Posted by Captain Molly Wright (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Main Sickbay - Medical Emergency (ATTN Medical Staff)
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“Thank you Ensign.” Harris said in a disheveled tone. “If you don’t mind, I’d like to stay with her until she wakes up. I won’t be any trouble or get in the way.” Harris knew he could make it an order but he did try not to interfere with the functioning of other departments just on his regard.

Harris, CO

Charlie smiled and nodded, “Of course Captain, can I get you anything?” she asked as she beckoned a nurse over. “Nurse Andrews, please could you get a chair for the Captain?” she requested quietly as she continued to monitor Molly. She gave a reassuring nod to Elaine that everything was under control for the moment.

Ensign Bailey (Doctor)

Harris’ shoulders slumped slightly, a much more kind look coming across the man’s hard shell. “Thank you Doctor.” He said in a soft voice. Taking the chair, he sat next to Molly and took her hand in his. Sitting quietly for a moment, the Marine eyed his clerk and asked. “Can you bring me the PaDDs on my desk Brianna… I… I just can’t leave her like this.” He looked as though he would burst into tears and Jersey walked beside him, wrapping an arm around his shoulders. “Sure thing Pops… I’ll move out your meetings to the end of the week. Take your time.” With that, she was gone.

(TIME PASSES)

Harris never left the chair, diligently working on the tasks that couldn’t be put off… the Marine handled all the normal duties of a Starship Captain from the top of a double-height stack of boxes he used as a desk and along with a few PaDDs.

Harris, CO

Molly stirred softly on the biobed.

It felt like awakening from a long night’s sleep but her body felt horribly sore. Her right leg especially. She tried moving it, only to realize that it was probably a bad idea. What had happened? Where was she?

Bright light flooded her eyes, as Wright tried to open them, and she closed them almost immediately. And suddenly, all came crashing down on her. The nightmare… the holodeck… the program… the spear that pierced her leg… Jersey… her bloodied hand reaching for her commbadge to call Cal–

Molly sat up abruptly as she tried to stop an action she didn’t know had occurred a good chunk of time before. Yet another bad idea, as when she applied force on her leg to make her body jump backwards on the bed, pain shot through it once more. The yelp escaped her lips before she could stop it.

Wright, CIO

The second that Molly moved, Calvin immediately dropped the PaDD he was reading and closed the roughly meter between them in a single step. “Easy Mols… you’re in Sickbay Babe.” His hands rested gently but with firm pressure… one on her shoulder the other holding down her right knee. “Now… we can go over what the hell you were thinking turning off the safeties in the Holodeck later.” His tone went momentarily hard as he said the words before switching back. “However, as for now, I want you to focus on getting better. So lie down…” He smirked and quickly said just loud enough for Molly to hear. “… ya damn lunatic…” With wink, his normal volume returned. “… and rest. Let the Docs do their stuff.”

Harris, CO

“Calvin…” The name came almost as a whisper as she realized who was helping her and where she was. She felt weak. This was not like her. She didn’t want to be in Sickbay, and she surely didn’t want to have to explain what had happened. And yet Molly didn’t feel like she had it in her to fight it. It scared her. She wasn’t used to not have a choice but to be compliant.

A soft smile shaped Wright’s lips as the wink and Cal’s words left his mouth. Slowly, Molly allowed Harris’s hands to guide her back down on the bed.

“Easy there wildcat…” Cal smiled softly as he finally got Molly to lie down. “… you gotta take it easy till the Doc clears ya, alright? Everything’s fine Mol’s… just take your time and get better.” His hand lingering just an extra moment or two on her leg before Cal blushed slightly and turned to go back to his seat.

As he sat back down, Molly did her best to turn to the Marine. Spotting the stack of boxes, she felt slightly guilty. Finally, she said in a weak tone. “How long have you been here?”

Wright, CIO

Harris stretched slightly as he got re-comfortable in his chair. “Hell… I don’t know…” Cal chuckled softly. “… maybe, six… seven hours. Why… ain’t like I’m lettin’ your dumb ass run off and do somethin’ else to get hurt. So…” Harris shot her a rather scolding glance. “… I suggest you sit your ass still or I’ll have you immobilized until you’re medically cleared to leave.” The Marine then turned back to the report he was reading and as he read, added. “Do I make myself perfectly clear… Captain?”

Harris, CO

“Aye, Sir.” Molly said dryly. She wasn’t being funny or cheeky, but rather answering Cal’s question the way any officer would. Six hours? No wonder she felt sore.

As Charlie sat writing some reports she spotted Molly stirring in the other room. She picked up her medical tricorder and made her way over to the bed. She smiled warmly as she began to scan her. “Nice to see you awake Captain, how are you feeling? You gave us a bit of a scare…” she added as she checked Molly’s vitals. She gave a quick nod to Captain Harris that everything was ok.

Sickbays. Molly hated sickbays. They were generally too noisy and too busy and too full of moaning people. And as far as Molly was concerned she had spent far too much time in them during her life. However, there was a warmth on the Doctor’s voice that made Molly think of Lai. Lai’s sickbay was always peaceful and quiet and… inviting almost. Wright almost smiled outward as the memories of Lai and Nurse Reed lingered in her mind. They seemed a lifetime ago.

Focusing her eyes on the present Doctor, Molly smiled softly. “Sore.” She said weakly. “But I’ll be fine.” Bailey didn’t know Molly, but if she did she would know that Wright hid most of her problems under a ‘tough’ outer shell that she saw the need to keep. She made no comment at the Doctor’s last remark. She had never intended to scare anyone. But then again, she didn’t intend on being pierced by a spear either. And well. She didn’t intend on going to sickbay in the first place.

Charlie could tell Molly was in pain so called Nurse Watkins over and stepped away from the biobed momentarily. “Nurse, please could you get me 10ccs of Terakine and perhaps a cup of coffee for Captain Harris?” She asked politely. Nurse Watkins scurried off and returned a few moments later, hypospray in one hand, mug in the other. “Thanks Annie,” Charlie replied as she returned to the bedside.

She handed the cup of coffee to Harris with a warm smile. “I thought you could probably use this sir,” she said as she loaded the hypospray. “This is something for the pain that I am guessing is throbbing like hell right now?” She asked as she put the hypospray to Molly’s neck.

Ensign Bailey (Doctor)

A smile set on Molly’s lips as she saw Bailey handing Cal a cup of coffee, before the Doctor turned to her holding a hypospray. “A little bit. It’s not too bad. I’ve had worse.” There was a slight strain in Molly’s voice. It was a half truth. On the one hand, she had indeed had worse. On the other hand, ‘throbbing like hell’ was the right wording, but the Intel officer didn’t want to acknowledge it.

Charlie let out the briefest of smiles, she was not unaccustomed to the brave face that officers often put on in sickbay, thankfully she had learnt to see past that or she would never treat any one. “I don’t doubt that you have Captain, but you might as well be comfortable whilst you’re here,” she said as she smiled and administered the dose and popped the hypospray back on the instrument tray. Satisfied that Molly was stable she put her medical tricorder back and decided to leave the two officers in peace. “I’m going to let you rest up Captain but I’m just next door if you need anything or you have any more pain, please don’t hesitate to call,” she added with a nod to Harris as well.

“Thank you, Doctor.” The words were genuine as the hypospray left her neck. It didn’t take long for the pain and soreness to subside. Molly took a deep breath and looked at Cal. “You don’t need to be here. I’ll be okay. You have more important places to be. You can’t possibly run a starship from Sickbay…”

As Charlie walked away, a warm smile came across her face, it was lovely when she saw two people so in love with each other. Deep down she was a little jealous but she brushed it to one side. Taking her seat again to finish her reports she shifted round the desk a little further to make sure she could keep an eye on them in case she was needed again.

Ensign Bailey (Doctor)

For a moment, she let her gaze fall on Calvin as he worked. She was lucky. Her mind went back as to why she had gone to the Holodeck that morning and why she had turned up the level on her program to the maximum settings. In reality, she didn’t know that would disable the safeties of the room, but she would be lying if she hadn’t hoped it would.

Taking her hand to her chest, she felt the small necklace she wore now under her sickbay gown. Finally, she spoke. “The nightmares are getting worse, Calvin…”

Wright, CIO