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The stolen Czerka freighter dropping out of hyperspace near the orbit of Paqualis III. The jump from Aeten II had taken a couple of days, even at lightspeed. But Aska knew she could trust the doctor here to take care of her brother from another mother. So also knew the ship was stolen, the cargo was technically stolen, and the several other people locked up in the cargo hold were being kidnapped on behalf of their employer.

Throwing what little caution she had left to the void, the clone hit atmo at near full speed. She ship nearly shuttering apart. As she approached the landing pad of the hospital she noticed a pair of humanoids in scrubs taking a smoke break. Aska would land near the pair, and lower the rear loading ramp.

"Ok here we go. Get better soon, I'll be back with your cut." Aska said. Then loaded the hover pallet with Covax's battered body behind a gonk droid and sent him down the ramp to what she only assumed was a pair of medical professionals.

Anyone taking a closer look at the man on floating utility pallet would see a man in Clone War era armor. The helmet was cracked, the visor gone. A bolt hole in the left side of the visor. Closer inspection would find the left eye burst and cooked, like an over cooked egg. The left side of the face burned from a blaster bolt narrowly missing the face. The merc's armor had also taken a couple of hits. The left arm in particular had taken several shots. Burning holes clean through the armor and arm, from the upper shoulder on downward. The rest of the armor and body appeared to be heavily damaged as well. Perhaps from a fall.

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There were never any days of normality for Doctor Morata.

"When did he arrive?" she rasped as he was brought in by two hurried aides, one pale and the other in a panic. The man was dressed in what seemed practically like an antique; she had seen much worse wounds, however some of the nurses turned away from the view. Amariel, however, didn't.

This wasn't the first time she had witnessed something gruesome. Instead, she took in the man's features, walking a long-legged pace alongside him.

"I need vitals and blood packs, stat," she ordered crisply as the pallet was brought through. For now, he would have to be treated on what he came in, because if anything was broken moving would only exacerbate the problem.

"Can you hear me, sir?" She asked, leaning over him with a frown. "What's your name? Stay with me."

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Covax could feel his body float and Aska shipped him off. Felt as the aids scooped him up and put him on a real medical bed. But he was so tired. Everything hurt. His face, his arms, fuck even his hair hurt. He heard the aids call for the doctor, so he faded away. Letting the black overcome him.

Aids cut away the old armor, taking great care around the worst of the wounds to the man's body. A medical droid soon sweeping in to hook up wires and sensors for vital as another aid plunged in the IV line and connected it to the droid to start pumping fluids.

He could hear a voice, her voice. Typical, so demanding. "Eva.." he muttered. "I can hear you...It's me, Shane," he continued. His voice horse, gravelly. The nearly blind man reached out with his good hand to brush his fingers over what he thought to be his wife. His hand dropped just as quick however, as he suddenly lost color, and his breathing faded.

"Doctor, the patient's vitals are dropping. Blood pressure and heart rate are fare below optimal levels. Patient will code in 5...4..." rambled the medical droid.

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Eva?

For a moment, she stilled as his emotions washed over her. Shane. It was a name, at least. Either that, or a memory. But she didn't have the luxury of time, she'd have to move quickly.
"Acknowledged," she answered in clipped tones. "Prep for code, sterlize the field, keep his fluids up."

"Shane."

Her voice was a murmur, laced with suggestion from the Force.
"Don't fade on me now. Listen to me. Stay awake. Look at me." Her fingers probed over his armor, and she began to remove what pieces she could, carefully, mindful of the blaster burns and broken bones. She began to palpitate his ribs, feeling along for anything broken, anything that would hinder chest palpitations. She would have to work fast. She began applying pressure around the remainder of his arm at the shoulder to slow the bleeding, then began to work to remove the under-armor, the clothing beneath it, always careful, careful.

The news was grim.

"We'll have to make a cybernetic," she muttered, mostly to herself. His blood was beginning to cover her hands as she bent to work, moving swiftly. "Answer me, Shane."

She began prep work to salvage what she could, but the arm was essentially gone. There were the open blaster wounds, the eye cavity. Stabilizing broken ribs. Patching over obvious bleeds to staunch it long enough for the surgery ahead.

"Prepare if he codes on me," she spoke over her shoulder to the droid. "We'll have to manually pump fluids."

The dose of nerve-block would only just be enough to cut away the pain, at least, but his vitals were still dropping. The droid turned away, beginning to prepare code readout.

Placing her hands over his chest, she relaxed, and slowed her breathing. Warmth would spread through her gloved hands into his chest, massaging the heart for it to work again, working on abused ribs, enough to keep him alive.
"How are vitals now?" She spoke up, glancing to the droid.

It contemplated the readouts a beat more, before turning around to settle photoreceptors on the patient. "Stabilizing."


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"Yes Doctor." The droid confirmed. The medical robot starting to push a combination of IV fluids, Bacta, and a mix of pain killers. It would also charge it's on board paddles in case the patient suddenly crashed.

Covax lay there, awaiting the end. His heart wanted to go, wanted to see his family again. But his mind wasn't ready. Something pulled at him. That voice, it was calling to him again. The merc took in a sudden keep breath in through his nose, and suddenly murmured again.

"Eva?"

He opened his one good eye and looked around. Finding the source of the voice, a pale faced female. Stunning from the neck up, as it was all he could see from his position and general lack of vision. He could suddenly feel her fingers, like cold probes, pressing on his beaten and broken body.

"Geeraaa...FUCK!" he growled suddenly as the doctor prodded around the exposed left arm. The pain suddenly bringing him to the hear and now. "Wha...who..where..." he mumbled. Mind still clearly in shock. His mind racing while his body was clearly about to surrender.

The medical droid continued to assist the Doctor. Running through the check list. Paddles and adrenal fluid prepped for code. Nerve blocker added to the IV fluid mix. Sterilized tools for surgical application read. Checking all vitals. To the surprise of the droid's programming, the patient was stabilizing, improving even.

"Stabilizing. Patient is ready for surgery. Shell I cut the arm Ma'am?"

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Suddenly, his growl made her attention snap back to him, amber eyes coolly assessing him. He was still dazed, practically delirious still. Her hand smoothed over his forehead, assessing his remaining eye. "Hello, Shane. My name is Doctor Morata. We're preparing you for surgery. If you feel any pain, let me know. But I will be working quickly," she spoke quietly, then gave the droid a nod.

"Stay awake, and listen to me. Talk to me. How old are you? Where did you come from?" She would keep his attention on her while the droid began the surgery. With as many blaster bolts as the limb sustained, there was no salvaging it from the shoulder down. The same for his eye; they would have to work quickly, while he would be cognizant. She worried if he was put under, that he could slip away.

She increased the dosage of the nerve block, careful to keep his attention on her, his awareness on her.
"We'll have to make do with something basic for now until he's fully alert," she spoke over him briefly, one nurse nodding as they entered the room. "Prep a suite; once he's out of the OR, I want careful surveillance if anything changes. Tell me about yourself, Shane," she continued, rasping quietly. He didn't seem to recognize her so far...

It felt almost like a blessing. That, or he was too delirious.


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For a split his brain was in fight or flight mode, but something in this woman's tone seemed to ease him. The panic need to fight back gave way to a kind of singular focus on the amber eyed pale face hovering over him. Suddenly he could also feel her hand on his head. The sensation gave him a half smile.

He he to think hard for a moment when she asked his age. The drugs making his brain feeling like he was pulling his thoughts out of a Dagobah swamp. "Ah....thirty five? Yeah?" he finally replied. Voice still sounding like he had rocks in his throat. "I came....wait?" He was doing a job when he got shot wasn't he?" He tried to think, tried to remember but the Doc's voice pulled him back to here and now. "Um..Nar Shaddaa..,"he finally answered.

He could see her look to someone else then, but could not see out of his left eye to tell who it was. However he wouldn't move his head. He couldn't seem to pull his attention away from her. Those eyes, that soft voice, there was just something about them. " I'm a soldier. Well I used to be, AMS changed all that. It changed everything." Covax started talking freely. If the doctors gifts including feeling emotions or thoughts, she would feel his pain. The gut wrenching pain of loss, of losing the only thing he truly loved in the entire galaxy. Quickly however, he pushed those thoughts back down. "I work for myself now. Take what jobs come my way. I think that's why I'm here," he continued a bit more coldly.

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She stilled at the mention of Nar Shaddaa. Once, not too long ago, that place had been home. She could remember the sectors, the layers of the city that went down, down further even than Coruscant. The Smuggler's Moon had once been her home... but that also felt long ago. When he mentioned AMS, she hissed in a breath between her teeth at the pain that twisted in her chest. She hadn't expected that wild grief, the agony abruptly dissipating as soon as it flared to life, and she glanced at him.

Ever so slightly, her hands trembled, amber eyes wide.

The moment was smoothed over. Did he not even notice his own arm being removed? Though perhaps it was for the best. "Limb removal successful," came the droid's dry assessment. "Beginning attachment nodes now."

Next, was the eye socket. There was no saving the eye; but judging from his initial scan, the retinal nerve remained intact.
"What do you remember recently, Shane?" she asked him gently, her hand resting on his other shoulder, gaze steady.

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Covax was so doped up he hardly noticed the waves of emotion the woman seemed to be feeling on his behalf. However he could feel her hand shake. Something in him wanted to take hold of her hand, but the feeling past quickly. He was in no condition to make moves on this woman, even though it felt as if they were connected. He had no clue it was her use of the force making him feel as so.

As the moment based, he heard the droid saying something about a removed limb. Suddenly he realized he could not feel his left arm, nor could see it or anything else on his left side for that matter. A cold chill suddenly shot down his spine.

"I...I remember," he stammered. Starting to struggle as he tired to move to see him left side. "Combat droids...I was ambushed.," he continued. Cold fear was quickly turned to confused anger. "FUUUUCK!" He screamed. His one good eye now seeing the void where his left arm should be.

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She could feel the fear tightening down his spine, as surely as if it was her own fear. When he began to move, she increased pressure from her palm to his other shoulder, but when he cried out, she cried out, the anger wrapping around her mind in its' vitriol. She cut off the sound abruptly, gasping in pain as his scream echoed in her ears.

She had to get ahold of the situation quickly.

"Listen to me!"

Amber eyes blazed a brilliant gold, leaning over him, forcing him to tear his eyes from his limb.
"I do not want you to bleed out. Look at me, Shane. Look at me."

He would see it. When she shucked off her glove, he would see it. A cybernetic hand, beneath the glove, and she pulled up the sleeve more, revealing more. This was more than the average cybernetic; she stared down at him even as the droid continued his work, still assessing vitals. Provided he didn't thrash around, they should remain stable. But Amariel had bigger troubles to deal with.

"I will make this right." Her voice was authoritative, commanding, features drawn tightly. "But if you move, I can't help you. Calm down, and talk to me. Tell me what happened." She would not let him focus on the absence of his arm; she would tug the coat back down, then replace her gloves. It was subtle, but even as she spoke, her words were calm, and calming. She had to calm him, to bring his focus back.

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Covax hardly did not notice at first that the doctor was feeling exactly what he was feeling. Even if he had he could not have connected it to the force or what her abilities might be with them. All he did notice was the stump where his arm used to be, and a droid fixing it to look like it would soon hold one of the robot's owm arms. The shock was not that his arm was being replaced, but rather that it was gone in the first place.

Once more the woman's voice ringed in his mind. It was as if he was literally in hid head. The sound of which forced him to turn his head and face the source. Her eyes burns like small starts about to go supernova, and in that moment he thought to himself 'she's a Sith?' but his attention quickly moved to her hand.

The merc's eyes darted back and forth between the woman's hand and her face. Until finally his shock seem to subside. He focused on her eyes then.

"My partner and I were working a high risk job. We split up to gather.....assets, I cut the power to soon and had to climb a tower. Before I could get to the top I was ambushed by several security droids. It gets a little fuzzy after that." Covax answered calmly. He would of course leave out the facts like his employer or the job itself. "What about you?" he decided to question back. A kind of I told you mine now you tell me yours.

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At least it got him to no longer fixate on the stump. No doubt it was catastrophic; she could remember well having to confront the fear of losing her own. She could still smell burning flesh, could remember how bone splintered and the mutilated flesh lanced agony with every movement. She listened to his story with a face that seemed dispassionate, disconnected, except for her gaze.

Amber eyes burned with intense scrutiny over his every word. None of it sounded of lies, but he was leaving out details. Many details. She gave a brief smile, but it was bitter, rolling up the sleeve further. Indicating to her shoulder,
"You want my story? Very well."

The fingers moved fluidly, as though they were of flesh and bone, and not of mechanics. For a moment, her gaze dropped to it.
"You might have heard when the Sith assaulted the Ranger headquarters on Coruscant." Her voice was soft, cool. Unlike him, she didn't have to mince her words. "I was there as medical support for the Rangers. Dragging Rangers out even while the Sith continued assault from above." She could still remember the Sith that stood in front of her, trying to crush her. She remembered feeling their hatred. And then the hallway. The screams.

The scent and sight of blood. Of Corran's blood. The fist's fingers tightened for a moment, but her features didn't move.
"I was trying to evac a Ranger with the help of a few others... but the Sith that was assaulting him was still alive." Her eyes narrowed, lips pursed briefly. "She tried to kill me with her lightning. Have you ever been struck by Sith Lightning, Shane?" she asked him, glancing down to his one-eyed gaze. "It burned. Threw me back hard enough to break two ribs when I landed... and she died." Bald facts, spoken with about as much passion as he had.

She began to lower her sleeve.
"I can't promise it'll be perfect. You'll never forget. But as your physician..."

She settled the hand on his shoulder, expression calm. Eyes their usual amber.
"I promise it will be much better than anything you'll receive from any other medical supplier."

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Drugged as he was his mind felt like he was pulling thoughts from mud. But it was very much still there. In the moment. He shared with her as much as she needed to know. As much as he felt she could know without risking her own life or the lives of others. It was a reflex not only as a mercenary but as a soldier.

Much as she was reading him with her own abilities, he was reading her as well. Her warm amber eyes gave her away. The same way his wife used to when he told her as much of his mission. However to his surprise, she was very forth coming with her own experience.

Covax gave a nod at the question of remembering the attack on the Rangers, the sudden appearance of men then calling themselves The Ren or some such. He thought to himself, remember the holovids as she continued to speak. He couldn't help but to look to her chest as she mentioned the lighting. As if his one good eye would suddenly find the scare through her lab coat or something. He eye would then shift to her hand on his shoulder as she finished.


"Doctor, the connections are ready for the temporary arm. Shell I move onto the eyes?" the medical droid suddenly interrupted after she eased his fears. Covax swallowed hard, "I tell you what Doc. Do me a favor and put me out, wake me when Grievous here is done with me ?"

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It didn't take an empath to see how his eye shifted. Judging where the scarring was. How much of it was there. She resisted the urge to twitch her lips into a faint smile; to show off her scars would not only be a breach of code, it would be inappropriate. The man was in shock and, though surprisingly lucid, in no shape for any more shocks to his system. And he was married.

Grievous. That did elicit a twitched smile, but she covered it with a diplomatic cough, glancing down at him with a nod.
"You'll feel nothing, Shane," she answered calmly, patting him on the shoulder as well. "And once you've recovered enough, you and I will talk. But for now... rest..."

As she spoke, the other hand lifted with the sedative. It would drag him back to unconsciousness, back into a peaceful deepness that his mind needed as much as his body to heal.

Glancing up at the medical droid, she gave a brief nod.
"Let's move onto the orbital socket and see what we can spare."

When he had been patched up, it was a matter of watching and waiting. And both she did, barely resting or relaxing until he would come to, half-asleep in the guest medical chair.


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Covax took notice as IIana's eyes shifted, ever so slightly. The tiniest hint of a smile on her face as a thought crossed her mind. The look vanishing as fast as it appeared. The Doc, ever the professional. Would not let her mask of polite indifference fall. Until he made the comment about her droid. Then he was gifted with a smile and a cough that sounded more like a snort-laugh. He found his eyes suddenly getting heavy soon after.

Soon after the medical droid checked Covax's vitals. Seeing his patient stable and fully under, he began the procedure. Under Doc's watchful amber eyes, the droid cut away the chard flesh around the eye. Next exposed the socket, then scooped out the remains of the eye ball. When that was done the droid moved onto exposing the optical nerves, attacking sensory connections as well a metal orbital bone to hold the new eye. Once complete, the droid would finish by fitting the correct eye to it's new home and choosing the color of the lens to match that of the human's natural eye.

"Doctor, Both the eye and shoulder procedures are now complete. I will continue to monitor the patient."

Surgery complete, Covax rested for the next several hours. Dreamless. When he awoke later, he felt burning in his left eye but not like before. More like dull irritation. But he could see. He could see all round him. Glancing left he could see his new arm. Moving his head right he could see the doctor, eyes closed. The thought crossed his mind to take a picture. Suddenly his left eye adjusted focus until it found the perfect view of her from just above her nipple line to the top of her head. Then clicked.

"Perfect." he muttered.

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Her eyes remained closed, but her voice came through, light in the cool room. "You so much as show that to anyone, I'll sue you for defamation and slander." Amber eyes opened, then blinked once, grimacing at the dryness in her mouth. "Good to see you cognizant, at least. How do you feel?"

She paused for a moment, then grunted as she stood, wincing at the stiffness in her shoulders. Shrugging it off, she stepped over calmly, looking him over.
"Tissue looks good, the swelling's gone down... does anything ache or do you feel pressure?" She lightly rested her hand over the cybernetic where the metal connected to the flesh, gauging his reaction. "Anyplace particularly sore?"

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Covax scoffed and made a little chuckle. "oh..oh, that hurt a little." He said holding his shoulder. "You gave me the new eye, not my fault if it works. And I feel like I got punched in the face. But otherwise ok."

He looked at her the way she looked at him. Mostly because there was little else in the room to look at, and she was right in front of his face. "Like I said, face hurts but not bad. Can't feel anything in the arm. I can use it, I can feel it's there but..." It was tough for him to explain. The feeling of numbness. Like the ends of her nerves were burned off, because well they were.

"You give this kind of care to all your patients, or do I gotta pay extra for the TLC treatment ?" He asked, teasing. Sarcastic banter was how he dealt with most situations.

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Her lips twitched slightly, as though about to smile, before the emotion was suppressed, turning away to type something in her datapad. "Yes. I charge by the hour," she replied in a deadpan tone, before glancing over at him. "You also punched my assistant droid during the interval. You were meant to be fully unconscious... I was impressed. But it also meant having to manually chart you." She nodded to his new cybernetic arm.

She then stepped over again... and pressed down hard into his shoulder.
"Big pinch."

A loud click snapped into place, and for a fleeting moment of agony, all of his nerves would suddenly, abruptly connect to the limb. And then, he would get the sensation of touch, like pressure, almost like the actual arm was there, but muted. The pain would dissipate, and she gazed down at him calmly, flexing her own hand.


"How does it feel now, Shane?"

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Covax thought he glanced a smile, but it was gone as soon as it appeared. He come to admire the passing moments when he could see a crack in her mask of indifference. It helped to distract him from being stuck in a bed, and from his return to risking his life once more.

Then he snort laughed. at her deadpan comment. "Really? Because I'm happy to pay extra for a sponge bath." He replied. Trying his own hand at being deadpan but sadly coming up short. He didn't remember being partly awake for the surgery but that was hardly a surprise. He looked over to his new arm though as he commented, "I had to test out the new hardware."

He then watched as she walked over, looked down at him with her clinical glare and shoved hard. In that very moment it felt as if the new arm was growing out of the socket. A numbness that burned like a fuse as the nerves came online and fired off as they made their way to his fingertips.

He bit his lip hard and muttered to her, "Fine..."

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She nodded once, then winced slightly. She could remember the pain for herself all too sharply that first time it was fitted for her; giving the limb another critical stare, she finally looked back up into his face. "Sorry. But there's no gentle way to do that; next time the nerves need tuning up, it's a lot less painful." She flexed her own cybernetic hand, then sighed, glancing down at it. "It will feel strange, at first. But over time... it gets easier."

She glanced at him, giving another faint smile. This one lingered
. "So, the eye works then?"

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