LT Gila Sadar - I Know What You Did Last Mission

[LT Gila Sadar]

(( Primary Sickbay - Deck 7, USS Artemis-A ))

To say that Gila was stressing would be a massive understatement. A stressful LT Sadar wasn’t uncommon in Sickbay, and as such, most of the medical personnel was offering her the grace and space they knew she needed, but they had on idea why she was stressing. Why she was assigning new Doctor to each one of her patients, why she was ensuring that the medical research teams currently working on new projects or data sets were put in order, with all their permits and requests up-to-date, so it would be easily picked up by whomsoever followed.

No, they didn’t know. And that was how Gila liked it. Soon, that ignorance would be broken, but Gila didn’t have the courage to be the one to do it. No. She knew that she would hurt these people - her colleagues, her fellow Doctors - but she had to put things right. She had to.

Which meant there was one conversation she had to handle now. She looked up the duty roster to verify where Doctor Bancroft would be, and saw that he was currently doing maintenance in the Hazard Suite. That would suit her purposes just fine... She needed some degree of privacy for this conversation. Wringing her hands all the while, the tall and lanky Mizarian moved towards the Hazard Suite, mouseying within the sound-proof room to look upon the Human Ensign as he did his work.

Sadar: E-E-E- ::clears throat:: Doctor Bancroft?

Bancroft: Response

Gila nodded slowly, waiting for the Doctor to finish the sensitive adjustments he was making to the Quarantine parameters of the Hazard Suite, before she continued.

Sadar: I-I, uhh... I-I wanted to address something with you.

There was an uneasy silence as she recalled the events at the Battle of Breetia. By all accounts a very violent first mission for any Ensign, and a deeply uncomfortable one for Doctors such as she and Doctor Bancroft, who’d defined their duty by the instinct and need to help and heal. It was this need, this drive to fulfill the duty they’d accepted at the end of Medical School, that often posed a challenge during missions involving less developed-species.

Species like her own... And the Kydonians.

((( Flashback: Battle of Breetia )))
(( Underground - Breetia, Galaris IV ))

Gila followed the Ensigns forward, but an idle inspection of the two Grunden caused her to pause. Considering the fall, the explosion and the shattering of debris, it was statistically unlikely that all three of them would have come down here with no injuries. Especially with a child involved. While Gila was happy to see that all three of them seemed relatively uninjured, she would have expected to see serious injuries on either the child - because of their relative vulnerability - or on the mother - because she would have attempted to shield the child from the worst of their injuries. And yet, there were none.

Moreover, the child was remarkably calm about the fact that their mother was unconscious... That could be explained by Ensign Bancroft rendering psychological aid to the child, assuring her that her mother would wake up soon, but how would he know that, unless...

((( END FLASHBACK )))

Gila still remembered the look in Doctor Bancroft’s eyes. The expression of justified guilt.

Sadar: I-It’s... A-About your conduct with the injured Grunden beneath the shelter. Th-The injured mother and child.

Bancroft: Response

Gila was quiet for a few seconds, twisting her anxiety band as she considered how to approach this subject. She didn’t disagree with his conduct - had she been faced with the same situation just a year ago, she likely would’ve done the same - but now, she wasn’t a junior officer following the lead of a senior. She was the senior. Worse, she was the Assistant Chief. And she needed to consider more than just the emotional aspect.

She had to hold her junior officers accountable.

And no, the irony of that notion was not lost on her, at all. But she’d fix that. Soon.

Sadar: Y-You admit that, initially, they were injured?

Bancroft: Response

TAG/TBC

LT Gila Sadar

Assistant Chief of Medical

USS Artemis-A
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