Awoken Captain

Posted on Thu May 14th, 2020 @ 2:19pm by Captain Enalia Telvan & Lieutenant JG Tovanna Mah
Edited on on Tue May 19th, 2020 @ 12:38pm

Mission: Return to the Core
Location: USS Hera Sickbay
Timeline: 2397

A long two days passed, with Enalia lost in a light coma where time had no meaning for her. Her Trill mind and her Symbiont mind trapped in a fight to survive against madness. Laying in sickbay, Commander Rita Paris had been in charge of the Hera and the entire crew had been suffering with terrible nightmares, but it appeared that the dual nature of her consciousness, being a joined symbiont, had caused the condition currently plaguing to crew to be augmented for Enalia Telvan.

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Finally, she awoke to find herself covered in sweat, held down by a forcefield on a biobed in her private room in the USS Hera's sickbay. She was sore all over and her voice felt like she'd been screaming for days. The last time she'd been in here, she'd been almost burnt to death by temporal radiation. Was this yet another part of her dream of madness? Or was the dream now reality? Was anything real in this world?

She at least felt more in control of herself, so there was that at least. Other than being held in place by the biobed, that is.

Turning her head as much as she could, she blinked her eyes to try and clear them and tried to figure out how long she'd been in here or at least what was going on. "Hello? Is anyone there?"

Dr. Mah came over to where the Captain was, relieved she was coming around. The doctor knew in their current situation the options for both Enalia and the symbiont were limited and potentially deadly. She felt the Enalia's hands, colder than they were, a good sign of recovery, "Good to see you again sleeping beauty, how are feeling?" Dr. Mah used the Trill diagnostic tool to check the symbiont and its neural interface and then checked Enalia's to ensure both were synchronous. If the two were kept within normal ranges and together then the Captain would be fine. That level of homeostasis however had been tricky to maintain.

"I feel as though there's a darkness hanging over me and like I've been tortured for days. Does that mean I'm no longer trapped in that nightmare?" Enalia furrowed her brows, trying to remember if the darkness was in her nightmares or not now. Her memories of it were starting to fade. "This isn't more dreaming... Right?" She then narrowed her eyes at Tova, wondering if this was a dream and she was actually here to be tortured for days on end.

No, she was in control of herself now, unlike in her nightmares. Her mother hadn't taken over her body and she wasn't about to kill her entire crew repeatedly. Her CMO wasn't about to leave her locked in a stasis field and torture her. This wasn't a new part to the nightmare.

Closing her eyes and doing her best to take a deep breath to clear her mind while locked in the biobed, the Trill woman opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling. "So when can I get out of this stasis field, doc?"

Tova smiled at her Captain relieved she was looking more like herself. "Now you and your symbiont are on the sane same length both figuratively and literally as well as being awake I think we can get you sitting up to see how you do. To be clear you are not cleared for duty yet. I need to see that you two are working together again before I can release you. You're basically two patients in one and both of you are in charge of this ship and the many lives on it. I lose one of you right now while we are stuck wherever I lose both so I'll taking no chances." She looked at the Captain, "Besides, I know you Captainy types you makes horrible patients not listening to your CMOs and I live a long time, I'm not risking making your wife angry and getting stuck on a ship with her. Nope." She shook her head looking at her PaDD. Despite the firmness of the doctor's words which conveyed the seriousness of Enalia's condition there was also playful undertone of potential banter that was indictive of a wonderful bedside manner. "Now are you ready for me to call your poor wife who has been worried sick about you so I can go over your care plans for the next 24 hours?" She released the Captain from stasis and had her sit up on the side of the bed not removing the neural devices.

Sighing and stretching as she sat up on the edge of the bed, Enalia glanced up at Tova. It seemed that this was most likely not a dream at least. "Yeah, after all that, I could use seeing Maica and Moira. And I'll leave the medical advice in your hands as long as Commander Paris is able to stay in command of the Hera. After all, one of us needs to put on a good diplomatic face for the other three crews, right?"

The Trill woman then held up a hand to forestall any medical protestations. "But I'll take it easy and make sure I get plenty of rest and not stress my selves out should that happen. I promise."

Tova nodded with a smirk, "A well behaved Captain who listens to their doctor? Maybe I should check you over again. Alas, seems you do check out though so I guess that means other than resting in here for another 2 hours before returning to quarters after removal of your neural devices and then light duty there is only one last thing for you." She handed the Captain a lollipop having found out her preferred flavor profile based on prior dietary selections. "Nurse will you let the Captain's wife know she may come in now."

With that the doctor went to see her next patient damn thankful for all her years of trauma medicine.