58-Oh shit (sorry for clumping entries, folks.)

[thegooddrjones]

[Private to McCoy]

Leo, I screwed up. Really, really big. I totally screwed everything over with Rex. He's quit and... I just really didn't think things through.

I'm so sorry.

[Private to Five-Squinty strikes]

I need

Do you mind if I come and visit the TARDIS?

Comments

[Private]

[a_bit_put_upon]

Of course I don't mind. What's the matter?

[Private]

[thegooddrjones]

I've just had a really rough shift... if you're busy it can wait.

[Private]

[a_bit_put_upon]

I was merely making notations regarding hormone fluctuations in response to various food items. Those can wait. Do come, at your earliest convenience. I believe Draco is asleep in one of the TARDIS living quarters.

[Private]

[thegooddrjones]

All right. I'll be there in a little bit.

[Martha had taken a minute to go to her room and be rather upset. What Rex said had bothered her. She felt... guilty about what she had done in her anger about all of this. Maybe she was too close to 11-12. She should have gone to Rex before she'd gone to Harper, even if she didn't think that it would do any good. Now he'd quit, and who knows how far she'd set his rehabilitation back because she hadn't thought things through. She'd had a moment, she'd had a little cry, because this coupled with Judas was a bit to deal with. It was twenty minutes later before she showed up at the TARDIS, having changed out of the clothing that she'd be wearing on her shift. She knocked on the door quickly, before stepping back and putting her hands in her pockets. Really she was hoping that the red in her eyes had gone down enough that it wasn't so visible that she was crying.]

SAD MARTHA MAKES ME SAD DDD:

[stopthat_destro]

It'll be okay eventually! She's a big girl. Rex just hit her where it hurts!

[thegooddrjones]

[Private]

[hyposprayed]

Calm down first and tell me what happened.

[Private]

[thegooddrjones]

11-12 has been refusing pain medication, and finally I sat down and talked to him about why. He told me that there'd been things said and... I talked to Harper about it because it had to do with Rex. And then I asked Jack and Tony to talk to 11-12 because he... well, he thinks being gay is bad.

Harper talked to Rex, and I don't know what happened in port, but it's bad. Rex got really angry with me over intruding and not speaking to him first... which maybe I should have but I was so angry I went to Harper...

And he quit. He quit and it's my fault and I'm really worried I've somehow screwed up his rehabilitation.

[Private]

[hyposprayed]

I'll talk to him. The kid may be a damned disaster sometimes but he'll usually listen to reason, at least better then some of the fools here.

Martha, in the end of this whole mess you did what you thought was right. Don't go off beating yourself up over trying to make a difference and do your job in this tin can. Even so this can't happen again. I don't know what exactly Rex did or said that struck you so badly but unless he's going to wind up an immediate danger to himself or others 11-12's confidentiality- and Rex's- get first priority. 11-12's warden can deal with Lewis or Harper if he feels his inmate needs it. We can't go losing what little trust we have here, even if this was about friendship rather than profession. Half the damn ship doesn't have a good reason to trust anyone when their doctors need that trust.

Take a shift off. I'll let you know what Lewis says.

[Private]-Strikes unreadable.

[thegooddrjones]

Don't you think I know that?

11-12's warden was absent, so absent that I had to ask the Admiral bring him back almost a day after he'd died. If it hadn't been for that, I would have been fine to let someone else deal with it. I really didn't mean to go sticking my nose into it.

There is something going on with him, though.

Thanks, Leo.