No Pain, No Gain

Posted on Thu Aug 6th, 2015 @ 6:17am by Lieutenant JG Victoria Drani M.D. & Lieutenant JG Apollo Auditore

955 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Of Gods and Men
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: On Way To Starbase

Apollo was clutching his ribs when he entered sickbay. Once through the automatic sliding doors he didn't see any of the nurses, the assistant chief medical officer, or the new doctor the Calypso supposedly had transferred over.

The thought of dealing with the holographic doc didn't sound pleasing to Apollo because of his previous experience with the program. He preferred to interact with the real deal when it came to medicine, but at this late of an hour, he may have no choice considering no one was around.

"Hallo?! Anyone here, ya got a patient," he shouted, which he found out was a mistake soon after as the pain coursed through the center of his chest all the way from the lower sides. "Damnit," he said to himself clutching his left arm across his chest.

Drani walked out of her office at hearing the commotion. She had stayed late in order to get the new duty rosters scheduled. "What happened to you?" She asked, approaching him.

The pain in Apollo's body suddenly subsided as the doctor came into his view. "You did, toots," he said smiling and winking as he checked her out from hair to toe. He saw what he liked and this was a doctor he could definitely live with, especially compared to the lifeless holographic one.

As quickly as the pain went away it came back just as fast. "Ow, ow, ow," he grasped his ribs tighter, but not too tight as to cause more pain. "Just playin' around in da the hollow deck, one of my adventures I like to do to keep me on my toes. I fell off a small cliff and what's you see before you is what you got," he said jokingly.

Drani frowned at the toots remark and shook her head as she moved to help him. "Come on," she placed her hands on his arm and back. "Take a seat on the bio bed here. So what is your holodeck adventure about?" she asked as she helped him onto the bio bed.

"Thanks," he quietly said wincing as she helped him to the bed. He carefully sat on the bed. "My adventure programs on the holodeck are just ones of intrigue, danger, and passion," he smiled with the thought of the last bit. "It just reminds me of the ole days before I joined Starfleet."

Drani nodded as she grabbed a nearby medical tricorder, flipping it open and scanning Apollo's side. "Well, looks you have a few fractured ribs and some bruising." She closed the tricorder and looked up at him as she set it back on the tray. So you sought out excitement before you joined?" she asked as she loaded a hypospray with a mild anesthetic and injecting it into his injured side.

"Gee, doc, tell me somethin' I don't know," he joked. He didn't like hyposprays and normally he would scoff at it and refuse it, but this time the pain was too much as every movement felt like a starship flew into him.

"Ta answer your question, my job before Starfleet was an adventure itself, sort ta speak. I was a procurer of goods until crap hit the fan. Now I'm here with a beautiful doctor such as yerself," he said smiling.

"Thank you for the compliment," Drani said as she grabbed a bone knitter began to run it over his ribs. "So, you were a trader of sorts," she concluded, studying the knitter readouts. 'And a flirt,' she concluded to herself.

As the Doctor ran her bone knitter across his ribs, he looked up not wanting to see the details of what it entailed. "Yeah, of sorts," he replied. "How 'bout you, what led ya to this fine ship, if ya don't mind me askin'?"

"I was transferred here by Starfleet after I was convinced to rejoin after I resigned," she stated, simply. The thought of all of those lives lost still angered her.


"Convinced to rejoin after resignin'?" Apollo asked seemingly curious to the story behind her words.

"I was unable to help a planet ravaged by a deadly disease due to Starfleet Orders. The details are classified.". She looked as the bone knitter was coming close to completing it's cycle of mending the broken and fractured bones. "Anyway, I resigned and avoided Starfleet, becoming a physician on an outer colony for a year before I was located and convinced to rejoin by an old friend I met during the Dominion War."

"Ah, I see," Apollo said, not too sure to press on or not, but staying on the safe side he changed subjects," So, everythin' all done here Doc?"

Drani smiled as she removed the bone knitter. "Your ribs are healed but you still have some skin and muscle bruising. I can heal the bruising or you can go now but you'll be sore for a day or so."

"Ahhh, that's alright Doc, leave them bruises. It's a good reminder that I ain't invisible and that I gotta be smarter next time, if that's possible," he joked in his own self-deprecating way.

He lifted himself off of the bed easily as the bruises were still tender, but the amount of pain that the doctor had lessened from his ribs felt like a God send because he could actually breath and talk without a surge of affliction.

"Thanks Doc," he said. "Maybe sometime we can get a drink at the lounge and talk if ya like," he said winking as he made his way towards the sick bay doors. He knew he probably had no chance of her talking to him on her off time, but he wasn't one to shy away from a situation with low odds.

 

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