Beware the Dragons

Posted on Wed Jan 10th, 2018 @ 8:58pm by Lieutenant JG Siobahn Fallon & Chief Petty Officer Eries Capillon

Mission: https://wellington.pegasusfleet.site/index.php/sim/missions/id/4
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: Q

Aurore Capillon had always been told that when someone got hurt they went to sickbay to get healed. She had escaped from her quarters while her mother had been engrossed with talking to a friend on the screen and gone on an adventure with her teddy bear Henri, navigating the maze of corridors trying to find where the unicorn lived. And then the worst possible thing happened: Henri had gotten bitten by a dragon (a door that shut on him) and was now leaking his insides (fluff) that she had gathered to the best of her ability. Having gone to sickbay with her mother any number of times, she recognized the surroundings and stumbled through the opening doors, tears running down her face.

Another thing Mere had always told her was to be polite, so Aurore made her way up to the doctor who was reading something from a big book, bigger than she'd ever seen before, and tugged at her skirt, "Madame? C-c-ould I have some help, s'il vous plaît?"

Siobahn looked around the side of the book, took one look at the tear stained face of the little one who was trying so hard to be polite despite the fact that the teddy, who appeared to be mortally wounded was cradled oh so gently in her arms.

Dropping the book, Siobahn quickly moved from her chair and crouched down in front of Aurore. "Oh darlin'," she exclaimed gently. "Quick, bring him over here and put him on this bed, let me take a look. What monster has this brave knight been fighting to have sustained such grievous injuries?" Siobahn questioned, deciding to tackle the issue of the teddy first before she got to the identity of the child.

"It-it-it was a dragon, Madame." Aurore pointed at the door out towards the corridor, "It bit Henri! And, and, and when I tried to rescue him, it hurt heem badly!" Fresh tears streamed down as the girl broke down, sobbing.

Moving back to crouch down in front of the girl after the teddy had been placed oh so gently on the bed, Siobahn took her hand and smiled reassuringly. "Darlin' you have been very brave, but do you think you can be brave a little longer?" she asked gently. "I'm all alone in sickbay right now, and I think I could really use a strong brave girl to help me with Henri's surgery. Do you think you can help me?"

Watching as Aurore nodded through her tears, Siobahn pointed to a set of drawers next to the bio bed. "If you have a look in those drawers, you will find a white coat just like mine. If you grab one of those out, you can officially be my surgical assistant, okay?"

Again, Siobhan watched as Aurore nodded and quickly rushed to the drawers, grabbing one of the white coats out and pulling it on, even though it was many many times too big on her.

"Alright, now that we're both dressed and ready... I'm Siobahn, what's your name darlin'?" she asked gently. "It's always a good thing that we get to know who we're working with before such an important procedure."

Her mood had already changed from absolutely destroyed from the injuries to Henri to glee from dressing up like her mother was so often and she giggled and blushed, "Aurore, Madame Siobahn, Aurore Capillon, and this is Henri." She kept trying to shove her arms all the way through the coats and finally gave up.

Stopping to help Aurore roll up the sleeves of her coat until her hands were visible, Siobahn smiled again. "Alright Nurse Aurore, now, I am goin' to get Henri's medical records up here on my little screen," she said, grabbing a PADD and holding it up, already having searched up the name Aurore Capillon. "While I read up on his medical history very quickly, do you think you can grab him a nice warm blanket from the blanket warmer box over there?" she asked, pointing to another cabinet on the other side of the wall.

As Aurore rushed off excitedly to grab the blanket, Siobahn quickly figured out that Aurore was the daughter of the head nurse of sickbay, Eries. A check with the computer told her that Eries was in her quarters, so Siobahn typed out a quick message to Eries, just to let her know that Aurore was in sickbay, but she was perfectly okay and there was no rush to retrieve her. Setting the PADD aside, she looked back to the bio bed and the little girl that was now lovingly covering her teddy with a warm blanket.

"Alright Nurse Aurore," Siobahn exclaimed, "Let's see what we're workin' with. I trust you're proficient with using a medical tricorder?" she asked, holding one out to the little girl.

"Oui, Madame Docteur Siobahn." She grabbed the tricorder with both hands and fumbled with it before struggling to open it, pushing a couple buttons at random to make it sparkle and beep impressively. "Madame Docteur, eet is telling me he's hurt badly." She giggled, obviously not knowing how to read it.

"Ok, you keep check on him, Nurse Aurore," Siobahn said encouragingly. "Now, I'm going to give Henri a shot, it will help make sure he has no pain. I think brave Sir Henri is going to need a very big operation. Are you ready Nurse Aurore?" She grabbed a hypospray and loaded it with a a cartridge of saline before turning back to Aurore, waiting for her approval before continuing. "Can you hold his hand, Nurse Aurore, while I give him this shot?"

Aurore put down the tricorder and grabbed Henri's paw and began to stroke it gently, "Eet will be all right, Henri, Madame Docteur Siobahn will fix you right up, good as new, oui?" She looked up to Siobahn for confirmation, having missed the 'shot' the doctor had given him.

Slipping the hypospray into her pocket, Siobahn nodded reassuringly toward Aurore. "We are going to do the very best we can for Sir Henri," she said gently. She reached for another tricorder and scanned the teddy bear carefully. He was missing one leg and a large amount of stuffing had been stolen from him, but it shouldn't be terribly hard to fix. Taking some measurements from Teddy's remaining leg, she uploaded them to the replicator in sickbay and set the tricorder aside, before turning her attention back to the little girl.

"Alright Nurse Aurore, Sir Henri is in a bad state. That mean old dragon stole one of his legs and he has some quite severe lacerations across his body, probably from those nasty, nasty teeth." She saw the little girls bottom lip starting to waver and took her hand gently. "Be brave Nurse Aurore, because with your help, we can fix this." she said firmly. "Now, how is Sir Henri hold up? Can you check your tricorder again while I go and get some important surgical supplies from the replicator?"

"Oui, Madame Docteur..." Aurore swallowed hard and fumbled with with the tricorder again, impressively punching buttons at random, trying her best to decipher things, wondering what the big flat line was that was scrolling across the screen. She really, really hoped this nice doctor was going to be able to fix Henri, "He has been with me since I was a little girl." She said, emphasis on the word 'little', "We must save heem."

Biting back a smile at the emphasis that she put on the word little, Siobahn moved to the replicator and picked up a small tray, carrying it back to the bio bed they were occupying, pulling over a table and a small stool, she sank down onto the stool and picked up a needle, threading it carefully with nearly invisible thread. "Now, Nurse Aurore," Siobahn said gently. "You have the most important job to do first. We need to put back some of the squishy that that mean old dragon stole from our brave Sir Henri, but I need you to tell me when we get to just the right level of squishiness, okay?"

Aurore nodded bravely at Siobahn and stood there nervously waiting.

Picking up a white cloth, Siobahn placed it carefully over Henri's eyes so he could 'sleep' and then grabbed the bowl of super soft stuffing, carefully pulling back the blanket to reveal the extent of Henri's wounds. She set the bowl of stuffing on the bio bed and reached for the needle and thread first, quickly taking care of the superficial wounds that may cause stuffing to leak out. Setting the needle aside again she started pushing small amounts of stuffing back into the little teddy's body through the gap where his leg had been ripped off. Each additional bit of stuffing she pushed in, she stopped and looked at Aurore, who gently poked at Henri's body before shaking her head silently. Finally, with the bowl about half empty, Aurore nodded quickly.

"Zat is perfect, Madame Docteur!" She squealed slightly in joy, "And now you must put his leg back on!" Excitement and hope filled her voice now

Picking up the newly replicated leg, Siobahn grabbed the bowl of stuffing and stuffed the leg quickly before using the needle and thread to reattach it to Henri's body. Finally, once Henri had been sewed up and the bowl and needle had been put aside, Siobahn reached into her pocket and pulled out a soft fabric gold star on a purple ribbon and tied it around Henri's neck while he was 'sleeping'. "There you go Nurse Aurore," Siobahn said with a warm smile. "Henri is all fixed up, and he has a gold star for bravely protectin' beautiful princesses from mean old dragons!" She glanced at the door and contemplated for a brief moment. Aurore's mother still hadn't arrived and she didn't feel entirely confident letting the little girl go roaming about the ship on her own again, you know, just in case there were more dragons. She paused for a moment.

"Now, Nurse Aurore, how about you join me for a chocolate milk and some cookies while we wait for Sir Henri to wake from his surgery and you can help me keep guard, just in case more dragons come."

Aurore nodded and jumped off the chair to follow Siobahn, "Can zey be chocolate chip, Madame?"

Siobahn slipped off her white coat, putting it on the end of the bio bed before walking over to the replicator, recycling the left overs from the teddy surgery and ordering a tall glass of chocolate milk and a small plate of cookies and taking them back to the small rolling table next to Teddy's bed before retrieving a rolling chair from the medical office for her to sit on. "Here you go darlin' come sit over here."

As Aurore was set up with her milk and cookies, Siobahn took a few moments to tidy up around the bio bed, listening as the little girl started telling her all about their grand adventure through the ship. Apparently this little one fancied herself something of a unicorn hunter, a fact that made Siobahn smile warmly as she recalled the countless hours she had spent as a child looking for mermaids.

Finally, after the last of the cookies disappeared, leaving just a scattering of crumbs on the plate, Siobahn recycled the plate and the glass before turning to face Aurore again. "Alright, Nurse Aurore, will we check on our patient again?" she asked, holding her hand out toward her littlest nurse. "I think he might be waking up!"

Aurore slid off this chair and grabbed Siobahn's habd and pulled the doctor over to the biobed Henri was laying on, trying to pull herself up onto it to get a really good look at the bear. Behind them, the door slid open and Eries all but ran in, but stopped as she saw what was happening and smiled at them "Madame Docteur," Aurore pleaded, "Is he all right?"

Picking Aurore up carefully and sitting on the edge of the biobed, Siobahn stood next to her, close enough to make sure she wouldn't fall. "You tell me, Nurse Aurore," she said gently. She reached out and pulled away the small white cloth that had been covering teddy's eyes. "Well, it looks like he's awake, so that's a good start." She grabbed the medical tricorder and handed it back to Aurore again and smiled at the child. "Are you ready to see if his wounds have healed?"

As Aurore nodded furiously, opening the tricorder and again stabbing randomly at buttons, Siobahn pulled back the blanket that was covering the bear. The stitches were almost invisible unless you looked very closely, in fact, the only easy tell that something was 'amiss' was the fact that one leg looked slightly newer and fluffier than the rest of the much loved companion. "What do you think Nurse Aurore?" she asked gently. "Do you think Sir Henri will live to fight dragons another day?"

"Oui, Madame Docteur, he will be fine!" Aurore dropped the tricorder and grabbed the bear and squeezed it into a hug, "But he will not be fighting any more dragons, zey are too dangerous!" She released the full hug on the ear, holding it with by one arm, then turned and threw her arms around Siobahn's neck and gave her the biggest hug she could, "Merci, Madame Docteur Siobahn, merci beaucoups!"

With a smile, Siobahn held the little girl and hugged her back. "You're most definitely very welcome darlin'," she replied gently, realising for the first time that Eries was standing at the door watching them. "I am guessin' that that's your Momma," she let go of Aurore and helped her carefully off the bio bed. "It seems Sir Henri had a bit of a misadventure," Siobahn explained, walking across to Eries with Aurore. "But he should be as good as new now, he just needs to stay away from those dragons!" she said, looking down at Aurore and winking quickly.

Eries bent down and Aurore ran and gave her mother a massive hug as well, the nurse picking up the girl, "Thank you, Docteur Fallon, I was talking to my husband on ze comm and Aurore is remarkably quiet when she plays. After I go off ze comm, she was gone and I zen got your message. Thank you very much for watching over her."

Siobhan smiled warmly, “oh, believe me, the pleasure was all mine. She proved herself to be quite the adept little nurse today, she can work with me any time.” She looked at the little girl again who was still clutching her teddy firmly. “Just next time, tell your Momma before you go off adventurin’ Okay darlin’?”

"Oui, Madame Docteur Siobahn." Aurore replied, head against her mother's shoulder, "I promise." She beamed at Siobahn, "And Henri told me he wants to visit you again soon!"

"Well, you will have to bring Henri back in a few days so we can check on his stitches, and make sure he's all fully healed," Siobahn replied easily. "How about you ask your Momma to make an appointment for Henri, at the end of one of my shifts." She looked at Eries and smiled before looking back at Aurore. "I'll see you again real soon Nurse Aurore, you make sure you take good care of Sir Henri for me, okay?"

She smiled as the little girl broke into another huge grin and waved over her mother's retreating shoulder. 'Well, that was definitely an interesting way to pass the last of the afternoon,' she thought to herself as she finished tidying up so she could complete her shift.

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Ensign Siobahn Fallon
Medical Officer
USS Wellington

Chief Petty Officer Eries Capillon
Head Nurse
USS Wellington

Aurore Capillon
Civilian
USS Wellington