[JMC_Blue_Dwarf] What Evil Lurks
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Location : Medibay
Time : Late in the evening
Nurse Coffey entered the Medibay late at night, just
as Dr. Keto was tiredly stomped out of his office,
brushing past her to leave the medical area. Belatedly
noticing the purple-haired member of the medical
staff, he stopped and turned on his heel.
"Coffey!" he said, pointing a finger at her, "Do not
let Wildflower out of the quaratine room. I've figured
it will take 4 days before she becomes completely
dehydrated. If you touch that door..."
"Yeah, yeah, touch door, temper tantrum, cut off arms,
I know the drill. William already told me at supper.
You know, Keto, you're beginning to sound like a
corrupted datadisc." said Coffey, waving her hands in
exasperation. As Keto began to take on the complexion
of an over-ripe cherry tomato, Coffey crossed her
arms. She usuallly overlooked Keto's temper as part of
his idiosyncrasies but lately they were becoming a bit
too much.
"This is MY medibay! I am the one who is in charge
here! Is it MY fault I have to work with such
annoying, incompetant staff and deal with..." howled
Keto, with increasing rage.
"Charles, do YOU have any idea how annoying YOU are
getting?" asked Hazel, "Now if you'll excuse me, I
have some serious work to do, such as researching how
to rebuild a septum which has been torn off by a
malfunctioning robotic goldfish as well as go over
this weeks plastic surgery list, much more important
than you trying to kill off some crewmate who's
obviously hopelessly in love with you. And I do mean,
_hopelessly_."
Surprised by this outburst from the normally sangfroid
Coffey, Keto took a step back. Patting some invisible
pieces of dust off his jacket, he tried to compose
himself.
"I'm now leaving to eat supper!" he announced somewhat
huffily to no one in particular.
After the Medibay doors closed, Hazel walked over to
the door of the quarantine room and pulled a small
device out of her pocket. Placing it over the magnetic
lock sealing Ensign Wildflower into the room, she
fiddled with it for a few seconds and the lock opened.
Wildflower awoke from her couch.
"Come on out, I've got some food for you. Dr. Grouch
has left." said Coffey to Wildflower.
Wildflower timidly walked out of the quaratine and sat
down on a waiting room chair, taking the juice and
sandwhich Coffey had brought. She ate voraciously and
Coffey shook her head.
"Do you have any idea why Keto hates you so much?"
"Oh, I don't think he hates me," said Wildflower, "I
think he's just a little touchy."
"I think he more than touchy. Paranoid persecution
complex, maybe. Psychotically homicidal even. What
kind of looney tries to kill his own staffmember? I
mean, other people's staffmembers are another story
but...I wonder if the longterm effects of ointment use
have been studied?" mused Hazel, "Maybe some
reconnaissance in Keto's secret ointment cupboard
needs to be done."
Wildflower simply chewed the sandwhich and shrugged.
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