Heading along the corridor to Isla's quarters, Deanna could sense something. A strong feeling of fear, then nothing. She pressed the button on the door. No response.
"Isla!" she called while punching in the override code. The doors opened, showing Isla, motionless in a heap on the floor. She rushed to her side. "Isla, wake up!" she turned her over, patted the sides of her face but nothing would wake her. "Counselor Troi to sick bay, emergency in Isla Scott's quarters, deck 12."
"Deanna, what is it? What's happened?" Dr Crusher asked as she raced to the turbo lift.
"It's Isla, she's collapsed. She isn't waking up." Isla lay limp in Deanna's arms as she cradled her tiny body gently.
"Stay calm, I'll be right there," Dr Crusher promised her.
"Hurry," Deanna said, holding back tears. It only took a minute for Dr Crusher and Nurse Ogawa to arrive.
"We need to get her to sick bay," Dr Crusher said, pulling out her tricorder and scanning Isla as Deanna stepped out into the corridor to stay out of their way. "Her blood pressure is way to low, her sugars aren't even reading. Heartbeat and breathing are shallow and irregular." The tricorder beeped loudly. "Her body is starting to eat itself for energy. Quick, glucose syrup." Nurse Ogawa went straight to the replicator. She brought back the glucose syrup in a bowl with a spoon. "Hold her mouth open," Dr Crusher ordered as Deanna watched from the stairway. Nurse Ogawa did as Dr Crusher ordered, while Dr Crusher covered the spoon in the syrup. As Nurse Ogawa held Isla's mouth open, Dr Crusher wiped the glucose syrup inside. The tricorder beeped again.
"Heartbeat rapidly increasing," she informed Dr Crusher.
"Get her in stasis," Dr Crusher order Ogawa. She quickly gave Isla a hypospray. Her heart beat continued to climb. "Dammit, she's going into cardiac arrest." Deanna could only watch on in horror as Isla battled for her life.