Paitence is a Greater Virtue then the Sword

Posted on Mon Oct 24th, 2016 @ 7:05pm by Lieutenant JG Michael Emerson

Mission: Bad Moon Rising
Location: Sickbay - USS Hammersley
Timeline: Mission Day 2 - 1200Hrs

Lieutenant Junior Grade Michael Emerson was tired and it showed. He was sitting on a biobed
while he waited for one of the nurses to come look at him, they all seemed to be busy rushing
around as more wounded and living people off of the escape pods from the starbase were
brought in to be looked at by the medical personnel present.

Emerson had checked the defense grid earlier that morning but it seemed like a lifetime ago
now as he blinked his eyes, bringing himself back to the here and now, he sighed as he had no
ideas as to how many had escaped but the attack was swift, sudden, dramatic and brutal.

"Are you alright Lieutenant?" an Andorian shen inquired, wearing medical teal.

"I'm alive.." Emerson responded quietly. "Thats more then I can say for a lot of my guys.."

"I'm Sorry sir." the Andorian responded as she opened her kit. "Let me have a look at you."

Emerson simply nodded as he recalled why today felt like it had been a week since he last
slept, because the brain is overstimulated and in order to process everything in the same
time frame, the person's perception of linear time slows down except it actually does not
slow down so two hours could pass except the person affected could think six hours had
passed.

"You look like what you need is a good nights sleep, a good solid meal and a day or so off.
Your blood pressure readings are elevated but other then that... You look like your suffering
the ill effects of asphyxia and hypothermia." the shen muttered something. "I hate those
escape pods."

"You're not the only one." Emerson responded in a dry tone.

"I can have you discharged from sickbay any time Lieutenant." the Andorian responded lightly.
"You look like you don't need to be here."

"Thanks.. I got... nothing to do... so I'm going to go check in and make myself useful."
Emerson then hopped off of the bed only to have the Shen gently place her right hand onto
the center of his chest. "Take it easy for the next few days.. You've just been through a hell
of an ordeal... You system needs time to adjust."

"I will Doctor." and with that the Shen removed her hand from him, she watched him leave the
sickbay with her tired blue eyes before she lifted a PADD and began jotting down notes.

Emerson's next stop was the quartermasters offices as he was intending to go and get a set
of quarters for himself. After that he would head on down to engineering and offer his skills to
whoever the Chief was.