It All Weaves Together

OOC: Sorry Jack, misread your post and somehow didn't realise you'd
cured Aurora, my bad! :) Thanks for fixing it up for me. Also -
wah, overload of trying to co-ordinate all these posts, hehe!
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Who: Everyone, It Would Seem
Where: Medibay
When: Wah.
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Keto scurried back and forth, pushing his way through the crowd of
people that was steadily building up as smoothly as he could, trying
not to injure the scores of patients now filling up every space in
the room.
"This is getting ridiculous!" shouted Wildflower across the
murmuring of the crowd, "We're out of beds, out of working surfaces
and almost out of floor space! We need to start getting people to
wait in the storage rooms across the hall if we're going to get any
work done!"
"Okay people, you heard her!" shouted Keto, startling the people
nearest him and apologising quickly, "If you're not in dire need of
medical assistance, please go and wait across the hall so we've got a
little more space!"
Suddenly, he turned round and almost ran into a surprised-looking
man.
<<SNIP>>
When finally Keto spun around, John nearly smacked into him in
shock.
It was the "Devil Man"! The one who had frighented him into a coma
on the planet Phebe!
"I....I.....I.....I.....Um....I....I'm Smith...."
<<END SNIP>>
"Hi, Mr Smith," said Keto, "Good to meet you. Are you injured?"
"Um...not...as such..." quivered Smith, somewhat relieved that the
Devil Man had not, for example, ripped out his spine and lashed what
remained of him to death with it.
"Then I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to wait in the
storage room across the hall," said Keto apologetically, "Until we
can take a better look at you. I...what's going on over there?"
There was another big commotion by the medibay doors.
<<SNIP>>
As Keats and Amber hugged, an exhausted McJohn finally dragged
himself into the Medibay. When he saw Amber, he stammered
out "Jean! ... Darling! I tho--" before passing out.
Amber sighed a "Oh bloody Christ not this crap again" sigh as a
Medical Attendant carrying a small laser cutter rushed to free the
unconscious McJohn from the thrity pounds of cut-rate rusting alloy
he'd been dragging for the last six hours or more.
<<END SNIP>>
"Clear that metal mess out of here, it's cluttering up even more
room!" shouted Wildflower as the Tree swept the metal remnants out of
the medibay and into the corridor, "Is he seriously hurt?"
"He's collapsed, looks like he's been strung up somewhere and left
to die," observed Keto, kneeling down by the prone figure, "Yes, he's
seriously hurt. Get him into the operating theatre and I'll scrub up
in a second. We..."
<<SLIGHTLY EXPANDED SNIP>>
As Jack entered, he walked straight over to Keto, and handed him a
small bottle. Keto turned, stopping in mid-sentence as he took the
bottle without thinking.
"Huh? whats this?" Keto asked
"It's Ant-Alcohol," said Jack, "It releases all hold any amount of
alcohol poisoning may have on someone, guaranteed. <whispers> it even
works on Keats," Jack finished.
"Wow, this'll help MANY people on the ship," exclaimed Keto,
genuinely surprised. "Cheers man," he said, causing Wildflower to
give him an odd look at his phrasing, before he dashed off to give a
small amount of the bottles contents to his analysts. "Copy this will
ya?" he asked, before turning and giving the rest to Dante.
"Give it to her, she'll be fine."
<<END SNIP>>
Sure enough, the strange flask revived Aurora very quickly, and she
sat up. Keto glanced around, checking out the state of the medibay
as some people drifted out towards the designated storeroom, while
others appeared not to have got the idea and were lingering, staring
at the injured personnel unable to make their own way out, getting in
the way of Wildflower, Jasmine and the Tree as they rushed back and
forth. He shook his head, biting his lower lip.
<<SNIP>>
"Wow. Who ISN'T here?" Aurora asked, staring around at the crowded
medibay. Keto glanced at her.
"Nobody, as far as I can tell..." he began, scurrying off to tend to
yet another patient.
<<END SNIP>>
"And if you're feeling perfectly fine now," he called over his
shoulder, above the rising hubbub, "Then could I ask you to just
recuperate in the storeroom or somewhere with a little more space?
Maybe the two of you could go sit somewhere private and out of the
way.
Due to his distraction, Keto didn't quite notice the expressions
that passed over Dante's and Aurora's faces at this suggestion.
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OOC: Tag to whoever, because I'm struggling just to keep all this
together. I have no doubt that I've probably butchered some snips
here, but allow me a little leeway. ;)
OOC2: Sorry, this may post twice - due to a combination of Yahoo and
our microwave (not kidding), I'm unsure as to whether the last one
got through!