Post Number 26 Comforting A Child/ Taking Temporary Charge Of Sick Bay
Posted on Mon Jan 29th, 2024 @ 12:39am by Lieutenant Commander Kristian Long
Mission:
Hijacked
Location: Star Base Danvers
Timeline: Current
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Good posts everyone.
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Kristian had left Auxiliary control and had headed for sick bay. While she knew there was bound to be injured and even deaths she was not prepared for what she saw. Star Fleet and civilian many lay in bloody heaps on the decks. Parents had covered children in hopes to save them from being hurt or worse. There sadly had been a few deceased children, after checking them Kristian was somewhat relieved to find that the children handn’t suffered, they’d been killed instantly. While it didn’t make her feel better she was glad they’d not suffered.
Kristian wondered how badly hurt Cyndi’s friend Hank Snow was hurt as the security officer they’d spoken to had informed them that the admiral had been hit in the face by a rifle butt. She’d just gotten to her feet after checking the last body to make sure the woman was deceased when she heard muffled sniffling. Following the sound Kristian came into a courtyard and after careful searching found a small boy curled up under one of the benches. Kneeling down “Hi, are you okay? My name is Kristian but my friends call me Kris,”
The boy looked at her and something about her made him feel somewhat at ease as he wiped his nose on the tail of his shirt. “I’m Jimmy, are you going to hurt me?”
“No,” Kristian said gently “I’m a good guy, I’m a doctor and I’m going to sick bay to see if I can help. My commanding officer is worried about her friend Admiral Snow. How old are you Jimmy? And where are your parents?”
“I’m ten and my mom and dad are dead, those thugs just shot them,”Jimmy said as he pointed to two bodies, a man and a woman. “Mom told me to hide,”
Kristian didn’t need to check she could tell by looking at them that they were dead. “Come on with me Jimmy to sick bay. You’ll be safe there with me and we’ll get you cleaned up.” She got to her feet and held out her hand to the boy.
Jimmy crawled out from under the bench, gave his dead parents another look and started to cry again, he grabbed Kristian’s hand as they headed to sick bay.
Walking in Kristian seeing the EMH tending to patients, seeing a medical officer “Who’s in charge in here? I’m Doctor Long from the Amandora I’m the CMO and I’m here to offer any assistance I can.”
“I’m Doctor Richards, the CMO, ACMO are both dead, we activated the EMH,”
Kristian knelt in front of Jimmy, “You go with this doctor, he’ll take you where you can get something to eat, get cleaned up and I’ll check on you just as soon as I can. I need to help in here. Do you understand?”
Jimmy nodded as he looked to Doctor Richards then back to Kristian “You’re not going to leave and not come back?”
“No I’m not, I’ll take care of you as long as I can,” Kristian said hugging the boy, getting to her feet, “Please take him to the CMO’s office, help get him cleaned up, something to eat and see to it he gets some sleep,”
“Sure thing Doctor Long and even though you’re not assigned to this base you are a CMO and I think regulations put you in charge. I’ll tell the EMH to transfer command of sick bay to you. I’ll take care of this guy and I’ll be back.”
Kristian placed her hand on Jimmy’s shoulder “I’ll be in here, I want you to trust him, me and every other medical person in here. We’ll not let anything happen to you.”
“Come on Jimmy,”
Kristian watched as the boy went to the CMO’s office, the EMH turned command of sick bay over to her. Despite being short staffed everyone pitched in and began to treat the wounded, Kristian shouted orders and had the staff accessing the wounded into severe and less severe and minor injuries. The minor injuries were turned over to the nurses while the rest were handed by the doctors and the EMH. The moans of the injured could be heard as the medical staff hurried to treat them. Orderlies had been sent out to retrieve the bodies so they could be identified and were placed in the morgue.
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