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Bethany looked at him, a bit serious, but with that ever present grin. “Jacket or shirt and jacket?” She unzipped the jacket and shrugged it off, draping it over the end of the bio bed. “I’m just not that kind of girl. You want the shirt too you’re gonna have to get us some privacy.”

Gadi, CoS

Ryley gave a soft chuckle. “Jacket will be fine.” He pressed the bell over her heart and listened a moment, “Besides you and I just met. You could at least offer to buy me a drink first before you start asking for privacy.”

“Well when we’re done here I’m happy to oblige.” Then turning serious, “Doc if you can figure out what’s wrong with me, I’ll buy you a drink every night for a year.”

The corners of his mouth turned up. “I’ll hold you to that. Now shh I’m trying to listen.”

He lifted the stethoscope and moved behind Bethany before placing the device on her back. “Deep breath in and out again.” He said

Ryley
MD

Bethany took in a deep breath, forcing herself to draw it out, to breath slow despite the way her instinct was to breath rapidly to meet the rhythm of her heart beat.

Gadi, CoS

A frown crossed Ryley’s features as he removed the device from his ears and pulled it to hang around his neck instead. Coming back around to face her he picked up the tricorder and removing the hand held part checked the balance on it. He pulled a face as if he was unhappy but pointed the scanner at Bethany and moved it across her from head to toe and back up again.

“You said this started when you first came aboard. Did you have any other symptoms?or anything else that stated at that time?”

Ryley
MD

Ooc: Can I get some scan results please!

The tricorder showed elevated markers and an elevated white blood cell count along with a low grade fever. Additionally her endorphin levels were high.

Gadi

Still frowning Ryley lifted his hand and placed the side of it, along the thumb and right index finger, onto her forehead. “You have a fever.” He said glancing back down at the results. He seemed ponderous for a moment, tapping the tricorder thoughtfully he brought up the scan results from the security chiefs last exam and compared them. “That could be a result of infection…” he muttered partly to her and partly to himself.

Limping away briefly he collected some more equipment and returned. “I’m going to need to run more in-depth scans, but before that I’d like to draw some blood.” He held up the phlebotomy hypo and gave it a little shake.

Ryley
MD