"Heeeelllloooooo?" Beka called, her voice fragmenting and bouncing around the empty corridors of the hive, "Anyone out there? I'm in paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiinn
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Beka limped toward the voice as best she could, feeling slightly helpless until she turned a corner and saw the doorway, "Marco?" She asked, grimacing as her leg gave a particularly painful twinge of protest.
He gestures for her to follow him up, and then limped his way out of the doorway. "Come on. You must be important, roaming free and all. What happened and we'll see if Dr. House gives enough of a flying fuck to fix it," he says as he starts to get into his supplies.
House said something, and then muttered about boring as he pointed to the chair. "Take off your clothes. ...well, the ones in the way. The rest can wait for the second date, okay? I like to pace myself." He collected his things and came over to inspect the wounds.
"So why do you get to roam free, anyway?" he began to ask as he started to clean her up.
"You're such a gentleman," Beka smiled curtly and shimmied out of her pants as gracefully as she could, considering she was trying desperately not to touch the gashes.
"Rev Bem --the Magog with the orange robes-- he was the physicist on my ship, the Eureka Maru for a long time. He's protecting me"
"What kinda lameass name is Eureka Maru?" House asks, as he cleaned the wounds, sterilizes, and begins to stitch. Not the best work, but he's been weaned from the last of his vicodin and now just has pain, instead. You take what you can get. "Why don't you come from the Enterprise or the Millenium Falcon?"
But when she talks about Bem, he gets a look on his face. "... ... you house rabid angry wookies that eat people normally?" He snorts, and then es back to his work. "Am I to assume he was a reasonable guy at the time?"
"It's the lameass name my father gave it," She glared for .1 seconds before wincing, "Shit, Doc. The ship I was just-wince- on was called- wince- the Andromeda Ascendant if that makes you any happier."
Her face darkened, "Rev, the real Rev, is nothing like this; he's the kindest, most selfless creature I've ever met," She sighed and shook her head, "It must have been something truly awful to turn him."
"So," The absolute silence of this place was driving her stir-crazy; another eason she hated land was the lack of constant engine hum or irritatingly persistant AIs, "They get you, too?"
"Do you think I signed up for this? Cause you know, I know I'm hardly all sunshine and unicorn giggles, but I'm not exactly Mengele, either." ... ... that Chase kid really ticked him off with that. Really.
"We're all prisoners. One day I was in Princeston-Plainsboro, and my cane snapped-- and down I went, and I fell... and..." He shrugs, and then says, "Then I was picking myself out of a gutter, and about five seconds after that, I had Cookie Monster on PCP hauling me here. Asked a few questions, the word 'doctor' made them decide not to eat me, and ah, look! Here I am one step up above the average breeder-bucket."
...that came from somewhere over there. Somewhere.
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"Be more specific and I will!" She called back, trying to find the source of the voice.
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But there's a tall man, holding the frame of a ruined doorway, looking around for the source of her voice.
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He gestures for her to follow him up, and then limped his way out of the doorway. "Come on. You must be important, roaming free and all. What happened and we'll see if Dr. House gives enough of a flying fuck to fix it," he says as he starts to get into his supplies.
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"Well," She took the dyed-red bandages off to reveal three extremely deep wounds, "Take a wild guess."
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"So why do you get to roam free, anyway?" he began to ask as he started to clean her up.
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"Rev Bem --the Magog with the orange robes-- he was the physicist on my ship, the Eureka Maru for a long time. He's protecting me"
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But when she talks about Bem, he gets a look on his face. "... ... you house rabid angry wookies that eat people normally?" He snorts, and then es back to his work. "Am I to assume he was a reasonable guy at the time?"
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Her face darkened, "Rev, the real Rev, is nothing like this; he's the kindest, most selfless creature I've ever met," She sighed and shook her head, "It must have been something truly awful to turn him."
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Yeah, he's totally going to diagnosis Rev's mental illness for you. AND THEN NOT GIVE A FUCK.
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"And I'm sure you just managed to charm the pants off him, hmm?"
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Medical pun for the win.
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"So," The absolute silence of this place was driving her stir-crazy; another eason she hated land was the lack of constant engine hum or irritatingly persistant AIs, "They get you, too?"
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"We're all prisoners. One day I was in Princeston-Plainsboro, and my cane snapped-- and down I went, and I fell... and..." He shrugs, and then says, "Then I was picking myself out of a gutter, and about five seconds after that, I had Cookie Monster on PCP hauling me here. Asked a few questions, the word 'doctor' made them decide not to eat me, and ah, look! Here I am one step up above the average breeder-bucket."
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Pause.
"What's a Mengele?"
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