Kovuya leaned against the glass doors, the gentle breeze caress his cheek. He scanned lazily over the area as he sat on the balcony. Nothing much,everything is like the usual. He will not see this place again. There was a small sound, of a bell ringing. That's the door. Sighing he stood up, opened the glass door. Entering the living room, he made his way to the door.
The door opened to reveal little Alyssa grinning at him, "Are you ready to go Kovvy?" she squealed in excitement. She was the only one around. He asked "Where is everyone else?" "Downstairs I wanted to come and greet you" she piped He nodded and got his luggage. Caduceus…
When they reach their destination, they all set out to find a place to stay. He luckily had already booked a place, the rent was low so he set off.
Knock. Knock.
The white wooden door creaked open and an old lady popped out,she asked " May I help you?" Kovuys nodded, "I have rented one of your rooms as by the name Kifo…" "Ah! Yes! Do come in" She opened the door wider so he could step in. "Make yourself at home,we can talk about money later"she said. He nodded "Then I will make my way to another place while I leave my belongings here"
He walked down the white glossed tiles and white walls, past operating rooms and wards. Caduceus is huge and is well serviced. He and the others were to meet the people of Caduceus tomorrow but he decided to know his way around the hospital/Labotory. Unaware of the people around him he concentrated on the scratches and streaks on the wall, the dark stains on the polished tiles. He is remembering it all and forgetting it all, just like a movie. If you want to see again you have to rewind the tape. Then, he bumped into someone. "Oh!" Snapping out of his trance he apologized to the person while trying to take note of the person's looks and voice. He had hazel brown hair and had hazel eyes similar to his hair colour. He was also wearing glasses but without a rim. "I'm very sorry sir for bumping into you" Kovuya said politely. "No, its alright" He waved his hand away, Kovuya nodded and bow his head"Hey, you're the new members of Caduceus a I right?" As kovuya looked up he saw the name tag 'Dr. Derek Stiles' "Yes, yes I am a new…. Member" Kovuya spoke slowly. He gave a grin "That's nice, I'm Derek! Derek Stiles." Derek stretched his left arm out in a gesture of a handshake. Kovuya too stretched his hand out, and shook hands with Derek. His hands are warm and soft and slightly calloused, Kovuya thought to himself. "I'm Kovuya… Kovuya Kifo " he replied
"Heya! Derek!" A voice shouted from the corridor, turning around he saw a man running up to Derek. He had sunlight yellow hair slightly brushing his shoulders, with dark grey eyes and piercings on his ears. "Tyler!"Derek called, Tyler gave a thump on Derek's back in response "Wassup dude! Who are you talking to?" "Oh! I was just talking to our new members." Tyler looked at Kovuya with a grin "I see you're the early one! Everyone is to meet at the lobby tomorrow!"He laughed. Kovuya responded with a smile "I'm Kovuya, Kovuya Kifo" "Oh really? I'm Tyler, Tyler Chase! Good to know you" Derek looked at his watch and muttered "Oh snap, Tyler we got an appointment now!" Tyler groan "Aw man! Sorry dude but Derek and I gotta rush now so see ya tomorrow!" Kovuya nodded and watched them rush down the hallway. He might as well unpack his bag and prepare for the next day.
His alarm beeped consecutively as he stirred from his sleep. Finally hitting the off button after staring at the window he got up quickly and prepared himself to leave.
He was the first to arrive and took a look around the lobby 'strolling' about so he doesn't stand out by just standing in the middle of the lobby. Trying again to remember every fine detail of the lights, the floor, the table,chairs,carpet,door and… S01? CR-S01 entered the lobby followed by Tomoe. "Ah, Kovuya seems you're here early"Tomoe smiled" Yes, it seems that I am" Kovuya replied. They didn't have to wait long before Naomi entered too. Followed by Hank, Maria and Gabe who came just a minute before the appointed time.
"Tch, if you were late I would have kicked your ass when you showed up" Maria growled. Gabe just rolled his eyes, not wanting to get into a fight with Maria. Doctor Irene Quatro entered the lobby and everyone turned their heads. "Welcome doctors… To Caduceus" she said while giving a warm smile. Everyone greeted back in return, soon they were all assigned to a place where other skilled Doctors will aid them. All of them went to the left branch of the Lobby but Kovuya turned and headed to the right branch of the lobby.
"Strange", he thought. "The room is in the Research Sector, not where the hospital or the Operating rooms are", he continued. It didn't matter to him,at least he was going somewhere.
"RSR 10-4" Kovuya muttered as he looked at the door in front of him. That was the room he was suppose to go,carefully he pushed the door opened and quietly stepped inside. The room is quite like a laboratory, except it was smaller than the usual massive underground labs. Stephen Clarks stood up and walked up to Kovuya and said "Are you the new doctor?" Kovuya turned and look at him,making a quick glance at his name tag before answering "yes, yes I am"
Brown hair, sideburns, moustache, the chin has too. Name is Stephen Clarks.
Stephen smiled and said "good to know, your doctor or should I say your researcher has be waiting for you" Kovuya nodded. "so I shall be a researcher" he thought to himself. Walking down the small row of tables they reached the end where someone was muttering,cursing and looking into the microscopes. "Dammit, this is not working again" The man muttered. Stephen sigh "Victor… the new member is here. Would you at lest stop for a minute" Victor only looked up from his work for a second before giving a grunt, but Kovuya saw everything.
The man's name is Victor Niguel. Extremely dark grey eyes like steel. Judging from his skin lines his face always seems to be displeased with something. Hair straight down but not even. Other than that, he is stressed.
Stephen looked at his watch and gave another sigh and spoke to Kovuya "I'm not really sure what he wants now but I'm really sorry because I have to leave, I have an appointment" Kovuya nodded in response as Stephen walked out of the room.
Kovuya stood beside Victor motionless and never made any noise as Victor grumbled on his work. He wrote down notes and crossed out some and wrote some more. Everything he did, Kovuya watched and he soon came to a conclusion. Victor was searching for a cure of Sickle Cell which can lead to Anemia. "The sickle cell I shaped like a hook, it gets caught easily in the capillaries. This can lead to damage in that area and blood issue. Since the sickle cell is like a hook because of the shape of the hemoglobin, can't the hemoglobin be forced back into shape? The cells in the bone marrow are what creates the red blood cell, couldn't a phagocyte be modified in the body to transport the sickle cells which will be protected from the phagocyte to prevent it being stuck to the bone marrow where the cells there would reshape the hemoglobin?" Kovuya blurted "oh drat" he thought. Victor's head shot at up looked at him. "drat dratdratdratdratdratdratdrat " was just repeating in Kovuya's mind as he tried to keep his calm posture.
Victor got up from his table and went to a freezer, pulled out a jar and got back onto his table. Opened the lid, stick a glass rod into it and placed some onto the petri dish. Victor then took a look into the microscope and did not move. Kovuya was silently wishing the he would just disappear into thin air so he won't embarrasses himself in front of others. Victor's face still has a scowl on his face and said " Fine, you can have the credit…" Kovuya only stared at him dumbfounded as Victor got up from his seat again with a sigh and said "I'm Victor Niguel, Head of Research and Development, and you're…" "Kovuya, Kovuya Kifo" He answered. Victor made no sign of response other than sitting down and saying "Get a seat and we'll talk"
"Hm…"Victor nodded after hearing Kovuya's was resting his head on his right hand while his elbow was supported by the swivel chair's armrest, but Victor didn't know that the swivel chair was on the verge of falling apart.. Kovuya just sat there unmoving but he had seen something in Victor's eyes. When he said he leaves his office at 7 35, Victor's eyes had slightly narrowed and Kovuya nearly missed that facial movement. Now victor still has that slightly narrowed eyes on him, hesitantly Kovuya asked "Is there anything else you need me to answer?" Everyone had left for a break and only Victor and Kovuya were alone. Victor sighed and switched his hands, resting his head on his left hand on the left side of the armrest. "Yea, I have a question" Victor said. Knew it. " You've held a scalpel before haven't you?"
Kovuya was shocked, terribly shocked but just how did Doctor Niguel noticed. "No, no I have not held a scalpel in my hand before. Nor have I entered an operating room" He answered. Victor snorted and pointed at Kovuya's hands with his right hand. " Its hard to tell but I believe you have! Judging from the thin layer of callous on your fingertips and where it is, those are the marking of wielding surgical instruments. It's just that, you don't cut so often do you?" He had hit it right on the spot and Kovuya had no words to express. There was a slight hint of accomplishment in his eyes as Kovuya's eyes windened. There was no use denying now." And, you have a keen eye sight, the fact that you weren't close to me you could find out that I was researching about the sickle cell and you could give me an answer… in which I can't believe this" he muttered the last part. He know that Victor had stated almost all the characteristics he had that a Surgeon had too. " Kovuya restrained himself from leaving the room and answered "I work as a Ghost Mortician of Maryland, where Resurgam is too." He answered "So, you are the Ghost Mortician!" Victor exclaimed, Kovuya didn't move. Victor sighed, turned so he faces the table and lifted his legs up onto the table and leaning back on the swivel chair as much as possible with both on his hands on the armrest. "Well… That is something to proud of" he muttered before the swivel chair finally broke apart and he crashed onto the ground.
Kovuya walked into the canteen with a sigh. "This did not go well", he thought to himself. Sooner or later, word would spread and that will be it. "Hey! Kovuya" A voice shouted, it was Maria. She was sitting with the rest of the doctors and some others. Kovuya quickly made his way there and sat beside Maria. "Well, this is Kovuya Kifo" Maria pointed out "Oh! Well we meet again!" Tyler chipped, Kovuya gave a smile and nodded. Gabe looked at Tyler "you know him?" "Yea! Sure I do! We met each other yesterday! Derek knows him too!" Gabe stared before shrugging. Derek rolled his eyes before saying "Well, since you are here we might as well introduce ourselves again. This is my nurse, Angie" Derek said pointing to his right.
Angie Thompson. Wide eyes, light green iris. Blonde hair all the way to her hip, fringe parted a strong sense of support. "This one across me is Markus" Derek continued.
Markus Vaughn. Relatively small eyes with dark brown iris but has dull emotion swirling in his eyes, bristled chin, hair nicely combed back with a laid-back look. "and thats Valerie"
Slightly dark skin, looks like she is tanned. Curved eyes with,bold, dark brown iris, a sign that she is strong in her personality dark brown hair that sprays out at the end. "That's Elena."
Common brown but has soft looking eyes. Elena Salazar. Light brown hair that reaches to her chest. Fringe about even and parted neatly. Comforting smile.
Kovuya nodded and greeted each of them. Victor entered the canteen and walked up towards Kovuya with a smug look. "Something tells me I'm going to be blackmailed" Kovuya thought to himself."That's strange, why would victor come here?!" Tyler asked. Nobody spoke as Victor approached Kovuya. Handing Kovuya a clipboard with documents of a patient Victor said "Here is the first assignment I want you to do. Complete this operation-" "Now hold on!"Gabe immediately stood up" He is a diagnostician! Not a Surgeon" Victor ignored Gabe and continued "If you lose this life, I will consider you a failure and you can embalm the body, I don't care" Kovuya too the clipboard without saying anything. "I knew it…" he thought. Victor turned on his heel and walked off but not without saying words filled with thorns " I'm sure a ghost like you can embalm the dead beautifully"
Kovuya was stunned, the secret is out and he doesn't know what to do. He was completely paralyzed in his words. He gripped onto the clipboard tightly, there was no way out. Save the patient and everyone will know he has done surgery, lose the patient everyone will know he is faking it, struggle with the patient and they will know he has 'cut' because of his way of 'operating'. There was no way out,and there is no way he would lose a patient.
There was a hand on his shoulder, he turned around to see Naomi. Naomi spoke " I think you should tell everyone the truth"
"You-You're the G-Ghost Mortician?!" Tyler spluttered. Kovuya just tighten his grip as everyone stared at him in the doctor lounge. He didn't think that so many people knows about the Ghost mortician. Painfully, Kovuya nodded and restricting his bad habit from making him look depressed. "so maybe that's why the government wants you to join Caduceus…" Hank muttered "I can't believe the ghost Mortician was right underneath my nose all the while!" Maria whined.
Kovuya let out a small sigh, nothing is going to save him now.
I will be the Ghost Mortician and I will always be part of the dead…