Waking into the light.

Posted on Thu Jan 6th, 2022 @ 2:40pm by Lieutenant Commander Shoniara T’ghann-Travis Dr & Commander Jonathan Grayson & Commander Samantha Howard & Lieutenant Commander Callie Raven-Grayson & Petty Officer 1st Class Amethyst Reece

Mission: Sinister Intentions
Location: USS Washington. Sickbay.
Timeline: On return from mission, prior to smoke and mirrors

Sickbay had been relatively quiet overnight, once various surgeries were over. Alarms still went off and then there was a mad flurry but so far nothing that was not expected. Dex had been up with Jon and Callie all night. She had sent Amythest off to bed as the nurse was dead on her feet and did not have the Vulcan reserves she had. In a couple of hours Alpha shift would appear the lights would go up and the night team would go off to bed.
“Not me” she said to no one in particular.

She moved over to Callie, she had forced Sam to go to bed telling her there was not much point in them both being here and that either one of them should remain here on shift for the next day or so. She checked on Callie and began to taper her sedation down. Her labs were fine and her blood pressure had been on the slight sub side of normal for a couple of hours now. Her surgery had gone well and Sam had managed to save Callie’s uterus so she could still have the chance of children. Dex wondered how their little boy was doing staying with a school friend loosing his parents and now another.

She put a hand on her friend’s shoulder. Wake up soon Callie, then we can start to heal your mind. She wondered what harm T’Vall had done to her and was resolved to get her friends back to the family they were now. Callie’s sedation would finish in three hours and then they would see.

" Mornin all" Commander Sam Howard walked through the door at 0500 hours, having grabbed a few hours kip and was back to check on her patients. " Dex, what are you still doing up?" She sent a moderate level glare towards her ACMO.

“Good morning Doctor, I wanted to be here when we begin to wake both of them. I thought a senior should be here until such a time as they are more stable.” She walked over to Jon, “Commander Grayson has had as good a night as he could, his blood pressure is not as wonderful as I would like but as he had such an insult to his heart I am not surprised. Fractures are beginning to heal nicely, no bleeding from graft site. I wanted to reduce his sedation, give him a chance to wake slowly he has been in isotrophic restraints since his surgery,” Dex shrugged, “I just wanted to be SURE he did not move.”

Sam swung by the replicator for an extra strong coffee as she rounded to where the two patients were recovering " And our intrepid counsellor?" She asked, having done the surgery on Callie herself.

Jon in his still ghostly form stood next to Dex, his arms folded across his chest. "Yes, Dr. Dex, how about our intrepid counselor and the love of my life." He asked.

“Our ‘intrepid Counsellor’ as you so succinctly put it is doing much better than her other half. All are in the green, no alarms. labs are fine, now we just have to fix her brain and get her back to her son and husband. I think we should wake her soon.”

"Well no time like the present Dex. Get to walking Callie, so I can see my sweetie's baby blues." Jon smirked.

‘I think we should try to wake them both” Dex said but I must admit I need a break. I think We should give Jon a little more time prior to waking him, and I would like to do that. If you do not mind Doctor could you wake Callie. I do need to speak to her when she is awake as I have been researching into T’Vall’s last word ‘Kohlinar’ the process of reaching absolute logic. I believe that is the way to help her. Maybe she will be absolutely fine. I know Jon is the person she loves most but we have to remember his mind has been injured also.

She stumbled slightly, “however I need a rest, if you will let me leave for a break maybe a bit of training in the Holodeck that would be most effective.

Dex walked over to Jon, healing and becoming more stable looking peaceful and serene. She put her hand on his arm. “Stay with us Jon, we will get there, remember you have a family to be with, as well as good friends to hold you when you need it. I am going for a break, Sam is going to wake Callie shortly and I will return to wake you. Hang in there Commander.”

Jon stood alongside Dex, "Damn, I look bad Dex, couldn't you have least fixed some of the bruises?" he teased before getting serious. "I don't know if I want to come back. I caused a lot of problems for the Captain. When all I wanted was to save Callie. Was that wrong?" His ghostly question unanswered. "I'll tell you this though, I would do it again. To save Callie." He picked up her hand and kissed it. "You have proved to be an amazing doctor and an even more amazing friend, I'm glad I got to know you Dex."

Amethyst stood ready alongside Callie’s bed ready incase if any problems when she awoke. She smiled as she looked between the two injured officers. “I wish I had what the two of you have, it’s so special.” She tapped the PADD She was holding inputting the latest biobed readings.

Sam grabbed her tricorder and hypospray, rounding the biobed to Callie's side and pressing the medication into her carotid artery. It would take a few moments for the medication to reverse the sedative, allowing Callie to wake on her own.

The biobed readings slowly fluctuated as Callie started to awake, at first she wasn’t sure where she was until her eyes settled on Sam. “S...Sam?” Her eyes looked around before she saw Jon lying in a bed right beside her. “Jon!” She went to sit up before her body protested, making her lie back again. “What happened!?”

Jon in ghostly form stood beside Callie's bed. He knew she could see and hear him even if the others couldn't. "Hey there pretty lady, welcome back. You just rest and everything is going to be just fine." As he bent forward and kissed her softly. "I love you Callie Grayson and always will. I'm glad I was able to save you."

Callie relaxed seeing Jon, and feeling his kiss. She wasn’t sure if she was imagining it or not, but she didn’t say anything for fear of others thinking she was crazy. *I love you too Jon, just wake up and be with me!*

Jon stroked Callie's cheek and forehead. "You get better Callie and remember I love you forever."

Sam kept monitoring both of them, hoping to catch any alarms before they become problems. It would hopefully be a smooth road to recovery.

Dex walked back into sickbay following a walk with Puss a shower and a quick bite to eat. She saw Callie awake and she beamed at her. She went over and hugged her. “Callie, you’re awake, how are you feeling?”

Callie gave her friend a Gentle hug back. “Glad to be home Shon. I just wish Jon was alright.”

Dex prepared to attempt to wake Jon. She activated the privacy screen so Callie would not see the attempts. Jon still had a lot of healing from the trauma he had sustained from T’Vall.
“Amethyst, can you help prepare the Commander for waking, please release the restraints and monitor his vitals as I administer the Diullian.

“Of course Doctor” Amethyst nodded and smiled. Releasing the biobed restraint system she stood ready monitoring vitals.

Dex loaded the hypo and depressed it into Jon’s carotid artery.

“Readings fluctuating, but nothing to worry about yet” Amethyst offered a hopeful smile.

The two stood there waiting Jon should be showing signs of recovery by now, at least some movement. She began a deeper scan of his bio systems finding no problems, then an alarm sounded. She scanned his neural activity and found none. Dex went cold. “Amethyst please perform a scan of the Commanders midbrain please as quick as you can?”

Jon stood beside Dex as the alarm sounded. "Well, that's not good. What are you going to do Dex? Callie is waiting for me to wake up. So whatever you are going to do better make it quick. Just saying."

Amethyst ran the scan handing the results to Dex.

With the privacy screen up Callie couldn’t see what was happening, stubborn as she was she slowly moved out of bed. Her legs were pretty weak so she held onto Jon’s bed as she appeared at the foot end. “Jon...please don’t leave me!”

Amethyst rushed around to support Callie, last thing they’d need was for her to fall and injure herself. “You should be in bed.”

Callie looked at Amethyst, “I’m NOT going anywhere until my husband is awake!”

Dex turned saw her and looked stern. “Callie Raven-Grayson, get back to bed this minute or I will have you put there in restraints.” She became softer “Callie, I will remove the privacy screen so you can see. Amethyst put her back to bed!”

Amethyst nodded. “Come on Callie, Jon will be fine. The Doctor doesn’t need to be worrying about you as well.”

She turned back to Jon, “Amethyst we need to kick start his neural synapses before he is unable to wake at all.” She injected him with rhythmodan to increase his heart rate across the blood brain barrier and scanned him again, nothing. “SURAK” she exclaimed and kicked the bio bed. Amethyst can you prepare the invasive neural stimulator?” She gowned and gloved and prepared to erect the anti infective forcefield. She knew exactly the area that needed stimulation and had to enter his brain to do so.

Jon stood at Dex's elbow. "Whoa Dex! What are you going to do? You know what I don't want to know." He closed his eyes but opened one to peek.

Amethyst quickly returned with a device that looked pretty scary, in all it was scary given its uses. Setting it up she nodded to Dex. “Ready Doctor.”

Callie lay agains the raised head of her bed watching everything. Right now she was more scared of losing Jon than what had happened to her.

She sighed and centered herself, she had never done this before but if she did it right she would know almost immediately. If not Jon would never come out, he would be transferred to a medical facility somewhere to be looked after for the rest of his life. The thought was too grim to even imagine. She nodded at Amethyst.

“Ready when you are Doctor” Amethyst looked at Dex.

Dex nodded and began the procedure. She cleaned the area and used the exoscalpel to reveal it. She took a deep breath and began to enter Jon’s skull drilling through into the brain passing through the meninges dura and pia mater layers. She stopped.

Amethyst let me know the moment there is neural activity. Callie you may see Jon move but that will just be me stimulating various areas of his brain.

Amethyst nodded. “I’m monitoring closely.”

Callie nodded. “Okay Dex.”

The probe moved through into his parietal lobe, his arm jerked and then his leg. She pushed on through to the area she needed, his eyes opened immediately on stimulation of the area. “Jon, Jon it’s Dex can you hear me, keep very still, I am waking you up and need you to tell me how you are feeling?”

Jon moaned deeply as his eyes roamed about trying to ascertain where he was. "Dex? I feel like I been run over by a starship."

“Dex relaxed a little, “Jon can you tell me what is the last thing you remember?”

Jon seems to be recalling as he waited a moment. “I..I was in the brig, T’Vall and I were fighting, I was looking for the key to Callie’s recovery. He died…did I get it Dex? He sounded desperate. “Yes you did Jon, we are working on it already.. Now just be still a few more minutes. “She nodded to Amethyst who removed his restraints. She removed the probe gently sealing the wound. “Now John look to your left, there is someone who very much wishes to see you.

Callie was eagerly propped up facing Jon, she very much wanted to see him. He was her rock and without him her world was nothing.

Jon looked slowly his eyes focusing slowly. The first thing he saw was his wife Callie. “Callie my love, I can see you and you have never looked as lovely as you do now. My life would have been over if I had not woken to your face. I love you, how are you feeling?”

“Tired, but better for seeing you” Calle relaxed back on her bed. “I’d be lost without you, so you’d better get well soon.”

He lay back, he had seen her and she seemed fine. They could get back to their life with Harry. His eyes closed and he slept.