Of Offenses Unknown.

Posted on Tue Mar 12th, 2019 @ 10:31am by Lieutenant Aeryn Vinia
Edited on on Tue Mar 12th, 2019 @ 10:35am

Mission: S01E04 The Outpost Has Eyes
Location: Head Nurse's Office

She'd gone from having all the responsibility for a starship to having none at all. If she was truthful to herself it was like having the rug yanked out from underfoot. Her roommate at the academy had taught her that term, and at the time she'd laughed at her. Now...NOW it made perfect sense. Rubbing the raspberry on her forehead she winced at the pain of tension running down the sides of her neck and into her shoulders.

You didn't want to be responsible for the whole ship. her conscience whispered, betraying her with its honesty.

"No, but it was nice to be trusted." Aeryn replied aloud to the little voice in her head that was currently driving her mad.

Now, she was 'just a nurse' again. Nurse Vinia couldn't wait to hear those words especially after everything she'd signed her name for in the months that she'd been Chief Medical Officer. It had already lasted for too long, a nurse, even a top level FNP like herself. Her skill set was quite advanced, but it wasn't at the level of the MD's that had just replaced her without a second's thought. That's not fair. You can't take it personally that Starfleet did exactly what they said they were going to.

She fully expected to be taken to task for the litany of ways that she'd gone outside of her scope of practice. Aeryn knew each and every one, down to the time they'd happened because she'd spent so much time agonizing over each action. The line she'd overheard from the new chief however- in the meeting she'd been excluded from rankled her. 'you both will bring me up to speed on crew records and what is currently occurring.' If anyone was qualified to do that, it was her, not the Doctor barely into Residency and the other who'd been threatened into coming and had only been there a few days. Neither of them were fully aware of what was going on, due mostly to circumstance. How dare they just dismiss her like that, after all the work she'd done keeping this place running smoothly. It hurt, it had hurt when she'd been ignored as a child and it hurt now even when the parties in play were not aware of how deeply they'd hurt her feelings.

A deep sigh escaped her lips as she rested both elbows on her desk and bent forward so that her waterfall of sapphire hair would hide the distress on her face.