Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in 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… suppressed (30) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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He woke up almost 10 hours later. He seemed sleepy as he woke up, glanced around the room, and then reached for the glasses Dee had replicated and put them on.

~ Zoi

Dee was back long before he woke up. She had just finished prepping his hypos when he woke up. “Well, hello sleepy head.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil smiled. “Hey, Dee.” He almost stretched and then remembered that would be a bad idea. “Can we try taking the force field off now?”

~ Zoi

Dee smiled at him, her expression showing how much she loved him, and momentarily hiding how poorly she slept and the night terrors that chased her.

“Hmmm…” Dee’s face screwed up in thought as she gave him the next dose. “Well, we didn’t have to increase the force field while you slept, and the tremors seem to have almost subsided. I think we can try again. We’re still going to go slow though. I don’t want to shock your nervous system. Do you want to sit up some or lay down?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Let’s do it laying down first,” Sisnil said. He hated how slow all this was, but the price of pushing it was high.

~ Zoi

“Okay.” Dradvia side stepped to the controls and set a gradual release over 10 minutes. “Why don’t we start with your hands. Flex your fingers, try to make a fist, pretend you are typing.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil tried to flex his fingers. The motion brought back the burning pain, his fingers not flexing all the way as they normally would. Then he tried the fist. More pain, and his fists wouldn’t close all the way. Finally he tried pretending to type. It was no wonder, eyesight aside, he’d had trouble typing the movie name before. His finger movements were jolty, not precise, and they didn’t move as much or as easily as they should.

~ Zoi

“Okay, relax, well stop.” Dradvia slipped her hand into his. “I’m going to lift your arm, bend the elbow. You don’t do the work, I do, alright?” She waited for his answer.

Sisnil nodded, wrapping his fingers carefully around her hand.

Then she carefully lifted his arm, just level with his abdomen and then gently pulled his arm away from the bed. She watched his face, the k12 indicator, and paid attention to any twinges or spasms. She didn’t push far, just trying to give his body some gentle stretch and movement.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

His face tensed and then untensed occasionally as she moved his arm, the k12 indicating that it was indeed hurting and occasional spasms seemed to align with when his face tensed. Sisnil saw she was watching and said, “It’s not too bad, Dee, it’ll get better.”

~ Zoi

“I know,” she smiled gently at him. “There is no avoiding the pain right now, but it doesn’t have to be excruciating. I just don’t want your muscles to lock up from being held still.” She gently bent his elbow and rested his hand on his stomach. Dee moved around to the other side and repeated the process with his other arm.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil focused on breathing while she did. When she was done he tried to make fists, but it was just as bad. “I thought when the poison was gone I’d be better.”

~ Zoi

“It’s not all gone yet. 33 and a half hours left. Then we’ll do neural regeneration. Then we can see how bad it is. Don’t give up.” She rubbed his arms gently. “Heat might help.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil smiled. “Okay. Let’s try heat.” He chuckled and shook his head, “I almost– almost wish I could sleep for the next 33 hours.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia set an hand over both of his. “If that’s what you want, we can do that.” She let him think about that as she moved over to a storage cabinet. She came back with an extra blanket. This one was heated. She wrapped it over him and turned it on so it that it warmed him and helped relax the muscles.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Thanks.” There was a short silence and then, “No. I mean, I kind of do want that, but I can’t.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia nodded. She got it. Though if he was that tired and hurting, she wished he would. She knew why he couldn’t. “Are you hungry?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

He nodded. “Yeah, a little. But I need to sit up to eat.” He smiled, but he was obviously embarrassed. “You’re gonna have to help me, huh?”

~ Zoi

“Maybe.” The 10 minutes was close to being up. Dradvia asked, “How are you feeling with the forcefield coming off?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“There’s pain, but it’s not like it was.” Sisnil said. “It feels good to be free again.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia nodded, “I’m sure. Okay, so do you want to try and sit up? Or wait a few minutes?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“I want to sit up,” he said. “What’s for.... Uh, meal?”

~ Zoi

“Hmmm well what do you think you can handle?” Dradvia pressed the controls and slowly raised him to 30 degrees and stopped. “How’s that?”

“Want to sit up more?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Uhm, let’s wait,” he said, his voice strained like he was in pain.

~ Zoi

“Okay.” Dradvia sat down and set her hands over his. She glanced up at his K12 reading. “Do you want the forcefield? So it can help stabilize you?” She knew the answer was probably no, but she had to offer. “Count your breaths and try not to tense up.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

He shook his head, “Maybe if it gets worse.” His K12 showed his pain should be 7/10. He was quiet, trying to count breaths as she’d said.

~ Zoi

Dradvia nodded. “I can always lower the bed to help too.” In her books, the heroine always kissed the hero when he was hurting or injured. It made them forget how bad they felt. Dradvia wondered if it was really worked that way, but she didn’t think she could do it.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“No,” Sisnil said. He grinned at her thoughts, “You know, I’ve never been kissed by someone I actually loved, so I don’t know.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia had to stop herself from saying she hoped he found out one day. There had to be someone else out there who could love him as much as she did, but could love him better than she could. She knew Sisnil wasn’t toying with her by saying he loved her, but he could find better than her.

She berated herself for her thoughts. It wasn’t fair to him when she knew she could never… “Well, that would be the fastest way to have me removed as your doctor,” she said instead.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil shrugged, “No one else is here. What am I going to do, report you?” He chuckled at the thought. “And Dee, stop thinking there’s someone better than you. There isn’t. No one in the fleet is going to trust me and everyone in the Syndicate can’t be trusted.”

~ Zoi

There were plenty of people in and out. It just happened to be quiet right now. They only had 3 rooms to sickbay, storage/lab, Tessan’s office, and here - the main bay. “There are good people that aren’t part of either, Sisnil. You don’t have to settle.” Oh she hated saying it, she knew he didn’t think that. She didn’t want him to see her as ‘settling’, but when he left, she wanted him to be happy. He would never be happy here. She wouldn’t survive in his world. She didn’t want him to blame himself when something bad happened to her.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Settle? Dee, I’m not settling. If I didn’t want to be with you, all I had to do was not spend weeks gaining your trust.” Sisnil said, looking at her.

~ Zoi

“I know. I just…” Dradvia shrugged self-consciously. She felt special knowing he’d given all that time to know her. It made her sad too, knowing how long it took, and there was nothing for him to show for it. It was everything for her, but so little in return for him. Oh, Sisnil would say it wasn’t so little. He would list off all the things she gave him.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Dee, you’ve been sitting there for three days, and you don’t think you offer me anything?” Sisnil pointed out.

~ Zoi

Dradvia shrugged, “I love you. Where else would I be? But your Eli would do the same. You’ve said so.” Any decent doctor would. It was just more personal for her.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Any doctor on a ship like this would assign a nurse to watch me,” Sisnil replied.

~ Zoi

“Maybe for the flu, but not for this. At least… they shouldn’t,” Dradvia admitted. She looked down at her hands, twisting her fingers around each other. Her voice was non existent; Dradvia’s mouth mived but no sound came out she was so quiet. He wouldn’tknow except for her thoughts. “I just… you’re leaving. You’re going back to your family.” She blew out a sad breath. “You’re amazing. No matter what’s happened before or what will after, I want you to be happy. You deserve someone to share it with, that’s just for you. This universe is awful, and,” Dradvia closed her eyes careful not to squeeze them shut so the tears didn’t fall, “I want you to have someone to laugh with when it’s good, and someone to keep watch when it’s bad.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil reached for her hand. “Dee, that’s you.” He looked at her and smiled sadly, “I’d never have taken you for naive, Dee.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia shrugged, “Maybe I am naive. My experiences have been very tainted.” She shrugged again to give her voice a chance to steady. “But I can’t go with you, and you would be, you are, miserable here. I just… I want you to be happy when you can. If wanting that for you makes me naive, then I guess I am.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“No, that’s sweet. It’s… Well… After this, do you really think I can go back?” Sisnil asked.

~ Zoi

Dradvia turned her palms up, “I don’t know. I never thought I’d be rescued, but I was. I suppose if it is what you fear… we could alter your appearance.” She sighed, “I don’t know if you can Sisnil, but I hope so.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“No way.” Sisnil said immediately. “I can’t change how I look.” He shrugged, “I just don’t know anymore, Dee.”

~ Zoi

“Well, first you have to get better. Then we can figure it out. If anyone can, it’s the best pirate in history.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer