Check Up

Posted on Sat Jun 24th, 2017 @ 11:42am by

1,043 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Unknown Life, Unknown Dangers
Location: Medical

BJ had to admit she was nervous after what happened on the Civic but couldn't do anything about it. She had kept her calm and made her suggestions to the Commodore and now she was headed to Medical to get a full exam. She hadn't thought to check her suit for any rips when they had gotten back from the freighter and now she wondered if any of those glowing specks had gotten into a unseen hole somehow.

As she approached Medical, she took a deep breath and closed her eyes, then opened them and headed in. She smiled at a young nurse and asked where Doctor Patrovski was and was told her was in his office. BJ swallowed and nodded, then headed over and pressed the chime.

"Yes, come in." Xavier spoke not looking up just yet from the report of Ensign Natasha Vildamens pregnancy. Everything was going fine until she came down with an infection, it was undetermined at the moment if it posed any risk to the baby. When he looked up from the doors opening he smiled. "B...Um Commander, I'm sorry about the mission. I heard about the loss of the team member."

"Thanks, Doctor Patrovski," BJ said with an effort not to let him take her into his arms. "I sent a sample of the specimen I collected over there. Commodore Hood wants me to get cleared before I go back on duty in case whatever it was got into my suit somehow."

"Sure, right this way." Xavier lead BJ to a vacant bio bed that had the equipment already set up to go, the sample was in stasis for his attention later. "Any physical contact with what ever it was?" Getting the easiest questions out of the way. "If so, for how long and where?"

She took a seat on the biobed and shook her head. "As far as I know, we didn't detect any lifeforms on the Civic until Commander O'Connell and Lieutenant Whitaker powered up the injectors and got the warp core online. After that, the stuff started to come to life and we had to fight our way out of the ship."

Xavier checked her eyes, blood pressure, heart rate and lung capacity just to make sure that nothing vital had been compromised. "I'll just take a blood sample and check it." He spoke softly as he worked. "Feel anything unusual, off or anything since your return, dizziness, nausea, peculiar taste on the tongue, ringing in the ears?"

"None of the above," BJ said as he scanned her. "Whatever that stuff is, it seemed to come to life when the freighter powered up, Xav," she said. "When you study it, I strongly suggest that you find a way to use the old methods. I could be wrong, but it looked dead before the power came on, then it started going crazy and little blue white motes started flying around and the vines tried to snag us like they got Whitaker."

Xavier listened to what BJ told him, power seemed to trigger it, what ever it was. "Hold your hands out for me?" Xavier produced a scanner, if anything was on the suit there could have been a chance BJ touched it while removing it. He flicked through the various filters, settings and levels but found nothing. He checked inside her ears, nose, mouth but everything seemed alright. Then the blood sample he collected had just finished being scanned and he turned to check the results. "Blood looks fine, everything appears normal." Which was a relief for him as it no doubt would be for her.

She held her hands out and let him finish checking her and breathed a sigh of relief. "Just be careful when you look at that stuff," she urged him. "I don't need a report...." She swallowed. "I'll send Security down here just in case when you're ready to work on it."

Xavier smiled. "I'll be careful, besides I know this lady that wouldn't approve of my being harmed and I like being in one piece." Xavier tried to lighten the mood from what must have been a very shocking and disturbing close call over on the freighter.

"I'm serious, Xavier," BJ said, dropping all pretense of just being a patient. "Whatever that stuff is possibly killed the entire crew of that freighter and it killed one of ours. I don't want you taking chances. I don't want to lose you. You're the best man that I've ever met and I love you."

Xavier stopped, it was almost like if for a moment he'd lost the ability for a fraction of time to think straight. He didn't expect her to say that, not that he was complaining he actually felt elation by it, a warmth wash through him. "You love me?" The smile on his face made the question rhetorical.

"I do," she said and meant it. "You're not like the others I've been with. You're kind, considerate, caring and you don't try to use me and then toss me aside when you're done. I sensed you were different when I first met you and I was right...and I don't want to lose you."

If Xavier's heart could melt out it would have, she told him, she actually told him how she feels and to him it was wonderful. "Dinner tonight?" He offered with a beaming smile, hoping they could talk more about this in the privacy of home.

"I'd like that," BJ said. "If you weren't still on duty, I'd take you up on that offer right now. Sadly, I have more work to do, too."

"We do yes, I'll forward my findings to the Commodore for you." Xavier said as he started to turn everything off. He was looking forward to dinner so that they could talk about the feelings between them though he still felt teaming with life, energy and zeal.

She got up off the biobed and moved forward to give him a kiss regardless of who was looking. "We'll get through this together," she said. "See you at dinner."

"You will." Xavier was left standing with that 'What a woman' look upon his face as he watched her leave.

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