Chapter Two
The deck beneath Beverly shifted slightly, not enough to cause her to loose her balance, a fact she extremely grateful for since she was using a laser scalpel at that moment. Unlike the bridge, sickbay stayed pretty stable during battles do to their inward location, but if whatever was going on outside of the ship was starting to reach them she needed to get her patient stabilized fast.
"I could use a hand here?" Beverly called out to know one in particular, because all of her staff seemed to be just as busy as she was.
"I can be there in just a minute." Tenaya called out.
"Of course you can." Beverly muddle to herself, in the three weeks since Tenaya's arrival she had proven herself not only a capable surgeon, but a quick one as well. At first Beverly thought she was cutting corners and had insisted on running in-depth bio scan on a patient she felt certain Tenaya had rushed through, but the scan revealed a newly repaired liver functioning normally. After performing a reconstruction of a crew members spine together Beverly realized that she was just that good. Still Beverly couldn't warm up to the young Trill.
Tenaya finished with her patient and joined Beverly at the table, the chief medical officer quickly ran down the situation with Tenaya whose eyes were glued to the bioscan. "I'm going to finish up with the heart, and you need to stop him from bleeding out at the abdomen."
"Understood." Tenaya replied and got to work with the regenerator.
A few moments later the deck rumbled once more. "That is not good." Beverly commented as she closed up the chest cavity, and then looked over at Tenaya who had found the bleeders and was also closing up.
They breathed a quick sigh of relief that was cut short by the computer's voice announcing an intruder alert on their deck.
"Move all patients into inner sickbay." Beverly ordered. "Tenaya phasers."
Tenaya went to the side panel toward the door and punched in the code, she quickly tossed a phaser to Beverly and was about the grab one herself when the stick bay doors burst open and two Jem`Hadar rushed in. Tenaya quickly ducked as disrupter fire shot through sickbay, she then hurled herself at the closes solider and knocked his feet out from under him. With a fierceness she didn't know she possessed; she slammed her elbow into his throat, and in one quick motion fired his weapon at the other Jem Hadr who disappeared before her eyes. As the first Jem'Hadar began to recover she rolled free turned and fired his own weapon at him, and continued to fire at the third Jem`Hadar who were heading through the door.
"Tenaya come on." Beverly said laying down cover firer from the doorway to inner sick bay.
Swiftly Tenaya made it through just as the armored door was falling, and security had arrived.
Beverly looked at her still not believing what she had witness. "Trill marshal arts?"
"I'll go with that." Tenaya replied then looked door at the Jem'Hadar weapon in her hand. "I hadn't intended to…"
"You had no choice." Beverly reached out and took the weapon from her. "Let's check on our patients.
Once the battle was over sick bay became even busier, it wasn't until early the next day that Beverly had a moment to herself. Even then she picked up a padd which contained a preliminary report concerning the damages to sick bay. Most of it was insignificant, but some of the vials of Tenaya's anti-rejection medication had been damaged. She was about to page her when the young Trill stuck her head in to office to discuss releasing a patient. Once Beverly gave her approval, she told Tenaya about the vials.
"How many are left?"
"Two."
"We should be able to replicate the others that I need." Tenaya replied in a very matter of fact tone. Her optimistic outlook impressed Beverly.
"Is it normal for a Trill's to be on medication this long after the joining?"
"No, but it was the only way Dr. Palaus would let me return to duty without spending a month or more on Trill, I wasn't in the mood to be tested and prodded daily."
Beverly was about to make a joke about doctors making but she found herself suddenly lost in Tenaya's green eyes.
"Is there anything else?" Tenaya asked finding that her heart raced the more Beverly gazed at her.
"No, sorry I'm just a little tired. You may go." Beverly replied a little more abruptly then she intended.
Tenaya was about to offer to stay so Beverly could rest, but her boss's dismissive tone, and a sudden visual flash of Beverly in bed told her she needed to be elsewhere.
