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Melting Clock: Med Bay's First Arrivals

Things had been running as usual down in the med-bay, and to first appearances, this week wasn't going to be different.

But first appearances could be deceiving. This week was going to be different. And as the next few days passed by, the Medical Department was going to find that they now had quite a situation on their hands.

[[ooc: Okay, so this post is just for the affected characters who go into the Med-Bay before Quarantine, the Medical peeps who volunteered, and also the people who bring in said affected characters. If you've already organised who you'll thread with for this, just put their names in the subject line. If you're happy for any of the Medical guys to tag in, then just put "Open". There's also an ooc planning post for this if you want to try and plot for this.

Also, please note that both in terms of the timeline, both Kon and Jeka will be the last two to be brought in, regardless of thread order - they're essentially the ones who'll show up right before Quarantine, and be the ones that clue in Medical as to what's really happening here.]]

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She was all out of pity, that was for sure. NOW, in her eyes, she was keeping him because she was not about to let him find Eva and do something or say something more to her. What was more, they still had find out why this happened, and if it could be fixed. She didn't need to deal with brawls right now.

"Lay down." Now it wasn't even a request. "I'm not done yet, and I want to make sure I'm thorough. If you don't like the conversation, we can not have it, but you ARE staying here until everything checks out."

"I'm not lying down," Marco snapped. But he didn't try to move, instead just eying the grip Sakura had on his arm. He'd seen just how strong she was; he had no doubt that she could pull his arm right out of his socket if she wanted to.

Maybe if he morphed, he might have a chance. Maybe. But he couldn't afford to do that in front of Kaya, and he wasn't Rachel. He didn't charge more powerful opponents head on without at least some sort of plan (Marco ignored the fact that he'd done just that with Kang earlier).

But while he might not be able to fight back, he wasn't going to just lie back and comply. No way.

Edited 2011-04-23 07:30 (UTC)

"Then sit." Sakura nodded her head back toward the examination table -- bed -- whatever they were calling it. She stepped toward him, asking him to back up and play nice. Her grip on his arm wasn't any less firm, if she was careful not to close down any more tightly. This was a warning, not a threat.

If she didn't think he'd figure it that way.

"That should be more than fine." She hoped it was, that Kaya's manner of healing didn't require people to by lying down for any reason other than health concerns. It wasn't a point worth pushing if he was more inclined to cooperate based on something as simple as sitting.

Coaxing him toward the table, her brow furrowed. Something looked different about him, if Sakura was having trouble pinning down exactly what.

It didn't, though Kaya would prefer that Marco go to sleep for a little bit, so she could talk to Sakura about what was going on, and at least get to see if the healing would work on his memories. She didn't have any way of inducing that through bending though, so she only continued making sure that the water lingered around his head for a moment, then brought it back into her pouch.

She walked over to Sakura, and bent over to to her ear. "If there is a peaceful way you can get Marco to sleep, please help. I'll explain why once he's out. There's more to this than just a spat with Kang."

Reluctantly, Marco found himself sitting on one of the beds, still glaring at Sakura. And when he saw Kaya talking in Sakura's ear, he grew even more suspicious.

"What the hell are you whispering about?!" he asked, eyes narrowing.

"You," Sakura replied simply, turning over what Kaya had asked in her head. A peaceful way to get Marco to sleep?

Sure, no problem. Too bad half her easy sleeping agents weren't here at the moment, and that she didn't know the specifics of Kabuto's genjutsu that had sent everyone at the chuunin exams to sleep.

Outside of knocking him out the same way he had been when he was brought in (not something she was keen to do, even if she was monitoring afterward to make sure there wasn't swelling or bruising of the braincase), or using standard pressure points, there was another way. Might as well start off nice.

"Is it uncommon to ask for second opinions where you're from?" Implications, all while bringing one hand up to his forehead. "You remember how this felt the last time? A little warm, a little tingly. It won't take long," she added, chakra manifesting in it's soft green light around her hand. "Make sure to tell me if anything feels off."

Manipulating the chakra points and tricking his body into falling into deep sleep wasn't particularly effective as an attack; it took a certain level of cooperation and close contact not affordable during battle. For bedside practices, on the other hand, when other means weren't available and there was no time or pressure crunch... Time to sleep for a while.

Kaya turned away here lightly, as if looking for something, but a part of her actually felt a little guilty about how this happened, despite Macro's generally uncoopertative nature. It had to be done, if only because she wasn't about to let Marco find Eva again and make her feel worse, or even fight her.

But once she saw sakura at work, she waited to make sure that Marco was out first. She wasn't going to take any chances.

"You don't have to whisper the second...opinions..." Marco started to complain, before he his eyes closed and he slumped sideways onto the bed.

Sakura checked his drop, part of her glad that at least this had gone smoothly. It's a short matter to rearrange him so that he's on the bed proper, checking his pulse and then nodding in satisfaction to herself. "He's out for now," she said, looking over her shoulder at Kaya.

"I can keep monitoring for when he starts coming up, though we should have time before then. What's going on?"

"Thank you," she said, sighing. "I can probably do that too, but as Marc hates me already, better to add less fuel to the fire. Besides, I'm still trying to help him."

She sighed. "He was brought here because he still believes his mother is infested by the Yerrk. It's as if his memory of finding her and all they've talked about is gone, and the current situation with those aliens haven't helped. But its the loss of memory that's bothering me. I don't even know if its just him, or if its spreading. But I am trying to see if
its possible to snap him out of it."

"Infested by what?" She could parrot the word again, the same one from earlier, but the point wasn't so much in repetition as demonstrating her own lack of knowledge. She sighed, frowning as the memory loss comment.

Memory was hard enough to work with on a ship that could (present company exemplifying) screw with memory as easily as anything else. Hadn't that been status quo, months ago? People were repodded, memories were wiped?

"Sudden onset memory loss? On select information?" That was more curious to her. "How far back is he forgetting? Did Kang or his mother--" she paused. It was surprising to hear someone had family on ship, more-so than friends or anything else. "Did either one of them have an idea of what could have brought this on?"

It seemed hasty to guess that others were suffering likewise, but as with most things, keeping that possibility in mind... Sakura grimaced.

Oh, that was just going to take too long, especially when the Yerrk were far from what they needed to worry about.

"They are an alien species that need hosts to take over, but that's not important," Kaya said. "What IS important is that Marco is reliving a past memory as if the ones he had never took place. What he's lost is the knowledge his mother isn't infested anymore. Kang and Eva are totally mystified, and Kang had to knock him out just so Marco wouldn't attack his mother. I don't think either of them know how this happened."

She exhaled. "Which is WHY I want to see if it only Marco. This sort of thing usually affects more than a few people."

"When did he learn his mother was no longer infested?" She half turned toward Kaya, expression as serious as it's ever been. "Sometime in the last three months? Or before then?"

Creating a timeline to figure out what he'd forgotten, when there were incongruities in what he hadn't. "Back home?"

She pushed on, offering some explanation for the questions she was asking. "If it's something that'll be affecting others, we'll need to have some better idea of how it's affecting him. The only head trauma you noticed was delivered by Kang? No sign of older injury, evidence of swelling, signs of abnormal body activity?" Sakura might not have been concentrating on those details, but she hadn't sensed anything immediately off. It'd be worth using the scanning technology of the Bay if neither one of them could detect any overt abnormality in Marco himself.

"Likely before that," Kaya said. "Eva has been on the ship for several months, and anyone could tell she has no infestation she loathes the Yeerks. I'm sure the first thing Marco wanted to know, once Eva popped, was if Visser one still had her body. So this is something that I'm not going to attribute to paranoia or random forgetfulness. Something happened to make him forget, and we need to know why and how."

She shook her head. "No, no other trauma whatsoever. Physically, from what I see, there appears to be nothing wrong with him. The problems is, we need to find at least someone others like Marco, otherwise the problem might get progressively worse. We NEED to know what this is, and possibly if its spreading."

"Then it's a mix of memories," she pointed out, "Since for all whatever it's doing, he had no trouble identifying either of us. I know I've been awake the shortest time out of any one of us," meaning those in the area, considering pod pop recently made her a step removed from 'newest crew,' "So however this is working, it's not acting linearly. At least not linear in a way I recognize."

It'd be easier if she could quiz Marco on the details of what he did remember, compared to the details of what he should remember. That he was on the offence due to what he didn't remember...

"In which case we're looking for people with some recognition of those on ship, but incomplete memories of things that they learned here, or even back home. If there's no physical trauma, then we're also looking for people with no obvious cause for their memory lapses." She frowned. "We need an idea of what things could cause memory alteration, or even loss. Maybe check the Media Library, the databanks here in the Bay..." she looked up abruptly. "And a way to find others displaying similar memory loss without making it seem like we're asking for people to panic. If there's a high probability that we're only seeing Marco because his memory loss affected his behavior enough to prompt an attack, we might not be seeing others because whatever's being lost isn't enough to change how they're acting -- yet."

What an impending headache -- from one confusing situation to a possible memory meltdown. She should have had tea this morning.

"There doesn't seem to be a discernible pattern," Kaya said, looking troubled. "It just seems to be missing memories. But what I'm concerned with, more than anything, is what will happen, the longer this goes on. What if they start to lose MORE of their memories? We might need to see if there are more people like this. That way we'll know at least that questioning Marco won't be necessary."

She nodded. "I have a feeling that we're going to be here a lot longer than we though. If it IS more than just one person, medical is going to need all the help they can get. If you can watch over Marco, I'm going to go and check the Media library, see if we can figure out what's going on. If I run into some people from the ship that are missing memories, I can try and get them to come to the bay."

Sakura nodded in return, thoughts racing. "I can do that," she said simply, "And do what I can to keep him from bolting out the door." She motioned at Marco.

"I've got my OmniComm on me, and I can send a message to Dr. Henderson if he doesn't show up soon on his own. Let me know what you find. If anyone comes in, I'll ask them to stay until further notice."

She paused, glancing back at Marco. What could be doing this? Stacy, sure, but at the same time, taking someone back to a mental place where they're more unstable... "Good luck. If this is what you think it might be, we're all going to need it."

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