RP Bones and All

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[font color="purple"]DATE: 7/15/2022
LOCATION: L-14
ASSETS: Dr. Kallie Reed; ACF-1003-C, Mr. Johnson
EQUIPMENT: Examination equipment including an x-ray machine and a medical kit.
PURPOSE: Examination of ACF-1003-C [/font]

Kallie Reed was not amused. In fact, she was as far removed from amused as one could possibly be. She had been walking around the Foundation facility for no less than three hours with a tracker in her hand. The device was meant to help find one Mr. John Johnson, but so far had only aided Kallie in running in circles. The tracker itself was not very accurate, and couldn’t pinpoint the man’s location. Instead, it provided a roughly fifty-foot sphere of approximate location. This meant that it was easy enough to end up in the wrong room, on the wrong floor, and miss him entirely.

Kallie was very much, as Pepper would put it, over it.

Of course, this wouldn’t have been an issue if the intern she had sent to find the man had tried to find him for longer than an hour. The poor boy was a fool, but a helpful fool on most occasions. This was not one of them. No, instead, Kallie had to run around with a broken old tracker and hope that she eventually caught the man. She felt that most people might have given up by now, but Kallie wasn’t most people. She was the same woman who had refused an A-Class-D promotion for nearly a decade. Stubbornness ran in her blood like water in a stream.

She pushed open the door to the cafeteria for the sixth time that day– only to finally find Mr. Johnson there, mop in hand, going at the floors. She sighed in relief and her expression became stern as she approached the man.[font color=purple] “Mr. Johnson? I’ve been looking for you for hours. I would like it very much if you’d accompany me to an examination room.”[/font color]

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After all, Mr. Johnson didn't seem bothered by anything that bothered normal people. His high resistance to cognito and info hazards was, at one point, recorded in his file, but he wasn't sure if that was still the case. She had plans for him, and wherever her steps guided him he would walk. That was all that mattered. Today, he felt the pull of her steps to clean in all sorts of strange places that he wasn't usually found in. From isolated bathrooms and empty containment units, to mess halls that weren't necessarily his responsibility but definitively needed some love. As if she needed him somewhere specific, or away from someone.

But he had forgotten a spot in one of the many mess halls he cleaned today. His one forgotten spot was a swept-up pile of dirt and food waste that needed to make its way to the trash can. As he wrapped up that little bit, he heard someone's voice calling out to him. Looking up, he spied the face of Dr. Kallie Reed and smiled. He knew of her, of course! Mr. Johnson had been around for a little more than five years now, and Dr. Kallie was certainly an important face at L-14. Waving at her, he responded joyfully, [font color="fcf559"]"Well hello there Doctor! How are you doing on this lovely day?"[/font]

Setting his cleaning materials aside, he started to follow her to wherever she intended to lead him. He wasn't going to pretend he didn't hear her earlier words, most people didn't like it when he did that. But he had never done that? So he nodded his head and walked. As the pair moved, Mr. Johnson asked, [font color="Fcf559 "]"Now what's all this about? I've got a looot of cleaning still left on my plate today, but I suppose that's every day! Haha! The site just doesn't clean itself, but if only it did!"[/font] [/font]
 
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Pepper could do this better. Or maybe even Dr. Redd. But Kallie? She didn’t really have time for pleasantries. William was still waiting for another visit today. She had multiple other anohumans to visit. Instead, she had spent hours looking for Mr. Johnson, just so she could give him a check-up and finally send him on his way. She very lightly gripped his shoulder and led him to their destination. [font color=purple] “Mr. Johnson, we just need to do a physical so we can mark you off and get you sent home. This will be quick and easy. Just a blood test and a few other tests, and you can go back to cleaning for the day.”[/font color]

She led him through the maze of halls until they arrived at her examination room. She led him in and gestured for him to sit down on the table. The room looks, for all intents and purposes, like a very well-equipped doctor’s office at any normal hospital. In one corner of the room was a standing X-ray machine, and in the other was a centrifuge. There was a sanitation center in the third corner, and Kallie headed straight to it. She washed up and donned a set of blue gloves, then picked up her laptop and looked at his file.

It was embarrassingly sparse. If it was accurate, they had never once tested the man for anything. Why was he even here?

[font color=purple] “Okay, Mr. Johnson, let’s make this quick, shall we? When was your last examination here at the Foundation? Do you remember?”[/font color=purple]

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[font color="Fcf559"]"Why, Dr Kallie, that's silly! My home is here with the Foundation!"[/font] Mr. Johnson was smiling with his mouth and not his eyes as he spoke, responding to Kallie's tugs and pulls with the cheery tone of a man who was entirely contented with his existence- and the eyes of someone who didn't know where they were.

He followed Kallie wordlessly into the doctor's office. It was not the first time he had been in one of these rooms, it would certainly not be the last. Before the woman had even opened her laptop and asked her initial questions, Mr. Johnson had already removed his shirt. They always asked him to take off his shirt. They always asked about his arms when they took a closer look. His arms were always a source of contention among the staff that examined him, though he really wasn't sure why. They were just like everyone else's arms, of course. Twisted muscles spiraled over twisted bones with veins hidden deep under layers of thick tissue and dark skin. White hair grew along his arms toward his body in little patches, almost forming strange little patterns if they were looked at too closely.

Just like everyone else, of course.

Answering her questions, Mr. Johnson smiled with his face and his eyes,[font color="fcf559"] "Oh I've been examined a handful of times, that I have. Can't remember the last time, but it couldn't have been too long ago! Must've been with that nice fella, oh, what's his name, with the glasses-?"[/font] As if that narrowed it down.[/font][/div][/div][/div]
 
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