Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in One Step at a Time

Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in One Step at a Time

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He held onto her. He did, in fact, try to help her with his abilities. Making the link made it easier to hear her thoughts but the amount of focus and energy it took was considerably more than normal. He could only hold on like that for a while before letting it go.

~ Zoi

Her thoughts were a confusing storm mixed with the bottomless pit of dark emotions. At first Dradvia had thought he had decided not to help her, and she was relieved when she didn’t feel the effect immediately. She didn’t want him to hurt himself. Slowly his calm spread through her. Her breath slowed and evened out, the pain left her chest, and he felt the tension ease between her shoulders.

When he pulled back, she murmured a soft, “Thank you.” Shame and guilt filled her for not looking after him, for breaking down, for needing his support when she didn’t deserve it. She took a breath while telling herself to stop. She could be guilty later, now she had to take care of him

Sisnil smiled and squeezed her hand as she got up. “You’re welcome.”

She didn’t want to move. She wanted to stay in that little bubble he had created, but she couldn’t. She slid off the bed (she closed her eyes to fight off that awkwardness) and picked up everything that had fallen out of her medkit. She loaded a hypo with an NSAID and acetaminophen and the Tryptophan-lysine distillate. She pressed it to his neck, and then wet the cloth to bathe his face and neck.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

He smiled. She looked a little better. He looked like he’d worn himself out doing that, and was doing his best to hide it.

~ Zoi

She stood just long enough to move the sheet off of him. His shirt was soaked with sweat again. Her fault her fault her fault. She bathed his arms and his legs. She motioned with her hand for him to remove his shirt. Guilt kept her numb enough to not be embarrassed or uncomfortable as she used the cloth to cool his torso. She picked up her tricorder to scan him. The few crackers he ate and the ginger ale had stayed down, but was it enough?

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

He pulled his shirt off for her. The cold cloth made him shiver. The scan showed what she expected, that his fever had gone up some. The infusion units she’d given him had kept him hydrated and though he’d sweated some of it away, he was losing less water since he hadn’t thrown up. The scan showed the meds she was giving him was why he was keeping them down.

~ Zoi