A Very Long Day

[ElaineDelgado 0]

The woman would live. The blue splotches would go away. She would not be able to eat pepper for a while, but she would be okay.

 

Dr. Zion began picking up the remains of her cup of coffee. I wandered over to a obviously pregnant woman, waiting for the adrenaline to wear off a bit.

 

“How far along is she?” I asked Bri.

 

“She has two weeks.” Then, smiling at me, she asked, “Do you have any children?”

 

I felt my face get warm, knew I was blushing. “Oh, no… I’m not even married.”

 

“Do you want children?”

 

“Yes.” No. I don’t know. I’m twenty-three, do I have to know? I turned away.

 

Bri was called to the bridge then, so I began reading over Nurse Ormuda’s reports. As requested, she was monitoring all the patients I had left in her care and telling me about all changes in their conditions. I walked to the comm and gave her instructions to release Harrison and Graber.

 

Then Ops gave me a call and let me know I had an incoming patient. I sighed and wondered what could have happened now.

 

Ensign Chen materialized in front off me. No blood, no bruising, no obviously broken bones. “What happened?”

 

He gave me a look.

 

I scanned him, and realized that whatever had happened had damaged his ears… again. I walked him through the description of the procedure, and asked him if he had any questions.

 

“Will it hurt?”

 

Dismissing any fears of pain, I walked over to the comm again, this time to get permission from Dr. Zion to go ahead with the operation.

 

“Isn’t that yellow alert?”

 

I looked at Chen and smirked. “It always seems to go to yellow alert when I’m with you.” Stepping back from the comm, I planned on waiting till things settled down a little bit.

 

Like that was ever going to happen.