"Injured"
(Previous Post was Craig's "Reunion")
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Setting: USS HATHOR, Main Engineering
The young woman held her right ankle tightly with both hands as she tried her best not to break down in an ocean of tears… engineering as a whole had never been on the CO's good side… and after what had just happened the odds that this would ever change had been slim next to none.
Romulan curses flew from Rikar's pink lips as she glared at the ODN conduit that had broken free from its location and fallen onto her leg. Had the CO been on the ANUBIS countless crewmen and officers would have rushed to her side to render assistance… but here on the HATHOR the Captain had been completely alone. Had she been on the ANUBIS the accident itself would have likely not occurred due to the more spacious nature of the room, and if it had happened in the same manner the redheaded woman could have in a worst-case-scenario called for a site-to-site emergency transport.
Alas Rikar had not been onboard her ship and the power levels were too low to justify using the transporter system to go from one room to another. Even if the ship had possessed sufficient power the CO would not have requested this maneuver for fear that the sudden energy spike would give the cloaked ship's location. So with pain coursing through her ankle and up her leg the young woman pulled herself out of the ATHOR's engineering section and towards the infirmary.
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"You will be happy to know that you are in perfect physical condition Captain," the CMO offered as Doctor Summers put away her medical tricorder.
"I will be happy when this mission is over," the young woman countered with as she jumped off the biobed and straightened her uniform.
"How can you say that?" Lea chuckled, "the mission hasn't truly started. I for one am looking forward to seeing a part of the galaxy that we normally stay away from. Who knows maybe I will get to research some new disease."
"Doctor," the young woman scowled as a half grin formed on her pink lips, "I think you have been hanging around Maya too long. As the CO I will be happy if all you have to deal with is a sprained ankle."
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The young woman took a moment to catch her breath as she glanced back at her ankle and recalled the conversation the CO and CMO had shared on the first day of this mission. "I will be lucky if I can get away from this with a simple sprained ankle… with my luck it will be broken," Rikar sighed. "Bet you are wishing you were here dealing with this ankle instead of down on the planet doing whatever it is you are doing," the ANUBIS' Captain added as she held on to the belief that her crew had somehow found somewhere to be safe during the last 282 days.
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"We are Grey, we stand between the Candle and the Star, between the Darkness and the Light" 2008 post #011
Stardate: 62232.1010
Setting: USS HATHOR, Infirmary
Stardate: 61314.1315… Mission Day 1
Setting: USS HATHOR, Corridor
Stardate: 62232.1025
Sabrina Jones
Captain Sabrina Rikar
Commanding Officer
USS ANUBIS, NCC-18501
-Entilza Delenn, Babylon 5
