Another Resurrection?

Posted on Sat Mar 12th, 2016 @ 4:15am by Captain Enalia Telvan & Commander Angelica Fairchild & Commander Sinek & Lieutenant Commander Ethan Chaparral MD

Mission: Talosian Perversions
Location: Sick Bay
Timeline: After Ambassadorial Banquet

It was a quiet night in Sick Bay, which made people wonder why the ship's CMO was on duty in Sick Bay and not at the banquet. Actually, he was there at the request of his friend, Commander Sinek. It seems he was to expect a body from the banquet.

It was getting rather late, but true to the Vulcan's word, a body of a female Vulcan soon materialized on biobed one. Sinek's comm badge was pinned to her. Her neck was bruised and there were definite markings that she may have been strangled.

Ethan shook his head and immediately pulled out a tricorder, so he could diagnose and treat his arrived patient.

No vitals were registering. The body was still maintaining some heat. If she were just killed, that was to be expected. However, just before he was about to discard the tricorder, one heartbeat registered.

"This had better work," Ethan said to himself, "otherwise I'm going to strangle Sinek for coming up this harebrained idea."

Sinek walked with Angel toward Sick Bay. The Captain would follow as she said. He wanted to reach out and assure Angel that everything was fine. However, he couldn't at this time. It was best to wait until they arrived at Sick Bay.

"How are you doing, Angel?" He asked.

"I don't know." It was an honest enough answer; Angel hadn't quite sorted out her feelings about all this mess yet. "Kind of dazed, I guess."

"There is a surprise awaiting you in Sick Bay," Sinek calmly hinted.

Angel raised an eyebrow at him, wondering just what that could mean...

The two soon arrived at Sick Bay. Walking in the automatic double doors, they spotted the Doctor standing by biobed 1. The body of T'Zal was in the bed.

"Good evening, Doctor," Sinek greeted. "How is the patient." He spoke as if T'Zal were still alive.

"Aside from the patient being dead she's in fine shape, but then you know that don't you Sinek?"

Sinek flatly explained, "She is not dead."

"Um, excuse me. I felt her go limp in my hands. You even said she didn't have a pulse." Confused, Angel looked at T'Zal's 'not dead' body, looking for any sign that the woman might be alive. She saw nothing.

Sinek continued his explanation. "She is in what humans would call hibernation. T'Zal is able to quickly reduce her heart rate and breathing. She appears dead, but is merely asleep."

Sinek placed his fingers on T'Zal's face as he had done in the hall. He was able to quickly connect with her due to previously being bonded with her, even though it was as a child. It is over. You are among allies.

Suddenly, the vitals display on the screen by the biobed registered one more heart beat. Then a second...a third, until T'Zal's heart was beating at the regular Vulcan pace. She appeared to be breathing as well. She stirred and opened her eyes.

"Damn, Vulcan mind trick!" Ethan muttered.

As soon as T'Zal's eyes opened, Angel scurried back from the side of the biobed, as if fearful of another raging attack. Logical explanation or not, she didn't understand any of this.

"You are safe," T'Zal spoke, regaining energy as the blood flowed once again. Sinek assisted her to a seated position. It was noticeable in T'Zal's voice there were no hint of emotions, meaning there were no effects of Ponn Far.

That's when Enalia made her entrance, sweeping in almost regally with Maica following behind her because... well, why not? "I see you pulled one of my stunts, Commander. I assume that this is still settled?"

"I have learned from the best," Sinek expressed. "It is over," his even tone voiced.

T'Zal added, "The reason Vesik was rushing the ceremony was so that my challenger would not arrive in time to make the challenge."

"Our only option," Sinek continued, "was...I believe your term is 'con the con.' Vesik can do nothing even if he finds out T'Zal is still alive. There are too many witnesses that seen me release her from our bond. Angel and I will see Vesik and T'Qol on their way. When Sok arrives on the pretense of picking up her body, we will transport her to him."

He paused to let it all sink in, then added, "I do apologize to you both for not informing you of this plan. It was logical to us that the less people that knew about it, the more convincing it would be to Vesik."

"I trust in your judgement. Besides, I wouldn't have told me about it either. I figured you had something like this up your sleeve, but if I had been sure, there would have been fight music and everything." Enalia said with a smirk. "I'm just glad it's settled reasonably peacefully. Other than Angel choking someone with twice her strength nearly to death, that is. And anyone that has experience choking people would know that wouldn't have outright killed her, by the way. I'm just glad you've learned the necessity of a well placed misdirection."

Sinek would not have known. He was a Scientist, not a fighter. The martial arts he practiced were more for centering himself, not actual fighting. He looked to Angel hoping she wasn't too angry that he misled her into believing she had killed someone.

"Am I forgiven?" he asked.

"You planned this." Angel wanted to be angry that he'd tricked her, but it had been such a clever trick. The fighting had relieved T'Zal of the Pon Farr, and both Sinek's announcement and T'Zal's apparent death left her unbonded and free to marry the man she had chosen. It was on the same level as Enalia's more elaborate pranks. Choosing not to correct Enalia on how easy it could actually be to kill someone by interrupting blood flow to their brain, she looked from Sinek to T'Zal and back to Sinek. "So that's what you two talked about last night. Clever."

"It is," T'Zal admitted. "I apologize if you thought otherwise."

"Sinek told me you tried to harass him into marrying you." Angel snickered a little, amused by the deception that Sinek had pulled off. And people thought Vulcans couldn't lie! "Which I did believe, based on how you'd so far spoken to me, but I imagine that was part of the plan anyhow."

Enalia pulled her phase pistol out and clicked the safety on and the power off before tucking it back into the holster hidden under her dress whites at the small of her back. "I suspect our Ops Chief has a bit of a headache now. It's a good thing I switched to the stun module rather than the transporter module. Me seemingly disintegrating someone like that probably wouldn't have gone over nearly as well. Now that this is settled, what do you plan to do next?"

Sinek turned to Angel. "It's time to say good-bye to my family. You must go; they'd expect you to be there."

Angel cringed slightly, the idea of seeing Sinek's parents again after the look Vesik had given her clearly not her idea of fun. "I suppose I have no choice."

That's when the red alert sirens went off, the red lighting kicking on. =/\="Captain to the bridge. We've detected what appears to be a Borg cube in close proximity to the ship."

Enalia tapped her badge. "On my way." Kissing Maica on the cheek, she smiled happily. "I'll see you back in our quarters." Then she turned to Sinek and Angel. I'll need you both on the bridge as soon as you can. Your parents' party's safety is paramount though." Without another word, she was gone, flying through the sickbay doors as fast as she could run.

"It would appear," Sinek suggested, looking at Angel, "the good-bye will have to wait."