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Post by wolfsbaine on Apr 29, 2007 20:39:35 GMT -5
Dr. Doug Austin was about done with his shift and had nothing left to do but wait until time for him to clock out. He tried offering his help to the other medical personal but none of them needed or wanted his help. While sitting in the locker room waiting for time to pack it in for the night he got a strange idea to explore and see the Hospital. It would pass time and help him get better acquainted with the grounds. Doug left his bag and things in the locker, walked out the door and started for the first elevator he could find. The first thing he was going to do was view the morgue.
He was never a huge fan of that place but he had a feeling that he might be visiting that place more often then he wanted too. People, like it or not, do die. He pressed the down button and waited for the doors to open. Lucky for him no one was coming out while he was going in. Once in side and the doors was shut he pressed the corrected corresponding button to take him down below.
As the elevator started going down he started losing his nerve more and more about visiting the place. Before he had a chance to push the button to take him back up the bell clanged and the doors opened. He was now looking at corridors that took him to different places. Gulping only slightly he walked out of the elevator and looked left, then right and then straight a head. "Just great... I have no idea where I am..." Just as he said that his eyes fell on a old sign and his feet carried him over to it. He looked down the list and found the area he was looking for but decided to just wing it and see where it takes him.
After wondering around in the halls and taking many turns he now realized that he was lost. "Oh well this is just grreeaaattt."He shorted as he tried to push open a locked door. He had taking so many turns that now he had no idea where he was. "Way to go Dr. Austin. Lost as always." Giving up on the unmovable door he tried for the one across from it. It opened and he walked into the room. As soon as the doors shut behind him he realized that he had walked into the medical examination part of the morgue and it looked like there was already two body's there.
"Oh..." He turned and tried to push the doors back open so he could leave but they would not open. "Oh great." he groaned. "Where is this guy?" he asked a loud as he looked around the room. Moving through the room, he made his way for the doors on the other side hoping there might be a elevator on the other side of the doors. When opened the door he found it was just a supply room. "Oh what the?" He called out. He made a face that just screamed someone shoot me. He closed the doors and turned around.
Eying the body's he cleared his throat and called out, "hello?! Anyone here?! I got lost and I need some help getting out of here! Hello?" He allowed his eyes to drift around the room and take in all the details. If he was not frozen in place he might of tried to get out the way he came again, but every time he tried, it was a no go. "Hello?!"
[requesting Dimitri]
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Post by brthrarnold on May 1, 2007 13:59:10 GMT -5
Mr. Morris' body had rejected it's recent organ transplant and the result was certainly not pretty. Really, those lungs were probably no good for transplanting anyhow, seeing as how Mr. Carter had been eighty-three when he died and became the donor to begin with. Eighty-three-year-old or not, the age of the tissue should not have been a problem, but transplant rejection was something that could not be helped. It was always the risk of surgery, but it was a risk that many patients had to take for lack of better options. Unfortunately, Messrs. Morris and Carter were now both in the morgue.
Though only one of the bodies on the metal examination tables was deceased - and that was Mr. Morris. Mr. Carter had been put back in his cubicle to chill out until Paul from the Funeral Home came to get him (of course, Dimitri and Paul saw a lot of eachother.) Then who was laying on the examination table beside a very dead Mr. Morris?!
That would be Dr. Karloff.
He had developed a stiff back and decided that the best thing to do was lay on the floor for a little bit, just to give his muscles some time to get less tense. Of course, Dimitri quickly decided that he couldn't lay on the floor where people walk with their dirty shoes covered in God-knows-what, and so he had vouched to just go ahead and borrow the metal table for a moment. --And that was the ironic moment that Dr. Austin's voice had carried into the room. It would be wrong not to take advantage of the situation!
And so Dimitri laid completely still, allowing Doug to perceive him to be dead. . .for a moment or two. As Doug's voice became a little more urgent, Dr. Karloff knew that was his cue. Eerily, he sat up and turned his head to look at the Paediatrician who had just entered.
"Velcome to my daaark abode," Dimitri said.
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Post by wolfsbaine on May 1, 2007 16:08:55 GMT -5
Doug was softly whimpering to himself and mentally bitching himself out for coming down here. He should not of come here, but then again, he would have to sooner or later right? He turned his head to follow his eyes as he moved them about the room seeking a way out. Then his eyes feel upon the body as it started to move. His eyes widened with fear and if not for the fact that he had already used the bathroom now would have been the time he lost control of his bladder and made uses of Dimitri's floor.
Unable to move he stood there horrified of what he was seeing, eyes bigger then saucers and the only thing he found he could do was make a ridiculous nervous laughing sound typical of Shaggy, from the old Scooby Doo cartoons, laugh. The body's head turned and looked at him and he jumped back, pressing himself to the wall still doing that whimpering sound. By now the logical side of his brain should have kicked in and told him it was just the coroner messing with him but he was too far into panic mode.
Lucky Dougy does not have a heart problem or else Dimitri would have yet another corps on his hands, he was sure. It spoke and Doug closed his eyes and counted too ten the way a terrified kid would. After a moment he opened his eyes and looked at the man on the table... "Dracula?" Yes... that was a stupid question indeed. Just as Kelso is the king of stupid on that 70's show, Doug was raining champion of morons in this hospital.
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Post by brthrarnold on May 5, 2007 17:22:08 GMT -5
Doug's reaction was positively priceless. Dimitri couldn't have hoped for anything better. For a second or two, a dead-silence hung in the air (forgive the pun), which was then broken by Dr. Karloff giving a loud and sudden laugh. It was all too funny. Swinging his legs off of the table and hopping down to the floor, Dimitri wiped his eyes with the cuff of his sleeve to dry away the tears that had cropped up during that robust laugh. Still wearing his amused grin (and somehow barely managing not to fall into another bout of laughter), Dimitri kept his eyes on Doug and spoke.
"Forgive me, forgive me, I had to. You know? Da. Yes, you understand. It is not often that people come here. I must take advantage of situation as they come. Da?"
With that said, the Coroner began to walk forward toward Doug (who was now backed into a wall and practically cornered) with one hand extended. Dr. Karloff was always very eager to shake hands when he met a new person, even to the point where he would have his hand extended before he was even close to touching distance. "Priviet! I am Dimitri. Eh-- Doctor Karloff. Hello, hello. Who are you? Vhy you come here? You plan to die soon? Da? Ha, ha, ha."
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Post by wolfsbaine on May 5, 2007 21:57:20 GMT -5
Doug just stood there watching the man as he laughed at him. The look on his face was one that just screamed he was feeling like a moron for falling for that. He could not believe that he just allowed a man that hung out with dead people all day to scare the living hell out of him. Doug put his hands on his waist and nodded as if to say... jokes on me.. I walked right into that...
When the other man gave a reason for why he did what he did all Doug could do was take deep calming breaths and look at the floor. He was not sure but perhaps that cruel emotion of embarrassment was creeping in on him and flushing his cheeks. *I am king of morons.* was all he thought. "Yeah, yeah... I get it." He looked up at the man as he started toward Doug. Doug lifted a hand and ran it over the top of his head.
Seeing Dimitri's hand extended, Doug cleared his throat, he was not sure if he wanted to touch the cornier or not. The sudden burst of more words from the strange fella made Doug look from his hand to his face. Deciding not to be rude Doug shook the other man's hand as soon as he was close enough. A short and uneasy chuckle then came, "Yeah, Hi... Dr. Karloff... Nice to meet you. I am Dr. Austin. Ah no... I don't plan to die soon... but I thought I would come and uh... Have a look around... Get to know the hospital a little better... and um... That about covers it."
He held his hand to his mouth and gave a fake cough. He was sure he sounded like a idiot now thanks to that garble of crap he just said. He lowered his hand and gave the other man a forced grin. He was trying not to see nervous but he could not help it, there was just no way he could be stoic in a place like this... With that in mind his eyes began to wonder around the room once more and he started to question what would make a person want to be down here...
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Post by brthrarnold on May 10, 2007 11:13:00 GMT -5
Somehow, Dimitri never understood why he didn't have a lot of friends. He had never been popular in school as a child or in medical school as a young adult. It wasn't that he mattered much, as Dr. Karloff was a man that appreciated some time to himself, but it was always a bit of a mystery to him, despite the fact that he pulled stunts like these, which rather put people off and certainly made them less willing to seek Dimitri's company again. The Coroner was oblivious to it, really.
Shaking Doug's hand eagerly, Dimitri said "Yes, yes. Very good to meet you, Austin! Vhat is your last name?" He had mistakenly taken Doug's surname to be his first name. "You vant to have look around morgue? Not many people vant come down here, you know? They think the dead people to be spooooooky." Dimitri sang the last word in a mysterious way, ending in a low-pitched chuckle and slapping Doug upon the shoulder.
Still holding Dr. Austin's hand in his own, and gripping his left hand on the Paediatrician's shoulder, Dimitri froze and gave a sharp look over his shoulder. Staring at nothing for a moment, the Russian asked in a low and cautious voice, "Did you hear noise?"
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Post by wolfsbaine on May 10, 2007 11:38:27 GMT -5
Doug's reaction to Dimitri's eagerness was that this man must not get very much contact among other people in the hospital. Where is Dimitri could not see why this was Doug had a very good idea. Doug's brows lifted more then they already where when Dimitri asked his last name. *I thought I gave him my last name...* Doug thought for a moment and remembered that he had, in fact, said his last name.
It was clear to Doug that Dimitri had thought that Austin was his first name. "No no... My last name is Austin. My first name is Doug... Doug Austin." a polite grin came across his face and he started to wonder when the coroner was going to let him go. In response to what else he said he nervously chuckled and shrugged his shoulders muttering something that not even he could make out.
All emotion left Doug when Dimitri froze. With widened eyes full of curiosity and fear all at the same time he watched the man look over his shoulder. Doug's own eyes moved over the Russian's shoulder to look for anything that might be a sign of what caused the strange fellow before his reaction. At last, Dimitri spoke to him again and all Doug could do was gulp slightly and shake his head. In fact he had heard nothing and was starting to wonder if the man before him was not, in fact, just plan crazy.
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Post by brthrarnold on Jun 8, 2007 17:10:49 GMT -5
As Doug corrected him on the order of his name, Dimitri laughed and said, "OH! Dr. Austin. Dr. Doug Austin. So sorry! I vill try to remember this. I vas thinking Austin vas first name! Silly me! I am wronk sometimes! Aha ha-ha."
As for Doug's incoherent mumble, Dimitri simply pretended to understand what it meant, giving a smile, an affirmative nod, and a small laugh. He hated when people talked too fast or too quietly or both at once together. It was hard enough to follow people sometimes when they spoke at a normal, audible rate. Of course, Dimitri was in the habit of nodding along to incoherencies, and so he wasn't too traumatized to do it once more in this case.
Carefully, Dimitri watched Doug with a haunting look on his face. When the Paediatrician shook his head, Dimitri looked over his shoulder once more and then back at the young man that he was holding onto. In a whisper, he asked, "Are you sure?"
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Post by wolfsbaine on Jun 9, 2007 15:12:05 GMT -5
Doug's nerves laugh was all he gave in reply to the man's rambling on about his first name. Wow... this man is wierd... he thought to himself. The poor Dr.'s expression was one that looked as though he had seen a ghost as the creepy man asked him once more if he was sure he had heard nothing.
"I..I'm s-s-sure..." The truth was he really was not all that sure... If he had heard something it was not clear over his own breathing, heart rate or the other man's talking. Suddenly Doug had a flash of a mental image, he was thinking about cutting and running and in his mental vision he could just see himself...
He would scream like a girl, run out the door and never look back while this crazy man laughed at him... Oh no... not going to happen... No matter what this man though at him he would not run! Calling back to mind everything he remembered from his medical student days he cleared his throat and spoke kinda low.
"Uh... Dr. Karloff... Could it be you are just hearing the natural sounds that occurs Post-mortem?" He fidgeted slightly and watched the man hopping that was what was going on and not something else....
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Post by brthrarnold on Jun 10, 2007 17:39:37 GMT -5
Really, it was no wonder that people thought that Dimitri was weird. It was a possibility that the Russian acted odd on purpose, just to amuse himself. He seemed entertained by the act of making people squirm a bit. Then again, he seemed just as happy to make people laugh. Perhaps Dr. Karloff was simply pleased to interact with beings who actually did more than decompose.
Even though Doug had once again denied hearing anything at all, Dimitri did not seem to accept this as an answer. Clinging a little tighter to Doug's shoulder and inching a bit closer as if he were frightened, Dimitri spoke in a barely-audible whisper, "Shhh. Do not speak. I think. . . that she is tryink to tell us somethink. -- Miss Priscilla."
With this, Dimitri broke into a whispered story with all the vocal dramaticism of a Shakespearean soliloquy. "Vhen I came to this hospital years ago, I vas told a tale by the retirink mortician. He said. . .that lonk ago, there vas younk voman named Miss Priscilla and that she fell into coma that vas mistaken for death. She vas brought to this very morgue. . . and locked in vone of the freezer-lockers. The cold air shocks her system and she voke, completely in dark. . .and entombed, unable to escape. She screams, but nobody is around to hear. --There are scratches in the locker that held her. . .as she made desperate attempt to claw her vay out. --By the time that the coroner found her. . . she had gone into shock and vas havink heart-attack for fear. He could not help her and she died. . .on that table over there vhere I vas layink a moment ago."
Dimitri grasped Doug by the shoulders and leaned in to whisper into the man's ear, "they say. . .she is vantink to take revenge on doctors who failed to help her -- and mistakes livink staff-members for the vones who have lonk . . . since. . . passed."
Dr. Karloff gave the Paediatrician a completely insane stare and let go of his shirt. Slowly, Dimitri pulled back and slothily turned his head to look over his shoulder. Without warning, he jumped at Doug again and shouted, "BOO!"
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Post by wolfsbaine on Jun 10, 2007 18:11:05 GMT -5
Doug was already spooked. Dimitri's clinging a little closer really did nothing to calm him in anyway. As soon as Dimitri started speaking a groan excepted from deep down inside of him but came out in a kind of little girlish whimper. Had he not been shaking before now oh you can believe he was shaking now as Dimitri started his story. A gulp followed by the lowering of one brow while the other was arched high, this was his look of pure fear.
Doug twisted his neck to turn his head to the side but some how he could not take his eyes from the other man, so there he was, inches from the wall, face stuck in the strange and ugly display of fear, body shaking and his head sightly turned... That alone should have been funny. As Dimitri went about his story of Miss Priscilla, Doug attempted to control himself by scoffing at the story here and there and mentally telling himself this is so untrue.
Even as he told himself it was untrue his mind would not believe it. As Dimitri got the last part of the story about the angry ghost looking to take out her wrath on the living staff he knew he was white as a sheet. A cold and clammy feel came over him and he whimpered when Dimitri gave him that look. *Maybe he's possessed?! Maybe he's a ghost!? AAAHHHH!* Doug's eyes grew so large he thought that his eyes where going to pop out of his head.
"BOO!"
A number of things happened after Dimitri surprised him like this, He screamed like a girl, leaped a good foot with in the air, pressed back against the wall, only to have his legs give out from under him and send him crashing to the floor and at the coroners feet. There he stayed panting and breathing like he had just ran a mile. "HOLY!" Shaking from it all Doug started to collect himself from the floor.
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Post by brthrarnold on Jun 23, 2007 11:13:07 GMT -5
Dimitri didn't even pause for a breath before breaking out in an insane fit of giggling laughter. Oh, he was quite amused by Doug's terror. Quite amused indeed! Dr. Karloff found that reaction so humorous, in fact, that he had trouble ceasing his laughter long enough to take breaths. Starting to choke on his laughter a little bit, Dimitri braced his hand on the wall and leaned forward a little, calming himself down before standing straight again and dabbing his eyes with the back of the cuff of his shirt. It was no wonder a guy like Dimitri Karloff didn't have friends.
With very light chuckling still in the back of his throat and a devilish smirk plastered on his face, Dr. Karloff hooked a hand under Doug's arm and helped to pull the little man back to his feet. At this point, the Coroner decided to brush his hands on Dr. Austin's shoulders and shirt-front as if dusting him off. "You are very very funny, Dr. Austin!" Dimitri announced, brushing poor Doug off a bit more and then slapping him roughly on the arm.
"Aaah, you should visit me more often, you make me to laugh!" Apparently, Dimitri did not think that Doug's reaction had been a completely genuine one, but theatricised for amusement's sake. Either that or Dr. Karloff was just a jerk. Honestly, the latter was much more likely, as Dimitri wasn't a stupid man and he wasn't the kind of guy to neglect to pay attention to detail.
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Post by wolfsbaine on Jun 26, 2007 19:02:44 GMT -5
Doug let Dimitri help him off the floor and he even allowed the other man to brush him off, but when the other man told him that he was funny and even went as far as to tell him he should come back more often Doug looked at him though hooded eyes. Doug now had him pegged as a jerk, wonderful. "Ah you know... I don't think that's going to happen. Matter of fact I think I have had enough of the morgue for tonight." Yes Doug was miffed about being made to look like a fool.
Oh sure he was game for doing foolish things to get a laugh but this was a little much for him. "If you could just direct me to the nearest exit I can be on my way back to the land of the living and the sane and we can just forget that I ever came down here." Yes he pride was hurt and even thought he tried to make himself sound as if he was angry he could not help that he wound up just sounding hurt.
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Post by brthrarnold on Jul 1, 2007 20:18:32 GMT -5
Dimitri did not understand why Doug was acting so angry. After all, Doug had seemed fine only a moment or so earlier. Dr. Karloff neglected to consider that perhaps he had been a 'jerk' because he had not been mean to Doug. No, not at all! -He had only been pulling that morbid Dimitri Karloff sense of humor on the poor, unsuspecting Paediatrician.
Dimitri was a little taken aback by Doug's statement about 'the land of the living and the sane.' Was Dr. Austin calling him insane? Dimitri blinked and replied with his usual theatrical voice, "There are no exits! Vonce you enter, you are forever trapped! I have been here for tveeeeelve yeeeaaaars. . ."
Okay, this time, he might have been acting like a jerk on purpose.
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Post by wolfsbaine on Jul 1, 2007 21:48:48 GMT -5
Doug was still miffed as he dusted his arms off, "Yeah that just great. Just keep right on." Stares Dimitri in the eyes, "You do this often? Torment people who come down here? Are you this big a jerk to everyone?" Glares at him a little longer before making a move to move around Dimitri. "Now come on and please tell me how to get out of here?" Looks around, sees the door where he came in and then tried to get out of. Pauses and rubs his face with both hands, "It's late and I am just... I don't know." Might be having a change of feeling now? Maybe, Doug's not as in touch with his emotions as he would like to be.
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