Name: Alex Macauley<br/>Role: Tactical Officer<br/>Location: Control Room<br/>Tagged: Mari<br/><br/>Macauley had been holding himself tightly for hours, taut as a coiled spring as he tried to keep his professional cool intact.  So far it had worked.  But seeing one of his techs reach out, fondle Mari's ass and ask if she was a new toy put him over the edge.<br/><br/>If you'd asked him later, he couldn't really have told you why.  Mac made it a point of pride to never, ever blow his cool.  He certainly didn't have any kind of claim on Mari, and she'd shown no signs of needing or wanting his help on anything.  And considering that the Skipper had just stripped down one of her former shipmates and put her on display on the mess deck, a pat on the fanny shouldn't even be registering on his instruments right now.  He'd never know why that particular straw had broken the camel's back.<br/><br/>All he knew was that five seconds after Fire Control Technician Jameson's hand touched Mari's ass, Mac had him by the collar, slammed up against a bulkhead with his knee pressed into the unfortunate sailor's lower back.  His voice was a harsh whisper, pitched to carry no further than the nearest walls.<br/><br/>"You can secure that talk, Sailor, and you can do it right the fuck now.  Skipper giving you a peep show below decks doesn't mean a damn thing up here, so hear this.  We're out for the next eight weeks, and if I see you playing grab-ass again without permission you will spend all of them as my very.  Special.<em>Project</em>."  The last word was almost a hiss, just as the fever broke and Mac felt the red mist pull back from his vision.  He looked around the control room- the watchstanders still had their eyes on their consoles, but he was sure they'd been listening to every word.  And come turn of the watch, it'd be all over the boat, how Lieutenant Mac had finally lost his cool.<br/><br/>Suddenly disgusted with himself, Macauley released Jameson and plunked him back down into his seat with a muttered "That is all", stalking off towards Intel with Mari in tow.  Just for a moment, before his mask went back up, he caught her eyes...<br/><br/>...and knew he'd spent the next day trying to figure out what, exactly, he saw there.