Ask Your Doctor

Posted on Thu Nov 26th, 2015 @ 9:15am by Captain Charybdis MacGregor & Lieutenant Commander Siivas McKenzie

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Mission: Taking Chances
Location: USS Bonne Chance, Deck 6, Sickbay
Timeline: 2265
Tags: Patrick,1stlove,Siivas

Patrick made his way to sickbay, in need of medical attention for his hands, and a need to deal with his problem. He knew he had a appointment with the doctor for the evening, but he hoped that they might be able to move things up for immediate care. Patrick needed control, and badly wanted it at this point.

Entering sickbay, he spotted the doctor and made his way towards him. "Doctor, I require your expertise."

"Ah," he turned with a dermal tool in his hand and then wrinkled his nose. "I see you and the lieutenant have been aggravating one another's sex drives again."

"Not on purpose, I assure you." replied Patrick. "At least not on my part. I need immediate medical aide for my hands, and then you might provide me with how it is you think you can help me without any medecine with this problem."

"Deltans emit pheromones captain," he smiled, "and we use them like another language. Yours aren't nearly so powerful but they're essentially speaking a language I'm quite familiar with."

Patrick had a look of confusion on his face. "You are telling me you are able to converse with my pheramons?"

"No," he chuckled, "but your pheromones are speaking to me quite clearly. That means you're having trouble maintaining your composure and she's affecting you even more strongly for all the effort you're making to resist her."

Patrick nodded, understanding more or less what it was the doctor was saying. "But why her, and all of a sudden? I mean this truly doctor, I have been around, more so than most. I have met many races, experienced far more sexually than any other human I have ever met. I have been intimate with Vulcans, Andorians, Humans, Rigelians, Orions, Risians, and Betazoids, yet in all my life, only one has ever had such an affect on me as Charybdis is having now. I cannot accept that this is just a surge of hormones. It has to be more than just that." Patrick was stern, yet aloof at the same time. His reputation as a playboy was certainly not just wild boasting, and the fact that he looked so crippled by the situation with Charybdis certainly meant something.

"All that sex and only once has someone had your heart," Siivas remarked pointedly, "and broken it. You're not a foolish man, Captain, the pattern is quite clear. The question is whether you fill your heart this time or you break it again."

"I didn't break it the first time doctor. That honor was given to the young sassy lass Molly Malone. I certainly loved her doctor, loved her more than life itself. I would have given up anything for her to just be with me. I have had nearly two decades to stew on that, contemplate, reflect. Vulcan meditation actually helped me discover how deep she had pierced me, and I am man enough to admit I wept some bitter tears over her. I am a hard man, a cold and calculating man, and I know that can put off some. But when off duty, the real me comes out, the young lad with a love of life, of spirits, and of lasses. I suspect that I use my work to fill the void left by Molly; left by not having what my dad had, a family. He managed to have family and career, and is an admiral now. Could that be it doc, and if so, how could my mind or body realize that just from seeing her one time?"

"'Destiny', 'Fate', 'Biological Imperative'," Siivas threw out some words carelessly, "Federation Standard has so many words that dance around the subject but describe it so poorly. We call it oorevahl and while there is no exact meaning in Standard, even the concept is muddy in your thought process. Its most-similar to 'love at first sight' but even then that makes it trite and cheapens the experience into silly romanticism. Its more like 'instant lust' but more visceral, with more possibility that merely an animal moment."

Patrick was intrigued. "So what you are saying is that I am experiencing something along the lines of both animal lust, which all humans have hiding in the deep recesses of their mind, that desire to procreate, and at the same time, as if a fusion or union has occurred, I am feeling romantic love, the need to be in a caring relationship, do I got that straight? Because doc, I got to tell you, that is both the craziest and most brilliant thing I have ever heard." Patrick had a twinkle in his eye and a spring in his step once more, as if suddenly he was in control of himself once more.

"In Standard," Siivas sighed and then smiled wickedly as he quipped, "that's as close as you're likely to come."

"So, what do I do now? Act on it? And if so, in what manner? Lots to consider here doctor."

"I'm your doctor Captain," Siivas replied jauntily, "use your 'experiences'."

Patrick understood his meaning. the doctor would always be there to mend wounds, but he wouldn't be the cause of them. "Well played doctor. We will have to do this again in the future, with something far better than my love life as the topic. I appreciate the healing touch." Patrick stood and left sickbay, heading forthe captain's mess where he could get a meal and contemplate his next move.

 

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