After the Rush "
By: James McIntyre , Doctor , [NPC]
Krystal, Hologram, [RNPC]
Teilani Dane, Chief Medical Officer, [PC]

Stardate: 58208.12 2220

The noises had died down in sickbay when Teilani walked in. After the fight in Miranda's several crewmembers had popped in with all sorts of injuries, from a black eye to some bruised ego's. Nothing her crew couldn't fix though.

Some of the younger nurses were cleaning up the mess or sterilizing the equipment when Teilani saw James in her office. A worried look on his face.

"James, it looks like you have lost someone." she said gently as she walked in.

He looked up from the console, "Oh, no, no... one was lost. I'm doing some research, Maxine Tappert was admitted for what amounts to Schatchy syndrome."

"Schatchy syndrome, now that is a word I haven't heard in a long time. Didn't it have something to do with neural implants being overloaded or so?"

"That's right, but it isn't anything too serious at this point, but I am concerned enough to explore some treatment to stabilize it.

"How did it happen?"

"She had a nightmare," Krystal announced and stepped out from where she'd been hiding to perch on Jame's shoulder. She was dressed in a little nurses outfit complete with an old fashioned stethoscope. Her spiky red-gold hair was pulled up into two pigtails and she looked like she just stepped out of "Nurses Do Sickbay", or something.

Teilani tried to hide her smile but she couldn't. "I see, hello Krystal, she said. "What kind of nightmare?"

Krystal wiggled her fingers at Dane. "Hihihi. The scary kind with bad computers in it," she answered. "I was good though," she assured her.

Teilani frowned slightly, "Bad kind? "Krystal? what do you mean?"

"Bad computers are computers that do bad things to you," Krystal explained. "Like that mean Birkoff made the computers in the holodeck. But it wasn't me. I was good."

"I know you are good Krystal, perhaps you and James should come up with some sort of a solution for this problem?" Teilani suggested.

"I'm his research assistant," Krystal beamed and then her wing and antennae dropped. "But I can't access the computer now."

"You can not? Why not?" Teilani asked.

"Maxie grounded me," she told Dane. She looked so pathetic. "She said I had an orgy, but I didn't! I just wanted some friends. And we were just playing. And then Maxie got really, really mad and bonked her head and left me alone in the dark after grounding me." She even managed a sniff. "She said she was going to give me a watchdog with dragon teeth. I hate dragons."

Doctor McIntyre appeared as if he had opened Pandora's box. "I take it you two have met before?"

Krystal nodded. "Uh-huh. She gave me a jewel for my treasure trove," the pixie told him. "And she saved me from that mean EMH who tried to swat me like a bug."

Teilani grinned. "That is true. But Krystal if you were a naughty pixie then Max had every right to discipline you. You can not go about and throwing parties when ever you want."

"I was not a naughty pixie! I just wanted to have some friends," Krystal protested with a 'hmpf!' as she stopped looking at Dane, crossed her little arms over her chest and tapped her foot on James' shoulder. "She said she might make it a dragon dog."

"I am sure that she will not sent a dragon after you, but for now we need to find a way to make Max better alright?"

"I'm not stopping you." The little sprite was clearly out of sorts now.

"Don't get fresh with me young lady," Teilani said with a little warning.

"Now lets see although you do not have direct access you can still operate a console and perhaps faster then we can. Why don't you use that console and see if you can find any reference in the medical database which might explain Max's condition.

"I'm fresh!" Krystal exclaimed. "I'm always fresh! Aren't I fresh?" she asked McIntyre and sniffed herself to see, raising her arms to check under them just in case she'd gotten some bad nectar or something.

"Krystal! Go see if you can find more information on the subject."

Teilani turned to James. "So what kind of treatment are you thinking off?"

"I've heard of several different types of regenerative techniques, although we are dealing with nerve tissue..." replied McIntyre.

"Yes nerve tissue are most difficult in treating, but even tough, if we manage to cure it, we can not be sure it will never happen again.

"Of course, and that is certainly a risk that Miss Tappert is aware of."

"Yes and perhaps she needs to learn to *hook up* a little less frequent so to speak. So how do you want to go about with it James?" Teilani asked.

"That is going to take some strong coffee, Doctor. Care to join me."

"For coffee you can not hold me back."