The sands of time continue to fall ..

Posted on Monday 3 July 2017 @ 22:03 by Commander Caroline Miller
Edited on on Monday 3 July 2017 @ 22:09

Mission: The Perez Nebula
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: 239407.02
443 words - 0.9 OF Standard Post Measure

ON:

Melody left and Caroline carried on examining the rest of the bodies. The next one she identified as Lieutenant T'eRoz from Engineering and then Caroline gasped. The third one was Inu from the Round table. He had a very high blood alcohol content in his body, like he had just decided to take solace in the bottle. Which was odd. Caroline had never witnessed him have a drink.

Finally she examined the last body a female. "Ensign Roz Spencer," she said out loud. She had just got married and her husband was serving on the USS Fearless. Caroline had attended the wedding when they had stopped over on their last shore leave. It had been a beautiful ceremony, set in the Bajoran gardens. Lanterns and marques had been brought out for the reception. A four piece jazz band had played. Roz had been a vision in purple.

"God this is awful," Caroline said sadly as she continued her work. "No this is awful. Oh Roz." The baby was 3 months gestated. A boy. She set the bio bed to feed the rest of the scans to her office. This felt a little too close to home now.

"Coffee, my personal programme four," she told the replicator and slumped down in her chair. Whatever was happening they had to find a way to avoid it.

Taking a sip she placed her head in her hands trying to think. What could she possibly advise Melody on. It didn't make sense.

Then she pulled up multiple reports starting to piece hers together for Melody. One had died from severe plasma burns, the away teams report stating they were found on the bridge, Inu - asphyxiation and possibly alcohol poisoning found in the Round Table, Te'Roz - multiple fractured bones and asphyxiation, found at the bottom of Jefferies tubes Alpha 7 and Beta 8 looking like she had fallen and then there was Roz.

Caroline took another sip of her drink and read the readings flooding in. She immediately went to the scans of Roz's lungs to see if what she suspected had occurred. Her lungs had been crushed. Something heavy had fallen on her. She scrunched her nose up, flipping back to the away teams report. Roz had been found in sickbay.

"No .... no no no no no not on my watch," Caroline said angrily suddenly.

The chime to her office door suddenly beeped. Tera walked in. "Caroline. You need to come. Oh its the most marvelous thing. Roz is here and she's pregnant. She's three months gone ........"

OFF

Dr Caroline Miller
Chief Medical Officer/2XO
USS Merlin

OCC - A quick nod to our new CEO there :)