Psych Eval

Posted on Sat Jun 19th, 2021 @ 7:38am by

Mission: The Thorion Conundrum Mission Brief
Location: Counselors Office
Timeline: Current

Gorbets walked to the counselors door bypassing Nurse Trammel. he chimed on the door.

Trammel sighed, "Some days I wonder why I am here."

"enter." Alessa said. She smiled at the Marine and frowned as Trammel snarked.

"Kate its alright, I know you are my gatekeeper. You are doing fine." Alessa motioned for her to return to her desk.

She looked at Gorbets, "You are?"

"Jimmy Gorbets, Er Captain Gorbets, I am the new Marine CO. I understand medical evals and psych evals are a thing. So lets get this sensitivity crap out of the way."

oO Sensitivity crap really? o0 Alessa thought she then cleared her throat.

"First of all Captain, this isn't a base camp where you can boss me around. Sit down and I am going to perform a full 1020f Post Evaluation to make sure you aren't PTSD or still in Combat Oriented mode, The last thing I want is the new Marine CO thinking he can kill the lot of everything and it being okay. So sit down, shut up and we are going to do things the hard way." Alessa said inside she was shaking she felt like a leaf in the wind.

She cleared her throat, "I am reading your last eval report now, it says here you have never been married, never had children and had few friends? Is there a reason why you seem to lack interpersonal skills Captain?"

James sat down. oO Its going to be one of these types of evals. oO

Gorebets decided it was time to change his approach. He looked at Alessa.

"Lieutenant, throttle back, I think we got off on the wrong foot. I keep my interpersonal interactions to whats required because every time I make a friend I am either backstabbed or I loose them in combat. I haven't had the luxury of sitting down and talking about my feelings in a very long time. To be clear I know a lot of folks suffer from PTSD and you don't get through the service without at least a little bit of malfunction along the way. You are a newly minted officer, So I know you are trying to prove yourself."

That hit Alessa hard. He was right she felt like she had to prove she was ready for all this. She cleared her throat , he had gotten to her.

"Captain, Alright you came from combat long term are you suffering from nightmares or flashbacks that interfere with day to day operations?"

"To be fair el-tee I see the faces of the men and women I have lost in my sleep. I haven't had any rear R&R in five years. According to Andrews you have barely gotten settled in. So let me have that same decent bit and maybe we won't be so cranky. I came here to report in. You can size me up. Write down I am an asshole or an okay guy. I don't care. I just know in a firefight I would die to save you.. or anybody else here."

oO This is why I am so damn circular about everything. oO Alessa thought.

"So Captain I have it on your word that you aren't suffering from PTSD. You seem to have anger problems or problems with women, or at least Psychologists. Its a reasonable thing all officers around here seem to have. You are to report to the CMO For an examination for medical. But to save us both anguish I will sign off on you. Welcome to the Leto. You need me my door is open." She said.

Jimmy was about to ask the Lieutenant about the ship when he got a com requesting he go to the bridge. He cleared his throat, took off his glasses and stood up.

This Post Brought to you by:

Captain James Gorebets
Marine C.O.
USS Leto

Lieutenant Alessa Herria
Chief Counselor
USS Leto

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