*****************USS Gott Sick Bay****************** Hawk made his way rather slowly towards sickbay. He had to stop several times and lean against walls or doorways. The small ache in his back had grown little by little over the past hour and remaining repairs. He was going to check back into main engineering after the bulkhead repairs were done. That was until he went to push a "spliced" wall into a tee shape to reinforce an outer bulkhead. He felt something POP in his mid back at that point, (just left of his spine - between his shoulder blades) and it was clear that it was NOT a sprained muscle or laceration. The trip took forever as he began to have a hard time breathing. Bye the time he walked through the door to sick bay he almost collapsed. He sat down on the floor just inside the door and nodded towards PFC Ra'nar. Ra'nar was working on inoculating a crewman on the biobed next to were he parked himself and stopped to regard Hawk, who was obviously in pain. Ra'nar turned to see who had walked though the door of sickbay, to his surprise it was lieutenant Hawk, and to his rather surprise he had not walked thought the door of sickbay so much as fallen though the doors of sickbay. Ra'nar rushed over, "Need some help here!!" He was closely followed by Lucy who helped Ra'nar lift the wounded Engineer onto a biobed. As Ra'nar lifted the man it was clear that he had some kind of serious wound on his back as blood was soaking though the back of his uniform. {What the blazes happened to him??} thought ra'nar as he pulled his Combat knife, cutting open the rear of the uniform. What Ra'nar saw was a cut nothing smaller that 3inchs long, although it was unclear how deep it was. Lucy give him something for the pain and a cortical stimulator to keep him awake. Letting someone fall asleep when they had an unknown amount of blood loss was a dangerous business even when you have state of the art equipment around you. Ra'nar started work on the wound with a micro-regenerator to repair the damage and a laser scapula to remove damaged tissue. "So, what have you been doing to get this little scratch?" Asked Ra'nar as he worked. "Remember my little friends from the warp core incident?" Hawk said rather sheepishly. Ra'nar nodded as he worked the wound on Hawks back. "Well he knocked me down right as I toasted him with a plasma wall. My guess it was a bit more serious than I thought at the time." Hawk said twitching from the pain. Ra'nar stopped for a moment looked around from behind Hawk and said "You THINK it may have been more serious do you. You get knocked down by a two meter tall monster that you KNOW generates toxic wounds and you don't think about telling ANYONE." He began to work and scan Hawk again after giving him a serious look of disbelief. After closing up the wound, Ra'nar went to get 20cc's of the antivirus. Ra'nar injected it into Hawks neck as he sat up in some discomfort. "You will need to take 10cc's every hour for. well for as long as I see fit. Still not sure how much of this stuff you need, working on a trial run basis, 'creating medical history' and all that rubbish." Ra'nar stepped back from him and sat on a biobed posited. "you know after the death of Lieutenant Mctaggert we need all the engineers we can get are hands on. Try not to do something this stupid again." Hawk nodded. "Thanks Ra'nar, I will make it a point to be a little worried about this. I tend to not worry about an injury if I can still get along without treatment. Stuff usually takes place when there is no time to spare, you know. But I will be a little more level headed in the future." "Now you may fill some discomfort, that is only normal. But if the would opens up or turns a different colour, smells funny, extra, extra, come strait back. Like I said this is still new stuff and although most have reacted well with the antitoxin. I have lost two." Said Ra'nar, wondering why he felt bad about two when they had saved so many. ****************************************************** Private First Class Ra'nar ODA 18D, Medical Specialist USS Chimera, NCC-98699 Starfleet Special Forces -&- LT jg Hawk Versey AEO USS Chimera