Disclaimer: Refer to ch. 1
CHAPTER 9
Rufus Part 2
The crash of a door hitting the wall woke Rufus from his nap. Two human females were talking loudly while going downstairs.
"I mean who keeps a rat in their pocket? Seriously?"
"Maybe the rat was the only one who loved him. And who gets blown up by a golf ball anyway?"
Rufus shook himself and stretched. The two humans strode right past where he was, and continued down the staircase. The mole rat scampered down the stairs after them and just slipped through the doorway before it closed on him. He dodged many feet on his path following the two loud humans, and slipped through another doorway into a cool, tiled room with a lot of paper on the floor. One of his feet slipped in a small puddle of water and Rufus was sent spinning across the room into an overturned trashcan. As such, he missed most of the conversation between the two loud humans and another.
"Oh! Hi, Dr. Bailey."
"Yang, Stevens. How are our patients getting along?"
"Mr. Stoppable is stable for now, but I'm scheduling an OR this afternoon," Dr. Stevens replied.
"And Miss Possible's mother arrived recently, she's terrorizing the third floor…or something."
"Well if my daughter was dodging explosives thrown by a freak in a skirt, I would be upset too. Have any of you seen O'Malley? I want to see if he's found that mole rat yet."
"Last I heard he was over by gyno."
"Well, I'll be supervising in the clinic as well as looking over these two new patients. When you see O'Malley, tell him to find me."
"Will do, Dr. Bailey," the two doctors chorused.
"Good."
The short human left the room and the two loud ones went through separate doors still talking about rats, golf balls and something else. Rufus missed the rest of what they were saying by that point.
He had more important things to do.
Rufus had climbed out of the piles of paper by pulling himself up on a hanging sheet of brown paper. His foot caught on the edge of something from the pile, and Rufus started yanking his foot to get to come loose. He pulled too hard though and when he got his foot back, he ended up swinging around on top of the counter to land in the sink. The bottle of soap tipped over on top of him and he was covered in head to tail in the thick pink substance. Suddenly a red light started blinking and the faucet turned on above his head.
Brrrrrr! Rufus shivered, Cold!!
The water came down on top of his head and it was washing away the soap on him as well as all the dirt that showed up from the fight and ride in his human's pocket.
After his impromptu shower, Rufus hopped out of the sink and took a running leap towards the hanging brown paper that had saved him before. In an amazing show of acrobatics; he caught the side of the paper towel, swung off the counter and spun down across the floor towards the doorway. Slipping out of the room, just as a nurse pushed the door open. He had to snicker a bit when he heard the human start muttering to herself before the door closed completely.
"I know that I put those cookies into my bag this morning. I just can't imagine..."
So, now that Rufus was clean and had a nap there was only one thing on this little mole rats' mind: 'Food! He he, yum!'