As Elmer was trying to decide what in the world he ought to do,
Antubis came padding into the area. 'Where's Hook?' he called to Blondi,
unheard by the human.
'On his way down to his Kingdom.' Blondi informed his pal with a
snicker. 'Dr. Draper has this little red, silk thing and....' The dog
snickered again as he thought of it. He honestly didn't know why humans
seemed to find clothing and the less clothing the better so fascinating.
Antubis was silent for a moment as he thought. Hook was definitely
the most competent doctor around and he was sure that was what Lona needed
if her life was going to be saved. How to get him to the showers,
though....
'What's going on?' Blondi asked his friend.
'Paul drowned Dr. Massingale down in the showers. Mary and I fixed it for now but she needs a doctor.' Antubis looked over at Elmer for a moment. The young man was technically a doctor but where did he fall on the competence scale, now? The anteater kind of felt he was on the lower end of it. Still, he WAS there, though. 'Hey, try nudging the monitor to camera 5. Maybe we can get his attention.'
'Elmer? Good luck with that.' Blondi was alarmed by what Antubis had said about Lona, though. A doctor drowning somehow didn't seem like a very secure thing and his human was supposed to be in charge of things like that. The dog stood on his hind paws, nudging at the buttons with his nose to try to get the right camera in.
"What are you doing? Have you seen Dr. Hook?" Elmer said as he noticed that Blondi was trying to do something with the monitors. He moved further in curiously, looking at what the dog was doing. He had never seen Blondi pull this particular stunt before.
'Just pay attention if you can.' the dog told Elmer firmly. 'And
don't go getting distracted by anything like a head or something!' After
another moment of flipping, he finally found the right camera and sat back
with a satisfied bark. Now if the young human would just figure things out
for a change. He wasn't sure that they should have much hope for that,
though. After the head mess, Blondi had definitely concluded that Elmer
probably wasn't the brightest human around. He wondered if they would
serve nice food for Dr. Massingale's funeral? He hoped that there would be
cake.
"Where in the world is that camera?" Elmer said to himself as he
looked at the image on the monitor that the dog had been fooling with.
Obviously some sort of locker room. Why would they have cameras in the
locker rooms, though? He was just starting to puzzle over that when he
noticed the clothes laying on a bench by the bank of lockers. Of course,
the picture wasn't the best but.... "The ladies' showers?" he muttered.
Otto had a camera with a view into the ladies' showers? Had Otto lost his
mind or something. No, he wouldn't be the one who could have had it put
in, though, Elmer realized. That would be Dr. James. Oh, when the ladies
found out about this one, he didn't even like to think of what they were
going to do to the hospital's idiot administrator.
Suddenly something hit Elmer and he looked closely at the monitor,
trying to make out what he thought he had saw. After a moment, his eyes
widened with shock. He was sure that the clothes on the bench were what
Lona had been wearing in the lab when she got the coffee spilled on her.
"I've got to get down there and warn her!" he muttered as he turned and rushed for the showers. If Lona ended up on the security cameras for all to see without a stitch of clothing on.... Elmer just hoped that she would take a nice, long shower!
'Do you think he can help?' Blondi asked as the two animals watched Elmer rush off.
'I don't know but I suppose he has to know a little something.
They wouldn't let him become a doctor if he didn't, would they?' Of
course, there was the fact that Stegman had somehow became a doctor. They
really needed to screen better at these medical schools. 'Go find Dr. Hook
and get him down to the showers somehow. I better go back down there and
see if I can nudge him in the right direction.'