Post # 42 Sitting this One Out

Posted on Sun Apr 10th, 2022 @ 9:01pm by Lieutenant JG Horton Clinton & Lieutenant Commander Kristian Long

Mission: Weapon Investigating
Location: USS Amandora sickbay
Timeline: Concurrent

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SICKBAY

Odac Yova rested out from his plasma radiation exposure. An exposure that had caused him to have visions and see things that were untrue or partial truth.

One thing that was true was that he was not fit to be chief engineer.

Horton Clinton made a quick run by to see Odac and hoped for good news.

" Why are you just sleeping there ?" Horton said as he cleared his throat.

" Clinton? You can stop coming by here I know you have lots of work to do." Odac answered.

" So do you Lieutenant. The engines need tending too and last I checked you're the chief." Clinton yelled.

" Not any more. I'm not fit to serve, I'm sitting this one out." Yova replied.

" Boy you are a pathetic pansy ain't you? I never took you for a quitter being Bajoran. Guess I was wrong." Clinton then said

" Just leave, please." Yova replied.

Kristian hearing voices walked over to see what was going on "Yova, there is no reason you cannot return to your duties as chief engineer. Your fit for duty,"

Clinton snickered and then stood beside the old bones.

" Doctor you don't understand. All of my illusions were so real. I believed the pah wraiths were on board. I was going to blow the ship up." Yova replied.

Kristian pulled up a stool and took a seat "I do understand, you need counseling and what you may not know is we doctors do take a course in counseling. I'm more than willing to council you. There is nothing physically wrong with you. I don't know what the pah,wraiths are. But had there been any intruder aboard all kinds of alarms would have gone off."

" The pah wraiths are a negative part of my Bajoran faith. They are enemies of the Prophets and the Celestial Temple. I resign my commission and will submit a formal one to the Commodore when you release me." Yova replied .

Kristian thought a few minutes "Every culture has enemies I know this. My own people have enemies, but by facing our fears and over coming them makes us stronger. My planet faced several years under Romulan occupation. The scars of the battle are sill there. But we over came it and eventually freed our planet from them. But I'm thinking this goes much much deeper. I diagnosed your wife with triplets and she's now gone. Are you leaving because of the pah wraiths or leaving because Ellie chose to leave and not tell anyone including the commodore?" Kristian asked.

" Leave? I didn't know she left." Yova replied as he paused to remember. He had been asleep and then remembered her kiss and her tear.

" You are right Doctor Long. I am just feeling sorry for myself." Yova replied.

" I'll take him to the showers and wash his ...back side. We're hanging over a wild world and a damn Tholian vessel is inching closer. " Clinton worded in.

" Tholians? Doctor I need to get to my post. May I leave?" Yova asked.

Kristian stood, slid the stool away, scanned him one final time and nodded "There is nothing physically wrong, your free to go. Keep me posted on things, you need to talk my door is always open."

" I will Doctor and thank you." Yova said as he and Horton Clinton rushed out the door .

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