Do No Harm - Ruben's Choice

by Kthonia

Do No Harm was cancelled after airing 2 episodes, and I felt so sorry for them. My attempt to fix their lame rehash of the Jekyll & Hyde premise is a crossover with the classic split personality SF series Dollhouse. Rated M for some swearing (no F word) and a hopefully comical suggestive scene.

1. Chapter 1

Source Material:

Do No Harm is an American television series created by David Schulner. It premiered on the NBC network January 31, 2013 and was canceled after airing only two episodes.

Dollhouse is an American television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon. It premiered on the Fox network February 13, 2009 and was canceled November 11, 2009.

"Ruben's Choice"

Scene 1

It's not an easy job to keep tabs on your friend's evil alternate, while at the same time formulating a serum to stabilize him into a cohesive persona.

Doctor Ruben Marcado wished he had better things to do with his nights—and his days—than lurking in nightclubs spying on Ian Price. That's what the evil alternate called himself, or perhaps that's what the brilliant neurosurgeon Doctor Jason Cole had named his delusion. After all, they were one and the same physical person, the same tortured mind split in half, but the two men could not be more different. Even down to their unique body chemistry, Ruben knew. And as he worked his way through a third Mojito, one eye on the laughing blue-eyed man at the other side of the bar, he tapped a stylus on the screen of his iPad to puzzle over the formula.

"Hey, whatcha workin' on?" A very pretty and very drunken blonde slithered onto the stool next to him. Her tank top was stretched to its limits by her obviously artificial breasts. She reeked of cigarettes. For a moment, Ruben felt the pang of craving; he had only quit smoking eight months before.

"It's nothing." Ruben cleared the screen and set the iPad aside. "Look, uh, I'm sure you're very nice but I'm waiting for a friend."

She laughed loudly, mouth wide open to show the jeweled stud at the center of her pierced tongue. "He said you'd say that!"

"Who?"

"Your friend over there. He bet me fifty bucks to come ask if you were watching porn on your iPad or not. Be a pal, huh? Open one up now, so I don't lose to that dick."

Ruben looked to the end of the bar while she was talking. Ian Price had gone.

"Damnit!" He scrambled off the stool and wriggled through the sluggish crowd. In a haze of Mojito and dim lights, it was hard to find the door.

At last he emerged to the nighttime city streets. Pedestrians passed left and right, but he knew none of them. Cars, taxis, and buses hummed busily back and forth. Jason's going to be pissed, Ruben thought. I lost him again.

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