Sickbay/McCoy's office - Day 43

[nurse_cchapel]

Christine had a bad habit of keeping things from herself, namely things like just how okay she wasn't. But today she was going to let herself in on a little secret so she could slap a few metaphorical bandaids on. Insecurities, with her, were running too deep these days. And she was still so tense from assorted happenings in her weeks aboard the

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[transwarp_beam]

The quiet in the empty medbay was broken by cheerfully tuneless whistling as one off-duty chief engineer wandered on in, holding a paper bag. He was quite optimistic about the contents of said bag. It had taken some careful sweet-talking of the replicators, but he thought it had worked out very well in the end. Not spying a certain head nurse in the medbay proper, he headed for the office.

He paused in the doorway, slightly derailed by the sight that greeted him. Okay, not quite what he'd been expecting. After a moment it occurred to him to knock on the doorframe. "Alright there?"

[nurse_cchapel]

Her pose held up well enough to the knock. The particular accent that was checking on her made her wobble a bit, though. "Uhh..." With that incredibly eloquent answer, she hopped her feet to her hands and straightened, doing it a little bit faster than she usually would. Because she usually didn't have the Chief Engineer for an audience.

"Yeah, great. Hi." A breath to settle herself again and Christine smiled, quickly letting her eyes check him over. "I don't see you bleeding anywhere today, Mister Scott."

[transwarp_beam]

"Amazin', eh?" he replied cheerfully, stepping inside. "Best no' jinx it though. There's still a few hours left in th'day."

[nurse_cchapel]

"Of course," she said with a laugh, squatting to roll up her yoga mat. Well, Leonard's, technically, not that he'd ever use it. It was still a gift to him in theory that she used far more than him. "What can I help you with, though? Since I'm sure you didn't just stop by to show off your lack of mortal wounds."

[transwarp_beam]

"Nah," he admitted; "Did show for a reason. Though if that smile's anythin' t'judge by, maybe I should drop by t'show off my lack'a mortal wounds more often."

[nurse_cchapel]

Christine glanced up at him, shaking her head. "Flatter's not a very valid reason for you to be here, either, you know."

[transwarp_beam]

"Is if I say it is," he responded cheerfully. He hefted the paper bag in his hand; "Nah, came t'give y'these. Figured I owed y'for the brownies the other day."

[nurse_cchapel]

"Oh, Mister Scott, you didn't need to do that." She finished with the mat and set it aside, leaning on Leonard's desk as she looked at him. "Really. The brownies were an apology to begin with. It meant we were even."

[transwarp_beam]

"Alright, then I just wanted t'give y'somethin'," he said. He held out the paper bag to her.

[nurse_cchapel]

Feeling herself blush a little, she leaned forward to take the bag, peering inside of it as she leaned back on the desk. "Candy, my goodness. I feel spoiled," she said with a laugh, plucking out a piece to unwrap and pop into her mouth. "Thank you."

[transwarp_beam]

"Any time, love," he replied, grinning at her. After all, there seemed to be a lot of Chris giving people sweets, but a shocking and inordinate lack of the reverse.

[nurse_cchapel]

"You want one?" she asked, to be polite, bag held out to him.

[transwarp_beam]

"Nah, no thanks," Scotty replied, waving her away; "Don' really like licorice." He leaned back against the doorframe and looked around the deserted sickbay. "Quiet in here. Well seen there's nothin' happenin' down in engineerin'."

[nurse_cchapel]

She didn't like licorice terribly much either, but that wasn't the point. She still took another piece as he looked to settle in. "Well I'm not going to complain that none of you are trying to lose limbs today, that's for sure."

[transwarp_beam]

"We don't try t'lose limbs," he replied, doing his level best to look innocent. The fact that it often tended to happen like that anyway had no bearing on the matter.

[nurse_cchapel]

"Oh, like I could ever believe that," Christine said, making a bit of a face and laughing. His innocent look would never work on her, it should be noted.