-2 rushes to the Sector-X medical ward. She doesn't even need to check in, the secretary just lets her through. This medical ward is the home to the entire Medical Association. These are the people that are tasked with treating ISD, IA, RAISA, RRT, Alpha-1, and O5 council members. They are the best of the best in the foundation making them some of the greatest doctors and surgeons in the world.
"Where are they treating Operative BULL," she asks a passing nurse with haste. "In room 011 ma'am," the female nurse replies fast. -2 pulls a lollipop out of her coat pocket and gives it to the nurse and rushes down the hallway to see her patient.
She walks into the room to already see a team of nurses and doctors surrounding him. Hooking him up to a heart rate monitor she rushes over to the nurses station and slips on some scrubs, gloves, a cap, and a mask. The team of medical professionals all make way for their overseer. O5-2 is considered the greatest doctor on the planet receiving a PhD for every medical profession ever conceived she is knowledgeable of everything medical related.
The ICU bed BULL is on has a pre-installed X-Ray machine that -2 flips on. The machine begins to scan BULL. 1 minute later the screen on the side of the bed tells the medical team that there are no broken or fractured bones, but his spine is slightly out of place. "Flip him over please, i'm gonna test his latent reflexes," -2 asks the team. They all heft BULL onto his side and onto his stomach, his bare back facing -2. She feels up and down his spinal cord for any discrepancies. She reaches his lower back and notices a slight curvature of his spine to the left. "I need 5ccs of sedative please. Jackson get me a scalpel as well." She feels for the curvature again with the needle in her hands.
She carefully positions the needle onto the gap in his spine, and injects it pushing in the sedative liquid to make sure he doesn't feel a thing. When she's finished she takes the scalpel and carefully cuts the shape around the curvature of the spine. When she's finished she whispers in BULLs ear, "I'm glad you won't feel this because I sure will." She goes into the incision she made and manually moves his spine back into place. BULL squirms slightly in his sedated state. When -2 is finished she sighs deeply and begins to sew BULLs incision back together. She shoos out the medical staff. "I was rooting for you y'know. My heart jumped into my lungs when he slammed you against that wall. I wanted to take one of the guns from my guards and give him a quick shot to the head," she says to BULL still unconscious. She finishes up the stitching on his back, it's perfect.
BULL wakes up in the ICU bed his vision is very hazy and his lower back feels terrible. He looks to his side and he sees NOMAD sitting there with a worried look on his face. "He lives," NOMAD says blankly. BULL is wary of him now. He remembers everything except how he got here. "Why are you here asshole," BULL hisses. NOMAD scoffs in surprise, "I'm here to see if you're doing okay but if you don't want me here," he begins to leave, "Wait..." BULL says. "Please stay, I hate being alone."
NOMAD sighs and plops down on his chair. BULL notices his nose is all bandaged up, "You got me good, that palm heel strike was clever." BULL looks at the heel of his palm, replicating the move he made. "Listen. I'm sorry for what I said, I was being insensitive," NOMAD says, "but you gotta understand that that type of shit happens. You just have to endure it." BULL looks down in guilt and regret, "Yeah i'm sorry for tackling you... and yeah with your nose," BULL sighs. "Kinda just lost my cool. I felt really bad for that little girl. I'm not saying I wouldn't splatter that dudes brains on the wall again, but that little girl in tears... really got to me. The way she cradled her dad in her arms, completely fearless, almost begging to be shot as well. It was a really sad scene." BULLs speech trails off into nothing.
NOMAD looks down in silence, careful to play to BULLs obvious sadness. They sit like that for a few minutes when O5-2 comes into the room, her clipboard in hand. She stops at the sight of NOMAD and reaches for her Beretta M9 pistol she keeps with her for emergencies. NOMAD is off the chair in a split second grabbing the barrel of the gun and yanking it down.
He snatches the gun from her and tosses it across the room. "Look," he says with his hands up, "I'm not here to hurt the kid. I was just trying to talk to him." BULL has fallen asleep still feeling the effects of the sedative. -2 stamps her foot in irritation, "Get out or else," she growls at him. She might be 5'2 but she is still an O5, and with that comes the ability to virtually control anyone around her. But with that power comes great mental strain. -2 being the medical professional she is wasn't really affected by her power trip, but once in a while she might get a little on her high horse. The fact that she got frustrated with NOMAD proves that he really angered her. NOMAD knowing full well of what she could do to him slinks out of the room leaving -2 and BULL alone.
BULL doesn't know this but -2 has a thing for him. A slight work related relationship that she longs for them to have. She knows that if the rest of the council found out she would be in some deep doo doo.
She is obsessed with drama/romance books and movies where there are two people madly in love with each other, but certain circumstances prevent them from being together. But in the end love always prevails. She wants that in her life. Only the council knows this, but she is actually 541 years old. She herself doesn't know when she will die, only that she could drop at any moment. And before she dies she wants to fall in love.
She's never experienced it before until the day she met BULL. She knows he is fairly young at the age of 24, he was raised in the foundation. So when she sees him lying there defenseless she just can't help herself. She goes to his bedside and begins to lean into BULL. "Okay Cyn you can do this. It's just a small kiss... maybe," she tells herself.
She's an inch away from his face, their noses are practically touching. She goes in and gives him a slight peck on the lips. She stays there for a few seconds and manages to pull away. She giggles to herself and does a little happy dance. Her face is bright red as her lips are still tingling. "-2... are you okay? You look like you're burning up."
-2 yelps and jumps a foot into the air. She straightens herself out and clears her throat, "You're awake good. Uhm I was just taking some diagnostics! Yeah that's what I was doing. You surprised me thought you were a zombie or SCP-008-1 or something ha..." her nervous laugh trails off.
OH SHIT! Alright Cyn here's your chance to ask him out. You're alone with him and no one will be listening. Alright here goes... "So BULL... I was wondering if maybe you wanted to maybe go someplace above ground... I know this really good Thai place that we could go to!" BULL laughs loudly, "Is this you asking me out on a date -2?" -2 looks down and twiddles her thumbs and wiggles her feet, "Yeah if you wanna go..." she says with a mouselike tone. BULL smiles widely, "Hell yeah i'm down, as soon as I get out of here let's go!"
-2 looks up in disbelief and excitement, "All right! Let's say Saturday in two days. You better look nice," she says to him sternly. BULL nods with a grin on his face. He watches her as she leaves the room clutching her clipboard.