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Food was taken to being duly picked at as she mulled over her words in her head. How she wanted to present things to him without really alarming him...he was Meta after all. "He's already caught his flight up...besides it's not really that important. It's just a personal meeting really...he's more of my doctor than an associate I guess." Pick at her food, eat a few bites, drink some wine. Things that would keep her from being able to talk.

But there she was, keeping secrets from someone she was intimately involved in. Why did that feel wrong? Oh yes, because it probably was. Even if they didn't last she knew she could trust James with her secrets...right? "Robert Camp, MD. I've known him for a few years now..." Hopefully the name wasn't familiar to James. He would be present in the Fleet logs but his activities weren't registered.

"They're not...always important. Sometimes just superficial really." Again tapping her fingers on the table, eyes being averted from his own. Come on, this wasn't really a big deal? Well it usualy wasn't but now it kinda was. Why did all of the bad thigns have to happen to her.

She licked her lips adn then shrugged lightly, trying to keep the conversation from getting heavy. "Orthopedics and neurology." Yeah that was nice a vague enough. After all, there were several levels of those two professions in this day and age. A double specialist was hardly uncommon. "Really, it's no big deal, I see him every year..."

Damn him and his brain. Damn it all...someone give her a tub of water and one of his wires...fry him for a day or two for being able to hit marks so well. Sometimes she really hated that. Well now she was loosing her appetite...though that alcohol was getting appreciated all right now. Again she stalled a moment.

"You don't get shot in the back with a high guage weapon and not have reprecussions James..." Well...okay so he knew what was wrong...but didn't know the extent or how anything was put right and what not. And that was good for her. Medicine was an incredible thing these days after all. Though another drink from her glass.

"No...you know, just something he likes to check up on and what not...make sure I'm doing okay. It's just easier for him to come up here is all." OKay so it was a semi lie...but she wasn't sure if she was really ready to tell him just how bad it really was...or seemed to be getting. Though she had the sinking feeling he would know soon enough when Camp was through with her.

Food was taken too again, and soon enough she was finishing up before indulging in that wine again. What could she say, it was soothign on her nerves right now. "Yes well...I'm sure Meta won't need to be involved...it's Meta after all. And you all have more important things to do really." Though a little shrug at his last comment. "Maybe."

Though she was thankful for the subject shift...she didn't particularly like the suibject that had been picked. Oh well, beggers couldn't be choosers now could they? But that worried look of a lover overcame her features then as she let her head tilt slightly at him. "I take it that that's horribly dangerous, seeing as it's your brain."

So what if he'd done it before? It was still horribly dangerous. "When are you going to have it done?" Jelena thought she might just take some time off to coencide with Jame's little surgery date. Moral support and what not. "And how long would it put you out of comission?"

Okay so that blew her idea of doing just that out of the water. Though that was an admirable thing...risking his life to hold on to what he considered dear to him. Couldn't find that too much in a man these days. All the ones of Fleet were a bit flakey and detatched, and then the rest were all on earth. Pickings were slim, lucky her she got the good one.

THough a smile to him, best to remain positive since he seemed to be doing so. "I'll make sure to mark and clear my schedule. I'll be able to get no work done worrying about you like I know I will...heck I already am."A soft smile across the table to him.

"You know me, I worry over everything like a mother worries about her children." Though she thought about that offered seat for a moment...could she handle that? Truth be told...she wasn't one too much for blood. Which was funny considering she was a scientist. Okay it wasn't blood that bothered her in genreal...it was warm flowing blood that did.

Though another smile to him as he snapped over entertainment and she leaned back in her chair some, hand holding to her glass and sipping at it every now and then, pondering. Funny...she'd never told him about the whole incident with her family, though she was sure he somewhat knew from papers...if he read them back then, but she had easily stated she'd been shot in the back. The things she said sometimes.

"You really know how to show a girl a good time, don't you? You old softie."

"Oh yes you are, you just like to pretend you're not. Like when your civilian shows." Jelena liked to tease him about it, it was a fun old time that was for sure. And he was over ten years older than her, that gave her liscnse to call him old and tease in good fun.

"Seasoned...I don't think I've heard that one before. But that's a good word for it. Chivilry is not dead, I think I'm going to go in shock. Though lucky me, you're all mine, eh? A raise of her glass as if in toast before she drained what was left in it.