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| Gazelle Girabaldi | Jun 26 2013, 06:13 PM Post #196 |
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"Don't thank me yet. It's bad luck." Gazelle smiled a little, tucking the second PADD into the pocket of her lab coat. She'd read it later, once she was sure the serum had actually done something to ease some of Zerna's symptoms. |
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| Eneas Clio | Jun 28 2013, 02:07 AM Post #197 |
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((This post follows the "chance encounter" topic.)) As Trinity was leaving, Clio came back in, with Selene close behind. Before she could say anything, Gazelle immediately cut her off, pointing at the door. "No way. Go back the way you came... every time you come in here, something weird happens." Gazelle shook her head. "Besides, you keep breaking things." "I'm not going to break anything. I need to talk to you... privately." Clio paused, giving her a pleading look. "Please?" Puzzled, Gazelle nodded slightly. "Okay then. You know where my office is... is that one of Ting's cups? She let you leave with it?" "Director's privilege. And I told her I'd bring it back." Clio smirked slightly, stepping around Gazelle to head toward the office in the corner. "You're letting this 'acting director' thing go to your head," Gazelle muttered at her, following her to the office and then locking the door behind them. "Okay, so what's so important anyway?" "Well..." Clio hesitated, biting her lip. "I need you to do a pregnancy test." Gazelle stared at her. "You need me to do what?" "A pregnancy test. Before the accident we... uh... well." Clio chuckled a little. "We had sex. Twice... and that was about a week ago now. I was just talking with Aglaia - the mark II android, not the ship - and she did one of those tactile scan things on me..." "And she told you you're pregnant, like she did to Jhu." "Yes! Exactly... so... I need you to double-check. I mean, I trust her. But I wanted to get some kind of confirmation on it." "I thought Starfleet Medical told you you'd never have to worry about accidental pregnancies?" Curious about this new situation, Gazelle pulled out her tricorder to start the scan. "They did, but Aglaia mentioned something about 'matriarch age.' And I have noticed that there aren't many Cervan women my age still in their military. They go home." "Sounds like you might need to seek out your older self and get some information, if she'll give it." To Gazelle's surprise, her initial scans revealed relatively high levels of the Cervan variant on the HCG hormone. "Well... the hormone is definitely there. Let me see if I can find the baby... might be too early but with this much of the hormone... are you sure it's only been about a week since the first time you had sex with him?" "Yeah. I'm sure... it was the first time he even responded to me that way." She paused, finding a small table to set her now empty tea cup down on. "Um... can I sit down?" "Sure." Gazelle gently guided her into a chair before turning her attention back to her careful scan of Clio's belly. "Wait... you're not gonna puke on me, are you?" "No. Just kinda light-headed." "Probably your blood sugar. When's the last time you ate something?" "Right before I came here." "Persistent low blood sugar then. You know... you're going to have to eat now, even if you're not hungry." She paused, freezing the scan in place and handing the tricorder to Clio. "There's your kiddo. Bigger than most at this age, but still not much detail to be seen. But you're definitely pregnant." "Believe me, I'll eat now." Looking at the tiny image, Clio smiled a little as a tear escaped her eye. "I thought I might have lost my chance at raising that little girl." "You didn't." Gazelle grinned at her, gently taking the tricorder from her hands. "I know you don't think you're ready yet, but look at it as a bit of positivity in the middle of this mess. A reason to keep hoping." "Yeah... yeah, I will. Thank you." Clio got up and gave her friend a hug before heading back out into the main sickbay area, grabbing the empty tea cup on her way out. She'd talk to Zerna about what she'd found out... but first she had some things to take care of. Halfway through the doorway, she paused and turned around again. "I almost forgot. My shoulder's getting worse... it was hurting me so much during lunch that I actually let Aglaia temporarily kill the nerve so that the pain would stop. And this time... I want one of those fancy bio-engineered cloned joints, if you can do that." "Sure, I can do that. I have the template and a few samples of your DNA... I'll get the culture started this afternoon. It should be ready in another week or two." "Awesome. Make the appointment... I'll keep it." Without waiting for a response, she continued on her way. Edited by Eneas Clio, Jun 28 2013, 02:26 AM.
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| Karen Moodey | Jun 28 2013, 02:10 PM Post #198 |
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Karen walked over with some of the lab reports and noticed Clio walking out of the room. "She actually left on her own, without you shooing her out? What'd you tell her?" she chuckled. "Here's the lab results and Hank is taking me out for lunch, bring you back anything? Sandwhich? Soup? Hunky intel agent?" |
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| Gazelle Girabaldi | Jun 28 2013, 02:27 PM Post #199 |
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"If wherever he's taking you has some variation on black bean soup, that would be great." Gazelle glanced in the direction that Clio had gone, shaking her head slightly. "And she'll probably be mad at me for telling you, but she just found out she's pregnant. Don't tell anyone though... most mothers want to keep it a secret for a while." |
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| Eneas Clio | Jun 30 2013, 02:26 PM Post #200 |
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((Anything I put here about Zerna's reactions has been suggested or approved by the writer. ))~ A day later ~ After spending the night at home and finding Gazelle's message on her comm unit, Clio didn't bother going to the station. Instead, she went directly to the Mount and made her way through the unfamiliar corridors that led to its medical bay, deep inside the mountain where it was protected not only by transport inhibitors and dampening fields but by the heavy concentration of kelbonite in the mountain's core. The small hospital was nearly impossible to scan from outside, which made it an ideal place to hide someone that they didn't want found in such vulnerable condition. The Mount's medical bay didn't have separate rooms, but the section they'd walled off for Zerna was in one of the back corners. She reached it just as Gazelle was leaving, dodging out of the other woman's way. "Klutz. Watch where you're going." "Well good morning to you too. Didn't expect to see you here this-- what the hell did you do to your hand?" Gazelle gently grabbed Clio's arm, raising it so she could look at the unusual bruising on her friend's hand. "I... broke it." "On what?" Giving Clio an exasperated look, Gazelle swapped out her tricorder for the miniature hand-held bone knitter. "That's an interesting story, but I don't think you really want to hear it." "You're not getting off that easy." Clio rolled her eyes. "All right, fine. I was at home... Jara came by... and I don't really know how to explain what he did, just that it helped." Gazelle started at her. "Are you telling me that you beat him up? Really?" "I had permission. Besides, he has that healing thing he does, and it was better than hitting a wall." "Well... okay. But next time... stick to holograms. It's safer." Gazelle tucked her miniature bone knitter into her pocket. "It'll be sore for a while, but you'll be fine. By the way, I had someone put a desk in there for you. That way you can get some work done while you're here." "About time you gave up on kicking me out." Clio snickered at her. "And thank you... I was going to have that done today, but now it's one thing off my list." Gazelle raised an eyebrow at her. "You're acting weird. Is everything okay?" "Everything's fine. I'm okay." Knowing Gazelle didn't believe her, Clio gave her a more serious look. "I slept all last night, I ate a decent breakfast, and I feel better than I have all week. Can I talk to him?" "Sure. If you need anything, let us know." Still giving Clio a curious look, Gazelle continued on her way to her temporary office in the strange new medical bay." As Gazelle walked away, Clio slipped past the partition they'd set up to separate Zerna from the rest of the bay. Once inside, she was surprised to find not only the promised desk but also a comfortable chair on one side of Zerna's bed and a second bed on the other. She chose the chair and sat down, giving him a careful look. The makeshift lightning rod was gone, replaced by a simple wire connected to his hand that ran into the stone underneath the medical bay's concrete floor. Gone also was the bone knitter, which she'd heard hadn't been working anyway. There was instead a bag of pale yellow fluid hanging next to his saline drip. Curious, she looked at it but found no label. Weird. Wonder what that is. Deciding she could ask Gazelle what it was later, she turned her attention back to Zerna's face. There wasn't any change there, not that she'd expected to find any. Still, she'd promised to tell him, even if she thought he wouldn't hear. She gingerly touched his hand to be sure he wasn't going to shock her despite the grounding wire and then she slipped her hand into his and leaned close to him. "Hey. I don't know if you can hear me... or if you even know I'm here. But... there's something you should know." She paused and then lowered her voice to barely above a whisper, so that no one could overhear. "You're going to be a father. I found out yesterday... something about Matriarch age. I don't really understand it either." She kissed him and then brushed his hair back off his face. "I want you to be there when the baby's born. So you'd better wake up." He didn't move or open his eyes, but she'd come to expect that. What she didn't expect was the single tear that managed to escape from his eye. She gently wiped it away, smiling a little as she did so. |
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