Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Temp Quarters- Assessing the Situation

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Leah Hart (Nurse Practitioner/Counseling) in Temp Quarters- Assessing the Situation

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Temp Quarters- Assessing the Situation
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Intended or not, there was a lot of pressure on Leah’s shoulders and she felt that weight keenly.

Boots off, she sat cross legged on the floor of her small quarters and closed her eyes. Something about the meeting with Captain Rende had felt off and she wasn’t quite sure what it was. She truly haven’t been looking for blanket approval, but she supposed she had wanted to feel like she had support. Instead it seemed to reinforce the feeling that this new assignment and her first patient here was some sort of big test. In reality that wasn’t true most likely, but Leah understood herself well enough to know where those feelings came from.

They had no place here.

So she sat in her uninspiring quarters and settled into some meditation. Leah understood that she needed to let all the weariness of her travels, the overwhelm of a new place, and the high, high expectations upon her, vanish into the ether. She could not take any of that with her when she went to see Alden. And thus, she dropped into focusing on her breathing and letting her thoughts float away the way S’Rinn had taught her.

Awhile later, Leah put her boots back on, made sure herself and her uniform was tidy, and left her quarters.

In his temporary quarters, Roman lay curled up on the bed, wearing the clothes he’d been issued, plain clothing made to be difficult to hurt oneself with. He wasn’t allowed his work nor his PaDD nor was Rand allowed to visit. As with before, the nurse and the security guard occasionally made conversation which he would politely oblige, but mostly lay on the bed and moped.

A PADD in hand, Hart gave a knock on the door (rather than press the chime), and then stepped in. She smiled at the nurse and security officer, before gazing at Alden. “Hello, Roman,” she said softly.

When there was a knock on the door, he sat up and looked. Kreed had earned some amount of trust with him and he didn’t mind the doctor’s visits. But he saw it was not the doctor and his hopes fell. None of it showed, he was too polite for that. Her false familiarity bothered him though and he let it show in the way he addressed her. He sat up straight on the edge of the bed with an air of formality. “Lieutenant Hart.” He greeted her.

The video call of him did not do him justice. At 5‘11, he was decently tall, with dark brown hair. Usually neat, it currently looked messy and untamed. Bright blue eyes made contrast with his dark hair, icy blue. He was very fit, as if he worked out frequently.

Leah was decidedly shorter than many expected her to be, given her rather energetic personality. She was quite short but also more broadly built, the slightly higher G of her homeworld compacting her body slightly. Her long brown hair was pulled into a loose ponytail over one shoulder, and her white nurses jumpsuit was tidy.

She gave him a nod of her head and looked back at the others. “Good afternoon, I’m Lieutenant Hart. Can you give us some privacy, please?” It was not a request, but there was no need for rudeness. Besides, she knew they were expecting her.

Once alone, Leah moved to sit on the back corner of his bed and gave him a deep and lingering look, setting the PADD beside her. “So, a lot happened in the last day. Can you walk me through it?”

~Leah Hart, NP

“I’m unsure what exactly you’d like to be walked through, Lieutenant,” said Roman in that crisp, ‘proper’ accent of his. “I’m sure you’ve been most thoroughly briefed.”

~ Cmdr Alden, XO/CSO

She mirrored the formality in her posture and nodded. “You are correct, Commander, that I have been given notes. So I have the facts of the events that have you here in these quarters, but they don’t really tell me about you. Why do you believe Doctor Kreed believed this step was necessary?”

~Leah Hart, NP

“The facts are easily attainable, a letter was found among my possessions by my fiancée and given to Lieutenant Kreed. In response, he confined me here.” Roman shrugged then. “Anything beyond that is better heard from Kreed himself.”

~ Cmdr Alden, XO/CSO

They didn’t have enough of a rapport yet to discuss the letter, but it was notable that he could mention it. She filed that away for later. “Has anyone told you wha the process of a psyc hold is, what you can expect?”

~Leah Hart, NP