A prescription of Rest

Posted on Mon Mar 7th, 2022 @ 5:37am by Lieutenant Avira zh'Kenarh M.D. & Ensign Alexandra 'Lexi' O'Connery

Mission: Mission 5 - Babel
Location: Sickbay, Deck E
Timeline: Day 280 15:50
1534 words - 3.1 OF Standard Post Measure

After the conversation in the observation lounge with William and him helping her off the floor, she had started back to sickbay on her crutches to request that she wanted to be allowed back to her quarters. She was bored and she was finding herself rebelling against everyone and everything. She was confused, she kept having flashes of memory but it went as soon as it hit her. Everyone was familiar but she was finding herself a bit standoffish with their familiarity with her.

Darru had spoken Vulcan to her and she had responded but she knew she did not know Vulcan yet there she was speaking it with him. She found herself eager to see William and not in the awkward we made out at a party drunk kind of way. The chef Kyle kept bringing her tea and it was perfect like he knew just how she took it. It was disconnection that put her on edge and made her guilty as just did not know them.

With Lexi out and about Avira had a rare moment of nobody to monitor, so she took advantage of the silence to lay back a bit. She got in the unoccupied bed and lay back, focusing on the sensations in her feet and consciously relaxing them. It was a technique she had learned on Earth during her orientation there. Slowly she worked her way up her legs, a tingling sensation following her focus. The silence in the med-bay was only interrupted by small beeps and sweeps from the medical equipment indicating all was well in her little domain.

She had come to her abdomen, she felt it rise and fall with the deep breaths she took. She wondered if the people that were still in a coma would be having such sensations. She wanted to shake off the thought but remembered that she should just accept that she had them, not judge them, and let them pass. She tried not to judge, she wondered what had changed that two of them had recently awoken. She had done some preliminary research but with one being a Human female and the other being a Vulcan male there was very little they had in common. She tried to let the train of thought leave the station without her on it.

Taking a renewing breath she focused on how it made her chest rise and fall as she did so. She remembered she forgot to relax her abdomen. Let out a huge sigh. Focused back on her abdomen. What if the others still in a coma never woke up? It has been almost 300 days. Abdomen. Breaths. She wasn't the right person for the job. Very little experience with human physiology, and also she had shot Vulcans, not patched them up. The only physiology she truly knew about them is how they bled green. Abdomen. Breaths.

Lexi knew she was going to be in trouble for being gone so long that when she finally hobbled back in she was surprised to find the woman asleep. Or at the very least resting. She slowly crept towards the biobed furthest away and sat down waiting for the woman to stir so they could talk.

As Lexi entered Avira's antennae immediately twitched, but she didn't open her eyes. She heard the person pull themselves up on the biobed. "Had a nice afternoon?" She asked without looking over towards the comms officer.

The woman squinched up her nose and looked over realising the woman was awake and ready to talk. She had hoped the woman would just rest a little bit longer. "I did. I had a wander around spoke to McManus, Sloan, Gerhard, Daglish." Lexi said looking tired but happy. She was still wearing shorts, a hoodie and a trainer on one foot as she could not get any other part of her uniform over the cast.

"Please make sure you get plenty of rest after an afternoon like that." Avira turned her head and opened her eyes. "Your injuries were pretty severe. You're healing up and might be feeling that there's a lot more you can do now, but it's important to take it easy. You need to give your body time to heal." She noticed the warp 5 engines spool up, they were preparing to leave when a sudden jolt shook the entire ship.

Immediately she jumped up from the bed and another jolt almost threw her off her feet. She grabbed onto her desk to keep standing up. She let out an Andorian expletive at the pain of hitting the corner of the desk with her tight. "Stay in bed!" She shouted back at Lexi without realising she was giving the order in Andorian.

"What?" Lexi wondered clinging to the biobed for a moment with her arms as the ship shook and the engines powered down. "What?" She repeated wondering why it sounded nothing like she was trying to say it was not even a language she knew so she repeated back what she had heard the Andorian say.

Avira looked back up from her monitor that was telling her about damages incurred from some sort of outside source, the text on her screen then jumbled up, as if she could no longer read Standard. Before she could comment she heard Lexi, It was weird to hear Lexi repeat Andorian back to her. "I'm sorry, you should stay in bed," Avi repeated in Standard, but even she could tell that the sounds out of her mouth were actually gibberish. She frowned and grabbed a medical scanner from the desk nearby to scan herself. "What's going on?" She wondered out loud in Andorian as she looked at the absolute gibberish on the medical scanner.

Lexi made a face that said she had no idea what the woman was saying in the slightest. She stayed on the bed as the pointing told her that was where the doctor wanted her but it did not make what she was saying any easier at all.

Nothing made sense around her, it felt truly alien to be in this room even though she had been here for the better part of a year. Avira walked over to Lexi, "Can you understand me when I speak Andorian?"

Lexi indicated that she understood enough to make sense of what the woman was saying. “Just. Slowly.” The woman said racking her brain for the words that she knew of Andorian. It was nowhere near the standard of Vulcan or any other language she knew.

It was weird that she could make herself understood in Andorian but not in Standard. "What about Vulcan?" Avira was just going through eliminating options at this point. The text on the medical scans was absolutely useless, but there were always symbols and indicators in colours and none of them showed up. As far as she could tell there was nothing physically wrong with them, yet Standard came out as gibberish, including in writing, and they could speak to one another in any other language, it seemed.

Lexi lit up as she understood the words in Vulcan. She held up her thumbs to indicate that she understood. What a confusing situation to not be understood when you spoke so many languages. "I speak a little Vulcan." She assured quickly relieved to find something common to be able to communicate, "Can I get up off the biobed now?" She wondered not having the Vulcan words completely correct but it was hopefully enough to be understood by the woman.

Avira nodded a bit at the request, what would affect their ability to understand one specific language but not anything else? "They probably need you on the bridge." With the jolt to the ship she had to prepare for incoming injuries, there was bound to be some.

The young woman slowly moved off the bed with only a moment of pain that reflected on her face. She really needed to start taking things steady if she was ever going to heal up enough and get back to her duties without an emergency taking place. She just had to hope that this emergency did not cause more injury. She was fed up with being hurt. "Are you sure? You might need people here?" She questioned thinking that Lexrou was on the bridge at the very least with a lot more experience than her in the confusion.

"I think we can manage." Avira was talking in Vulcan, which she wasn't great at. She wondered how she would be communicating with the rest of the medical staff without an interpreter there but they weren't under attack so medical wasn't a top priority. "Go make yourself useful. And rest whenever the opportunity arises, elevate your leg."

Lexi was about to argue when her name was announced in french over the communication system by a calm sounding Leroux that she needed to go to the bridge. "I guess that answers that." She admitted with a shrug. "Call me if you need some help translating." She said firmly as Daglish came in looking confused but ready to get to work.