A New Life for the Broken Bird

[Doc Holliday]

The Following Morning, 0700

Doc met Sonja at her door. Respecting the fact that she was fasting and probably very hungry, he avoided food areas on their way to the operating room. Once at the door, he motioned to the door. On the other side of it was a team awaiting their patient all scrubbed up and ready to go. Doc just placed his hands behind his back.
"I cannot go in," he told her. "I can do little more than watch from the windows."
He then smiled. "When you wake up in about 36 to 48 hours, you will be someone else." He gave a nod, "This is what we have prepared for and it is natural to be scared."
He paused a moment before saying, "Now go. I will be nearby when you wake up." With that, a nurse from the room escorted her in.

Doc stood watching as they prepared her. Her back was to him when they disrobed her to make final checks where they would work. Out of respect friend and her dignity, he turned a moment and went through a com on his datapad. While he did so, Sonja laid down on the table. A cap was put over her hair and any body hair was removed. The anesthesiologist placed a mask over her face, instructing her to count backwards from one hundred. She might have made it to ninety five. At this point, Doc turned and left as he had work of his own to do to include a surgery of his own to perform.

Dr. Rikkert began his work. The head nurse kept him briefed every fifteen minutes with vitals. None of them knew that within was Admete, hopefully herself under as well. That was Doc's secret. Rikkert made cuts in various places. She wanted her breasts slightly larger and he did so with no implants. She had very little body fat so natural means was far from easy but it was done.
Looking at the picture, Rikkert was able to give her the eyes she so wanted, that mix of Kusari and someone from somewhere else. Her brown eyes would fit the Kusari/Cretan mix perfectly. It would take about eight hours for him to work his magic but he did so flawlessly.

During the procedure, Doc stopped once on his way to surgery himself. He watched from the window for a few minutes at this young, beautiful woman being transformed into another one. He moved on to the scheduled surgery he had to work, a surgery that would take him 12 hours to quite literally put back together a pilot who survived a pirate's ambush. "It was not repairing him," as Doc stated, "We are rebuilding him."

Doc was still in surgery when Rikkert was finished with Sonja. Still very much under anesthesia, she was moved to burn unit room where the famed "Rejuvenator" was set up.

Initially set up for burn victims and those severely disfigured in attacks, it found use in a sort of "clean up" operation after surgery. It was true that a laser scalpel did much to not leave marks behind, the Rejuvenator's ability to completely refurbish skin to new condition found other uses as well. With the recent addition of a power cell, the power demand wasn't as much of an issue.

For 24 hours, Sonja lay suspended, arms outward and completely naked while the beam of light slowly passed over her numerous times. Her body was suspended in air with the use of high energy so that no part of her touched anything solid. For that to happen would leave imperfections. Unlike so many other times, there was an augmentation of skin pigment to give a final look of someone of Kusari and Cretan mix. While she was going through this, Doc did pass by for a progress report. While he saw her body on the machine, he focused on the mission at hand.

"She's doing well, Doc," said the operator. "A few more hours and she will be sent to recovery."
"Very well. I will be in my chambers for some rest before I go over to the cafe on Med Force for a dinner." With that, he left.

Finally, the process was finished. Her skin was completely re-conditioned. The attending surgeon looked her over and smiled.
"Perfect," he said to the operator. "Not a mark and the pigment augmentation worked well. Doc will be impressed."
Satisfied, he had her moved onto a gurney, covered her with a sheet and had her brought to a recovery room. It would take another 4 hours for the anesthesia to wear off but Nurse Kelly would be sitting next to her reading a book when Sonja began to stir. It would still take a little time for her strength to return before she could stand before and full length mirror in the room and see her new self for the first time.

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