Posted by Civilian Cai Taylor (Captain’s Brother) in Main sim - secondary sickbay

Posted by Civilian Melaia Reez (Scientist) in Main sim - secondary sickbay
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Meanwhile outside of the surgery Cai sat looking a little lost and more than a bit shocked considering his sort of, but not in that way, friend had collapsed in front of him and the doctors had all rushed off to deal with it. He watched Drake on the other side of sickbay and looked around. There were a lot of people he didn’t know in sickbay....he hated sickbays. This posting was the worst of all the ships Willow had dragged him to because it was basically one giant sickbay. The teenager shuddered, a damp sort of sweat breaking out across his forehead and closing his eyes willed the nauseated feeling to go away.

Cai

Drake didn’t want to interact with the Captain’s brother again, but he has been taught that there are certain things you just do. He walked over and sat down. “She’s going to be fine. You on the other hand, look like crap. What’s the deal?”

-Dr Drake Marshall

Opening his eyes he looked at Drake and gave the required scowl of angsts teens. “I don’t like sickbays. When they are empty and it’s quick it’s fine but full like this it gives me the creeps ok. Can you go away and deal with someone else.”

“Well you also look like you’re about to hurl on my sickbay floor. And the guy I would typically put on mop detail is in surgery. So, how about you tell me what’s really going on? Then I’ll medicate you and you can tell me to go to hell. Deal?” Drake had been Cai ten years earlier, minus the blue hair. He understood hating the world because it felt like nothing but pressure in a place where no one really cared. Cai had the advantage of not being in his first year at the Medical Academy at the time. He just needed something beyond the metal music and pissing off his sister to do that he cared about.

Cai frowned at Drake some more. “Dude…I do NOT need to be medicated, you know you lot are all the same. Throw meds and treatments at everything you see, I just don’t like sickbays and I don’t like them crowded which this one is and my stupid sister wants me to stay here so here I am ok.”

“I’m just interested in keeping the floors clean.”

Little outburst done cai sighed. “Look, I am fine ok I just want to be left alone, a glass of water is all I need.”

Drake left and soon returned with a glass of water. “Your meds. I know you hate me, you hate pretty much everyone, but if you need anything… at least you know me.” With that Drake walked off.

-Dr Drake Marshall

Cai watched him, taking the glass of water he scowled. “I don’t hate everyone.” He muttered under his breath and took a sip of the water, sullenly.

Just then, Melaia and Jonathan entered the med bay with the twins in tow and Mel looking like she was trying her best to hide her pain. Quickly she surveyed the the place and knew that her injury was minor and low priority, so she simply moved over to the waiting area. “You can leave the kids here and go. I know they probably need you,” she told Jonathan.

~Melaia Reez

An NE approached Mel with a PaDD in hand, “I’m NE Nurse Egairt . Please can you tell me the nature of your injury? Is it yourself or the children?” She looked at Jonathan uncertainty in her tone as she did so.

Cai

Drake walked up beside Nurse Egairt. “What do you have?”

-Dr Drake Marshall

It’s me,” Melaia said. “The kids seem fine, but Jonathan needs to get to his station and so they are with me. ” She tentatively lifted her right arm and winced. “Fell on it hard when the ship shook. I was holding Julia at the time and turned my body so I didn’t land on her. I did however land hard on my side. Ten credits says it’s a fracture,” she said with a somewhat amused grin. Meanwhile, her left hand was stroking the top of one of the baby’s heads.

~Melaia Reez

The nurse smiled, “well that’s lucky that you didn’t land on her. After all it was a bit of a big shake.” She said, her tone changing to the same one adults everywhere used when speaking to babies. “Yes it was…a bit of a big shakes uhhu.” She cooed. She then seemed to realise that Drake was there and turned pink.

“Uh I have a biobed free in three minutes or a basic treatment station now if you’d like to take this Doctor Marshall…”

NE Nurse

“Take her to basic treatment. Keep an ear out for news out of the surgical suite.”

Drake walked over with a tricorder in one hand, calibrating it with the other. “So, you were holding your child when the ship lurched, you fell and took the force in an odd way so you could protect the child, correct?” Drake asked before starting to scan Melaia. Now what did you break? he thought. “Nurse. Did you get a name and medical file on intake?”

-Dr Drake Marshall