Preparing the staff

Posted on Mon Jun 15th, 2009 @ 3:52pm by

506 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Behind the Mask of Familiarity
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: Current

After Mabren finished making all the arrangements with the chief Engineer, he returned to sickbay to pick up several hyposprays for the first round of inoculations. Walking in, he noticed that the space was empty of people. Shrugging, Mabren crossed the room to a medical replicator and placed two empty hyopsprays vials into two empty slots. After typing a string of commands, a soft whir came from teh device and the vials were filled with a purple-colored liquid. Grabbing both filled vials, he dropped them into the right-hip pocket on his smock. Turning he crossed to the opposite side of sickbay to a storage rack and began to rummage around.

"And then she fell right on her face," Carla was saying to another Ensign, also in the blue-green of medical and science; both oblivious to the Doctor.

"What did you do?" the Ensign, Alison Lennox, asked.

"I couldn't help it," Carla answered, with a smile from ear to ear on her face, "I busted out laughing so hard! I laughed for what seemed like forever before I got it under control and helped."

"What happened to the cake?" Alison asked, alreay suspecting but just needed to know.

"All over," Carla answered, before catching glimpse of the Doctor. "Hello Doctor," she greeted, with a impish look of guilt.

"Hello Ensign," Mabren greeted with a smile.

"Doctor," Alison said in greeting, then nodded to Carla before turning and leaving.

"Sorry," said Carla, hoping to cut off any rebuke.

"It's ok," Mabren answered, "It's not like we're busy. And besides who else are you going to talk to? That hologram? But enough of that," he said, with a wave of his hand, before walking into his office, "It's time that you are brought up to speed."

Carla's eyes went large at that, whenever anyone said those words, that meant things were very much in the crapper. "What's going on?" she asked as she took a seat.

As Mabren explained all the events over the last few days, and the investigation, he decided to leave out the fact that the infection was caused by a saboture. "And working with engineering the gel pack system will be receiving a radiation pulse. It's minimual dosage but just to be safe I want you to start preparing for a series of inoculations for the crew."

After a brief pause, as all the news set in Carla finally said, "Un.. understood. How many series?"

Mabren thought a moment about her question, before finally answering; "Lets go with five days, for now."

"I should get started then," Carla said, as she got up from the chair and walked out into the main part of sickbay.

After she walked out of the office, Mabren asked, "Computer, locate Doctor Elde and Mr. Kerr."

After the computer beeped its acknowledgment, it answered, "Doctor Elde is located in the mess hall, deck two. Altir Kerr is located in guest quarters three, deck two."

Tapping his commbadge, "Doctor Mabren to Doctor Elde, could you meet me at Mr. Kerr's quarters?"

 

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