031: VIDEO

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[He's sticking a sign to the door of the clinic. Here, let him read it to you.]

Symptoms of seasonal flu: stuffy nose, sore throat, aches, shivers, cough, sneezing, headache, mild fever, and the incurable urge to spread it around in public.

If you've got one or more of these and you're not pregnant, suffering with a pre-existing health problem or at least reasonably certain you'll be dead before the weekend's out, don't come to the clinic. If imminent death is a possibility- [He taps the phone number at the bottom of the sign] call.

We've got a bigger crowd than usual in today already. Let's try not to turn it into a pandemic.


[ooc: have at! backtags and everything except House doubles more than welcome ♥ }

Comments

[dragondreaming]

No sickness, daddy-o, do you need some help?

[brittas_it]

So what are people supposed to do? Just suffer through it?!

[intheblanks]

Daisy.

You can help by telling people never to call me daddy-o.

[intheblanks]

With bed rest and fluids, yes.

[unflagging]

Good advice. Very good advice.

[ooc: Sorry I'm not a 4th Waller, but I should couldn't resist flu jokes with this guy ;~;v]

[intheblanks]

I hate snifflers.

[ooc: ALL ARE WELCOME COME INTO MY ARMS ETC]

[seriousheat]

Casey? — what the fuck.

[unflagging]

That's how it always starts, isn't it? A little sniffle, a little tickle in the back of the throat, a bit of a cough, the first chill of a fever... And, then, before you know it, pow! And you're full-on in the middle of it.

It's really better to just not get it in the first place. It really is.

*_*

[intheblanks]

....[Welp.] Sure. How can I help.

[intheblanks]

I could have saved myself time and got you to list the symptoms for me.

Statistically, nearly impossible not to get it.

[unflagging]

Call me next time.

Nearly impossible, but not entirely impossible. Improbable, but not impossible. There is a difference.

[seriousheat]

You can start by telling me when the fuck you let your hair grow out. Did Shay put you up to this? [ He'd guess Otis, but the medical stuff is more up Shay's or Dawson's alley. ]

[sitis]

...Good to know. I think.

Question. [Not that it Really makes a difference to him, he's just a little curious.] If they wait too long, and are incapable of calling, what then? We just... sniff them out later?

[intheblanks]

[Well that's not a weird way of saying hello, Mitchell, not at all.]

The place has a notable lack of newborns and the elderly. That makes the at-risk pool very small.

And no, presumably they'd complain about it when they woke up the next morning.

[intheblanks]

No, my mum did. It was the eighties and the curtains thing was in.

[He'll just shove a hand back through it, not at all awkwardly. Who put him up to the accent, Severide?]

So I'm assuming we know each other.

[He is assuming the opposite.]

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Should I send flowers, too?

Yes, one's improbable and one's overconfident.

[seriousheat]

[ What the—

No, really. So. Squinting at the video. ]

You're not Matt Casey.

[sitis]

[Eh.. he's still adjusting to having kind of just... 'whoops guess what? You're here now'. Fortunately, the very friendly Werewolf guy told him this isn't purgatory. And by Very Friendly he means not!George, and not friendly at all really.]

Odd. Complaining about things is usually the last thing one might think would be on someone's mind the morning after their death.

[unflagging]

No, save those for the sick and the ailing.

Immunity is a beautiful thing, though. Surely you must agree.

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[He leans in closer. This, incidentally, just cuts off most of the floppy blond hair that makes him in any way distinguishable from the fireman. So- probably not much use.]

Robert Chase. Only a couple of letters out. [If that helps.]

[intheblanks]

Obviously you haven't spent much time in the morgue. Easier when it's only the relatives you have to break news to.

[seriousheat]

[ No use at all, and this place is becoming more and more of a mindfuck. ]

You look just like him. How's that possible?

[lionesque]

There's an actual hospital here?

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[artsyfartsybaby]

What if you're in diapers, barely have any teeth, and pretty much survive on liquids and strained peas?

[She's not talking about her in about fifty years.]

[whenyouneed]

[This woman is... incredibly pregnant. And in your clinic.]