Posted by Captain Marceau Renault (Commanding Officer) in side - sim: What No One Else Sees

Posted by Lieutenant Helena Laursen (Helm/Nagivation Officer) in side - sim: What No One Else Sees

Posted by Captain Marceau Renault (Commanding Officer) in side - sim: What No One Else Sees

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Helena’s cheeks flushed a light pink at the nickname, but she was quite serious. He couldn’t give up his career if she lost hers. “If I could not, you would request Billy. He would come out here as fast as a warp 4 ship could get him here. You know that.” She sighed, “It would be no different than when we were given different duty assignments.” It would suck.

“It would be worse than that, and that was bad enough as it is,” Marceau complained. He’d made her wait thirteen years, he wasn’t going to just let her go now. He took a breath, “Let’s worry about now, not what might happen if we don’t worry about now.”

Helena turned, lifting her legs onto the bed (trying really hard to make sure she didn’t wince or seem to struggle) and leaned back. The scan showed some residual inflammation and stiffness. Her nerves were no longer over acting. What signs of damage there had been before, the ice, rest, and meds were correcting that.

“When you’re done, scan yourself too.”

Helena

Marceau seemed to relax a little as the results came up. “You are improving. The pain is caused by residual stiffness and inflammation, but the nerves are no longer overacting and the damage is healing.” He gave her a look, and then sat by her and scanned himself, showing her the results.

Helena grinned, “See. I am fine, well I’m getting there,” she quickly amended. “I am being a good patient. Those not-a-lollipops are working.”

Marceau grinned, “Then we will have to keep giving those.”

His stress was still too high, registering ‘through the roof’ as Gray had put it cortisol, a high heart rate and slightly high blood pressure, and signs of an upset stomach. The antacids had lowered the acidity of his stomach acid, keeping the acid from coming up as much or being as damaging.

~ Marceau

Helena had no idea what any of it meant except his heart rate and blood pressure. “Marceau do you need a tranquilizer or something? How are you sleeping? What about something for high blood pressure? Just to get it to come down?” Helena didn’t know how all that worked, but she was worried.

Helena

“You were with me last night, I slept.” Marceau made an ‘ehhhh’ sort of face. “It’s fine so long as it doesn’t stay like that. If it stays that high, then yes, I will have to let Doctor Grey do something about it.” He shook his head then, “I’d rather avoid tranquilizers if I can. Too hard to wake up if I’m urgently needed for something.”

~ Marceau

“Marceau?” Helena gave him a look, teasing, half serious, and full of mirth, “are you trying to convince me that sleepovers are essential to your health and well being?”

Helena

“What? No, I’m not.” Marceau said, but then a playful grin crossed his face, “Buuuuut it doesn’t sound like a bad idea.” He still had his arm wrapped around his belly, leaned over slightly, and then he leaned on Helena instead. “Might be good for both of us. Lots of opportunities to dole out not-lollipops.”

~ Marceau

Helena leaned in, her forehead resting against his. Helena always spoke with an accent, she never sounded like a native English speaker, not that she tried, but for a moment her accent became much more noticeable. “Ljón, are you bribing me? I have to be honest, it’s working.” She closed the space between them and kissed him.

Helena

Marceau smiled, chuckling softly, “Now I am, yes.” He leaned towards her and kissed her back. His body felt tense with stress as he pulled her into a hug. When the kiss broke off he smiled warmly again, “Now I know what I was missing for thirteen years.”

~ Marceau

Helena felt like she’d fallen asleep and woken into an alternate universe. She had seen glimpses of a flirtatious and forward side of Marceau but he had always blushed and chickened out. Helena was suddenly reminded of that night, oh so many years ago, when they were prepping for their first cadet mission. Lucy had shown up and attempted to make a scene, and Marceau had quite effectively and smoothly diffused that situation. That was when they had all decided support Marceau as Cadet CO too. Oh wow.......

Helena was too dazed to answer with more than a breathy “yeah” and then laid her head on his shoulder.

Helena