Character intro - Dr. Robert Chase

[camchaser]

I'm Dr. Robert Chase. Yes, I'm an Aussie, but that doesn't mean I'm going to appreciate jokes about marsupials or coming from "down under".

I've been at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital for four years now. It started out as a fellowship, then became a dictatorship but I've stuck around for a while longer because working with House has offered

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[justalilcontact]

So since you're not going to tell us all about where you went to school and what your grades were, and you've already covered who you wanted to be like...

What do you do for fun? Or is medicine your life?

I'm Rogue by the way. Nice to meet you. Can I call you Robert, Or is it Doctor Chase?

[camchaser]

Fun? Oh, I enjoy a lot of things, a good pub meal, a nice strong mistress woman who isn't afraid to take what she wants drink. I don't mind a game of tennis or a swim either. Although, admittedly, Cameron has shown me that there are more enjoyable forms of exercise.

Of course, I don't have much time outside my job, but it doesn't really bother me. It's not like I have anyone to go home to.

You can call me whatever you like. Everybody does. But I prefer Chase.

So, what do you like to do for fun? And how can I involve myself in it somehow?

[justalilcontact]

Well, you certainly have more varying interests than I do. I've never been terribly sporty unless you count beating the crap out of hard light projections. I'm more of a reading girl. And you can involve yourself in what I do anyway you like, sugar. Just make sure you got gloves. Or you don't mind a girl in a body stocking, or all covered in leather

Well, Chase it is.

[camchaser]

I'm afraid I don't read much, unless you count medical journals. I guess everyone is an individual, or so I'm told. Just don't let yourself get fat, or I'll come and yell at you until you get up off your ass.

So, Rogue, does that mean you wear a lot of tight black clothing? And stab people in the back with daggers for +2d6 damage.

I knew I never should have let them talk me into D&D at uni.

[justalilcontact]

Sugar, you wanna get on my good side don't ever call me fat. And I had no plans on getting out of shape. Medical journals count as reading. I just tend to do things I don't need to be around loads of people for.

I wear a leather uniform, but I don't wear a lot of tight black clothing. Tight jeans, yes. Why, Dr. Chase - are you a D&D geek? Sadly no daggers.

[camchaser]

Leather uniform? I like the sound of that. You must work someplace interesting for that kind of outfit..

No, not at all. If I was I'd be fixating on your leather uniform. Oh, wait. Shit.

[justalilcontact]

Used to, I guess. I was part of the X-Men. Which requires an explanation, so just go with the whole they fight for good, blah blah blah, it requires leather.

It's okay, your secret is safe with me. I don't have anything that normal as my secret. And hell, it ain't really a secret anyway. I just don't like to go saying it without knowing if people will freak out

[camchaser]

The X-Men? Tell me there's DVDs. I'm always up for seeing some leather action

I was actually expecting there to be some conventional explanation, but you know, I'm kind of glad that there isn't. It's intriguing, to say the least.

[justalilcontact]

DVDs? You think I'm like a porn star or something?

Oh sugar...

I ain't a porn star. You ever heard of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters? Or mutants? The X-gene?

Cos I'm a mutant. And there's no well in hell I could be porn star except if it was fully clothed. My skin hurts people. I can't ever have direct contact without taking something from them. Bits of their psyches, powers if they're other mutants...

I guess this means you won't be flirtin' no more, right?

[camchaser]

I'm afraid not. But I believe in aliens, if that helps?

I'm not saying you're lying though you might be crazy, but what your suggesting is a bit far fetched. I guess that for every crippling genetic defect, there's the possibility that someone might come out with something more positive. But the way you're talking makes it sound like there are a lot more of you out there. And I can't claim to know God's whole plan.

Just wait until House hears about this.

Actually, you're one of the more interesting women I've met in a while. I'm not suggesting a drink or anything, but if you don't object maybe you'd like to drop by the hospital so I can take a look, maybe run some tests. Or write a research paper.

[justalilcontact]

Finally a guy who wants me just for my killer skin.

Sure, why the hell not? Run any tests you like. Tell any doctor you like. Is there a way you can keep it from the government? They don't have to know do they?

We're just a step up on the evolutionary scale. If you really wanna make us all feel like freaks, ya'll could just come to the school. But I'm warning you stare at the wrong person, and you're like to be sliced and diced before you could say 'metabolism'.

[camchaser]

Well, there could be worse ways to go. Not that I really have any experience with energy-sucking skin.

I do have a colleague My boss tends to take unusual and difficult cases, and he'd probably find yours fascinating. Not sure how well it'd turn out for you, guess it depends how far you're willing to go for science.

I somehow don't think bringing him to the school would be such a good idea. He tends to make a point of pissing off everyone he meets. Fortunately, what he lacks in personality, he makes up for in talent.

[justalilcontact]

If it has even the remotest possibility of shedding some light on gaining control, I'm in.

So I'll give you a call at the hospital? Let you know when I'm free to be a lab rat?

Your friend sounds like my friend, so I'll be fine.

[camchaser]

I'll keep that in mind. And yes, call me, I'm in the diagnostics department. If no one answers, or if they hang up, send me an email.

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call him my friend, but I would trust him to get to the bottom of it do everything he can.