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Over an hour had passed before Tom looked up from the experiment he was running and though the Perspex divide into sickbay. Kathryn was lying either knocked-out or asleep on a bio-bed while the Doctor worked at the computer terminal with a concerned look on his face. Tom finished the last batch of tests and walked out into the main room.
"What's up doc?" Tom said, half-teasing, half-serious.
*No doubt Lt.Paris has been partaking in more of that 20th Century nonsense* The Doctor thought.
"Take a look at theses holo-images what do you see?"
Tom moved around to the other side of the console and looked at the images displayed on screen, then looked at the sleeping Captain.
"Please tell me these aren't her holo-images" Tom begged.
"I'm afraid they are Mr Paris"
"You can cure it right?"
"There is no cure, all I can do is treat the symptoms" The Doctor said looking as if something terrible had just happened. "Lt. I'm going to wake her up shortly and I think it would be better if you weren't present when I tell her"
Tom Paris nodded his acknowledgment and in a daze left sickbay.
The Doctor sighed and went over to his most troublesome patient. Over the 6 years that he had known her she had skipped medical exams and showed a blatant disregard for her health but know that would all have to change.
"Captain, Captain"
Slowly those blue-grey eyes opened and focused on the Doctor.
"What's the verdict?" Kathryn asked.
"I ran some tests and..." He was a hologram, programmed to be able to carry out all medical duties with a professional detachment but for a second he hesitated, he was about to tell someone he cared about that they were going to die. "...I discovered a growth on your brain, Captain, you have cancer."
Kathryn had a deer caught in the headlights expression on her face.
"You can remove it right?" She said, a faint flicker of hope in her voice.
"I'm sorry Captain....."
Note: I know that cancer is curable in the 24th century but this is AU and for this story some forms of cancer still have no cure.
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