"You are going to get one rather short, very annoyed man in a minute if you don't get back on your feet..." he snapped, finally growing annoyed. "Look, esse, you come in here reeking of booze, you sit in my CIC without invitation... and you don't even know the..." He sighed.
"Get... off... my... ship!" he snapped. "Guards, haul this sorry sack of... whatever... out of here. I don't want to look at him until he's had a bath, sobered up, and ready for duty." Alvarez levelled his mug at the man. "You will be back here, the next time we're recruiting. You WILL be sober, and you will be able to answer my questions. You get me, homes?"
He waved at the two marines to help the man back to his ship. Turning and marching back through the revolving glass panels that had just been replaced, nodding to Lt. Commander Broch as he went.
"Another one... why... why... why do we get them?" he complained as he poured himself another cup of coffee.
He stopped... "Alexandra Kohonsky?" he asked, looking through the door. He glanced at Angie, and shook his head. "There's no way in hell!"
Marching through the doors and into the waiting room he grabbed her by the back of her jacket, frog marching her out of the recruitment office.
"I served with your father!" he said in a tone that was biting and hard. "I fought with him during the evacuation of Cape Verde. I served under him during the commissioning of the Karl.Marx... and you know what he said?"
He paused pulling her around to look right into his blazing eyes. "He said to me that there was one reason he was fighting, and that was to make sure you, his baby girl, had a better life to grow up in. And I will be damned if I am going to let you join the fighter corps!"
The elevator spat them out on the flight deck, and Alvarez pointed to a shuttle. "You are going to get on that ship right there, you are going to go home... you hear me Alexandra?"
The look on his face showed he wasn't going to be argued with.
"Get, before I tell your daddy you were up here, and he comes and whups both of our asses!"
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