Application for Carla Espinosa (Scrubs)

[carlaespinosa]

((OOC: Application done with the permission of the Scrubs-muns. Carla is taken from just after the canon events of 'My Nightingale' (S2, ep 2), though she's been at Sacred Heart for the time that the HH Scrubs chars have been gone. Enjoy!))

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"Damn straight, Todd, you're going to keep walking. My ass is not for you, and I sure as

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[rosecasson]

'My Mummy is an artist,' Rose says thoughtfully. 'I should think she works about the same as you. Which job, do you think, is harder?'

She doesn't bother commenting on Dr. Cox. Everyone and their dog knows him. At least Carla agrees he's a disaster.

[carlaespinosa]

Carla grinned. Aww, this kid was cute. "Well," she thought, "it depends! I mean, I think it would be really hard to be an artist. And I bet your mom would think my job is hard. So, probably both have things that would be difficult, you know?" She shrugged. "Does your mom like being an artist?"

[rosecasson]

Yeah, Rose is nine types of adorable. Just don't tell her that or she'll turn nastier than a cornered mongoose.

'Yes, Mummy likes it. She can't imagine doing anything else, she says. But Daddy says she is not a proper artist.' Rose's face darkens. 'She does more art than he will ever sell. She once painted a hospital, you know. In the summer. Murals for people. The old people got Greek statues and the children's wards got pictures of home.' Her face is sunny again; the Daddy dispute has been forgotten, and the woman was very diplomatic and nice.

'Do you like being a nurse?'

[carlaespinosa]

"I love it," she beamed down at the kid. "I know just how your mom feels. I've wanted to help sick people since I was...oh, probably your age. It's the best job in the world."

Other than dealing with the ego-maniac doctors, idiotic administration, and a budget. But it didn't change the fact that Carla did love her job. And she was damn good at it.

"Painting a hospital sounds like art to me," Carla agreed. "I know I'd like to see something other than dingy white walls every day. And what about you, Miss Thang?" she grinned widely. "Are you an artist, too?"

[twoyearsmissing]

Jack looks worryingly happy. He looks this way because he gets to meet someone else JD knows, and had been told bits and pieces about.

"Hey!" He's bright, cheery and polite for once offering a hand, not saying everything all at once like he could do.

[carlaespinosa]

"Hey, yourself." Carla smiled, that 'okay, I'll be polite, but obviously I'm a bit busy with a mental breakdown, here' kind of thing, and shook his hand. "Um, so, is this the meet-and-greet portion of the insanity?"

[twoyearsmissing]

"Yeah." Jack nodded. "Trust me when I say it get's much wierder. On the grand scale of things here, this is boring, or it can be. Depends on who turns up. Enjoy the meeting people."

[carlaespinosa]

"All right." Carla looked doubtful, but if she really had lost her mind, she might as well go with it. Hey, maybe she'd finally get a vacation. "So, am I meeting you, now?" Smiling up at him, teasing, she added, "I'm Carla."

[busty_robin]

The answer to question six automatically endeared the new girl to Steph. It sounded exactly like one of Crystal Brown’s rants, at the end of a particularly heinous shift. "My mom's a nurse. You guys deserve a friggin' shrine, for what you've got to put up with."

[carlaespinosa]

Oh, she liked this one. "Damn straight," Carla snorted, grinning. "Although I'd settle for better pay, more respect, and a cabana boy to rub my feet at night."

[busty_robin]

Steph grinned right back. She'd gotten her mom an electric foot massager one year - not remotely the same thing. "I don't know about cabana boys, but we do have nearly naked, well-muscled Germans running around."

[carlaespinosa]

Ha! Laughing, Carla nodded. "Then hell, sign me up. This is the best mental breakdown ever." Hey, she really would be crazy if she turned down well-muscled naked men. Girl had to have a hobby.

[wh0_kill3d_m3]

Laura's attention zoomed right in on what, to her, was the most important thing in the application.

"Pens! I'll take those, if you don't mind." She frowned. "Okay, I'll take two. You'll be needing a reserve."

[carlaespinosa]

Carla raised one eyebrow. "You can have one." Dude, pens were a precious commodity! Patients, doctors, janitors, other nurses...everyone was constantly stealing her pens. Especially the clicky-top ones. Besides, pushy blonde chicks? So not on her happy side. "Unless you have some rare condition that lets you write with both hands at once, and you're dying to show off. In which case, be my guest."

Vote: Hufflepuff

[wh0_kill3d_m3]

"Eenh. You drive a hard bargain." She grinned. "Okay, one pen for a vote for Hufflepuff. That's the 'usefuls' House, supposedly. Also home to a death metal band, a bunch of talking cats and me, so go figure."

Re: Vote: Hufflepuff

[carlaespinosa]

Handing over the pen, Carla shrugged. "Sounds good to me. I have no idea what's going on, so one house is as good as the next, I guess."

Talking cats probably should have gotten a bigger reaction.

Then again, her boyfriend and his heterosexual life partner had a stuffed dead dog. So it took a lot to phase her.

[waste_lock]

"Hockey pucks?" Nny blinked. "Bagel chips aren't anything like hockey pucks. No lethal potential... well, no more than any other kind of cracker thing."

[carlaespinosa]

Carla gestured towards Nny with a hand-wavy 'thank you'. "This is what I'm saying! Hockey pucks are nothing like bagel chips."

[waste_lock]

"Hockey pucks aren't very good as emergency nacho substitutes, either."

[carlaespinosa]

"Exactly. The comparison is insane. Now, if you said bagel chips were like pretzels or some other snack food, I could get behind it. But hockey pucks?" She rolled her eyes. "It's just absurd."