Risky Operation Part 2

Posted on Tue May 29th, 2018 @ 11:44am by Lieutenant Galatea Polaris

570 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Misson 1 - Rebirth
Location: Sickbay USS Wolff - CMO's Personal Office
Timeline: 7th Feb 2395

Previously,

Entering she allowed herself to collapse into her chair allowing herself to react to the last day of stress.

The door hissed open and a figure kneeled by her. She heard rustling and then a cold cloth pressed to her head a buttered curse before she looked down and watched the drops of blood drip onto the leg of her uniform….

and now the continuation...

ON:

Hunter grabbed a cloth wetting it at her office sink. He held it under her nose, “Head down.”

She obliged hoping that this nosebleed. Her head was killing her.

Hunter sighed as he led the cloth. “What the hell were you thinking?” He was barely controlling his anger. “You could have gone into synaptic shock. Don’t you realize that! You are not a full Betazoid and your El Aurian side complicates things even more. Hell I’m half Betazoid and Bajoran, a more stable combination, and I wouldn’t attempt that.”

Galatea, who’d had her eyes closed, opened her eyes and stared at him. She took the cloth from his hand and held it under her nose feeling the blood slowing. “I’m fine.”

Hunter stood and paced, “The hell you are! If you ever, ever pull an asinine…nay ludicrous, stupid thing like that again I will tell the commander.” He was really angry, it wasn’t just this one incident. She had been growing more and more reckless and it was starting to show. “I know you out rank me but Tay-ah, (A name he often used for her) but this is enough. You could have gone into shock and died!”

He grabbed a nearby tricorder and began scanning her.

Galatea (Gal-a-tay-ah) sighed. “Alright, listen I’m fine. No harm…”

He thrust the readings in front of her eyes, “Blood pressure elevated, anxiety, brain waves erratic, capillaries burst in your nose, pressure in the back of the brain. No harm?”

Galatea sighed, “Alright I get your point.”

Hunter sighed, “You bloody well better or I swear I will tell the commander and you will be benched. You are no good to the crew if you are down.”

She knew he was right and he was coming from a place of care and frankly justified anger. If he’d done it or any other officer she’d have read them the riot act but her insolence was a bit much. “Alright enough. I am your commanding officer and if you continue to take that tone with me…”

Hunter was ready to burst. He was normally calm but now he was ready to burst. “Permission to leave before I say something that will get me booted out the airlock.”

She sighed, “You’d better. We both need to cool down.”

Hunter left with one last jab at how she had to rest.

As he left Galatea stood, walked over to the sink and looked at her face in the mirror. She had taken a risk, it paid off but…She could feel her senses were almost gone which told her she needed down time and her mind needed rest. Was she going to take it? That was another story. She had to try and help the XO and look in on a few patients first…

OFF:

Lt. Galatea Polaris
Chief Medical Officer and Counselor
USS Wolff

&

Chief Petty Officer Hunter Payton
Head Nurse
USS Wolff
{PNPC played by Polaris}

 

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