[ussgeorgetown] Re: a tag log for everyone who wants to play...jump right...
- From: Erelen Haegul <telpinaro@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ussgeorgetown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:02:04 -0800 (PST)
DrNellieCoyne@xxxxxxx wrote: Continuing their previous argument and
completely ignoring where they were going, Kylara cut in. "How the hell can
you not mean to shoot me? I mean, hell, you were facing the opposite
direction. I at least got an excuse."
"Instinct," Erelen said wearily, watching warily as the doors to sick bay slid
open, upside down to both women.
"um...excuse me..." Zack called as he stepped in, a woman across either
shoulder, "I think they may need some help...and I'm pretty sure I'll need a
head start...can somebody take these two, please?"
With a mock glare, Kylara looked at him. "Oh no you don't! You're stayin'
right here." Then she grinned. "Don't worry, wouldn't want to get that
brother of yours mad at me."
Aidoaneth looked up from his research at the main console to see a young Human
male carrying two females, one over each shoulder, each of whom seemed to be
run through with...na, it could na be. There were arrows sticking out of each
of them. And here I thought this was going to be so much more quiet than a
Rihannsu ship.
"What happened?" he asked as he approached the trio. He then looked over his
shoulder at Sindar. "You may wish to tell Dr. Michaels about this."
"She shot me!" Kylara exclaimed, by now almost enjoying their argument, and the
unusual predicament they were in. If the damn arrow didn't hurt so much, she'd
be delighted with the whole mess. Or at least if it didn't hurt quite so much.
It was a lovely sort of pain. If only she could find someone who wasn't very
squeamish.
Erelen just sighed, sensing Kylara's amusement mixed with pain. An odd
combination. "I didn't mean to," she protested automatically, before turning
to the doctor and explaining. "I guess you could call this a holodeck
accident. A combination of too much laughter and real bows and arrows, I
guess," she shook her head. "Zack, will you put me down now?" she asked.
"They've already seen me and I can't get away."
Zachary glanced toward the doctor as though making sure it was all right to put
them down before doing so. At his nod, he set them both gently upon their feet
and started toward the exit, then froze. Turning silently, he scanned the area
across the room near the regen tank his brother had vacated only moments before
he entered. Mac nudged Joshua as he came out from behind the screen,
straightening his collar and once more futilely pushing curls out of his eyes,
then nodded toward Zachary. He gave the slightest of nods as his eyebrows shot
up and he almost smiled. Zachary laughed and shook his head as both Mac and
Josh came over toward him.
The first thing Nan realized when he left the quiet of the private room was
that the Vulcan PA was gone and there was a Romulan there now. How very
interesting, he told himself. The place seemed to be in a minor bit of chaos.
Two older officers, one of them almost as tall as Senek, were talking to a
young Human boy in a cadet's uniform. What really got his attention, though,
were the two women shot through with arrows. He recognized the tall blonde one
from his PADD. He walked over and offered her a bright smile.
"Chief Petty Officer Nan Ecitsuj at your service. I hope arrows aren't a
prerequisite for the Engineering department. That wouldn't agree with my
cybernetics and that would give you way to much work to do," he stated.
"Hey look! It's Mr. Mysterious!" Kylara called with a grin and started to wave
enthusiastically. Until, of course, she realized she had an arrow in her
shoulder and she yelped in pain. "Damnit," she muttered. "Just when it was
starting to feel good..." All of a sudden she hoped no one had heard that last
remark. She glanced around. She seemed to be in luck, at least for the
moment. At Kylara's greeting, Josh blushed brightly and seemed to step back a
bit, causing Mac to laugh out loud and nudge him closer to the group.
"Hello Chief," Erelen greeted him with a rather pained smile. Rather difficult
to be pleasant with an arrow stuck in her back. "Welcome on board. No arrows
necessary. Just don't make the pilot laugh when she's got a bow and arrow in
her hands."
John Butler hated physicals but you did what you had to do and you had to have
one every year. He approached Sick Bay at the same time as a blue eyed Vulcan
in Medical colors did.
"I'm here for my physical, Sir," Butler said, straightening up as if to show
how healthy he was already.
Seren nodded toward the door. "Step inside, Ensign. I just came off a break
and I'm not sure if there's anything going on ahead of you." As they walked
in, Seren resisted shaking his head as he saw the arrows. Whatever made me
think there wasn't going to be something going on?
Rachelle looked up from the log she was writing when she heard the voices in
sickbay. It sounded like every member of the crew was in there! She hurried to
the door, pausing as it opened. Once that obstacle was out of the way, she
entered the main area and stopped short. There were people everywhere but the
ones that caught her attention first were the two with the arrows sticking out
of various body parts. She realized she was standing there gaping when she had
patients to attend to and started moving again, calling out instructions as she
made her way toward them.
"Ok, let's get to work now. One of you, get those two up on biobeds, carefully,
please." She gestured towards the arrows as she spoke, hoping the orderlies
would know she meant the patients were the ones who should be on the beds, with
the arrows in tow of course. "I want scans immediately, let's see just how much
damage had been done here. Get some mild painkillers into them, not enough to
knock them out, just to take the edge off for now. I want the surgery rooms
prepped and ready in 5 minutes. Let's move!" The staff started bustling around
as Rachelle approached the closest human pincushion and asked, "Wanna tell me
how this happened, or should I even ask?"
"She shot me!" Kylara announced before Erelen could say anything. Erelen
sighed, winced, and shook her head: Kylara seemed to be having too much fun
with that. "It was an accident in the holodeck. The bows and arrows were
real, which is why they're still here. Commander Someone here accidentally
shot me because she was laughing, and then I shot her before I realized what
was happening," she explained, figuring the details could wait until later. It
rather looked like the doctor was going to have her hands full for the time
being. "Zack brought us in. One of us over each shoulder, if I might add,"
she said with a wry smile.
N'Ellie had to rub her eyes after walking into sick bay. She'd never seen it so
crowded nor had she ever seen anyone with... arrows? punching through their
skin. Walking up behind the gathering, she over heard the elf looking woman and
laughed. "I call dibs on having the kid on any away teams I'm on."
Zack laughed merrily at that. "I wouldn't have had to if they'd have come on
their own, but they wouldn't." A bit more seriously he asked,"Do they let
Cadet's go on away missions?" Glancing over his shoulder, gave a quick shake
of the head and held his hand up to his brother, who halted his progress toward
the exit and waited near the wall, as far from the crowd as he could get
without going back toward the regen tank he'd so recently left.
"Not first years kido but since your here and not at the academy who knows"
N'Ellie replied before looking over at Josh. She offered him a warm reassuring
smile. Then she looked back at the crowd. "Ya know we're a pretty big place so
if you don't have an arrow sticking out of you, or if your not trying to remove
said arrow, how about either getting out or find a chair, park your rear ends
into it, and stop gapping as if this were a crash on the freeway or something."
Seren glanced at the Romulan doctor a moment. He hadn't met him yet but that
could wait. He gestured toward Ensign Butler. "Why don't you go have a seat
in the waiting area, Ensign. Your triage level is so far below green that it's
not even on the scale."
Tawa still had his arm around Dove's waist as he escorted her in to Sick Bay.
It might have been for his own comfort as well as to help her. She still
looked very queasy to him, despite his first aid, and he was sure this was not
going to end well, ice cream promises aside.
Looking at he huge crowd of people, he looked at Dove and said, "I bet this
isn't all marshmallow related."
Dove was looking around at all the patients. "I highly doubt it. Have we been
in a battle without my knowing it? With primitives?" she asked, eyeing the
arrows protruding from her chief and the pilot. She was still keeping her
hands out of the way very carefully in spite of the... surprise.
Erelen looked up at Dove's voice and caught her questioning glance. "What, you
too? This seems to be the new location of the engineering convention." she
said bemusedly, then shook her head. "Stories later, I guess." Luckily,
Erelen was very used to hiding the nervousness that being in medical brought
about. And the irony of the situation helped as well.
Nan, hearing the Klingon lady's pronouncement, offered Erelen and Kylara a
theatrical bow and a wide smile. "It was really very nice meeting you both but
I think I better go. I'll be more than happy to see you both when you get
sprung."
Aidoaneth, after casting a curious glance at the tall Vulcan PA, approached
Rachelle. "We've just received a patient with second degree burns to the upper
limbs. Shall I see to that while you and Ms, Coyne see to the...targets?"
Looking over at the newest arrive, N'Ellie looked around quickly. Seemed as if
everyone was busy so she decided to take this one. "If you'll come over here
and have a seat on the stool I'll take a look at those burns." She told Dove as
she went for a tricorder.
Seren nodded at N'Ellie. "If you will see to that, I'll see to anything new
and to Mr. Butler's physical."
Nikolas walked down the hall towards sick bay, thumping his chest. That would
be the last time he took Hale's word on something being, "It's so mild a baby
could eat it." Especially when it came to chili. When the doors parted he
stepped in, hoping that he could get something for his heartburn quickly so he
could head back to the bridge, but by the looks of the medical department that
wasn't going to happen.
"All right, let's see what we have here." Rachelle scanned the screens over the
two, noting that the damage didn't seem to be life-threatening. She frowned,
then reread Erelen's screen without comment. She'd be talking to her later for
sure, there were a few unusual readings there. For now though, the arrows took
precedence.
She glanced around as the doors opened again. What was going on here today
anyway? Was the whole crew going to end up there before it was all over?
Leaving the newest arrivals to Aidoaneth, she narrowed her attention to the
immediate area, effectively blocking out the crowd of ailing crewmembers to
concentrate on these two. She shook her head, trying to fight the grin that
threatened. Bows and arrows, what next?
Nikolas watched for a few moments. The CMO seemed to be treating to women with
arrows sticking out of them. The med student was treating another woman with
burns. There was a Vulcan and a Romulan working the crowd. Boothby warned him
there'd be days like this if he took an assignment with Hale. The odd thing was
that he loved this unpredictable nature of the Georgetown. Stepping further
into the room, Nikolas brought himself to his full height and quickly stepped
into his command roll. "Would someone care to tell me if there is something I
should be aware of here?"
Josh stood off in the corner away from the crowd, watching the chaos unfold,
awaiting permission to leave. The moment the question rang out, Zachary, looked
up at him, trying on his most innocent expression. Noting the pseudo-angelic
gaze, Josh almost smiled, shaking his head and Mac laughed right out loud. "Oh,
no sir," Mac attempted, his voice thick with barely contained mirth. "Nothing
at all. Just a typical day on the Georgetown, sir." He no sooner got the words
out than the laughter won out. Within moments, even Josh wore a full fledged
smile.
Aidoaneth knew this was the first officer speaking. Rachelle was busy seeing
to the targets and the student was seeing to the woman with burns. He wondered
if the Klingon was going to get irritated with the tall green ensign who was
hovering nearby. A friend of the patient? Most likely.
Approaching Nikolas, he said, "I am Dr. tr'Ghaladriel, Commander. I believe
Dr. Michaels has everything well in hand. Is there something you need
assistance with?"
Nikolas was a young man, younger then most others who shared his rank and
position, but he was old enough and experienced enough to remember all the hell
that the Empire had caused the Federation. It felt odd to him to have a Romulan
on the ship. It felt even odder that the man was not only being civil but also
seemed to be passing off as respectful. "Never believe the Captain when he
tells you his chili isn't hot.. Got anything for heartburn?"
Aidoaneth blinked then shook his head. "I have yet to meet the captain,
Commander, but I think I will take your word for it.," he said with a slight
smile. He sensed the man's hesitation and knew that it had to be because of
what he was. Eh, we will all get used to each other eventually. He looked
over his shoulder at the at hand med supply stock and reached for a hypo full
of a common anti-acidic. Holding up for the man's inspection, he said, "I will
quite understand if you want to read the label first."
Looking over her shoulder at the laughter, N'Ellie took note of Josh's smile.
It was an amazing smile that caused her to smile in return.
From his seat in the waiting room, John Butler could see his psycho of a roomie
hovering over the girl being treated by the Klingon student. Tawa's hand was
resting on the patient's shoulder. Damn, but she's cute. "Tawa Pax with a
woman? Must be a pity thing," Butler said derisively.
Tawa had hearing that was Vulcan sharp and his head whipped around. His nerves
were frayed already from Dove's injury. Butler's barb was the last straw. The
smell of burning paper was very strong as he clenched his hand into a fist and
stepped away from Dove and N'Ellie.
"Take it outside Sprout." N'Ellie warned Tawa. She'd sensed what she could only
call crappy emotions of the man in the waiting room, and then sudden smell of
burning paper only reinforced the switch in what she was sensed from Tawa. "And
try not to get hurt we're kinda busy in here."
Josh and Mac looked at each other. At Mac's nod, both moved closer to Tawa,
making it obvious they were watching his back, causing Zachary's brows to shoot
up. Mac grinned at Butler, then put his hand on Tawa's shoulder. Quietly, so
that only he could hear, still smiling, he told him. "Easy, man. He ain't worth
it."
Tawa swore under his breath but he released the clenched fist. THey'd saved
him from seriously getting more brig time. He was still pissed at Butler but
he was also grateful for the help. "Thanks, guys--really."
"So that's your roommate," Dove said, studying Butler, then shrugged,
unimpressed. She was very grateful for the pain-killing hypospray, and holding
her hands still while N'Ellie examined them.
"He's a--" Tawa began. He bit off his reply. It definitely wasn't going to be
polite. "You feel any better, Dove?"
Dove nodded and smiled a thank you. "Yes... numb is good." Then she frowned a
moment, then brightened, recognizing the two men who had joined Tawa, finally.
Burns were very distracting. "You're the new engineers," she said, before
realizing that wasn't much of a greeting. "Lt McEntire and Ens Garrity? I'm
Dove McCallah," she finished, turning to include N'Ellie in the greeting.
Josh stepped back slightly, just behind Mac, who grinned. He knew he'd have to
be the one talking."Nice to meet you. I'm Patrick McEntire. This beanpole here
is Josh Garrity."
Kylara, meanwhile, was rather disappointed when she was given painkillers. The
discomfort from the arrow had softened into a lovely, warm ache. She figured
she would be glad of it when they removed it, but still. Erelen really didn't
show any change, sitting perfectly still after nodding and smiling in response
to Nan's farewell.
Then Kylara slowly started to smile, and before long it was a rather devilish
grin. She debated with herself for a moment, then figured that what the hell,
she would probably be murdered for it later, but it would probably be worth it.
"Hey Zack," she said as innocently as possible. "Probly oughtta let Captain
know where you are so he doesn't worry." Then she suited actions to words and
called Hale before anyone could stop her. "Someone to Captain Hale. Zack, me
and Erelen are all in sickbay after a bit of a holodeck accident. Just lettin'
you know!" she informed him cheerfully and then cut of communications before he
could answer.
Josh's eyes went wide and Zachary almost choked.
Nikolas looked over at the young woman who'd called the Captain. As far as he
knew she wasn't a department head, and he found it rather interesting that a
junior officer would have the gall to call the Captain that way. Then he looked
over to where the young men were. The Captain's nephews. He had yet to meet the
boys and was surprised at their appearance. As much as the old man could eat,
you'd think his kin would be a little less.... thin... The older one seemed
incredibly shy and awkward but the younger one seemed more lively. The look on
the younger one's face when the woman called for Hale, nearly made the
commander laugh. He knew that look well. He often wore it himself when his wife
was about to find out he'd been running a holoprogram he shouldn't have been.
"N'Ellie Coyne." N'Ellie replied as she started graphing the burns. "You know
if I didn't know any better I'd say these were almost as bad as a candy burn."
Ariana walked into sickbay ready for her first shift, what she didn't expect
was to walk into total chaos. It seemed as if the entire crew was in sickbay
for one reason or another. Some with arrows sticking oout of their bodies,
other with burns, and still others with god only knew what. She did the only
thing she could do and that was to find a patient and begin treating them. At
least it kept her occupied
Hale entered sickbay at a dead run and looked around for Michaels, or Someone,
anyone to tell him what had happened to his boy. He stopped just short of
running over the nearest person to the exit. Spying Nicky-boy, he hurried over.
"You seen my boy?" He asked him, obviously worried. Looking around at the
madhouse his sickbay seemed to be, he asked him seriously. "We had an outbreak
of something?"
After finishing with Dove's hands, N'Ellie told her to stay put so she could
get a hypo that would help with the pain and keep off any infection. As she
headed for the supply locker she stopped near Josh, Mac, and Zack. "Don't look
so worried, Zack. I'm sure the girls will be ok. You did good getting them
here." Then she looked over at Josh and smiled at him. Then softly so only he
could hear her she said, "Mess halls empty around oh three hundrand. I thought
we could continue talking about comfort food."
"From what I can tell. There are two crewmen with arrow wounds. One with burns.
One's here for a physical. Some of the others are friends of the wounded."
Nikolas started as he looked around the room. Then he turned and pointed to
were the boys and the med student were. "Both your boys are over there with
McEntire."
Hale slapped Nick on the back, muttering a thanks and hurried toward his boys,
only to stop in his tracks and stare. There in front of him was his oldest,
talking to a cute little female med student and actually almost smiling. Who
was she? He wondered. Whoever she was, she was obviously good for his boy.
"Nicky," he asked, turning back. "Who is that girl?"
"The med student you OKed. Coyne." Nikolas answered as he looked over at the
young woman who had her back to them. "She's the one you'd said you'd handle
after the fight in the lounge."
Hale groaned. Not that one, dammit, he thought. Any girl but that one.
Looking around quickly N'Ellie smiled as she leaned in to whisper to Zack.
"There's gummy bears in my locker, kiddo, why don't you grab you some and get
your brother a cup of coffee."
Zack jumped to do as he was told, spotting Hale along the way. "Uncle, come on.
I want you to meet Josh's friend." Something about the sound of his voice and
the twinkle in his eye made it clear he thought she might be more than just
Josh's friend.
"I know you like coffe but how do you feel about chocolate?" N'Ellie asked with
a smile. "I want you to try something.. Meet me in the mess hall tonight.. I'd
better get back to work."
"Chocolate?" Josh asked quietly, nodding hesitantly. He had no idea, but
supposed tonight he'd find out.
Tawa froze then thanked whatever deities there were in the galaxy that Mac and
Josh had stopped him. The Captain was there now and Dr. Kaartaren's words were
echoing through his head.
Aidoaneth was still holding the hypo he'd prepared for the XO. Since the man
hadn't voiced any objections to the contents, he approached him again, where he
stood with the captain.
"Excuse me, sir," he said to Hale, as he pressed the hypo to Renaldi's neck.
"That should take care of the problem, Commander." Turning his attention back
to Hale, he added, "Both of the brothers are unijured, sir, though it was the
younger of the two who brought the two targets in."
"That damned girl," Hale grinned."She got me again. Remind me to turn her over
my knee later." He turned to Nick, looking concerned. "What's wrong with you,
Nicky-boy? What was that," He mimed the hypo,"all about?"
Dove thanked N'Ellie, looking at her no-longer-blistered hands and sighing in
relief. "It was marshmallows, actually. Tawa and I were roasting marshmallows
and one caught on fire and landed on my hand," she explained.
Meanwhile, Kylara was grinning from ear to ear, watching Hale run in, and
really enjoying the look of confusion on his face, as well as the grin that
appeared as he discovered that Zack was perfectly fine. "I heard that!" she
called across sick bay to him. "Didn't think abusin' officers was the best way
to run a ship, but... whatever pops your cherry, I guess."
"You'll think that come dinnertime, little girl," Hale laughed. "See if you get
any chili. I'll have you eating the boy's rabbit food instead of the good stuff
with the rest of us."
Erelen merely shook her head, torn between amusement and exasperation.
Seren had been about to tell the ensign in the waiting area that he could have
his physical when the man made the derisive comment. It was the surname that
caught his attention. Surely not, he told himself. He looked over his
shoulder at the four young men clustered over by N'Ellie and the young Human
female with the burns. He'd met three of the four when Lish took him to visit
the other ship. It was the fourth one, the one with the green complexion and
the faint Trill spots, who had to be the object of Butler's scorn. Tawa Pax.
Oh my, I do believe I have to look into this, he told himself.
"Mr. Butler, if you manage to keep your snide remarks to yourself, we are ready
for your physical," he finally said. "Or you can explain your lack of self
control to your CO if you'd like."
"It's nothing really, Sir." Nikolas answered. Then he laughed at the
interaction between the Captain and Someone. "If things are under control here,
Sir, I think I'll return to the bridge."
Rachelle paused when she heard an alarm. It wasn't unexpected, she had set it
herself to alert her when the scan was finished. She motioned to Aidoaneth.
"Could you please go and tell our guest he can get up now? The scan is finished
and the data is complete."
"Of course, Rachelle. I think he will be glad to get up," Aidoaneth said
quietly. He entered the private room and immediately tapped in the sequence of
commands that saved the data from the scan. He then looked down at Senek.
"You are free to go, Commander. Dr. Michaels is a bit occupied at the moment
but she will discuss the results with you as soon as she can."
Senek sat up, allowing the sheet to fall to his waist, and stretched. Tilting
his head slightly, he listened to the muffled noises outside the door. "What
is going on out there, Doctor?"
"I..." Aidoaneth couldn't help it. He shook his head and laughed. "You
Federation people are very strange. Gest dressed and see for yourself."
Meanwhile, back in the main room, Rachelle was trying to restore some order.
She picked up a tricorder and ran it over both human targets, noting the exact
position of the arrows and planning out the best strategy to remove them
without causing more damage. She gestured to N'Ellie and Sindar. "I would like
for you both to get those who actually need attention seated. Herd the rest to
one side for now, I don't see much hope in getting rid of them until the whole
story comes out. Then we'll move these two into the surgery rooms and remove
their ornaments."
N'Ellie nodded at Rachelle and then turned to look at the room. It was loud and
no one was looking her way. Putting her fingers to her lips, imitating the way
Joanna use to get her classes attention, N'Ellie whistled loudly. Once she had
everyone's attention she said loudly. "If you need medical attention come over
here and check in with Nurse Sinder. If you do not need medical attention
please move out of the main bay into the waiting area over there." N'Ellie
pointed to waitng area. As she watched the groups forming she smiled. "Thank
you for visiting the sick bay of the USS Georgetown and please enjoy your day."
Assuming that was close enough to permission to leave, Josh made a be-line for
the exit.
"Hey, whoa, hold up!" Mac stopped him. "Michaels hasn't even had a chance to
check the results for today yet. You know she's not going to just let you walk
without first reviewing your progress."
Josh shook his head with a sigh, longingly eyeing the exits. He'd been so close.
Tawa wasn't willing to leave just yet, not without knowing if Dove was going to
be okay. He moved to the waiting area with Josh and Mac. After Mac stopped
the lanky Josh from leaving, Tawa casually posted himself by the door. He had
the notion that Josh would try to leave if anybody else walked in. He didn't
notice the PA's odd glance at him as he led Butler off for his physical.
After he was dressed, Senek stepped out into the main room in Sick Bay. He
looked around rather causually and one brow raised slowly. He spotted his
trainee looking somewhat amused, or was that guilty, and strolled over.
"Your hands will be fine." N'Ellie told Dove once she'd returned to look over
the newly healed hands. "The skin might feel a little tight and dry but some
gentle flexing and some hand cream should take care of that." N'Ellie pressed a
hypo to Dove's neck and then handed her a small cylinder of hand cream. "Come
back in a couple days so we can make sure everything healed up alright."
"Thanks again. And it was good to meet you. I still haven't met all the newer
arrivals," Dove smiled as she hopped off the bed and headed back to Tawa and
the pair of engineers she had just met. She was hoping she would get a chance
to compliment Josh on his new replicator programs, without getting anyone in
trouble. First, however, she showed her hands to Tawa. "Good as new, though I
don't think I'll be wearing this shirt very often," she said ruefully, eyeing
the burnt sleeves.
After smiling warming at Dove, N'Ellie walked over to the replactor and ordered
a coffee. She smiled as she looked over at Zack who'd been distracted by
Captain Hale. Then she walked over and handed the cup to Josh. "Strong and
black and more important hot.. You look like a baby targ someone left out in
the snow."
It was rather difficult to banter while being fussed over by doctors, but
Kylara was very practiced. "Rabbit food? That mean I get to eat with the
rabbits?" she called back to him, grinning over at Zack and Josh. "Maybe I'd
even learn to play chess." Then she remembered something. "Hey Mac! When we
going mud wrestling?"
Erelen, meanwhile, was wondering when the doctor was going to try to knock
Kylara out so she'd shut up and let them get some work done, and was suddenly
very glad that Kylara was not an engineer. Of course, it could be
interesting... Erelen smiled. There would never be a dull moment wherever
Kylara worked. As it was, she was just hoping to get out of here a soon as
possible.
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