CHAPTER TWELVE
Twisted Rosalia

CR-S01

"I'm just a little bird. I can't possibly defeat a monster... how can I ever save this poor princess...?"

Naomi Kimishima strays by Alyssa's bedside, as she does so every night, reading her bedtime stories as she falls to a peaceful sleep. Ever since she gained full custody of Alyssa, she had treated her just like her own daughter, as any mother would do.

Now, Naomi's voice trails off as she sees that Alyssa's sheets are untucked, barely covering her upper body. With long fingers, Naomi gently lifts the covers to Alyssa's neck, and for a moment she is thrown in peace, watching her daughter sleep calmly, but then, it strikes her.

Pain. Burning hot, red slashes across her vision, Naomi knows that this is the end. Unable to collapse with Alyssa lying right there, she staggers out of her room quickly and lurches into the halls of Resurgam, still fully lit, orange and yellow walls almost glowing in the light. Unable to register anything, and unable to call for help, Naomi tries to get somewhere – anywhere – but the virus takes her first. The Rosalia Virus, finally emerging from where it had been thriving before, has activated at last, throwing Naomi into a pit of pain and distress as she reaches out, trying to scream for help, but something is crushing her lungs and she can't speak, only having one last thought before collapsing into unconsciousness, a blackness she may never escape from:

Alyssa.


Sometime later, Nurse Emma Wilson happens to be on duty, and walks onto the collapsed figure of Naomi Kimishima. Surprise overcomes the young nurse's face, and she runs over. "Dr. Kimishima...? Miss Kimishima!"

She swallows, and checks her pulse, immediately knowing that something is wrong. "Someone, get a doctor!"


"Her heart is the affected area," says Tomoe briskly, walking down the corridors towards the operation room, Gabe right beside her. "Please, look at this."

"That idiot," Gabe curses, knowing that Naomi isn't dumb and stupidity is not one of her flaws, but... "Why didn't she notice before now?"

"She must have hidden it from everyone until this point," Tomoe suggests.

"Where's the kid?" Gabe demands, changing the subject and making a mental note to argue about it to Tomoe later – or better yet, command Naomi to tell him herself.

"He's preparing for the operation," says Tomoe, going with Gabe. "Maria will be assisting."


In the din of the operation room's sinks and faucets, CR-S01 washes off his hands, thinking deeply as he watches the flow of water rinse his hands and disappear down the sink.

"A superinfection?" he murmurs. In his head, he remembers the distant conversation he had had with Derek Stiles earlier, the man who diagnosed Naomi first.

"Yes," he said. "She was infected with an unusual agent in the past. Most likely, the gene propagated into her cells, and was activated concurrently with the viral infection."

"So that means... it's an evolved form of the Rosalia Virus," CR-S01 replied, shuddering at the thought of his mutated remains of his sister. Bleakly, Derek Stiles had agreed.

Finishing up, CR-S01 reaches for the gloves and takes deep breaths, preparing himself for the nightmare operation coming up.


Tomoe and Gabe stand next to each other, eyes looking at the same spot: the operation room, waiting anxiously for the operation to start, for it to finish, to hear the news. They cannot have a hand in this operation, they can only stand back and watch, and pray that mercy will be granted to them and the tides will turn...

"Gabe! Tomoe!" Esha Patel runs down the corridor, having just heard the news herself, and behind her trails Hank Freebird, Little Guy, and Chief David Wayne.

"What's Dr. Kimishima's condition?" Hank demands, running up.

"It doesn't look good," Tomoe sighs, having seen the charts herself. "It's centered in the worse possible area."

"I-Is it Rosalia?" Hank asks, afraid of the answer.

"I don't know," Gabe answers. "But I've asked for some special help."

"Special help...?" Esha quotes.

"An old friend of mine," says Gabe, the smirk finally off his face, but the cigarette remains. "Don't worry. He's a great doctor." Derek... we believe in you.

The six of them stand right behind the doors of the operation room: Tomoe, Esha, Gabe, Little Guy, Wayne, and Hank, each biding their time, waiting for results uneasily with growing stress, afraid of the result, afraid of the future, yet unable to fight for victory themselves.

"We've done all we can," Gabe murmurs. "All we can do now is pray for her health."


CR-S01 walks into the operation room, an isolated room of translucent green glass he is so familiar with. Hands now covered with gloves, he swallows, knowing that his comrades are out there, behind the door, waiting for his victory.

"How should it be treated?" CR-S01 asked, over the phone.

"To be honest, these materials can't tell me everything," Derek admitted. "But listen carefully, please. If the focus is as I predict..."

CR-S01 swallows, knowing that this is it. The time he had been waiting for ever since Albert Sartre first adopted him as a son he never committed himself to, ever since he was put into and released from prison – even if it was only for a short time. All the operations he had performed so far have all worked up to this – the final battle between his sister and life.

"Are you ready?" he asks, raising his head, red eyes glazing into Maria Torres's green ones.

"Yeah," is Maria's fierce response. Both knew Rosalia. Both were close to her. Both will take act in the final battle to take her down.

The past is gone, but life continues, Ian Holden had once said to him. My wife fought to the end to save all her students, just as the doctors here are doing, even now. But you... what are you doing?

Back then, so long ago, CR-S01 hadn't had an answer, but now, he does, knowing that by winning this war, by saving Naomi's life, he will finally have something to fight for: a cause, a reason, to prove his innocence, to release him to the light he himself created.

"Life will continue..." CR-S01 breathes, raising his hands up to a new light, preparing for the dawn of a new era, a new age, a new world. "This is the final battle... let's begin!"


"The affected area is a giant virus colony located on her heart," CR-S01 says, after his grand proclamation, readying his tools for surgery. Deep breaths, he warns himself. Stay calm. This is... Dr. Kimishima we're talking about...

"What the hell is this?" Maria exclaims, looking at the readouts, just as caring as the doctor beside her, but not as calm. "It looks like a pupa…"

"Indeed," CR-S01 sighs, trying to remember what he still knows of the sweet little girl who used to be his sister. "It's formed an outer shell from mutated biofilm. Injecting the serum like this will have no effect on it." Is this really something... that came from her? From Rosalia?

"Wha…?" Maria is shocked, and realizes that this is a monster they're talking about, something very much unlike the colonies they had treated before. "Since the colony may explode, we can't use a syringe on it. But… Naomi isn't strong enough to use a heart-lung machine. Then what in the world are we supposed to do!" Panic begins to set into Maria's mind, because losing another accomplice does not exactly fancy to her.

"We're going to cut it out," the surgeon says matter-of-factly, as casual as if he were announcing the weather.

"What?" Maria practically explodes, eyes widening and incredulous. Is he serious?

"We'll start incising at the left atrium to remove the shell," he says briskly. "We'll then stop her heart and finish up before it's too late."

Maria gives a sigh of exasperation, knowing very well that CR-S01 is right, as there is no other way, and after all, he is the specialist. But still, "You're asking for one hell of a miracle."

"That's right." CR-S01 agrees heartily. "We're going to be working a miracle."

"You make it sound so easy." Maria rolls her eyes. "Fine. Let's make this happen!"

"Ah… Maria." CR-S01 is hesitant, eyes wandering everywhere: to the operating table, the tools lying beside it, the translucent windows... everywhere but Maria.

"Huh?" she raises an eyebrow.

"Thank you. It's because of you, I…" He trails off, uncertain of his choosing of words.

"Huh? I couldn't hear you. What'd you say?" Maria smiles, almost enjoying this.

"Now…" CR-S01 says, louder now, changing his mind. "Let's begin the operation!

Maria drops the matter, all serious now, and with that, the two doctors begin the final battle against the Rosalia Virus.

"I've made the initial incision… Opening her up!"

When they reach her heart, though, Maria is shocked by what she sees. "Hey… Don't tell me… is this?"

"The central area's hypertrophied." CR-S01 says wonderingly. Indeed, the center of the heart is oddly enlarged, swelling up past normal sizes. "Would it rip out her heart?"

Maria laughs nervously. "This is just ridiculous. There's a giant colony right in the middle of her heart!" Her voice gets oddly shrill, cracking at the end.

"Maria." CR-S01's calm voice breaks through her thoughts.

"Hm?"

"Get a grip on yourself. Please. I need your help."

Maria sighs. "Dammit… I know! I… wait… Oh, yeah!" She takes a shaky breath. "L-Let me confirm the procedure. Start with the left atrium."

"Then we'll treat the left ventricle, followed by the right atrium and ventricle." CR-S01 recites, continuing.

"Got it!" she says. "Hey… look." Maria takes another deep breath. "I need you, too. Don't let her die."

CR-S01 almost gives a small smile, as he had done just what seems like mere seconds ago. "Do I even need to respond to that? We're a team."

"Heh." Maria grins. "Come on, let's do it. Now this is the final battle!"

"Indeed." CR-S01 nods, readying himself. "Beginning the procedure! Making the incision into the left atrium to begin the surgery!"

When the two surgeons open up and have a look inside the heart, however, they're shocked by what they see. Even CR-S01 almost takes a small step back at the horrid sight of the monster hiding inside Naomi's heart. Is this... really... all that's left of my sister?

"It's huge!" Maria gasps. A huge sphere of hardened grey tissue surrounds the giant colony in the center, just a fragment of the whole nightmare. "This is really bad!"

"A new colony's begun to multiply on top of the hardened shell." CR-S01 notes calmly, though he is fighting for sanity. In the meanwhile, something more horrid is going on inside Naomi: a tiny offshoot of the virus sways gently with the beating of Naomi's heart, like an Asclepias flower in the breeze. The same one encountered in the operation CR-S01 had performed following his escape from Portland Prison. "They're going to continue reproducing more and more," he says grimly.

"We sure as hell can't let that happen!" Maria yells. Then, calmer, she softly asks, "What do we do?" All of this seems hopeless...

"First, we destroy the outer shell with the laser to expose it," says CR-S01, determination ringing in his voice, an inner voice reaching out to him, whispering to never give up. "We deal with the main body at that point."

"A-All right," Maria stammers, following his lead. "Don't forget to treat the multiplying colony as well!"

CR-S01 decides to do that first, using the drain to remove the mucus off of the colony. Then, using the syringe, he injects the vasoconstrictor, just as he had done... how long ago was it? Days? Weeks? Time seems to have blended into itself as the worries of the pandemic have risen and fallen.

"The vasoconstrictor's working!" Maria says, interrupting CR-S01's wandering mind. "Now use the orange deactivator."

When the deactivator is injected, the colony stiffens, as if in rigor mortis. "It's working!" Maria exclaims. "Now's our chance to excise it!"

The scalpel makes quick work of cutting away the colony. Using the forceps, CR-S01 removes the colony, pulling it out of Naomi's body. "All right. We don't have to worry about the pieces now," Maria sighs.

"Let's destroy the outer shell," he replies briskly. "Get the laser ready."

"All right. Keep using the laser on it," Maria directs. CR-S01 directs the laser beam around the shell, watching it turn red and shatter away.

"The outer shell has been destroyed. This colony is gigantic…" he murmurs.

Finally, the shell shatters under the force of the laser, disappearing into the unknowns it had come from. Setting down the laser, CR-S01 goes for the syringe.

"All right. The gelator is ready! Use the purple vial," says Maria, several beats late.

CR-S01 pumps the liquid into the inner colony. "The large colony has been injected with the gelator."

"The colony's activity is slowing!" Maria says excitedly, swallowing hard. "The gelator's working!"

"All right. We're done in the left atrium," CR-S01 sighs in relief, though the battle isn't even close to being finished yet. "Let's close up this part of her heart."

"We're finally done with one area. Let's move on," Maria commands as CR-S01 sutures the wound.

"The left ventricle is the next area," he recites. "We'll stay with a beating heart technique."

"Right," Maria nods. "Make the incision and let's begin!"

As CR-S01 makes the incision, Maria wonders what she will find in this part of Naomi's heart. It turns out, she was right to expect something worse.

"Dammit… I can't believe this! There are two colonies being created here!" she cries.

"No problem," CR-S01 responds calmly, though his own heart is hammering faster than ever. "We just have to treat everything here. We'll need to deal with the replicating colonies before attacking the shell."

Quickly, just as before, the doctors get to work on the colonies, first using the drain, then the syringe, then the forceps to quickly remove the virus.

"The deactivator's taken effect. Beginning the excision using the scalpel."

Using the scalpel and forceps, CR-S01 makes short work of removing the colonies. Soon, they're back to burning off the colony's protective shell with the laser.

"Good. Destroy it all!" Maria coaches.

But this time, all does not go as smoothly with the removing of the shell. When the pieces break off, they explode outward, cutting lacerations in the soft tissue.

"Dammit. The heart's been wounded! Make sure you suture it!"

CR-S01 injects the gelator first, though, not taking any chances with the giant virus colony, while Maria watches the vitals. "Her condition isn't stabilizing! We have to treat the other areas!"

"The gelator has been injected," he informs her a moment later, caught up in the tenseness of the operation. "What's the patient's condition?"

"She's not stabilizing yet." Maria watches the monitor anxiously. "Dammit… is she going to be all right?"

"We can't rest until we've completed treating her entire heart." CR-S01 doesn't make any promises, but he doesn't seem to be too worried, so Maria decides to focus on the operation. Then again, he hardly never is worried. "Let's treat these remaining wounds and move on to the next section of her heart."

He quickly drains the colony pieces and sutures the wounds the colony made. "Let's close it up. Hand me the sutures."

"Just two more to go!" Maria whispers. "Stay strong, Naomi!" Don't die on us... we need you, Dr. Kimishima!

"Opening the right atrium." CR-S01 continues. "Prepare the scalpel for incision."

"We don't know what'll happen." Maria cautions, a rare occasion for her to hold back before another battle. "Let's be careful in there!"

Once inside, she gasps as predicted, eyes trembling at the sight in front of her, the nightmarish version of the Rosalia Virus she had treated before.

"Why?" she groans. "Why have so many colonies been created?" This time, there are three new colonies growing off the main virus, wobbling off the edges of giant colony.

"It's evolving," CR-S01 states firmly, already beginning the treatment.

"E-Evolving?" A surprised Maria asks.

"It's absorbed a different virus's DNA and is constantly mutating," he says, being the expert on the subject, but completely clueless on Naomi's disease, the one that had threatened her life before Twisted Rosalia took over... "Now it's creating a new form to adapt to its new environment. It's natural."

"Huh? But…!"

"It may be natural, but we don't have to accept it," he corrects himself, never giving up, refusing to give up, relentlessly fighting this horrid battle. "I will eliminate this! Let's do it!"

It's the same procedure as before, plus an extra colony to deal with. Drain the mucus, inject the vasoconstrictor, then the deactivator, and the colonies are ready to remove. Soon, CR-S01 is back to aiming the laser at the shell, shattering it from the intense heat.

"Good! Keep going! Give it what it deserves!" Then, a second later, after the shell explodes again, "Tch. You'll need to extract the shell pieces."

CR-S01 injects the gelator, extracts the broken shards of the shell, and sutures the wounds it made. As he works, somewhere in the back of his subconscious, his inner soul silently eats away the last of his sister. How... can Rosalia... so sweet, so innocent, so young... be evolved into something as dangerous as this?

As he works, hands turning into something completely different, he prepares himself for the time to come to completely eradicate the few remains of Rosalia Rossellini from this world. Getting ready to move on to the fourth and final section of the heart before finally getting rid of the virus once and for all, he sutures up the incision and watches it join the other two incisions made earlier.

"This is the last area," Maria reminds him quietly, mirroring his thoughts. "Once we deal with this one…"

"Let's stay on our toes," CR-S01 agrees. "Scalpel!"

One swift motion with his nimble fingers, and he says, "Incision complete. This is it. Let's do this!"

Once inside the heart, CR-S01 sighs, matching Maria's gulp disappearing down her throat. "Ngh… There's so many of them! Can we treat them all?"

For this time, there are not two, not three, but four mutated virus colonies growing off the main body. It looks so hopeless, yet the virus seems more helpless than usual, as it

"I believe in you," Maria assures him. "I'm sure you can do it."

"Right." He reasserts himself. "I know what you mean. I'll save her, no matter what!"

Repeating the original procedure times four, it takes longer, but soon the colonies are ready to be excised. Using the forceps, he deftly removes the excised colonies and returns with the laser.

"The colony piece exploded and made a bruise!" Maria exclaims. "Inject the antiserum… pink vial!"

CR-S01 does that, and injects the gelator into the huge colony. But soon…

"Damn! A piece of the colony exploded!" Maria stares at the shards of colony wall. "Use the antiserum!"

Then, again. "Tch… Another black bruise has formed! We have to remove the shell pieces immediately!"

After treating a count of eight lacerations, six shards of colony wall, and three Rosalia bruises, the final syringes of gelator disappears into the last quarter of the giant colony. Realizing that after this step will be the most crucial and most heart-wrenching one, CR-S01 begins to sutures up the incision with despair.

"This is it," Maria says grimly, watching him suture.

"Right," he agrees bleakly. "I'm closing up here, then moving on to extracting the giant colony."

Several tense seconds later, he stares at the center of the heart in grim anticipation. This is the last part of the heart they hadn't cut out yet, but it's where the bulge is most noticeable, the heart of Twisted Rosalia. So this... is all... that's left of Rosalia... reduced to nothing but a shell...

"The main body's in here, right?" Maria asks nervously. It's funny how if they lose, it's not them who will die but someone else... dead, at their hands...

"Yes," says CR-S01 mutely. "Making an incision to expose the affected area."

He carefully uses the scalpel to make the incision, right over the main body of Twisted Rosalia. "Incision complete. This is it."

Maria stares, eyes wide open, at the monster inside Naomi's heart. "This… It's the main body of the Rosalia virus, but mutated…" Her voice shakes, wonder and horror-struck at what she sees, the nightmare that will haunt her for eternity.

The creature is curled, like a millipede after a scare. Its skin is a mottled mixture of greys, blacks, and reds. It seems to be like a snake, curled into a ball, deep inside the tissue. Twisted Rosalia is still and frozen, a baby serpent asleep in the heart, just like Rosalia Rossellini herself asleep in the flowers... but this nothing like it. Rosalia died in a carpet of blue death, while her twisted form rests in the center of Naomi's heart, in colors beyond the beautiful blue that had adorned Rosalia herself.

"We really are gonna do this, right?" Maria looks to CR-S01 for support, her voice shaky.

"Right." CR-S01's voice is determined, not at all intimidated by the creature in front of him, though it troubles him greatly. "The cardioplegic solution is ready for us. Injecting that will stop her heart."

"All right. Let's go over the procedure one last time." Maria says, nervousness creeping into her voice, and while it will be CR-S01 performing the actual excision, it will depend on her tell inform him of vitals and Naomi's condition – especially in cardiac arrest.

"When we inject the solution, the heart will stop and we can excise the membrane," CR-S01 patiently explains one last time, hoping desperately that this will be the last time he will have to go through this – not just now, during the operation, but in the future too. "After membrane extraction, we'll inject concentrated antiserum into the main body. Got it?"

"Yeah," she replies shakily. "There's never been a heart-stopping operation performed without a heart-lung machine." Her tone turns desperate. "Please… we've got to finish everything before Naomi passes on."

"Let's begin," says CR-S01 shortly, wanting to finish up things before he truly loses the nerve. "I'm a doctor. Saving lives is my purpose…" he reminds himself. Save lives...

He injects the cardioplegic solution. Almost immediately, the vitals on the screen flatline. Normally, this would be a cause for panic, but CR-S01 seems unnaturally calm, his years as a surgeon finally settling in and causing his motor skills to improve as he is thrown into a world in which no one exists apart from himself, the patient, and occasionally Maria. "Scalpel!"

As quickly as this delicate work will allow, CR-S01 cuts along the outer body of the creature, removing the membrane protecting it from the outside world. "Forceps!"

Using the forceps to extract the membrane, he pulls the clear tissue carefully off of the monster beneath.

"Now… injecting the serum," he breathes quickly, stretching out a hand for the syringe.

He injects the antiserum into the body of the Rosalia virus. So much work has gone into the making of this serum… even his sister's life; it was her blood that created the virus that threatens Naomi's life now, and it's also her blood that will defeat it... this is just a mad game of fighting fire with fire.

When the creature doesn't respond to the first syringe of the serum, CR-S01's eyes narrow in anger and frustration. Naomi's vitals continue to drop at a fast rate, now hovering at a 30, and he raises them to a higher rate of 70 before saying, "Ngh… we're not done yet, you monster... Injecting more serum!"

He holds the syringe above Twisted Rosalia's body, somehow knowing that with this time, Rosalia will cease to exist, forever. This is it... the last battle between himself and his sister. It seems so unreal that such a deadly thing can be so small yet so fatal, coming from someone like his own sister. Somewhere in the back of his mind, Holden's words come back to him, spoken so long ago yet staying so permanently in his mind. It had come back to him at night, during daytime, spoken in its ghostly whisper at times of terror, like now... the world seems to go in slow motion as CR-S01 presses down on the plunger.

The past is gone, but life continues. Rosalia is dead. Gone. He has to accept that.

My wife fought to the end to save all of her students, just as the doctors here are doing, even now. Everyone had fought – with bravery and courage that can counteract any disease. Everyone fought to the end, sacrificing their time and their health to save those in need...

But you... what are you doing? Swallowing hard, CR-S01 finally realizes that by doing something, stepping up for the last and final battle... Ian Holden, this is what I'm doing... I always run, from whatever sins I may have committed... I won't run anymore, from the lives I have hurt, or from the ones I can save!

The syringe empties, and the snake-like thing writhes in agony, uncurling out from itself, stretching to fill the space it has created for itself. Its death cry sounds high, like a hurt animal.

"This… will be the end! Begone!"

Slowly, painfully, it lays down its monstrous head for the last time. With a blinding flash of white light, it dissolves away into dust, leaving behind no trace that it ever existed, except in the memories of the doctors who fought so hard to keep it at bay. Twisted Rosalia ceases to exist from the world, blasted into nothingness for long last.

"The mutant Rosalia has… disappeared." Maria says wonderingly. "Is it… over?"

It's just as Albert Sartre had said, CR-S01 muses as he, too, stares at the space that Twisted Rosalia used to occupy. Everything... is nothingness. You too, one day... I'm sorry, Rosalia. The two of you suffered for what I did.

"Treatment complete," he confirms softly. "The procedure… was a success."

"We… we really saved her!" Maria almost laughs, but her voice is wobbling as she remembers that the operation isn't quite over yet. "Oh, right! Sutures!"

But CR-S01 has already sutured the wound before Maria reacts to her mistake, closing the incision, and praying that it will never have to be opened again.

"Oh… you're done suturing it? S-Sorry!" Maria says distractedly.

"Yeah," he replies softly. "Closing the operation area. You should rest a bit. It's almost over. Let's close the curtain on this."

CR-S01 stitches up the opening incision, bandaging the wound, shaky hands struggling to stay steady enough to complete the final step in his procedure of keeping Naomi alive. "Operation complete."


In the control room, everyone watches the operation being performed on the screens before them. People of every kind gather around the screens, giving their displays undivided attention, holding their breaths as they wait for the outcome.

Some watch with relief, their eyes softening from the hardening they had gone through, hands falling in the reassurance that Naomi will survive through this operation.

Some watch with terror still at their sides every minute, unable to believe that this is true, that Naomi is safe, always expecting the horrid monster to leap out of her any second, but their breathing eases gradually as time passes and nothing happens.

Some simply stand there in shock, unable to process what had just happened, eyes wide and staring at the screens, not daring to believe that Naomi is truly alive, their brains frozen as reality spins before them, an endless stretch of time that will move on.

Invisible to everyone, hidden from everyone but Maria and Naomi, Rosalia Rossellini lingers by everyone's side, watching the operation happen, watching her essence being erased from the world, the virus that was cultivated from her blood. Allowing her wave of white hair to wash over her like a cloak, Rosalia waits in anticipation, awaiting the results, for her release from this world...

But everyone – the young, the old, the strangers, the friends – all hear CR-S01's next words, signalling the end of the battle, once and for all. The phrase commonly heard by everyone, the phrase that had gone through everyone's mind and remained there, a phrase that will linger forever in the memory of those who were present to here it. CR-S01's whisper drifts across the room, carrying the sigh of relief with it:

"Let this disease pass from this world..."


Oh, fun fun fun. Sorry, I made up the end. There had to be some sort of bridge between Twisted Rosalia and The Seventh Doctor, ya know.

Op written by Aya, as usual. :)

Twisted Rosalia... *sigh* I almost, almost, ALMOST put in Rosalia's GUILT in there. Any of you heard it? The piano melody, known as Lights of Life in the official OST (but of course, unofficial is better. Sounds SO much better).

Who thinks Rosalia's Thorns should've done a better track for Twisted Rosalia than Twisted Rosalia itself? *Rosalia's Thorns fades* *Twisted Rosalia comes onto iTunes* Well, that's coincidence...

Anyways, ONE LAST CHAPTER (EPILOGUE) TO GO! Yay! Happy birthday, mf!

~fk