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Your communit crackles to life and blares "Oh, Niko...hello, Niko. Are you
there? Speak to me, oh executive officer supreme... It's Clara, by the way."
in Clara's voice.
You say "Hm? Clara? Don't know any Clara." Yes, he's joking, he's not been
working -that- hard. "Are you selling something? I could use some cookies."
into the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and announces "Hmmm...as a matter of fact, I am.
All for the low, low price of your annual physical, you too can have a
chocolate bar! But -wait-, that's not all! In addition to this amazing
chocolate bar of wonder, you get a happy gold star in your official file!" in
Clara's voice.
You say "Ack, it's not time for that -already-, is it? I've got an idea! I could give -you- the chocolate bar, and you could let me put it off for a while. That sounds like a good deal." into the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and announces "Nice try, tiger. I have all the chocolate I need, although that does remind me that I need to make a run to Johensen's this afternoon. C'mon, now...aren't you the one always telling Riley that the annual isn't such a bad thing?" in Clara's voice.
You say "I could go to Johensen's for you? And it's not such a bad thing, but
I'd rather wait. After all, I'm going to be in better shape once Ela and I
get back from the trip. Waiting til then wouldn't be a big deal, right? It's
not very long. And it's not like I'm going to be able to use this excuse ever
again." into the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and blares "Nikolaos Casymed, -don't- make me
learn how to pronounce your first name, mister. You're in fine shape now, to
my knowledge. Or...oh, no. You didn't break yourself again, did you?" in
Clara's voice.
You say "Not to my knowledge. And I'm generally aware of that sort of thing,
though there was that one time--but it doesn't count, I was only six." into
the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and announces "Very good. Then you can come let me give you a physical. Well, whenever you're available that is. Wouldn't it be nice to get it done and over with -before- the wedding? That way we can assure Ela that you're all in one piece." in Clara's voice.
You say "Ela already knows that. Trust me." Hey, maybe he'll get out of it if
he causes enough blushing. "Why can't I just wait, Clara? Is it that big a
deal?" into the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and blares "*sigh* I guess not, Niko. I didn't
think it would be, at least. Okay, fine. When you get back is good, I guess."
in Clara's voice.
You faintly hear a chime mark the hour.
You say "*pause* -Is- it okay? I mean, Riley ducks them all the time." Quack.
See? He's just taking after his brother. "It's just a hassle, Clara." into
the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and says "No, Riley doesn't duck them. I did nab
him for his annual, actually. Look, you just let me know when -is- good for
you, okay Niko?" in Clara's voice.
You say "He doesn't? You did? Wow. Hey... listen. Horses, four of 'em. *sigh*
Okay, I guess if he does it, I can, too. Uh, when's good for you?" into the
communit.
Your communit crackles to life and blares "*chuckle* At this point, I'm almost
at the point of saying that I'm on vacation and everyone just has to wait.
Whenever's good for you, though. I'm not the physician on duty right now, so
anytime today is fine, and I have tomorrow off, so that's good too." in
Clara's voice.
You say "Is everything okay, Clara? And I'll be over in a few, I guess--just
want to finish something." into the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and announces "Oh, sure. Everything's fine. Take
your time, though. I'll be in my office most of the evening." in Clara's
voice.
You say "If I'm going to do it, though, might as well get it over with, I
guess." into the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and blares "*laugh* There's the spirit. I promise to make it as painless as possible, honest." in Clara's voice.
You say "Hey, as long as you keep the regenerator away from me, I'll be fine.
Those things're evil." into the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and announces "Hey, its what you gotta expect around here. That's just the breaks of life." in Clara's voice.
You say "-Ow-. Ow, Clara! That's almost as bad as a regenerator. Okay, I
finished up that RY-47. I can come now, if you want to be a vampire?" into
the communit.
Your communit crackles to life and says "*snicker* Thank you, thank you. And
for my next trick, we will continue in that vein. C'mon in whenever you're
ready. I'm in my office." in Clara's voice.
[Travelspam to Medbay deleted.]
Niko, mumbling something about -really- bad puns, heads over to knock on the
door to Clara's office.
From within the office, a voice calls out, "Welcome, bien veniue, wilkommen,
c'mon in!"
You walk towards the Chief Aleron's Office.
Chief Aleron's Office
Contents:
Clara
Obvious exits:
Medical Bay
You walk here from the Medical Bay.
Niko, hands in his pockets, lopes into the room. "You can do anything you want to me," he says, with a grin, "But no more puns, -please-."
Clara is over by the bioscan unit by the wall, already preparing the various
instrumentage and hypos. "Niko! Why, such a surprise! Whatever can I do for
you?" She snickers at the greeting and sighs theatrically. "I'm so
unappreciated. Hop up on the bioscan."
Niko heads over to the bioscan and hops up as directed. He even pauses to hop,
bunnylike. Maybe he's being literal today. "Very unappreciated," he replies.
"But, hey, at least we haven't had any exploding desserts. I'm still working
on that."
Clara smirks at the actual hop, shaking her head as she leans to the side to start clicking on the various monitors on the bed itself. "This time make it chocolate pudding? That smells better than butterscotch."
Niko nods amiably. "Sure, I can do that. Ela wouldn't agree, though," he adds.
"But variety is good. Chocolate pudding, exploding. I'll make a note
somewhere."
Clara shakes her head, turning back with the hypo of doom. "Tilt your head, please. You can wear the butterscotch cologne you got last year for your birthday, then. Actually, I'd just rather you fellas didn't get blown up at all. Or fall down stairs. Or get shot. Or turn green..."
Aieeee, the hypo of doom. Niko doesn't seem to realize it's doomfulness,
though, as he just tilts his head obligingly. "I'm good at stairs, now," he
protests, with a quiet snicker. "I haven't fallen down 'em since that time.
I'm all in favor of no more accidents, though."
"Oh, please don't tell me you've actually been skating down stairs," Clara
pleads, the hypo hissing as it collects the sample. She turns to feed it into
the wall behind her desk before returning to claim a flat instrument. "Put
your hand on this, please."
Niko puts his hand on the instrument. "Okay, I won't tell you," he replies, all innocence. "Won't say a word. But I also haven't fallen again."
Clara closes her eyes for a moment and takes a deep breath, then shakes her
head with a sigh and peers down to check the readings on the instrument. "And
here I was telling Julie just how bright you are and how much I value your
help on the research snags we run into. And you skate down stairs," she
declares, actually amused as she turns to make a notation in the chart on the
desk.
Niko is all innocence. "But, Clara, it's a -good- thing for me to skate down
stairs. If I'd had practice stair-skating, I wouldn't have broken myself that
one time. It's to prevent further injuries." Really. -That's- why he's doing
it.
"Mm-hmm. Sure. I'll remind you of that next time I get commed to come rescue
you from the bottom of some set of stairs," Clara decides, albeit with a
flash of good-natured grin. She picks up scanner and gestures at you. "Jacket
off, please." She pauses for a moment, brow furrowing. "Did you sleep in your
uniform, Niko?"
Niko unbuttons the jacket and tugs it off, putting it next to him on the
bioscan. Today's shirt is slate-blue, with the odd (and I do mean odd) yellow
stain here and there. It reads 'Experiment with a Chemist', and does look
like it's been used for some form of chemistry experiment. "I'm not going ot
fall down any stairs," he retorts amiably, before peering at the uniform.
"What? Oh... yeah. Laundry's being evil."
"I'm surprised -Ela- isn't being evil if you're sleeping in your uniform," Clara exclaims, hooking a stethoscope in her ears and warming the disc before setting it to your chest. "Take a deep breath, please."
Niko is effectively cut off from replying to that by the need for deep breaths.
His shoulders lift in a brief shrug, though.
Clara continues to listen at various intervals for a few moments, then moves
around to repeat the process at your back. "Okay, breath normally now," she
suggests. "How is Ela anyway? You two just about ready for the wedding?" she
asks, picking up a scanner and clicking it on.
Niko shifts back to rest his weight on his braced arms. "Just about, yeah.
There really isn't all that much to do, though--we're both big on the
simplicity thing, not making it involved and all."
Clara half grins, regarding the scanner readout as she moves it along joints
and limbs. "Simplicity's a good thing," she agrees. "You talked to Riley much
lately?"
Niko shakes his head, watching the scanner almost warily, as if he's waiting
for it to reveal somethign bizarre. "Work stuff now and then, but not much
beyond that. Why, everything okay? I should probably talk to him about
wedding stuff soon, now that you mention it."
Clara's brow furrows at the scanner for a moment, and she clicks it off, but
only to exchange it for apparantly a heavier duty model. This gets turned on
and moved slowly past one ear. "Mm-hmm. Everything's fine, to my knowledge. I
just didn't know if he'd mentioned...er, the wedding. I know he's looking
forward to it."
You faintly hear a chime mark the hour.
Niko looks definitely wary at the arrival of the second scanner. "Okay, I -know- I didn't break my ear," he mutters. "Would've remembered that. And he's not mentioned it, no. I'll nag him about it later, maybe."
Clara makes a noncomittal sound of agreement, eyes still focused on the scanner
blandly. "Your ear's not broken," she assures blandly, circling the scanner
around the back of your head. "Tell me, Niko, about how many hours of sleep a
night have you been averaging?"
Niko mumbles something about not breaking his head recently, then pauses to think. "Average? Maybe... five, six hours? Something like that."
Clara snaps off the scanner and moves to collect a printout from her computer and peruse it thoughtfully as she returns. "Mm-hmm. Well, at least I can see why you didn't want to have your physical until after vacation. Niko, sleep deprivation does -not- make you a better security officer. It'll fry your aim, make ducking all that much slower, and scramble the numbers on reports."
Niko makes a brief gesture with his hands, almost one of futility. "I can't sleep any later than I do, Clara. I've tried, it's just not going to happen. I was hoping to get back on track somewhat while Ela and I are gone, though. Assuming the families don't keep us hopping," he adds, with a quick grin.
"Have you tried going to bed maybe a little earlier?" Clara asks, still scanning the results of the bloodwork before she glances up with a faint smile. "You've been skipping meals and eating junk food, too."
Niko's head bobs in a brief nod. "Sometimes, yeah. It doesn't help much." At that last, he looks a bit sheepish. "Do me a favor and don't mention that to Ela? She, uh, wouldn't be thrilled by that. Food's important."
Clara tilts her head at the former, vaguely concerned. "You're having problems
sleeping at night? What's happening? Insomnia?" A faintly amused sigh follows
as she nods. "I won't tell her, no, but you have to promise me you'll try to
do better, all right?"
Niko nods once more. "I'll do better, yeah, promise. And it just takes me a while to wind down at night, that's all. Maybe if I start working out at night, 'stead of in the morning. Or maybe both, I don't know."
Clara acks softly, and reaches up to open a cabinet and rummage for a moment
before withdrawing a small bottle and offering it over. "Vitamins. If you're
going to work out twice a day, not sleep, and eat crud, you'll need them.
Please tell me you're going to relax considerably during your honeymoon,
right?"
Niko takes the bottle with a murmured thankyou. "I'm not going to eat crud,
though," he says. "I promised, after all. And,yeah, relaxing is the plan.
Don't know about when we visit Ela's family, but there's not much -to- do in
Mathraki. Maybe some fishing, that's relaxing."
Clara nods with a small smile and gestures at the coat with a pen before she
makes a few more notations in the chart. "Other than that, you're as healthy
as can be. On target for weight acccording to height, well recovered from the
mishaps over the last year...the whole nine yards."
Niko pulls on his jacket with a quick grin. "That's good to hear, at least. Do
you need anything else, or can I go back to work?"
Clara flips the chart closed and waves it at the door with a wry grin. "You're
free to go, but back to work? Up to you, but it's five thirty nearly. Isn't
it about time for you to kick off for the night?"
Niko eyes his chrono. "Just about, yeah. Got a couple more things to finish up,
though, before I go. It won't be too much longer." He hops down from the
bioscan. "Wasn't so bad. Thanks, Clara."
Clara waggles her brows with a grin. "Of course it wasn't. I'm saving all the
truly evil stuff to do to you next year," she promises cheerfully. "Take care
of yourself Niko. Tell Ela hi for me."
Niko rolls his eyes. "Hey, if this year's anything like last year, you'll do
plenty evil to me before the next annual. And I'll do that, both of 'em. Say
hi to Riley, if you see him before I do." With that, and a lifted hand, he
heads out of the office.
You walk towards the Medical Bay.