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“O… ohkay.” She followed Sisnil into his quarters with a fearful glance back over her shoulder. She didn’t like being in someone else’s space, but she felt better with Sisnil near.

Inside she sank to the floor by his small couch. Simon wandered over after greeting Sisnil. She picked him up and cuddled him. His purrs lulled her to sleep. It didn’t take long either before she was asleep, sitting up on the floor.

She didn’t sleep well either. She never woke up, but she was tormented by nightmares. By the time her sleep settled she would never make it for her shift.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil sat on the floor with her, trying his best to help keep her calm. He didn’t wake her, he simply sent Tessan a message using the computer system. It read, “En. Dradvia won’t make it to shift today. You know why. - Sisnil”

~ Zoi

//Thank you - Take care of her //

TT

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

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Sisnil did take care of her. Dradvia had been disoriented and confused to find herself waking up on the floor of Sisnil’s quarters. Simon curled up purring against her. She’d been very upset she’d missed her shift, certain that Dr. Tessan would be angry with her. In the ‘light of day’, as it were, Dradvia remembered the session and Tessan’s insistence that something had been done to her.

She remembered she had been terribly frightened afterwards, and something in the memory had bothered her. Every time she tried to think about it, to focus on it, she had a panic attack. That made no sense to her. She’d fallen and scared herself into a flashback. She shouldn’t be panicking over it. Stressed and worried, but not full blown panic. Yet it continued to happen every time.

Tessan had not in fact been upset with her, but she still worked extra hard to make up for it. She was severely agitated the day of her next appointment. Whatever had happened she didn’t want to repeat it. She wanted Sisnil with her, but the need to stop anyone from accusing him falsely stopped her from asking him again. She couldn’t miss the appointment though. She’d given Dr. Tessan her word that she would put in the work. So she pressed the chime on his office door, feeling sicker by the minute.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Come in” he said as he stood from his desk to make two cups of tea and get her a glass of water. “Please have a seat Ensign” he said in his normaly tone. He looked past her wondering why Zoi was not with her. She must have decided not to expore the memory again. He move to set down the glass of water and then sat down across from her and siped his tea.

She noticed the second cup of tea with a bit of confusion and trepidation. Was someone joining them or was she supposed to bring Sisnil back? She hadn’t asked Sisnil if he wanted to. He would say yes even if he didn’t. He would do that for her. Knowing it put him at risk just made her feel guilty and alone.

“How has your week been, you have been working pretty hard.”

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Dradvia looked down at her hands. “I’mmm… I’m sorry I missed Dr. Tessan. I don’t know why I slept so much. I don’t do that unless I’m sick.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

There was a second knock on the door. “Sorry I’m late, I’ve become ship technical support,” came Sisnil’s voice.

~ Zoi

Dradvia’s gaze shot to the door in surprise. He came. She had been so careful not to mention it, not wanting to put him in the position of having to participate.

He started to respond to Dradvia when Zoi entered. Tealor looked up but did not say anything, he pushed the tea confront of the empty chair..

“Ensign its fine, Mr Zoi let me know, and I told you you could have a few days off.” He noted..

Dradvia’s gaze swung back towards Tessan. “I know, but…” Her brows drew down in concentration and frustration, “but I don’t know why you did. You never … well I’ve never needed to miss a shift before.”

“Have a seat mr.Zoi” he requested waving toward the chair.. tea from back home , not replicated.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor looked at her, “i know Ensign,” he said his voice filled with compassion. “Let’s just go with i thought it was best, ok? Your memory has been altered and the conditioning is making you dismiss it”
Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Being reminded set her into a panic. They could feel it, but also see it. She shook in the seat and denied it. “No, it was just a flash back.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“It’s ok Ensign,” he said looking at Zoi. There is was . No, It was just a flash back. “What would you like to work on Ensign” he asked taking a sip from his tea

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Dradvia gave him a confused look. “I thought we were working on regression?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded subtly. There was no point in fighting it now. She would only have the same response.

~ Zoi

“We will get to that,” he said, “He’s here with us… I would like permission to find the memory myself and look at it without you present.”

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Dradvia’s whole expression scrunched up like a one year old’s that was just told they were a separate individual from their mother. “You want to look at my flashback?” Why? She couldn’t wait for an answer because there was a much more confusing question she needed to ask. “How are you going to look at my memory without me being here?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor was trying very hard not to trigger the memory that would lock her down again. “You have shown it to me in previous sessions, it’s an echo I can find again.” he said. “It will help me look at it unfiltered without you influencing the memory, so I know what really happened” he said plainly

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Dradvia understood that, but… “How do you do that? It’s in my head, I can’t leave my head.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“you’ll know what’s going on for sure, but i’ll take us there instead of you remembering” he entire goal was to find the memory again, see that sisnils mind was no where near it, but he was afraid that once she saw the memory it would collapse.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

“I don’t understand,” Dradvia said. It didn’t make sense to her. “If… if you want to look, I guess that’s okay.” She didn’t understand why he wanted to see the memory she had the flashback of, but he seemed adamite, so she would agree.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Good” he said letting zoi open to his emotions but no further he sunk into her mind. “Relax and close your eyes” he said as he found the memory. It did not take long it was very familiar to him now. He moved quickly to the point where her hand slipped off the desk, and took a step back looking to see if he sensed Sisnil or someone else. There had to be a manipulation point.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Dradvia couldn’t close her eyes, it felt too vulnerable. Until Sisnil took her hand. She took a breath and tried to relax. This whole thing was too strange. Tessan and Sisnil were making her scared with the way they were acting and focusing on her panic attack.

The shimmer was not as pronounced here. It was like fuzzy peripheral vision on someone with glasses. There was a low hum coming from the shadows. It felt insidious and dangerous.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor tried to look further into the darkness,, what is that humming he said trying to work through the fear of it. it was like the darkens kept retreating from him keeping him just out of reach. Tealors hands tightened on the chair arm.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

His frustration almost seemed to amuse the humming. The harder he looked for it, the less apparent it became. The memory stalled and simply stood still, stuck on pause.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil hated doing this. Of all the telepathic trickery he could do, this was the most frustrating. Probably because he cared about Dee, and he wasn’t allowed to help her. He was holding her hand quietly, focusing on that.

~ Zoi

Tealor relaxed and then pushed back to try and find another psychic had been present around the memory.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Pushing back, away from involvement and control caused the memory to play. The hum and shimmer was there on the edges as soon as Dradvia locked the door. The closer they moved toward her hand slipping off the desk the more apparent it became to an outsider. The shimmer closed in around the memory, blurring the current memory with the old one.

The hum became a murmur, the murmur a whisper. Insidious and dark and barely heard. Again… it slithered and pulsed in the darkness of the room.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor watched as it played out, he would need to find a way in but he could tell who ever or what ever had done this was very skilled. He focuesed on the hum and tried to insert himself into the darkness.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

The less interfering Tessan remained, the clearer the voice became. It was a male voice with a very heavy telepathic hand. It was authoritarian, hard, harsh like gravel and glass, it was a heavier cruder telepathic voice. Nothing like Zoi’s. It was hard to pick out, it was threaded into Dradvia’s own breaths, heart beats, and racing panic. Again… it’s happening again… he’s come for you…

On the chair, Dradvia’s emotions went from upset and confused to panic in terror like flipping a light switch. She began to shake again, her hand gripping Sisnil’s painfully.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor released her mind, his head was pounding and small trickle of blood trailed out of his nose. “Ensign, are you ok?” he asked softly, wiping his nose with a tissue. “Oh” he said.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Sisnil was comforting Dradvia quietly. “You should rest.” He told Tessan. “You’re not going to like how you feel if you keep pushing yourself.”

~ Zoi

It took a moment for Dradvia to respond to Tessan’s ditect query. Which was odd. It wasn’t a ‘she was considering her answer’ type of pause. But one like she was sort of in a trance. “Yes, of course,” but she didn’t sound so sure. She looked up, still squeezing Sisnil’s hand. His voice steadying her. “Oh! Dr. Tessan,” she exclaimed and scurried from the chair to grab the medkit on his shelf.

“I’ll be ok, it’s her I’m worried about, I know it’s not you now, but I need to get more nural information before I can prove it, ” he said holding up his hand. “Im more worried about her, I’ll be ok”

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

She had the tricorder out and a cloth to help put pressure on his nose and then the dermal regenerator. “Me? You’re bleeding, and your paracortex is showing extreme inflammation.” If this was Sisnil she would berate him. But Tessan was her DH.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor took both her hands softly into his, she was pretty sure the first time he had ever touched her other than the inital hand shake when they met. “I’ll be ok Dradvia,” he slipped. In truth his head was pounding, he pulled her hands lightly away and tried to avoid her aid.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Dradvia stilled as Tessan grabbed her and used her name. It was enough of a pause for him to gently push her away. She took a deep breath, no, no she was a doctor and he needed help. “Unless you are refusing care…” but she was quietly interrupted.

Sisnil gave Tessan his best Captain’s look. “You let her help you.” He said. He knew she would be berating him, and so would Eli, in fact, he had. Many, many times.

~ Zoi

Releasing her hands he let her go back to work, he was in too much pain to argue. “Ok , Ok you can continue Ensign” he said leaning his head back

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

That tone, that Captain tone gave her confidence. She nodded, “Thank you. I won’t hurt you, I promise,” she said quietly. Dradvia finished with his nose and then loaded a hypo. “Anti-inflammatory. A suppressant might help as well, I don’t know what you’ve been doing to cause that kind of strain, but I know that they are very uncomfortable. I would suggest not using your telepathy until the inflammation has gone done.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor winced expting the presure to hurt , but she was a very skilled doctor and it was nothing compared to the thumping in his head. “Yes doctor” he said looking over to the side at Sisnil. The look carred no words it did not need to he could tell as well as Tealor she was unaware of what had happened.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

“I would advise not using it, too,” Sisnil said. “A mild suppressant can help while being less uncomfortable than a full one.” He caught Tessan’s look, nodded slightly, then shrugged.

~ Zoi

Dradvia may not be telepathic, but she was highly observant. She had to be to survive Lokhar. She saw the looks they were tossing back and forth, and it made her anxious. She looked at Sisnil, not brave enough to ask Tessan. “What? Did I do something wrong?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“No, you didn’t,” Sisnil said softly. “We were communicating regarding the block in your memories.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia sighed but it covered a very quick and painful spike in anxiety that both telepaths couldn’t miss. “No, it was just a flashback.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“bavvvo Cousssser” he said through her working on stopping the bleeding from his nose. ‘I till just cause her more pain at this point, very powerful telepath involved here’ he thought to Sisnil.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

I know, but I didn’t want her to think it was something else, Sisnil replied telepathically. Now stop using your telepathy before I tell her to give you the suppressant.

~ Zoi

Dradvia could see as the inflamation flared on the tricorder that they were using their telepathy. She couldn’t berate Tessan, he was still her boss. She looked at Sisnil, giving him that really stern putting her foot down look. It was quite clear she wanted them to stop using their telepathy. She could leave if they needed to talk.

“What? I was telling him!” Sisnil complained, grinning at her.

“Dr. Tessan, I know you’re helping, but I don’t want you to hurt yourself over this. Not when there is nothing to find.” She was so purely sincere. She thought he was hurting himself trying to find something that wasn’t there. She didn’t like it, no one should get hurt over her.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Ok Ensign, we can talk more about that when I recover” He said. “I think for now we can just call this session complete” he said leaning back and closing his eyes. “I need to rest.”

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Sisnil gave Tessan a pat on the shoulder. “Rest. This can wait.”

~ Zoi

“I want you to be checked in an hour to make sure the anti-inflammatory is working. I’ll leave a note for the shift doctor.” Dradvia said while meticulously putting away the med kit. “I’m sorry you aren’t feeling well, Dr. Tessan.” She turned the lights down, but before leaving, she suddenly turned toward a cabinet and pulled a blanket out for him and laid it over him. Then she left quickly.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor stood up and walked to the window after she left, this was not going to be easy. He spent the next couple hours going through records from back home on how to break through this sort of thing. His head hurt but he would manage, he had to find a way to break through

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine