-=/\=- Sickbay -=/\=- MaiKai awoke from a short nap in hopes of regaining strength. Steve Desoto had done some extensive work on her knee and a pretty, damn good check up as well. She swung her legs over the edge of her biobed and moved them back and forth; she was amusing herself. After a while of thinking, Mai decided to step off the bed and go back to her Quarters: 1 reason: was to check up on Kaine, her pitbull, and 2: was to get ready to dock onto the SB Bragg for some R&R. Steve noticed her movement and hurried over to her before she could leave. "I didn't say you were free to go?", he said in a harsh tone with a sly grin. Mai sighed, "Oh please ... Well, can I go now?" MaiKai felt like a little child being watched or stalked over. She added a grin as she saw Steve's face and knew that her knee was well enough to walk on and go see Kaine. "Yes, you may go now. Just remember: That just because you work here, doesn't give you the authorization to leave when you become a patient, here, whenever you feel like it." Mai nodded in her understanding of his lecture and headed out the Sickbay doors. -=/\=- Quiocho's Quarters -=/\=- MaiKai reached her door after, what seemed like, serious hiking through corridors and using the lifts to get around. She punched in her access code and squinted her left eye as some pain came to it from it's bruising. The door made it's original sound of a swish and saw the big dog's head tilt as he also heard the sound of it sliding. Kaine looked Mai dead in the eyes and knew it was his master that he hadn't seen in ... forever! He bounded to the door and knocked her down once she had stepped in making her crash to the floor on her knees. MaiKai, however, didn't wince at the pain, bit instead petted her dog as he gave her lavish kisses with his tongue. "It's good to see you too boy," she stood up and smiled down at the dog that came up to her hips and remembered how big he had been and how she missed Kaine taking care of her when she had a bad day. Mai thought a change of clothes and hot shower was in order since she hadn't had either since the whole Kenzti, Warbird, and Romulan thing had started ... and ended. Feeling relieved of that, she thought she would do one small favor for herself before doing the whole shower and getting dressed. MaiKai pulled a bag out from under her bed ... and opened it. In it was a resemblance of one of those huge punching bags for serious martial artists that would hang it from their ceiling so they could practice their kicks, punches, and even screams. Remembering the good old days, when Mai had received a black belt in karate and started kick boxing a few years back in Hawaii, Earth before joining the Academy, MaiKai thought it would be great to start it all up again so she could stay fit and be ready for the next mission that needed her for a medic, just in case, so she would be ready for combat this time around. After a few hours of assembling 'the bag," Mai looked at it in amazement and nodded with what she felt of satisfaction. She took her shower for about 45 minutes and got out and dressed for bed in her usual bed time attire: a tank top and short shorts. MaiKai walked over to her bed and sat on the edge of it, then laid back and sighed as she felt the comfort of a nice, big bed again. Kaine, at the foot of the bed, was already covered in his own blanket Mai had gotten him for his first birthday back home. He gathered it up and pulled it up onto the bed with him. Kaine walked to the side of MaiKai and covered her up with the blanket as she had fallen asleep. Then he too cuddled up to his tuckered out master. -=/\=- End Log -=/\=- LtJg. MaiKai Quiocho AMO USS Chimera