Resurgam First Care Lobby
No one could escape Chief Patel's incredibly sharp eyesight. She saw the two the moment they appeared in the main lobby. Running towards them, she yelled, "Not her again-"
Gabriel made a stand. "Lady- This is almost over fifty people! You're gonna need all the help you can get!" He turned to find Alicia drifting over to the victims. "Hey-"
Burns. Second and third degree. Lots of them. "They...used a bomb..?"
"They started calling them thieves 'Death's Greed.' A stupid title. Now- I told you last time was your only-" Chief Patel noticed Alicia's growth. Her previous limitation was gone.
"I'm at a decent age. I believe I have the ability to-"
"Fine!" The Chief couldn't stand desperate kids.
"(Not bad at all...)" Gabriel thought. He quickly ran into the locker room right next to them, pulling out a nicely made lab coat. "You're on, kid. You're going to need this." He chucked at the girl.
Alicia caught the white coat. "..This..?" Alicia doesn't recall the last time she had one of these on. "Are you sure?"
"It'll keep anyone from getting too curious." The diagnostician prepared for some transporting. "Oh- and eat something, will ya?"
Chief Patel had no time for side conversations. "Hurry up, you can use room E."
Alicia went ahead, then signaled Gabriel to move along. "Bring some in!"
"(Why do men have to do the hard work-!)" The diagnostician carried one of the unattended patients to the room.
Operation Room E
"Second degree burns- get me the cooling reagent!"
"Naomi said she just got this case. Hope she's doing her job. Here." Gabriel passed on the cooler.
A loud yell can be heard next door. "Kid! They all have burns!" It had to be Maria's.
A following noise was heard as well. "We need more of the coolant- I'm running out!" This surely belonged to that surgeon.
"...Sounds like they are having a tough time."
Alicia was still focused on the situation. "...I finished treating this one. Transport him out."
"!..Slow down-! Old men aren't used to this speed-!" Gabriel's whined.
"Move." The girl went to retrieve more gel.
"Damn. You better hurry Naomi." The diagnostician carried the patient out to the lobby.
Operation Room D
"That's it- we've treated all of them." The paramedic stretched.
"This has to end..." The surgeon was exhausted.
Maria looked out side to the lobby and spotted the green-haired diagnostician passing by. She followed.
"?" CR-SO1 looked around. "Maria?"
Operation Room E
Maria ran into the room, astonishing Alicia and Gabriel. She faced the two and yelled, "Just what do you think you're doing?"
Gabriel was experienced with loud women. "Like I said, she insisted."
Maria noticed the girl's appearance. "...You know...you could be the youngest doc yet, in appearance." She began to mumble.
"Oh...I should thank everyone..." Alicia realized she was indebted to the doctors.
"Hah." Gabriel almost laughed at the girl. "Don't get too emotional, kid."
"...I'm older than you." It was the truth; Alicia was actually the oldest of everyone she met in the hospital so far. 'Kid' was certainly not acceptable.
"Yeah, yeah. You're stuck now." The diagnostician certainly appeared older than Alicia.
Maria threw a punch to Gabriel's back. "You can't get any more annoying..."
"Ow..! (My spine; great job.)"
The endoscopic surgeon entered the room. "...That reminds me...Mrs. Rosellini...you are in the health profession, yes? You could qualify as a doctor, if you wish." Tomoe thought it would be nice to have an extra helping hand around, especially if it was a skilled doctor.
"Should I?" Alicia didn't know what to say. "(A doctor?)"
"Tomoe...Don't you think she's a little on the young side..?" Maria doubted the Chief would accept this easily.
The Chief, Hank, and CR-SO1 entered while they were conversing.
"Discrimination is dishonorable. I'd except no less."
"I would be beneficial to have another doctor." Hank added.
Gabriel's turn. "Couldn't agree more- the kid's good." He ignored the babysitting part.
Maria saw the odds stacked against her theory. "Looks like I'm with you guys."
The doctors looked at the former prisoner for his opinion. "Me...?..Of course..." He never really saw her operating, but the recent comments proved she had the ability.
"Huh?" Chief Patel was a bit overwhelmed. "Her too?...She did do a lot..." The Chief went to look up a license.
...
The diagnostician faced Alicia. "Whaddya say?
"?"
"You wanna save lives?"
"I'm stuck her anyhow."
Maria looked at the surgeon, then Alicia. Comparing. "Oh,yeah. Since you're little Rose's mom...would that mean..." The paramedic couldn't find the right word.
"Words of youth...?" Hank began to wonder as well.
Alicia was shocked to see the sudden change in subject. "...(...S-step-mother...No way-!)"
CR-SO1 was also momentarily speechless. He regained his composure. "..Should I...pretend to be an older...brother..? (Like I was to Rosalia..?)"
"...I guess. She does seem a lot like Rosalia..." Maria turned to the girl. "...That's right... you don't remember her..."
"..."
Chief Patel reentered the operation room. "I looked up her records...she can join." The Chief lifted a crate full of files, probably from Alicia's room- some are recently printed. "Look at all of this-!" She emptied the crate, forming a stack of unorganized folders.
"Geez- who needs all of this..?" The diagnostician wasn't the only one confused.
The other doctors were quite disoriented from seeing so many notes and papers from a single stack.
"Pictures...of viruses.." The surgeon looked through the photos in the folders on the top of the stack.
"...That's how I met Albert...I guess." Those files definitely jogged Alicia's memory. "I don't need these anymore."
"I'll take it. " CR-SO1 couldn't pass information up.
"Then they're yours." The Chief felt lighter now that those are gone.
"We'll go help transport all the patients to a larger hospital." The orthopedic surgeon followed the Chief out the room.
Duty calls Maria."Uh.. yeah- we can't take all of them...I need someone to help load." It just so happens that Gabriel was trying to make an escape. "You're coming with me."
"Hey- watch it!" The paramedic dragged the diagnostician with her as she left.
Ignoring the noises in the hallway, Tomoe asked, "Mrs. Rosellini... May I ask what you were studying?"
"...If I remember correctly...viruses from various epidemics long ago."
"It must have been dangerous..." Tomoe grew concern.
"I never worried about health as much back then...I was like every other researcher..." Alicia noticed the surgeon was quite the same. He was still looking through the notes.
"So..you wish to be a surgeon..?" Tomoe changed the subject.
"When Dr. Sartre isn't available..."
"Perhaps I should recommend you two work as a team? I'm sure your knowledge combined would make any situation simple."
"...I don't know about that..."
CR-SO1 heard their conversation. "It...isn't such a bad proposition."
"Alright- I'll tell Chief Patel that increasingly difficult operations should be given to you two." Tomoe exited.
"!..Tomoe-" Alicia wasn't sure what to do. "(...I never really operated much before...I studied it only in books...)"
"Did you research at the Cumberland College?" The surgeon asked as he scanned the photos repeatedly.
"...I visited there sometimes..."
"...Oh."
"Those pictures are useless to you if they aren't labeled." Alicia walked over. "That's known as a stigma. Name is onyx...for claw. It can cause severe damage to internal organs."
"...You remember things through vision." CR-SO1 noted.
"I suppose that's true..." Alicia checked the time though a clock fixed on the ceiling. "It's noon...we should go get lunch. (I should also find a different path...away from the banks...)" She took half of the stack.
"Right-" The surgeon carried the remaining papers.
ATLUS Mall Second Floor
"Hey- You're...satisfied...right?" Alicia questioned the surgeon.
"?"
"I mean...out of jail and all..."
"...I...don't see much difference." He was still feared- if not by his criminal record, then by appearance.
"...When...I was...becoming younger...I heard about the bio-attack. You weren't the one behind it..was it him...?" Alicia paused for a moment. "Albert..?"
CR-SO1 was silent.
"...A child should not pay for his parent's mistakes. Don't punish yourself."
"...It's..." He couldn't defend himself. She spoke the truth.
She knew she went a little too far. "I-I'm sorry... Forget what I said..." Alicia stepped up her pace. Almost colliding with another-
"You-...!"
"Well, hi there kiddos." It was Gabriel...He looked a bit sleepy.
"What a coincidence..." Hank was there, too.
"Hello...?" Alicia wasn't completely confident- running into other doctors was not on her to-do list.
"Sheesh. Troublemakers... you should be staying in the hospital..." The diagnostician was sort of tilted as he spoke.
"(?...I don't remember seeing him like this...)"
Hank pushed Gabriel along. "Sorry...if you'll please excuse us.." The two doctors continued down the path.
"...Was...he... drunk...?" Alicia was quite stunned; she encountered a drunk doctor on the day she was hired...Was this a good sign...? Nope.
CR-SO1 nodded. "It seemed so..."
"Let's go then..." The girl wished to place as much distance between herself and the drunken doctor.
"Wait-" The surgeon was forced to chase.
"(This just isn't my day...)"
