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Return of the Away Team, Rescue Complete?

Oct 12, 2009 11:59

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... )

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Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk kirktastic October 12 2009, 18:32:20 UTC

The hypo would have kept him out. It wasn't like Kirk wanted to be awake, anyway. The problem was, he wasn't alone. Jim, the link still going strong since Spock was not there to serve it, was passing information between them both, and Jim was fighting the effects of the hypo were Kirk couldn't.Dehydration, blood loss, drugs of too many kinds... Under that stronger mind, he started to wake. Jim's strength, frantic terror, desire to keep awake was all passing to the his younger counterpart ( ... )

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk rn_chapel October 12 2009, 18:44:45 UTC

Tina had just set down the dermal regenerator. When Kirk started to seize, she turned immediately and put her hands on him, holding him down as she tried to read the biobed display and process what was going on.

The commotion behind her as the least-injured of all the away team members suddenly started to go into echoing convulsions gave her a clue.

"Hold him," she snapped to Rien, letting the other nurse take her place with Kirk for the moment. And then she turned to Jim.

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk dctr_mccoy October 12 2009, 19:37:59 UTC

"Damn it- Jim," he said, more to himself that the other man as he and the nurse held him down. "Jim-- Captain," he said, leaning down ands holding Kirk's head as he felt for any damage. To the nurse he called out, "Give me another dose of that sedative at half strength,". applying it with a tender touch to Kirk's neck. "Stop fighting me, kid," he muttered, reapplying the dermo- regenerator that had fallen when Tina left to work on the other Jim..

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk kirktastic October 12 2009, 19:47:50 UTC

His body wasn't handling the sedative well. It was already pumped full of who-knew-what, and the liver was unable to keep up with the sheer amount of foreign substances coursing through him.

But when Jim dropped out of consciousness, it helped. Kirk's body sagged back to the bed, eyes open and staring up at nothing.

Strong, not-burning but warm hands, holding his head.

You can stop fighting when you feel me.

Bones?

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk rn_chapel October 12 2009, 19:54:55 UTC

"Oh, thank God," Tina muttered, when she turned and saw that Kirk was already slipping back into unconsciousness.

She checked the progress of the rehydration - good, so far - and rechecked her work on the phaser burn, finding with relief that Kirk's movements hadn't torn the new, tender tissue that had replaced his burned flesh. One thing down, then.

She turned to McCoy, waiting for his instructions.

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk dctr_mccoy October 12 2009, 20:10:33 UTC

Bones ran a light in Jim's eyes, the pupils dilating, but just barely. Fuck, he thought to himself, one eye on Rien, back to carefully tending to the scabbed and filthy skin. He had to re-sterilize the stasis field several times, Kirk's skin almost breaking down at the cellular level at the sheer amount of damage that had been done to the outer dermal layers. What am I going to do about those tattoos? He - fuck, that must have hurt to bad, the designs, the amount of color, so deep, too deep. Unconsciously a hand ran over Kirk's hair and lingered a moment before pulling back as he continued to work ( ... )

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk rn_chapel October 12 2009, 20:33:22 UTC

"Yes Sir," Tina said, beginning the scan.

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.

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk dctr_mccoy October 12 2009, 20:52:59 UTC

"I'm aware of the significance of the bonds and their various combinations, enough anyway," he answered her, eyes still fixed on the hand, the work taking twice as long because of the swelling.

Then he stopped, looking up at her. "Wait - complications how?" he asked, his eyes narrowing.

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk rn_chapel October 12 2009, 21:09:20 UTC

"How the hell was Jim effecting sedatives in Kirk's body? These drugs should have knocked him out no matter what's going on in his brain. I'm worried about what else might be able to pass back and forth."

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?"

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk kirktastic October 12 2009, 21:56:14 UTC

The mental readings were strange, though no longer the rapid spike they were not long before. There was a sedative in his veins, something damned powerful and in too-great amounts, but there was something else as well.

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk dctr_mccoy October 12 2009, 22:31:52 UTC

"Tox screen, Tina," Rien called out to the other nurse, pulling it on screen at the video terminal. They all looked at it, their faces showing identical confusion at the toxicology report and its 'unknown substance ( ... )

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk rn_chapel October 12 2009, 22:43:08 UTC

"That could be inconvenient," Tina said with wry understatement. "Rien, take these readouts to the lab and see if you can synthesize a counter agent, okay?"

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.

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk dctr_mccoy October 12 2009, 23:02:54 UTC

Bones nodded at her instructions, the same ones he could have ordered, had he not been working on the hand. A satisfied look on his face, he took a deep breath. The hand was going to be saved, and wiping a bead of sweat from his forehead with his arm sleeve, he looked up at Tina.

"I need a favor from you," Bones told Tina quietly.

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk rn_chapel October 12 2009, 23:09:30 UTC

A tiny part of her wanted to say something snide, to wallow in the hurt she'd been feeling all day. But Tina shoved it aside.

"What do you need?"

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk dctr_mccoy October 12 2009, 23:19:56 UTC

"I need you to send a message to Winona Kirk and Admiral Pike, to let them know that George and Jim are back on board and in surgery. Basic information only, for now. She doesn't know about Sam," he said with a heavy sigh, giving Tina a look that spoke volumes about what he thought about that, and we need to keep it that way for the time being." Another moment passed as he flipped the hand and began working on the other side of this familiar hand. "Tell them - tell them its sterile in here now, they can't come back and see them, but I'll let them know when we're done with surgery and they can have visitors."

"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."

Re: Patient Two - nu!James T. Kirk rn_chapel October 12 2009, 23:32:42 UTC

"Yeah, sure." Tina looked up and gestured for another nurse to take her place in case McCoy needed any help, and went to send the messages he'd asked for and communicate with security.

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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