Author's Note: Medic and Brigid are speaking in German when I use * instead of quotation marks.

The female doctor (Who was possibly Scout's mother) looked very familiar, and it was driving Medic crazy.

Medic had been sitting on a chair next to Scout to make sure he didn't suddenly go south and watching the woman (Who had yet to share her name.) as she worked at her table. The Little Sisters were watching them cautiously. Occasionally one would inch closer, Engineer would wave or start to say something, and the little girl would squeak and run away.

It was actually kind of boring, which led to Medic thinking about how he could possibly know the woman. Yes, she was German, but there were thousands of German people on the planet. It didn't really mean anything besides the fact that he was slightly more likely to have run into them.

So he just stared and wondered where he had seen her before. And analyzing what she was doing. She had a centrifuge, which narrowed it down…

Scout's mother suddenly came over to Scout and extracted some blood. Medic's eyes wandered to her arms, which had been exposed when she'd pushed her sleeves up.

And he finally figured out why she was so familiar.

As she walked away, Medic shoved his medigun nozzle into Engineer's hand. "Huh?"

"Hold this." Medic slipped the medipack off. "I need to have a chat about Scout's medical treatment."

Medic took the three steps over to the woman. *You are Brigid Tenenbaum.*

Brigid tensed up. *How do you know my name?*

*I saw your tattoo.*

Brigid paused for a moment. *That's not enough for you to know my name.*

*No, I suppose not,* conceded Medic. *But do you know who I am?*

*You're one of Julie's coworkers* said Brigid. *That and the fact you are a doctor are all I know about you.*

Medic frowned. *That's it?*

Brigid shrugged. *That's it.*

Medic snarled. *Well, perhaps this will jog your memory.* He pulled off a glove and rolled up his sleeve, revealing the tattoo he usually kept covered.

Medic had been tempted to remove the tattoo on more than one occasion. It would have been easy with his skills. However, he always decided that would be like trying to erase the Holocaust, and that was something that should not be done. Instead he simply wore long sleeves to avoid answering awkward questions

Brigid started. *You were at Auschwitz too?*

*Not what you were expecting to find down here? I know I wasn't.* Medic rolled his sleeve back down. *Especially you.*

*If I did anything to you or your loved ones, it was nothing personal. I was just trying to survive.*

Medic stared at her in disbelief, and not just because that was a lie. *Are you serious? You have no-I'm the one who pointed you out to Mengele in the first place!*

Brigid spun and stared at Medic in horror. *You…You're still alive?!*

*Surprised? I certainly was,* snarled Medic.

*But you…You were dead!* she said in disbelief.

*Actually, my breathing, heart rate, and pulse were just at levels that were not easily noticeable. The Soviet soldiers barely managed to detect them.* Medic smiled, knowing it was a predator's smile. *I'd say I recovered quite well. Much as I hate you, I have to admit you two did a very good job.*

Brigid stared at him in horror. *Are you here to kill me?*

*That's not why I came here, but I think I will,* said Medic. *But first you are going to fix Scout…Are you the mother she was talking about? I can't think of who else it could be, but she's nothing like you!*

Brigid nodded. *She's adopted.*

Medic raised an eyebrow. *You actually adopted someone? Willingly?*

*I felt guilty!*

Medic crossed his arms. *I'm surprised you…even…* Medic trailed off. *Did you do this?*

*Do what?*

*Make the Little Sisters.* Brigid didn't answer. *You did didn't you? Damn it Tenenbaum, what the Hell did you do down here?*

*I messed up, okay?!* shouted Brigid. *I found something amazing, I understood the consequences, I thought I could stay in control, but I was wrong and everything went to Hell! There! Are you happy?!*

*No! I am willing to admit that I'm curious about this ADAM substance and would have experimented with it, but I would never have experimented on children! And once it went this wrong, I would have at least cleaned up after myself!*

*Do not act so high and mighty!* snapped Brigid. *You are a lunatic! Everyone in your family is a lunatic!*

*Well, I am a lunatic who enjoys killing people who have wronged him. Very slowly,* Medic pointed out.

Brigid looked frightened for a moment before gaining a look of resignation. *Very well. It is no less than I deserve. Just…Not in front of my daughters.*

Medic nodded. Scout was going to hate him for killing his mother. *A pleasure talking to you.* Medic turned on his heel and walked back to Scout and Engineer, where he took the medigun back. "Danke." Engineer gave him a pointed look. "What?"

"I don't know German, but you mentioned Auschwitz."

Medic's expression darkened. "Herr Engineer, I trust you understand this: I never want to think about what I went through there again."

Engineer didn't immediately back off. He wouldn't with what he did for a living, but he eventually decided not to press Medic, at least not for now.

Medic knew most of his teammates thought he'd been a Nazi. It would be easy to correct them and tell the truth, but he couldn't bring himself to for some reason. He'd almost told Heavy a couple of times, but his throat would close up, and he would have to come up with something else so Heavy wouldn't realize anything was wrong.

Heavy caused that reaction a lot.

Medic looked Scout over and didn't like what he saw. "He's getting worse, bit by bit."

"…How come you keep calling Scout 'he'?" asked Engineer.

Medic shrugged. "I'm respecting his wishes. I figured out his biological gender shortly after joining RED. I am a doctor after all. It would be embarrassing if I couldn't identify my patients' biological genders."

"Ah, right. The uber implant."

"Scout doesn't have an implant."

Engineer started. "She doesn't? But I thought you gave it to everyone on the team."

Medic made an annoyed sound. "I wanted to. Scout had a fever. I assumed he was sick, and since he's too fast for me to keep pace with I put off the procedure until he recovered. Except the fever never went away." Medic felt Scout's forehead with the back of his hand. "Until now. I think his modifications must have caused his body temperature to run higher than a normal person's."

Engineer frowned. "What modifications?"

"…Herr Engineer, has it not occurred to you that Scout had ADAM in his body before he came to Rapture?"

Engineer looked disturbed for a moment before dropping it and turning his attention back to Scout. "How long would you give her?"

"Maybe a couple of hours, but Heavy and the others will return within the time frame with the necessary items."

Medic was sure of it.