Return of the Away Team, Rescue Complete?
The message came in from the bridge, and Bones jumped, even though he'd been waiting for it ever since he'd woken up.
Away team, beaming straight to sick bay.Everyone had been notified about the away team's departure while he was unconscious, and they had assembled in sickbay. Now turning to look at them, he took a deep breath and nodded ( Read more... )
Away team, beaming straight to sick bay.Everyone had been notified about the away team's departure while he was unconscious, and they had assembled in sickbay. Now turning to look at them, he took a deep breath and nodded ( Read more... )
Once the internal organs had been repaired to his satisfaction, Bones began working on the hand more closely. Turning up the regenerator a few notches, he took Jim's hand in his and set to knitting the broken and shattered bones. Rien was taking care of the skin, and for now, that was all could be done there.
Then Tina was back. "Chapel," he said softly, his eyes still fixed on the tiny bones of Kirk's hand, "can you scan his neural readings? They were abnormally fast earlier, even for Jim." Something was going on in his head, maybe it was related to the other Jim, maybe it was the fucking bond with Spock, who hadn't arrived yet in Sickbay...
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She began comparing the data to earlier scans as it rolled across her screen. Interesting.
"Nearly normative now," she said. "The spiking seems to have started diminishing when I sedated Jim. The other Jim, I mean."
She paused, looking at McCoy instead of her screen for a moment. "We don't have time to go into it, but... Do you understand how this mental bonding stuff works? It seems to be causing some serious complications, from a medical standpoint."
She was already working again as she spoke, snapping on a fresh pair of gloves and moving to hold a light and tools ready for McCoy as he focused on Kirk's hand.
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Then he stopped, looking up at her. "Wait - complications how?" he asked, his eyes narrowing.
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The monitor she'd been looking at before beeped insistently, and Tina juggled tools for a moment as she leaned over to get a look at it.
"...the fuck? He's unconscious. How can his brain activity be so high?" She squinted. "It's all in the limbic system, mostly amygdalar... Rien, did you do a general tox screen?"
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"Computer, determine composition of unknown toxin," Bones called out.
"Unknown substance... components Klingon in origin," the computer voice replied, Bones' eyebrows lifting in surprise.
"Computer, determine the possible uses for toxin?"
"Not enough information. Cannot compute."
Bones growled. "Determine the areas of the body where toxin is affecting."
"Increased activity in neurocortal areas, increased heart rate, and increased blood flow."
Bones looked over at Tina and frowned. "Neurocortal activity..." Moving to stand next to Tina, he continued working on Kirk's hand. "To answer your earlier question, I know there is something connecting the James Kirks of both universes, it probably involves Vulcan bonds now and I can completely believe that they are affecting each other, even now."
He shrugged, his hands full of medical equipment. "Maybe now more than ever..."
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Whatever the hell the drug in Kirk's system was, it didn't seem to be doing active damage to him just then. But that didn't mean that they could afford to ignore it.
Tina switched a new bag of saline into Kirk's drip as Rien hurried off with the tox screen results, and then stood at McCoy's side, waiting to see what he would need from her next.
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"I need a favor from you," Bones told Tina quietly.
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"What do you need?"
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"Then," he added, turning back to the hand and stifling a yawn, "make sure security outside the doors doesn't let anyone in that doesn't belong here."
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She wasn't sure why he was sending her when anyone could have done it and she would probably be more useful working on one of their patients, but she assumed he had a reason. And she didn't want to get into any more arguments if she could help it.
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Picking his head up, Bones began to really look tired, it was all hitting him as the major injuries wound down. "There's something wrong with the throat, his vocal cords are fucked up. Can you look at those?" Not the most severe of the injuries, but significant enough that it needed to be fixed today. "And after that, would you go over what I've done, make sure I haven't missed anything? Fixed the ribs, clavicle, injuries to liver, spleen, stomach. Got the facial reconstruction completed, nose and cheekbones."
He took a breath and continued. "I'm still working on the hand. This one... I can't tell you how many times I've fixed this hand. I'd be surprised if there was any original bone left in here, been regenerated so many times..."
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"I left messages for Kirk and Pike, spoke to security directly," she said.
She finished with Kirk's throat and began reviewing McCoy's work. The doctor was careful and efficient with his treatments, no matter what was going through his head. Kirk was going to be fine.
"I think he's stable, Doctor."
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"I'll go check on the... uh, other Spock. Jim and Sam are good."
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He traced a pattern down one of Jim's arms with one finger and began planning the next step. To remove these - would take time. There would be layers that would have to be removed, once the top layer of skin had healed completely. To do it before would leave Jim prone to all sorts of infections... and there would be scarring. Depending on how deep the color was, that would come into play - but there would have to be scarring.
Bones ran a hand though Kirk's hair, settling himself in a chair where he could watch him sleep. He rested on hand on Jim's unbandaged one and just watched.
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