Lt. Commander Foster - Not Nothing
Jamie LeBlanc
((Sickbay, Deck 5 - USS Icarus))
Cade couldn’t quite explain what he felt, only that he felt… something.
He didn’t exactly believe in extrasensory perception, and he would also admit that he wasn’t exactly great at regular perception either. He had been, in his youth, the kind of gangly young medical student who got so lost in a rabbit hole of medical studies that he would forget to eat or sleep regularly and might hiss at the actual sunshine.
It was one of the reasons he always scanned everything. He didn’t trust that his regular five senses would pick up all relevant information, but he had a handy tool in the palm of his hands that would fill in any of his weak points for him.
Foster: Maybe something or someone survived. In a way that isn’t what we would call life.
But gut feelings? Cade hated them, but over the years he had learned to trust them. His gut said that something was here.
Brexis: I can feel something.
Lystra: Like what? The willies? Creeps? Heebie-jeebies? Cause I’m right there with you.
Brexis: I don’t know what it is. I’ve… I’ve never felt anything like this before.
Which was a rather disconcerting statement for a telepath to make.
Lystra: Is it something alive?
Foster: Sentient?
He watched as emotion seemed to flood her, her facial muscles twitches, her body tensed.
Brexis: Whatever is– or was here it’s not very happy…
Lystra: Yep, the phaser’s staying out this time.
Cade ventured a step forward peering into the CMO’s office, wondering if there was anything that might provide more clues.
Because when you were confused it was time for more clues.
The inside was another mess of floating objects hovering around the floating chair like little planets in orbit of a star.
Foster: Another floating mess in here…
He murmured, mostly to himself.
Lystra: If you want me to holster the phaser I can, there’s no need to be upset with me.
Stopping, he pulled his head out of the office and looked at Lytsra.
Brexis: No one said anything…
Foster: Did you hear a voice?
He thought he heard a voice. And then it faded. Maybe he had imagined he heard a voice. But still he remembered hearing something…
Something no one else could hear.
Lystra: Cade…I think you may be right.. Charlotte, you said you can sense something right? Are you able to communicate telepathically or are you just empathic? Can Betazoids talk with ghosts? ::she asked wryly:: Oooh, looks like someone had some non-regulation medicine in their drawers. ::she giggled::
Cade perked a brow at that. Scotch. It had been old when the Icarus launched. It was very old now. Someone had expensive taste – and a very good connection to get such a bottle.
Brexis: Well, ::her eyes following the bottle as it floated:: I am full Betazoid. Telepathic and empathic. I have some pretty heavy mental walls I keep up, but whatever I’m feeling is… different. I’ve never felt this. It’s like some kind of static and a lot of confusion. I’m sorry, I can’t really explain it better than that.
Lystra: ?
Cade reached out, catching the bottle in one gloved hand and turned it over.
Foster: Tribbles and scotch. An odd combination. Neither regulation. Though the bottle hasn’t been opened.
Brexis: Are we going to celebrate after this is all over? ::Rubbing the back of her neck as best as she could through the suit:: This is making my head hurt.
Foster: I’m game if you are. I’ll put it in a sample case just in case we have any more… gravity issues.
If they could solve the mystery of the Icarus he figured they deserve this bottle of scotch.
Lystra: ?
Brexis: What in the Four Hells was that?!
That gvot him to snap towards Brexis, moving forward.
Foster: What happened? Are you OK?
Brexis: I felt someone standing right in front of me!
He raised his trusty tricorder and frowned, focusing on the readings.
Lystra: ?
Foster: No… not nothing. There are no lifesigns, true. But there’s a decaying amount of Teleron radiation, as if there was a burst right at the time that Lieutenant Brexis felt the presence.
Lystra/Brexis: ?
Foster: Teleron radiation has been connected to time displacement and subspace rifts. Problematically it’s a by product, not a cause. So it’s more useful in tracking rather than controlling.
Lystra/Brexis: ?
Foster: If they did enter a subspace rift and something went wrong it’s possible that some of the crew survived. Though I hesitate to define some. It could be some of the fifty that were originally on the Icarus, or it could be some of each individual crew remained like an imprint without a whole body.
Rifts and anomalies were strange things that could do very bad things to bodies.
Lystra/Brexis: ?
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tags/tbc
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Lt. Commander Cade Foster
Chief Medical Officer
~Julian Beck
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