Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Colxfile discharges himself...

> > "I think you've got a broken leg. You should go to
> sickbay."
> >
> > "No I'm fine, really I am"
> >
> > "You should go."
> >
> > "I don't need to"
> >
> > "If you don't go down in the next 30 seconds, I
> will break your other leg and drag you down myself."
> >
> > "No, I'm fine...OW!!!"
> >
> > There was a sickening sound of bone snapping and
> Colxfile lost consciousness. The last thing he
recalled was his head banging against the corridor
wall somewhere en route to the medibay.
>
> That was exactly a month ago, and Colxfile was about
> to be discharged from the Medibay. A dream he had
held long in his mind after witnessing many scenes
from his bed that quite literally filled his
trousers. His legs were still painful to walk on,
> but nevertheless if he didn't leave now, he may not
make it out alive. So while the doctors were looking
away, he ran from his bedside and back to the safety
of the mining deck.
>
> He was quite taken aback to see someone else in HIS
> mining deck, but not the one to pick a fight, he
said hello and registered with surprise a female human
in the mining departments colours.
>
> "I haven't seen you around here. What's your name?"
>
> "James. Jeri James. You?"
>
> "Colxfile. Just Colxfile. You new here? When d'you
> arrive?"
>
> "10th October. I've been looking for you everywhere
> but I thought you'd vanished."
>
> "Did you try sickbay?"
>
> "Didn't think of that."
>
> And so Colxfile relived his epic battle of mining
> chief versus storage cupboard, albeit having
embellished the truth somewhat. He hoped that Jeri
wouldn't make the rather embarrassing note, but she
> did:
>
> "You'd only been a member for a fortnight, and you
> ended up in sickbay?!" She laughed.
>
> "Yeah, then you signed up a week after. Never heard
> anything about a new worker in my department. What
job you do?"
>
> "Waste Removal."
>
> Colxfile smiled. That would make her the head of
> waste removal. "Welcome aboard. Do you know what to
do in this job Jeri?"
>
> "No. I was hoping you could help me out here."
>
> "Ah. I was afraid you may say that."
>
> "Why?"
>
> "I don't have the faintest idea what to do either. I
> just sat in a hospital bed for a month with 2 broken
legs. Something will turn up."
>
> "Yeah. I took the time to clear the mining deck for
> you."
>
> Colxfile turned around and saw the floor of the
> mining deck for the first time. The place was
spotless: everything neatly stacked, dust free
computers, a FULL deck of cards...the list of
improvements was endless. Colxfile would have been
sure that this new intake had secretely acquired the
mining deck of another ship and welded it back to the
blue dwarf.
>
> "Waste disposal eh?"
>
> "Yup."
>
> "I'm sure we'll get along just famously."
"Fab, Colxfile," Jeri said pleasantly. "Good to have
a friend. Maybe we can play some air hockey later and
have a brewsky. Uh, by the way, who else is in the
mining department?"
<Sorry it's short. I'm really tired and need a good nap>
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