(Blue Dwarf) Frank Harris 'Things to do, places to be'

(This post replaces 'What does he want?'
Harris' head pounded as he rode the lift down to the airlock connected to the Poultry station. He may be sobered up quickly yesterday but he still had to suffer the hangover.
'Who the hell does Nipels think he is!' Harris throught to himself. The only reason Harris didn't argue with Nipels was because of his goddamn hangover. Nipels never worked in security, he had no idea of the amount of paper work there had to be done for just one count of minor theft let alone the amount he had to deal with everyday. It wasn't just the paperwork but with this security department he had to keep a tight leash on some of the more 'wild' members of the security staff.
It was bad enough that two of his staff had gone AWOL, Lloyd from her punishment duty for blowing up the 'MacDonalds' and Dunawy from active duty. He had already assigned Donover to track Lloyd down as she was a trouble causer and Donover attracted trouble. As for Dunawy, he was another that attracted trouble and now he has gotten himself into trouble and now it was Harris' job to look for him.
If that wasn't bad enough, Jackson had informed Harris that he hasn't been able to find Kieran Loes yet. 'If Loes has managed to get lost he is going to make one hell of Chief Navigation officer' Harris throat sarcastically to himself. Maybe he isn't lost and he just took a stagbug or blue midget for a ride. If way he should be manning his post.
Harris wasn't going to tell anyone, especially Nipels, about where he got the information. How would it look, trading for information with someone that had attacked your ship to collect a bounty on the captain and first officer's head?
The lift came to a stop and Harris moved out into the corridor outside. Then he made his way to airlock.
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Two hours later
Poultry station Security office.
The station's chief of security handed Harris back the picture of Dunawy and told him as he finished off a donut. "Nope, haven't seen him."
The station's chief of security was fat, bolding and much like everything else on this damn station sank of chickens.
"When you won't mind if I took a look around the lower levels of the station then." Harris said.
"Why would you want to do that?!" The security chief asked, Harris noticed the look of panic on his face.
Harris leaned forward on the security chief's desk and snarled. "Because that is where he went! Got a problem with it!?"
Harris watched as the security chief swallowed hard and then started. "Well… it's just that…."
"Yes." Harris said.
"No one in their right mind would go down there!" The security chief explained. "Ever since those disappearances started."
"Then what can you tell me about experiments being carried out in the lower levels?!" Harris demanded.
"The last thing I heard was that they were trying to develop new breeds of chickens down there but we haven't anything from down there for a couple of months now." The security chief told the Major.
Harris just turned and left the office.
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Lower levels of the Poultry station
One hour later
Harris explored the lower levels but had yet to find any sigh of the missing security officer. Why the hell was he doing this when he could quite easily order someone else to do it. But no, he's responsible for the security staff.
Harris then noticed the shadow looming over him and he turned to see what the shadow belonged to and commented. "Never seen anything like that before."
(To be continued)