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[ Doctor Simon Tam ☤ SCI»010»030 ]

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[doc_pompous]

I appreciate it, thank you.

[doc_pompous]

I don't know about that. There are a lot of verses here.

[thoughts]

Not ours. Make a girl a liar.

[doc_pompous]

I won't, you know I won't.

[thoughts]

Just like I know you will. Daddy will be proud and māmā will cry. You're saving lives again.

[doc_pompous]

I was saving them on Serenity.

[But he knows there's a difference playing medic for eight people on a spaceship and running an entire department, and she knows that, too.]

[thoughts]

She's proud too. Stitched her up and made her whole. Still flying.

[doc_pompous]

We'll go home.

[thoughts]

[ this conversation came from hers with takeshi, and she thinks of it again now. of home and parents and the ones that make you. so she repeats what she told him then with a smile. ]

I have Simon.

[ and he is a very good mother-father-brother. she said to try. ]

I'll come by later. I know the way.

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[organfarm]

[ deep breath. ]

Okay so this is totally just a hypothetical question but if like you got an extra spinal cord -- a totally healthy one -- could someone or something here transplant it into a person with a damaged spinal cord. 'Cause that was impossible back home but I dunno, I'm still not completely used to the future-y gizmos and things and machines here. So, uh. Yeah.

[doc_pompous]

[oh my god]

That is...an incredibly specific hypothetical.

[organfarm]

It's -- about an incredibly specific person, so. I kinda promised them I'd look into things.

[doc_pompous]

So it's not purely hypothetical, then.

[organfarm]

Yyyyy -- no. Sorta? I mean -- the extra spinal cord's hypothetical. Unless you've got any of those lying around?

[doc_pompous]

We do have the technology to synthesize organs, I don't see why parts of the spinal cord would be out of the question. The hard part is the actual procedure.

[organfarm]

... you have technology to synthesize organs.

[ somehow he hasn't found out about this yet. and he's vaguely offended by it. ]

Right, uh. There isn't a machine that can just bam, swap broken spinal cord for a whole one?

[doc_pompous]

[Ha ha oops.]

We have automated surgery, but anything involving the spinal cord is inherently risky. There's always the possibility that a hypothetical patient might not be comfortable leaving themselves in the hands of a machine, even if someone like me supervises the procedure.

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[bribed]

[ While River comes over, Jayne pulls out his comm, sends out a quick message -- written, even though he's not so good at it, just so the girl doesn't overhear. ]

your sister is coming over i guess was all upset saying i was gonna get shot

dont rightly know whats going on but if she goes crazy and tries to kill me again you better patch me up cause i didnt do nothing

[doc_pompous]

She's not going to kill you.

[Except he can't really promise that, and honestly this does sound kind of worrying.]

I'll come over.

[bribed]

you dont have to if shes gonna kill me aint like theres much you can do about it

think she just wants to stare at me all weird until shes decided im not bleeding

[doc_pompous]

[Does Simon trust Jayne with his sister.]

Are you sure?

[Does he]

Because I can come get her, if you need me to.

[bribed]

all my weapons are put away so if she tries to kill me itll be with furniture and i think i have a better chance against that

[ Maybe. ]

if you could tell me what the ruttin hell shes trying to say in her messages though thatd be good

[doc_pompous]

What is it she's saying, exactly?

[bribed]

im going to go in and miss when i shoot or something? apparently ill be coming for her even though people tell me not to? and ill get hurt.

no idea what the rutting hell shes talking about doc

[doc_pompous]

I think she just wants to make sure you're all right. She does that, sometimes. Needs to check and see that the person is still there.

I can still come over, though.