Tobi gasped as he felt the feminine green hands of Felicity grab at his collar and push him against the wall. He laughed as he looked at her. 

“Oh, so this is how you ask me on another date,” he joked with his fellow cadet.

“No Tobi, this is serious,” she murmured to him in a hushed tone. 

Tobias was taken aback. Her normal playful demeanor was gone, and she sounded distressed.

“What’s going on,” he asked her, not resisting how she held his collar.

She finally calmed down and let go. She smoothed down her uniform and looked at him with her jade-colored eyes. 

“I made a big mistake,” she said regretfully. 

Tobi looked concerned and leaned forward. He rested a hand on her shoulder and looked into her eyes.

“It’s okay Felicity, we went to the academy together, I got your back,” he told her with a confident smile. 

“It’s Rhapax, after you showed me his hidden gambling den I went again and again. I kept borrowing credits to gamble and now he’s asking me to make illicit substances from the medical replicators, he keeps holding it over my head how he could ruin my Starfleet career,” she said looking away ashamed. 

“Felicity, this isn’t good, what were you thinking? You know if you get caught supplying illicit chems to a black market you will for sure be done with. But getting caught gambling? That would have just been a citation and a ban from going back,” he told her with a frown. 

“I know now, but at the time I panicked, and I already handed over his first requested delivery of drugs, I…. I am in too deep and don’t know what to do,” she started crying. 

Tobi wiped her tears away and gave her a reassuring look. 

“I think I have an idea about getting you out of this situation. If we get caught, we both go down, what do you know about card counting,” he asked her.