"Dot Dot Dot"

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Ens. J. McCellan

Assistant Medic

Log Entry

Jan 30, 2155

 

 

 

I sat in sickbay, with the orders in my hands. I just realized how things expired and though it had been a couple of days it seemed like years. I looked around sickbay, Marks was out cold on the biobed for reserved patients, Willow was reading regular day reports. It didn't seem right.

 

I walked to Marks' biobed and checked his vital signs, they were as steady as a ticking clock and yet as lifeless as an empty shell. I recalled what happened, it was just too cold, he collapsed and we were forced to leave him. Now, after we had retrieved him, he is in a thick coma. A doctor's worse nightmare.

 

I adjusted the vital sign detectors and monitors then his bedsheet. I can't help but think of how such a lively person could end up as ... well ... dead as he was now. I couldn't help it, I had to walk away.

 

Now we're trying to save more lives, I don't know how many more deaths I can witness, knowing that they couldn't be helped. I ran to the science lab as fast as I could, I couldn't stand looking at Marks' lifeless body. How many more will it be?