Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: Secondary Sickbay

Posted by Crewman Jasper Jarvis (Cardiology and Surgery) in Side sim: Secondary Sickbay

Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: Secondary Sickbay
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After a few moments she opened her eyes and looked calculatingly at him, green orbs slightly glazed with exhaustion and heat. She frowned slightly then with a shake of her head and acting as though this was the Major inconvenience of her life thus far she pulled the bottom of her vest top up just enough to give him access to her lungs. “Happy?” She demanded.

Willow Taylor
CO

A thin smile tugged at the corners of Dr Jarvis’ lips. “Good girl,” he muttered to himself as he walked over to stand behind the woman. Without warning, he pressed the cold, closed bell of the stethoscope against the naked skin of her back.

Dr J. Jarvis M.D

Willow half caught his comment, surely he hadn’t said what she thought he had…she turned her head to admonish him when the icy disc of the archaic device pressed into her skin. She gave a short involuntary jump and a hiss. “Where were you keeping that!?” She demanded. “The freezer?” The disc warmed quickly and she relaxed again. Waiting for him to continue.

“It’s possible to like your work too much you know.” She said quietly.

Willow Taylor
CO

Dr Jarivs heard the Captain talk, but her words were drowned out by the rattling sound that came from her lungs. Nevertheless, her incessant nattering made it difficult to properly listen to her lungs. He pulled the plugs out of his ears with his free hand. “For someone who seemed to want to get this over and down with as quickly as possible, you’re doing a very good job at dragging it out as long as possible,” he said with a slight sneer that she would not see unless she could twist her head around one-hundred-and-eighty degrees. “Now, if you wouldn’t mind, I’d like to listen to your lungs without also hearing the sound of your voice.”

Dr J. Jarvis M.D

Willow sighed, which turned into a slight cough. “Well if you’d have used the tricorder…” She said but again did as he bid and stopped talking for him to listen. She considered the crotchety older man as the bell of the stethoscope moved across the quadrants of her lungs and pondered what she knew of him. Nothing really, he had been a cardiologist. A surgeon, then he had gone insane and now she was stuck with him.

If Jasper heard her grumblings, he gave no indication. Instead, he said sharply, “deep breath in,” and waited for her to do so.

Willow did so and fought to hold the breath a moment before…

He listened as she did so and followed by saying, “deep breath out.”

What else would she do? She let the breath out and felt the band of tightness across her chest again.

She gave him to the count of thirty and then said. “You don’t like me much do you Jarvis?”

Willow Taylor
CO

Dr Jarvis took the plugs of the stethoscope out of his ears and allowed the device to dangle around his neck. “I’m sure I have no idea what you’re talking about, Captain,” he replied innocently. “On the few occasions that we have spoken, I have been perfectly mannerable.” He left any insinuation to the Captain’s imagination.

Dr J. Jarvis M.D

Willow turned to look at him. Something about the man being behind her unnerved her. She watched him ponderously. “Don’t play stupid.” She said quietly. “It’s unbecoming of a man of your intellect.” She sighed she could have been more professional and what? Welcomed the man but that wasn’t really an option. He was a danger in many ways and in more ways than that to her personally.

“I was being perfectly serious, Captain. I have been quite mannerable with you,” he asserted, safe in the knowledge that there was no instance that she could call him out over. “It’s a pity that Star-Fleet does not prise that quality when choosing its officers.”

As she sat and surveyed the empty sickbay she added. “You and I may have been well maybe never friends but colleagues at least, your cardiovascular articles were always amongst the best in their time.”

Willow Taylor
CO

Dr Jarvis’ ears pricked up at the comment and his eyes turned to look again at her temperature. It was probably just the fever talking he decided. He’d best do something about that. “Nurse,” he barked, bringing the young NE from earlier running.

“Yes, Dr Jarvis,” she said timidly.

“Fetch me some Corophizine and Tri-Ox compound.”

“Right away, Doctor,” she replied and hurried off.

Dr Jarvis then put the stethoscope back into his ears and reached out to place the open bell over her heart; recalling from her file that it was situated on the right.

Dr J. Jarvis M.D