Joe hadn’t heard a peep from sickbay for some time and had quite frankly become concerned with how things were going. Most generally if things were going wrong, he was one of the first people that Lieutenant Cross let know about it. And usually in a loud voice. Of course, it was often that way when something went right too so the absence of not being yelled at concerned him.

Joe walked into sickbay expecting. Well, he didn’t know really what to expect. He knew that the first thing on his list of to- dos was to give that darn little redhead a wide berth. He looked around then looking for someone in the busy place he might speak to, He stayed out of the way and hoped that someone with a bit of curiosity might stop for a moment to satisfy his own curiosity.

Lt. Cmdr. Joe Milligan