Endless Voyage

[Jenny]

Fuck you She glared at him.

Her eyes shifted to the wounded. One must be from the research teams, one of Celeste's colleagues. Sure enough Celeste was accompaning the medical personnel with an anxious look on her face. The second was part of the flight crew, no doubt, the uniform said it all.

But when she saw his face, though bloodied and bruised, it seemed to be a ghost from the past... Her breath was knocked out of her a second time.

It couldn't be. His eyes were different, due to the ocular implants. But if you added age to his face, no longer the young man she knew in the past.

Liam?

Dazed, she turned and followed the party, her eyes rarely leaving his face.

[Joe]

The group took the lift to the medical deck and proceeded to an open room. Liam was placed on one of the beds and hooked up to some monitoring equipment. Most of the group left except for a few nurses.

Burke noticed Aya had followed them, he smiled, "Look familiar?" He turned and walked out of the room, back to his post.

[Jenny]

Aya edged toward the side of the room, out of the way of the buzzing medical staff. She ignored Burke, partly because she was sick and tired of him and secondly because her main attention was the man before her in the sick bed, now attached to the monitoring equipment.

She should really get back to her duties, but she was rooted to the spot. She looked to a nurse.

"How long is he going to be unconscious? Is he badly hurt?"

[Joe]

The nurse turned to Aya, "Too soon to tell, he's suffered some heavy head trauma, his skull is slightly fractured but we can fix that right up. He might suffer some memory loss because of the impact location, but it's only a possibility, we'll know soon enough."

Liam's forehead was smeared with blood from the impact, and he gently stirred in his sleep, murmuring something incoherent.

[KD]

((I feel left out with no pic XD))


Celeste's eyes narrowed ever so slightly when Burke was the first to appear. She disliked the man but she wasn't in any position to be picky. They narrowed outright at his rather callous statement about Liam needing to explain about the shuttle. "It wasn't his fault."

She kept trying to brush the medics trying to help her away, which turned out to be a mistake because they hadn't left the docking bay for more than a few paces before pain ripped through her midsection, making her sway and fall to her knees.

One of the medics grabbed her before she fell. Celeste felt herself lifted, heard people shouting dazedly. She hadn't hit the floor that hard, she kept thinking while she could still think. Then everything went dark.

[KD]

Jinx patiently waited until Burke was right in the middle of barking an order to someone on his way back to his post before she suddenly blasted him with a message: Chief Burke, just thought I'd let you know there was a suspicious sudden malfunction in the shuttle seconds before the crash. I'm working on figuring out what happened but even Jacobs couldn't have guided that thing into a smooth landing with nothing working. There was a beep as she clicked off.

Then suddenly clicked back on again. Sorry to ruin your fun, I know how much you like your interrogations. She was gone again with a snicker.

[Jenny]

"Memory loss?" It came out in a squeak. The forrows in her anxious brow deepened all the more. Would he forget her? Just when she had the chance to talk to him? It made her heart wrench painfully, and she closed her eyes and shook her head. A slight mist clung to her eyelashes.

She let out a deep sigh and opened them again as Liam stirred every so slightly. She turned and drifted away for a few moments. She wanted to see to Celeste. She brushed aside the thin cloth curtain around Liam's sick bed to enter Celeste's room.

"How is she?"

[KD]

The harried looking medic shook her head, shoving her hair out of her face. "She's bleeding internally and we can't figure out why. The kid that got really thrown is having the same problem." She bent over, brushing some kind of gel over a faint burn mark on Celeste's shoulder.

Celeste's dark skin was blanched unhealthily and she was unnaturally still on the cot.

[Jenny]

Aya grimaced and inched towards the bed, as if the mere act of getting too close to Celeste would injure her more. "Bleeding internally? And the other too?" She frowned, puzzled.

Did the shuttle malfunction and the trauma come from the same source... the chaotic planet below the Godspeed? "We should have sent in probes..." She murmured softly to herself.

[KD]

"We did."

Celeste's voice was almost too quiet to hear. Her eyes were open slightly, turning them into gold colored slits as she looked up at her. "Hi..."

[Jenny]

"Celeste?" She edged in closer. "Hanging in there?" Although she spoke lightly, the anxiety had not left her face. "You're hurt pretty bad. Just take it easy..."

[KD]

"Didn't think I had...I only got thrown down, not hard." She winced, closing her eyes for a moment. "Jacobs? He okay?"

[Jenny]

She took in a deep breath, forcing her emotions down into her belly.

"Liam... nott so bad as you. Head trauma, skull fracture. The nurse told me he might suffer slight memory loss when he wakes up."

[KD]

Celeste looked upset, which made the medic come back over and shake her head, looking at Aya. "I'm going to sedate her, she needs to rest and she'll have to go under for us to take care of the bleeding anyway." She brushed an instrument over the doctor's forehead, making her eyes flutter closed and her entire body relax.

[Jenny]

Aya nodded and moved to the back of the room as the nurse put Celeste out. She drifted out towards Liam's room. She shifted aside the cloth curtain and looked in on them.