"Internal Struggle"
(Previous post: Sabrina's 'Deliria')
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Stardate: 60300.1300
Setting: NEW ALEXANDRIA, Section C-2, Level 1, Infirmary
Captain James Simmons stood near the biobed of his chief engineer glaring at the Carin CMO.
"You can not give us anymore insight as to why he would suffer a heart attack?"
"I could give you a million reasons why Captain. Stress, improper diet, not enough exercise... but looking at Lieutenant Dawson, who I'd say is more fit than a Klingon tarG, is in perfect health..."
"Doctor" Sabrina interupted, "who was with David when he..." and she had to choke back the lump in her throat.
"Commander Vasquez and a couple members of her staff." Doctor Wallin replied.
"Where is she?" Captain Simmons asked.
The doctor nodded across the room. The Pureto Rican engineer sat on a biobed as a nurse tended to her. James nodded to Sabrina and they crossed the medical ward.
"Commander." James said as he approached.
"Captain" and she loked in Sabrina's direction, "Commander" she said coldly.
"Commander Vasquez, could you tell us what happened to David?" James asked.
She sat there with tears streaming down her face. "I don't know sir. I asked him if he had completed the installation of the drones on the SCARAB... he said not yet, and I got angry..."
"Why?" Sabrina hissed, "are you *pushing* him?!"
"Commander..." James said in a warning tone but Sabrina pressed on.
"The workload on him is enough to kill 10 men but you had to..."
James placed a hand on Sabrina's shoulder as Mercedes started sobbing uncontrolliby.
"I'm sorry Captain..." she said between sniffles, "it upset me because the SCARAB is due out at 0900 tomorrow morning for testing on the drones and we're way behind schedule... I know he's capable of the work, but he just... had this glossy look in his eyes and he clutched his chest and fell. I tried, but he's too..." as she leaned into james and he place his arm around her.
"Commander... David is going to be fine." and he nodded to the nurse who placed a hypospray against her neck. James turned to his ExO.
"Sabrina... let's not add anymore tension to this..."
"Captain" she huffed, "I'm sorry... but she *really* pisses me off. She does a end around to transfer David off the ship..."
"Excuse me?" James said, "Transfer?"
Sabrina nodded, "Yes... David has been temporary re-assigned to the base."
"Why wasn't I informed?" the CO of the ANUBIS said.
"Same thing I asked Koneki, but he told me that it was a need to know basis."
James ran his hand through his hair and sighed heavily when a klaxon went off in the infirmary.
=/\= Code blue, biobed 1. Code blue, boibed 1 =/\= came the voice of the computer as James and Sabrina rushed back to David's side.
"He's convulsing" a nurse said.
"40ccs trieskaline. Hurry!" Doctor Wallin barked as Lea and Maya were shoulder to shoulder. Lea was placing neuropattern scanners on David's temples while Maya scanned his body.
"Nanite levels are dropping" the CSciO of the ANUBIS said.
"Dropping?" the Carin doctor looked up, "how?"
"The BORG part of his heart is going into synaptic failure. Its shutting down." she said as she grabbed a hypo and stuck it to David's arm. It broke free of the restraint and almost took the Shillian scientist's head off.
"What are you doing?" Sabrina asked and Doctor Wallin stepped in.
"Captain... please..." and James nodded.
"Lieutnant, Commander..."
"Not this time!" Sabrina hissed and James' eyes narrowed.
"Commander Rikar" was all the captain said as he headed for the door. Sabrina looked over her shoulder at Maya and she nodded.
"I will personally keep you posted Commander" she said as she went into the lab.
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Setting: Dreamscape
Roses... hydrandias... filled the nose of the ABUBIS' CEO as he opened his eyes and looked around. He got up off the ground and was shocked to see where he was.
"Home" he said above a whisper... "I'm home"
He looked around again and he was in his mother's greenhouse. Soft jazz was playing over the loudspeakers because his mother believed that her flowers and plants adored jazz so it was always constantly playing in the greenhouse. David exited and looked around. A beautiful day... no clouds, and the perfect view of the Golden gate bridge that loverlooked Starfleet Headquarters could be seen from their hillside home. David smiled brightly and laughed. He turned...
...and was floored.
When he came to his senses and got up again... he saw him.
"No" David said.
"Oh yes" was the reply, "not happy to see me? Because I'm happy as hell to see you David."
The dark figure advanced on the CEO and grabbed him by the throat...
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Stardate: 60299.1330
Setting: NEW ALEXANDRIA, Section C-2, Level 1, Infirmary
"We're loosing him dammit!" the doctor snapped.
"Doctor, look at his alpha patterns" one of the nurses said. Lea looked up and her eyes widened.
"What the hell?! the aCMO of the ANUBIS and Doctor Wallin said in unison.
Half of David's brain wave patterns were flat... meaning death, while the other half showed hyperactivity.
"How is that possible?!" Lea said, "he's brain dead, but he's not?"
"I haven't a clue, but we need to stabilize him if we're going to save him... now!"
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Stardate: 60299.1335
Setting: Admiral Koneki's office
"Just what in the hell are you telling me?" the commanding officer of NEW ALEXANDRIA demanded.
=[/\]= You asked us for facts, we give them to you. Right now, there's a 11 percent chance that he'll survive. =[/\]= one of the sisters voices said.
"Impossible" Koneki hissed, "those implants were built to last even past the person's death. So why is this happening?"
=[/\]= That we do not have a answer for =[/\]=
Koneki paced back and forth. "What if we deactivated the tracer we had placed in him."
=[/\]= Then he'll have a 69 percent chance of survival... with the possible increase to 89 percent that he'll recover completely =[/\]= came the voice of the thrid sister.
Koneki paced abck and forth. he went to his wall of monitors and watched the malay happening in the infirmary.
"I can't afford to loose him..." Koneki said abpove a whisper.
=[/\]= But if you have the tracer deactivated, there is no chance that his body will accept another. Especially with the BORG implant and the nanites.=[/\]=
"Dammit" Koneki grumbled... but a thought came to his head. He went to a station and encoded a message that would be delivered to Doctor Wallin.
"He'll know what to do."
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Setting: Dreamscape
David bobbed and weaved but the punches were too fast... came on too quick... and were far more powerful that what he had countered with.
"Can't you see?!" the dark figure bellowed, "you can't beat me. Accept it David."
David was getting off the ground slowly. Blood trickling from his split lip, his nose, and the deep cut he had above his right eye.
"Damn... you..." David said, "I'm... still..." and he spit blood from his mouth, "gonna kick your ass!" he said and charged the dark figure.
"That's right... come to me" he said as David unleashed all his fury with what could be his final attempt. He was too weak and had lost too much blood. If this is where he was supposed to die, then he'd take this figure to hell with him. A left hook, followed by a right cross... left jab to the head, right jab to the body... all the punch combinations flooded the CEOs mind... now that he had the figure reeling.
**Stay on him... don't give up!** his mind screamed and with a final right strong house uppercut, the figure had fallen. David dropped to his knees and looked up. The sun was going down into the Pacific and had a beaytiful reddish orange glow about it. All the people he had known in life flashed in his mind. Serrena... his perfect counterpart at the Academy who always kept him on his toes, Maya... who at times was too talkative, but the insightful conversations she shared with him intrigued him. His uncle Steve, his aunt Marsha, his cousin Stephanie, his baby brother Jordan... who'll be the only Dawson male left... Commodore Sio Reardon-marxx, who took a chance on a rookie engineer fresh out of the Academy and made him the CEO, Captain James Simmons... who shared a bond with the CEO... engineers were like brothers and he had learned a lot from his captain.
Sabrina...
All the times they shared... good and bad. The laughter, the tears, the heartache and pain to the joys of the wonderful friendship they shared. He'd miss her the most... but there was one more.
Lea...
Those blue eyes reminded him of Samantha... but in Lea's case, were more inviting that Samantha's ever were. Her innocence and her temper piqued the CEOs curiuosity more and more he saw her, but what could have been will never be now. He was ready... and he chanted the 23rd Psalm... when a stabbing pain shot through his back...
"Oh no... you're not getting off the hook that easily!"
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Stardate: 60299.1350
Setting: NEW ALEXANDRIA, Section C-2, Level 1, Infirmary
Doctor Wallin read the encryoted message sent to him by Admiral Koneki. He sighed and went to the biobed. Maya walked out of the lab just in time to see what the CMO was doing.
"Doctor!" Maya excaimed, "Don't!"
But it was too late. He had thumbed the control that severed life support to David. Maya... not one to admit defeat so quickly, trotted over and injected the hypospray into David's arm.
"I don't know what that's going to do Lieutenant, but we're too late. Lieutenant Dawson suffered from total synaptic failure. He's gone."
Lea stood next to David's side as a tear trickled down her cheek. She caressed his head as the unit above his head bleeped... and bleep again. Lea took David's head in both her hands.
"David... David can you hear me?"
"His heart rate is returning to normal... pulse is growing stronger... Lieutenant" Doctor Wallin said, "what did you do?"
"Modified the nanites to destroy the old one his heart was producing and re-programmed them to replicate as soon as they entered his blood stream."
"Looks like you pulled one of David's tricks out of your hat Maya" Lea said with a smile.
"I learned from the best" she said taking the CEOs hand.
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Setting: Dreamscape
David stood looking down on the figure. It was lying face down and he laughed.
"I did it" he said and he kicked it off the cliff. He entered the house and looked into a mirror. He looked like hell. After cleaning himself up he looked again and laughed out loud.
"I'm baaaaaaaccccccccccccck!" he said as his red eyes glowed.
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Julian Knight {d_dawson_1@yahoo.com}
as
Lieutenant David Dawson
Chief Engineer
USS ANUBIS NCC 18501
"A Starfleet officer...that's all I am and that's all I'll ever be." 2005 post #069
- Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko,
Commanding Officer of the Federation Spacestation Deep Space 9
