Relapsification

Posted on Sun Feb 1st, 2026 @ 7:41pm by Lieutenant JG Kally Kellerman & Lieutenant JG Jenna Jade

Mission: A Princess Of Tial
Location: Jenna's Quarters

Jenna's eyes opened slowly as she regained consciousness for the first time in apparently many, many hours. Her eyes sought the chrono and she startled into full consciousness as she saw that it was 0348 as the numbers showing. Then another urge hit her and she slid out of bed to make a dash towards the bathroom where she spent a few minutes answering nature's call.

She reached up to where the cortical monitor was sitting, but didn't remove it, knowing that doing that would be a signal to summon Kally once more. She scratched at her arm as she rummaged in her drawer and pulled out fresh underwear and pajamas, her face red in the realization that she'd been nude for the last at least eighteen hours. A replicated glass of water and her mouth was no longer dry for the time being and she placed the glass on her nighstand before opening the drawer for a breath mint and saw them.

Her hand scratched at her arm again as the hand reached out and picked up the vial of the brown liquid shakily, want and need in her eyes and mind while she bent down to pick up her uniform pants that were still sitting there, reaching into the pockets and panic showing in her eyes as she didn't find the hypospray that was supposed to be there. She searched her brain as she frantically tried to remember where it was and realized it was sitting on the floor of her office.

Could she get there without being missed or seen? That was the real question, but no... If she were caught out of her quarters and reported, that would be bad. Of course... She sat on the side of her bed as she used her fingernails to try to open the top of the vial, turning into an outright scrabble as she got more and more frustrated with it. She spent nearly five minutes trying to get the seal off before she got frustrated and knocked the vial against her nightstand, shattering the whole upper half of the tube and lacerating her hands, blood dripping from several cuts as she sat on the edge of her bed looking at them in horror.

The cortical monitor was doing its job, silently monitoring Jenna's status. When it registered her awake for more than five minutes, it sent an alert to the computer, which in turn alerted Kally. She'd taken a moment to wake herself and swung her legs out of bed, throwing on a long tshirt and a pair of shoes, and grabbing a medkit, ready for her first late-night housecall. She had a suspicion it wouldn't be the only one.

A moment later she was back outside Jenna's quarters, ringing the chime. "Jenna?" she said. "It's Kally. May I come in?"

The engineer’s eyes flashed to the door then down again, panicking now a full fledged entity and she stood, but didn’t move her feet because of the sharp fragments on the ground, “Th-there’s no need doctor, Ah was just gettin’ back into bed to get some more sleep!” She got out, realizing that this was the only shot she had to get Kally to turn around and not see her new shame. A droplet hit her foot and she looked down to see that her torn hands were still leaking.

"Okay well that was bullshit," Kally muttered under her breath, hitting a medical override on the door. This was not a time for subtlety or worrying about boundaries if Jenna was doing something wrong. And either way, she needed to scan her. She tapped a medical override into the door and stepped through as it opened. As the doors closed behind her, she stopped, surveying the scene.

An odor was coming from a brown stain on the floor near the bed. At first Kally wasn't sure what to make of it, but her academy classes came back to her and she identified it as one of the stimulants she'd prescribed. The shards on the floor told the rest of the story. "Get back in bed," she said, quietly.

“Ah need to..” Jenna started, then stopped, raising her hands, “Ah need to clean my hands.” Her voice was ashamed, low and just above a whisper.

"I said get in bed," Kally said, her voice now taking on more authority. "If for no other reason than I can't have you cutting yourself further."

The brunette flinched at the tone, sitting down with her hands in her lap and bringing her feet up and to the side. She didn’t dare disobey, though she didn’t want to smear blood all over the place.

Kally went over to Jenna's replicator and called up an order. A moment later a small bottle appeared, as well as a handheld device. Kally walked over to where the vial broke and poured the contents of the bottle all over the stain, watching it fade from brown to a duller version of the carpet color. She then pressed a button on the object in her other hand and held its nozzle down on the carpet, sucking up all the broken material, as well as the chemicals. In two minutes, she'd completely cleaned the area near Jenna's bed and her nightstand. She recycled the cleaning materials and washed her hands in Jenna's sink, then came back to the bed where Jenna was sitting, looking guilty.

"That vial was concentrated," Kally said, quietly. "The hypospray is meant to administer it in doses. If you'd tried to consume it, it most likely would've stopped your heart." She sat down on the bed with her and set out her medkit, opening it and pulling out a dermal regenerator and a set of tweezers. She scanned Jenna's hands carefully, pulled out one fragment of the vial and then closed up the cuts to her hands. She went and got a wet towel and cleaned Jenna's hands off, then closed up her medkit and set it down on the nightstand. She looked at Jenna and put a hand on Jenna's knee. "Talk to me."

“Ah, Ah wasn’t gonna drink it all, just a bit, to, to take the edge off.” Jenna said quietly, wincing as the glass was extracted from her shaking hands, finally stopping the shaking as she clasped her wrist with the one that had been inundated with the tremors, “Ah, Ah was j-just tryin’ to get a small dose, b-but my hypospray was on the f-floor of my office and, and Ah couldn’t get there for it. Th-there’s another v-vial in the drawer.” She pointed with one finger to her nightstand, knowing that Kally would search the entire room before she left this time, if it came down to it. Admitting it might just score a few points for honesty.

"'Your' hypospray, hm?" Kally said, opening Jenna's nighstand, finding the extra vial and putting it securely in her medkit. "I wasn't aware some of the crew had their own personal ones. Or is my next inventory going to come up one loadable hypospray short?" She raised an eyebrow at Jenna. "This is worse than I originally thought," she said, half to herself. "I can only keep so much quiet, Jenna," she said.

“It was in an emergency medkit, one of the spaces that typically isn’t inhabited, even at red alert, so no one would miss it or need it. Ah had to modify it so it would be reloadable.” Jenna mumbled softly, “Ah think the medkit got replaced sometime, everyone woulda blamed Donahue even if it were discovered.

Kally sighed, putting her hand over Jenna's, which was shaking still. "All right. I'll make sure it's checked at our next inspection," she said. "That said, what are we going to do with you for now?" She opened her tricorder again and scanned Jenna slowly. "The good news is, your vitals are getting closer to normal. The bad news is, your body chemistry is still off and the tremors in your hand aren't helping things." She sighed and closed the tricorder. "We need to calm you down, get your body to relax a bit to fight the addiction to the stimulant."

“Ah umm.. Ah’ve heard that when counterin’ addictions that if smaller doses of the drug is usually the way to ramp down?” Jenna tried very hard to hide the hope in her voice, scratching her arm again as if from some internal itch.

Kally looked as if she were considering that. "So," she said, slowly. "We've got from lying to stealing to wheedling," she said, fixing Jenna with a hard stare. "How about bartering?"

“Wha- What do you mean?” Jenna blurted out, the thought of arguing about the stealing aspect flying from her mind as she was pinned by the state.

Kally's pounce was swift and sure. Like a predator landing on its prey, she straddled Jenna's legs and crawled over her, her loose tshirt showing the lack of anything underneath. "A simple exchange," she said. "You give me what I want, I give you what you want. How bad do you want it, Jenna?"

Her heart screamed ‘It’s a trap!’ as Jenna looked up at Kally from being flat on her back, “Aye, umm..” Her brain was racing as she tried to comprehend the change of situation and focused on one thing alone. The engineer tried to push herself back, but on more from Kally pinned Jenna’s shoulder back against the bed, preventing her from going anywhere and Jenna’s heart started beating as if she’d been sprinting for hours. Surely this was nothing, it was just a simple exchange. Something physical for something physical. “Aye think…” She panted fast and she didn’t know if it was panic or excitement. She could get a dose and then… She could figure something out later, after she could think properly. “Aye, umm, Aye sup-p-pose?”

Kally's expression was a mixture of disappointment and resignation. "Wrong answer, sweetie," she said. She sighed and rolled over, lying next to Jenna. She'd wanted to get a good look at her pupil reaction and her eye tracking and figured a come on would make a good excuse, given Jenna probably didn't want to be scanned. "You didn't really think I was going to let you compromise your virtues did you? What kind of harlot do you take me for?"

Disappointment, shame and horror warred for dominance in Jenna’s mind and face before the unwanted tears came again. “Oh mah gawd…” She couldn’t bring herself to look at Kally, just wanting to disappear into a black hole. The need, the sheer desire and craving for the stims was driving her mad.

Kally grabbed Jenna and pulled her in for a hug, holding her tight and stroking her hair comfortingly. "It's all right, honey," she said, holding her tightly. "You're going to be okay. I promise."

“No, Ah won’t.” Jenna said, muffled by Kally, “Ah gone done buggered up bad, Ah didn’t realize that it was gonna do…this. Ah know we were warned about it at the Academy, but...it was just a warnin’. Ah, Ah didn’t know it’d be this hard to come down from.”

"Well, now you know," Kally said gently. "That's how addiction works. I can help with the altered chemistry and break the addictive cravings, but we need to get the last of it out of your system first," she said. "That's going to take another twenty-something hours given how much you had in you. I can't bring it down artificially without making your body crash worse. So, you need to ride it out."

“Ah can’t...can’t do it myself.” Jenna whispered, “Ah ain’t strong enough, clearly. Is it possible to put me to sleep or somethin’ so that Ah don’t do somethin’ stupid?”

"You aren't doing it yourself," Kally said, quietly. "You've got all of us to help you through it." She hugged Jenna tighter. "I can give you something to help, and put you on very light duty to keep your mind off things, but officially you're on medical leave from being Chief Engineer until further notice."

"Not on leave." Jenna said quietly, "Ah quit. Ah can't do the job, it's too tough for me. If Ah need to, Ah'll put it in writin' or even resign from Starfleet if it comes down to that."

"Shhhhh," Kally said, continuing to stroke her hair comfortingly. "No major life decisions for the next forty-eight hours."

"Ah just.. Ah don't want to..." Jenna protested softly before falling silent again.

Kally kissed Jenna's forehead then slipped out of her bed and went to the replicator. She keyed in a medical override and a glass of water appeared with a vial of pills. She brought them back to Jenna's bedside, putting the water and pills on her nightstand before crawling back over her into bed and under the covers with her. "All right, here's the deal," she said. "You are going back to sleep for a few more hours. I know you are, because I'm going to be here cuddled up with you to make sure. Tomorrow, you're going to be on the lightest of duties. If you need something to balance your cravings out, you have a bottle of herbal supplements. You can only take one per hour, so ration them accordingly. Take one now and it'll help mellow you so you can sleep. Make sure you drink a full glass with each for best effect."

The engineer sat up partway with a nod, picking up one of the pills and swallowing it obediently while downing the entire cup that it came with before glumly looking down at the ground, still in shame. With the quiet urging hand of the doctor, she laid back down and curled up rtightly.

Kally snuggled up next to Jenna and wrapped her arms around her. "Sleep. We'll deal with tomorrow tomorrow," she said. "You've earned some rest."

Jenna nodded into the pillow as the arms around her felt just comforting to her. It was only a few minutes before she fell back into a deep slumber, all her worries gone for at least the time being.