10. [video // spam]

[ifightfor]

[filtered to infirmary staff + Toshiko]

[The video opens with a clear shot of the doorway of Kevin Flynn's cabin propped partway open, and Rinzler supporting an unconscious Kevin Flynn

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[hopeless_hacker]

[It should come as no surprise that she's down there practically on rocket skates. There hadn't been enough time from his message to establish whether Flynn had been injured or had lapsed into a coma (but how and why would Rinzler have just found him like that?); she has her first aid kit with her, just to be safe.

She raps on the door.]

Rinzler. It's me.

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[ifightfor]

Enter.

[The door's unlocked, and the Program has done his best to make Flynn comfortable on the floor. Well, "comfortable" within Rinzler's slim understanding of that idea--limbs not askew, nothing underneath him. There's no sign of obvious injury, pointing to a Barge coma as the likely culprit.

Not surprisingly, there's a telltale flicker in Rinzler's circuits as he stands off to one side, splitting his attention between Flynn and his communication device. Red, white. Red, white. Red, white...]

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[hopeless_hacker]

[Toshiko steps inside, kneeling down at his side; she doesn't have Martha's medical scanner, but she does have Torchwood's ridiculously comprehensive first aid training. She checks his breathing and circulation, then goes about doing a surface inspection for wounds or head trauma.

She glances up at Rinzler, worried by the rapidly shifting circuits.]

Can you explain what happened? Where did you find him?

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[ifightfor]

[The cycling settles firmly on red as Toshiko addresses Rinzler, holding stable for the moment. He sets his communicator down, striding over to the door and holding it open with an arm.

He points down at the verge, then mimes a sprawl across the doorway: This is how he found Flynn. Letting the door fall closed, he steps back around Toshiko and Flynn--carefully, carefully, glancing down at the Creator once--and picks up his communication device to continue in text.]

«Unknown how Flynn came to this state. Discovered him unconscious.»

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[hopeless_hacker]

[She has to squeeze her lips together for a moment because......shut up, watching Rinzler pretend to be unconscious in a doorway is kind of funny.]

He's not been wounded, and there's no sign that he has any internal injuries. Someone from the Infirmary will be here soon to scan him properly and take him to the Infirmary, but I think this is just a Barge coma.

[Not that there should be anything 'just' about randomly falling unconscious, what is wrong with this place.]

If you update your post with your cabin location, it'll be easier for them to come here and pick him up.

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[ifightfor]

[It is probably pretty funny. Laughing at it would be inadvised, though. :c

Rinzler nods once, sharply, looking down at his communicator.

There's a long measure of silence as he simply stares down at it, not doing anything.

His circuits cycle colors again, and Tron promptly takes over updating the message with a location.]

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[hopeless_hacker]

[She sits back on her heels, very quiet for a moment.]

He'll be fine. I promise. It's happened to me before, and it's no different to being asleep.

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[ifightfor]

[Tron finishes his update, leaving the communication device to send out its ping and setting it aside.

Then he reaches up to touch the scar encircling his throat, nodding to Toshiko's words as he does.]

I-- understand. [He pauses and busies himself with finding a chair for her, odd--almost sacrilegious--as it seems to be going through the Creator's room. He sets the chair nearby, offering it to her with a hint of one of Rinzler's bows before speaking again.]

That's not all, [a pained breath] that concerns me.

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[hopeless_hacker]

[She sits down, hands clasped on her lap, and looks up at him cautiously. It's always kind of unknowable how her brief conversations with Tron are going to go.]

What's wrong?

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[ifightfor]

It, [Rinzler,] antagonizes Flynn's Inmate needlessly. To-- keep his attention from the Creator. And the rest-- of the Barge.

[He'll take a moment from the difficult act of speaking, looking down at the Creator with concern. Oh, Flynn, his friend...]

I don't agree. With this tactic-- but it is right. That if we are seen to aid Flynn, Slick will destroy him. To spite us.

[And the worst part?]

Because of what-- it's done. It knows that now. But--

[Too much talking for the moment. He stops, and gestures around the room, taking in Flynn, Toshiko--everything. At last he regains his breath and can continue.]

No one else can know. Who found him.

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[hopeless_hacker]

[Toshiko nods without hesitation or further questioning.]

Nobody else will know. What goes through an Infirmary filter should be confidential anyway, but I'll make sure the staff are aware.

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[ifightfor]

Thank you.

[He sinks to the floor and settles in to wait, eyes closed, breathing even.]