Incommunicado – It takes an idiot to see genius...
by (G) Arrain - Lieutenant Arrienye t'Merek & Alderman Yolanthe Ibalin
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::ON::
"There you go, David," Kaelin said to the young man sitting down at the lab table, setting a container down onto it. "And don't forget. You wait for the sample to be cleared as ready before beginning the scan. We don't want another repeat of last week. You're still scheduled for another decon session. Is that clear?" Despite his annoyance at the young intern's frequent shows of incompetence, Kaelin's tone was kind. He wasn't often short with the boy, it usually took a rather big mistake so he was usually supportive. It didn't help that David was skittish and nervous by nature. The least Kaelin could do was be nice to him.
"No Doctor Niers," David replied, shifting uneasily in his seat and blushing slightly. "Wait for the cycle to finish, when the light is green, then scan the sample starting from the feet end." he repeated his instructions back verbatim.
"That's right," Kaelin nodded, smiling at him and giving his shoulder a small pat before making his way over to the adjacent table and sitting down behind it, facing David over the machines in front of them.
It was rather sad, he thought, that a crime like Klia's untimely death could grow so cold so quickly. But the authorities were simply stumped. Whoever had done the deed left them nothing to work with. No trace evidence, no witnesses, only a dead body and the weapon. You'd think it would be enough, and before now, Kaelin probably would've agreed. But seeing everyone slowly giving up on ever finding the criminal behind this was a neverending source of depression for Kaelin lately. He remembered Yolanthe's pain all too clearly the day she came to give him some of Klia's things. Pain like that needed a reason behind it's cause. It couldn't be left meaningless.
This was why he'd asked David to help him tonight. Maybe there was something they'd missed, as highly unlikely as that was. He'd looked through everything over and over again. He actually memorized the exact file numbers and everything by now, and that was something no one should use their brain for.
Granted, he didn't exactly plan to bring David along, but the boy was eager to please and Kaelin was a sucker for puppy dog eyes so he couldn't turn him away. Which was, on an unrelated note, also the reason David was still working for Kaelin. So he'd given David a menial task, DNA analysis. All he had to do was press a button and be able to distinguish red from green.
The decontamination bath - more of an energy field - that could be relied upon to render any and all bacterium in a body of tissue inert, continued to click away whilst the intern brought the Scanner over to the mortuary table, and looked at the dead orion's feet, with is small blue painted toenails. He frowned and then waited paitently for the body to be made safe.
WHen the light went green, He switched of the decontaminent field, and moved the scanner into position, entered in Klia's height, and pressed go. All he had to do was watch and make sure the scan completed. He did so. then checked the results. he frowned, and pulled the scanner back to the start position, and set it off again. It blinked forlornly for the full slow five minutes as the scanner mapped the body to its mollecular level.
he checked the readings again. "Um, Doctor, I think I'm doing something wrong," he admitted, looking abashed and fretful."
'Why am I not surprised?' Kaelin sighed, standing up and walking to David's side. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I'm not sure." He swiveled the monitor towards the Deltan. "It says this body is three months old."
"What?" Kaelin asked, confused and frustrated. He let out a long sigh, running his hand over his face before pinching the bridge of his nose. "This body isn't three months old." His voice was calm. "Show me what you did, David."
And so the intern started again, moving the scanner, entering the observed details, pressing the run button. And five minutes later, the two men were looking at exactly the same result.
"What the..." Kaelin frowned, looking over the machine. "Maybe there's something wrong with the machine..." he mused.
So they swapped it out and tried again with a different scanner.
And then they moved the body to a new mortury bed, redid the decontamination bath, and scanned again. With a thrid machine.
An hour later they stared at the results. "Well," David said. "Its not 3 months old any more."
Kaelin perked up at that, looking up at David with a look of relief on his face from where he stood besides the door, carrying two cups of coffee. Finally, the mess was cleared up.
"Its 3 months and four days."
"Damnit! What the hell is happening!?" Kaelin groaned in frustration. "Let's try to take some tissue samples and examine them separately?" he suggested.
Another industrious half hour produced the same results, with an additional days worth of decay. "Are orion's different to most humanoids, post mortem?" David asked.
Kaelin's voice was muffled by his arms where his face was resting. "Not really. I mean, sure, we're all biologically different, but not this different. This makes no sense. There is absolutely nothing to account for this level of decomposition. She's not been exposed to the elements, her stomach was empty, she hasn't been dead long, she was in good shape prior to her death. I've never seen anything like this. Run the scan again," he told the intern. Before he could argue, Kaelin cut him off.
"Just do it. Please."
David paused, mouth oopen, then changed his protest to a meek, "yes Doctor Niers."
Kaelin's heart fell as he heard the tone. "No, forget it. I'm sorry, David. There's really no point in doing it. It'll just tell us the same damn thing. What do you think about it?"
David let out a deep exhalation of breath, hs shoulders slumping. "To be honest. Its like dealing witht he practise tissues you get in med school, so you can learn to take samples and the like without having to go in the holodecks all the time. You know, if you don't do it fast enough, it melts, to approximate different contamination times."
Kaelin nodded, giving a small nostalgic smile as he remembered those days. Things were so simple back then. "Yeah, I remember. I also remember running to make sure I delivered it on time. Failed about a dozen times." He chuckled, then sighed, leaning back in his chair. Suddenly he frown, sitting up quickly enough to startle David. "Wait...."
The intern could see a look of disbelief pass over his mentor's face. "David..." Kaelin began, then seemed to get lost in thought.
"You've thought of something, Dr Nairs?" the young human asked uncertainly
"I have to go." Kaelin suddenly stood up, taking his lab coat off and nearly taking his uniform jacket with it.
"But what about the body?" David called after him as the Deltan hurried away.
"Just put it back where it was. I need to go down to Engineering. But David, you're a genius," Kaelin told his intern.
David stared after the Deltan pathologist, jaw hanging slightly. Then he pulled himself together and started to push the body back into its stasis pod. His boss was, he was sure, quite mad.
::OFF::
A Jp between
Dr. Kaelin Niers
Resident Pathologist
NPC by Maja
&
David the pathology Intern
NPC by Notty
by (G) Arrain - Lieutenant Arrienye t'Merek & Alderman Yolanthe Ibalin
Post Details
| Title | It takes an idiot to see genius... | |
| Mission | Incommunicado | |
| Author(s) | (G) Arrain - Lieutenant Arrienye t'Merek & Alderman Yolanthe Ibalin | |
| Posted | Sat May 19, 2012 @ 9:51pm | |
| Location | Infirmary/Pathology Lab | |
| Timeline | Sd 56 1530 |
"There you go, David," Kaelin said to the young man sitting down at the lab table, setting a container down onto it. "And don't forget. You wait for the sample to be cleared as ready before beginning the scan. We don't want another repeat of last week. You're still scheduled for another decon session. Is that clear?" Despite his annoyance at the young intern's frequent shows of incompetence, Kaelin's tone was kind. He wasn't often short with the boy, it usually took a rather big mistake so he was usually supportive. It didn't help that David was skittish and nervous by nature. The least Kaelin could do was be nice to him.
"No Doctor Niers," David replied, shifting uneasily in his seat and blushing slightly. "Wait for the cycle to finish, when the light is green, then scan the sample starting from the feet end." he repeated his instructions back verbatim.
"That's right," Kaelin nodded, smiling at him and giving his shoulder a small pat before making his way over to the adjacent table and sitting down behind it, facing David over the machines in front of them.
It was rather sad, he thought, that a crime like Klia's untimely death could grow so cold so quickly. But the authorities were simply stumped. Whoever had done the deed left them nothing to work with. No trace evidence, no witnesses, only a dead body and the weapon. You'd think it would be enough, and before now, Kaelin probably would've agreed. But seeing everyone slowly giving up on ever finding the criminal behind this was a neverending source of depression for Kaelin lately. He remembered Yolanthe's pain all too clearly the day she came to give him some of Klia's things. Pain like that needed a reason behind it's cause. It couldn't be left meaningless.
This was why he'd asked David to help him tonight. Maybe there was something they'd missed, as highly unlikely as that was. He'd looked through everything over and over again. He actually memorized the exact file numbers and everything by now, and that was something no one should use their brain for.
Granted, he didn't exactly plan to bring David along, but the boy was eager to please and Kaelin was a sucker for puppy dog eyes so he couldn't turn him away. Which was, on an unrelated note, also the reason David was still working for Kaelin. So he'd given David a menial task, DNA analysis. All he had to do was press a button and be able to distinguish red from green.
The decontamination bath - more of an energy field - that could be relied upon to render any and all bacterium in a body of tissue inert, continued to click away whilst the intern brought the Scanner over to the mortuary table, and looked at the dead orion's feet, with is small blue painted toenails. He frowned and then waited paitently for the body to be made safe.
WHen the light went green, He switched of the decontaminent field, and moved the scanner into position, entered in Klia's height, and pressed go. All he had to do was watch and make sure the scan completed. He did so. then checked the results. he frowned, and pulled the scanner back to the start position, and set it off again. It blinked forlornly for the full slow five minutes as the scanner mapped the body to its mollecular level.
he checked the readings again. "Um, Doctor, I think I'm doing something wrong," he admitted, looking abashed and fretful."
'Why am I not surprised?' Kaelin sighed, standing up and walking to David's side. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I'm not sure." He swiveled the monitor towards the Deltan. "It says this body is three months old."
"What?" Kaelin asked, confused and frustrated. He let out a long sigh, running his hand over his face before pinching the bridge of his nose. "This body isn't three months old." His voice was calm. "Show me what you did, David."
And so the intern started again, moving the scanner, entering the observed details, pressing the run button. And five minutes later, the two men were looking at exactly the same result.
"What the..." Kaelin frowned, looking over the machine. "Maybe there's something wrong with the machine..." he mused.
So they swapped it out and tried again with a different scanner.
And then they moved the body to a new mortury bed, redid the decontamination bath, and scanned again. With a thrid machine.
An hour later they stared at the results. "Well," David said. "Its not 3 months old any more."
Kaelin perked up at that, looking up at David with a look of relief on his face from where he stood besides the door, carrying two cups of coffee. Finally, the mess was cleared up.
"Its 3 months and four days."
"Damnit! What the hell is happening!?" Kaelin groaned in frustration. "Let's try to take some tissue samples and examine them separately?" he suggested.
Another industrious half hour produced the same results, with an additional days worth of decay. "Are orion's different to most humanoids, post mortem?" David asked.
Kaelin's voice was muffled by his arms where his face was resting. "Not really. I mean, sure, we're all biologically different, but not this different. This makes no sense. There is absolutely nothing to account for this level of decomposition. She's not been exposed to the elements, her stomach was empty, she hasn't been dead long, she was in good shape prior to her death. I've never seen anything like this. Run the scan again," he told the intern. Before he could argue, Kaelin cut him off.
"Just do it. Please."
David paused, mouth oopen, then changed his protest to a meek, "yes Doctor Niers."
Kaelin's heart fell as he heard the tone. "No, forget it. I'm sorry, David. There's really no point in doing it. It'll just tell us the same damn thing. What do you think about it?"
David let out a deep exhalation of breath, hs shoulders slumping. "To be honest. Its like dealing witht he practise tissues you get in med school, so you can learn to take samples and the like without having to go in the holodecks all the time. You know, if you don't do it fast enough, it melts, to approximate different contamination times."
Kaelin nodded, giving a small nostalgic smile as he remembered those days. Things were so simple back then. "Yeah, I remember. I also remember running to make sure I delivered it on time. Failed about a dozen times." He chuckled, then sighed, leaning back in his chair. Suddenly he frown, sitting up quickly enough to startle David. "Wait...."
The intern could see a look of disbelief pass over his mentor's face. "David..." Kaelin began, then seemed to get lost in thought.
"You've thought of something, Dr Nairs?" the young human asked uncertainly
"I have to go." Kaelin suddenly stood up, taking his lab coat off and nearly taking his uniform jacket with it.
"But what about the body?" David called after him as the Deltan hurried away.
"Just put it back where it was. I need to go down to Engineering. But David, you're a genius," Kaelin told his intern.
David stared after the Deltan pathologist, jaw hanging slightly. Then he pulled himself together and started to push the body back into its stasis pod. His boss was, he was sure, quite mad.
::OFF::
A Jp between
Dr. Kaelin Niers
Resident Pathologist
NPC by Maja
&
David the pathology Intern
NPC by Notty