Posted by Captain Alexxander Ryley (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay- Tangled Webs

Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Sickbay- Tangled Webs

Posted by Captain Alexxander Ryley (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay- Tangled Webs
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Calloway shrugged and lifted her injured right hand. “Depends on which story you believe. Could have gotten into fight with a stupid kid who didn’t know his place, or maybe I was training and overdid it.” Either way, it was quite possible she had fractured her knuckles and that whatever her fist had collided with hadn’t been so forgiving. That and she had to have hit with a great deal of force.

~Shara Calloway, CIO

Ryley seemed to consider this a moment longer before he pushed himself up fully and pulling his covers aside eased himself off of the biobed, the weight on his good leg. His hand automatically went for a cane that wasn’t there, instead he gripped the area over the thigh with his hand as if it offered some slight support and barefoot limped towards her.

As he stood in front of her on the biobed he motioned for her hand. “I’m unlikely to believe anything that comes out of your mouth, patients lie it’s the law of the universe. Those with Intel training tend to lie more that’s the law of secret keeping.”

Ryley
MD

Shara chuckled, a deep throaty sound full of knowing and amusement. “Oh hunny, you have no idea just how true that is. Except when it’s not.”

He raised his eyebrows at that but said nothing.

She studied him again. “Alexander Jay Ryley, rank Captain, much to your chagrin and many people’s dismay. Notable doctor, considered brilliant but rarely a team player”-she leaned in towards him-“my kind of person”-and leaned back-“but it’s cost you more times than is necessary to mention. And yet no one can deny that you’re brilliant. It reminds me of my daughter actually, whose brain you were very intimately acquainted with several years ago. Later, I owe you a drink for that.”

~Shara Calloway, CIO

Quietly he searched her face a moment, eyes darting across her expression as if he were trying to read it like a book. “Impressive…” he said finally, not denying or confirming anything she had said exactly. “Do you juggle too?”

He removed his hand from his leg and reached out to take her injured hand. His grip was firm but gentle. Waiting a moment, glancing up at her, to see if he was about to feel the wrath of her left hook he carefully examined the knuckles. Pressing gently where indicated.

“You’re gunna need to be a tad more specific, if I had a bar of latinum for every brain I’ve been intimately acquainted with I’d have…well enough latinum that I wouldn’t have ended up a popsicle in a Klingon deep freeze anyway. Unless you’re using brain as a euphemism in which case…you’d still need to be more specific but I feel like I’d end up with some other bruises for my current collection.”

Ryley
MD

It wasn’t shifting out of character for her to snort. Knowing her second child though, there was no way in hell they would have… no, definitely not. “You removed a itty bitty implant from her brain stem after the Atlantis rescued her half-dead from her shuttle. That implant… nasty piece of work the Tal Shiar thought would be full of shits and giggles. I know… I was there when they put it in.” Multiple clues, bombs, whatever they would be Shara knew either now or later it would make for a really interesting conversation. Besides her and Micah were the elders on this ship and it was nice to have someone her age to converse with. They were in vastly different places in their lives than the young things who had just graduated the Academy or, in sone cases, just getting their next promotion. Shara and Ryley were done with promotions. They meant nothing, signified yes a long career but were not a marker of the person they were.

~Shara Calloway, CIO