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[asitcouldbe]

For those of you who are new to the city, I put out a medical records form on the first of every month. Unfortunately, due to security issues, I'm going to have to ask people to start coming down to the hospital and filling them out in person rather than just answering over the communicators. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but despite how you

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[symmetryguns]

[He's at the hospital, filling out one of these forms.

It's been a half hour and he still hasn't finished writing his name out properly. And it would be difficult for most people to take a half hour for a name like Death the Kid, but this child is managing it.]

[asitcouldbe]

[she just assumes he isn't very good with writing]

... Do you need help?

[symmetryguns]

[Offering to help is the worst thing to do when you're dealing with Kid. He's too proud to accept it.]

No, I'm just making sure the letters are written properly.

[He honestly has no problems with spending days on this, though if she were to tell him to just dictate the information to her, he would.]

[asitcouldbe]

[leaning over to take a look]

It's fine; I can read it perfectly.

[symmetryguns]

The "t" isn't crossed properly.

[The line (crossing the t in "the") slants upwards the slightest fraction of an inch.]

[asitcouldbe]

[still assuming that he's primarily worried about legibility]

I promise you it's fine. You know that saying about doctors having horrible handwriting? It's completely true-- and I've been a Dean of Medicine long enough to have presided over hundreds of doctors, so I'm practically a code-breaker by now.

[symmetryguns]

There's a difference between legible and acceptable.

[asitcouldbe]

Can I promise you that it's acceptable too?

[symmetryguns]

It isn't.

[asitcouldbe]

... What would be acceptable to you?

[symmetryguns]

All the letters formed properly.

[Obviously.]

[asitcouldbe]

[points to the "t" he's been working on]

What's wrong with that one?

[symmetryguns]

The cross wasn't straight.

[Feel like diagnosing a case of crippling OCD today, Cuddy?]

[asitcouldbe]

[... o i c]

How about I read you the form and you tell me the answers for me to fill out.

[symmetryguns]

...

[Hey that is something he had never considered before.]

You wouldn't mind doing that?

[asitcouldbe]

Not at all.