Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Joseph Rainns (Incoming Chief of Security) in Side-sim Sickbay

Posted by Cadet Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in Side-sim Sickbay

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Joseph Rainns (Incoming Chief of Security) in Side-sim Sickbay
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OOC: This is mostly just for character development but if anyone wants to feel free to join in, and it’s long if you wanna skip it. :)
IC:
Sharah spent two full weeks confined to sickbay. The first few days were disorienting in a way that Sharah hadn’t experienced before. The voices had been dimmed a great deal, and it was very strange to not have the constant static and background noise. She knew this was probably due to the amount of damage the parasite had caused. The scientific part of her mind briefly wondered if the parasite could be used to help others like herself, but quickly dismissed it as far too dangerous. The medical staff had determined she had been exposed through touch. When she boarded her last transport the vegetable container had fallen open and spilled. She had helped to clean up the mess in the small cargo ship’s corridor. It had wreaked havoc on her and almost killed her.

The third night her telepathy had returned full force and the suddenness had woke her up screaming. The high increase of Psilosynine and brain activity had been painful. She was told it was because of the lesions still healing in her brain. She was given a low dose sedative to help her go back to sleep. The next morning, she was severely lectured to NOT use telepathy. The irony was that she couldn’t turn it off, but she made her best effort to let the information flow rather than control it.

By the fourth day in sickbay, Sharah was driving everyone crazy. She wanted something to do. She wasn’t allowed visitors and staring at the beige ceiling and bright lights of sickbay was driving Her crazy. She was allowed to contact her family and her doctor on Betazed. Her doctor reminded her of several activities and non-medical treatments they had used when she had been hospitalized when she was 15 that she could use now. The nurses told Sharah that the doctors on Betazed were sending messages to Lt Mika nonstop to ask about the parasite and the research she was conducting on it. Over the next several days, the haze of the days leading up to her collapse began to clear and she was able to sort through the memories. She remembered helping Jill and her own distress over the little girl’s pain and anger. Sharah had attempted to make the little girl less angry through her empathic abilities, which she normally would not have done, apparently it worked, but that is what had tipped her right over the edge. She knew now that she had recognized something was wrong, but as sick as she was, she had been unable to put together the pieces. She also remembered Lt. Rainns coming and asking her questions, but she had been unable to answer. She wrote a statement and sent it to him. She knew he would probably still want to interview her, but she didn’t know if her strict no visitor’s policy applied to official ship’s business. She knew she had been, at that moment she was in the security office, very dangerous to the crew. She still wasn’t sure why she had decided to do target practice, but she considered herself lucky that Joseph had found her first.
The last few days in sickbay she had been allowed some light medic duties of calibrating equipment and upkeep. She sat on her biobed mostly but at least it was something to do.
“Please? My quarters are away from EVERYONE. No ONE comes down there. Please can I just go back to my quarters? I won’t go anywhere.” Sharah begged the on-duty doctor. He shook his head; over all she had been very calm about being stuck here for so long. “You’ve been cleared Cadet Fayth. You can go back to your quarters. But you are on VERY light duty for the next week, and although we can’t restrict your off-duty activities, we all strongly feel you should limit any activity for awhile until you adjust. There are also messages from your doctors on Betazed waiting for you.” The NE doctor handed Fayth a PaDD with all her instructions. It was late so not many people would be up. There was one thing she wanted to take with her, and she grabbed it. Before she could get out the door NE doctor stopped her. “Cadet Fayth, you have to wait for NE Nurse. She’ll escort you back to your quarters.” Sharah groaned and rolled her eyes. She waited as patiently as possible so they could leave. Her wry sense of humor bubbled up. The only thing she needed now was an official security escort for everyone to know how weird she was. When NE nurse started towards her, Sharah was half way out the door.

=^= Rainns to Fayth, just so you are aware, your written statement is more than satisfactory for my report, don’t worry about a follow up interview. Also this is a professional call, so the bet is still on.=^=

L.T. J.G. Joseph Rainns- COS
NE Nurse looked over at Fayth and grinned. Fayth blushed 5 shades of red. =^=Thank you Lt. I understand.=^=
NE Nurse started laughing. “You like HIM, Cadet.” Sharah shushed her. “I…umm....I’ve been sick, leave me alone.”
NE Nurse felt like after two weeks Sharah was her friend. So she decided she could get off work a little early at her expense. =^= NE Nurse to Lt. Rainns. Cadet Fayth needs an escort back to her quarters. We just want to make sure she doesn’t wander off. Is there anyone who could do that?=^=
Sharah would have happily disappeared into a bulkhead.

Cadet Fayth, Doctor

=^= I can handle that nurse, I’ll be there shortly=^= Rainns responded. After several minutes the Chief of Security stepped into the sickbay. “Alright,” he said, spotting Fayth, “let’s get you out of here.” He was glad to see the doctor was feeling and looking better, and in hindsight he was embarrassed that he had invaded her privacy by scavenging through her private quarters while she was sick.

L.T. J.G. Joseph Rainns- COS

When Joseph walked into sickbay Sharah just stared. A part of her was afraid she had imagined him in her parasitic stupor. But he wasn’t and she was immensely happy to see him. When she caught herself staring she began to blush, again. What is wrong with me? I don’t even know if he still likes me. Seriously I walk into security demanding a phaser and I’m crazy as a fruit bat? Nope…that does Not work in my favor. NE Nurse smirked and nudged her, “Get going Cadet,” and she laughed at Sharah’s discomfort on her way back to her station.

Sharah walked out into the cooridor feeling rather silly having an escort. Did everyone see her as that dangerous? Was she? She didn’t think so, not now. Mostly certainly before. Oh no…was she going to the brig? Focusing on one person’s thoughts still really hurt and she’d be right back in sickbay if she even looked like she was going to sneeze, so she wouldn’t do that.

“Um…uh” she took a breath, she was so nervous. “Thank you Lt. For” another breath, “For my escort.” That was not what she wanted to say. She was wringing her hands around a rolled piece of paper. She stopped, she was going to mess it up. Then she just started talking not even stopping to breath. “So for the sake of my recovery I wanted to ask about this bet. I remember daring you to do it, and you’ve mentioned it several times, but for the life of me I’m not sure why I would do that. Because it’s not fair to you, I could and probably was cheating the whole time. It’s not like I can stay away from anyone, I hear everything. I’m sure I remember telling you that. And so it really wasn’t a challenge for me, and it wasn’t fair of me to cheat. I love a challenge but that just seems so not like me to dare someone to…well I’m not really sure what I dared you to do or not do, or dared myself” she looked puzzled thinking about it as she continued to ramble on. She was wringing her hands trying to hide her nervousness. “And of course I really have to apologize. It was very stupid of me to even consider target practice. I mean I’m horrible, I really really am. It drives my brother crazy. But I should not have done that. I guess because I was so ill I obviously wasn’t processing correctly, but to put people at risk like that. And to not KNOW I was sick. What kind of doctor am I, that I can’t tell my own symptoms. And of course I don’t really need phaser proficiency to graduate. I’ll graduate but I wanted my away team certification when I did. And I was missing a weapon proficiency. Medical staff don’t have to score as high as other away team members, but we have to have it. ” The four gods of Betazed help her. She couldn’t stop talking. She remembered the last time he walked her to her quarters he held her hand, but she had been sick. She’d liked holding his hand, but was the appropriate now? “I should have asked for a tutor. It won’t happen again. I’m just going to stick to sickbay.” And she was off her mouth running again.

Cadet Fayth, Doctor