Spare Some Green Blood

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Dr Schawnsee began scanning Torate even though he continued to be grouchy.

 

Kat continued to read the results of the scan. "I’m sorry sir; with these injuries it’s going to be more than a few moments; more like a few days at the very least. I know you are a Romulan but even these injuries need healing time."

 

The patient was lying on the biobed, allowing Dr. Schawnsee to scan him from head to toe, finding himself being more and more annoyed. “Can't au just release me for duty? Everything here is because of Rihan training. We aren't weak minded like the Lloannae and do not require all of this healing," Torate emphasized sarcastically. After spitting out his complaint, he responded to the doc’s comment. “A day?" He wondered if he should have just convinced his wife to let it all slide.

 

"I am sorry, I cannot. And even Romulans require time to heal whether you wish to admit it or not! You have broken ribs; ribs that are cracked and can be easily broken if hit. With you being a Security officer that is more than likely to happen than it would to medical personnel. That’s not including the other injuries that I have even started on yet. I have to agree with your wife this time around. I’m sorry. But the sooner you allow me to get started on you, the sooner I can have Dr. Mimi give you the final going over to be released."

 

Torate considered how his wife was going to “give him the final going over” with all these injuries, and so he partially gives in to Schawnsee. “Fine... go ahead. I'll rest here while you finish up.”

 

Kat loved it when her patients gave in to her and allowed her to do her job. "Thank you, sir. I need to do a full scan to see what other injuries you are hiding from me. I know Romulans do not show pain. You are almost as bad as the Vulcans to work on, but at least you admit you are injured."

He emitted a low guttural groan, knowing he only showed up to get a release to return to duty… he wasn’t about to admit there were other issues that probably needed attending.

 

Kat then grabbed a different tricorder and performed a slower scan over his entire body. She knew how hard it was for this man to admit to her that he has been injured. She completed her scan and looked it over. "Well sir, you also have some internal injuries but I have a choice of how we proceed with those."

 

“What are my options, Maenek?” He glanced past Dr. Schawnsee toward the window of his wife's office, making sure she was still in there instead of out here trying to read all of the scans. “Not too involved, I hope?”

 

"You can either take several days off duty and I mean 100% Off duty allowing for them to heal or I can have Mimi assist me in doing surgery to repair them more quickly with less of a time off period. I will allow you to think about that for a moment while I work on these broken ribs. If you would care to roll over on your left side I will do the right rib first."

 

He immediately rolled to his left side, inside groaning quite a bit, but externally, tried to keep up the ‘Tough Rihan’ act. “I'll consider... Maenaek.”

Once he was on his side Kat begin working on the rib. "What type of training do you Romulans do anyway? I have never seen such severe injuries in a training exercise."

 

He was quickly thinking to himself, ‘This is tough, because if I go for the quick solution, then Mimi is really going to know all of the damage and be beside herself with questions. On the other hand, I don't know if I can trust this Maenaek to keep all of this quiet. Mimi is already snooping around. I've got it!’ He turned only his head towards this Maenaek. "Do the surgery. This way, I return to duty quickly. I’m sure there isn't much to do”, and finished to himself, ‘and it'll keep Mimi busy.’

 

He figured he’d better not leave it there, however, and gave some sort of explanation to this Maenaek. “We train in all forms of combat, hand to hand, with machinery, equipment, weapons, ships, and anything the RSE has on hand. But we do not stop because someone gets a holding-nail, or curses their elbows.”

 

Kat continued on the first rib and pressed on his side to move the rib ever so slightly back into place. "I apologize if this hurts you but it has to be done to fix it correctly.

 

He grunted out loud when she pressed the rib back into place, but turned his head as if looking again for Mimi so she doesn't see him wince, then quickly caught his breath and straightened his face, regaining his composure.

"I am glad you decided on the surgery, it will shorten your time off," she said as she finished mending the rib and moved to the lesser of the breaks on this same side. "Are you doing ok?"

 

“Ie, just fine.” He breathed again, “Could au ... na discuss most of the damage with my wife? She over-reacts like most wo... wives do.”

Dr. Schawnsee responded, "I can give you a painkiller if you need it. I wouldn’t want you to endure to much more than you have already gone through or I could sedate you completely if you wish."

 

He boldly barked out, “Just for the surgery as necessary. I'm FINE.”

 

Dr. Pavilion was in her office where she heard her husband yell out the word 'fine' and knew he was lying.

 

Kat continued her work. "If you need something to assist you let me know. That takes care of 2 of the ribs, I have 1 more on the other side if you would be so kind to roll over again for me. Then I will get Mimi and we will do the other."

 

“I also want details of everything that au want to do during this surgery. I do na want au crossing past it, so be pure.” His grammar wasn’t clear, but she understood his request.

 

He looked to her for a response before he turned away for the last portion of treatment.

 

Kat acknowledged his request, and said, “I will do that before I speak to Mimi.”

 

“Hannyy'yo.” He turned back to the other side, with a very minimal grunt, though for him, it revealed something more may be going on internally.

Kat took a deep breath as he turned over exposing the other side that also had outside wounds. "This looks like a slash from a whip. Did you get tortured as well?" She examined the wound with her gloved finger checking on how deep the wound actually was.

 

Torate didn't panic, but did his best to change the subject. “Are au cracking at me? I am a loyal RSE man, they respect me as well.”

 

Schawnsee thought to herself, 'is this a whip wound? or a knife? what in the world do these training sessions consist of?'

 

Torate grunted slightly when the doctor shoved her fingers into his wound. “Be careful there, I am still skin, not a robot.”

 

Kat continued, "I am not sure what caused this but I’ll tend to it also. This is going to hurt pretty bad as your rib is totally separated from itself. I need to move it back in place before I mend it. I would recommend that you allow me to give you a sedative before I do so."

 

As Mimi waits, she started to pace in her office, wondering how long it was taking and worrying as well.

 

Kat looked over to see Mimi pace, so she looked back to her patient waiting for the answer to her request.

 

“Na sedatives. Just do it.” He took in a deep breath and braced himself.

 

"Very well. But I warned you." Kat placed her hand on his back where the rib is broken into two and pressed slightly to find the correct spot where the two ends are. "If you are ready, you may want to bite down on that blanket, this will hurt and there’s no way to disguise it."

 

“Just do it!” he bellowed out just as she moved it. Just then, something inside cut loose, the external skin immediately began to turn a dark coppery shade, and what got oxygenated turned green, giving his skin a very sickly look. His audible moan was heard throughout sickbay, but sounds more like a sickly moose than any Rihan having pain. His hands grasped the biobed so tightly, that it bent the metal beneath his fingers.

 

Kat waited just long enough for him to begin his acknowledgement, then give a hard thrust into the spot on his back, which popped the 2 bones back into place and back together with a loud snap.

 

Mimi heard Torate's moaning, as did the rest of sickbay, and shuddered.

 

"DANGIT MIMI COME OUT HERE NOW!!!" She called out as she grabbed an ER tray.

 

His eyes closed, the pupils turned deep into his skull for a moment, then eventually he opened his eyes, swallowed hard, and exhaled.

Mimi rushed to Kat to help. "What happened?"

 

Kat grabbed an infuser. "He has internal injuries that apparently were just under the rib that I just put back into place. I think we need to get him into surgery and Now."

 

"Alright, let's move," Mimi said without hesitation.

 

Torate’s eyes open, blurred vision due to green blood clots that built behind his iris. He tried not to gasp for air. He also just barely realized Mimi was there, and said, "I'm fine... na worry my wife." At that point, he passed out from a combination of the pain, and the meds they had started hypoing into him.

 

She shook her head and helped get him into surgery.

 

Kat unlocked the biobeds and moved it toward the surgical suite. "He is a stubborn man isn’t he. I’ll hook up the surgical support frame while you get ready."

 

Mimi nodded to Kat and scrubbed up.

 

Kat got the support frame into place and began the sedation with an additional hypo. She saw Mimi return and said, "Mimi, I’m going to scrub up; I’ll be right back. I have already given him the hypo."

 

She was finished scrubbing up and enters the ER, “Alright try to hurry.” Mimi had a nurse scan Torate to see what changes there have been, so they knew where to go and what to do.

 

"You don’t have to tell me that, I’ve seen the scans." She held the scanner to allow Mimi to see. "It’s not good Doc. We have a bit of work to do. I’ll return in a moment." Kat hurried off to prepare.

 

Mimi nodded, "Alright, just hurry. I don't want to lose him." She was trying to keep her composure in front of the staff.

 

Kat returned quickly after cleaning up. "He didn’t want you to know how bad he was. I’m afraid he will not be back to duty for a bit. Let’s get going shall we?" Kat looked over to see that Torate was totally under the anesthetic.

 

Mimi gave a serious look to Kat. "I'll be taking off after this surgery for the next few days. But yes, let’s begin.”

 

As Kat picked up the surgical scalpel and made the first cut, she started to tell her. "Mimi? It looks as if he has been tortured."

 

She looked at Kat, shocked. "My gawd."

 

Dr. Schawnsee opened up her patient to find that some work has already been done, but very sloppy to say the least. "Um Doc? Look at this. Someone has already been in here. He has already been opened up once."

 

Dr. Pavilion looked at the work. "It is very sloppy. I plan on finding out, once I talk to Torate."

 

"Here is the bleeder that was under the rib; let’s get it taken care of, then start repairing whatever the others missed or didn’t do well.

 

Mimi was horrified, "Alright let's get started."

Edited September 4, 2014 by Merina