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Side sim: Matters of the Heart

Posted Aug. 4, 2022, 12:39 p.m. by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) (Lucas Foxley)

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in Side sim: Matters of the Heart

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Side sim: Matters of the Heart

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Roman missed her ‘nagging’ as he had once, regretfully, called it, more than he ever thought he would. As he was getting up from his spot next to her he could almost hear her No, lay down, Roman, you need sleep. I’ll get it. But she had her own burns, and a head injury to top it off, and she couldn’t know about it, so he was on his own. He wasn’t worried about Pipkin spreading anything to them, Elbbirt had already checked that. So carefully he leaned down and opened the door to Pipkin’s cage, picking up the little bunny as she came out. Then he headed back over to the bed and sat down next to Rand, setting Pipkin carefully next to her.

~ Roman

Rand reached for her as soon as Roman set her down, petting her and scratching around her ears. Rand babbled in Gaelic baby talk the whole time. Pipkin wasted no time in climbing onto Rand’s lap and onto her chest. Then she promptly settled down ready to go back to sleep. Rand pet her and nuzzled her face a little and Pipkin squirmed up closer tucking herself right under Rand’s chin. “I missed you too.” Rand’s throat felt tight and her eyes burned. She was not going to cry. That would be totally embarrassing, and it would make her head hurt. She leaned over against Roman, careful not to dislodge the fluff ball, closed her eyes and just breathed until she calmed down. When she calmed down — she was fast asleep.

Rand

Roman would have brought her back to sickbay, but he didn’t want to wake her up right away and by the time he might have moved her, he was asleep too, cuddled into her with his arms around her, having carefully avoided Pipkin. He was and had all evening, laid on his left side, he still couldn’t lay on his right. In his sleep, kept warm by Rand and the bed his body shivered slightly with chills, his fever staying high without anything to control it.

~ Roman

Randy had been waiting to hear them leave so he could make sure they didn’t hurt themselves. But as it got later he finally decided he would have to make Rand go back to sickbay. His concern was that she would be too tired to walk and end up falling and hurting herself and Roman in the process. Because Roman would catch her, and he would carry her, and then he would REALLY be in trouble.

Randy pressed the chime and no answer, he knocked and no answer and he scowled at the door. Pretending they didn’t hear or were gone didn’t change the fact he knew they were in there. He pressed the control and entered anyway. What he saw brought him up short. He didn’t know if he wanted to laugh, take pictures, and tease Rand later, or scream in frustration. He settled for an irrate growl, did a perfect about-face and stomped all the way to sickbay to get Elbbirt.

Elbbirt stared at the sleeping pair. “It’s a shame to wake them. They haven’t slept decently in over a month.” Also it was telling that neither had woken up with all his and Randy’s movements and talking. “Give me the hypo Randy.” Elbbirt had taken scans of course. Rand was okay, exhausted and on the edge of dehydration. Which was going to be a problem since her body required massive amounts of extra fluid. Alden on the other hand had a raging fever. “He’s asleep he won’t notice.” Randy passed him the hypo with the antibiotics AND a fever reducer, a strong one. Elbbirt sauntered over and pressed the device to Alden’s upper arm that was wrapped around Rand, and with a hiss the medicine was on it’s way. Elbbirt set up two tricorders to monitor them and then they left.

However.....

When Roman and Rand woke up the next morning, sitting in a chair at the end of the bed, reading a book, feet propped on the corner was Elbbirt. He looked up as they stirred, “Oh good you’re both awake.”

Elbbirt | Randy

Roman had woken once in the night, after Randy and Elbbirt left, but he had quickly fallen back to sleep. In the morning, when he woke, he quickly became aware of a foot on the edge of the bed. Glancing up, he saw it was Elbbirt and suddenly he was much more awake. He wasn’t going to say anything to Rand, was he? He knew they were expected in sickbay, but they hadn’t meant to fall asleep. How long had it been? Roman glanced quickly at the time. It was the next morning… That meant he’d missed his evening dermal regenerator session. That might’ve been why Elbbirt looked annoyed, or at least Roman thought he did. “I was going to take her back downstairs… We must have fallen asleep.” Roman said to Elbbirt.

~ Roman


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