Medical Emergency

Posted on Tue Jul 22nd, 2025 @ 5:32pm by Captain Shran dh'Klar & Lieutenant Commander Shoniara T’ghann-Travis MD & Lieutenant Inara Senn & Lieutenant Seth Travis

1,829 words; about a 9 minute read

Mission: Wounds From the Mirror
Location: USS Washington - Sickbay

Inara and Shon materialized in sickbay. Viviana came over to them with her medical tricorder out. "Dios mio, what happened to you two?" she questioned.

"We have both been experimented upon." Inara noted. "They screwed with her logic center and sent her emotions skyrocketing, and after that was done, they made her lobotomize me and inject some wonderful cocktail in my brain. I believe is was 12cc's of Omidazone, 22cc's of propamazine, 2cc's diaphramine, 8ccs rifmapazil. If I wasn't Betazoid, I'd be dead, and in fact I almost died, until she made me live with this with some kinda stimulant, I couldn't catch what she used."

Shon woke up on a biobed, not knowing where she was and totally confused she leapt up and began screaming. The wounds on her body highly visible, the old scars she had kept on her back had been cut away and the remains shredded. She now only had one eye after it had been removed whilst she was awake. Blood flowed from her crushed right arm and useless hand but the worst was the wound on her abdomen where her growing fetus had been ripped from her. The remains in her mind of what she had done to Inara ripped through her mind as she howled like some wild creature as she cowered in the corner.

Inara moved to her side after she placed her on the biobed. "Shon. It's alright. It's alright. You're safe. Listen to me." Inara mentioned. "You're not well. Nurses, restrain her, she's not all here, and she's a threat to herself and others!!" She moved to a biobed as the medical personnel saw to Shon. "And someone get the last of the shit she did to me, out of me, and get me a damned cup of black coffee."

She held her head on a biobed.

Shon lay, restrained and sedated on the biobed but, even sedated she moaned and thrashed her Vulcan mind in turmoil. She no longer knew who she was or where. Then suddenly she was still her mind and body broken she retreated into the K'uT- aDa, the Vulcan dance of death. Her body began to shut down and her pulse weakened, and breath became slower and less even. The surgery that had been planned had to be shelved as she lay between life and death.

As the EMH worked on Inara, eliminating the chemicals from her body, correcting the imbalances and then repairing all the other damage, Viviana was tasked with dealing with Shon. Only a few short months ago, in her last training op before graduating and becoming a full-fledged StarFleet doctor, Viviana had served on the Washington under the tutelage of Shon, and now her life was in her hands. She had so much to do, but step one was keeping Shon alive. She recognized that Shon was entering a Vulcan trance, and thankfully she had taken 6 months on Vulcan to learn everything she could about Vulcan physiology and medicine, mostly because Vulcans made up the second largest percentage of those that served in StarFleet, behind humans. As she worked to stabilize Shon, she leaned down and whispered, "Don't you dare give up on me. I already lost a patient and friend, I'm not ready to lose another. So, you fight dammit."

For his part, the EMH was working diligently on Inara. He sedated her and then placed a restraining field over her as he operated, repairing the damage. Once her blood chemistry was back in the green he began working on the head trauma. It took time, but he didn't tire, and she was on the road to full recovery.

Lying on his biobed, Seth heard Inara speaking to Viviana and describing what both she and Shon had been through and what Shon had done to her. he tried reaching out to her but her mind was in chaos so he tried talking to her. "Shon, Shon darling, Its Seth, you are in Sickbay. Everything is going to be alright my love. Let Viviana help you darling."

"Good Seth, just keep talking to her, she is coming around. I can treat her other injuries now" Viviana said as she continued working on Shon.

"That's it Shon, come back to me and Shasta and Sage. We all love you and want you here with us. Fight Shon, you are no quitter! I'm here for you, take my strength to help you darling. Fight!" He urged her.

Shon came back to consciousness slowly, she felt as though she was floating through the memories in her brain. Memories of meeting Seth, their romance and their wedding on board the Washington. Getting Shasta back and then the birth of Sage. She felt a slight push into her mind and, at last through all the clamour she heard him, that clear soft voice, *Seth...is that you? I cannot see you.*

*I'm right here in Sickbay with you Shon. You can't get rid of me.* He teased lightly. *We're in this together and we're going to get through it together. Shasta and Sage need their mother, and I need my wife.* He said softly but firmly.

"Just be calm Shon. I have to patch you up. They did a real number on you" Viviana said as she continued to work.

Shon was calm now she had connected with Seth, but she had to figure out how to tell him she was no longer pregnant. She sighed inwardly her gentle spirit longing for payback. "Viviana what about my eye, will I need to go to Earth to have a new one implanted?"

"I'm going to sedate you, and when you wake up, you'll be back to having two eyes again" she replied. She looked a little troubled, obviously not sure how to say something. It was common for such a young physician. "I, um, well, I also will need to replace your hand with a biosynthetic. The hand and the eye, they are relatively easy fixes, though you'll have to go through a few weeks of physical therapy to make sure everything is working properly. But, um, not to distress you, but the damage to your reproductive system, I..." she trailed off.

Shon nodded as best as could. "You are going to tell me there is no repairing me, that I will never conceive or bear another child?"

Lying where he was Seth overheard Viviana's hesitation. *Shon darling, it is alright. You are what is important. If we want another child we can adopt and pleased don't forget we have two remarkable girls.*

Shon turned her head to the side and remained silent, it was difficult to bear, and she felt a flash of hatred for Shran and Deanna and had to tell herself it was not their Shran and Deanna; however, she was not sure she could separate the two. She was thankful however that she would retain her vision. She kept her mind closed to Seth; the last thing she wanted was to impact on his recovery. "Put me to sleep Viviana, do what you need you need to do."

Seth slowly got out of bed and painstakingly made his way to Shon's bed where he stood looking down at her."Shoniara T'ghann Travis, you listened to me. I love you, I have loved you since the first time we met and had out first date and that love has been renewed every time I see you. So you concentrate on getting better because we have a lot of living left to do and I'm not doing it on my own." He then bent over the bed railing and turned Shon's head so she was facing him and he kissed her, slowly, lovingly. "I love you darling." He then looked to Viviana, "Could you call a nurse? I'm afraid this took more out of me than I thought." His hands tightening around the railing to keep himself upright even as his knees buckled.

Viviana tried to smile. "Sadly, I have no nurse currently to have tend to you, but I will escort you back." She took the hypo and injected Shon, putting her to sleep. She helped Seth back to his rest place and then returned to Shon, ready to do what she needed to do to try to put her superior back together after all those vile things that had been done to her.

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Many hours later. Inara began to move as she reawakened on the biobed. She began to feel normal again. "Ugh... F*@k me..."

Shon continued to improve although she knew she would need time to recover. "Inara, are you awake, how do you feel?"

"Brain-f*@ked and cut up like a goddamned Betazoid Bluefish" She got off the biobed and walked to a replicator. "Computer One mug of black coffee."

Viviana made her way over, "Computer, discontinue that coffee request." She looked at Inara, "I hope you aren't going to cause problems. The EMH put you back together, but you need to rest now. A stimulant is the last thing you need. Now, back to bed, doctor's orders."

She walked over to Shon, "Glad you are awake. As I am sure you have noticed, the surgery went as expected. We'll have to have one additional surgery to replace the hand, but everything went well for the prep for all of that. How is the new eye functioning for you? I hope I got it perfect, but I am ready to make some minor adjustments if you need."

Shon nodded, it was difficult to get used to having full vision again and Viviana had done a wonderful job. "I think I need my close vision needs a little adjustment, my other eye is a little closer. Viviana..." she put her good hand on the doctor's sleeve, "Thank you for everything you have done for me and Seth you have been exemplary. I will be putting you in for the Charion medal. Now, please tell me what is happening to my husband and what is happening outside, have we won against the mirror Shran? please tell me yes"

Inara sighed and stumbled back onto the biobed as Viviana got the better bedside manner. "Um, do I get a medal. I'm the one that hauled her back to this reality when she began blitzing out and shooting everything and everyone, and if I get a medal, can I trade it for coffee?" Inara mentioned. She sat up on the biobed when she noticed Jaz across the bay. "Wait... Holy... Jaz..." Inara moved over to her.

Viviana chased after her, "She's fine. Security located her in your lab. She has moderate phaser withdrawal having been hit multiple times with a stun setting in short order, but she'll be fine.

"Oh, thank the goddesses you found her." Inara mentioned.

"She won't be waking up for a while still. Back to bed Inara, you need even more rest than she does" Viviana chided softly.

 

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