Let's see how you do

Posted on 28 Sep 2016 @ 12:38am by Petty Officer 1st Class Eviess & Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim & Lieutenant JG Rayze

2,766 words; about a 14 minute read

Mission: Episode 12 - Recluse
Location: USS Galileo - Deck 3 - Sickbay
Timeline: MD01 1100

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Allydnra had kept Eviess on hand even though she would be assigned to gamma shift eventually. There was one last person if the roster was correct to get a medical check in and this would be a good opportunity to see the new doctor in action.

=^=Commader Allyndra to Lieutenant Rayze, please report to sickbay, deck 3 please.=^=

=/\="Suuuuure thing, Allyndra,"=/\= came the happy sounding reply. Then, because he'd apparently forgotten to close the line or didn't care if she overheard, =/\="Crewman? Sorry, don't know your name yet. Are you busy? Oh, that's great! Come over here for a bit, would you please? Yes, that's right, take over the station. Please don't go pressing the phasers button, that'd be bad. Or the red alert control. I mean, unless there is an alert. Then you should probably press that one. Keep an eye on this bit over here for me. Uh huh, right. There you go. No worries, I'm sure I'll be back soon."=/\=

Apparently he'd sorted out someone to cover his post, as a moment later Rayze called out cheerfully, =/\="I'm on my way!"=/\= Humming could be heard over the comm line for a few more moments, then the line turned off as he must have suddenly remembered to tap his badge to close it.

"We have if I have the records all up to date one more person. If you do not mind, I would like to observe you bedside manner."

Eviess didn't know how to react to that. A shadow passed over her eyes. She'd been asked that on her last post as well as. Not on the Lunar colony where she worked both in hospital and had her own practice but on the Path. When she'd asked the CMO he'd told her that in his practice Klingons did not make good doctors. It had hurt. Her first instinct was to growl but as a thinker she mulled it over and decided to just nod. The fact that she grew up on Vulcan helped make sure she kept her emotions hidden. "Yes doctor Warraquim." She was after all the low man on the totem, not that rank mattered to her it was getting to do the job she loved, and maybe challenging herself and seeing the universe.

It wasn't long before the Sickbay doors parted, letting the humming Security Chief inside. He walked right over to the two women, waved, then hopped up on top of the biobed. Rayze's feet swung beneath him in alternating rhythms, and he placed his hands on either side of him, "Hiya! Are you having a nice day? Can I get you anything?"

Eviess' lip twitched. "No but if you'd like I can get you something to drink while I set up. I'm assuming you are indeed Lieutenant Rayze?"

Allyndra watched the interaction. The one she also presumed was Lieutenant Rayze seemed a bit too confident or perhaps detatched and she noted that Eviess had not reacted well to her suggestion of watching bedside manner. Well, she thought, they would all find their footing here.

"Here," Allyndra said, "I will get the necessary materials. I am just in attendance here doctor." It was an acknowledgement that she would take second position.

Blue eyes had bounced back and forth between the two women, watching and thoughtful. "Yep, I'm Rayze. And using my incredible powers of deduction, I've come to the conclusion that I've been summoned to endure the dreaded rigours of a Starfleet Medical physical." He said it with such mock sincerity that it left no doubt that he was joking with them. "Poke, prod, and probe away, I can take it. Though introductions would probably be nice before you stick me with needles or have me jog a kilometer."

Eviess' lips twitched again. "I am Dr. Eviess...I'm supposed to add Daughter of Eyelaya. It's the Klingon thing to do, I suppose." Allyndra had gone off to get stuff but Eviess still had the bag she'd left in Allyndra's office. "I'll be back. Why don't you take your jacket and top off and lay back on the bio bed."

"Oh, if this is going to be a Klingon physical, I think I just remembered I left the replicator on in my quarters," Rayze continued to joke as he unzipped his uniform jacket and started to shrug out of it. "Did I say dreaded Starfleet physical? I meant wonderful, with two charming creatures to watch over me." Rayze folded his jacket, vest, and mustard-coloured tunic into a neat pile, then swung his feet up onto the bed. The man was gifted with excellent genetics, but routine exercise and decent diet over decades had given him a well-muscled form. There were some faint, old scars on the pale golden tone of his skin that had either been from wounds too serious to be healed without leaving a mark or those that hadn't had the benefit of a dermal regenerator, but nothing recent.

Eviess was back with her bag before Allyndra. She put the bag on the rolling table and opened it. "Okay so step one is to do a scan. If I can ask you to hold still while I do this." She saw Allyndra was back. "I will just go review your inbound medical records while this is scanning. You should actually not feel anything while the scan is in progress." She gave him a gentle pat on the shoulder.

"Hold still, I'll try," Rayze said. For a moment he managed, then he shifted around to try to get comfortable, folded his hands together, and rested them over his stomach. "Ahem." Then he didn't move, if one didn't count his mouth. "So, you must be Allyndra, the one with the lovely voice that seems made for singing who called," Rayze said to the other doctor with the solid blue eyes.

"That is correct," Allyndra replied noting that introductions had seemed to slip. "Chief Medical Officer and the Second Officer as well."

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Allyndra," Rayze said with a bright smile and tone. "I've never seen your species before, and we see a lot of different races back home." He waited with obvious curiosity, hoping she'd elaborate.

"There are not many of us off world, so that would seem to be the case. I am Akkadian. An allied world, but not a Federation member." She decided that it was not worth explaining all the aspects of Akkadians not while there was the other doctor in attendance.

Eviess had stepped aside for the moment reading the file. When she got back the scans were just finishing. She took the time to pull a few things out of her med bag, a tricorder decorated with stickers and glitter, a few tongue depressors in plastic sterile binding, a stethoscope, an Otoscope, a purple pen light, and a few other items. She preferred to do a scan but also go old school.

Rayze watched the reveal of each antiquated instrument with ever-raising eyebrows. "When I was saying probe away, you know I was kidding. Right? We used to have stories on my homeworld, back before we invented warp drive and met other races, about aliens who would come and steal away our people for nefarious medical practises. Eviess, you don't happen to be involved in that?"

She laughed a melodic sound. "I can assure you there is nothing nefarious here." She turned off the scan. "Now then. Keep laying down. I'm going to feel your stomach to make sure everything is as it should be. Tell me if anything hurts." Using her middle finger and index finder on her left hand she pressed various places She used her right index and middle finger to tap on top of her left one listening to the sounds. "Any pain where I press?"

Rayze also laughed, but this was from Eviess' touch, a short burst he couldn't control. "Sorry, ticklish. I'll try to- Ha ha!" The man did his very best to not squirm away involuntarily, but he did keep laughing. "No, no, no pain! Mercy, please!"

Eviess laughed again. "Okay no pain there."

"For all the technology we have, sometimes there is nothing like an actual hands on." Allyndra commented.

Eviess smiled at Allyndra's comment and picked up her stethoscope and warmed it between her hands. "Please sit up."

The torture over with, hopefully, the Risian sat up on the bed once more and waited patiently. Sort of. "So, what's that gonna tell you that a tricorder won't?" he asked with genuine curiosity.

She put the ear buds in and placed the now warmed scope over his chest. "Breath normally for now." She listed to the steady beating of his heart. A sound that calmed are always. "Okay, now deep breaths for lungs."

In and out, in and out, Rayze's chest rose and fell with a rhythm of deep, expanding breaths.

"Well," Eviess said as she put away her scope. "What it will tell me is if there is a problem forming. Tricorders are great but I have been trained to recognize over 100 heartbeats of species all over the galaxy and to know what is normal. So even if your heart beat is off by a tiny bit I can tell if a problem is forming. I dislike relying on technology too much."

Eviess picked up her Otoscope. "Going to look in your ears." She did so and gave a nod made a few notes in the PADD. "All clear now the important question. "Cherry, Mint, or Blueberry."

"Mint, of course," Rayze answered. "Mint what though?"

Eviess smiled. She pulled open a sterile tongue depressor. "Open wide and say Ahhhh."

Curious, Rayze complied, and opened his mouth half expecting a candy of some sort. "Arghhhhh..."

She grinned, gently taking his face in her hand she placed the mint flavoured tongue depressor on his tongue and shone a light in the back of his throat. "All good. Ease up on the sweets you might need a dentist soon." She put down the depressor and then smiled. "Couple more things and you're good to go."

He probed his teeth with his tongue once his face was released, wondering if he needed to get new seals put in. Supposedly, according to the Bolian dentist he'd seen last, they were designed to last for decades, but then again Rayze did like to try new foods, especially sweet ones, so maybe he'd eaten something that had worn away at the protective coating.

Eviess checked his reflexes with a little rubber hammer and felt the glands on his neck. She noted all was find.

"And while that is going on, I usually ask if you have any questions about us," she indicated the two of them with a gesture, "the ship or any other concern."

"Yes, actually," Rayze said, and taking it to mean that his own examination was nearly done, he started to get dressed once again. The tunic slipped over his head and he was tucking it back into his pants as he continued, "I'd like to know how Eelim Galan is doing, from a medical point of view. And if any others of my staff have any medical concerns I should be aware of as it relates to their duties."

Eviess would let Allyndra answer that one. She picked up a swab. "Okay DNA time. Please open your mouth and I'll swab your cheek for the sample.

"Dat's oh khay," Rayze said around the swab, and his eyes went crossed as he watched what Eviess was doing. Despite his behaviour, he was paying close attention to what Allyndra had to tell him about the status of his team. Of course he wouldn't be given the full details, that was between doctors and their patients, but anything he needed to know as their superior officer was fair game and would give him some more insight into the ship's protection detail.

"Eelim is back to light duty. Tuula's surgery was quite successful. He might still be a little weak so hopefully nothing that will require a lot of dangerous work," Allyndra answered. "As for the rest, I do not recall any others having anything that would preclude them from their duty."

Eviess had finished up putting the DNA swab in the container. "All done Mr. Rayze." She said. Allyndra and Rayze had stepped away and Eviess used that time to pull out some disinfectant wipes from her purple medical bag. She whipped her instruments, tossed away the tongue depressor and sent the DNA swab for later coding. She also wiped down the tray and roll table and began wiping down the bio bed that Rayze had vacated all this seeming oblivious to the two talking.

"As you might realize sir, I am not at liberty to discuss anything too personal without the patient's permission," Allyndra said to Rayze. She could see the movement, of Eviess, an advantage of compound eyes.

"Of course, of course," Rayze waved away the concern. "I'm glad to hear they're in good shape. From what I've read about this ship's past missions, that's pretty impressive. You must be real proud of your department."

Eviess finished wiping down the bio bed and then stood off to the side to let the two finish their discussion.

"So, I'm not dying from an Edo Flu, and didn't pick up anything sneaky from my last trip to the Argelian escorts," Rayze said brightly. He was addressing both of them, glancing between the two very different looking ladies with a smile. "Good to know. Hey, maybe we can all get together sometime. I make a mean stiff drink and am a great wing-man if you're out on the prowl."

Eviess smiled. "Good to know Mr. Rayze. A clear for duty will be placed on your file. Welcome to the Galileo."

"Yes indeed, welcome." Allyndra added. She would wait until the patient was gone but Eviess had been impressive and she wanted to say as much.

"Thanks!" Rayze beamed at them both, lines appearing around his eyes from the smile. "We definitely have to chat again sometime Eviess, Allyndra. Sorry to leave so quick, but duty and all that." He checked his uniform once more to make sure everything was neat and orderly, nodded, then headed for the doors. They'd almost closed when he suddenly stuck just his head back in, and reversed their direction with a bit of protest. "The rumours about Sickbay on this ship seem completely untrue, if you ask me." Then, at last, the chatty man was gone.

Eviess raised an eyebrow that would have impressed her Vulcan cousins. She sighed and turned to Allyndra. She entered the clear for duty for Rayze and handed the PADD to the CMO.

"Oh that," Allyndra chuckled at Eviess' look. "Something about sickbay being gothic......like a Frankenstein with saws and sutures and a Dracula drinking blood. Trust me, not a shred of truth to the rumours."

Eviess smiled and gave a nod. "Have I passed the test and proven I will not bite the patients?" She said it as a joke but there was some truth to it. Her last CMO had said just that. 'I need to make sure a Klingon won't bite the patients and that you're capable of being a doctor.' She'd had her own practice and been an ER doc and she'd still been treated like crap.

Allyndra nodded, "It is not you that some of the patients would worry about. Tuula seems fascinated with bone saws and implements of surgery from Earth's ancient past which she seems to show off at the least provocation. As for me, if some bother to look up Akkadians they find out we are haematophages, so I think you have very little to worry about."

She gave a nod. "Klingons drink Blood wine, and eat blood pudding, and hearts of targs, and squirmy things." She shrugged. "I think we're pretty much the scarier of the bunch." A small smiled tugged at her mouth.

"Hmm.......bloodwine I truely enjoy. Perhaps sometime when in port we can do......what is that term? I have heard it enough to know.....le'lai...hop," Allyndra used an Akkadian word then brigtened. "That is is, hopping bar to bar."

Eviess smiled. "Sounds good to me."

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Cmdr Allyndra illm Warraquim
Chief Medical and Second Officer
USS Galileo
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Lieutenant (jg) Rayze
Chief Security / Tactical Officer
USS Galileo

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Petty Officer Eviess (PNPC)
Medical Officer
USS Galileo
(PNPC played by Braxton MacKenzie)

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