Posted by Vashkilu (Infiltrator) in Creating Threads

Posted by Elias “Eli” Trenor (Medic) in Creating Threads

Posted by Vashkilu (Infiltrator) in Creating Threads
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Papa was not on the bridge. And she knee he wouldn’t be in his quarters, so the only other place was the medical bay. She flounced in, all the energy of a tidal wave. “Papa!?” Her voice singsonged out. “I want story time!” Her laugh followed her words.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

He looked at her his heart sang when she called him pappa, “Little old for story time aren’t you” he said, intentionally trying to stir the pot. “I thought you wanted to be treated like a woman?”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash pouted even as he saw her eyes flash. “But Papaaaa I never heard the stories as a child, how else will I learn them. You said I have to know our history and traditions. That the matriarch has to keep them alive.” But she was reaching for, aiming, and throwing a pillow at him.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator
Eli caught the pillow then tossed it back at her, grabbing a second it was one. Fffwap. “Take that” he said his pillow smacking her in the side of the head.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

“Oh!” She glared at him, snatched up both pillows and launched them at him. Her aim was good, but not like Eli. “If this combat training, I need more pillows!” she ducked behind the biobed laughing.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli chased after her, she was nimble so he just tried to work her to a corner but using his reach to hit her with a pillow before she could move. His laugh boomed through the infirmery.. “Stand Still girl” he boomed

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash laughed, it was light and joy and carefree. She loved his laugh and it was so rare. “No. I will not surrender!” She rolled under a table, the advantage of being small. Papa could move and was nimble for his size, but he was still a big guy. She found a roll of gauze and launched it over the table like a grenade.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli snag the gause in the air and set it on the counter, “Might need that later” he said with a snort. “Ya” he said swinging the pillow under the table.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

“AH!” Vash half screamed, half laughed as the pillow swiped at her under the table. She fell back on her butt and then rolled looking for something else soft to throw. Three more rolls of gauze came flying at him as she darted toward the back of the medical bay.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

“Ok Ok, ” he said. “I give up, what bring you her, ” he said starting to clean up.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash grinned and hurried over to him, even though she sensed an all too easy win. “Do I need a reason to come see you, Papa?” She hugged him tightly.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator
He wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin on her head lightly. “Of course not, I’m always happy to spend time with you” he noted.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash sighed happily. Papa was never conditional with his affection and it didn’t have limits. Vash always spent time with him, but now that she was really his daughter, he was going to have a hard time getting rid of her. He was so strong, solid, nothing could moved him. In that, her inner child was starving and Eli Trenor was the healing balm.

“Tell me more about our people. The legends, the mythology.” She was eager, wistful, hungry for it and her place within it.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli smiled, “lets not do that now”, as he did not really want noril hearing all of it at at the moment, in fact he still had to figure out how to keep noril out of the more private details of the clan. “There are things I would rather not share with noril listening” he noted, some of our traditions are sacred and only for tribal ears. “Lets talk about you little bird, what do you want? how do we free you from your depts. so you can be truly free?”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash looked up at him, not tell Noril? Then she nodded. She could respect that reason. “Alright. Ummm…well there are two ways.” She moved over to the biobed and hopped up. “The first is that I pay my debt myself. This is somewhat easier because all slaves of Orion blood have this right. I have to pay off any debts I owe, plus my cost to my father and then purchase my freedom from the Syndicate.”

“The other might prove more difficult. Someone would have to buy me. They would take on my debts and then buy me from my father. Once they had full ownership, not a lease, which is what Noril and Sisnil have. I return to my father if anything happens to them. So they would have to buy me from my father. He may not be willing. Then they would have to purchase my freedom from the Syndicate. The cost would be higher because they would charge a ‘administrative fee’ to do it.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli sat in a chair next to her, “What if I hired you to work for me, in here during your off time, and other tasks like maid stuff like that?” is there a way for me to pay you to do things that will build money faster?” he asked

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash nodded. “It is in my contract with Sisnil and Noril that I may take independent jobs and keep the earnings, as long as it does not interfere with my duties to them.” That sounded awful to others. But it was actually quite good. Everything in the Syndicate had to be written and contracted. Having it written protected her and allowed her to increase her earnings. Which she had wanted, because her goal had always been to get away from her father’s house.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

He looked at here “what be a reasonable wage to have you help me inventory and run tests and also act as an assistant during surgeries, I would also like to hire you to clean my room, and the occasional message to toss in some effect”..

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash grinned, “You’re finally going to let me give you a massage?” She rubbed her hands together in anticipation. She tipped her head to the side, “Inventory and business services - three bars of gold pressed latinum per quarter. Untrained for medical assistance - 1 strip per day. 5 slips a day for cleaning, and 3 strips per massage.” Vash didn’t like the idea of taking anything from him, but he would insist. If she went lower he’d just pile the money on, if she charged what she would actually charge, she wouldn’t be able to look at herself in the mirror.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

He looked at her, “seems reasonable though I don’t know you’ll have to give me a free message so I know what i’m getting for 3strips” he noted. “Medical will be as needed retainer, 1 bar per month, everything else seems fine”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash looked at him, “You know you don’t have to do that. I don’t want your latinum.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

He stood up, “I want my daughter free” he said “now lock the door to the room and you can give me that message”. He said, he did not want people to see his scares they were very bad, even Vash had only seen them the one time and only briefly they were scares on scares where the wounds had healed and then been reopened. He took off his shirt and set it down on the chair.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash told herself she wouldn’t grin and laugh. He was so serious when he said that. It was cute and attractive. Yes Eli was her father now, but she could still appreciate that her father was the catch of quadrant, for the right woman. And she would be hell on warp drive to make sure the wrong women stayed away from him. She locked the door to the bay and turned. She’d seen the scars and she hated them. She hated he didn’t have the same kind of medical care that he’d given her. She grabbed a few pillows and set them on the biobed, one under his chest and the other under his thighs. She had to lower the bed though. She was short.

She knew where he kept the oil, he’d used it for her enough, and she stepped over to the cabinet and retrieved it while he laid down. She poured the oil into her hands and rubbed them together to warm it, then more oil. She started by working the oil into his skin, coating it until it gleamed. Then she began to work the muscles and tissue into relaxing. Her hands were strong, firm, but never painful. She kept her Deltan senses open so she could feel if he had any pain. “I can use my Deltan senses to help the pain if you want.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Here hand we nice, he pulled a little as she touched the first scar the hardness of the old wounds mean that there was not sensation there, which was 90% of his back, if his pants had been off it covered 90% of the entirety of his back side and legs. The punishment had been brutal.
“Do this like you would for a client, which is what I am, to be honest no one has touched me really in 10 years,” he said laying his face back down.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash wouldn’t use her Deltan talents for a client. Well she might, it depended on the client. But those talents were a secret she held close to her heart. She didn’t have to hide them from Eli. More warmed oil was drizzled over his back, over the scars. Her hands worked from the outer edges of the scar to the inside. The tissue was hard, numb, clogged blood flow through the damaged tissue. Vash could feel it. Slowly, easing in like a warm blanket, the pain and numbness eased, and all he could feel was the knowledge and skill of her hands as they worked the flesh into relaxing. She didn’t rush, she didn’t make broad strokes. She focused on each section, each twinge, each pain, each place the begged for relief. And she stayed there until the needs were met. Then she moved on to the next.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli recoiled at first, he was not used to people touching him, especially on his back, no body had touched his back since the doctors healed him, it was to uncomfortable for him, her hands were magic though and Eli was loving every minute of it .”Worth every slip this, you should charge more” he noted.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash laughed softly, “Well I do take tips.” She did charge more for this, but she wouldn’t charge Papa like that. Vashkilu was not a medical professional, but between her highly skilled training and her Deltan empathy she was nearly as good as a therapeutic masseuse.

She worked quietly. She didn’t flinch away from even the worst scars. She would give him no reason to be more uncomfortable. Her goal was that by the time she was done and her pain blocking ability removed, he would still be relaxed and mostly pain free.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli smiled the way she worked his back was magic. “This was a great decision !” He said his body visibly relaxing more.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash laughed, the sound dancing and contagious but not alluring. “See Papa. Now don’t you feel silly for avoiding letting me do this for two years.” She kept working, as if the prolongued work didn’t phase her or her hands. She was determined. She would remove the pain, as much as her skill would allow.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli grumbled a response it was not long before he started snoring lightly obviously relaxed from the message.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash didn’t care he’d fallen asleep. She took it for the compliment it was. She kept working his back until she was done. Then she covered him with a warmed blanket. She wasn’t going to leave him there like that alone, where anyone could walk in. Plus, staying meant she could keep up the pain block for a bit longer. Vash moved around the medical bay quietly, going through everything making an inventory of it.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

A few minutes after her hands left him his eyes inched open. “Sorry” he said as he sat up from the table and gathered his shirt. “That was amazing, your hired” he said.. “Do I need to negotiate with Noril or are you free to do what you want.”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash looked up from where she was counting jars in the cabinet. “As long as it does not interfere with my duties on board, Sisnil has it in my contract that I can take any extra jobs I want. Noril’s never said anything about it, so I don’t think he’ll care. Even if he does, it’s in my contract,” she said with a bit of sass. “You know you can stay there and rest.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

He stood fully now and walked to her, his massive frame,enveloping her in a hug. He leaned down and kissed her head, ” I’m rested thank to you, my daughter” he said not letting her go yet.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash was a small woman and Eli was, well massive. Being hugged by him made her feel like a child. In a very rare moment of honest emotional vulnerability she burrowed her face into him and hugged him tightly.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli hugged her with a father’s hold, protective comforting like a warm river of love that had no conditions. “I love you, my little bird” he said, “you have become and amazing woman, not the the girl I first met”

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash laughed. “I was pretty awesome when you met me.” She gave him another squeeze, “Well okay, after I woke up, got my voice back, and you healed me. But I was still awesome.” The teasing faded though. “I’d be dead if it wasn’t for you.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

“I’m note sure amazing is the word I would have chosen back then,” he said still hugging her. “Dangerous was more like it” he quibbed. “And you have saved my bacon a few times as well. It’s what we do” he said with a final squeeze.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash looked up and rolled her eyes. “I was a lot of things then, but dangerous wasn’t one of them. I was too sick to be dangerous. On any other day, I’m lethal.” She laughed and squeezed him again. “I’ll always save your bacon.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

He looked at her and laughed, “I know you will” he aid releasing her from the hug. “Lets get the contract written up so it’s official” he said

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

“Alright,” Vash moved toward the computer. She typed for a couple of minutes and then turned with a PaDD toward him.

Contract for services between Elias Trenor and Vashkilu.

Inventory and business services - 3 bars of gold pressed latinum per quarter.
Untrained for medical assistance, as needed on retainer - 1 bar of gold pressed latinum per month.
Maid services - 5 slips of gold pressed latinum per day.
Massage services - 3 strips of gold pressed latinum per massage.

“If you agree, press your thumb to the scanner. I’ve already done mine.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli read through the contract and then pressed his thumb to the pad. “That should do it” he said “Maybe we can think of some other things you can do for me that will earn some more. I have plenty of money” he noted.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

Vash shook her head, “No, your, our people may need it. I’m not taking extra from you that could go to them.” She tapped a couple of keys and saved the contract, making sure she and Eli both had a copy. She would have to give one to Noril and file one officially. She could do that later. “I need to contact my father. Thogel’s attack doesn’t bode well. We got away, but if what he said was true, it won’t be my father I have to pay off, it will be Thogel. And he won’t sell me.”

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

Eli looked at her his face serious, “Contact your father” Eli was prepared to kill the man, if he had too but no sense bring that up now. Would not be the first person in the syndicate he had ended, likely would not be the last.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic

He wasn’t really her father. Vash knew that now after being on the Albatross for two years. “I’ll see if I can get through. Come on. I’ll try to call from my quarters.” She always called from there. She didn’t want her father to get any glimpses of the rest of the ship. She wasn’t too worried about him specifically, but whomever else might be watching.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator

“Ok, well Thogel is the problem, isn’t what he did in violation to the twins contract?” he asked not completely sure what he had tried to pull, “Want me to come with you. I’ll stand off screen I’ll be good” he said.

Elias “Eli” Trenor
Medic