waking up

Posted on Wed Nov 30th, 2022 @ 11:52am by Lieutenant Sky Jansen-Carey & Commander Antonia 'Tony" Stoffels

Mission: Traitor amongst us?
Location: Tony’s Quarters

IC

Her head felt like it was stuffed with cotton balls and it took her minutes of just staring at the ceiling before her mind began to track at all and that was when the memories kicked in like a rollercoaster and Tony moaned softly.

Soran sat in a chair and waited for her to come to, "I'm here Tony."

She cracked open her eyes and looked at him trying to focus. "She drugged me!"

"Would you have rested if she hadn't?" Soran asked patiently. "Let me get you some water."

"Thank you." she rubbed her eyes and tried to get her mind to start working again. "She could have trusted me."

"Trust has nothing to do with it," Soran moved to her side. "Your in shock, you're also a doctor which makes you a terrible patient."

Tony's mind was indeed not working the right way. The shock had been so great, that together with the drugs made her pretty irrational at the moment. But she was crafty enough to hide most of it.

"If you say so." She went to the bathroom to freshen up a bit.

~

Sky arrived at Tony’s quarters to check on her, she was hoping Tony wouldn’t be angry with her. Pressing the chime she waited for an answer.

Soran opened the door. "I don't know if she wants to see you right now Sky."

Sky wasn’t surprised to see Ren at the door. “Well if she doesn’t then I’ll have to leave.”

Tony came out of the bathroom still feeling weird and somehow detached from herself. "If that is Lt Jansen you can tell her to go away, please."

Sky looked at Soran giving him a surprised, but not shocked look before looking towards Tony. “Commander ... Tony, please let me explain.”

"Not today, Sky. You tricked me and I don't like that. I just want to be alone right now. Both of you."

Sky looked at Soran in surprise, this wasn’t like Tony at all. “Tony, I didn’t trick you. You were in shock, and you needed the rest. I just did what I had to do to try and help you.”

"Not now, Sky!" Tony had trouble keeping her anger under control. "Just listen, that is your job isn't it? I want to be alone!"

Sky hadn’t felt anger like this from her friend before, she understood it but it was hard to accept. “Very well Commander. You know where I’ll be if you change your mind.” She offered Soran an unhappy nod before she turned and walked out of the doors, she couldn’t help but feel like she’d just lost her best friend.

"Good riddance, now you can go as well, Ren."

"No," Soran said. "I don't think I will."

He folded his arms and looked at her.

"Ren I really don't want to fight. I need to process my grief, alone. We will talk tonight ok?"

"It doesn't need to be a fight, I'll sit a corner and leave to your thoughts. You shouldn't be alone." Soran leaned against the wall.

"Please, just for a while. I really need this." Tony pleaded with him.

"You owe Sky and apology," Soran said quietly. "I'll return in a couple of hours, Don't make any important decisions you're really not in the right frame of mind for that right now."

He turned down his heel and walked out the door, In the hall he turned and punched a code into the keypad for her door. It was a level two security lock, that would disable the chime and could only be overridden by security or medical staff. It wouldn't actually stop her from leaving her quarters but it would alert him if she did. 'She'll be royally pissed off if she tries to leave and finds that code.' He thought for right now he didn't care.

Tony sighed and shook her head trying to get rid of the cotton balls in there. Right now she needed to get her brain back in action and think. First she sat on the couch for a little bit of a rest.

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