Week Three (May 31, 2010) - UDC 5 - Leia... and Medics... on YavinIV...

11. Far

Seated on some boxes, Doctor Raven Moss was content to watch people while she took a break as far away from the medical area as she could get without actually leaving the building. The engineers were working on fighters and saw fit to ignore her and anything else that didn't have anything to do with what their task-of-the-moment was. Which was good, because she didn't want to talk right now.

A few minutes went by, and then some arriving people, among them a very tall Wookiee and two droids, caught her attention. It wasn't the young man who couldn't have been more than eighteen, or the man whose bearing spoke of past millitary service that drew her attention, but rather the woman in the senatorial robes. She hid it well, but showed signs of something wrong. That would bare looking into...

12. Prisoners

Leia had managed to stay away from any medical people since arriving on the moon of the gas giant only because there'd been a grave crisis involving a very large ship with a superlaser capable of destroying entire planets. The crisis was over now, and now here she sat on a bed in the medical ward of the base. The woman had only asked one question: Did she still have pain? The question had confused her at first, and then Leia realized it wasn't a question at all from the knowing gaze directed at her.

"How did you know?" Leia found her self asking after moments of silence.

"Past experience," the medic answered.

13. Peacekeepers

Doctor Moss hadn't quite expected the two men and the Wookiee to join her patient at bedside while they waited for the test results to come back. Hadn't expected the young man to pull out a data pad or them to start playing a word game, either. Raven smiled and had to stop herself from laughing when the older one, whose name, she'd been able to glean, was Han, added his two credits to the mix: letters to spell out the word "tool" and complete the puzzle of "a hammer in the tool shed."

Watching them, no one would ever guess that the four of them had only met this week.

14. Uncharted

The test results, when they came back, weren't exactly surprising. There were still some traces of the drugs used during an interrogation in her system, but not as severe as Raven had originally thought. Turning to look at her patient from across the room, she studied her. The time just basically doing nothing had relaxed her. It was a good sign. A very good sign.

A hand landed on her shoulder and Raven spun to find Cam standing there, looking at her funny. "What?"

"We can't control everything, Raven," he reminded her with sympathy in his tone and in his eyes.

She nodded, grateful for the reminder.

15. Scape

A few hours after being asked an obvious question by a medic she didn't know, Leia was released to quarters with orders to get at least twenty solid hours of sleep and eat a good hearty meal. It was very strange, being ordered to get some sleep like that when the last thing she wanted to do was sleep... or, for that matter, even look at anything edible. Sleep would lead to dreaming. Food was a reminder that life was going on, even though so many had been... how did one describe it? Lives destroyed. People... gone.

A touch on her arm and a questioning glance at Luke, who also had shadows in his eyes of things that, like her own, wouldn't be spoken of but always remembered... brought her back to the present. She tried to smile. "Food first?"

Luke nodded slowly. "Food first."

"Lead the way?"

He did.