Walking along the hallway to her quarters, Christine rubbed one hand across the back of her neck. She was achy and tense and exhausted. The aftermath of the Enterprise's first mission had consumed her every waking minute, it seemed, in addition to turning minutes that were supposed to be sleeping minutes into waking ones. For two nights in a row
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Putting down the picture she was working on, Cassie got up and got herself a coffee from the replicator and called, "Come on in."
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She set the pilfered stimulator and her medical kit down on MacArthur's bed, but moved herself to stand rigid in the centre of the small room. "How are you feeling?" she asked.
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"Then she said, "Oh no. The most energetic thing that I have done is a bit of artwork and getting up to get food from the replicator"
Cassie then considered her question, "It's still sore but I promise that it hasn't got any worse."
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"And if it hasn't gotten worse," Christine started, giving her patient a level look, "does that mean it's gotten better?"
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She wondered what was going on in sickbay at the moment. And what was going on in Christine's mind. Cassie knew that what she has asked her to do had broke more than a few rules but she would be the one to face the music for that with a certain CMO. She wasn't going to let her face that one alone.
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Leading the way but noting where her companion was behind her and adjusting her pace accordingly, Christine was thankful for the lack of personnel in the area. An ensign, she could dismiss with a cool glance, but a lieutenant? Not so much. And she dreaded to think of what would happen if someone like Commander Spock caught her sneaking around like this. Hell, the way Leonard tells it, Kirk was kicked off the ship for less.
At the lab, she gave her clearance code to enter and found it, just as she'd suspected, empty. Setting her things down on a workspace, Christine nodded at the chair. "Take a seat," she told MacArthur. "And promise to forget that we're using this room for something other than research and testing."
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