<USS Avalon> Another Day, Another Dollar

Another Day, Another Dollar

Garrett smiled as Caine's last appointment for the day left, heading back to 
whatever life they lived on the ship.  Standing, he grabbed a PADD off his desk 
and headed into his supervisor's office, not at all surprised to see Caine 
looking exhausted as she worked on, what Garrett guessed was a report on one of 
her many patients.  Taking a seat in one of the comfortable chairs across the 
desk from Caine, he smiled, "you know, if you keep frowning like that, your 
face is going to be perminately stuck in a frown."
 
Even though Caine was trying to be serious and get some more work done before 
heading back to her quarters for the evening, she couldn't stop the smile that 
broke out on her lips at Garrett's comment.  "You know, if you keep putting 
that much cologne on everymorning, your going to burn out you sense of smell," 
Caine shrugged and looked up at him, "that or else your really goign to start 
scaring the ladies away."
 
Laughing at the counselor's wit, Garrett silently thanked whatever might be 
listening for giving him a pretty laid back boss.  "Actually I came in here for 
a reason," he said, continuing before Caine had the chance to make a smart 
comment, "I've downloaded all the information you've requested and some more 
that you might need."  He leaned over and handed her the PADD, proud of just 
how much information he was able to find.
 
Taking the PADD, Caine quickly gave it a once over, impressed with the amount 
of stuff Garrett had been able to find for her.  "Thanks, I'll have to look 
this over more closely later but it seems you went far beyond what I needed you 
to."  Caine smiled her thanks and went back to the report she was trying to 
finish up, hoping that Garrett wouldn't go into his lecture again.
 
Unfortunately Caine's hoping was for nothing as Garrett sighed and leaned 
forward, taking a good look at her face.  "You don't look so good?  Are you 
getting enough sleep?  I know your not eating enough while your here in the 
office."
 
Sighing, Caine leaned back in her office chair and looked at Garrett.  She knew 
how tired she looked, there were bags under her eyes and her hair always seemed 
a mess, no matter how much Caine tried to hide it, it was abvious that 
somehting wasn't right.  "Look Garrett, I know your worried about me, but I'm 
fine, I'm just not getting enough sleep."  
 
At Garrett's nod, Caine became agitated, thinking that he was only trying to 
placate her.  "I'm serious, I'm just not sleeping enough.  Hannah's been having 
these crazy nightmares everynight, she wakes up screaming bloody murder then 
cries for hours afterwards, the poor child hasn't slept a full night in I don't 
even know how long.  And I'm a horrible, whatever I am, I don't even know what 
I am to the child, but I'm not around enough, what with all of these 
appointments now with Captain Flubb dead."  Caine sighed and looked over at 
Garrett, "I'm sorry for snapping at you, I just feel so stressed, I hardly have 
time to just sit down and read anymore."
 
Garrett smiled understandingly over at Caine, he knew what her schedule was 
like and how little time she had for anything that wasn't work related.  
Getting up he moved next to her chair and pulled it out with her still sitting 
in it.  "Thats it, your going home and your going to take a long hot bath and 
then you are going to sit down and play with Hannah, your not going to think 
about work or do any work until tomorrow morning when you show up here."
 
With some arguments and refusals, Caine tried her hardest to stay but ended up 
finally giving up, she knew that she needed to relax and Garrett was giving her 
the perfect oppertunity.  Feeling her body start to relax as she left the 
office, Caine made a silent note to make sure she did something nice for 
Garrett the next day.


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