Note: This story is set in Maggie Finson's Whateley Academy Universe
This is fan fiction for the Whateley Academy series. It may or may not
match the timeline, characters, and continuity.
Canon stories may be found at crystalhall.org
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This is a edited version of the last post --cut in half so its not so
big -- with added content
part 2 of this will be added later this week if this works right
"lets hope this works out better" LOL
and to the authors of this universe --I just barrowed your characters
and I hope you don't feel I "bent" them too bad
Los Angles December, 1976
The screaming of the electronic alarm clock shakes Jack completely awake
from his deep sleep. That he certainly has earned. He then rolled to
his right thinking the alarm clock should be on that side. Nope not
there? He then realizes that he feel asleep sitting in the lazy boy
chair in the living room. He did this after once again after coming home
from a long day at work. So he rolls to the left, grabs the horrid
device and turns it OFF!!!. Then rolls it off his finger tips back down
on the table with a thud.
Jack is lying there for a second thinking "It's not raining!! great!
after 16 days of work straight 18 plus hours a day. Then add nearly 3
months of it raining---every--single time--I got a day off --it rained
like cats and dogs. I finally!!! get to go out, ride my motorbike in
the hills and actually enjoy a day off."
He then lowers the foot rest of the chair from its lounging position
with a loud bang. He starts to stand up, stretching all the way with
bones snapping and joints popping loudly both small and large. Jack
thinks to himself 'Man being 6 foot 4 is great most of the time but,
you certainly pay for it every time you first get up in the morning'
He then thinks painfully after getting fully standing up straight
'Even at my age I hate to think about it-- man.' He shakes his head back
and forth 'When I get finally get to be 60 or so in a few decades
getting up is going to be painnn-full' this thought was buried in the
fact that his job had too many days in it. With WAY too many hours for
keeping a person even close to being healthy and this was starting to
show on jack at even his relativity young age of 30.
He groggily starts staggering down the hallway, bumping into the walls
as he goes down to his bedroom and flops across the bed. The second he
hits the bed with a flop. That alarm clock starts screaming at him with
music blasting out of it. He rolls across the bed to the nightstand on
the beds right and slaps the wicked device silly to get the damn thing
to finally shut up. He grumbles "I hate having two alarm clocks. So
that I don't forget and miss work." He rolls over gets his underwear
off. Then starts standing/staggering into the bathroom, turns on the
lights. The lights just jam like syringes through his half numbed
eyeballs, he blinks like mad " Oooch ". He gets used to it after a
couple minutes blinking, half slitting his eyes. He then opens up the
shower door, turns on the shower full blast, even though it's cold!! to
wake him up. As it warms up he starts waking up again, enjoying the
water. After 20 minuets of bliss, he hops- wide wake out of the shower,
dries himself off and walks back into the bedroom. Then sits down on
the bed.
Finally somewhat awake Jack starts to think, what pile has his moto-
cross pants in it 'Ohh ya' he thinks 'That one pile there, from the
wash Wednesday.' Jack gets up to the pile of clothes in the corner and
kicks the offending lump till he sees his goal. The bike pants he
wanted. After shaking them out to be sure they are the "clean ones" he
sits back down and puts them on. He starts getting socks out of the
drawer in his nightstand. He then stands up, walks over to the walk in
closet and gets a regular blue T-shirt out of one of the many piles.
He dons the t-shirt and ponders 'What else do I need?' humm he sounds
'Nothing everything else will be in the garage where it normally is.'
Looking at the TV set on the dresser at the beds foot. He flips the
remote on to see what you will on the Saturday morning news, that just
happens to barely coming on this time of the morning. While he put on
his socks 'Man TV sucks here I only get three networks to watch and even
PBS's looks better than real broadcast TV these days' Jack thinks.
'Maybe someday someone they will drag cable all the way up to the North
end of Los Angeles, then I will finally get some real TV to watch' he
grumbles to himself "Man being out in the boonies as its disadvantages
but. I like that I can get up in the morning and go ride the trails and
no one bothers ya is the fair trade off" Then he gets back up in his
freshly socked feet and walks down the house to the kitchen.
Not being a coffee guy he filled a pot off the stove full of water and
set it back on the stove to boil, then got the tea bag's out of the box
on the counter. Then a cup ( REAL giant freaking MUG in reality) out of
the cabinet. He then adds 4 tea bags to the mug "Ahh that otta do me and
get the motor started" 6 teaspoons sugar added for fuel. Then he waits
for the water come into a good boil. While that was happening he
shuffles back down the hall to the garage door and out into the garage,
to get his riding boots on. He ponders" Where are the darn things?" he
looks around the 3 car garage for 5 minutes then finally sees them-right
under the bench by the far wall right where they should be. He sits
down, slides them on, buckles them up. " Well lets get gas in ya baby
while that water boils" he thinks as he walks over to his KTM bike and
rubs his hand over the seat to the tank. He grabs the fuel can and fills
the tank to the top, recaps the tank and kick starts the bike. the bike
rumbles to life "Yaaa first try!!" he pays the mechanic to make sure it
happens this way. Every couple weeks he drops by make sure his bikes
are running perfectly "no matter what."
He celebrates mentally then shuts the bike off after a few minutes of
warming-up.
He slaps the garage door opener remote on the wall for the 3rd door and
walks out on the drive to find the morning paper. Upon finding it under
the car "again"-- "Darn kid can't hit a barn with a nuke!!" he reads the
top headline for this morning and nothing big happening ...standard junk
like every thing else going now like normal. He tosses it in to the
trash. Jack notices that the ground has got least is a little dry this
morning. After 5 days of hard steady rain 'Now that's a good sign for a
ride today' he thinks to himself.
'That tea must be done by now' jack thinks. So he walks back into the
house and into the kitchen. Finally the water is done, so he pours the
water into the waiting mug and waits for it to brew itself fully up.
He starts stirring it gently ,waiting for it to really get into that
nice dark color that he likes. That just tells you that it's gotten
brewed properly. After 5 minutes he takes tentative sips measuring its
temperature while he walks back to the garage. He sits on the bench and
dons his chest protector and all the stuff that is needs to keep himself
from getting ripped apart by anything when and if he falls off the bike,
then the gloves, finally he chugs the tea fast to the bottom. he
sighed " Good wake-up juice there!"
At this point he noticed that the outside certainly is a little bit more
shiny-n-sunny and the overcast quickly burning off. He thinks to himself
'It's going to be a good day to get out of here instead of being suck in
the in the house or at work inside all day long' he sighs 'This rain
has been getting out of hand here in sunny California. This is not
supposed to be...wet rainy like in Seattle or something out here.'
He pulls the bike off the stand and rolls it out of the garage into the
driveway, gives it a good kick start--on the first hit it catches like
it's supposed to. He then hops on it and guns the bike up the street.
Getting used to its feel once again, to make sure the motor feels right
amd everything else is good about it. "Don't want to get stuck out there
and have to walk this thing home again it's happened more than once" he
quips. He rides up to the head of the Canyon Street toward the end of
his road and the start of the fire trail. He stops one tire on the dirt,
one on blacktop and thinks about what to do "Which way do we go this
morning?? I figure I'll head over to Sam's Canyon to see if he's up yet
and if he's not up yet!! He'll be up as soon as I get into that
driveway of his with this beast!! Wake his LAZY ASS up for sure as loud
as this thing gets OR WILL GET "grin"--if not!! I will bang his door
down !!!one way or the other He is getting up!! and do some riding this
morning!!" He gins evilly.
So he tears up the angled trail of the Canyon and runs along the rim and
right along its edge. He starts noticing that the fire roads out here
have certainly become pretty crappy after nearly 2 and half months of
rain. The last big storm that came through dumped like three or 4 inches
per day for a couple of days, so road is really muddy and in very rough
shape.
He starts to follow the main trail toward Sam's. He notices something in
the next bend that looks like the road is almost half gone, near
impassable. So he stops the bike and wedges it up against the canyon
wall.
"The whole damn canyon is f-ed up, time to call the fire department and
come up here and re-cut this before someone gets hurt or the fire season
starts" he hissed.
He then walks up the road and looks over all the dirt and junk that the
rain pulled out of the canyon side. He notices something ..a box .. a
bronze box..
He walks up on the box cautiously looks at it, to make sure its not a
left over from the days when the military used some of the canyons up
here for munitions making and experiments years ago. He looks at it some
more, "It looks safe, its not painted green or red"
It was half buried in the in the mud, "it is about a foot wide about
looks at me about 32 inches long 16 inches wide and 16 inches tall" he
pondered grabbing on it to give it a good yank. It pops out of muddy
bank pretty easily. But he notices it's really freaking heavy. So he
drags it away from the mud slide, half falling down himself in the mud
flow. looking at it.. now its just covered in mud in the middle of
the trail "Why don't I get some water off the bike and wash this thing
off" he says to himself. Then he grabs a canteen that was strapped to
the bikes back and opens the top, pours some water on it. 'Obviously
some writing this'.. hum 'Is that stuff glowing??' he thinks himself
"Did some guy from a special effects company drop this thing, It looks
like something I make at work for the studios?"
He takes off his glove this time. Just as he touches it again WOOMPH!!
bright light--PAIN--flying through the air--and that's the last thing he
remembers for quite a bit.
Los Angles February, 9th 2007
Jack wakes up feeling something hard underneath of him -searing sunlight
into his eyeballs--PAIN!!
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!!" he dryly yells out half chocking on a dry
throat. He then tries to get up and is hit with wave after wave of
dizziness, rolling over him. He can't get his bearings, so he does what
one does after 10 roller coaster rides DRUNK.. he vomited. Then promptly
falls off a large box he WAS laying on to the ground 4 feet below --
smack!!! right into the dry dusty dirt of the trail. He gets up to his
knees, wearing what looks to be a cotton like sheet made of some sort in
a weird cloth. He rubs it -- "This is not cotton?- it feels like silk?-
but is too roughly woven to be silk??" -- "What is all this odd ball
stuff written on it?--looks like some shit out of that dungeon and
dragons game Sam plays" he looks around. He can't see his bike anywhere
close to him, clothes -- nowhere to be seen.
He looks up to the sky as a helicopter fly's over "Looks like a military
bird"-- oddball shape to it that he's never seen one like it before. He
is not one to be unfamiliar with helicopters as being around the North
end of Los Angeles with more than one military base out here the
flyovers happen all the time. Thinking to himself 'What kind helicopter
is it?' It heads over to the head end of the canyon. Where there's more
room to hover and ropes fallout off the sides.
He then sees four guys slide down very quickly from 50 feet up.
'Did one of these idiots see me by accident and thought I was in
trouble?' thinking to himself.
Groggily he tries to stand up. half passing out he finally gets all the
way up to his feet. With his backside wedged against box. Then once
again --there goes the stomach "I don't remember eating ??carrots??"
Immediately he can't get his balance and is just completely thrown off
by vomiting like mad, dry heaving till nothing is left whatsoever. He
finally gets his butt on the top of the box, steadier on his feet. All
four of the guys dressed in some sort of full chemical suits with air
tanks have a semi circle around him.
One pulls out a very strange looking monitor. Some sort of electronic
beeping comes from it. --"I got it barely near the guy--(he YELLS)--
it's a class X tainted don't go near it!!" said one guy with the
monitor in his hand. "The guy!! he's got this pegged at 90 on class X
also!!" "Don't even get near him" He yelled once more.
Jack starts backpedaling on the trail. While trying to steady himself on
the box's edge.
"He's gonna run!!" yells one, this guy then levels appears to be a very
strange rifle and out pops something electrical.
Next thing Jack gets hit and everything is spinning on the trail -that-
had- no- right- to -spin-- he then FELL, to the dirt like a tree that
had just been successfully chopped down by champion lumberjack. His
face just augurs into the very very dry ground into the fine layer dust
of the dirt trail He was on. He thinks 'Why was the dirt dry?? it was
muddy just a minute ago??'
then---- BLACK.
Arkham Research Consortium "ARC" New Hampshire February, 10th 2007
(early in the morning)
Jack starts coming too-- looking around the room.
"What in the heck?...
I believe-- I am in a hospital " moaning to himself
"White ceiling-- check
-- white sheets -check
-- hospital bed -check
-- IV drip in my arm- check
-- maddening beeping of heart machine- check
-- trussed up like it turkey with all these wires on me -check
-- no decorations? = government--check
-- what the hell happened?"
He remembers "That idiot shot me! with something and me smacking my
face!!" he reaches up to his face "My nose hit the ground--good no
breaks" now if I see that guy --that -same- guy! again--I'm gonna BEAT
him something fierce!" He yells out to the empty room.
Jack scrambles around in the sheets and pushes himself up as best one
can do in a bed of this kind --PAIN! He finds the beds remote and just
stares at it for a second "Pretty modern looking stuff for a hospital?"
he looks the control over "Never in all the times I've seen a hospital
bed have I seen a remote like this"?? he pushes the button to elevate
the head. Works into a position to look at himself "No holes ---no blood
--why?" as he feels all over checking for wounds.. "Man.. the equipment
in this place is just cutting edge. I have seen many a heart monitor.
They are usually single color CRT things but!! THESE are multi color
displays and? flat?"
He then spies cross room. What looks to be a wicked TV on the wall
"looks like it's 30+ inches-- is pretty big for TV set --funny thing?
its like 2 to 3 inches thick mounted on a post??. TVs that big are at
least a foot and a half deep? When I feel better maybe I'll go over
there and take a look at it" After thinking about the television set.
He starts realizing what is this place?? Its obviously NOT a regular
hospital-- something is wrong and those guys were definitely military
equipped. I'm nowhere an expert but at least I have read a book or two
on that stuff.
Then the room is SO BIG like near 25 feet from the head of the bed to
the wall and near 25 feet wide-way too big for a standard hospital room?
Jack finally noticed the bathroom just about 10 feet from the foot of
his bed and he really thought hard about the TV set that seemed to be
only 2 to 3 inches thick--he didn't understand that how that could be at
all, as he had never seen technology like what was in this room. While
Jack was pondering these things to himself.
What--Jack did not know that he was down deep in the ARC research
complex RED section deep in a mountain in New Hampshire. Near a half
mile down, this is the place he had been brought to by the four troopers
that the helicopter dropped off. After they stunned him with the rifle
device, thinking he was about to escape.
While he was unconscious. They put him in this hospital room to recover
from that stun rifle hit. They examined him. They did research on his
blood-- x-rays--CAT scans--MRIs all in 3D, and in technology that he
would never understand, all that testing made mountains of information.
Dr. Otto was the man in charge of this section of ARC (Arkham Research
consortium)--where the most dangerous mentally insane criminals are kept
along with most of the worlds bizarre and dangerous items --deep 1+
miles underground) was in his office a few floors above. He was going
over just those same mountains of paperwork coming from those tests on
the man. Who was according to the team sent out. On top of this strange
box. That they where sent out to find. He was wrapped in a silk like
sheet with runes sewn into it. Of the same type/style from the sides of
the box.
This box and man had just popped up in the middle of nowhere North Los
Angeles and pegged every meter for arcane anomalies in the entire
country. The magical wash of this sudden appearance was like a beacon to
any mage in the area. One only had to look in that direction to figure
out that something had popped in and was CLASS X! TAINTED on top of
that.
In the pile--where photos of what was the real mystery. The perfectly
formed for by 4 x 8' box itself. With its completely smooth surface down
to the micron it was way smother than any glass ground for space optics
use even. With the only flaws that seem to glow out of its surface, seem
to be runes drawn in strange languages, three or four different types at
least. The experts on this reported that 1 out of 1000 runes seemed to
be of an ancient Sidhe style. But the runes where not etched into the
surface they just seemed to glow out of it.
The next part was from the assessment of the mystery box by the divisors
and gadgeteers. They examined the box and had not yet figured out how
to scratch or even open the box at this time. They've used cutting
lasers, drills of every type, welding torches heated in the 500 to
15,000 degree marks and not even scratched it. The only thing that seems
to have changed in the last 12-18 hrs. Since he had been given the case.
Is that the boxes writing seems to pulse on and off in sections as the
class X taint on the box has seemed to have been slowly dwindling away
over time.
Next Dr. Otto flipped through the mystery mans medical file and saw
nothing wrong with him at this time. ALL NORMAL!--The class X taint
seems to have disappeared from both him and the box. The box at a bit
little slower rate thou. The box is almost completely down to zero as
of this time, so as not bother anyone according to the report time
stamped from over an hour ago.
The next report was from the arcane/mystics department and its finger
wigglers. Not one of them seemed to be able figure out what was going on
with either the box or man. That seems to have popped up in the middle
of nowhere. The man also at this time seems to have been very tightly
interwoven with binding and transmutation magic of 5 to 6 different
layers. That are different types/styles of magic placed on him. That
were from a base of a very ancient styled magic that was obviously Sidhe
in its origin. This Sidhe origin magic seems to be somewhat related to
the rune writing on the box. Only one or two characters of 1000 seem to
match up with anything in the files of ancient Sidhe mage script of that
type. It seems to connect via a Ley line back to the man on a small
level are they are joined somehow?--he pondered.
The box just also happened be a class X tainted object. That had seemed
to have cross contaminated the man who was found with it, in the
hospital bed upstairs. But not driven mad from the exposure at all???
that was the next big mystery. Why was he not driven MAD from it??
The only weird thing of any note is that NO telepath could seem to get
in the mans head. There also was the fact that no one could read aura's
off him at all. Like he was a complete blank --not even there to see
with any telepathy.
Dr. Otto was starting to shuffle through more of the paperwork then the
phone rang the call was from the medical desk upstairs. The man was
awake and also his guests had just arrived. He told them to send his
party down to the hospital level and have them wait at the elevator for
him.
So he got all his paperwork together but back in the folder sealed it,
locked the box so that it could not be opened by anybody but him, then
got up and walked down the hallway.
Wearily he walked half sleeping down the hall thinking to himself 'All
this happened over 18 hours ago, he was handed this emergency MESS
after!!! his normal day' he was--heading home after 8 hour shift. Till
this hit 'WHY? does this always happen at the END of the day??.'
When the elevator door finally opened up... Otto to got off the elevator
to notice that his four guests has also arrived in a most timely manner
from their ride down deep into the complex.
He walked forward and greeted the four individuals.
One older Gentleman and 3 teen girls of about 15 in looks.
First he shook hands with the older English gentleman Sir Wallace who
was the Mystic art mentor for Fey who was standing next to him.
Then he nodded to the redheaded, Violet eyed Sidhe, Nichole Susanne
"Nikki" Reilly codenamed "Fey"-- who had the spirit of Aunghadhail the
beyond ANCHENT Sidhe Queen in her.
She in turn introduced her new "Assistant" Gwendolynn Adelle Wylann
codenamed "Absinthe" he had never seen her before--she was about the
same height, size and looks of Fey but with green hair and eyes he
noted.
Gwen and Nikki both giggled at the "Assistant" part of the introduction.
Next he saw his strange friend Sarah Waite, codename "Carmilla" strange
as in she has alabaster white skin, black lips and small claws on the
ends of her fingers, blood red silted eyes, pointy obvious canines,
black hair with a new blood red streak ohhya and is a baby LUST Demon by
the way!. He pondered the hair color change and just wrote it off as
'kids and styles'.
"What's up Doc?" joked Sara.
"The same" he jested back--"Weird stuff---same as you."
"Ouch" Gwen blurted "On target."
Then Sir Wallace lectured "Enough" just as the 3 teen girls started to
giggle "Lets get to work!"
Dr Otto then explained "I have asked all of you out here for a strange
occurrence. I need assistance from all of you to help to figure out what
this language on this box. that has appeared in California. Have you
all looked at the photos? I sent with the courier for you to examine on
the way up here?" he asked.
"Because at this point nor I or the staff here can make heads or tails
of this box or the man in question. Its like nothing we have ever seen
before. This is definitely one that goes into the dark side column
completely" he states.
Dr Otto then added that the patient also had binding magic on him that
might link back to the box itself. This revelation surprised the whole
group.
Nikki's attitude seemed to change from a teen girl to a woman of regal
bearing and attitude from the Queen within her.
She then explained "Part of the symbols on the box in question do not
resemble any regular language that the Sidhe used but? Three parts of
the runes are vastly familiar but not an exact match to the same type of
runes a very very old race of Sidhe used for spells or spell enhancement
shorthand. They seem more based on a rune system for personal use.
Instead of a system that would have been in general use by a school or
Academy of mages. But of some note is that some parts seem to indicate
more that the dark Fae worked on this box of yours. I would like to see
it in person along with the man, to examine his binding spells in
person. This might help my full assessment of them both." Aunghadhail
then faded down and Nikki was back in charge.
Sara then peeps in with her two cents "Well it's not a GOO language. We
did not do it because if it was totally bad and evil. We would not
talking--now would we?"
Absinthe shockingly looks at Sara sarcastically going "Always with the
bad with you."
Then says "Don't look at me ?? I am in the dark completely I just turned
into a sidhe a few months ago--ask me ?? I don't have one clue what so
ever" she giggled.
Nikki chimes in "No clue and in the dark--same as normal for you?!"
Nikki giggles "Sara?--she's not bad--she was just built that way."
The three girls start once more with the giggling.
Dr Otto thought to himself 'Good thing we have Aunghadhail to tap for
stuff like this. As no one else alive has any clue to this.'
He then turned down the hall waving to the group to follow him with his
arm "First we will see the patient-- then the box" he stated.
They all walked down the hallway about 50ft. To a set of airlock doors
and a guard post. Then guards checked all their ID's to clear them for
the next section.
They take turns going one at a time through the armored glass security
airlock.
Dr. Otto walks up the next 50 or so feet up to the medical station for
this section and gets the attention of one of the nurses. Who in turn
points out the Doctor in charge of the new patient
"Over here gentleman" the new doctor pipes up and walks over with the
patents file "I am the Doctor in charge of this case for the last 12
hours. This gentleman to my right is Bill. He's the nurse in charge of
that room, who just came on shift. So he'll be able to transfer anything
onto the next doctor and so on if needed. By the way you can call me Sam
from now please."
Dr. Otto goes "Well what's the situation with him? bring me up to
speed."
"Well" Sam starts "From what we see. This is perfectly normal human
male about thirty years of age, fine in shape, x-rays found no current
broken bones. But in the past -yep- he busted some stuff. Nothing
remains of a class X exposure on him. Its completely gone away--we don't
know why? It was full tilt and then faded all the way to nothingness.
The exposure has not seemed to have any affect his mental capacity or
his faculties whatsoever -- perfectly normal?? I'm not sure what to say.
He should be sitting there looking like a vegetable! So your guesses
good as ours on what to do from here."
The five of them take copies of the medical reports from Bill and head
down past the medical station for this section another 10 feet to a door
with two guards standing at the door's sides. Each one armed with a
pistol on their belt, they seemed to be waiting for the arrival of Dr.
Otto's group.
The guard checks Dr. Otto's credentials again at the door, the guard
then opens the door while, the other guard stands diagonally across from
the doors so he can cover it.
The guard looks and inspects the room. He finds everything still in its
place, the patient still in his bed. Dr. Otto looks and around the
corner and then to the guard "Guard-- could you grab the table that is
against the wall and put it more lengthwise across room so it is set
between me and the patient. So I can read my papers on it and put the
chair on this side of course towards the door."
The guard says "Yes SIR -okay- no problem" he walks turns the table
around from the wall and lines it up looking toward the bed with the
door right at its rear with the chair behind it.
Jack notices the door open up. The guard steps into the room and what
looks to be like about three or four the people out in the hallway.
A couple girls and a couple guys.
Jack studies the guard and since this is the first time he has seen one.
He studies him rather intently, taking notes mentally on his check list.
No American flag on the shoulder.
No American insignia that I recognize.
I don't see a name on his name tag place.
No rank.
Camouflage pattern that I'm not familiar with.
Carrying a gun that I know U.S. Army or the US military doesn't issue.
But it's a European-style gun, it's a very new style of gun so that
tells me it is probably not a military issue.
I hope I'm not in Europe?
The guard does not look Russian or Chinese so that leaves out the
communists.
He doesn't look like a space alien.
'What did I leave out I wonder?'
'WHY? ME??---MAN I think I'm in deep trouble.' he worries.
He then notices the guard move the table. That was against the wall by
the door, more lengthwise across the room so it sets between him and the
door and he places the chair behind it then walks back to the door. He
stands next to the doorway saying "We are ready Dr. Otto"
The Dr. walks in-- that the guard, accidentally introduced and says
"Hello I'm Dr. Otto in charge of this complex that you've been brought
to. We do have some questions for you. Just a second let me go back
outside and get my friends ready to interview you" he steps back
outside.
Otto walks up to his assembled friends and says "Well--should we all be
going in there probably"
Then bubbly Absinthe speaks out "Send me in first!! the youngest and the
most childlike is the best way to do it. It might break the ICE so to
speak"
Sara and Nikki both look at her and Nikki says "We are all the same
age."
Absinthe goes "Baloney with the same age-- you got old an ghost in you
and Sara's what ??40 years old like 10,000 or something maybe."
Sara and Nikki-- they both stick their tongues out at her.
Dr. looks at them and goes "It makes sense she's more like a kid than
the rest to you. Maybe she will break the ice a little bit. Go ahead,
go on in, its the best idea I've heard all day --I guess??" he states.
They all wait and give her time to work.
Absinthe started walking all bubbly and bouncy. Like a little kid into
the room.
Jack notices her --studying her with great interest. Starts going off on
his checklist again.
Teenage girl 15 or so-- Dream GIRL comes walking into the room
Five foot five or so.
One the most gorgeous girls I think I've ever seen, even in the movie
industry.
Green hair now that's funny.
Bright green eyes okay.
Getting closer and closer she passes the desk and gets up close to the
foot of the bed.
He then notices she's got pointy ears like a Christmas elf or star trek.
"NO--I've got to be dreaming" he tells himself.
Absinthe walks up to the bed and there's a small table mounted on arm so
it can rotate over the bed. On top of it is a small tray with a pitcher
of water and a glass. That Jack has not seemed to have used yet.
She picks up the pitcher, pours some water into it and puts it on the
table.
Then says "Hi I'm Absinthe would you like some water?"
Jack just blankly stares at her giving her the face of "I'm not going to
say anything to you" and mutters to himself "Man I am in TROUBLE."
Absinthe notices him giving her the evil eye and goes "At least say
something? Introduce yourself. You just know I'm going to stand here.
Like a little kid and keep bugging you and talking to you till you
crack!! she said with a little bit of sarcasm at the end.
She then says in that German accent "wve have vays of making you talk."
With that age old pun, he cracks up and says "Okay I'm "somebody" no
wait a minute. I'm "hey you" for now "hey you--senior" is better because
there seems to be too many juniors in here right now" she kind of cracks
about that with a giggle.
"So you plan on keeping all the information to yourself--you're smart
one" she says.
He picks up the water starts to sip on it.
"Absinthe? Jack starts "It fits -with the green hair and eyes --
Absinthe? your name is Absinthe? Your parents sure hung one on you with
that name!! They named? you?-- after the green European alcoholic
beverage that causes hallucinations?"
"What the hell is going on here? is there something in the water--in the
medication up my arm? I don't get what's going on here?--" he stops for
a second "Your hair's green, your eyes are green the name fits you
"Absinthe"--you look like an elf. YOUR named after a drink, that the
nickname for Absinthe is the "green fairy" he does the air quotes with
his fingers more than once!! getting more and more MAD as he does.
"MAN! I'm in deep trouble"-- he just about shouts "Man I'm in deep
trouble" He starts laughing at himself "I just think I must be dreaming-
- if I'm dreaming? Please slap me at this point!! Just to get me back
to awake!! Smack me around I don't mind!! Because at this point I have
no idea what's going on."
Absinthe kind of giggles--looks at him as he is shaking his head "Would
you like me to slap you?? I would be more than happy to smack you around
with permission! I hardly ever get permission to slap a guy around" she
snickers with sarcasm.
"Well since I AM! dreaming SURE--you might as well go ahead and DO IT --
PLEASE DO! I'll play along" Jack says raising his voice a bit.
"Just remember YOU! asked for this!"
Absinthe then rises her right arm and whips it FAR! back and just POPS
Jack with one hellacious HIT across the face.
Everybody's head pops in the room besides the guard who is just standing
there laughing.
She turns around to the crowd that's looking in the doorway "He asked me
to smack him --he asked me politely to smack him-- to make sure he was
awake-- so??-- I just did just as he asked."
Jack looks of the assembled crowd just out of the door that's obviously
trying to figure out what happened "YES" he grumbles rubbing his face a
bit "I asked her to smack me-- just to make sure I was awake and I'm not
dreaming"
Jack stares down the guard --"Now you-- his eyes narrowed with intent of
harm -- SHUT UP!!"
Dr. Otto takes that as a good sign that. She has broken the ice and
walks into the room to at the sit the desk. As he does--he says "I'm Dr.
Otto I'm in charge of the section here in this complex. We have
questions to ask you about yourself, the box that you arrived on, that
we've also have in the complex."
Then the next person enters the room which the Dr. introduces the
person-- an older English looking gentleman "This Sir Wallace he's a
consultant for my complex on various things."
Sir Wallace says "Good day to you sir"--YEP English thinks jack.
Then next person comes around the corner ---another girl about 15 or so.
"This is Carmilla she's also a consultant she may be young looking but
she does definitely knows her stuff" says the Dr.
Jack looks at this young girl. She is just one of the creepiest Morticia
Adams persons he has ever seen. White alabaster skin, black hair, with
a red streak. Do I see red eyes and claws?? and those Christmas elves
ears again!!'-- he thinks -- 'Kind of a bad vibe off of her. But not bad
enough to worry about---just plain CREEPY!!'
"I must be dreaming"--he thinks and mumbles again rubbing his face -
Absinthe notices him doing it and giggles softly "Need a fresh one?" she
pips.
"No thanks--- I am good for now" he grumbles.
The third female walks into the room.
Dr Otto introduces- her as -Fey- his other consultant.
This one is a drop dead knockout red head-- she looks very Irish with
the flame red hair.
He notices vibrant violet eyes.
Of course once again for the third time. Pointed ears like an elf.
The shape of the eyes is just shocking.
Her face.
Her body just screaming supermodel at all points.
This girl SHOULD to be in the movies--
That Jack worked on--she's got the look!! she can do it!!
She steps in a couple barely a foot or so into the room.
AND time seems a slowdown for Jack as he's looking at her.
He gets this creeping along the back of his skull.
THAT!! starts screaming something IS wrong with this girl.
Something absolutely wrong with this girl.
She takes the next step or so into the room.
That Little voice that he always listens to. The one that keeps him
alive when he is working. The little devil or the Angel on the shoulder
that says do this or don't do that. That voice that seems to keep him
alive all these years AFTER all the dangers he has done, all his life
has seen.
THIS GIRL IS BAD!! HIS BRAIN FINALLY SCREAMS!!!
GET AWAY FROM HER!!
Get a weapon your HAND!!
If you have to kill it KILL IT!!
RUN if you have to!!!
The back of his mind is screaming. That animal section that says get the
HELL out of the room. Don't go near it!!
She takes another step in the room.
Now the voice is like a stadium loudspeaker going off.
She's wrong.
nope nope nope nope nope nope
FEAR RACKS HIS BRAIN!!!
She takes another step in the room.
AND-----
Jack to screams out "I don't know who the redhead is. But get her the
FUCK!! out of the room !! NOW!!
You creep me out girl beyond measure!!
Don't take another step in here!!" he screams again.
the guard steps forward as Jack starts to get off the bed to the left
side -FARTHEST- AWAY- FROM-- HER!!!
"I'm going to go-- to go-- BAT SHIT!! on you" he warns.
Fey took another step in the room.
He rolled his legs out of the bed. On the far left side of the bed, the
farthest from the door.
FAR from this redhead that's bothering him even though he, should not be
bothered.
He is not even worried about the alabaster white skinned girl. Whose
easily far MORE creepier, than any female than he's ever seen.
The redhead-- she bugs him 10 times worse and that the voice in his head
is maddening--screaming at him get away from her!!
Queen reasserts her dominance over Fey's body and says.
"I don't understand why you have such a problem with me?"
She looks at Jack.
"Sir I am no threat to you whatsoever?"
Jack at hearing that voice.
The change in the voice.
It just it's even worse than it was before.
The voice.
He got!! out of the bed like a shot-- he reaches across the bed for that
small table and the arm that it was on--
It pops out.
He gets ready to use IT!! as a weapon.
More guards POUR into the room!!
Dr Otto yells out "Don't hurt him!!!"
Guards assemble themselves in a line across the room to protect their
charges.
Absinthe is backpedaling across the whole room and is sliding along the
wall to stay out of the way of the guards. She manages to get around
the desk and is already halfway out the door before anyone notices.
Carmilla on the other hand this is backed up against the wall close to
the bathroom door and seems to be staying out of range of anything
that's about to happen. Also Sir Wallace is already halfway out the door
with Absinthe in front. Being a small FAST Sidhe, she made it first.
The guards they form up a pretty formidable wall. Six of them between
Jack and the other five people still in the room. Dr. Otto turns to
Nikki "Fey get out the room right NOW!! he's definitely uncomfortable at
your presence."
"EVERYONE out!" yells the head guard!
The five reassemble in the hallway and shut the door.
Dr. Otto once his group is outside he was the first talking "My --- I
don't understand why he fixated on Fey as a problem. Considering who
else was in the room" he then looks at Carmilla and says jokingly "You
are the by far the creepiest female I've ever seen and he did not even
seem to be bothered by you.-- Which is quite strange."
Carmilla looks at Fey and giggles "I don't know what's wrong--you don't
smell bad today at all. At lest any worse than normal"
Fey takes a little swipe Carmilla that she easily dodges.
Dr Otto then says "He said He had no "Issues with you, Carmilla."
Carmilla chirps in "Hey I like him... he has TASTE!" she says slowly on
the last word -"He maybe a keeper doc."
Dr Otto says "I and ONLY I will go back in."
Sara gets Dr Otto's attention "Hey PeeTee?? --I noticed one thing. This
guy has no aura that I can read at all -- its like he is a null, just
nothing there to see. Then add Fey's glamour did nothing too him to calm
him."
"Humm" he says "The reports also mention that he is just impervious to
all telepathy used. So far some of the best here have tried to get in
his head and no go."
With the door now SHUT.
Jack Calms down.
Puts the table down.
He Sits on the edge of the bed Slightly Worn out and Exhausted.
The Dr comes back into the room.
Jack was wondering to himself 'Why? did I want to kill her-- I don't get
it? '
Then the doctor comes back in the room.
Jack as he sitting on the side of the bed not quite all the way in.
He says in a short to the POINT sentences to get though to Dr Otto.
"I don't know what she is.
Where she comes from.
But if she comes back in this room again!
That redhead!!
I'm going to go bat shit again!
Something in my head says no!
That's all there is to it.
She gets close to me-- you better have me strapped down or unconscious.
You don't have any choice in this matter!
---if if if he stutters-- she comes in this room and I'm unrestrained
and I have a weapon my hand.
I'm going to use it.
I'm going to mess someone up for sure Dr. Otto."
Dr. Otto nods his understanding "I'll make sure she stays out of the
room. As to the other two kids or Sir Wallace any issues there?"
Jack says "I have no problem at all with the kid with the green hair--
the one with white skin and dark hair she may creep me out-- She's the
weirdest one of whenever she is. I have ever seen-- that one with the
white skin creeps me out-- but, it's nothing compared with the redhead
was doing."
He stops for a second to catch his breath.
"It doesn't make any sense to me." Jack shakes his head.
Jack is half sitting on the bed. He starts pulling up the sheets from
the floor. He is putting the table back on its arm. Then rather neatly
puts everything back down on the table, the water pitcher and it's cup.
the small tray both where on. Some water spilled on the bed but it
doesn't bother him.
Otto notes how fastidious the man is. Even on small details.
The guards are still assembled in the room. But Jack seems to have
calmed down.
Jack says to Dr. Otto "I think I need more water and I'm bleeding from
that IV- I tore out of my arm."
The Doctor then turns to one of the guards "Do we need 6 of you in here
right now??"
Four of the guards leave and now two stand at the door.
One of them says to the Dr. as if to reinforce their point "Two of us
have to be in the room from now on. If any personal are in here with him
after that dust up Sir."
Dr Otto says to one "We need to have a nurse or a orderly come in here
and put that IV back in his arm again. Go please go get one."
"Yes sir I'll go" the guard then leans out of the door to indicate to
the other guard. That still stands the hallway to call for the rooms
nurse.
Dr. Otto turns to Jack then says "Okay once again" he reiterates "I'm
Dr. Otto I'm in charge of the complex that you're currently in. We have
some questions for you. First of all what is your name?."
Jack ponders this point and then he replies "Do I give you that at this
point? that would be stupid you're in charge and the only thing I have
the bargain with... is what's in my head and I'm guessing that I should
hold on to everything that can!" he stops to emphasize the point.
"I'm guessing that I need to hold on everything I know as bargaining
chips. Then I might decide to tell you what, you need to know or you
don't need to know, at this point."
Dr. Otto says "Okay your at ARC research center in New Hampshire."
"Never heard of it" jack hissed.
The Dr. replied "Well not a lot of people have heard of ARC. But some
have and I take it you're from Los Angeles?"
"Maybe I am" Jack quips to the doctor... "I'm gonna tell you straight up I
always like to tell the truth to people! ONE! " he lectures "It
eliminates problems later on."
He stops to think and starts his list thing again.
"Straight out the box --
I really don't like lying--
But first thing your obviously the government of some kind or giant
corporation.
I would NOT trust neither.
I've worked around the government through family all my life on and off.
I worked for many a giant corporation.
I wouldn't trust anyone one of them to get me a sandwich, let alone
anything with my life on the line.
I never have.
I'll give you one clue--electrician by trade in the past.
I started at 18 and worked with up to 30,000 Amps of current at high
voltage all day long and with that... electricians like me DO NOT!
scary easy. We HAVE to shake hands with death all day-- you really don't
get scared anymore its just normal.
I will only say one thing. The redhead scares me more than ANY of the
high voltage. I ever worked with. So will you keep that statement in
mind from now on?
But as for everything else.
I will tell you what, I think you need to know.
AND most of what I know is this --!" he kind of shouts "I find a SMALL
(finger quotes) box on a road and bang HELLFIRE-- PAIN and then poof! I
am in bed sheets on top of a bigger box--your guys SHOOT ME!! Please
tell which one so I can BEAT HIM HARD! Next I wake up here DAMN IT!"
"SO" he pauses.
"I'm just going to basically consider myself a prisoner at this point
and like I said-- and stick with what else I've got it in my head as
bargaining material."
Jack looks at his arm with the IV and a Band-Aid next to it. I am sure
you have drawn blood and gotten skin samples off me at sometime or
another while I was out, for how ever long that was. But my bet is less
than a day or less than about 12 hours. I'm also sure you x-rayed me or
whatever by now."
Dr. Otto goes "Yes of course we've X-rayed you and everything else by
now. We had plenty of time to do that. When you where received back
then--But we still need information on this box that you where on? How
you came across it or it came across you? We need quite a little more
information on it" --he paused "as IT WAS DANGEROUS!"
Jack volunteers to help "Doc I'm telling you the truth. I woke up on it
and like I said next thing I'm here. Then you bring a scary redhead
into my room, a green girl that's named after a beverage drink and a
creepy looking kind of Morticia Adams looking girl--okay with red eyes.
I know what good contacts look like and they WHERE NOT contacts. I can
tell that! I've seen enough of them--so...what else can I give you at
this time?"
Then Dr. Otto ponders with the gentleman in front of him and said well
"Can't you tell us your name? -- as "hey you" is bad--so give me that at
least?"
Jack laughs "I told the girl with green hair the name is "hey you
senior" please-- that name will do with for now. I doubt anyone else in
the building is called "hey you" so I'll live with it" Jack laughs and
smirks back "I have to laugh as I am in SO much deep shit its not even
funny -- so? Anything else Dr. Otto?" Jack stares at him.
Dr Otto replies back "Okay you obviously speak English, so your
American that accent fits for the area- so your Californian at the very
least?" Otto looks at his notes. Then asks. "What was the last date you
remember?"
Jack thinks to himself another nugget information he wants.
Jack says "Okay Dr. I will NOT give you an exact date that's another
nugget I want to keep to myself to bargain with later-- the last time I
remember was it was winter." says Jack.
Dr. Otto shakes his head this point there "Okay can we get a month?? 30
days at least?"
Jack was thinking little bit "November" he lied.
It was really late December. But he's in trouble and he hates lying.
But lying may be his only hope to keep alive.--- Keeping them in the
dark a little. Like the bit about mushrooms, keep in dark feed shit see
if they grow!!
Dr. Otto goes okay writes it down on file folder "You think you can give
me a year to be sure? as its is a possibility that you came from 100
years ago or 200 years in the future--though I doubt it."
Jack is okay 'Time travel? he thinks to himself'-----"Okay you're asking
in the year" Jack says "Truth right now--it was 1976"
Dr Otto asked confused "1976 was the last year you remember?? you're not
playing with me to make sure?"
"Yes it was 1976 is okay?-- all right?!" Jack snaps back.
"Okay-- all right-- who was president?" Otto asks.
Jack looks at Otto and pipes up. "It was Ford after he makes an attempt
to win the election-- Jimmy Carter the peanut farmer won the election.
so what now?" Jack huffs.
"I am from the planet Earth.
I am not a Martian.
I'm not an alien --so what ELSE!" He yells.
"As those 3 girls are NOT Christmas elves with Santa Claus at the mall.
I am sure that they did not have on makeup on from the motion picture
studios. I have seen enough of that stuff up close to know--and I have
NEVER heard of ELVES --are they mutants?"
Dr. Otto looks at jack with a blank look of a man thinking HARD and says
"Let me go outside talk to my friends of what you have given us, I might
bring back you some photos of that box. you where on and see if they
ring any bells okay?" then leaves.
Jack looks at two guards in the room and checks out their equipment.---
'They have a 9 mm military issue pistol that only JUST came out-- as I
bought one --you guys are really on the cutting edge--okay Jack I don't
think I'm going anywhere---like I'm guarded by two guys with guns at
least and a big huge metal door with no window in it. I don't think I'm
getting out of here anytime soon.'----he thinks.
After Dr. Otto leaves and the door the guard locks it and he stays in
the room with his new buddy. Jack ponders to himself 'So at this point..
I'm in deep trouble
--this is not good
I don't think they know. What they have on their hands and they're
asking me questions?
The doc seemed to get really strange when I told him the last year I
remember was 76. He seemed to be really bugged about that one' he
thought about that for a couple seconds.
The door knocked, the guard opened up and in came a orderly or nurse.
A guy about 6 foot even entered the room with a small handled box with
supplies in it.
'Unusual for a male nurse' in Jack's opinion he thought 'But its a
military hospital --makes sense' Jack thought his not knowing that 30
years had past and male nurses were common as dirt these days.
He came over toward the bed and Jack cleared some of the stuff off of
the little table arm that was serving Jack with his water. The nurse put
his supplies on it. Then went to the left side of his bed pulls the
sheets down around Jack's left arm.
The nurse says "Let me redo that IV okay? This is a standard IV.
Nothing different about it, just fluid- no drugs you okay with that?"
"I guess you're going to do it anyway so-- I'll just let you do it" he
hissed "I got no choice if there are drugs in that IV. They are going in
me no matter what I say" Jack almost spits out
"So have at it!! Dracula tap me" jack sassed.
"I'm used to the Dracula jokes" the nurse jokes back.
Jack watches the guy go about his job.
Then notices the tattoo on his arm--- Marine Corps symbol with the
medical badge stuck in it with "devil doc" underneath--
"Corpsman? are you still a Corpsman?" Jack asks.
"I was a corpsman years ago. I finally got my full RN degree and I am a
full-blown RN at this point" The nurse says. As he rolled up his sleeve
a bit. So he can show off the art he is proud to have.
JACKS jaw just drops when he sees the whole tattoo and tries hard to
hide it--
"THAT DATE ON IT! ---"9/11 2001 lest we forget"
"OHH MY FUCKING SHIT --WHAT HAPPENED" he thinks.
He tries to hide the sudden fear with a change in topic.
Jack whispered "Okay I think I can trust you little bit more than, most
the people in this place. A corpsman --I could trust a corpsman"
Jack added "You see my dad was a Marine.. served in the war. Corpsman--
all he would ever say is top stars in his book no matter what!! So
unless you're a crazy one. I'll give you a little trust."
The nurse does his job "Is there anything I can get you? some water?
anything at all?
Jack smiled "At this point --could I get, a wet towel. To mop up the
sweat off of me?? Would be nice" then the nurse steps in the into the
bathroom and gets towel damp for Jack along with a dry one.
"My name is Bill okay? you still want to be referred to as "hey you"
this new guy Bill says.
Jack jokes back to Bill "Hey you" will work fine. "hey you senior"
specifically. Will probably work better " with a smirk.
"We had last week a "hey you Junior" so senior is a good" snips Bill.
"Let me get that water filled " as he walks to the bathroom. With the
pitcher he just grabbed of the table.
"To recap that again --Dracula or Bill" he cracks. As he walks back into
the room with the water pitcher and puts it on the small swing arm
table.
"Need to go to the bathroom?" was the next question.
Jack surprisingly thinks and says "I don't need to go to the bathroom
and I'm very sure 12 hours gone by at least and I have no need to go
whatsoever?"
Bill says "If you do need to use the bathroom get me!! I want to make
sure that you don't kiss concrete okay?"
Jack jested "I don't want to kiss concrete again either! my "bill'
already augured into the dirt once today. I think kissing concrete in
here with this nice tile on it would be a bad thing."
Bill nods "Yes a bad thing-- that I've had many face plants in my life
working this facility from patients and usually when you fully face
plant around here.. ya pretty much break it."
Jack replied "I've seen that more than once in my work. "
Then Jack adds in a rather hard and mean voice suddenly.
"KEEP THAT REDHEAD OUT OF MY ROOM OR ELSE!! AND I MEAN IT!!"
Bill nods back. Then walks out.
Jack is now really thinking HARD about what he just saw.
'That tattoo "9/11 2001 lest we forget.'
He thinks '2001 was it? some kinda fight or disaster and that guy was
"in service" or just got in, then add a few years "in" then add the time
it took for him to get a full RN degree that EQUALS ---I'M SO FUCKED!'
'It might be way past 2001! '
'FUCK near 30 years GONE!! all my buddies are dead or retired and have
FORGOTTEN me by now.'
-- Depression starts SINKING into him real hard ALL THE LOSS -- 'All
that I know GONE! might as WELL BE DEAD! -- All I know for work is out
of date--- As dead as I should be -- I am SO screwed --They can just
kill me anytime they want ---As I died years ago --No cop will believe
me.'
Meanwhile as Jack gets comfortable in his bed again pondering. Starting
to wallow in DEEPENING depression.-- The five gather outside the closed
door down the hall a few feet.
Dr. Otto gets everyone's attention "So what do you all think about this
guy loosing his complete cool with Fey in the room?"
They look around at each other and each one of the pipes up in turn.
Sir Wallace "He seemed normal till Fey got too close and your voice?? It
really set him off like he kind of recognized it?" he queried.
Gwen sang "He was mostly upset that Fay was in the room when he went
off-- He didn't seem to be bothered by me whatsoever immediately. He
let me slap him silly to see that he was awake. That was kind of fun! It
felt kind of good --Maybe he's into it?"
Sara says sexy husky voice "OOOO he is into that! sounds like a good
one. I like a guy, that's into that kind of stuff."
She then looks at Nikki "I think I might know why he did not like ya
that much girl"
Nikki turns to her sister in crime " WHAT?" she kind of queries-
smirking in that what are you thinking voice.
Sara snaps back "Are you sure you showered this morning?? Maybe its
because you REEK he did not like you?"
Nikki sticks her tongue out at Sara as she takes a swipe at her.
"OK fine I know you did shower this morning. I know you did. Maybe its
your fabric softer?-- that new lavender scent your going for!" Sara
asks.
Swoop goes another playful swipe that Sara easy ducks.
"What other things can be wrong? its NOT your shampoo-- and its not your
perfume as your not wearing any today -- I GOT IT !! I know what it is!
YOU FARTED!" they all start laughing "I mean after what you had for
dinner last night. You should have cleared out the whole room."
Even Sir Wallace is laughing at the "stick."
Aunghadhail's regal bearing comes over Nikki "Queens do not "fart."
Gwen giggling like----mad "Queens don't fart?---really?--so your
highness--by all means tell us what they do?"
Aunghadhail just remained silent and fades.
"Jesus I can't believe she said that" says Nikki.
--"We shall talk later child" -- Aunghadhail says to Nikki in her mind.
Nikki cringes "I am in trouble for that one."
The other girls giggled at that.
Nikki says to Aunghadhail "Why do you seem so cold and detached toward
this man and his situation? You added nothing to the problem of WHY he
hated us enough to kill US!"
The Queen just remained silent.
Nikki noted her being quiet and took that as BAD things to come!
"We kind of have to figure out why" Dr. Otto said as he got everybody's
attention back on track "He did NOT like Nikki and had an adverse
reaction to her. Didn't mind Gwen whatsoever and kind of went
"whatever" to Sara. Which just intrigues me to no end that Sara did not
-CREEP- him out. But---Nikki! The beautiful girl with the red hair.
Made him almost into a complete raging nut to get her out of the room!"
he explained.
"We got the figure that one out--that Sara didn't bother him all and
Nikki bothered him immensely"
Sara being that Lust demon kid says" I am starting to like this guy. He
hates Nikki and he likes me. He likes being swatted-- mmmmm-- I am
really liking this guy. Maybe I should go into there and talk to him
some more? He is kind of cute!"
Gwen says to Sara "Sara I know your a lust demon but could you? Please
keep your mind out of the gutter for at least one day? and be serious?"
Nikki is nodding allot at this point.
Sara retorted "My mind is not in the gutter. It never leaves the
gutter. That's where it belongs"
The girls were giggling once again.
Dr. Otto gets the attention of his group yet again.
"Well what's the plan here people??-- My idea is that we just leave
Nikki out here at this med station to watch everything over a monitor.
While she mentally communicates with Sara what's going on in the room
and Aunghadhail can communicate on opinions remotely from that position.
Anyone else have any ideas?"
Sir Wallace shakes his head "nothing."
Otto looks towards Nikki as she gets that regal demeanor over her again
and the Queen is once more in charge.
She's a little bit more cold, detached. This time her speech--he can
tell.
"I really need to see this man in person and examine the spells that are
interwoven over him more deeply and in person. Seeing it from a distance
I can't do anything! Gwen and Sara don't have the skills. I'm the only
one here that can do it."
Then she fades.
Nikki comes back in charge of herself "She's been insistent--
Aunghadhail's-- being very insistent!! She wants us to examine him in
person."
Dr. Otto walked over and talked to Sam the Dr. in charge of the man's
medical care.
"Sam-- what can we do, so we can get Nikki in there to examine this
person?" he questioned.
In reply Dr Sam states "After what I saw of the videotapes of him
flipping out the minute she walked in. There's only one way you can
really do it and NOT restrain him. It is to drug him up and knocking him
completely out. I can have Bill go in there under the guise of feeding
him with some Jell-O or something else. That's not going to be a
problem dietary really. Then we put something in his IV while Bill does
an IV bag change out. That is normal for top of the hour. He will be out
in five or 10 minutes, you guys can wait down at the nurses station or
the break room for 20 minutes. Take a rest while we get set up and it
fully sets in."
Dr. Otto goes "I agree WE can do that. But for now we will go back in
without Nikki and she will wait at the med station to watch us"
Aunghadhail interrupted "But I need to see him!"
"That can wait till the drugs work --till then Sir Wallace can do some
of the examining" Dr Otto replied.
Dr Otto Says to Sam "Get started please."
Sam states "Your the boss, you might kill him with this "exam" but your
the boss. --Bill please get the meds together and do as we have agreed."
Bill to everyone --"You got it" as he walks away to the med center desk.
Sam walks over to the med area as bill preps his stuff.
"Man this is kinda low doc" Bill hisses.
"I know.. I don't like it either but that man did come in here with
CLASS X taint and now its gone --they have to find out why" Sam goes on
"Yes they want the redheaded girl to examine him so this is the only way
to go, this is so he will not struggle so hard as to break something or
someone"
Sam continues while working "Here is something to putdown the patient in
a light sleep, nothing heavy I don't want him drugged out of his mind
like he's going to surgery anything-- maybe half an hour's worth at
best"
Bill reluctantly agrees "Okay doc its your guys opinion-- I just do it"
Bill carries on finishing his prep.
Dr. Otto sits a reluctant Aunghadhail at the med center desk and tells
her to watch on the monitor and to communicate through Sara mentally as
needed.
He then gathers up the rest of the group and walks toward the room. Then
knocks on the door. The guard opens the door and they all file in.
Dr. Otto walks in and sits back behind the desk on the chair there.
Behind the Dr. is the green haired elf and also the somewhat creepy
white skinned girl that he already forgot her name. Then next came the
older Englishman. Jack watched them all.
Dr Otto says to Jack "This is kinda going to sound funny or weird but
Sir Wallace is a mage consultant he's going to examine you a bit with
his arcane abilities."
Sir Wallace says while walking to Jacks bedside "That box. As bizarre as
it sounds seems to have left a magic residue on you."
Jack sassed "Really?? magic?? okay---so we got elves--got magic--you've
got a girl with red eyes!! man I'm on good drugs" he says after
pondering for a second.
"When I wake up from this one --I will write a book!"
Dr. Otto seriously looks at Jack "Your not asleep--this is reality!
Remember when Absinthe slapped you? you felt the pain! you're awake! if
you want to have her do it again?"
Sara peeps in at this point excitedly "I'll do it!! --I like slapping
guys" she says in a sexy husky voice.
Jack says "I'll pass on this one with you. Not because the slapping
doesn't sound fun on its own and your quite good-looking. But ahhh --
continued slapping can have a tendency to make me a little dizzy."
Sara chimed in giggling "Well we defiantly have a keeper here!! He has a
sense of humor! As long as we can keep Fey out of the room. He might be
bearable is to talk to, for at least a couple minutes."
As Sara for the first time. Gets closer to Jack. He is certainly getting
a vibe off of Sara that is JUST---"different"--but its saying to him, "I
like this chick--I should love this chick" but he's shaking it off quite
easily.
Sara wonders to herself ---'I just hit him with a full force "lust"
aura. Aimed at only him!!! and he blew it off? WEIRD! He should be
jumping off the bed and going at it with anyone in the room sexually!'
So Wallace walks up a little closer to Jack. Sir Wallace puts his hands
out-- palms flat to Jack "This shouldn't hurt at all and if you feel
anything weird, please tell me" says the older gent.
"I know you're not used to this-- but this is like an x-ray or a CAT
scan or a MRI" He adds.
Jack goes quizzically "CAT scan? what's a CAT scan?" then goes "an MRI?"
Sir Wallace starts moving his hands palm down. Up and down his torso.
Jack notices his hands are glowing something fierce.
Jack warns "You said stop you if I saw anything WEIRD?" he kind of
shouts.
"Well your hands are GLOWING!! and I don't like it!" he warns again.
Sir Wallace looks at him surprised "YOU? can SEE the GLOW!?"
"AAhhhh YEP!" Jack says
Sir Wallace "Astounding!"
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