Sleepy Time Therapy

Posted on Mon Feb 9th, 2015 @ 12:10pm by Lieutenant Arnon Barak MD, PsyD & Lieutenant Yui Hirasawa
Edited on on Mon Feb 9th, 2015 @ 12:25pm

1,506 words; about a 8 minute read

Mission: Deadly Diplomacy
Location: Counselor's Offices
Timeline: Current

ON

Arnon set up an office for his appointment with Lieutenant Yui Hirasawa, the new Chief Flight Control Officer. He'd read her file so he came prepared with pillows and a blanket in case she went totally comatose before the appointment was over.

Yui had been told to make an appointment with the counselor. She wasn't sure why, but she soon found herself standing outside the door. The bell rang and she stood there reading the door label over and over again.

Arnon hit the comm button on the desk. It buzzed loudly outside the door where Yui was.

"Who is it?" he asked pleasantly.

Yui jumped slightly. She had no idea that the doorbells worked both ways.
"Oh... Lieutenant Yui Hirasawa. I'm meant to be here, I think?"

"Absolutely!" Arnon replied. "Abandon all hope ye who enter here...or just come in, whichever works better for you."

The doors opened and Yui stood there looking puzzled. "Abandon all hope..." she said to herself. She looked at the man. "What do you mean by that.... oh you have pillows..."

"Come, come," said Arnon. "Have a seat! How are you feeling today, Lieutenant?"

Yui wandered in and sat down on the chair. "Not bad actually sonny" she said with a smile trying to act bigger than she was. "So, why did I get to come here?" she asked.

Arnon came out from behind his desk carrying a rod about a yard long. He sat across from Yui on another one of the chairs. Arnon reached out and poked her with the rod.

"Ah good," he said. "I can reach you without straining. Perfect. As for why you are here, we ask all new crewmembers to come in for an evaluation. In your case, I especially wanted to see you."

Arnon grinned.

Yui held her arms over her chest and leant away from him. "Why are you poking me with your rod?" She asked in a slightly worried tone. "You're not one of 'those' counselor are you? Did Ritsu put you upto this?"

"This is just a little experiment in case you start to fall asleep," Arnon replied. "I thought we might take a crack at aversion therapy with your falling asleep at the wheel."

"Falling asleep at the wheel?" Yui asked. "What wheel?"

Arnon sighed.

"I should have said 'Helm'," he said. "Falling asleep at the 'Helm'"

"I don't fall asleep at the helm. I've only done that once when I was an ensign and it was a night shift..." Yui explained.

"Er...yes," Arnon replied. "But...don't you fall asleep at other inappropriate times? I mean, I'd hate to have replicated this cattle prod for nothing."

"C...C...Cattle prod" Yui said nervously. "...and people say I'm the crazy one..." she muttered.

Arnon sighed. He put the cattle prod behind his chair.

"Well," he said. "Since it looks like we won't get to use that we'll just put it away...for now. Why don't we talk about you? Tell me something about yourself."

"Erm.." Yui said. "Well I'm Yui. I fly things in space, I'm from Japan; Thats on Earth, I like sweet things. Oh and I'm also a girl" she explained.

Arnon chuckled.

"Out of all of those things," he asked. "Which do you like best?"

"Sweet things I guess, or and that I'm a girl" she said. "I don't think I could be a boy, they have to stand up to... you know..." she said with a slight grin. "People say I'm a bit of an airhead sometimes" Yui explained.

Arnon nodded.

"But you still manage to be a capable officer despite it," he replied. "So when it counts, you are not an 'airhead' but a fully functional Starfleet officer."

"Well I suppose so" Yui said. "I am a good pilot, I did escape that Starship that was firing at me and get back to the Calypso. Even if it did require me to do a forward eightyfive degree nose turn into a planets atmosphere at full impulse. Then I pulled out with only three meters over the treeline and used the thrusters to swing the aft section around and duck into a nearby cave to hide. It was actually kind of fun."

"What an exciting life you lead!" Arnon said. "It's no wonder that I've read in your file these incidents of falling asleep at inappropriate times. You must be exhausted."

Yui gave him a funny look. "Don't you like flying, that sounded a bit patronising" she said simply. "Not every pilot can pull a runabout out of such a dive. You need to compensate for atmosphere conditions and friction."

"Oh, sorry," Arnon replied. "No, I was actually really impressed. I've been avoiding the exciting Away Team stuff as much as possible recently because for me it seems to usually involve fisticuffs with a large humanoid with no neck that's been grown in a lab in the basement."

Yui raised an eyebrow. "Well I'm usually not needed on away missions. Transporters take out all the fun of going down to planets. I much prefer a shuttle, we never really can be 100% sure that the transporter will put us back together again in the right way can we" Yui said. "We could beam down and then discover that something silly has happened, like you've put on lots of weight or something"

Arnon raised an eyebrow. A transporterphobic? He looked at his chronometer.

"Alright," he said. "Something to take up in another session. Why don't we end here and we'll meet another time?"

Yui held up her hands. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not scared of Transporters. I just think that they ruin all the fun" she explained with a smile. "There is only really one time I would never use one, and thats if I were to ever get pregnant. But that probably won't happen in a very long time." Yui explained.

"Ok," said Arnon. "As your homework, I'd like you to have at least two sexual encounters either with the same person or with two different people. Please use appropriate contraceptives. Please do not get so intoxicated that you won't remember what happened. Sex is supposed to be enjoyed! Have fun!"

"Wait! What?" Yui said literally jumping back in shock. "But.. I'm not married... I've never had a boyfriend... I've never done anything like that before... I wouldn't know what to do... That means boys putting their in my... but I've never been in that situation. Do I have to do that?!" Yui said quickly jumping from one point to the next in a slightly panicking tone. "Will I fail If I don't? How does one study for 'that'!"

"Ah..." Arnon said. "As I suspected. Well, one problem at a time. First, the issue of sex out of wedlock. Do you have some sort of religious or moral or ethical objection to sexual relations outside of the bounds of marriage? Have you made a decision to 'save yourself' for a 'special someone' as some cultures do? If so, I certainly don't want to intrude on such convictions."

"I don't know. Its just tradition I guess..." Yui said still slightly panicking. She turned a bright shade of red. She had no idea she would be talking about her relationship and sex life with the guy (Or lack of it more accurately, non-existence of it to be completely accurate). "I'm just... you know... shy in that... area of expertise..."

Arnon nodded.

"Well," he said. "Then I guess you have a some questions to ask and answer for yourself. The first is are you avoiding sex because of a family or cultural tradition to wait until you are married or are you avoiding sex because you are shy? Once you answer that, you can decide which direction to go in."

If Yui's face could turn any more redder it just did. "I...I'll try to..." she said nervously. "I didn't know that it was so important. Maybe I'm not cute enough..." she looked at him looking down slightly. "Do I look cute to you?"

Arnon looked at Yui.

"Hold your head up child," he said. "You're a very attractive young woman and don't let anyone tell you any different. And I don't mean to put you under undue stress. This is only as important as you want it to be. But it is an important question to ask yourself. Whatever you are going to do or not do I want you to choose to do or not do it for the right reasons. I want you to be in control. And any young man would be lucky to have you on his arm."

Yui looked up at him. "I guess I'll go ask Ui-Chan" she said. "She's my younger sister by the way. She's not in Starfleet, but she knows this sort of stuff" Yui explained. "Can I go now?"

"Absolutely," Arnon said. "Don't forget your homework!"

OFF

Lieutenant Arnon Barak PsyD, MD
Chief Counselor
USS Calypso

Lieutenant Yui Hirasawa
Chief Flight Control Officer
USS Calypso

 

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