Subject: Grail: "Great Brightness"; "Trivial Consequences"
<<OOC: Yes, I am slow at keeping up with this game, and yes, I had a
wonderful time while I was away from you all. *smiling*>>
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"Trivial Consequences"
<<Stardate: 47307.30 - 11:00>>
"Fine," Jhenn said. She tapped her comm badge and said, "Specialist Jhenn
to Security. Please report to Sickbay."
Then, Jhenn looked at Kait and said, "We'll have it _your_ way."
Just then, Dr. Ramius looked up; wondering what all the commotion was about.
He had been so absorbed in the possible treatments for the bacterium that
he
had conceived that he hadn't even noticed that a fracas had flared up
minutes before.
"What's going on?" he asked, in a demanding and scornful tone.
Kaitlyn looked over towards the older man, but just as she did, she felt
something press against her neck. Specialist Jhenn had taken that moment
of
distraction as an advantage. Kaitlyn merely slumped to the ground in an
untidy heap.
Dr. Ramius, though he was quite appalled with what one of his officers had
done, still had the ability of motion about him in order to approach Jhenn
and glare down at her. "Now tell me. What the hell do you think you were
doing?" Dr. Ramius ordered, with such a quick flare up of anger that was
startling to see in a man of such maturity.
"I was just. sedating her," Jhenn responding defensively at first, then
took
up a more haughty composure.
However, just as Jhenn had taken up that composure, Ramius's inclination to
punish his specialist took the forefront. Instead of saying anything
further, Ramius bent over and lifted Kaitlyn up onto a biobed. He held his
back, while asking of Jhenn, "And who told you to sedate every patient that
walks in here?"
"No one, sir," Jhenn responded worriedly. She quickly added, "But I thought
it would be wise considering that those who have the infection suffer
greatly while conscious. I was saving them from such agony."
Dr. Ramius shook his head at this, and directed with a degree of vehemence,
"From now on, don't carry out something like that without being told to."
At that moment, the doors to Sickbay opened. Logan Castle entered Sickbay
and scanned the room. Most of the
biobeds were full and Dr. Ramius was involved in some sort of exchange with
one of the female personnel, although the exchange did not seem, in the
least bit, to be of a kindly nature. They were both standing over Lt.
Kaitlyn Brennan. She must have been sedated because she laid there
listlessly on the biobed as if there weren't a single drop of energy left
in
her.
Castle approached the two at the biobed. He glanced down at the unconscious
engineer, and his eyebrows wobbled in a parody of the sinister as he looked
at the Lieutenant. He had always had a liking for redheads.
Ramius, looking exhausted, asked Castle, "What is it you need?"
"I'm looking for a Specialist Jhenn," Castle stated, looking at the only
other woman standing in the Sickbay. She stepped forward.
"That would be me," the woman said with a sigh of irritation.
"Save the attitude," Castle said with a frown. "You called me, remember?
Now tell me why?" And he took a step closer to her and smiled a shark's
smile. "Nicely," he suggested.
"This officer here refused to cooperate and was threatening violent action
while I tried to give her the needed sedative," Jhenn responded.
Dr. Ramius looked at Jhenn incredulously. "Lt. Castle, I don't believe
we'll be needing any assistance here. Specialist Jhenn here has yet to
learn how to handle patients."
"Are you sure?" Castle asked, looking for confirmation before leaving.
"Yes," Ramius said tiredly. "I'm sorry to have bothered you, Lt. Castle."
With that, Castle left out the door which he came and the Sickbay fell into
an unusual silence. Dr. Ramius gave Jhenn a meaningful look, but said
nothing. Instead, he picked up his blue starfleet jacket, and decided to
call it a day. Jhenn was left alone with the quietly ailing people. The
fire which had burned in her earlier had been subdued by the unnerving
solitude that overwhelmed Sickbay. There were dozens of patients, but not a
single one of them was conscious enough to serve as company. Specialist
Jhenn could only contemplate certain disturbing ideas while in the clutches
of a solitude that does not leave.
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A Joint Post By:
Lt. Kaitlyn Brennan
Lt. Logan Castle