#5

[rank1]

Passengers: Claire and Travis
Location: The Infirmary
Date: Feb 22nd
Summary: Travis has some entirely unfounded concerns about brain damage that only a medical professional slash witch can confirm.
Warnings: No idea.



Travis has some... concerns.

The potential for brain damage had not occurred to him until Volk had mentioned it, and true to form, he does not want to give it much consideration now. But it bugs him. He hasn't spent thousands of hours sculpting his body into a near-perfect fighting machine just to lose his edge because some warden with a stun gun knocked him out. That'd be totally fucking bullshit, right? Better safe than sorry. He'd better check. While he's at it, he can test to see if Claire's true to her word and will actually be a fair and compassionate doctor. Two birds with one stone.

(And if she isn't, he'll just kill her. He bets she'd put up a good fight. The infirmary probably has a lot of cool machinery and tools she could use to make it interesting. He's never fought a doctor before.)

(He also hasn't been in the infirmary yet.)

Travis tries to open the infirmary door, but it doesn't budge. Ah, yes. He's a lowly inmate. So Travis cups his hands around the sides of his eyes, glasses and all, and presses his face against the frosted glass door to see if he can see in. He can't, but at least Claire will see his shadow there.

Comments

[rank1]

“I’ve never seen anything with her in it, but she’s a classic,” he replies. Bonding never felt like the point, so he glosses right over that. “Ten years ago, I used to have this game you would have liked. It was a surgery game. The assistant character is this cute girl with big eyes — Audrey could’ve played her in a movie adaptation or something.”

[nineteenfortyfive]

"Like Operation?" But why is he talking about characters, as if it were a book? Was there a whole backstory to that poor fool getting all his plastic bits removed?

[rank1]

“No, Trauma Center: Under the Knife. You’re thinking of a board game, this is a real game. You play as a surgeon eradicating the Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin from victims’ bodies.”

[nineteenfortyfive]

"Real game?" She's getting lost, here. "How do you play as a surgeon?" How do you do that if it's not Operation? Is he fucking with her?

[rank1]

“Like a video game,” he clarifies. “Your character is a surgeon. Like a simulator.”