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Sapphire Sky
Destiny Angel paced in across the Angel's lounge.
"Will you calm down?" Rhapsody asked. "Adam's said he'll tell us when they've finished."
"When?" Destiny demanded.
"Soon. Look if you're that desperate go talk to Paul in sickbay."
"I have." Destiny admitted sheepishly. "Dr. Gold is banning visitors."
Rhapsody groaned into a cushion.
"The last thing I remember is the probe. Twenty century Russian gone renegade. Then nothing. Nothing at all. I assume I passed out when the Bison went over. When I came to and looked round, Paul was slumped in his seat. Took me a minute or two to realise he hadn't been as lucky as me. I mean I was O.K and I could see he wasn't. I could see the blood on his forehead and he was unconscious." He swallowed hard. "I don't know how long it was till the Mars team found us, I'm just glad that they did."
Colonel White nodded. "You were both extra ordinarily lucky."
"Yes sir." Conrad agreed. "Doctor Fawn concluded I was severely dehydrated and as a result in mild shock. Paul was badly concussed and in serve shock. I know we were there for about a week. The time period between the crash and their discovery could be anything." He shook his head. "Sorry sir."
White nodded, regarding the man cautiously.
"You did everything you could Captain Black."
He then dismissed them.
"Perfectly reasonable explanation." Captain Magenta remarked, gathering up his papers. Captain Blue nodded.
"Then why don't I believe a word of it?"
Nurse Cherry fought the desire to groan. She had been on Skybase for nearly 2 weeks and this was the first time she had entered the observation lounge.
Nurse Bronze had all but dragged her here, after discovering that most of her free time was spent investigating the methods of tracing drugs. Despite her arguments that on Mars this was the norm, she knew it was peculiar, but she couldn't explain why she was avoiding the lounge like the plague, especially as the reason for her reluctance was standing only a few yards away.
"Captain Ochre, and this," Nurse Bronze was coming to the end of his introductions, though she'd hardly heard a word. "Is Captain Magenta. Skybase's resident heartbreaker."
"I thought that was Captain Scarlet or Blue." She forced herself to say, smiling as she held out her hand.
Bronze shrugged. "While the cat's away, the mice will play."
"Indeed." She replied, astonished at how normal her voice sounded. "It's nice to meet you, Captain."
She could only pray he'd take the hint, as Bronze dragged her off to introduce her to Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green who just entered.
The last time she'd met this many people so fast had been in Fresher's week at University, and she couldn't honestly remember any of the people she'd met then. She could only hope her memory had improved.
Dr Gold had run every test he knew, and a few he'd invented. All he could find was the concussion and shock. There was medically no explanation for what had happened on the Mars Base, and frankly if it wasn't for Conrad's injuries, he'd be inclined to believe they imagined it.
He glanced down at his sleeping patient.
Physically he'd be well enough to leave the infirmary in a couple of days. Mentally it was another story. Paul was a wreck, partly from the shock, but mostly, Dr Gold suspected, from something else. Whatever it was, he was either refusing to communicate it to anyone or he genuinely didn't know.
He sighed deeply, and turned at the rush of air as the door opened. Nurse Cherry stood there, evidently highly embarrassed.
"Don't tell Bronze, I'm here." She pleaded. He agreed and watched her vanish back to her terminal.
Now there was another one who was hiding something.
He glanced at the back of his nurse, and the sleeping face of his patient.
"When ever you're ready to talk my friend." He muttered. "I will listen." And he wasn't sure which one he was talking to.
TBC
