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[sharpestscalpel]

Chekov can't hold the con by himself. Uhura is helping, just to keep some semblance of peace, while Sulu is still recovering. Usually, an attempt like that would have ended with him dead or in the brig instead of in my sickbay, but with Pike and that goddamn pointy-eared bastard gone, the chain of command has gone to hell.

Word has reached the rest of the crew that we're dead in the water. Well, dead in the vacuum at least. Which is not an image of comfort. Nor should it be; space is disease and danger wrapped up in darkness and silence - what the fuck did these little dipshits expect?

And did they expect the Empire to gift wrap them like fine fucking crystal before sending them out into the void? Everyone's all squeamish just because Sulu has weeping patches of skin infection. I told him to take care of those grafts but no. He figured it'd be just goddamn peachy to fuck some tail and completely ignore that the fluid barrier is just good sense. You don't go rubbing someone else's wet stuff in your own damaged tissue.

I mean, for fuck's sake, I thought it was a well-known rule:

If it's wet and sticky and not your own, don't touch it.

Or at least don't be surprised when you pick up some nice little foreign bacteria and they start eating your flesh.

Which reminds me, I need a booster vaccine against blood-born pathogens and the rest of the crew need their shots. Now's as good a time as any.

Comments

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

And what do you do, ma'am?

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Nothing right now. Used to teach and did research in osteology.

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

I take a certain interest in bones myself. Why nothing right now?

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Oh nothing right now is due to a long and rather confusing story. What kind of interest in bones?

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

Let's call it structural integrity.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Really? Prosthetics? I did quite a bit of research in prosthetics before I...well you don't need to know about that.

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

Oh, now, you're just teasing.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Teasing about what? I really did do research in bioengineering!

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

I meant about the thing you seem to keep bringing up and then not telling me about. Now I'm all curious.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Trust me, it's so crazy that even I'm still trying to figure out what happened.

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

I've got two ears.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

The long and short of it is that I've died a while ago. But somehow I'm alive and breathin' here. Isn't that crazy?

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

Really? To borrow a turn of phrase: Fascinating.

Nothing like second chances?

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

One hell of a second chance. I've got a little over a decade to catch up on! I don't even know if my research still exists.

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

No reason to let a little thing like coming back from the dead slow you down.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

True. But still. It's not gonna go over well with my colleagues to say "Hey guys! I'm back from the dead!"

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

Fuck 'em if they can't take, well, not a joke, but a temporary absence like that. Bone doctors'll come around.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

I like your attitude! Yeah, I should tell them that. Like "Sure, I took an extended leave of absence but Dr. Emma McCoy's back in town!"

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

Damn straight.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

So what sort of structural integrity do you do?

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

I do a lot of experimental stress testing. Can't fix it if you don't understand why it breaks, after all.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Exactly! And you can't improve on it until you know what went wrong in the first place! I should hire you for my team if I ever get it back up.

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

Well, ma'am, that's downright flattering. I'd be pleased as punch to be on that list.

[emma-mccoy.livejournal.com]

You know, Lenny's never been excited about my work, so this is a rather refreshing change. It was always about being a doctor with him. I was working on bone marrow regeneration and he would just tune me out like all teenagers do.

[sharpestscalpel.livejournal.com]

Now see, that's just rude. And what kind of doctor doesn't want to learn as much as he can about the internal structure of his patients? The skeleton is fundamental.