"Details! I Want Details!"
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Setting: USS HATHOR, Sickbay
While the boys were playing with their toys the girls had meet in
Sickbay to chat. True the CO had biologically belonged to the second group,
but her sense humour had branded her an honorary member of the first.
So while David, Uxtar and Derek were scanning anything and everything
around SURIAL III, Lea and Susan chatted.
"What do you mean *it's hard to explain*?" Lea huffed at her best
friend. "You are a Cns, being able to put thoughts into words should be
easy for you."
The CMO had been correct; Susan had always found it easy to put
feelings and emotions into words. That at least had been true for the
feelings and emotions of other people. Describing what the Cns had
experienced with the HATHOR's FCO had been an entirely different story.
What made matters more complicated had been Susan's own feelings about
the experience. Yes she and Lea were friends, very good friends for
that matter, but that had not been enough. What Susan had experienced
with Derek had been something special. Although had not said that what
they had shared had been private, the Cns felt reluctant to divulge any
of the details. Even to her friend Lea.
"I've told you everything about David," Lea said trying to use some
leverage against her friend. The CMO hated to do something like that but
her curiosity had been too much to hold back.
"Actually," Susan grinned, "you told me very little about him. I
figured it out on my own by using all of the clues you two left behind.
Clues that I might add neither one of you even tried to hide."
Lea stood in the middle of Sickbay, her mouth wide open in shock. She
could recall if what Susan had said had been true, but just the fact
that Susan had said this had floored the CMO. Regardless if it had been
true, how could her best friend find an excuse not to talk about what
had happened? Had Derek and Susan done so little that the Cns had
thought it best not to give any details? Or maybe it had been the opposite
and the two of them had done more than Lea could fathom. Either way
the CMO's curiosity had become more than she or anyone else could
contain.
The CMO spun around and stormed out into the corridor with her friend
only seconds behind her. Thanks to the HATHOR's small size it had not
taken all that much for Susan to catch up with Lea. "Where are you
going?"
"I'm going to the bridge and ask Derek what happened," Lea said through
clenched teeth. "Maybe *he'll* be nice enough to tell me what
happened."
"Lea," Susan said calmly, having instinctively fallen back into her
counselling mode. "Think this through, even if only for a second. We are
right now orbiting SURIAL III. Derek and the others are on the bridge
trying to help the ANUBIS in retrieving Enaii. You and I can both
imagine the level of stress that everyone up there in under. Now you are
planning on walking in and tackling Derek with your questions. Let's
forget about him or his reaction and think about how the others would see
this. Uxtar might think that you have lost it and have become a danger
to the crew. I for one would not want to be on the receiving end of
his tackle."
Lea looked as if Susan's words had effectively drained her of her will
to storm onto the bridge. Never the less though the Cns had no
intentions of dropping the matter at this time, just to be on the safe side.
After having given her friend some time to take in what had been said,
Susan continued. "How would David react to you being so demanding of
Derek? I don't know him well enough to say for sure, but he might just
wonder as to why you are so inquisitive of him. In the end he might
even get jealous and that would jeopardise your relationship with him."
Susan's stone face expression expertly hid her belief that David would
not react as she had said. After what the CEO had endured his
character had changed drastically and Susan doubted that he would react in this manner. Using the unlikely possibility though had just made the Cns'
point that much more powerful.
"You are right," Lea said looking as if she had received 40 lashes from
a whip. "You also don't have to point out to me what Serenna would
likely do if I had done as I had wanted."
"My guess is that you would have been sent walking home," Susan grinned.
"Without an EV suit," Lea added with a chuckle. "Come, let's go to the
bridge and see what they are all doing. I promise to behave," the CMO
concluded with as she wrapped her arm around that of her friend.
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Lt. J.G. Lea Summers 2006 post #105
Stardate: 60342.0835
Tiffany Rose {lady_tiffany_rose@mail.com}
Chief Medical Officer
USS HATHOR
