her mother. "Then about six months later. You loaned me that dress so Paul and I could go to a party. Thats when you got called away, and I spent the night with Paul." Rachael smiled as she recalled the memory. "Admiral T'Lar let the two of us share a bed that night. The shower sex was amazing. I had no idea sex could be that good or that enjoyable." she explained. "Paul did for me, what Dad did for you," she added. "But I never did ask why you permitted him to have access to me, so easily." she paused a moment. "But I'm asking."

Torilla regarded her daughter in silence for a moment. She knew what the younger woman wanted. "It is simple. When he and I met. I looked into his eyes." she then sat back in her chair. "Oh, I saw many things. But what I did see was that he was no Silas Montrose." she paused a moment to allow Rachael a chance to process that detail. "Paul Harrison would never treat you with the disrespect that Montrose showed me when I was your age." Torilla regarded her daughter with a look. "Oh. Montrose was kind at first but he grew darker. He had access to things that I didn't. But he would fall in love with... Dark ideas, old ideas."

Rachael nodded her head. "All of this is new to me, Mom. I have no idea what to think about any of this." The younger woman admitted in a quiet tone of voice. "I always thought that..." her voice trailed off as she let out a long sigh.

"I know," Torilla answered. "It's because I never told anyone about Silas Montrose." she paused. "Your father would have been paranoid knowing that a man spent thirty years lusting after a woman he could never have. A woman I would never permit him to know." Torilla paused while she sighed. "When I vaporized him with my phaser set on level eight. He was fully prepared to murder my first officer and my chief of security. He wanted them out of the way so he could have me. I had always been the target of his desire." she regarded Rachael. "I could sense all of his plans if he were able to subdue me. So it was killed or be killed," she commented. "The fact that he had done it while offering me his surrender made it worse."

Rachael regarded her mother. "Did you put all of that in your report?" she asked.

"I did. There was a full inquiry into the matter. I was exonerated." Torilla answered. "The records of the Grey Wolf's computers explained the details." she regarded her daughter. "During the fight. I felt him punch through my psionic shielding, almost like a soap bubble. At that moment. I felt him accessing my mind like a person accessing a computer... He learned about all of you. All of my children and grandchildren. He considered your father as a criminal who had to die in the most violent manner he could devise and then he would remove the stain of his seed upon my blood. He was fully prepared to murder our entire family. Just to have me," Torilla paused a moment as she sighed. "I knew that if he got away, he would murder every Yamaguchi who was a direct relation to me. I could feel it in his malice. I knew then that he had to die... Thats why my phaser was set at level eight rather than level one."

Rachael was about to say something when she suddenly found herself closing her mouth. This was something that she had not expected to ever come out of her mother's mouth. "It was him, all along. Wasn't it?"

Torilla nodded her head. "He was the one who drove me away from New Halana when I was a girl. I went to Starfleet Academy. Not because I was seeking something, but because I was running from something." she paused. "I was expecting him to follow me. Why he never did... I honestly do not know." Torilla admitted. "Maybe he got a better offer from somewhere else?" she commented.

"No," Rachael said quietly. "He decided to stew in his resentment. He couldn't stand the fact that you were being bedded by someone else. But he didn't have the balls to make it clear to you how he felt." she paused. "Did he rape you, Mom?" Rachael whispered.

"No," Torilla commented. "He would have crippled me if he had done so," she admitted. "He didn't want me ruined, he wanted me to come to him of my own volition." she slowly smiled. "He wanted me to name him as my mate. I refused." Torilla's smile did not fade away.