Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Check Out of a Check Up

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in Check Out of a Check Up

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Check Out of a Check Up
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“No, thank you.” Maybe tea would relax him somewhat, but he wasn’t much in the mood. And he just wanted to be out of anyone’s way while he was here. As he normally did with anyone besides Rand, he was hiding his discomfort and… nervousness? Was that what that was? He decided to focus on Rand instead. He was going to mention something about if she wanted to do anything after they let her out of Sickbay, but he wasn’t going to do so with the nurse present, so instead he said somewhat awkwardly, “I’m sure you’ll be glad to be back to normal.”

~ Roman

Shrine nodded and moved away. The department was unusually busy and she had other patients to check on. Rand nodded, “I am, I feel like I’m constantly behind, playing catch up. I think I need to find a different deck to run on though. Stay away from the cargo bays.” Rand shifted on the bed, her leg getting stuff from holding it still. “What I really want is to get out of here.” She might have been talking about sickbay in general or the amount of people. She glanced up at the clock, another hour....or just under.

Rand

Roman smiled again. “I’m sure there’s another quiet deck at 0500.” He looked around, making sure the nurse and anyone else really was gone, and then said, “What do you want to do when you do get out of here?”

~ Roman

Rand nodded, maybe one of the residential decks. Her track shoes were quiet enough. She couldn’t help but smile back at him. “Something to eat if my stomach will handle it. Or maybe just tea…” She pushed herself to sit up more comfortably. “You like to play cards?”

“Of course I do, we used to play at academy,” Roman replied. “There was this one guy in my class, never could beat him. No one could,” he continued and smiled. “But we kept trying.”

“Slight of hand?” Rand never played in the poker games too many people in one place. If it was just cards it would be fine, but they wanted to talk. Randy on the other hand loved poker. Rand just liked to play cards. “Or did he count cards?”

Sickbay seemed to finally thin out some. Everyone who came in was seen by the medical staff, but Rand had no way of knowing if what ailed them was real or made up. But since she would never make up such a thing she didn’t consider that might have been what was going on. But Scott never showed so that probably wasn’t it. Just a busy night. So now that the rush had cleared Elbbirt came back in the room with a machine. Rand saw him pushing something and grabbed Roman’s hand, without thinking.

“Alright my dear, one more set of x-rays to make sure everything is fine. Then you can go.”

Rand

Before Roman saw Elbbirt Rand grabbed his hand and he glanced at her for a second, then looked and saw who was headed their way. He didn’t pull his hand away. Instead, he curled his fingers around her hand. One more set of x-rays, just a few more minutes and they could leave. That made Roman happy.

~ Roman

X-rays. That was easy, she could do that. Just pictures, and moving her foot around for the different angles didn’t hurt now. Her hand relaxed on Roman’s but didn’t let go. She was ready to get out of there. Elbbirt didn’t waste time. He was done quickly and then returned. “Alright Ensign, everything looks good. No more running into cargo pallets. And remember…”

“2 laps only, a quarter lap at a time, wrap my ankle.” Elbbirt nodded, “And for how long?”

Rand

“Three days,” repeated Roman without thinking. He’d memorized the directions. It was only afterwards that he worried how that would look, and so he said with a shrug, “I’m a scientist, we deal in details.” The extra information would probably only make it more obvious, because there was no reason to give a reason if they weren’t hiding something.

~ Roman

Now the doctor would have just chocked it up to Alden making sure she wasn’t trying to get out of her medical restrictions like she had tried to get out of the treatment. But Alden had felt the need to clarify. He was also holding Rand’s hand not the other way around. Elbbirt knew how much Rand hated the fuser and the amount of pain and discomfort it caused, so he had thought it very compassionate of Alden to not tell at her when she tried to squeeze his phalanges to jelly. Elbbirt nodded, “Quite right.” He patted Rand’s foot like a doting old grandpa. “Between the Cmdr and your brother looking out for you, I believe you are in a sufficient enough bubble to be safe. I think you can go now.” Turning to Alden, “If she doesn’t behave being her back here.” And he walked off, oh to be young again…

Shrine didn’t miss any of it either. She just smiled and winked at Rand when Elbbirt gave Alden the instructions, like it was the most natural thing in the world. “Alright Rand,” she handed her the shoe and sock. “Go easy, take a break if you need to. Remember some times after the fuser your foot might feel unbalanced at first.” Looking at the young Ensign meaningfully, “Don’t be afraid to ask for help.”. Shrine helped her stand, making sure she was steady and then left them to it. Rand turned several shades of red, a roaring in her ears started and unknowingly gripped Roman’s hand tighter.

In the outer room however, medical’s gossip queen hadn’t missed a thing, and she took off to find Scott because she knew something Scott did not!!!

Rand

Roman seemed uncomfortable as well, though unlike Rand, thankfully, his face was not so prone to flushing. Instead, Rand would likely notice the clamminess of his palm as he nodded to the doctor’s directions. They know! He had to think himself through this. He knew that was a possible outcome of him coming, he’d accepted that. It was more important to be with Rand than to hide something that would eventually come out anyway. Being worried about it was needless and a waste of energy. “Ready to go?” Roman asked Rand.

~ Roman

When she had stood up Rand had let go of his hand to steady herself, just incase her foot didn’t cooperate. She didn’t know how Roman managed to stay so calm when everyone now seemed to know. On one hand that meant if everyone knew and he hugged her or they were seen running together or, horror of horrors ha dinner in the galley it didn’t matter. On the other hand, if any of that happened everyone would be watching and Scott was never going to leave her alone and inevbly someone would say something and Randy would over hear....

“Yes, very ready.” Rand wanted out of sickbay before Elbbirt decided to make her stay. She walked carefully, tempted to jog just to get to the nearest lift, but Roman would stop her and everyone would notice.

Rand

Looking calm when he wasn’t was something Roman had mastered a long time ago. He started walking too quickly, eager to leave, but adjusted his pace to match Rand’s. “The whole ship is going to know by tomorrow,” he predicted, muttering it mostly to himself. He didn’t think Elbbirt or the nurse would say anything, but he also knew they weren’t the only ones who noticed anything. He figured the words ‘focus on your job, not on my personal life’ would soon become very, very commonly spoken by him.

~ Roman

No one said anything as they left, but Rand felt like everyone was watching them. Of course Rand always felt like people were watching her. She didn’t try to keep up with Roman. She didn’t want to get fussed at before she got out of Sickbay. But she knew why he was rushing and if she couldn’t get out of Sickbay quickly at least he could. But he slowed down and waited for her. Rand didn’t say much the whole way to deck 3. She was physically drained from the treatment and just wanted to sit down with a blanket and ginger tea. A stop at her office to do reports left her with a message that they had been handled and to focus on her dr appt. “Guess I’m free for tonight.”

Rand