A friend in need

Posted on Thursday, 14 May 2020 - 10:08am by Lieutenant T'Lanna Vali & Lieutenant Ryan Rose MD
Edited on on Thursday, 14 May 2020 - 6:45pm

Mission: Operation: Recall
Location: T’Lanna’s Quarters
Timeline: MD3

T’Lanna was lying on the couch doing her best to keep on top of updating reports, organising appointment requests, reading personnel files and make notes for questions at Counselling sessions. She sighed and tapped her comm badge. “Vali to Doctor Rose, May I speak to you in my Quarters?”

Ryan nearly leapt out of bed. His combadge chirping had startled him, simply because he was already feeling anxious. Sam made a noise of protest from beside him. "Sorry." He whispered to her, then hurried out of bed. "Be right there." He spoke softly, picking up parts of his uniform as he headed out to the main room.
God, what had they been thinking. A night of innocent paperwork had turned physical, and Ryan couldn't even say who started it. The diversion was actually a god send. He quickly replicated casual clothes, his uniform was completely rumpled. By the time he made the short walk to T'Lanna he felt more centered.

T’Lanna smiled as the door chime rang. “Come in Ryan.” She smiled more warmly as he walked inside. “I’m sorry to pester you...” She gave him an apologetic look. “I’m completely snowed under and I was hoping you’d help me out? I can barely keep my eyes open and I’ve got reports coming out of my ears, along with Counselling requests and ...” She sighed. “I need help.”

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. Nothing serious then. "Well, if you trust me to help with paperwork, you really most be desperate." He grinned. "Would you like some herbal tea?" He offered, even though it was her quarters.

“Please!” T’Lanna nodded. “I was going to get myself something I just haven’t got there yet. Feel free to get yourself whatever you like. Are you sure I’m not being a pain asking you here?”

Ryan got two herbal teas, and returned to where T'Lanna was working. "T'Lanna, I offered to help, and I meant it. It's a good excuse to get out of my quarters, so please don't worry. Now, what can I do to help?"

She rubbed her neck. “Well this pile of PADDs are full of notes I need added to personnel files.” She pointed to a second pile “This pile is appointment requests.” She pointed to a third pile “These here are my records from Intel that need to be read over incase there’s anything regarding Captain Stillwater and I don’t know what to do first!”

"Ok, I can take care of the notes and personnel files." Ryan took that PaDD. "Are you booked up on appointments? Do you want me to see if there are any I or the EMH could help with?"

“Please!” T’Lanna smiled. “There’s not an official Counsellor onboard as far as Starfleet is concerned, just a Psychologist. Counselling duties would officially fall to you and Emerick. I am happy to be a Counsellor but this pregnancy is sapping every spare bit of energy I have right now.”

"Ok, I'll see what I can do there as well." He took that PaDD as well. "That just leaves you with the Intel records. Have you done a keyword search?" Ryan asked.

“I’m not sure exactly what I’m looking for” T’Lanna sighed. “I’ll read through and see if anything leaps out at me. That’s what I normally do.” She stifled a yawn. “That’s if I don’t fall asleep first!” She grinned.

"Ok, well can I help? I don't have any kind of clearance, but I'm happy to read through with you and see if anything seems like a lead. But it really looks like you need some sleep. I can get started, and we could meet in the morning?" He offered, hoping she'd take the chance to catch some zzzz's

“Well I don’t think there’s anything in the files that would require clearance to read them, so if you could I’d appreciate it.” T’Lanna smiled. “I know we’ve already had the briefing but I just want to be thorough and make sure I haven’t missed anything.”

"Of course." Ryan thought about being a pest about the sleep, but pot and kettle. He made himself comfortable, and got to reading, sipping on his tea as he went over the data.

T’Lanna could tell Ryan was hinting at her getting some sleep so she lay back on the sofa PADD in hand before her eyes slowly started to close. It didn’t take long before she was curled up on her side sleeping like a baby.

Ryan was deep in concentration, and it took him a few minutes to realize T'Lanna had fallen asleep. He debated carrying her to bed, but thought that might be overstepping a bit. He did head to her bedroom to fetch her pillow and blanket though. He removed her shoes, and very carefully arranged the pillow under her head. He left her a quick note, that he had the PaDDs with him, then quietly headed out of her quarters.

{OFF}

Dr Ryan Rose
CMO

Lt T’Lanna Vali
Psychologist/Counsellor/Intel