=/\= Begin Log =/\= "That sounds good." Rangi followed Athena and they went towards the replicator. Athena takes the glass of water and drinks some of the soothing liquid. Her thoughts far away from where she was at the moment. Her thought were interrupted though as a message came into the sickbay. Rangi almost choked on her water and looked towards the computer when it signaled an incoming message. She glanced at Athena. "Guzman to Sickbay! Prepare for wounded, there was an explosion in the armory. Three wounded ..." said an excited voice of the XO from the comm Channel. After a second the bluish effect from an emergency site-to-site transport materialized four persons right in the middle of the sickbay. Three laying with various injuries on the floor, one stood with a burned face, it being Shane. Rangi gasped in horror and ran towards the group. "Athena...help here," she called as she reached them. "Shane?" She looked up at him and then at the other three. Athena looked at the three bodies laying on the floor she looked at the first one she came to unconscious, one of the new members to the crew. {damn, I wish I could remember his name at the moment.} Some minor burns and a small gash on his head. Shane opened his mouth only to choke for a second. Then he bursted out: "There was an explosion in the armory, Richards, Severin Jascar and Peter Longser. All unconscious, with burns all over the body ..." Shane's face turned pale like a ghost's and he had to lead at the wall, not to fall to the floor. Rangi had already recognized Rob and was kneeling beside him on the floor. She glanced up at Shane. "Sit" she said sharply thinking he would collapse at any moment by the look of him. "Ann?" she turned to the nurse who had run towards them holding tricorders in her hands "...tend to Lt. guzman.." "Rangi..i'll help you with him " said Scott Fisher as he approached. "His legs broken and....two ribs..." she added running the scan across robs body. His right lung is punctured..." Athena ignored what they were saying the best she could and help get Jascar to a bed with the help of a nurse and a white sheet. Then she moved to asses what she could have Peter. Other than his burns Athena saw no immediate reason for him to be unconscious. Again with the help of a nurse, Athena helped to get the injured man to a bed. She passed on what she could tell by visual assessment onto Rangi and then helped Shane to sit on the remaining bio bed next to Rob. Shane nodded to Athena and the nurse. "I am fine" he said even when his face betrayed him. Truthfully he was feeling quite bad, but he kept thinking that his crew came first. He blinked and focused at Athena: "I am right, please take care about the others ... the explosion was quite huge and they were quite near ..." Rangi glanced at Shane with a worried look across her face. {{He isn't 'fine' }} she thought {Not at all...} Turning back to Scott she said, "Get the protoplaser...." Athena made Shane lay down and grabbed a packet of cooling gel. She laid the sheet of cooling gel on the burned portion of Shane's face and then went to see what she could do for the others to ease his mind if nothing else. Shane mumbled a quiet "Thanks" to Athena and tied to focus on the ceiling ... but with little effort. His eyesight kept loosing the sharpness and his head got continually heavier. {The crew ...} went through his head as he tried to sit up on the biobed to assist the doctors in their work. Rangi's eyes darted across to where the XO sat swaying on the side of the bed. "Athena...get him to lay down.." As a team she and Scott began treating Lt. Richards, one working on the broken bones the other on his lung. After a few minutes the sound of his labored breathing grew less. "How are the others doing," she asked the room in general. Athena gave a sigh and a curt nod. She walked over to Shane and whispered, "Either lay down or I'm strapping you to the bed." She hated to bother Rangi but asked, "If I use a dermal regenerator on this burn will he be all right." Shane wasn't really listening to what he was told. In his currently state he didn't even recognized the person standing next to him. He tried to sit up but two small hands caught him and softly but definitely pushed him down the biobed. "What the ..." he whispered. "If the burns aren't too deep then yes," Rangi replied. "He needs Cordrazine...Scott? will you please?.." She turned and crossed to where Shane lay as the second doctor gave full attention to Rob. "Lie still Shane," she said quietly. "You'll be all right. "What does then scan say," she asked Athena. Athena flipped the scan toward Rangi and waited for her reply. She had just gotten the OK from Rangi and began to slowly work on Shane's face when there was a groan from the next bed. Shane closed his eyes to help the treatment to work. Now, while blinded his ears sharpened and he jerked a bit as he heard the loud groan from his left. He wanted to move on, but the small hand still hold him 'pinned' down on the bed. "Rangi?" Scott called her back to Rob's bed. "Where am I?" Rob managed to gasp. "Rangi?...where am i?...and Jascar..." "You're in sickbay.." "Guzman?..." "He's alright.." "Athena?" Rangi was puzzled. {He thinks Athena was there?} but realized he must have heard the counselor's voice. Athena concentrated on what she was doing but at the sound of her name said, "Yes," thinking that somebody might need her. Shane started to feel finally a bit better. His face stopped hurting him ... his head cleared a bit, his thoughts were no more scattered all around. he kept his eyes closed and now was able to understand what the voices around him were saying. {I must know how are the others ...} he thought. Rob relaxed his feeble grasp of Rangi's sleeve as she read the overbed display. She sighed with relief. "How are the others," she asked the nurse. "Stable," came the reply, Rangi and Scott exchanged small smiles. "And how are you," she asked Shane as she neared the side of his bed. "They're are fine," Athena answered Shane's unasked question as she finished attending to his injuries. "Is that any better," she asked as she released the grip she used to hold him down. Shane wearily nodded. "I am feeling much better, thank you Athena," said Shane towards her. Beaming a smile at Rangi he said it again: "I am fine Rangi, thank you." He swallowed hard and added, "I am very happy you handled this so quick ... It looked quite bad down there in the armory ... an explosives load was malfunctioning ..." "Sounds as if you were lucky then. "She smiled back at him, glanced across at Rob and told Shane, "He's the worst...but he'll be OK. Sure you're feeling better?" Athena looked at Rob and then excused herself. She walked over to the replicator and got herself an ice water. She took a couple of slow swallows as she leaned against the wall. With some effort Shane beamed a smile at Rangi. It was a bit odd to do that in front of Rob and the others, but he did not cared. "I am fine Rangi, really I am. I will just lie here for a while and I will be soon ready to go ..." He looked over the others injured and Athena leaned against the wall. "There are others that need you more then me Rangi ..." he said, "please take care about them first ..." She smiled at him and turned to the other beds, checking each injured man in turn. No one was too badly hurt, except perhaps for rob who seemed to have taken the worst of the 'blast'. At length Rangi stopped beside Athena. "Thank you for your help." she said quietly and followed Athena's eyes to where they were fixed...on Rob. Rangi looked back at her. "And are you OK?" "I was glad to help," Athena replied and met Rangi's gaze briefly before looking back at Rob. "And I'm fine." It seemed with those words Athena was not only done speaking but totally lost somewhere else. Athena watched mindlessly as the medical personnel went away now that the emergency was over and the room quieted. Athena said, "Rob wants you," from her trancelike state. Rangi glanced at her and to rob, who lay sleeping, not understanding what she meant. "He wants me?" she queried "He's not asleep, he wants to talk to you. The others are comfortable though," Athena continued. Athena was tuned into their minds making sure they were at peace and Rob wasn't, but to be reading people at this level Athena had trouble responding to the questions of the present. Rangi's face showed concern "I don't think she's slept much..or eaten today ...perhaps ..." Shane nodded and took Athena's arm. "Come with me," he told her and began to lead her away towards Rangi's office. He smiled at Rangi, "I'll take care of her." Rangi smiled back "I'll be there soon.." she said and watched their slow progress out of the bay. Turning back to Rob she moved towards the biobed. =/\= End Log =/\= Lt. Shane Guzman XO Uss Chimera & LtJg. Rangi Summers CMO USS Chimera & Lt. Athena Wellington Ship's Counselor USS Chimera