Seeking help

Posted on Tue Apr 5th, 2022 @ 8:30am by Lieutenant Sky Jansen-Carey & Commander Antonia 'Tony" Stoffels & Lieutenant Commander Rutherford (RJ) Milton & Pix Osheena

Mission: Free write
Location: Sickbay

Sky walked into Sickbay looking somewhat tired and worse for wear, the voices in her head were disturbing her sleep leaving her feeling more tired and sluggish than ever. Combining that with her pregnancy she was feeling pretty stressed. Worried it might affect her pregnancy she sought out Rutherford for help.

“Knock, Knock” Sky stifled a yawn as she peered around Rutherford’s office door. “I need your help.” She paused long enough to tap her comm badge. =^= Commander Stoffels, please report to Sickbay =^= Sorry, I promised Tony I’d call her when we spoke.”

"For another Counselor's opinion?" Milton asked while taking out his tricorder probe. "You being very active by your heritage will be affected by possible emotional spikes in your Alpha Waves which will be driven up with the hormones. Or are you prepping your second opinion?

Pix sprang from her little 'Nap' in her small cubby in the office, rubbing her forehead like a headache and a red pulsing tinge in her glow.

Tony came hurrying in a little later out of uniform as she has not been on duty.

"I'm here. Anytthing wrong?"

Sky gave Tony a smile. “I promised to call you when I came to see Rutherford.”

"Yes you did. I thought I would have a bit more notice, but it is all good."

Walking into the office Sky took a seat. “I’m going up the wall Rutherford! I don’t know if it’s the hormones or whether it’s just one of my stress breakdowns, but the voices! ...” She massaged her temples. “They’re so loud! I can’t sleep they keep waking me up!”

"Well, I have heard that some forms of telepathy is like being in a crowded room, you hear a lot of voices and through training you leaning to create the majority of it as "white Noise' and thus not a bother." He started. "But training and meditation only goes so far. " He ran the probe around her head and read the results on his tricorder. "You do have elevated Alpha Waves; or those most realted to telepathy and extrasensory perception as we know it."

Tony nodded. "I suggested sonic waves to help calm her." She said. "I hope Sky has explained that I am acting as her therapist. And I thought it was a good idea if we took a holistic view as mind and body as one whole."

Pix flew across to Sky and landed on her; putting her little hands as far apart a a six inch tall Pix could, and stare into her eyes. The glow of Pix pulsed a sligh tinge of red as Milton kept observing with his tricorder. The pulsing seemed to be in time with the heart rate of Sky. the gaze from Pix was steady as she smiled at SKy; the pulsing of her light sending a warmth through the person she looks at, the sparking eyes of the Pix danced like a light show of soft tones and hues. Using the concentration to slow the thinking and put focus on Pix rather than the voices, hoping to ease the spiking a bit.

"Does that approach allow a little magic?" Milton chuckled. "Pix is very relaxing; I know that from experience. She has been great with scared kids and even some who were crying in pain and with Pix being there they were far easier to do any healing, she can be very cute and that relaxes people and they can calm a bit."

"That would be a very interesting experiment. If you will excuse that phrase." Tony said with a smile. "It would be nice to work with Pix."

Sky was surprised just how much Pix was helping her. “Actually Pix is doing a wonderful job, she’s definitely helping” She gave Rutherford a curious look sensing a connection between the two.

"There is an Old Earth Question, do you believe in Fairies and Magic?" Rutherford mentioned.

Pix was not breaking her concentration, her flowing of warmth and kind smile brightened as she sensed a little of the tensions coming out of Sky. the Pulsing was fading; for a second Pix shook her head as though getting water out of her ears but did not yet release her touch. Her whole little being had the goal of just getting the 'Excess Voices quieted and allow SKy to be near her more normal state of being. Pix was showing signs of this all taking a toll for a few seconds until she smiled brightly, her glow was soft in hue and she finally moved her hands as 'the worst' of it that she could help with at this stage was done.

Sky smiled a bigger smile. “Thank you Pix, I feel so much better. The voices are quieter than I’ve ever known them to be. If this is what true control is like I’m envious.”

Pix slower in her flight moved away to sit on Milton's shoulder and lean into him a bit and yawned, a sweet tone of bells as her eyes fluttered a bit.

"I know that sound." Milton gently took Pix and went to her little lounge set on his desk and with the greatest of care lay her down. Her eyes were closed before he stepped back from her. "Woke her from her nap, she be out for about an hour or so I think." Turning back to the ladies.

Sky smiled at Rutherford. “So you and Pix are ... bonded?” She looked at him curiously.

"We are close." Milton said simply. "I know that from a gut feeling that she needs me and I find I am not all that able to resist doting over her a bit." He grinned. She is unknown for the most part; as are most women with an air of mystery, but we do get along and it juwst ... works for us." He glanced her way. "SHe does not seem to want to leave and I am not wanting to see her go. The Science types want to prod her and see what kind of being she is, but Pix has that mind of her own and I keep her from being in a Bell Jar." He smiles. "We are pretty good together though."

Tony had just watched it all fascinated. "That is ... well that is beyond impressive. But does it hurt her? She seemed exhausted." Tony asked the doctor. She would not trade one patient for another.

"I think she did not have a full battery charge." Milton pointed out. "She was napping when you came in and I can tell you it was not that long she had been sleeping." He glanced at Pix again." My gut tells me she was not really rested and it looked like she did some good but anything healing takes energy and effort." He chuckled. "She is not the largest person on the ship you know, there are physical and biological things to take into account. If she were pushing too hard I usually get a gut feeling she is going to far, just from as long as we have been around one another we kind of know each other’s limits."

"Oh good because i would not want her to suffer." Strange how protective Tony felt of this little being.

Sky nodded in agreement. “So what now? I can’t keep relying on Pix every time I get overwhelmed, it would take too much out of her.”

"Well I am sure that Pix could handle it; kind of a gut feeling actually, but that aside there are some Alpha Wave inhibitors that are ... well, a hypo that slows the synapse of the brain in a certain Bio-eletrical form. Makes the firing of the Alpha waves associated with Empathy." He explained. "It will turn down the volume of the voices by chemically equalizing your biochemistry." He nodded. "Much like the gadget but rather than putting out electronics to counter the body is doing it rather than fighting the other influences, it will compensate for the Hormones' intensifying your emotional state."

Sky nodded. “If you can block the overflow of voices without me having to put up with an inhibitor then please do so.” She smiled. “Getting rid of the voices is great but not at the expense of having to block my abilities altogether.”

"Empathy is what we ... I mean counsellors use to do their work right." Tony explained. "I tried massages yesterday and that seemed to help a little. Do you think meditation can help?" She looked at the doctor.

"That could work in preparation, but there is still the possibility of Emotional Spikes and Sky cannot meditate while in session." Milton replied. The chemical inhibitor in a low dose would not hinder her ability ; especially when the patient is in close reception range. It is more to quiet the edges and the Eletronic would really Block the waves and not allow any use of her gifts. "He explained. "The meds I recommend are low caliber and would bring down the Spiked levels, leaving her able to function and not be taxed so much."

Sky listened carefully as Rutherford explained to Tony. “I can still practice my meditation, I think it’s time I got back to doing that. If I hadn’t stopped doing it I probably wouldn’t be in this mess now.” She nodded to Rutherford. “I’ll go ahead with the meds.”

"And I can continue with the massages if they help and do guided meditations with you." Tony offered.

Sky nodded and smiled. “That would be great, thank you Tony.”

Milton moved to the dispenser and started the quick preparation for the hypo. "It is a mild dose , enough only to see how much of the 'Voices' we can tune out as a Baseline." The hypo was filled. "Now if you feel anything abnormal like a headache that will not go away or something more than Humanoid Morning Sickness." He explain as he came over. "Do not hesitate to call upon me." HE gave her the injection. "I am an Old Fashion Doctor, I do Housecalls."

Sky smiled. "I'll remember that thank you Rutherford." She paused as the injection started to take effect. "Now that is so much better" she relaxed as the voices in her head started to fade into the background. "The voices are fading."

Tony beamed. "I am so glad to hear it." She turned to Rutherford. "If Sky agrees I would like to be kept up to date as well."

"I think we can go with RJ." Milton glanced at the display. "I like being on a First name Basis." He winked before turning to Stoffels. "I will keep you aprised of significant things; you do have Executive Officer Duties as well so I will keep you on the need to know loop presuming you need to know a bit more than average counselors."

"Thanks R J." Tony cringed a little under the watchful eye of the doctor and wondered if it showed that she felt exhausted.

“That’s fine with me” Sky nodded and smiled.

"Now you both have to take it a bit easier." He gave a wink to Stoffels. "You go get them types need to be sure to take good care of yourselves. Don't let yourself get run too ragged."

"yes doc." Tony said hoping she would be able to keep this promise.

“That’s a promise Doc” Sky nodded and smiled.

{END}

Lt. Rutherford Milton
Chief Medical Officer

Pix Osheena (pnpc Milton)

Lt Sky Jansen
Chief Counsellor

Lt Cmdr Antonia “Tony” Stoffels
First Officer