Safe At Last? (part 2)

Posted on Fri Mar 10th, 2017 @ 9:15am by Commodore Samantha York & Lieutenant Mira Jayna & Kalikana (Kali) & Lieutenant Rhiannon O'Connor Barak & Lieutenant Rembrandt 'Remy' Batiste & Orvack

1,111 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Shadow Dance
Location: Calypso Sickbay
Timeline: Day 4, afternoon. Immediately after "On the Run"

[CONTINUED[-

[OLD]

"Okay," she said. "As I said, the wound itself was repaired nicely, inside and out, if I do say so myself. The poison is a new wrinkle, but as I said, it's similar to the one that was used on Doctor Drani, so we have a head start on an anti-toxin. As for waking him up...I'm not sure if I can do that. Ideally, we'd let him wake up on his own, after a bit of a rest. I actually just sedated him, so I'd have to give him a fairly powerful stimulant, which is contraindicated at this point. Will it kill him? Probably not. Will it impair his recovery? Definitely. He's weak and he's lost a lot of blood, as you can tell from the red stuff all over my nice clean floor. So, do you still want me to wake him up?"

[NEW]

"Logan is not weak. I don't care what your father told you about me, if he told you anything about Logan it's that he is far from weak." Remy paused for a moment, looking over to Logan as he took in a deep breath. He looked to Rhiannon and tried his best to continue in a calm voice. "You do what you have to do to make him better, Got it. Whatever it takes."

"I only meant that your friend is physically not at his best at the moment," Rhiannon said. "That he needs rest to recover his strength."

Remy stood there silently, staring off for a moment before focusing back on Rhiannon. In a normally uncharacteristic move, he said softly. "Have I thanked you yet?" He paused in mid thought before adding. "I must remember to."

Rhiannon bit back a smile. Her dad's description of Remy had been correct.

Jayna ran into the room and stopped in the doorway. She looked from the nurse to Logan. "What happened?"

Spock immediately turned from his view of Logan to Jayna and quickly leaped off Remy's shoulder. The small Capuchin dashed along the floor and, as soon as he was close enough, leaped up onto Jayna's arm and up onto her shoulder. He let out some soft and scared sounding chirps before wrapping his tail around her neck and laying his head on the side of hers, letting out a soft coo as he did so.

Remy turned to face Jayna and replied, keeping to his stern tone. "Logan was attacked." He turned to look at Orvack and Kali, giving them a harsh look. "And I am sure they that something to do with it." He began to walk over to them slowly. "What happened?!! Which one of you stabbed him?" His eyes locked with Orvack and noted the sword strapped to his side. "Was it you? Did you do this?!!"

Orvack looked at the approaching small man and narrowed his eyes. His instinct was to reach for his blade, but there was far too many innocent people around and it would only place Kali and himself in further trouble. He only stared at the man, unsure of how to respond.

Kali stepped closer to Orvack. "Would we have brought him here if we had? Only a fool attacks those who try and help him--or his friend."

Jayna put one hand on Spock and gave him a quick hug. "Remy, back off."

"I have had it up here with you and your people!" Remy shouted, looking over to Logan. he took a deep breath, knowing full well his friend wouldn't want him reacting this way, but he couldn't help it. With everything that's gone on during this mission, this was Remy's breaking point. "No one but you, your friend, and Logan know what happened down there, Princess. So, if you really want to convince us you want to help, tell us what happened."

"I wasn't there," Kali said angrily. "Now, if you will arrange for me to go back to the planet, I wish nothing more to do with any of you."

Samantha had come into sickbay in time to hear Remy's comment and Kali's response. "Please don't," she said to Kali.

Then she turned to Remy. "Stand down, Lieutenant. That's an order."

Stand down? He thought. Stand down?!?!. Remy spoke in a calm voice, but it was obvious he was holding back a lot. "What more do you need?" He gestured to the biobed where Logan was laying. "Diplomacy is done. One of own officers, who was only doing the right thing, is not laying there. Poisoned. Almost drained of blood. Dare I say at deaths doors and I am being reprimanded because I want answers?" He looked at her, holding back tears and trying to keep a straight and stern look on his face. "You tell me what my friend, my brother, did to deserve this and I will gladly stand down, without question. Without a hint of a fight. This mission, this place, has taken its last thing from me."

Rhiannon cleared her throat loudly for effect.

"May I remind you all that this is my Sickbay you are raising your voices in?" she said. "I have patients here recovering, including Mister Logan. We don't need all of this negative energy and loud, angry voices, they're harmful to my patients. So, if you don't mind, either tone it way down, or better yet go somewhere else! Commodore, is there some reason this has to happen in here?"

"She is correct," Sam said. "Mr. Batiste, Princess Kalikana, if you would join me in an empty room?" She glanced at the nurse. "If we can use one?"

Rhiannon caught the attention of a corpsman passing by.

"Escort the Commodore and her companions to our conference room," she said. "Our conference room should suit you, Commodore. It's a scaled down version of the main conference room."

Sam nodded to Rhiannon. "Thank you."

"Lieutenant Mira, stay with Mr. Logan," Sam said. "Let us know if there are any changes." That should ease Remy's mind on leaving Logan. "Lieutenant Batiste, there is not much you can do for him in the next ten minutes."

Kali wasn't sure she wanted to go anywhere but back to Qunari territory with Orvack. She looked at Sam for a long moment. This was about more than her, it was about her people. She squeezed Orvack's arm and nodded.

(To be continued...)

Lieutenant Rhiannon O'Connor-Barak
Head Nurse

Lieutenant Rembrandt "Remy" Batiste
Chief Intelligence Officer

Lieutenant JG Mira Jayna
Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer

Orvack
Ruler of the Qunari

Kalikana (Kali)
Princess of Jenefra

Commodore Samantha York
Commanding Officer

 

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