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Authors note – See Chapter 1

Breathing Underwater
By:
AngelBabs81 and potterfan2006

Chapter 4

Levin returned to the lab to make sure the samples were placed properly. Content all was well, he talked to a few lab assistants, joking with them, before returning to his quarters to read before bed.

It took Sammie almost 20 minutes to get to her room. She kept having to stop along the way to get her breath back. I must have been really tired. Once she reached her room she fell onto bed and just laid there.

About ten minutes later, she still hadn't drifted off, despite feeling tired. Beginning to feel really strange, Sammie hauled herself out of bed. She knew she had to get help, but she didn't think she could walk, so she stumbled over to the video screen and hoped that she could find Dr. Levin.

She tried his office first, but he wasn't there. Then, she tried his room, praying the whole time that he would pick up there.

Waking from the noise his screen was making, Levin quickly put on a shirt and pants before he answered the call.

Sammie spoke tiredly almost slurring her words, "I am sorry to bother you, but I am not feeling very well." She shook her head to try to clear it.

"It's okay," he soothed, pulling his fingers through his hair to try control it. He looked closely at the vidscreen "Did you want me to come to your quarters or do I need to call a med team to pick you up and take you to med bay?"

Sammie shook her head again, but that was the wrong move. "I don't know.," She swayed dangerously before falling to her knees and passing out cold.

It took a second for Levin to realize what had happened before he disconnected the link, calling a med team to Sammie's quarters as he ran out of his room and to Sammie's quarters. Opening the door, rushed in and knelt at Sammie's side, checking her airway, breathing, and circulation before the medics arrived and took over and transferred her to the med bay. Once at med bay, Levin paged Westphalen, knowing that she was not going to be impressed at the interruption.

Lying in bed with Nathan, Westphalen grunted in discontentment at her name being called. Nathan awoke too and wisely said nothing as she dressed. Westphalen made her way to the med bay and found Levin.

"What is it?" she asked.

"Dr. Williams collapsed," he said, listed the symptom he had noted.

Westphalen nodded in understanding. "All the signs point to one thing," she began and together they concluded, "Decompression sickness."

TBC…