Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in side-sim: The Reckoning

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in side-sim: The Reckoning

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Rand was out almost immediately. It seemed even Pipkin was tired from her night time explorations because she didn’t wake either of them....

No it wasn’t the rabbit or the alarm…because Rand forgot to set one. It was the door opening, light stabbing into it and a very heavy Scottish brogue exclaiming, “UGH! Sin mo phiuthar! (that’s my sister!) Awww hell can we just go back to the snogging?! D@mn.” Rand sat up, instantly awake. “Randy? Dè tha ceàrr? Dè an uair a tha e? (What’s wrong? What time is it?)” Randy started to laugh. “0630.” Then he bent down and scooped up the rabbit that was heading for the open door. “No escaping for you.”

Randy and Rand

Roman blinked his eyes open as the sudden bright light woke him up. He was too tired to catch the Gaelic part of the conversation but he smiled when Randy switched to English. “Might think twice before you go barging into someone’s quarters,” he said. Then Randy answered Rand’s Gaelic questions with the time and Roman knew why he was here. Rand was usually awake long before 0630. Roman’s own alarm was usually set for half an hour ago. “You’re going to be late, aren’t you?”

~ Roman

Rand jolted up off the bed, “Going to be? I am late.” The blanket ended up in a heap half on Roman half on the floor. She grabbed her PaDD and tried to skirt around Randy to get out the door. Unfortunately for her Randy stopped her, spun her around, and stage whispered in her ear. “Rand, such bad manners, don’t leave a man hanging like that. At least kiss him good bye.” Rand was too flustered to even think about what Randy said. She turned around as Randy spun her and pushed her back toward Roman. She leaned over and kissed him, whispered, “I love you,” and then headed back for the door. Randy stopped her again, “Rand…you’re forgetting something.” She turned around looking confused as Randy, bunny still cradled in his arm, snatched up her boots and handed them to her. “Unless of course you want to run in high-heeled boots.” Rand took the boots looking flustered and Randy doubled over laughing. “Randy it’s NOT funny!” Still bent over, “Yes…hehehe…hooo…hehe....yes it is.”

Rand dashed out the door and after a moment he stopped laughing, sat down and looked at Roman with a grin. “So…how ya feelin’ this morning?”

Randy

Roman blinked as Rand marched across the room and was swiftly turned around by Randy. He gave a quick, quiet reply of, “I love you, too,” and then he looked at Randy. “I thought you didn’t like the snogging,” he said, teasing Randy after Rand had begun to head back towards the door. Randy handed her her boots and she was gone. It took Randy another moment to compose himself and Roman shook his head. “I’m fine.” The answer was his standard. The pain meds were starting to wear off, and his walk to the bathroom had left his leg more sore than it had been. But other than the pain, he did feel okay. No rapid heart rate, no nausea, none of the other complaints that he’d had lately. His leg just hurt, and the pain meds hadn’t worn off enough yet for the pain to be intolerably bad. The anti-inflammatory doses and the ice had been helping as well. And he was hungry. He was starting to feel a lot more like his usual self. He reached down and grabbed the blanket Rand had haphazardly thrown off and fixed it.

~ Roman

Randy shrugged with a grin, “I don’t. Well not watchin’ the two of ya, but eh well, if it makes her happy.” With the door now closed he set the rabbit down and flipped open the medical kit he’d brought with him with an obvious eye roll at the answer. “Are the anti-inflammatories working? You’re due for more pain meds if you need them.” He emphasized need and not want. Because there was a difference. “And since my sister isn’t about to be back for a bit, and it’s rather obvious you haven’t eaten I can bring something. Part of my job as a nurse. I also need to take a blood sample. Elbbirt wants to see how the toxin levels in your system are. And in…” Randy glanced at the clock, “3 hours is your next dermal reginerator session. Then only one more after that.”

“They’re working,” he replied. Roman still did not want more pain meds and he wasn’t going to admit he was probably going to need them. So instead he said, “The pain hasn’t gone down at all since yesterday.” His little midnight walk probably hadn’t helped with that but he opted not to mention that. He had no problem with the blood sample and he was happy there wasn’t much longer with the regenerator left. “It would be nice to have some breakfast, thank you.”

Randy pulled out an empty vile and attached it to the hypo and flipped a switch so he could take a blood sample as soon as Alden was ready. “Once the tissue and muscle is finished growing the pain should reduce a great deal. About…6 to 8 hours after the last session.”

Randy

Roman let Randy take the sample. “When will that last session be?” It wouldn’t be long after that they’d let him return to work, or at least that’s what he hoped. He was going to be bored today while Rand was gone. He could still look at those backlogged reports, if the meds would let him focus.

~ Roman