Posted by Lieutenant Julien Smith (Doctor) in Flashback- Earth, Starfleet Medical (2386)

Posted by Fleet Captain Ghubari Koraia (Captain) in Flashback- Earth, Starfleet Medical (2386)

Posted by Lieutenant Julien Smith (Doctor) in Flashback- Earth, Starfleet Medical (2386)

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“Hello there.” he said in his deep baritone, and a black stray curl fell into his forehead.

The dark skinned woman looked up and looked entirely like she wanted to throw something at him too.

While others might have flinched away from the look, this guy stood his ground and kept smiling. Amber eyes in a dark face, Julien thought. How unusual and beautiful. She was not his type of woman, but the touch of wild beauty made him curious nevertheless.

“Can I interest you in a game of football? Whoever manages to kick the other one’s crutch away first has won and gets invited for drinks.” he said.

• Julien

Unwanted and unbidden, a snort erupted from the cranky commander. “You’d win… this time, and I’d still be out the drink, which I really want but am apparently not allowed with all these meds I’m on,” she said in a deeply accented voice with very clear notes of bitterness.

~Commander Koraia, XO on Medical Leave

Julien’s smile just broadened. “Ah it seems like you need a doctor who can, after a look at your file and the meds you are getting, figure out which kind of drink you can have safely. You see, there are drinks that work very well with meds, it’s a question of evading the negative effects of the wrong mixture of substances and dosages…” he cleared his throat
“Well my name is Lt. Cmdr. Julien King, currently in between assignments and as chance has it, I am a doctor… thought not practicing anymore… but that I can do.”

Had she not been empathic, Koraia might have rolled her eyes at the man. As it was, she almost sighed, pulling her long black braids over one shoulder. It depended on whether this doctor had ever encountered a Napean and knew she was at least somewhat empathic based on her forehead ridge, or if her mixed features were decipherable at all.

In an instant his whole demeanour changed and he dropped the charmer facade, though the offer wasn’t a fake. Suddenly Koraia could see a reflection of what she felt in his oddly mismatched green eyes as he touched his crutch to his right leg, producing a metallic clang. He suddenly looked oder and very tired.

Julien couldn’t hold the cheerfulness anymore. Something that usually came as easy to him as breathing was now hard and felt like a lie. He had no energy left in him to give, but he was also yearning for something that had nothing to do with his body… or half of it.

“Seriously now, I think you can use a drink and so can I. I yearn to talk about something other than my limbs and their underperformance.” he said and gave her an imploring look.

• Julien

She looked down at the workout shorts she was dressed in and then at her crutches. “I’d need to change. I’m on vasodilators to keep blood clots at bay. If you can find your way through bypassing thatrestriction, well, I’m game. Whatever we drink better be strong though,” she warned.

~Commander Koraia, XO on Medical Leave