"Medical Log, Dr. Miva. Today, we got a very interesting new patient in the Main Hospital. The patient is a human male. Age unknown. Says his name is," the doctor, a female Calafan, read off a chart, "Charles Tucker. Came in with two human females, one has false calloo on her extremities. Also arrived with the elder brother of the High Priestess. Treve has been taken into custody." she paused to clear her throat.
"Now for information on the patient. Patient presents with severe, extensive radiation poisoning and a facial scar approximately four centimeters in length. Radiation poisoning is being treated with Cledden in injectable form. Patient is responding well to treatments. Note: patient may be slightly delusional, as per the human female who does not display false calloo. According to that female, the patient has been incorrectly referring to her as his wife."
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Doug and Malcolm waited in Sick Bay. Doug stood over Lili's bed. She opened her eyes tentatively, and smiled at him weakly. "You know, your eyes are still like stones."
"Yes,” he said, letting out a breath in relief. He came closer to her. She reached out and touched his hand. He bent over her and she touched his face and kissed him.
"I missed you,” she said.
"Did you dream?" he asked. She nodded. "See anyone I know?" he asked.
"Yes. Treve."
"Treve? And how's he doing?"
"He propositioned me, actually."
Doug smiled. "So, uh, what did you tell him?"
"Douglas!" she gasped in mock indignation.
"Hayes, I suspect you're in trouble if she uses your full name,” Malcolm said, hanging back.
"Malcolm?" she asked. "Come here a second. I have a secret to tell you."
Doug straightened up and switched places with Malcolm who said to him, "Do you know anything about this?"
"Nope."
Malcolm came closer and bent over Lili. "Yes?" he asked.
She brought her lips to his ear and whispered, "Thank you for everything you have said, and done, and everything you haven't said. And," she paused, "when it happens for you, I know it will be just as epic." She kissed him on the cheek, close to his mouth, brushing his lips slightly at the opposite corner. He shut his eyes tightly and kissed her back on her cheek, close to her mouth, and for a split second he could tell himself that his mouth was really two and a half centimeters to the left and was really squarely on hers. He put his hand behind her back and lifted her off the bed slightly in a hug.
She broke the embrace first and fell back a bit onto the hospital bed. "Doug?" she asked.
"Yes?"
"Am I all right? When can we be together again, and try again?"
"We can't,” he said, as Malcolm walked back and lightly pushed him back to her. "We just, we can't."
"Where's Dr. Phlox?" she asked.
"I am right here,” Phlox said, parting the curtain in order to join them.
"I'll just. Here,” Malcolm said, parting the curtain and leaving the little bed area. "Masterson, Haddon, you too, Jennifer. Let's wait outside." They followed him to the hallway in front of Sick Bay.
"Doctor, I understand what's happened. That the parts just don't, they don't fit. But what does this mean?" she asked.
"I have repaired your inferior and superior vessicles. Or, rather, I have repaired some of them while most were fused together or rerouted. There was also a hole in the back of the uterine wall. That's been repaired. The cervix is all right but had an abrasion. I also cleared your pelvic cavity of foreign fluid in order to prevent peritonitis."
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Reversal {Star Trek Enterprise Mirror Universe fan fiction}
FanfictionMeet Lili O'Day, sous-chef on the NX-01 Enterprise. Lonely, isolated, and bored, she has little to look forward to, save learning from Chef what's for dinner, until October 28th of 2157, when she begins having interesting dreams. The story continues...