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Thursday, March 15th, 2068, 7:30 p.m, Tracy Island

After dinner, Nikki decided to take a walk on the beach on her own. Images of last night's rescue were playing on a loop in her mind. She had to admit she was surprised that she managed to sleep through the night after the rescue with those haunting images plaguing her mind. In the end, she put it down to major exhaustion. She came to a stop and sat down on the sand with her back leaning against a rock.

Her hand roamed in the grainy sand, picking up small pebbles and shells. When she had a good group of them in her hand, she stood up and began skimming them into the rushing ocean.

She turned when she heard footsteps crunching on the dry sand towards her. "Hi."

"Hey. I saw you from the balcony and thought you'd might like some company."

Nikki glanced at her hand and dropped what pebbles and shells that remained to the ground. "Thanks, Alan." She sat back down in her previous place.

Alan sat beside her. "You seemed pretty quiet today."

Nikki smiled slightly, keeping her eyes on the waves. "I'm always quiet."

"Not this quiet. Are you okay?" Alan watched her face to see what emotion she was showing.

Nikki nodded. "I was just thinking about last night's rescue. I'm used to seeing injuries and worse, but never on such a grand scale."

"I know. It took me a long time to get used to seeing what we saw last night. In a way, I'm still not used to it," he commented.

She looked down at the sand as she trailed her finger in it. "I must have sounded a bit cold hearted during the debriefing. Seeing those people didn't affect me in the same way as it did everyone else."

"That's not your fault. You were a trauma nurse before you came out here. Seeing injuries and death like that was an everyday thing for you. No one thought of you as being cold hearted. They understood why you would feel how you felt. Just remember, you're not the only one who had feelings that might've been seen as dispassionate."

Nikki turned to Alan for the first time since they sat down. "Thanks, Alan."

"Any time. If you ever you need to talk, you can always come and find me or Mom." Alan advised her.

Post by Nikki-browneyes1 on 12/11/2004


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