A Post By Lieutenant JG Jonathon Kirk & Commander Delenna Pierce-T`Sorach & Rear Admiral Jason Roberts
John looked around the cave and saw the doc with one of his security specialists. He waved over Ens Khonnin to where he was at. " So how's everything going Khonnin? Any problems?" He asked as he shifted wait off his stunned butt and cut and bleeding leg.
Khonnin looked at his chief and shook his head. "No problems sir, just got some food and water for the rest of the away team," he said.
John nodded. " Good, then that means I can go over and have the Doc take a look at me, if she isn't too busy." He slowly pulled himself up and limped over to where the Commander was. "Hey Doc, you got a few minutes to give me a quick lookover?"
Arching an eyebrow, she agreed while the medically trained Pierce blues gave the new arrival a once over. "Sure, but the name's Delenna. Use it, John." Pulling the Feinberger from the medkit, she pointed it briefly at Khonnin before beginning to scan the CSec. "You too," she reminded him for the second time that day. "Where's everyone else," she asked John. "We thought you'd all be back by now." Without looking up, she noticed that the sun had begun its descent from the sky.
John nodded his head. " I'm sorry Delenna, well Duck and I just got back from getting shot at by Kazon and Dominion soldiers, I haven't seen Ash or the pilot who crashed. But hey I'm sure they are on their way back."
As always, Delenna focussed on her work, so as not to dwell on the things she couldn't change. "That's quite a burn on your posterior John. Let me get the dermaline....oh, that's right, I haven't got any dermaline....um....let's see.." her thoughts trailed off, wondering what she could do for him.
John laughed at her comment. " Don't worry about that burn. That was a gift from our oh so powerful Duck for calling him Gump. The one that's killing me the most is the knife wound on my right leg. If we even have some alcohol and pieces of cloth to cover the wound I'll be ok till we get back to the ship." He said with a slight chuckle.
"Knife wound, right." she continued to think out loud and switched to the anabolic protoplaser to repair the stab wound. "Hold still," she directed while activating the tool.
"They should be here soon...and I shot you for lettin' me get shot," Jason piped in from a corner with a smirk and crossed his arms over his chest since he couldn't sit.
John shook his head with a smile. "Well Duck, I was firing as much as I could...owwww, dang Hawkeye, be careful with the leg I need it to walk my dog," he said with a wince and a chuckle.
"Did you whine like this for the Kazon," she gently joked, but redoubled her effort on his wound. She couldn't help it, the tool in her hand had wavered a bit. Ever since John had mentioned returning to the ship, her thoughts had drifted to her son. He was aboard the ship without her, and she was unable to contact anyone there. She also knew the CO was in the same situation and might've had more luck getting in touch. "Has anyone made contact with the ship?"
Jason chuckled then his smile faded a little and he shook his head, "no, it's still out of range," he said and ran a hand through his hair. "We can't worry about them for now though, we're not gonna be any help if we go back in body bags," he added after seeing her hand shake.
Delenna barely nodded and remained focussed on her work. She knew how crucial a doctor's presence on this away mission could be, and couldn't afford to be distracted. She'd gotten the CO's point loud and clear.
John looked at the doctor and saw the look in her eyes. " Don't worry Hawkeye. Everything will be fine. But Duck, we do need a game plan on what's going to be our next move. Or I can pull out the marshmallows and make a fire here."
Khonnin looked over from where he'd had the lizard meat roasting on a makeshift rotisserie over phaser heated stones. "Food's done," he mentioned while leaning the long pike containing the meat against the cave wall to cool. If there were a plan, he wanted to hear it too, but knew that much had gone wrong on this mission and that Duck hadn't had a whole lot of time to think while getting shot at. Perhaps a plan hadn't even been thought of yet. A sudden wave of nausea convinced him it was time to sit for a minute.
Still intent on the CSec's knife wound, the CMO hadn't noticed.
"Start singing row row your boat and break out the marshmellows," he replied with a shrug, "our first objective is to reqroup, we're not doing anything until Ash and Corbin get here. From there, we'll see."
Rear Admiral Jason Roberts
Commanding Officer [First Force Special Operations Commander]
USS Enterprise [Starfleet Command]
Enterprise Battle Group Commander
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Lieutenant (j.g.) Johnathon Kirk
Chief Security Officer
USS Enterprise
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Commander Delenna T'Sorach Pierce
Chief Medical Officer
USS Enterprise