Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Sickbay- Making Amends

Posted by Lieutenant Jasmine Wynter (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay- Making Amends

Posted by Lieutenant Jasmine Wynter (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay- Making Amends
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Faye squinted slightly and half frowned. “Uhh, not exactly. He was more the techy engineering type, but he was a data technician. The man knew his way inside and out of any computer system he came across and I grew up learning what he learned.He taught me most of what I know. It made him highly sought after and then, as a Maquis, very much a target. Hackers are in high demand but also if working for the wrong side, a liability. Funny enough, I decided to be a scientist but chose really mundane fields to study so as to not draw attention, but… I’m very good at the data sciences side of things and probably should have always been doing this.” She shrugged. From her experiences with people, she knew that Edward Calloway had been something of a genius, but without the social awkwardness that sometimes accompanies those whose minds simply operate at levels far above everyone else.

“If you weren’t a doctor, what would you be doing?” Faye asked curiously.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

“Teacher,” Jasmine said without missing a beat. “My top two goals I have met with 50% accuracy. I wanted to be a wife and mother over anything else. I couldn’t go through life without someone pulling for me. Yes, you always have your parents but finding that one person in the world that gets you. Like really gets you,” Jasmine sighed. “We may use the Ministry of Harmony to do it but it gave me Max far earlier than I would have ever found him. Yeah marriage can be a pain in the butt but having him home when I have a bad day or feeling lonely. It was always the top thing in my life followed by a family. I can’t imagine living a life without some sort of legacy. Before any career I think being a wife and mother are the most important things one can do. Children give you back your childhood. Their amazement of the universe is infectious. I was playing with a cousin once when I was home a few years ago. We sat and stared at an ant hill for like an hour,” she broke out laughing. Jalessa was so fascinated by the ants going about their day an building things. It was then I decided to apply to the Ministry for a match. I think it also made me question my choice of professions. I love being a doctor. Don’t get me wrong but being a teacher, I think would have been an amazing life experience too,” Jasmine shrugged.

Faye smiled, though it didn’t meet her eyes. It all sounded so… idyllic, and Faye’s brain couldn’t comprehend anything like that. She already knew that it was an exceptional bad idea for her to have children, what with the BPD and all. Or at least she assumed it was. Nothing in her life so far suggested she be even close to good mother and that just taking care of herself was exceptional difficult thing. If Nevol had proven anything it was that she wasn’t necessarily relationship material either. “I suspect your… Ministry would run away laughing… or screaming,” Faye said, ever so slightly amused.

“Do you have anyone? Are you looking? There are a lot of men in Max’s department that are hot and you have the added bonus that if they act like a dog, Max can make their life hell,” she joke half serious.

Lt. Jasmine Wynter CMO

Faye tilted her head and looked at Jasmine seriously. “You assume it’d be a man I’d be wanting to be in a relationship with. If I wanted that, yes, it would be, but I’d be careful about presuming about people’s preferences,” Faye said with a wink.

“Really that is what you got out of that statement,” Jasmine laughed. “Not the part that I was trying to girl bond with you?”

Faye’s brow furrowed. She opened her mouth slightly and abruptly closed it. “No one has ever tried to ‘girl bond’ with me. So I guess I wouldn’t know what that looked like,” she admitted.

Faye tucked some of her dark brown hair behind her ear. “But… as it goes, no, I do not do relationships well and looking tends to be a bad idea. I get into all kinds of trouble on my own without looking for it,” Calloway mused. “Not that I’ve exactly been focused in that realm lately.” Recovery from nine months of torture had taken up most of a year and then training and such had landed her here.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

“That is where I professionally and personally think you are wrong. People that isolate themselves tend to experience a greater sense of loneliness and low self-esteem. This can lead to individuals developing social anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns. Sentient beings are for the most part social creatures. These pairings depend a lot on culture, race, and such. That is why I am a firm believer in “bring a friend” to family parties. It helps take the pressure of you when you are with your parents if they have someone else to focus on. ” For the first time Jasmine felt incredibly sad for Faye. At some point all people had terrible things happen to them. They either rose above them or let the event define them forever. Jasmine hoped for Faye it would be the former.

It was in her file and she assumed that Jasmine at least knew about it on the surface. But the reality of it was usually different. “I already have mental health concerns,” Faye said quietly. “Which came first, that or the depression, is anyone’s guess, but I’ve been doing my best to manage it since I was diagnosed eight years ago.” Faye leaned in slightly, gazing intently at the CMO with her stormy grey-green eyes. “I can’t change how my brain perceives things and I will admit that it’s rarely fair to the other person, but all I can do is admit that things get a little messed up with how I interact with people. Some people can handle it, and some can’t. I think you are the one that can, but I’m just warning you in advance that I’m probably going to piss you off or make you want to run away screaming. All the medication in the galaxy can’t suddenly make me a good friend. But all I can do is try if you’re willing to put up with me.”

“So you are my hostile friend that I tell people to blow off and you roll your eyes or get pissed at me from time to time. The basis of a real friend is they ike you when its fun and love you when its hard. If you can’t find it in you to tell your best friend they fracked up and still call them the next day…or a week later depending on how bad the fracking was,” Jasmine let out a big laugh, “then they are just a fair weather friend. Take Celina. Lord there are some days I want to put her through the wall and when she start yammering about in Spanish when she is pissed off I remind her she had to share with the class because I need to know what insult to throw back at her. That is girl bonding. Men beat each other with sticks in the gym and call it fun. They are just less articulate than women so they need a way to ommunicate.”

“So wanna go get out of here and do something fun,” she asked

Jasmine Wynter CMO

Faye grinned slightly, ever curious. “What did you have in mind? Fun is relative and subjective, remember?”

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

“Well let’s figure out what we have in common. You list three things you like to do. I will do the same and we pick. Agreed,” Jasmine smiled.

“So mani-pedi’s, drinking on the beach, and the driving range,” Jasmine threw out her three and waited for Faye to add her top choices to the list,

Lt. Jasmine Wynter CMO