Posted by Lieutenant Dr Tealor Tessan (CMO/CNS) in Weekly Requirements

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Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in Weekly Requirements
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Tealor leaned his head back, he knew there would be no arguing with her. It was not a ploy to avoid therapy, but a deep desire to help people that was driving it, he knew that about her clearly enough to not try. He sighed as tears started falling again, running down his cheeks, he did not say much just thought and remembered. He was thankful that she could just sit with him, didn’t feel the need to speak or stop him from crying, she certainly was a good friend.

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

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Sisnil knew when her next appointment was. They were going to work on that tampered memory. Dradvia was sick of it. There was nothing wrong with her memory. If she didn’t trust Sisnil she would think they were trying to trick her. She pressed the chime on Tessan’s door and waited.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor already had her water and two steamy tea’s sitting on the table. “Come” he said. “Good Evening Ensign, have a seat, can I get you anything else?” he asked far more chipper than he had been the past week.

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

Sisnil arrived shortly afterwards. “Did somebody secretly name me Ship Tech Support?” He said as he entered.

~ Zoi

Tealor snorted a laugh, “That’s and odd statement” he said motioning to the seat where he tea was sitting.

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

Sisnil sat down. “Well, when everyone who has a technical problem they don’t want to alert engineering for, suddenly I’m not the big bad Syndicate guy anymore.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia was glad for that. Not so much the selfishness of her crewmates, but that Sisnil had something to do than stare at the wall.

Tealor chuckled, “Funny how people’s opinions change simply because they need something” he said. “For the record mine has not” he had never really seen Sisnil as a bad guy, he did what he had to to survive, and now had to learn to function out of that environment. It would never completely go of course but change was possible with time.

“I was thinking we could try something a little different today.” he said looking at Dradvia, “I would like to show you the memory from my perspective instead of yours.:” he said hoping that the conditioning would be weaker at least, “What do you think?”

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

Dradvia sighed. The whole thing made her stomach queasy every time she thought of it. She wasn’t really okay with it, but if it would finally show them this was a waste of time she would. “Okay.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor encouraged her to close her eyes, he knew the conditioning was already working her emotions. Softly he drew here in , the top of the waterfall is where he took her first, something familiar but it was from the holodeck not Elora’s memory it was less real. Then they were looking at her memory completely separate from it, she could see her self in the room, she was looking for something, her hand slipped, she hit the floor, then all the sudden she was in the corner and Sisnil was knocking at the door. She could not see how she had gotten there. He stopped there. “Ensing, your thoughts?” he asked.

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

Dradvia was holding Sisnil’s hand like her life depended on it. These sessions always terrified and upset her. She never understood why. Other session did the same, but she knew why. Nothing happened in these session, but they bothered her the most.

Dradvia watched the memory as it played. Just like she remembered…except… “My flash back is missing.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor looked at her , he did not want to rush her, it was important that she firgure it out on her own.. her own mind needed to free itself and connect what happened. “What does that mean for you, I can run it again for you if you like”

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

“Ummm… you can’t sense me remembering my memory?” Dradvia didn’t know. She knew she had blanked the middle of that time. Was she supposed to see what happened?

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“That’s good, so if I can’t sense you having a memory, what do you think that might mean?” he asked playing it slowly again from here she is slipping to where she is in the corner, it was a hard cut like in a movie if some change scenes all the sudden.

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

“I blocked it? It was just a flash back.” She didn’t sound quite so sure this time.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

He looked at her, “Do you really think that?” he asked, “Where is the flashback?” he asked motioning to the scene, he played it again slower this time.

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

“I don’t know.” She was becoming agitated. They could both feel it and she was making small sounds of distress in his office. “It’s not part of this memory. It was a memory I had inside this one. Why does it matter?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

She was not a telepath so she would not know, so he decided to see what happened. “Well for me flashback or no the memory would be disjointed like it is but ,flashback or no,it would be part of the same memory, for me the two are separate” he said trying to keep the focus on himself a little. “Memory in the storage room is a separate memory just as it is for you.”

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

Nothing he said made any sense at all. “Well, just…can’t you pull up the other one if you want to see it? Like this one?” Tessan could feel the building agitation and fight/flight response.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor did not normaly manipulate feelings they were normally needed for healing.. in this case he worked to counter the fight or flight with his own calm emotions. “Its ok Ensign, if the flashback was part of the memory, meaning you had a flashback. I would see it as a single memory, instead there is a gap” he said hoping it would sink in.

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

“Okay,” Dradvia didn’t sound so certain. They were both her memories. A memory was a memory. She knew how the chemical signals formed in the brain to create them. One was formed many years ago and the other just a couple of weeks. New neural paths were made when you were reminded of something from a previous memory to connect them. “Are you talking about connecting neural pathways? Because they might be connected, but that doesn’t make them the same memory.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Yes and no, in a session like that it would be like recording a live playback so anything that happened in that memory, would be congruent. ” he said,” for me in my mind if the flash back was part of the memory it would be here not in a different memory like it is in your mind” he said pushing more calm thoughts her way. “Something is forcing that exact memory to surface for you every time, which is not how flash back work”

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

There was too much influence for her to make connection Tessan was looking for. “Well… it’s the banging and the yelling while I was hiding. That’s what forced me to have a flashback.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer
He was starting to wonder if the only way he was going to get through was to force his way in.. maybe if.. “Ensign what if I could show you what it should be like? It would mean going to the first time you pulled me into your memories. So I will understand if you dont want too.”

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

“Okay.” She had a little more trust in Tessan now, and Sisnil was there with her too.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Talor took her to the memory when he got pulled into her flash back.the memory from where they were to her being submissive was fluid without disruption. She could sea tealors words of praise triggering her into.the submissive response. He then shifted to her momery and when the flashed back the flash back was slightly different. It was also less stressfull. He took her back to the falls. “Do you see the difference”

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

Dradvia nodded. In Tessan’s office she did the same, but she was becoming more agitated, fidgeting and making soft sounds of distress.

“Isn’t that just because you have your own memory of it?” Even her mental voice sounded strained, a bit far away, like something was trying to shut a door or push her under water.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Stay with me Ensign, you are ok, ” he pushed more calm trying to segment her from the conditioning. “The same would be true of the other memory but the old memory is missing from that one.. ” he said “So there is only one thing that can mean” he said not bringing to attention the face, the humming.

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

“That my brain is broken?” There was a very hopeful note to the thought. It might be too much for her to know someone had tampered with her mind… but that wouldn’t help her.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor looked at her and slowly, “I’m sorry Ensign, I assure you that is not the case, ” he said thinking here we go, he would try to keep ahead of her emotional response and programing as he let it out. “The only explanation is tampering, we need to see what actually accrued in that time space that’s missing.”

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

“No! You’re trying to scare me! No one came near me, but Sisnil. I won’t let you frame him.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor let the memories fall aways like water of a table, soon the room was back and she was lucid in the office. “Ensign, I’m not trying to frame Sisnil, I’m trying to the opposite, I know it wasn’t him I’ve seen it but I need your help. ” he said, “Zoi have my intentions been anything by in your and Dradvia’s best interest?” he asked

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

Sisnil sat next to Dee and hugged her gently. “He’s right, Dee. He’s trying to make sure Starfleet can’t implicate me. He’s helping me by putting you through this.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia pulled her feet onto the chair and hugged her knees. She was never alone with anyone but Sisnil and Tessan. No one could have tampered with her mind. She was in her room! No ONE came in her room. No one had been in her room! She shook her head no, but they could both tell it was to her internal thoughts and not to them. She laid her head on her knees and closed her eyes. “Just…do whatever you have to…”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor looks at Sisnil , did she just figure it out? do yo think he thought to him. “Ensign in order to break through I’m going to have to put you in a deep state of hypnosis, I need full control of your mind and it’s ” he paused. “Intrusive, I have to go deep into your subconscious, I’m going to see things you don’t even know about potentially. ” he stopped. “Commander Salen did it for me when I was lost, I don’t regret it but it was hard for awhile after” he noted. Dradvia new this has Tealors counselor and close friend and confidant.

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

There was a sense of negative acknowledgement to Tessan. Not quite. She’s closer though, he said. “I’ll be right here, for as long as you want me to be,” he said to Dee.

~ Zoi

“I’ve been through worse.” It wasn’t sarcastic or brave or bluff or self-reassuring. Just truth and a sad acceptance. The only thing that was really hers had been violated, according to them, and now she had to give what was left away. Dee’s fingers found his hand that was wrapped around her and held tightly. She didn’t want him to go anywhere.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor felt and heard her thoughts he had not closed himself off too her having planned to go right back in. Tears were pooling into his eyes as he fought them back. I don’t know another way, do you? he thought to Sisnil.

He knew the answer was no, but he had to try. He knew how intrusive it was, he still to this day, years later could feel Reya’s mind in there like it was always watching, especially when he was meditating or lost. For him it had become a great comfort having his best friend with him in away encouraging him when he needed, convicting him when he was being stupid. He feared though, that for Dradvia, at least in the short term, it would be a male presence intruding in her solitude, it would feel like her boss was watching her every move off and on duty.

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

I would do it, but it would look bad, Sisnil sighed softly as he hugged her. I could try to lessen the lasting impact after you do it.

~ Zoi

No i’m fine, I just did not want to do it if there was another way he through.

“Ok Ensign,” he said moving to his desk he pulled out a very old looking metronome it was the old triangle wood ones. It was a deep red and made out of some sort of red wood. He set it down on the table, “I’m going to hypnotise you, Sisnil will be her with you the entire time, I will have to make contact with you, i can place my hand on your arm, so you can continue to hold on to Sisnil’s hands if that works for you?” he asked

Dradvia nodded, but her fingers tightened desperately on Sisnil’s. The only outward sign of any emotion.

“Once you are under I will have full access to your mind, I’ll do my very best to stay out of area’s that are not the current target of thought, but the mind is a powerful and you still may take me places, especially places that you need to share but don’t want to out of fear. ” he noted. “And I’m sorry I have to ask you this one last time, as there is no going back. You are ok with me, entering your subconscious?”

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

“Yes.” She wasn’t, but there was no choice. She had no choice. Dradvia had learned long ago it was better and less painful to just go along.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

This was killing him to have to do this to her, he could not imagine what it was doing to her, they had come such a long way. “Ok Ensign” he said trying to keep at least some professional line in place for her, though they were about to become fare more intimate with each other that either of them wanted. It would not linger for him though as it would her. “I’m sorry, I’ll try to get it done quickly if I can” he said his finger pulling the metronome to the left. “Mr Zoi do not focus on the metronome or my voice.

“Ensign, Listent to the sound of the metranome” he said as he released the the hand. Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick it went. “Listen to the rythm” he said his voice becoming very monotone. “Here it resolved it’s self to you, your thoughts” He said pushing into her mind.

Tick
Tick
“It’s Rythm”
Tick
Tick
“Listent to my voice, let it become more aware in your mind.
Tick
“Your thoughts and my thoughts connected.
Tick
“Your will and my will are becoming one”
Tick.

And then it happened. CLAAAAAAACK the last tick froze the sound echoing through an empty white chamber. no one was there but her. Tealors voice echoed from all around her.
“Ensign, Lets go back now to the night when you slipped off the table. ” he said but it was like her own internal monologue not him from an external source. As if her innervoice was now tealors and not the one she had known her entire life It was unsettling. Tealor was now witnessing anything her subconscious wanted him to know. He should see the reality of what happened in the missing time even if her conscious mind did not want to go there. He braced his mind for attach, and for random flashes of her personality that he did not know, random events person, both good and bad circled him wanting to be heard and scene and let free. He tried to focus on where she was taken them.

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

Dradvia was walking down a corridor. She was meeting Sisnil and Simon at the holodeck. She’d had a good day and she was excited to have someone to spend her time with. The ship stopped suddenly. It wasn’t something most people noticed without looking out a window. Now that the ship had stopped, Tessan was sparkly aware of how aware of the movement he had been. And how aware of the full stop he was now.

It brought panic and fear. Where were they? Why had they stopped? What was happening? The panic became his and the memories for it. He became acutely aware of why this… the fear of the engine, was the first thing Dradvia had asked to work on. The panic was paralyzing.

He had not really understood not to this level, though he was familiar with the feeling of panic.

She was having a severed panic attack. She turned and headed back to her quarters. She didn’t want anyone to find her. She had to hide. What if it was a Syndicate ship or worse that made them stop. She could barely breathe. She thought someone yelled her name and she began to run.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor was with her he was her and sense of what was happening was chaotic, but the feeling they felt rational, some was after him and he needed to hide somewhere as safe as possible.

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

Dradvia smashed the door lock behind her. She held her breath, straining her ears to hear who was after her. Her fingers fumbled with the emergency manual lock. After an eternity she began to breathe. She tried to convince herself she was safe, but what if the ship was boarded? She had to hide. “No… no I have to calm down…” she still couldn’t breathe right. She tried to convince herself, but her fear was too strong.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor though his heart was going to pound out of his chest. It had not felt fear like this in a long long time. He looked around trying to find a place to hide, there was no where safe not on a ship they would corner him. He shock of the thoughts I need to calm down he thought as she said it.

Mean while Sisnil was sensing the pacific and fear that they both were feeling in away he was with them.

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

It was a critically important skill to be able to compartmentalize what other people were feeling versus his own emotions in the Syndicate. And that was how Sisnil was calm despite their panic. He couldn’t help Dee, but he reached out to Tessan. Block her emotions out. Your panic will not help you do this. You must calm down.

~ Zoi

Tealor responded simply with. “Im ok, im blocking enough” he wanted to feel it, he needed to understand fully what was her and what was not and the only way to truly do that was to be her without losing himself. “Thank you, if I dont respond to you pull me out”

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

There, in the corne, behind the couch. She was small, she could fit there. She took a step a way from the door in the dark. Her blanket. She needed her blanket. It was so cold. The panic was making her freeze. The blanket would help. It was weighted like a hug. Hugs she never got anymore…

The memory shifted. Everything looked so much bigger. Dradvia wailed, holding her knee. It throbbed and burned. “Oh, Dradvia, did you fall down baby?” Her little eyes looked up through tears. The woman was tall and soft in all the ways children loved because it comfort. She had light brown hair in two braids with buterfly clips on the end and all black eyes. She had on colorful mismatched clothes that were fun and silly. She was the prettiest person Dradvia had ever seen. Two strong arms picked her up and held her against her shoulder. The woman rocked her gently as she carried Dradvia inside. “Kryssa, can you get me the med kit?”

“Okay mommy!” The sound of little feet running away and coming back. “It’s okay sissy. Mommy will make it better.” Little Kryssa, with her bright smile, happy voice, and sweetness climbed onto the table. “I’ll hug you while mommy fixes your ouchie.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor felt the pain , but also the comfort supplied by the woman and Kryssa. Tealor wanted to stay her to take in something Dradvia had never described she knew. He would have to lock the memory away for a time she could use it. For now.back to the room, inside her subconscious he could direct..”this is nice Dradvia but we have to go. ” he took her hand and with a thought they were back in her quarters hiding.

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

“Mommy…” the desperate plea slipped out into the memory and into Tessan’s office. Tears slipped down her cheeks. It was quickly joined by the panic.

Dradvia stepped toward her bed, her hip jammed into her desk in the dark. She set her fingers on the desk to guide herself around it. BANG BANG BANG “Dradvia, Open the door!”

A gasp clogged her throat stopping her breath, she stumbled and fell…

To the hard metal plating of the cargo bay floor.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor adjusted after the fall, He looked at the metal plating this was not right was it? He pulled back some searching her subconscious for the truth of it, “Where are you” he said to the actual memory. He would surface it if he could find it.

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

The flashback continued as it had before. Dradvia half ran, half dragged herself behind a stack of containers, deep in the shadows, in a space so small a person shouldn’t fit. It was amazing what one could do when motivated strongly enough. It was dark and cold and the sheer scarves they were given to wear was no protection against it. Thudding foot steps and slammed fists echoed in the corridor outside the cargo bay. “FIND HER, NOW!” Lokhar was so angry, but she couldn’t…she couldn’t answer him. The punishment would be better than what he had planned, but then that would happen too. She bit her lip until it bled to stop herself from crying or screaming despite the terror clawing its way up her throat and choking her.

The doors hissed open like a giant snake warning of an impending strike. The sound of foots steps made their way directly towards her. “There you are.” A massive green hand reached over the container and grabbed her by the hair and yanked her up and her head back to stare at him. Dradvia began to scream. It wasn’t Lokhar. It was, but it wasn’t. There was some grotesque monstrous creature that had taken over him and it was dragging her nearer and nearer.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor rode the flashback looking for clues, something wasn’t right this should not be here, he paused It wasn’t Lokar grabbing her and from what he remembered it was during the original event. Maybe a green uniform or. Tealor reached back into her subconscious and tried to focus the memory to see if he could get a clear picture or at least get them back into the room rather than the memory that was isolating her from the reality.

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

Dradvia screamed in pain as Tessan forced her back into her room. There was someone in the room, but it was like they were part of a old black and white movie with a lot of static. There was no way to tell the face or the color of the uniform. But there were two people in the room.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor narrowed his eyes, _there you are _ he thought he had to find something , something that could clear Sisnil, size shape something. He let the memory unfold in trying to help it come into focus more. He tried to look at everything voices, posture, they way they carried themselves anything that would release Sisnils. This was part of whatever conditioning had been done he would try and cut through it.

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

“Watch the door,” the one holding her hair hissed. The other turned and looked out into the corridor. “No one’s there,” he was impatient. The man holding her yanked her head back. “Tell me what a pretty little thing like you is doing hanging around with a Syndicate Pirate.” Dradvia whimpered and fought. She wouldn’t tell them anything about Sisnil.

In frustration the man grabbed her wrist and twisted it. (That injury had not just been from the fall after all, but had healed too much by the time Tessan found out about it.) “You will talk one way or another.”

“4 minutes. Hurry up,” the one by the door ground out. Dradvia didn’t know either of them. Their voices were rough and grating in the dark. She was forced across the floor and against the wall and pinned there. The man’s other hand came up to her face. Temple, below the eye, and under the chin. ‘My thoughts to your thoughts…’ another layer of protection slammed into place, Dradvia screamed in acute pain, the force of it causing her to go completely unconscious and convulse. Almost like a seizure.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor winced in pain, as the secondary layer took hold, he released her mind and let her wake. “DanderCon” he yelled, it was a word he coded into all his patience mind under hypnosis that would reverse it and return them to normal. Tealor moved to her side to lay her down checking her pulse and breathing.

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

Dradvia’s body was rigid, her eyes rolled in the back of her head. Terror, unlike anything either had ever felt from her, rolled off her in waves that could make them sick if they weren’t strong telepaths. Her pulse was racing but strong and her breathing was rapid but not labored.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor kept his hand on her wrist,”Come back Ensign, your safe in my office. Sisnil is here with you” he looked over, “Zoi there is a tri-corder top center desk drawer can you get it for me.”

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

Sisnil grabbed the tricorder and handed it to Tessan, then resumed his position next to Dee, hugging her.

~ Zoi

Tealor continued to caller back to reality while scanning , “It was bad, Vulcan, Romulan, they hurt her Sisnil” he said, “It was a meld for sure.” he noted. “And Not you, I have what I need to keep you clear of this, if you want to try and communicate with her.” Sinsnil’s voice mental signature none of it was anywhere to be found. They may still have to go to court but Tealor was sure it was land in his favor in the end.

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

The tricorder showed extreme misfires in her temporal lobe and overactivity of her thalamus. There was no obvious physical cause for either. Her hippocampus was lit up with theta waves like a super nova.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

After another minute of psychic agony, Dradvia’s body seemed to collapse as everything went limp.

Sisnil shook his head. “I need to wait. The last thing she needs is more psionic contact.” He said. He couldn’t see the readouts and couldn’t understand them if he did, he just knew how overwhelmed she felt.

~ Zoi

His voice seeped through the pain and darkness and fear. Sisnil’s voice was the only thing that felt safe to her. She wanted to curl up inside it and hide. But waking up was far too frightening. She wasn’t safe..she didn’t know why. She just knew she wasn’t.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil gave her a moment, but he didn’t miss how his voice seemed to soothe her. Dee? He said, the mental sound of his voice very soft and gentle. I’m here, okay?

~ Zoi

Her face scrunched up in pain from the contact, but his voice was soothing also. Sisnil? Her mind cracked with tears, and she struggled through the haze to wake up. They’re going to hurt me!

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

No one is hurting you. You’re safe, he said softly, still hugging her. It’s okay.

~ Zoi

It hurt, her head hurt so much, her body felt too heavy to move, but her limbs seemed to be twitching. Every time she thought that unconsciousness might return something would twitch painfully. Don’t let them get me. Why couldn’t she talk? Why did she hurt so much?

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

There was a sense of smugness he let her feel They’d have to get through me first. He told her, hugging her tighter.

~ Zoi

Her body curled into his even though her mind was trapped somewhere filled with pain. It hurt so much. Why does it hurt so much? Whatever had been causing her pain had stopped, but it had over exposed every pain receptor in her mind.

Finally, finally, she came out of it, only to begin sobbing uncontrollably. Someone had been in her room, they’d hurt her, they’d done something to her. She wasn’t safe, not anywhere. The longer she was conscious the more the memory slipped away and only the feelings, the certainty of them, remained.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor looked at her waiting for her to come through a little more, He shielded her mind from anyone outside influence letting himself and Sisnil have access.

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

Sisnil sensed it. “I am already protecting her,” he said. He wasn’t trusting of Tessan yet. He hugged her tight and let her cry. It’s okay, you’re safe.

~ Zoi
Tealor smirked. “Never hurts to have two” he said, now searching with his mind, looking

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

There were no minds searching out hers or theirs, at least not at this moment.

The sobs wracked her body, and their silence was heartbreaking. She cried for so long she was going to have a headache. She felt safe with Sisnil which was the only reason she was able to cry at all.

Eventually the tears stopped, but she stayed hiding against Sisnil. The fear and confusion still very strong.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor looked at her sad that he had put her through it. It needed to be done, Sisnil should be cleared eventually, and they were now on the trail. Question is could they trust the Captain. Looked at sisnil realizing that he would be listening, he did not want to scare her more than needed. I don’t know who to trust right now, so I think we keep this between us three. Thoughts?

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

I thought the whole point of doing this was because it would look bad if you waited to report it, Sisnil thought. You were going to report it.

~ Zoi
I’m not a spy and I have not know the captain long, can he be trusted? I don’t know, who ever did this is on board and I’m uncertain on who can be trusted. The nuro signatures have been records and timestamped, but. At some point we’ll have to trust someone

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

Morris has been more on my side than nearly anyone on this ship. I wouldn’t consider him a threat, Sisnil responded after a moment of guarded thoughts.

~ Zoi

Her head hurt, like it might split apart, and her stomach thought it might prefer to not be a part of her body anymore. Dradvia was curled into Sisnil, trying to hide. She was quiet now, just like the room was. She wanted to go home, the problem was she didn’t have one. Home meant comfort and safety; she didn’t have that, not even here.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil hugged her tightly. “It’s okay, Dee. I’m here.” You don’t need a place that feels safe. Anywhere I am is your safe place, he thought to her.

~ Zoi

Tealor did not like any of this but it was reality. The choice should be her’s I don’t want to take that away from her too he thought.

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

Her fingers twisted tighter into Sisnil’s shirt. But he was leaving and she couldn’t follow him. Then what would she do?

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Don’t think about that now, he thought to her. The future is unknown. Right now, you have me. So have me. He hugged her tight.

Dradvia pressed in tight, hiding, trying to claw her way inside where no one could see her. Don’t let go.

To Tessan, You took that choice away the moment you pressed the issue. Live with the consequences, Tealor. Finish what you started.

~ Zoi

Tealor shook his head. “It’s not about finishing what I started,” he noted, “She needs to make the decision it’s her information, her mind, my goal was to clear your name, I’ve done that.” he stood and walked to the portal no longer isolating her from the conversation. “Dradvia, how do you want us to handle the information, should we involved the Commander Morris?” he asked. he would have to eventually but he could stall while he tried to find the individual that done the work.

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

“No.” It was quiet, muffled, and just a single word, but they heard it in the quiet.

They couldn’t tell Morris. They wouldn’t let her stay in Star Fleet. She was weak. Anyone could steal her mind, her thoughts. It put the crew and ship at risk. They would send her away. She had no where else to go. She’d be all alone again. The Syndicate would find her. She couldn’t live through it again. That was okay though… she didn’t want to live. It was selfish to not tell. She just… she just needed time to help Sisnil, then… then she’d leave on her own. It didn’t matter what happened to her then.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer