Voice

[wellsuited]

Tomorrow marks my four hundred and forty-forth day here. That's a pretty big deal, right?

[She'll let the significance of that sink in. ...Or complete lack thereof.]

Sometimes it feels like I just arrived here yesterday. And sometimes it feels like another lifetime. Sometimes I wonder, if I went home now...

[She trails off. That's probably not

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Voice

[i_love_squats]

[Can't you just hear him getting paler?]

No way! No way no way no way!

Voice

[wellsuited]

Don't worry, I won't let him do anything too invasive! If it makes you feel any better, I'll even stay in the room with you!

[Because yeah, big help.]

Voice

[i_love_squats]

No! No and no and no! No docs. You know that, Elena. No. Doctors.

[And something is kicked. rawr.]

Voice

[wellsuited]

But a doctor isn't the same thing as a scientist! Well, maybe kinda. But not really!

He's really good! He makes people feel better, and he saves lives! So how can he possibly be a bad person?

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[i_love_squats]

Close enough, Laney! Close enough! [And he accented the words so it was E-NUFF!]

I just--Well, I'm glad he can do that-- I really am-- but I'm fine! I don't need a physical! I'm in perfect health!

Voice

[wellsuited]

[She groans softly.]

Well could you at least let him...look at you from across the room or something? It'll be bad for company morale if I make an exception.

Voice

[i_love_squats]

Can't he--I dunno--look at me over the Forge?

Voice

[malfattore]

Mi amico, I don't even have to lay hands on you, if you're so terrified. Not for the first encounter. Perhaps after a meeting, you'll be more comfortable for future appointments, mmm?

If you're a good patient, I'll give you a delicious sweet.

Voice

[i_love_squats]

I'm not terrified! And I'm not a kid! [Hmph.]

I just...It's just... It's not cool, that's all!

Voice

[malfattore]

You sound terrified. I'm only a human... completely non-threatening. I heal, amico! Don't be afraid of my uniforme, it is built with practicality in mind.

Not... cool?

Voice

[i_love_squats]

[All doctors are threatening, though, with their disconnect and their cold, calculating eyes, their scientific need to know that passes before anything humane. It's not the white-coat, but what it symbolizes. However, on this guy, the coat is more metaphorical; maybe the beak is worse.]

It's not your uniform; that's just weird looking, nothing else. It's... It's something that happened in my past. I can't--it's hard to explain. [Or rather, he doesn't want to.]

Yeah, not--oh, right. Um, not okay. Not all right. I don't like it.

Voice

[malfattore]

{Zack's probably more right than he realizes, in this case.}

Some deep-set emotional issue, then? Sad boy. How unfortunate that your past would influence your future so. Without medical care, how do you hope to survive injury? Can you manage on your own? I doubt it, if your employer is making appointments for you. {Now he's curious.}

Then why not merely say so, instead of referring to temperature? It seems a tad random.

Voice

[i_love_squats]

[If only he knew.]

Well, more like bad memories. [Except you had it right the first time, there.] I can heal fast and can take a beating pretty well, thanks to my last job. My "employer" is just being an over-achiever and making sure we don't use any sick days.

Um, well, you see, it's a saying where we come from. Couldn't tell you where it came from. I guess it is kinda random, huh?

Voice

[malfattore]

... is that so? {The words are drawled out-- he couldn't hide his interest if he tried.} So, pray tell, what enables you to heal fast? Molto interessante! And oh, your employer merely sounds concerned!

Very.

Voice

[i_love_squats]

[That tone. He knew that tone, heard it in Hojo's voice when he did his challenging experiments, heard it before he lost consciousness and was carted away that last time. It made him sick.] Something they did to us back home to make us better fighters. Mako injections. [The less he said the better.] Yeah. Concerned I might call in one day or ask for a vacation.

Don't you have any sayings that don't make much logical sense?

Voice

[malfattore]

{If he knew that, maybe he'd stop. Maybe. Maybe. The sadistic streak he tried so desperately to mask here may have detoured that attempt, but you never know. Either way, at this point, it was basic curiosity. Questions that didn't seem odd to someone who came from a place where people fell ill so gosh-darn easily. For the moment, he's oblivious to the other man's discomfort.} An entire vacation? That seems extreme. What is "mako"?

None that I use, I don't think. I suppose if yours are normal to you, you don't notice them. Perhaps I do use some and am simply unaware. Eh.