USS Wolverine
So... This Is It
Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in So… This Is It
Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in So… This Is It
Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in So… This Is It
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It seemed like a typical day. Dradvia was up early for her shift. She really enjoyed the work. The routine and the hope. It wasn’t like before where her patients were more likely to die no matter what she did. Now she knew she could make them better. Not that anyone came in with serious ailments.Everyday Sisnil was waiting for her to have breakfast. She didn’t have words to describe how it made her feel, but it was a wonderful feeling knowing he got up early just to spend time with her. He was always waiting after her shift too. Usually with Simon. Dradvia had to remind herself constantly that Simon wasn’t hers. She was just as attached to the kitten as she was to Sisnil. They were everything to her.
Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
It made Sisnil happy to do so, mostly because of how good it felt to make her feel better. Some days ago, the ship had been ordered back to Star base to assist in an ongoing investigation. Today they’d be arriving on base. Sisnil had left a note in his quarters, sure Dee would find it. This morning, he’d acted as though everything was normal. What was a little odd was when he turned up in the middle of the day looking for her.
~ Zoi
Dradvia finished with a patient and then walked over to him. “I still have a couple of hours, and no busy work to let me wander about the ship.” She was slightly disappointed in that. When she was doing the odd health maintenance things around the ship, Sisnil would join her. She always volunteered because she got to spend more time with him. She had to ask though, just in case, “Are you feeling okay?”
Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
Sisnil smiled, “I’m fine, Dee.” He said. It was easier this way. The letter he’d left would explain everything. But this was his in person goodbye, even if he wasn’t going to tell her directly. He gave her a quick hug. “I was just really bored and wanted to say hi.”
~ Zoi
Her arms slipped around him and she hugged him tightly. Over the last few weeks, since that horrible nightmare, she’d slowly been able to return his shows of affection. She wasn’t comfortable initiating any displays of affection. She loved the way he hugged her though. She sort of craved them now, but she was careful to not show it. Dradvia shook her head, “Morris really should give you something meaningful to do. It’s just insulting.” She squeezed him again slightly before stepping back. “Maybe you can do one of your training programs until I’m off?”
Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
Sisnil nodded. “Good idea. Look for me in my quarters if I’m not here, okay?” Sisnil said. “I just might overshoot the time and I usually shower afterwards.”
~ Zoi
Dradvia nodded, “Okay, I will.” The door opened admitting another officer who looked like he hadn’t been so careful in his own training program. “I have to go.” She hated it, she’d rather stay and talk with Sisnil.
Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
Sisnil nodded. “Go, make people better. Uhm…” He leaned in and kissed her. “Bye, Dee.”
~ Zoi
Dradvia blinked at him in surprise, her cheeks flushing. “I’ll see you in a little bit.” She bit her lip nervously - shyly, “I love you, Sisnil.” Then she turned as the nurse called her away.
Something about the way Sisnil said it, left her anxious the rest of her shift. She told herself she was worrying over nothing. Still, when her shift ended and Sisnil wasn’t there her stomach dropped and she felt a tremor of panic. Stop it. He said to meet him at his quarters. She took a deep breath and left sickbay, heading toward her quarters. She stopped outside her door. She’d just check on him before she changed. She turned and stepped across the corridor and pressed the chime.
Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
There was no answer. From inside, she could hear Simon playing.
Dradvia decided to check the shared refresher. She wasn’t trying to be creepy, but something just felt off. No one was in the refresher though. She returned to his quarters. She could ask the computer, but Sisnil liked keeping the computer guessing and not knowing. She pressed the chime again.
Down on the Starbase, Sisnil was at the rendezvous point. So where was his ride…? He looked around. There was nothing abnormal here. It was the part of the Starbase where shady dealings went down. Security was known to skip this area frequently, and there were a lot of less than visible places.
So, it was exactly the sort of place Sisnil expected to get picked up from. It was the right time… Where were they? He was starting to get nervous, which was unlike him. He was reading the minds of those around him and he heard no mention of anything relevant.
Then there was an arm around his neck and a rather large pointy knife held towards his body. He struggled and kicked, but his attacker was big and strong. “Let… go of me!”
“Empty your pockets.” Said the gruff voice. He couldn’t do that. Couldn’t allow anyone access to his comm. He shook his head. “You dumb? You give me what you have you live. Simple as.” Sisnil shook his head again. Giving up that comm meant endangering Dradvia and his own ship. He’d never willingly do it. Loyalty was too deeply ingrained into him.
“I’m Syndicate. They’ll have your ass if you hurt me.” He said, his voice strained by the muscular arm around his neck.
The man laughed and shook his head. “I don’t think they’ll be troubling me.” He said with certainty....
Still nothing. She was being unreasonable, panicking over nothing, but she couldn’t stop the building panic. She just had to make sure. “Computer, Medical override, Dradvia 9-alpha-3-7.” The door slid open and she stepped inside, bending low to grab Simon so he didn’t run out.
Just as Dee was entering his quarters, she felt a stab of fear, pain, panic that wasn’t hers. The wisp of a cry for help.
~ Zoi
Dradvia gasped and crumpled to her knees. She held Simon close to her chest. “Sisnil?” she called out. Something was really wrong, she could feel it. She made herself stand and look around the room. She already knew he wasn’t there though.
Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
There was a letter on the desk in Sisnil’s small, technical handwriting that said “Dee” on the envelope.
Her hands shook as she picked it up. She didn’t need to read it. She knew. Sisnil had left. Dradvia knew he would, but it still hurt. She cuddled Simon. He’d left Simon too. She supposed Sisnil thought he would be safer with her. “I’ll do my best, Simon.” She opened the envelope and read it, though it made her sick to do so.
Inside, it said he was taking the chance to go as they had discussed, that he loved her more than anything and it broke his heart to leave her this way. That he was heading down to the Starbase. At the end, it said he’d keep in touch the best he could.
He had been saying good-bye. That’s what was off earlier. At least… at least she’d told him one more time that she loved him. It would have to be enough. She swallowed down the pain. If he was still nearby he’d feel her heartbreak. She wouldn’t risk changing his mind.
There was another flash of pain and panic.
Sisnil couldn’t keep a good connection going. His condition was critical, he could tell. He could barely keep his mind clear enough. But if he wanted to live, he needed to tell Dee where he was and he didn’t have a comm to do it with. The bastard had stolen it.
All he had to do was project to her an image of where he was. Anything that could help her find him. He pressed a hand to his wound. There was something wrong, though. The pain was spreading through his body like there was acid in his veins. He was beginning to feel hot despite the blood loss. He put all his focus into reaching her.
It hurt. She didn’t expect it to physically hurt so much. She closed her eyes tight against the pain and tried to breathe.
With the flash of pain came words, faint but ‘audible’ in her mind. Dee… Hurt… On Starbase… And then the description of things he’d seen or that were around him.
~ Zoi
Dradvia’s eyes snapped open. Sisnil? =/\=Dradvia to Sisnil.=/\= But all she heard was an echo of her voice from his fleet issued combadge on the desk. He’d left it behind. She grabbed it and set Simon down. She ran across the hall, grabbed her medkit, and ran to the airlock. She had to be calm though. She couldn’t panic. She couldn’t act like anything was wrong.
She left the docking ring and tried to figure out where he might be. She stopped at a map of the station layout. She could only guess. It never occurred to her that she shouldn’t go on the station. That the Syndicate was coming for him, and she was running right towards it. He was hurt. Sisnil? Sisnil please talk to me. Where are you?
She passed a side hall, and something about it made her skin crawl and her stomach rebel. She paused and looked down it. The feel was … well somewhere the Syndicate would like. She swallowed down her own fear and moved down the narrow corridor.
Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
There he was, laying against the wall, breathing labored, eyes closed. There was a puddle of his own blood around him, soaking his clothes. He held a hand against his upper abdomen in the middle. He was pale, skin sweaty.
~ Zoi