052 - If I were to become tiger food (It would've been more noble)

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki is in the Astral kitchen, doing... well, it's not entirely clear WHAT she's doing. There are pots bubbling over on the stove, produce everywhere, piles of dishes in the sink and the oven is starting to smoke out of both sides as though attempting to cry.]

[Misaki squeaks and opens the door, releasing a black avalanche of smoke. She starts coughing, squints through the black fog, and her eyes go wide.]

[Very gingerly, she shuts the oven door, switches it off, and leans her back against it.]

...oops.

[And she proceeds to have a gigglefit.]

Comments

[didorothy]

Sexism 101 training on the force. And that thing about you and adopting and that. And the fact that your married life apparently meant you had to have a desk job enforced on you by your heart problem.

[his eyes widen - it's likely that heart problem still exists]

Have you checked on that?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

The desk job wasn't forced on me. I-- [Gah she hates even thinking about it] I didn't take it until it was clear to me that staying in the field would put my team in as much danger as it did me.

[a pause] And it's not like even that kept me away. Not really.

[SAM YOU KEEP CONFUSING HER.] Checked on what?

[didorothy]

[as if his topic jump made PERFECT SENSE] Your heart. Maybe if the doctors can get to it now, you can prevent future complications.

[hilariously, Sam is as much 'MISAKI NEEDS TO STAY ON THE FIELD' as he is 'NO MISAKI CANNOT DIE.' Because not-being-able-to-pound-the-streets = not-being-able-to-police = death.]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She honestly hadn't thought about it. She was just glad to be back with her team. And now she doesn't WANT to think about it.] I didn't-- that took years of exposure to the Gate. I'm fine.

[didorothy]

Check in on it. I won't have anything happening to you if there's a chance we can stop it.

[Mother Hen!Sam is a bossy one]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Not looking at him because now the idea that there's already something wrong has been planted in her head and she doesn't like it one bit.] I'm fine. And what if they can't do anything anyway? If there was something wrong. Which there isn't.

[didorothy]

Then at least you'll know. Which, I don't know about you, is something that's pretty bloody important to me.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Yes. Then I'll know, and so will the rest of the department, and they'll pin me to a desk before I'm thirty.

[didorothy]

You could go to one of the doctors here. Keep it secret.

[a beat]

And I don't mean one of the Doctors, as I get the impression none of 'em know a thing about medical training. There's a Doctor Martha Jones, a Doctor Owen Harper, and a Doctor Gregory House, at least.

I wouldn't advise the last one.

[Sam is annoyed by his doctor]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

House--the one who has a file on you. [So not attempting to change the subject, really.]

[didorothy]

Yeah, that one. So maybe Harper or Jones would be better able to help you.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I don't know Harper.

Why does he have a file on you?

[didorothy]

Then Jones?

Because my doctors are shite, if you haven't noticed from all the times they nearly kill me.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I'm fine!

[Frowning] Yes, and you just warned me away from him.

[didorothy]

You might not be.

He's good, I hear, but he's a bastard.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

It was an experiment. It wasn't... [augh] It wasn't real.

[didorothy]

It's a possibility.

[See this hand that is being put on your shoulder, Misaki? This is the hand of Sincere Concern]

Please, just... get it checked out.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Stop it. I'm not sick.

[didorothy]

For which I'm very grateful. I don't want that to change.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[AUGH.]

...fine. I'll ask someone to look into it. If you tell Hei I'll kill you.

[didorothy]

I won't tell Hei as long as I don't have to tell Hei to get you to do it.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Nrrk.] What's he going to do about it, anyway? [She's not pouting. She is too dignified to pout.]

[She's also ignoring the fact that she told him not to tell because one look from Hei would have her calling up a hospital. :|]

[didorothy]

Substitute me for you and Gene for Hei, and take out physical violence and coercion. You'll have your answer.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Sigh] You're a manipulative bastard.

[didorothy]

So are you. Somehow, it adds to our charm.