Ug....what to type? I have a headache and a toothache.......so I probably won't type any story.
I can type some more of the is mindless prattle that no one reads.......at least nobody seems to
be reading it. As we have answered several questions..and we are still being asked them. Why
don't you read this stuff. It might surprise you, we have quite humorous things typed in these
before and after paragraphs. We still haven't had anyone guess how many different scrub
caps Romano has. Well I'll stop on this one now.
Okay, next day and Cassi's turn. I've read the reviews. YES!!!! We WILL get Dave in it more!
Please bear with us! We've been constantly busy getting ready for Mexico, as we are leaving in
a very few days. We have a kidnapping to do and we have decided to have not one, but TWO
hostages...as the boys are currently in groups, and not by themselves. Romano and Lizzie are
now God knows where and Fiddles is loose in the ER....may God have mercy on their souls. As
you have seen, Fiddles isn't exactly one who is quiet. In case you're curious, he's appeared in
several spoofs, and is an Elven horse (bright green), who is kind of insane. Anyways, I'll try to
give you the scenes you are so desperately hoping for.
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Luka Kovac and Dave Malucci were bored. They had found most of the missing X-Babies, and as
niether of them particularly wanted to be stuck with Marblebrains and the annoying talking Ring,
they had decided to go off on their own to see if perhaps they couldn't find where the girls were
hiding Romano. Although they knew he was a willing hostage, there was a big chance that he had
learned something on the girls that they could put to use.....that is, if they could get him to tell
them.
"We're wasting our time, you know that, right?" Dave spoke up as they headed down the hallway,
as quietly as possible, in case there were any female spies.
Luka shrugged. "It got us away from Marblebrains, didn't it?" He pointed out.
"How long is he going to have that stupid Ring anyway?" Dave wondered. "Fellowship is over."
Luka rolled his eyes. "True, but there are two more spoofs in the series." He reminded him. "He
has that annoying piece of metal until they toss it in Mount Doom."
Dave snorted. "Oh yeah, like the Authors are actually going to destroy it." He retorted. "You're
an Assistant, Luka. Do you honestly think they're going to have it destroyed?"
"Honestly? No." Kovac answered. "I have a feeling they're going to give it to Gollum."
"Now THAT I'll believe." Dave stated. "Woah, what happened here?"
They stopped to look at a food cart that had been knocked over. Beside it, a nurse dressed in pink
lay, groaning. The two small doctors looked at one another for an instant, and rushed over to
help.
"Are you alright?" Luka asked, checking her over.
The nurse eyed him, wearily. "Who in the--" She began.
"Dr. Kovac." Luka answered. "I know this is a little hard to--"
The nurse held up a hand, nodding. "Ah, one of the ER docs that was changed." She finished.
"I heard about Dr. Romano."
"Are you okay?" Dave asked, helping her up.
"You wouldn't believe me....." She looked down at the doctors and shook her head. "Then again.."
"At this point, we'd believe a lot of things." Dave informed her.
"I swear I saw a green talking horse." The nurse answered. "He knocked the cart over and asked
me why I was feeding the people horse manure."
Dave burst out laughing.
Kovac gave him a Look and turned back to the poor nurse. "I wouldn't worry about it." He
assured her. "I think I know what you mean."
"So I'm not going crazy?" She asked, looking pale.
Dave shook his head. "If you are, you can join everyoneELSE in this place." He muttered.
Luka patted the nurse's back. "No, you're not going crazy." He told her. "Look at it this way, it's
been a crazy day for most of us."
The nurse eyed him and Dave. "Yes, I can believe that." She replied, sounding relieved. "I don't
even want to know what's going on with the ER."
"Probably better that way." Dave remarked. "Luka, we need to get going. If someone like Weaver
catches us, we're toast."
"See you later." The nurse called out as they left her behind in the hallway to clean up the mess
that her cart had made.
"Soooo," Dave began. "I guess that means Fiddles is loose around here."
Luka gave a mock surpirsed look. "How do you figure?" He retorted, with a snicker.
Dave pretended to think about it. "Well unless there's another green talking horse around, I think
Fiddles is our best bet."
"Another one....ugh." Luka winced at the thought. "Like we NEED another one."
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From around the corner a small group of girls listened to their conversation.
Jing Mei gave an evil grin. "Anyone want to catch a couple of guys?" She whispered.
"Sounds like fun." Jamie put in, holding out a coil of courds. "Let's round 'em up."
Buffy grabbed a coil with a smile. "I like how your mind works." She told her.
Glory looked up toward the ceiling. "Someone gimme a boost." She said, quietly. "We can get
them from above, and then the others move in from the sides. We'll hog-tie 'em."
"Got it." The other girls responded in unison.
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Cassi's note.....Yes, in the middle of the fic! Cassi had to stop to watch the baby for "a few
minutes" ahem...two and a half hours ago....anyhow, she's back now and Sven is home! Now
sitting at the com-pewter, Cassi has just had a Fruit by the foot "heroin roll" with a Lortab chaser.
Use your imagination as to what's to come. ^_^ Sven has had a good dose of junkfood with a
Lortab and a half chaser.....so any minute now, may God have mercy on Dave and Kovac's souls.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled fic already in progress......
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Meanwhile, up in Rom--er Cassi's office, Dor waited impatiently for Cassi to come out of the
bathroom. She had mentioned something about being bored, and disappeared into the bathroom.
"Ta-dahh!" Cassi announced as she emerged. She was dressed in dark blue scrubs, with red ties
at the waist and ankles, Romano's white doctor's coat...(which does have his name on it), and one
of his scrub caps, her hair neatly tucked up out of sight.
Dor stared. "Ooookaaay, now what?" He asked.
"Well that's plainly obvious, isn't it, stupid?!" The desk chair demanded.
Cassi grinned. "Yes, it is." She agreed. "I think it's time for the Chief of Staff to go inspect the
little people."
Dor sighed. "Right....and me?"
Cassi patted his head, as if he were a little dog. "You can be my Med Student." She told him,
generously.
Dor rolled his eyes. "Right.....and what happens if we have to do surgery?" He asked.
"Well...." Cassi replied, thinking about it. "We either call in Mungojerrie...or we'll just have the
surgical table in the OR talk us through it."
Dor shrugged. "Yeah, I guess that would work." He agreed. "We go downstairs then?"
Cassi opened the door. "After you." She retorted. "I hear Fiddles has been through downstairs."
"Now that doesn't surprise me." Dor answered. "What about that evil lady you guys threw out
of here?"
"Oh, don't worry, I'll tell you if she comes in here!" The door announced. "She's mean! She
yelled at me for nothing!"
Cassi locked the door behind them. "Hopefully, we'll keep her busy enough that she won't be
up here." She remarked. "I've studied my Assistant enough to pull off a pretty good act."
"The gods themselves do tremble." Dor muttered as he followed.
"Here's a notebook." Cassi announced, shoving it in his face. "Make sure you take notes so
you'll be a wonderful surgeon just like me one day."
"Wow.." Dor retorted, looking impressed. "You really HAVE studied that guy."
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Pause for a random thought that has absolutely nothing at all to do with this fic. Sven just bought
a gym-bag for carry on for the Mexico trip. What do you suppose we found in there....apart from
the fact that the interior is leather and the exterior is not. What's up with that? Anyhow, we found
a little white packet that reads, "Do not eat this"....Just out of curiosity, did any of you ever buy
a gym bag, thinking there might be something to eat in it!? And now we find another white packet
reading "Do not eat this"....and a little sticker with the number 7 on it. And we wonder....what is
the purpose of this sticker? Are there six other stickers just like it? Where did the other stickers
go? Did they eat each other because they could not eat the white packets? Why would someone
put this sticker inside the bag? Oh right, we were writing a story.
Sorry, you must ignore us. We're on drugs. Do not try this at home....unless of course your doctor
gives it to you, like they do for us. Back to the story.
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In the hallway Luka stopped short, as if he heard something.
"What?" Dave asked, seeing his look. This was as far as he got before an extension courd was
roped around him and tightened from above. A frantic look at Luka told him that the other doctor
was in the same position he was.
At that point, Jing Mei, Shirley, Jeanie, Shadowkitty, Dawn Summers, a girl with green hair, and
a redhead came from around the corner and moved in from the sides.
"Hey, Dave!" Jing Mei shot out, brightly. "How's it going?"
Luka was busy eyeing the redhead. "And you are?" He asked, suspiciously.
Sven grinned. "Jamie." She answered, giving him a Look.
"Um....what is it you guys want?" Dave managed to get out. He was struggling against the courd,
which only got tighter.
"Well, that should be pefectly obvious, don't you think?" Glory asked from above, where she and
Buffy held onto the courds.
"You're our new hostages!" Chen announced, proudly. "We're taking you to our jail and tying
you up!"
"I thought you guys had Romano." Dave responded, still struggling.
"Yeah, well, Romano decided he didn't wanna play and that was no fun." Shirley told him. "By the
way....the more you struggle, the tighter it gets. You might wanna stop before you cut off your
circulation."
Buffy and Glory jumped to the floor, knocking the guys off their feet, and then tying thier ankles to
their wrists.
"Time!" Glory shouted, gleefully, as she finished first.
Luka and Dave from their postitions on the floor, stared in shock. "Oh this really sucks." Dave
muttered, grumbling.
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Downstairs in the ER, the green horse incident was the talk of the staff. All the nurses that didn't
get the chance to witness it, were busy trying to get details from the ones who did. Romano and
Elizabeth watched from an above ventilation shaft.
"Now THAT I so would have wanted to see." Romano whispered with a grin.
Elizabeth smirked. "I REALLY have been away from the set too long." She murmured. "Do you
think Cassi and Sven would want me to come back?"
"I don't think they'd mind...I mean they'd just have to get rid of--" Romano cut off, realizing what
he had nearly said. "I mean..."
Elizabeth stared at him. "What?"
Robert looked down with a sigh. "Look, Lizzie, we can always discuss this later--"
Elizabeth cut him off holding up her hand. "It's Mahk, isn't it?" She asked quietly. "He's still
alive."
Romano gave a nod. "You weren't supposed to know." He told her. "They found out he was
going to die, and they sent back a clone."
"Does Rachel know?" She asked.
"Yeah, she's been there, too." Romano answered. "I'm sorry, Lizzie. You weren't supposed to find
out like this."
She shook her head. "No....I think I--I mean..." She tried again. "When I saw Lucy....I just had
a feeling..."
They were interrupted by a disturbance from the ER below them.
Romano stared. "Tell me I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing." He managed to get out.
In the ER, the nurses and adult doctors were doing the same openmouthed stare as Romano.
Striding across the ER as if she owned the place, was Cassi wearing what appeared to be Romano's
clothes, and Dor, dressed as a med student, carrying a notebook and a pencil.
"And this!" Cassi spat out, as she walked in. "This is the ER butcher shop. If you look really
close, you can see the poor shmucks that are about to become the next line of victims."
"Excuse me, but what exactly are you doing?" Weaver demanded.
Cassi looked down at Weaver with a smirk. "Teaching my med student, and was I talking to you,
Kerry? NO! Shut up!" She snapped, in a very familiar "I must be paid attention to as I am the
Chief of Staff" voice.
Benton stepped up to her. "Okay, so you're Romano." He remarked in an amused tone. "You've
gotten taller since we last met....and who is this?"
Cassi motioned to Dor as if he were a disease. "A lab coated tumor." She answered. "This is
a teaching hospital, is it not? I am teaching.....now butt out! This way please."
Dor sighed and followed.
"And of course you're wondering, did I ask to be worn by this tumor? No indeed, I did not!" The
lab coat announced.
Up in the ventilation shaft, Elizabeth was laughing so hard she was crying.
"That's not funny." Romano retorted, flatly.
In the ER, the nurses were now staring at Cassi and Dor.
"Excuse me!" Cassi called out. "Are we not working today, people!? Get back to work or you're
all FIRED!"
Chuny looked at Frank and Randi. "Now that is scary." She whispered.
"It's like they're multiplying." Haleh put in. "Who is that?"
Cassi, hearing this turned toward her. "I am the Chief of Staff!" She spat out. "Now GET BACK
TO WORK!" She quickly looked over at Dor. "Are you taking notes?"
Dor nodded. "Every word." He replied, proudly.
Cassi looked over his shoulder, and made a face. "Working has no "U" in it and tumor is not
spelled like "two-more." She corrected.
Dor made a face, and threw the notebook in the trash. "I don't think I like this job." He stated,
with a glare.
"That's because your spelling sucks!" The pencil announced. "I've seen first graders with better
spelling."
"That's annoying." Cassi remarked, walking into curtain 2 where Connie was with Murdoc and
Ryan. "What do we have?" She asked, pulling Dor up behind her.
Connie stared at the coat she was wearing. "Who are you?" She questioned.
Cassi rolled her eyes. "The Chief of Staff." She answered, as if it were obvious. "I said it a few
times now, let me know when it sinks in. What do we have?"
"Umm, Murdoc is having 150 stitches removed from his arm." She answered.
Cassi frowned. "Yes, I remember." She turned to Dor. "And what do you think?"
Dor gave a clueless look. "I think the guy's in trouble if you're going to do it." He retorted.
Cassi glared at him. "When I want your opinion, I'll be happy to beat it out of you!" She snapped.
"Who was the doctor that put these in?"
"Um.....Greene." Dor announced.
"And where is Greene?" She asked.
"Dr. Greene is dead." Connie cut in.
Cassi stared aghast. "NO!" She cried, then turned back to Dor. "Who killed him this time!? I
never approved of that!"
"As far as I know, he's still outside." Dor replied, giving Connie a Look for trying to get him into
trouble.
Cassi appeared to think about it. "Right." She looked at Connie. "I could have you fired for that!"
She shouted. "How dare you lie to me like that!"
Connie was now staring at Cassi as if she came from the moon.
From the doorway, there came a child's voice. "Going for an Oscar, Cas?" Romano demanded.
Cassi turned to see the small surgeon standing next to Elizabeth, whose face was streaked with
tears, and she was still laughing. "Yeah, how am I doing?" Cassi asked, with a grin.
"You're overdoing it a bit." He told her.
Connie started laughing. "No she's not." She replied between giggles.
Finding this incredibly funny, the two morphine junkies in the room responed the only way that
morphine junkies could. They started singing, and laughing.
Cassi turned back to Connie. "Get back to work!" She ordered, walking out.
Romano glared at Elizabeth for a minute, before he grabbed her and pulled her away before anyone
else could see them, leaving Connie to deal with the morphine junkies.
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Pratt groaned as he leaned against a wall out in the hallway. First the strange group of patients,
then that green horse singing as it ran through with what could only have been Carter and two
other kids on it, then this new "Chief of Staff", who seemed to sound and dress like Romano....it
was really too much to deal with on top of everything else that had happened that day.
He fell silent as he heard voices.
"Oh come on, guys, it's not the end of the world." One spoke up.
"This is insane through all logic, you know." A young male voice remarked.
Pratt, following the sounds, looked around the corner and immediately wished he hadn't. A group
of five year old girls were carrying two IV poles horizontal. What really caught his eye was that
they seemed to have two boys tied to them by their wrists and ankles. The boys were Luka and
Dave. One of the girls was Jing Mei. Pratt felt his mouth fall open in shock.
"You are our prisoners, and prisoners do NOT talk!" A girl with blond curly hair and a red satin
mini-dress ordered.
"Don't make us gag you." Jing Mei told Dave.
"I don't believe this is happening." Luka remarked.
"Kind of embarrassing, if you ask me." Dave added. "What if someone sees us?"
"We'll get rid of them." A redhead answered, grinning.
Pratt moved back out of sight, and calmly walked back toward the ER. The new Romano clone
could not possibly be THAT bad, he told himself.
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End Part 18, and I trust we have made a few peoples happy? How was that for bondage? hehehe.
More to come although we're not sure how much we'll come out with before we leave. So I'll just
spellcheck this, and then you'll all have a nice new chapter! Please leave us your reviews now!
Thanx for sticking with us, hope we've made it rewarding! ^_^
Point of fact, the clothes are NOT Romano's. I'm afraid I wouldn't fit into his....considering I'm a
good three inches taller than him.....see Lizzie and I are the same height! That's how I know!
For those who don't know, we're both 5'10". Only the cap and coat are his. The rest are all mine.
--Cassi
I can type some more of the is mindless prattle that no one reads.......at least nobody seems to
be reading it. As we have answered several questions..and we are still being asked them. Why
don't you read this stuff. It might surprise you, we have quite humorous things typed in these
before and after paragraphs. We still haven't had anyone guess how many different scrub
caps Romano has. Well I'll stop on this one now.
Okay, next day and Cassi's turn. I've read the reviews. YES!!!! We WILL get Dave in it more!
Please bear with us! We've been constantly busy getting ready for Mexico, as we are leaving in
a very few days. We have a kidnapping to do and we have decided to have not one, but TWO
hostages...as the boys are currently in groups, and not by themselves. Romano and Lizzie are
now God knows where and Fiddles is loose in the ER....may God have mercy on their souls. As
you have seen, Fiddles isn't exactly one who is quiet. In case you're curious, he's appeared in
several spoofs, and is an Elven horse (bright green), who is kind of insane. Anyways, I'll try to
give you the scenes you are so desperately hoping for.
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Luka Kovac and Dave Malucci were bored. They had found most of the missing X-Babies, and as
niether of them particularly wanted to be stuck with Marblebrains and the annoying talking Ring,
they had decided to go off on their own to see if perhaps they couldn't find where the girls were
hiding Romano. Although they knew he was a willing hostage, there was a big chance that he had
learned something on the girls that they could put to use.....that is, if they could get him to tell
them.
"We're wasting our time, you know that, right?" Dave spoke up as they headed down the hallway,
as quietly as possible, in case there were any female spies.
Luka shrugged. "It got us away from Marblebrains, didn't it?" He pointed out.
"How long is he going to have that stupid Ring anyway?" Dave wondered. "Fellowship is over."
Luka rolled his eyes. "True, but there are two more spoofs in the series." He reminded him. "He
has that annoying piece of metal until they toss it in Mount Doom."
Dave snorted. "Oh yeah, like the Authors are actually going to destroy it." He retorted. "You're
an Assistant, Luka. Do you honestly think they're going to have it destroyed?"
"Honestly? No." Kovac answered. "I have a feeling they're going to give it to Gollum."
"Now THAT I'll believe." Dave stated. "Woah, what happened here?"
They stopped to look at a food cart that had been knocked over. Beside it, a nurse dressed in pink
lay, groaning. The two small doctors looked at one another for an instant, and rushed over to
help.
"Are you alright?" Luka asked, checking her over.
The nurse eyed him, wearily. "Who in the--" She began.
"Dr. Kovac." Luka answered. "I know this is a little hard to--"
The nurse held up a hand, nodding. "Ah, one of the ER docs that was changed." She finished.
"I heard about Dr. Romano."
"Are you okay?" Dave asked, helping her up.
"You wouldn't believe me....." She looked down at the doctors and shook her head. "Then again.."
"At this point, we'd believe a lot of things." Dave informed her.
"I swear I saw a green talking horse." The nurse answered. "He knocked the cart over and asked
me why I was feeding the people horse manure."
Dave burst out laughing.
Kovac gave him a Look and turned back to the poor nurse. "I wouldn't worry about it." He
assured her. "I think I know what you mean."
"So I'm not going crazy?" She asked, looking pale.
Dave shook his head. "If you are, you can join everyoneELSE in this place." He muttered.
Luka patted the nurse's back. "No, you're not going crazy." He told her. "Look at it this way, it's
been a crazy day for most of us."
The nurse eyed him and Dave. "Yes, I can believe that." She replied, sounding relieved. "I don't
even want to know what's going on with the ER."
"Probably better that way." Dave remarked. "Luka, we need to get going. If someone like Weaver
catches us, we're toast."
"See you later." The nurse called out as they left her behind in the hallway to clean up the mess
that her cart had made.
"Soooo," Dave began. "I guess that means Fiddles is loose around here."
Luka gave a mock surpirsed look. "How do you figure?" He retorted, with a snicker.
Dave pretended to think about it. "Well unless there's another green talking horse around, I think
Fiddles is our best bet."
"Another one....ugh." Luka winced at the thought. "Like we NEED another one."
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From around the corner a small group of girls listened to their conversation.
Jing Mei gave an evil grin. "Anyone want to catch a couple of guys?" She whispered.
"Sounds like fun." Jamie put in, holding out a coil of courds. "Let's round 'em up."
Buffy grabbed a coil with a smile. "I like how your mind works." She told her.
Glory looked up toward the ceiling. "Someone gimme a boost." She said, quietly. "We can get
them from above, and then the others move in from the sides. We'll hog-tie 'em."
"Got it." The other girls responded in unison.
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Cassi's note.....Yes, in the middle of the fic! Cassi had to stop to watch the baby for "a few
minutes" ahem...two and a half hours ago....anyhow, she's back now and Sven is home! Now
sitting at the com-pewter, Cassi has just had a Fruit by the foot "heroin roll" with a Lortab chaser.
Use your imagination as to what's to come. ^_^ Sven has had a good dose of junkfood with a
Lortab and a half chaser.....so any minute now, may God have mercy on Dave and Kovac's souls.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled fic already in progress......
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Meanwhile, up in Rom--er Cassi's office, Dor waited impatiently for Cassi to come out of the
bathroom. She had mentioned something about being bored, and disappeared into the bathroom.
"Ta-dahh!" Cassi announced as she emerged. She was dressed in dark blue scrubs, with red ties
at the waist and ankles, Romano's white doctor's coat...(which does have his name on it), and one
of his scrub caps, her hair neatly tucked up out of sight.
Dor stared. "Ooookaaay, now what?" He asked.
"Well that's plainly obvious, isn't it, stupid?!" The desk chair demanded.
Cassi grinned. "Yes, it is." She agreed. "I think it's time for the Chief of Staff to go inspect the
little people."
Dor sighed. "Right....and me?"
Cassi patted his head, as if he were a little dog. "You can be my Med Student." She told him,
generously.
Dor rolled his eyes. "Right.....and what happens if we have to do surgery?" He asked.
"Well...." Cassi replied, thinking about it. "We either call in Mungojerrie...or we'll just have the
surgical table in the OR talk us through it."
Dor shrugged. "Yeah, I guess that would work." He agreed. "We go downstairs then?"
Cassi opened the door. "After you." She retorted. "I hear Fiddles has been through downstairs."
"Now that doesn't surprise me." Dor answered. "What about that evil lady you guys threw out
of here?"
"Oh, don't worry, I'll tell you if she comes in here!" The door announced. "She's mean! She
yelled at me for nothing!"
Cassi locked the door behind them. "Hopefully, we'll keep her busy enough that she won't be
up here." She remarked. "I've studied my Assistant enough to pull off a pretty good act."
"The gods themselves do tremble." Dor muttered as he followed.
"Here's a notebook." Cassi announced, shoving it in his face. "Make sure you take notes so
you'll be a wonderful surgeon just like me one day."
"Wow.." Dor retorted, looking impressed. "You really HAVE studied that guy."
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Pause for a random thought that has absolutely nothing at all to do with this fic. Sven just bought
a gym-bag for carry on for the Mexico trip. What do you suppose we found in there....apart from
the fact that the interior is leather and the exterior is not. What's up with that? Anyhow, we found
a little white packet that reads, "Do not eat this"....Just out of curiosity, did any of you ever buy
a gym bag, thinking there might be something to eat in it!? And now we find another white packet
reading "Do not eat this"....and a little sticker with the number 7 on it. And we wonder....what is
the purpose of this sticker? Are there six other stickers just like it? Where did the other stickers
go? Did they eat each other because they could not eat the white packets? Why would someone
put this sticker inside the bag? Oh right, we were writing a story.
Sorry, you must ignore us. We're on drugs. Do not try this at home....unless of course your doctor
gives it to you, like they do for us. Back to the story.
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In the hallway Luka stopped short, as if he heard something.
"What?" Dave asked, seeing his look. This was as far as he got before an extension courd was
roped around him and tightened from above. A frantic look at Luka told him that the other doctor
was in the same position he was.
At that point, Jing Mei, Shirley, Jeanie, Shadowkitty, Dawn Summers, a girl with green hair, and
a redhead came from around the corner and moved in from the sides.
"Hey, Dave!" Jing Mei shot out, brightly. "How's it going?"
Luka was busy eyeing the redhead. "And you are?" He asked, suspiciously.
Sven grinned. "Jamie." She answered, giving him a Look.
"Um....what is it you guys want?" Dave managed to get out. He was struggling against the courd,
which only got tighter.
"Well, that should be pefectly obvious, don't you think?" Glory asked from above, where she and
Buffy held onto the courds.
"You're our new hostages!" Chen announced, proudly. "We're taking you to our jail and tying
you up!"
"I thought you guys had Romano." Dave responded, still struggling.
"Yeah, well, Romano decided he didn't wanna play and that was no fun." Shirley told him. "By the
way....the more you struggle, the tighter it gets. You might wanna stop before you cut off your
circulation."
Buffy and Glory jumped to the floor, knocking the guys off their feet, and then tying thier ankles to
their wrists.
"Time!" Glory shouted, gleefully, as she finished first.
Luka and Dave from their postitions on the floor, stared in shock. "Oh this really sucks." Dave
muttered, grumbling.
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Downstairs in the ER, the green horse incident was the talk of the staff. All the nurses that didn't
get the chance to witness it, were busy trying to get details from the ones who did. Romano and
Elizabeth watched from an above ventilation shaft.
"Now THAT I so would have wanted to see." Romano whispered with a grin.
Elizabeth smirked. "I REALLY have been away from the set too long." She murmured. "Do you
think Cassi and Sven would want me to come back?"
"I don't think they'd mind...I mean they'd just have to get rid of--" Romano cut off, realizing what
he had nearly said. "I mean..."
Elizabeth stared at him. "What?"
Robert looked down with a sigh. "Look, Lizzie, we can always discuss this later--"
Elizabeth cut him off holding up her hand. "It's Mahk, isn't it?" She asked quietly. "He's still
alive."
Romano gave a nod. "You weren't supposed to know." He told her. "They found out he was
going to die, and they sent back a clone."
"Does Rachel know?" She asked.
"Yeah, she's been there, too." Romano answered. "I'm sorry, Lizzie. You weren't supposed to find
out like this."
She shook her head. "No....I think I--I mean..." She tried again. "When I saw Lucy....I just had
a feeling..."
They were interrupted by a disturbance from the ER below them.
Romano stared. "Tell me I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing." He managed to get out.
In the ER, the nurses and adult doctors were doing the same openmouthed stare as Romano.
Striding across the ER as if she owned the place, was Cassi wearing what appeared to be Romano's
clothes, and Dor, dressed as a med student, carrying a notebook and a pencil.
"And this!" Cassi spat out, as she walked in. "This is the ER butcher shop. If you look really
close, you can see the poor shmucks that are about to become the next line of victims."
"Excuse me, but what exactly are you doing?" Weaver demanded.
Cassi looked down at Weaver with a smirk. "Teaching my med student, and was I talking to you,
Kerry? NO! Shut up!" She snapped, in a very familiar "I must be paid attention to as I am the
Chief of Staff" voice.
Benton stepped up to her. "Okay, so you're Romano." He remarked in an amused tone. "You've
gotten taller since we last met....and who is this?"
Cassi motioned to Dor as if he were a disease. "A lab coated tumor." She answered. "This is
a teaching hospital, is it not? I am teaching.....now butt out! This way please."
Dor sighed and followed.
"And of course you're wondering, did I ask to be worn by this tumor? No indeed, I did not!" The
lab coat announced.
Up in the ventilation shaft, Elizabeth was laughing so hard she was crying.
"That's not funny." Romano retorted, flatly.
In the ER, the nurses were now staring at Cassi and Dor.
"Excuse me!" Cassi called out. "Are we not working today, people!? Get back to work or you're
all FIRED!"
Chuny looked at Frank and Randi. "Now that is scary." She whispered.
"It's like they're multiplying." Haleh put in. "Who is that?"
Cassi, hearing this turned toward her. "I am the Chief of Staff!" She spat out. "Now GET BACK
TO WORK!" She quickly looked over at Dor. "Are you taking notes?"
Dor nodded. "Every word." He replied, proudly.
Cassi looked over his shoulder, and made a face. "Working has no "U" in it and tumor is not
spelled like "two-more." She corrected.
Dor made a face, and threw the notebook in the trash. "I don't think I like this job." He stated,
with a glare.
"That's because your spelling sucks!" The pencil announced. "I've seen first graders with better
spelling."
"That's annoying." Cassi remarked, walking into curtain 2 where Connie was with Murdoc and
Ryan. "What do we have?" She asked, pulling Dor up behind her.
Connie stared at the coat she was wearing. "Who are you?" She questioned.
Cassi rolled her eyes. "The Chief of Staff." She answered, as if it were obvious. "I said it a few
times now, let me know when it sinks in. What do we have?"
"Umm, Murdoc is having 150 stitches removed from his arm." She answered.
Cassi frowned. "Yes, I remember." She turned to Dor. "And what do you think?"
Dor gave a clueless look. "I think the guy's in trouble if you're going to do it." He retorted.
Cassi glared at him. "When I want your opinion, I'll be happy to beat it out of you!" She snapped.
"Who was the doctor that put these in?"
"Um.....Greene." Dor announced.
"And where is Greene?" She asked.
"Dr. Greene is dead." Connie cut in.
Cassi stared aghast. "NO!" She cried, then turned back to Dor. "Who killed him this time!? I
never approved of that!"
"As far as I know, he's still outside." Dor replied, giving Connie a Look for trying to get him into
trouble.
Cassi appeared to think about it. "Right." She looked at Connie. "I could have you fired for that!"
She shouted. "How dare you lie to me like that!"
Connie was now staring at Cassi as if she came from the moon.
From the doorway, there came a child's voice. "Going for an Oscar, Cas?" Romano demanded.
Cassi turned to see the small surgeon standing next to Elizabeth, whose face was streaked with
tears, and she was still laughing. "Yeah, how am I doing?" Cassi asked, with a grin.
"You're overdoing it a bit." He told her.
Connie started laughing. "No she's not." She replied between giggles.
Finding this incredibly funny, the two morphine junkies in the room responed the only way that
morphine junkies could. They started singing, and laughing.
Cassi turned back to Connie. "Get back to work!" She ordered, walking out.
Romano glared at Elizabeth for a minute, before he grabbed her and pulled her away before anyone
else could see them, leaving Connie to deal with the morphine junkies.
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Pratt groaned as he leaned against a wall out in the hallway. First the strange group of patients,
then that green horse singing as it ran through with what could only have been Carter and two
other kids on it, then this new "Chief of Staff", who seemed to sound and dress like Romano....it
was really too much to deal with on top of everything else that had happened that day.
He fell silent as he heard voices.
"Oh come on, guys, it's not the end of the world." One spoke up.
"This is insane through all logic, you know." A young male voice remarked.
Pratt, following the sounds, looked around the corner and immediately wished he hadn't. A group
of five year old girls were carrying two IV poles horizontal. What really caught his eye was that
they seemed to have two boys tied to them by their wrists and ankles. The boys were Luka and
Dave. One of the girls was Jing Mei. Pratt felt his mouth fall open in shock.
"You are our prisoners, and prisoners do NOT talk!" A girl with blond curly hair and a red satin
mini-dress ordered.
"Don't make us gag you." Jing Mei told Dave.
"I don't believe this is happening." Luka remarked.
"Kind of embarrassing, if you ask me." Dave added. "What if someone sees us?"
"We'll get rid of them." A redhead answered, grinning.
Pratt moved back out of sight, and calmly walked back toward the ER. The new Romano clone
could not possibly be THAT bad, he told himself.
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End Part 18, and I trust we have made a few peoples happy? How was that for bondage? hehehe.
More to come although we're not sure how much we'll come out with before we leave. So I'll just
spellcheck this, and then you'll all have a nice new chapter! Please leave us your reviews now!
Thanx for sticking with us, hope we've made it rewarding! ^_^
Point of fact, the clothes are NOT Romano's. I'm afraid I wouldn't fit into his....considering I'm a
good three inches taller than him.....see Lizzie and I are the same height! That's how I know!
For those who don't know, we're both 5'10". Only the cap and coat are his. The rest are all mine.
--Cassi