Chapter 6: Double Trouble
Author's Comments
As for this chapter, I'm not a doctor so I don't know about all the kinds of tests they might do, which is why I didn't list any of them or show them being done. The length of time she has to lay still for the MRI is just a guess, but I know it's a rather long period of time.
And as always, I don't own Sailor Moon, which is really too bad.
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After Usagi finished changing she sat on the examination table tugging at the gown. As she did this, she was silently hoping the doctor was nicer than the receptionist. Soon she heard the click of the door as it was thrust open.
The green haired woman walked back into the room, this time she was wearing a white doctor's coat. As she stepped in the room she said, "Hello I am..."
Usagi interrupted her and said, "What do you want now? Haven't you tortured me enough?" She jumped off the table and hid behind it.
"Excuse me?" asked she with a puzzled look on her face.
"You're that mean receptionist. What are you going to do now? Take a picture of me and post it all over the building?" Usagi asked.
A sweat drop appeared on the woman's forehead and she said, "That was my twin sister, Ika. Although, since she met this white headed guy named Diamond, she's wanted everyone to call her Emerald. I'm not sure why."
Usagi suddenly remembered why the woman had looked so familiar. She was a younger version of Emerald. "Creepy," she thought.
The woman began speaking again, "Recently my sister has been having, uh... behavioral problems, but I thought I had fixed that already. I guess I need to have another talk with her. Ika's been scaring all my patients away, and she seems to enjoy doing it. She's really good at getting them to run out of the office in a matter of moments, and they are usually screaming, or crying when they do. If they are even a few seconds late she tries to send them away and have them schedule a new appointment. Then she has these ridiculous questionnaires she makes them fill out. Although, I'm sure you probably already know all about those."
Usagi peered over the table and nodded her head.
"I'm really sorry about all that. In fact, I'm surprised you stayed, you're the first one who has since she's been acting this way. That really had to have taken some guts," she told her.
Usagi slowly stood up and looked at the woman skeptically, not fully believing she was another person.
"I swear I'm not her," the green haired woman replied. "I would have already fired her if she weren't my sister. I have a soft spot in my heart for her, and she knows it. However, my practice can't take much more of this, and if she doesn't start behaving I'm going to have to fire her. I wonder what happened to her, Ika use to be really sweet."
The blonde walked out from behind the table.
"I'm Dr. Toukei, but you may call me Isha." she said. She then looked at what the woman standing in front of her was wearing and said "Oh my."
"It's too small," Usagi said as she began to tug on the gown once more.
"I guess Ika thought of a new way to torture anyone who stays," Dr. Toukei said. "Let me go get you another gown," she told the pig-tailed woman as she walked out of the room.
A few seconds later the doctor walked back in holding another gown. She handed it to Usagi and started to walk back out again. "Let me know when you are finished changing," Isha said as she closed the door behind her.
After Usagi finished changing she walked over to the door and opened it up.
"Finished?" the doctor said.
She nodded and Dr. Toukei walked back inside the examination room. Then the doctor motioned for Usagi to sit down on the table.
As the blonde climbed up onto the table, the doctor removed her folder from the holder on the door. She began to speak, "So you're having problems getting pregnant and decided to seek professional help." She looked down at the folder and then said, "Uh... Mrs. Usagi Tsukino."
Usagi nodded her head in agreement.
"And how long have you been trying to become pregnant?" Isha asked.
"5 weeks," the blonde replied.
"That's all?" the doctor asked sounding rather suprised.
"Yes," replied Usagi.
"Why are you getting help this early?" Isha asked.
"Well I have to be pregnant by..." the blonde began before realizing that if she told the doctor the truth she would think she was a lunatic.
"By...?" the doctor asked.
"Uh, I really want to get pregnant," Usagi said sounding as if it were more of a question than an answer. She looked at the doctor and sat there silently waiting to see if she would believe her.
"Well thats a good enough answer for me," Isha said after a few moments. "I usually I get patients who have been trying for years to get pregnant with no success. Normally I'd tell you just to give it more time, but I really need the money. Well shall we get started?" she said.
For a moment it looked like the pig-tailed woman was going to fall of examination table when she heard her reason for not sending her away, but after a few seconds she straightened back up and nodded her head, knowing that any other doctor wouldn't help her this early in her attempt at pregnancy.
"Ok. First I have a few questions to ask," Dr. Toukei told her, "When was your last period?"
As startled look appeared on Usagi's face as she began to blush. As she nervously began to fiddle with her fingers she said, "Um, I-I... I'm not sure. I mean I don't remember. Uh, recently?"
"Well can you at least tell me if it has been regular?" the green haired woman asked.
Usagi nodded as she squeaked, "Yes."
A few minutes later Isha finished asking her questions and told her patient, "Now we'll have to do a few tests."
"Tests?" Usagi whined. "I've never been good at tests."
"I'm sure you'll do just fine," she told her.
"They aren't math tests are they?" asked Usagi.
A sweat drop appeared over the doctor's forehead and she said, "No, there aren't any math tests."
The blonde sighed with relief.
"Just blood tests and..." the doctor began, but was interrupted by Usagi.
"B-blood tests?" she said. "The kind with needles?"
"Yes, there isn't any other kind," replied Isha.
Usagi began to cry.
"I haven't even done anything to you yet," the doctor told her.
"But you will and it's going to hurt," her patient replied as she continued bawling.
Dr. Toukei sighed. She then decided not to tell her about any more of the things she was about to do to her as she said, "No actually thats what Ika would normally do since she is my nurse."
"Nurse? I thought she was just your receptionist." Usagi said as she a expression of pure terror lit her face. It was a look that could only be compaired to that of a deer in the headlights.
"Well actually Ika fills several different positions. However, with the way she's been acting recently, I think I better do it instead," she told her patient. Soon she began administering numerous tests on Usagi, and a few hours later they were done.
Dr. Toukei walked a back in the room holding the test results. Isha looked up at her patient. Usagi was still teary-eyed and sniffling from the blood that the doctor had taken almost an hour ago. "I said I was sorry." she said.
Usagi just sniffled in response.
"I have most of your results finished already," the doctor told her.
The blonde instantly perked up and began staring at the doctor impatiently waiting for the results.
The doctor began flipping through all the papers in the folder and said, "Well so far they've all been normal."
"So then nothing's wrong with me?" said Usagi happily. She suddenly gasped, and said, "Then does that mean something's wrong with Mamo-chan?"
"Don't go jumping to conclusions yet," Isha said, "I still have to wait on the results of your blood work to be sure. It should be finished in a few days. Plus there is still one more test I want to do."
"You mean I'm not done?" Usagi said as she started crying again.
"This test won't hurt." the doctor told her.
"What kind of test is it?" the pig-tailed woman asked as she sniffled.
"A MRI," replied Isha.
"MRI?" she said looking quite puzzled.
"It's a machine that takes pictures of the inside of your body." the doctor told her.
"What? I thought you said it wouldn't hurt. Taking pictures of what's inside me sounds painful," Usagi said, "What does it do jab a camera down my throat or something?"
"Well I'm beginning to think that's how my sister might do it, but there is nothing to poke or prod you my way. You just have to lie still inside the machine. It's painless, like a x-ray."
"You swear?" Usagi asked her.
"Yes, you won't feel any pain." Dr. Toukei told her. "Please, right this way" she said as she motioned for her patient to follow her.
"So how long will I have to lie there?" Asked Usagi as she followed the doctor out of the room.
"Only about fifteen or twenty minutes." replied Isha.
"T-twenty minutes!" Usagi said as she fell to the floor crying.
The doctor sighed and began trying to coax the blonde off the floor, while thinking that this might be the one patient that she would have been almost glad about Ika scaring off.