Chapter 7 - The Missing Reports
The next stage began with a narrower problem. The clinic finds adverse-event notes were forwarded but never attached to the command packet. What mattered now was not how dramatic the discovery sounded, but whether it could survive someone else checking it.
By the time Tasha Moore understood what Captain Derek Shaw wanted from the moment, the answer was obvious: anger, panic, a mistake. She gave him none of those things.
She asked one question at a time. It irritated Captain Derek Shaw, which told her more than shouting would have.
"You want a simple story," Captain Derek Shaw said.
Tasha Moore shook her head. "I want the true one. Those are not the same thing."
Private Alvarez looked frightened, but fear did not make the statement weaker. If anything, it made the decision to speak more expensive.
For Tasha Moore, the hardest part was accepting that a fact could hurt and still be useful. Truth was not comfort. It was a structure she could stand on when everything else moved.
Dates lined up badly for Captain Derek Shaw. The more the sequence tightened, the less room there was for the explanation he had offered at the beginning.
A sympathetic colleague suggested she compromise. Tasha Moore asked what part of the record should be compromised first. The conversation ended there.
Instead, she slowed the scene down. She looked at what was physically present, what had been said out loud, and what could still be proved tomorrow.
"If I'm wrong, show me where," Tasha Moore said.
Captain Derek Shaw gave a humorless smile. "You think this is a debate?"
"No. I think it's a record."
Dates lined up badly for Captain Derek Shaw. The more the sequence tightened, the less room there was for the explanation he had offered at the beginning.
She thought about Tasha wants recruits protected without turning a legitimate medical process into rumor or panic.. That desire could easily become a weakness if she tried to force the evidence to match it, so she kept writing down what she knew and what she only suspected.
Accountability turned out to be less theatrical than revenge and more useful. It came in signed findings, changed procedures, restored records, and doors that no longer closed at the first uncomfortable question.
The next conversation happened without an audience. Captain Derek Shaw lowered his voice and tried to make the dispute sound personal, as if the real problem were Tasha Moore's tone. She kept bringing him back to the same concrete point: the medical consent form names an unapproved experimental wellness product and carries incomplete authorization. Every time she did, his answer changed slightly.
The practical consequence came quickly. The clinic finds adverse-event notes were forwarded but never attached to the command packet. Tasha Moore wrote down what had changed and what still had not been answered.
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One witness remembered something differently than Tasha Moore did. Instead of fighting the discrepancy, she wrote it down. Later, a timestamp explained why both memories could be honest and still incomplete.
Before the chapter of the day could close, one fact shifted the pressure again: Shaw signed receipt of them.
