Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsread.com!newsstand.newsread.com!POSTED.monger.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated Approved: ascem@earthlink.net Organization: Better Living Thru TrekSmut Sender: ascem@earthlink.net Message-ID: <20041118214437.70923.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> From: Marcia Wilson-Cales MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list ASCEML@yahoogroups.com; contact ASCEML-owner@yahoogroups.com Subject: "Corpses Are Not Considerate" Part 2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 336 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:55:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.142.218 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 1100822102 209.198.142.218 (Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:55:02 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:55:02 EST Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated:85729 X-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:55:17 PST (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Medical officers were not allowed on the Bridge unless asked first. McCoy = had no desire to emulate Esther, and politely paged a request to the captai= n's private comm asking to speak with him on a departmental matter. The pr= oblem was, Scott wanted this discreet (and that was probably a good idea). = However, if the doctor was too low-key in asking for Kirk's presence, he'd= probably be denied. =20 Chapel heard him sigh as he looked at the DENIED on the screen. =20 "What's your problem?" Chapel wanted to know. "I haven't seen you this de= pressed since Spock told you we couldn't bring the Cannibal Jumping Spiders= aboard for the lab work." =20 "I wasn't totally depressed from that, Nurse," McCoy told her. "While I'm = sorry we missed out on a great chance to learn about the little devils, at = least I got something good out of it." =20 "You did? What?" =20 "I now know Spock has a phobia." =20 "A really common one, you know. Most people can't stand spiders." Chapel = paused again. "Most people." =20 "Hey, you said you'd help me take 'em apart." =20 "I said I would because you promised me an extra fifty credits." =20 "Hmph. I don't see why you're all so squeamish about them." He switched b= ack to the original point of conversation. "I'm just tryin' to figure out = how I can slip a note to the captain without anyone knowing about it." =20 "Have Barrows send it up." =20 "Tonia?" McCoy blinked. "I thought she got transferred back to Tech." =20 "She got transferred right back out." Chapel told him. =20 "When?" =20 "Yesterday. When you were trying to wake Spock up out of his trance withou= t hitting him." =20 "She got back from Shore Leave yesterday! How did--What'd she get transfer= red out of Tech so fast for?" =20 "Something about incompatible magnetics." Chapel shrugged with both should= ers. "Look, you want me to page her or not?" =20 "OK, tell her she's due for a checkup." =20 "She is due for a checkup." =20 "Then you won't have to lie, will you?" He watched her go, then busied hms= elf with his Padd. "incompatible magnetics..." he muttered to the empty a= ir. =20 *** =20 "What's this about incompatible magnetics?" =20 "I'm not sure. Something about getting hit by lightning." =20 McCoy paused. He looked at the Padd that held her medical report. "When d= id you get hit by lightning?" =20 "Oh, last shore leave. If you want to be precise about it, about 12 hours = before my beamup." =20 McCoy didn't blink. "When?" =20 "Mammoth Cave." =20 "How the @#%&* can you get hit by lightning in Mammoth Cave?" =20 "It's not like I did it on purpose," Tonia said defensively. =20 "I'm sure you didn't walk up and start pickin' bolts out of the sky, Tonia,= but...but how?" =20 "I was in the old clinic for TB patients back in the 20th century, and on m= y hands and knees checking out the cots. Those things are terrible, by the= way. I think a rock ledge would be more comfortable. And can you imagine= how it must have smelled back then?" =20 "Uh, Tonia, we were talking about lightning..." =20 "Anyway, I touched a metal leg and it felt like I'd gotten slapped by about= 100 watts. Boy was I mad! I told the tour guide he was trying to kill me= , but then he got popped too, and we got out of there because we were afrai= d it was the primitive electronics in there--I swear, they still have Ediso= n's lights still burning down in there, Leonard." =20 McCoy was rubbing hs forehead. "So it wasn't lightning, it was a grounded = wire?" =20 "No, it was lightning. Because the water started coming up really fast, an= d it turned out there was a storm going on above ground, and the guide said= getting hit by lightning underground wasn't totally unheard of...two men a= pparantly got zapped when they were mapping for the West Virginia Cave Cons= ervancy way, way, way back in the 1970's, and it was documented even back t= hen." =20 McCoy stared at Tonia. "Your guide certainly knew his trivia," he told her= . =20 She sniffed. "He was trying to impress me." =20 "Did he?" =20 "No. My hair was ruined. Can't you tell?" =20 McCoy managed to invoke marvelous reservoirs of strength and withheld comme= nt. Tonia was, obviously, still dwelling on the indignation. "Look, I nee= d you to run a note up to the captain." He held it up in the air so she co= uld see. "Nothing overt, nothing covert, I'm just telling him when he has = a moment I can use his input on the Stores Requisition forms." =20 Tonia shrugged. "No problem." =20 "So this is why you got transferred back out?" =20 Tonia shrugged. "Apparantly now I'm high-risk for dirupting some of the mo= re sensitive computers." =20 McCoy couldn't help it. He stared. "Hold still." She did while he found = the right salt-shaker. He ran it over her, looked at its readings, did it = again and plugged it directly into his personal computer. Tonia was a good= poker player, and she figured his total lack of expression meant something= was showing up on the readings. =20 "Anything I need to know?" She wondered. =20 "You might want to be careful walking across ionic-charged carpets," he war= ned her. =20 =20 Fifteen minutes later, Barrows was back. "You were lucky I could get to hi= m. He was sending Chekov downstairs to oversee the Security Mails."=20=20 =20 "He signed it, though?" McCoy rose out of his chair. =20 "He signed it," she showed him the Padd. =20 McCoy looked at it. The Padd was blank. For a long moment he silently abs= orbed the implications of having a magnetic personality for a Captain's Yeo= man delivering him electronic messages on an Imperial-grade (and apparantly= not well shielded) Padd. And Barrows, good little soldier that she was, h= ad kept his correspondance confidential and not looked at the Padd to see w= hat the captain had written. McCoy wondered how long it had taken for expo= sure to Barrows to erase the Padd-program. =20 "Thank you, Lieutentant," he said with heavy noble calm. "That will be all= ." =20 =20 *** =20 "Sulu!" =20 Sulu paused while carrying his tray from the wall. Chekov was sitting in t= he back corner, not his usual style, with a barely touched plate of somethi= ng round with magenta and white concentric circles in it. No wonder he was= n't eating, the Helmsman thought. =20 "What the hell are you eating?" Sulu asked politely. =20 Chekov looked down at his tray to make sure his lunch hadn't changed when h= e wasn't looking. "Beets," he said, as if Sulu should know damn well what = a beet looked like and had he been spending too much time watching quasars?= "Sulu, sit down." =20 Sulu sat down, curious more than anything else. "What's got you looking so= worried? Captain can't be mad at you if he sends you to check the Securit= y Mails." =20 "I think he is mad." Chekov answered. =20 "Oh?" Sulu was even more curious. This sounded promising. "What's going = on?" =20 "I went down dere to check out the lounge. Since I hev to start the shift = in there in the morning, I thought it would be a good idea to "scope out." = Chekov's voice trailed off. He stared at his plate glumly. "When do you = have to get back to duty?" =20 "I'm off for the rest of the shift." =20 "Can you meet me in Shuttlelounge B?" =20 "What's down there? You think the doc left any good pharmaceuticals by acc= ident?" =20 "Nyet..." Chekov choked on his food. "Come down with me and see." =20 *** =20 "Are you sure that's a good idea?" Christine Chapel asked as her immediate= supervisor got off the wall comm. =20 "If I was prone to good ideas, Nurse, would I be here?" =20 "You're here because your ex-wife was sleeping with your divorce lawyer." =20 "Having either in my life wasn't a good idea either, Christine." He sighed= and went back to his desk. "OK. After having Barrows send up a Padd for = the captain to sign, I couldn't get an electronic confirmation. So what; b= ig deal. It happens on occasion. Calling him up to confirm lost communiqu= e is standard Imperial procedure." =20 "Standard my Size Sevens," Christine snorted. "Nobody follows procedure ex= cept for Spock." =20 "Now you're bein' nasty." =20 "My point is," Chapel was getting exasperated now, "A call that soon after = the Padd was sent up, and the confidential note you gave him before the Pad= d, will make Sulu suspicious of you." =20 "Big deal. The man operates on suspicion. He should be in Covert Ops. I = hear they let you carry personal swords with your uniform." =20 "That's not all they let you carry. Poison rings, personal drugs, you name= it. All you need to do is file a permit." =20 "I'm changing the subject back to our original conversation topic: what el= se is the Agony Booth good for?" McCoy wanted to know. He was making a fl= eet of gliders with declassified flimsys while waiting for Kirk to hurry up= and decide to come down to Sickbay. Chapel had finished for the day, and = the conversation had sort of tied them both up. =20 "Circulation." Chapel mused. "It does get the blood going." =20 "I once pulled a hypothermic patient back to normal blood temperature from = it," McCoy offered. =20 "You can do that with agonizers, too. I read the Klingon Manual." =20 "Yeah, but don't follow that manual. Humans operate on a different frequen= cy altogether." =20 "Will it kill you?" =20 "No, but it might as well; you'll bleed out both ears and have permanent ti= nnitis in the key of F-sharp. I'd rather shiver." =20 "Set it for Tellarites and you'll bleed out of a lot more than just your ea= rs." =20 "Andorian settings just tickle. I think we've all prayed the interrogator = was an Andorian." =20 "Senile Andorians." =20 "Yeah." =20 McCoy set the glider into the air. It floated smoothly to Chapel, who pluc= ked it out of the air almost absently and flew it right back at him. =20 *** =20 "Pavel Chekov," Sulu put his hands on his hips and glared. "Why didn't yo= u tell me you were trying to hide a body?" =20 Pavel decided to actually opt for honesty. "I didn't want to implicate you= ." =20 "I'm head of security. Don't you think I'd know how to make something disa= ppear?" Sulu shook his head. "I'm impressed. "How did you kill him?" =20 "I didn't. He was just there." =20 Sulu took another look. "Good grief." He summed it up neatly. "He's huge= ." =20 "How can you tell?" =20 "Look at all those bones. He takes up some space." =20 "Da." Chekov looked again at the canister. "Kin we just vaporize him with= a phaser?" =20 "The ship's computers will pick up the molecules, Pav. I don't want to dea= l with a shipwide security alarm when I'm the head of security." =20 "I know, but...I thought mebbe you knew a trick." =20 "I don't. The captain sure does, though." =20 "Da." Chaekov agreed gloomily. Both thought for some long moments on the = unnerving but useful skill the captain had with conveniently vanishing enem= ies (barring the occasional but obnoxious exception). "Now what?" =20 Sulu turned the question over in his mind. "Move the thing. Scott's crew = are going to come in here in a few hours, right? Move it." =20 "Where?" Chekov was staring at Sulu as if he wasn't convinced the Helmsman= was a genius or deranged. =20 "I gotta idea. C'mon." =20 TBC... =20 =20 =09=09 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! =96 Try it today!=20 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ASCEM messages are copied to a mailing list. Most recent messages can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASCEML. NewMessage: