It was Kaede who was first to speak to Rhodes, knowing that if she didn't speak first she would most likely get the mans protests about Wesker and how he'd been in dealing with the newer male. Kaede pointed to the chair, and told him simply. "Sit." Around the researchers neck was a stethoscope, and in her hand was a black bag, before she could close the door behind her, a small bustling woman entered the door. She appeared to be very nervous to be with the other two people in the room, as though she were to be told off for entering unannounced.
"Professor Wesker told me too..." she started to explain to Kaede, who nodded to the pretty blonde. Realizing that Wesker saw something of a potential in the young blonde woman. It would make her feel a little awkward in her current task, but not for herself. "Stand over there, take some notes for me" Kaede told the blonde, turning her attention to her patient once again as the pretty blond moved to where Kaede had pointed. Forgotten about for the time being.
Kaede lent down as Rhodes sat down in one of the chairs, picking a small inspection light out of her bag. When she addressed Rhodes again, the demanding tone to her voice had softened lightly, not into anywhere near the realm of affection, but more so that her patient would feel somewhat at ease with her. "You look a few steps beyond awful, what happened?" the statement was hardly complimentary towards Rhodes, but it was said fairly light hearted all the same. Kaede didn't really need an answer, seeing as she assumed Rhodes wouldn't know himself anyway. She lifted the light to look into each one of his eyes carefully, without giving him any warning. She could tell that he was in a testy mood as it was and she didn't want to push that any further with more pointless banter.
As the light headed his way, Rhodes made no attempt to swat the thing from his view, a strange ache had settled into his arm which made it an effort to move, it was strange, as though his entire left side was numbing against something. As Kaede spoke he just gave a small mumble as to an explanation. His head felt rather fuzzy as the doctor told him to take off his shirt. With a little hesitation he complied, standing up to do so, though he couldn't help but feel as though he was about to buckle under his own weight, his left leg feeling the same as his arm.
Kaede moved around to the back of Rodes, his taller frame not being that much of a problem as she listened to his heart rate with the cold stethoscope, and he barely gave any protest, it was only when Kaede took ahold of his wrist to check his pulse that he pulled his hand away, only for her to catch his wrist again. Again everything seemed normal in that sense. Kaede nodded to the pretty blonde and she scrawled down a note that everything was as it should be.
Kaede started speaking again, but the exact words she said didn't register within Rhodes, as her fingers seemed to explore the back of his neck, seemingly she was searching for something a miss. Rhodes couldn't help but let a small panic run over him, what if he wasn't human anymore. Though his dark thoughts were cut off when the feeling suddenly passed with a sharp shooting pain running from his shoulder down his arm, he visibly winced and pulled away from the pain, turning to face Kaede, "What the damned hell, woman?"
Kaede just smirked to herself at the look on the Captains face. "Seems like you've got something stuck in your shoulder Rhodes." Kaede told him, without arguing back to his harsh words. Kaede once again, lent down to her back, finally putting the small light away, describing what was happening within Rhodes as she did so, in a way that the people present in the room would understand them. She motioned to the pretty blonde and told them both. "Michelle will extract it for you later on." It would be a simple enough procedure to get the obstruction out of the Captains shoulder, there they could do a more thorough search for anything else that wasn't welcome within Rhodes.
Kaede took something out of her bag that was carefully concealed within a sterile box , she broke the end of the box off and took out a rather long needle tipped syringe. She motioned for Rhodes to lay on the bed, and give her his arm, though she had kept the needle from his view. As Rhodes did once more as he was told, in his mind it being the only way to get to the answers that he wanted to know. As Kaede put the needle into his arm, he tried to pull away, but her grip was tight enough on his arm, there was just enough time for him to shoot her a dirty look before his vision faded into unconsciousness.
It was early evening before anything could be done with Rhodes, Michelle had taken the first object from Rhodes, which had been discovered to be a bullet. Kaede had felt rather furious with her team and their lack of proper reports on what they had deduced had happened at the missile silo a few days prior. Though mostly she was angry with herself for having missed the details herself. Kaede and Michelle had done their more thorough search, and taken a couple of x-rays of Rhodes while he had been unconscious, finding another bullet in his leg. Which Michelle was taking out now, she held the scalpel over the mans soft skin, waiting for the go-ahead from Kaede to start the incision. Kaede nodded, looking over the work of Rhodes shoulder carefully, she had to admit Michelle had done a seamless job.
Just as Michelle reached out to get the twesers too pull the second bullet out of Rhodes body, one of the vitals machines started an emergancy beeping. Michelle froze in a sudden panic, not knowing what was going on. Kaede quickly moved her out of the way so that she could see the front of the machine clearly, her own heart beat increasing. She couldn't afford to let Rhodes go, and had to get to the bottom of what was wrong, and quickly.
Looking to Michelle she said, "We've got a major hemorrhage." her voice was as calm as it could be, she pulled the sterile sheet from over Rhodes body, looking to locate the source of the problem, which she did so, and she should have known earlier that it would be close by the scar tissue of his stomach. Kaede leant over to Michelle and swiped the scalpel from her hand, then going to cut into the side of Rhodes stomach, not exactly the easiest of situations for the researcher to deal with, a panicking student and a dying patient on her table. "Michelle, get me some clean cloth. Now." she barked to her team member, who seemed to come to her senses after being told what to do. Kaede quickly took the cloth from Michelle and used it to swab the area, getting rid of as much of the access blood as possible, it didn't take too long for Kaede to see the cause of the problem, a tear in the mans intestinal tract. Just as quickly as she had told Michelle to get her the bandages, she ordered her to fetch some bonding fluid. Her underling once again obeyed her, bringing her what she had asked for. Bonding the intestinal tract back together was no easy task, with the constant bleeding, Kaede reached out for Michelle and pulled her round, forcing her to take hold of the bandages, she looked to the woman and scowled to her. "I can't do all of this by myself." she snapped, making it clear that the panicking was doing her no good. With Michelle mopping the blood,it was much easier to bond the guts together again. It took a good while to accomplish the task, but with a minor relief the emergency was passed and the support machine stopped it's danger beeping.
Kaede moved away from Rhodes as she had placed the stitches once again sewing up the man. She then moved down to his leg to look at the wound that Michelle had started to use to extract the bullet, the simple surgery had somewhere along the line gone sour. Her hands remaining steady despite the adrenaline rush the emergency had brought on Kaede, pulled the bullet from Rhodes leg. And left Michelle to sew the incision up again. Taking a step back to watch from a distance, looking upwards to the observation area, to see a man dressed entirely in black looking over the events of the operation, Wesker. Kaede frowned, leaving the auditorium the moment that Michelle had finished her work, covered in blood Kaede looked to two of the people sitting about. "Get him back to his room, and for gods-sake, be careful!" she told the two of them, they both quickly stood from their waiting positions and entered the room.
Kaede sat in one of their seats, looking down to her hands, pulling the gloves off, her hands finally starting to shake. Kaede didn't stand for about twenty minutes after they had taken Rhodes back to his room. She had decided that he wouldn't be touched for a while yet. Curse that Wesker for his lack of respect for her research.