Working for a living

Posted on Wed Sep 28th, 2011 @ 3:06am by Major Leroy Mangalia & Master Chief Petty Officer Barbara Tarango & Petty Officer 1st Class Laura Tay'ork & Lieutenant JG Jason Hart

2,010 words; about a 10 minute read

Mission: Shades of Gray
Location: Leo's quarters/ Sickbay
Timeline: Current

ON:

Leo was once again alone, having heard some news from some people, and next to nothing from others. He still felt stiff from the explosion and the flame, but it was going away slowly. Standing and stretching, because he needed to get his blood pumping some how, he walked to the west wall of his quarters and opened the closet that hid there. Inside were several bladed weapons, including three custom made Japanese Katana's, one Bat'leth, a Romulan Honor Blade, and other various weapons. Glancing behind him, he wondered if his baby sitter would have a problem with him cleaning his babies.

Nurse Tarango walked with the Vulcan nurse down the corridor to Captain Mangalia's quarters. Barbara wanted to make sure things were in order before she leaves her nurse with the Marine Commander. She hit the chime button and waited.

Leo looked up, and pressed the open button on his desk, that was right next to him. Bending back over the Ka-Bar bayonet that he had been given as a graduation present from his father, taking a whet stone over the blade, a cloth sitting on his lap.

They walked into his quarters. "Hello?" Barbara said to the empty room, wondering where Leo is. Nurse Tay'ork looked around the living room as she pulled the small duffel bag from her shoulder and set the medi-kit down on the floor.

Since the lights were low, he was partially hidden, sitting next to his desk. His quarters were spartan, the way he preferred them. The only possessions that were out were the weapons on the desk. "I'm right here Nurse, sorry if I prefer the darkness. Lights, forty percent." As the lights rose more, he looked up and at them, smiled and went back to the scraping off of burrs and nicks on his Ka-Bar.

Barbara gave him a dirty look and more of a concerned emotion, but Laura appeared to not have a concern. Nurse Tarango walked over to Leo, glancing at the weapons around him and shook her head. "You shouldn't be out of your bed cleaning weapons. This is nurse Laura Tay'ork and she will be monitoring you for 8-10 hours for three days. Your nights will be set with monitors."

Nurse Tay'ork quietly picked up the medi-kit, walked over to a table, and pulled out the tricorder to start the scans on him. She doesn't keep her eyes set on the patient very long, but kept her concentration to the instrument. "Blood pressure is a slightly high, pulse elevated, and blood glucose is slightly low," she read out loud.

"That's definately not good...sitting here cleaning weapons while your health prognosis hasn't gotten any better. I suggest you put away these weapons, or we will put you back into sickbay!" Barbara said with a raised voice at the end.

"There could be a very good reason for all of it," Leo said putting down the whet stone, and picking the cloth up. Taking it along the blade he removed the water and the bits of metal that were left behind by the sharpening process. "I haven't had a solid bit of food since I woke up, on someone's orders. Also, the elevated pulse is because I'm always happier cleaning, and sharpening the tools, and what I've acquired in battle. The elevated blood pressure could be because I don't like Medics." Laying the bayonet to the side, he picked up the honor blade and began to inspect it. Along the 'blood gorge' on the side of it, there was still a bit of green blood.

The Vulcan quickly did the nerve pinch on his shoulder. She watched him being knocked unconscious. "Logical without argument."

Nurse Tarango couldn't believe what she did. "He will be angry with you after he finds out what you just did...at least he needs rest. Let's move him to a bed..."

Laura Tay'ork nodded slightly and picked Leo up by her arms under his. After Barbara grabbed his feet, they walked into the other room and set him on his bed. From there, they settled him by covering him up with a blanket and placed a pillow under his head.

"Okay, I'm leaving to head back to sickbay. Make sure to attach the monitors and report any changes...below normal." She shook her head and walked out of Leo's room. She burst out laughing for a few seconds and straighten her composture, leaving the door to his quarters to head to the turbolift.

Laura sat in a nearby chair that was near the bed. She figured that this marine will wake up with a uncontrolled emotion. One that is unacceptable among Vulcans.

Leo woke up a little later, and looked around. "My neck hurts you green blooded hob goblin. What the hell did you do that for?" His voice was even, and dead calm.

"Order was to rest," she said as she looked at him for a few seconds and looked back down at her instrument. She doesn't understand why humans cannot fully control their anger and why they use name calling.

"So instead of letting me rest my own way, you knock me out?" Leo stood from the bed and looked at her. "Rest doesn't always mean to sleep Vulcan, sometimes it means do something one finds relaxing. Thats what I was doing, something relaxing." Looking over at his desk, he swore. "And where are all of my weapons?"

"Cleaning your weapons was keeping you from resting and it was logical for me to put you out. Your weapons were stored out of harms way, Captain." She continued to keep her eyes on the monitor while sitting there.

"There was no harm in me even having them out!" Standing he looked at the woman. "Rest and Relaxation are what were ordered. How am I supposed to relax if I can't do something relaxing? Obviously I can't go to the firing range, so I want to sharpen and clean those that I haven't touch in a month before the rust starts in on them." Turning back he closed his eyes, held his breath for several seconds, and slowley let it out. "I'm going for a walk." Without looking at her, Leo ripped off the wires, and hacked his com badge to transmit to the machines. "You'll still be able to check my vitals."

Turning to the door, he walked out, grabbing a soft cap from by the door and placing it on his head. Putting the brim low to his eyes, his men turned and looked, and scrambled against the walls.

The Vulcan nurse raised her right eyebrow up as she looked at him walking off. After he left his quarters, she stood up and hit her combadge. "Doctor Hart, this is nurse Tay'ork. The patient...Captain Mangalia just left his quarters, detached from the monitors and using his combadge as a transmitter for his vitals. Your orders? Shall I call security?"

In sickbay, the doctor answered the call. "Stand down on the order. I will personally take care of it...just gather the equipment and come back to sickbay," Jason Hart said in the open combadge. He turned the monitor on to check the status on Captain Mangalia's vitals. He rubbed the sides of his temple for a few seconds. Leo is known to not obey sickbay's orders, he thought as he looked at his patient's vitals again.

He hit his combadge, "Doctor Hart to Captain Mangalia..."

-^-Go for Mangalia-^- Leo said as he continued to stalk the halls. Since he had been injured, some of the newer privates had fallen into bad habits. He was known to do it himself, so he wasn't too harsh on them. -^-This had better be good Doc, I'm kind of busy trying to not kill your Nurse.-^-

"I suggest you come to sickbay...", he said as he left his office into the main room, opened the cabnet and pulled out a hypospray.

Not being that far, Leo walked into the area and looked around. "Can I help you Doc? And don't be hitting me with more sedatives."

Doctor Hart was surprised when he walked in and he didn't get the chance to hide the hypospray. "For a patient," he said as he pretended that it was for someone else. "Leo, you are not doing what you are suppose to be doing. You have been ordered to rest! This will be reported to the Captain if you leave this room. I personally care for your well being as your friend and your doctor." He slowly moved closer to him, but kept the hypospray at his side in case he gets out of control.

Leo kept a wary eye on the hypo and nodded. "I am doing as ordered. As I explained to that Nurse of yours, rest can imply several things. How am I supposed to heal if I get bed sores? I'm not going to lay in bed until someone says it's fine for me to finally get up." He was clam, keeping his hands wide, and open, but still at his side. "She knocked me out when I was cleaning my blades. I gave her an alternative, and evidently she didn't like the idea." The door behind him was still open, and an easy escape should the doctor attack him with the hypo.

"All I wanted to do was let my men know I was alive, and make sure that rust didn't start eating my version of children. Is that really so wrong?"

"Rest means not doing any hard exercises. Sitting in a chair is fine. You can communicate to your guys from your quarters. What did the nurse do to knock you out?" Leo crossed his arms with the hypospray in his hand.

"Walking is hard exercise? Cleaning my children is hard exercise? I get I can't go do PT like the rest of my men, but going for a walk so my blood pressure doesn't sky rocket and kill me isn't hard exercise." Leo shook his head, taking a side step to the right. "I feel fine Doc, but sitting in a chair, or laying in my bed isn't going to help me heal, it's going to drive me insane."

"You're not the only one that complains. Walking isn't...just hop up on this biobed and let me give you another examination to determine the status of your injury." He placed the hypospray on an empty tray next to the bed and picked up a medical tricorder.

Leo looked wary. "On one condition. You don't hit me with that hypo right there," he said looking at the device. "I don't like being knocked out for no good reason."

"I won't...", Jason said as he opened the instrument and started the scans. "Any pain lately?"

"A little stiff in my lower right back, but no pain at all," Leo said shaking his head, edging to the bio bed. "The only pain I feel is where you're nurse decided to nerve pinch me. And all I need to do to relax that is stretch."

"That was uncalled for...a nerve pinch. I will have a talk with her. Well, your scans show that a lot of healing is nearly complete. But, I will release you from confined to quarters only if you take it easy." Jason closed the tricorder and returned it to the near-by tray. He picked up the PADD and signed off the discharged information and handed it to him. "My friend, no duty until tomorrow. I suggest you take it easy, okay?"

"I can do that," Leo said, hopping off the bio bed. "Even when I'm back on duty, I'll keep a profile that keeps me from most PT and hard work. Deal?"

"Yes, that's a deal."

OFF:

Marine Captain Leroy Magnalia
Marine CO
USS Calypso

Lieutenant Jason Hart, M.D.
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
USS Calypso

MCPO Barbara Tarango
Head nurse
USS Calypso

Petty Officer 1st Class Laura Tay'ork
Nurse
USS Calypso

 

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