Getting to know you, subchapter three: Medics
" You are either the most brilliant or the most idiotic man I've ever met." The female medic said while surveying the inside of the teleporter.
" Miss, I believed that's the description of the medic I've ever heard." The male engineer chuckled to himself. The engineers and medics had entered the medibay, and immediately begun dissecting the device responsible for all the chaos.
" But look here," The female engineer butted in. She had a shrill voice and pointed nose that made her seem like a rodent of some kind. " They've disengaged the safety routers and hooked them into the RF-T cortex. That's lunacy!"
" Zis entire situation is lunacy fraulein." The male medic huffed. The female engineer straightened.
" In theory, we're simply going to reverse this right?"
" Ja."
" Then we need tools." She turned to the male engineer. " Lead the way." Shrugging, the male engineer shuffled out, his petite counterpart close on his heels.
" Sorry 'bout Lucy. She's talented but she's used to getting her way." The female medic said, looking up from the teleporter.
" I'm not complaining. Tell me, vhat do you zhink uf our engineer?" There was a hesitant curiosity in his voice.
" Honestly?"
" How else?"
" Seems smart. Quiet enough. Really pretty eyes. Why, is he off limits or something?"
" Let me fraise it zhis vay, he is not taken but if you make a move I vill destroy you in effery vay I can imagine."
" Too shy to make a move yourself?"
" I am not shy!" The male medic huffed. " He just has a vay uf making me somevhat tied tongued, zat's all!"
" Tongue tied."
" Shut up! Need I make it more obfious zis is not my first language?"
" Whoah buddy, calm down. Engineer is all yours. Heck, you can have both if you want" The female medic smirked. " This is like the set up for some lame soap opera. The medic who cannot tell his crush he is in love."
" Oh, and I suppose za fraulein has had all ze gentlemen knocking on her door, ja?"
" Umm, no." The female medic went back to inspecting the teleporter. " Guys aren't really my area."
" You prefer ze other frauleins?" She shook her head.
" Haven't met anyone I like that way. Can we stop talking about what I find attractive? Love just means your nether regions are trying to get someone knocked up and I'm glad I haven't found it yet." A bitter edge crept into the last few words.
" My apologies fraulein, I did not mean to pry."
"Yeah, well, you did. Let's switch topics. I'm Saanvi by the way, Saanvi Ghosh. Don't assume I'm not an American just because my name isn't. "
"Guten Tag, Saanvi. My name is my buziness, howevah, I haf a topic to discuss in mind."
" Shoot."
" Vhat do you zhink, uf ze musical theatre?" As a smile crept onto the male medic's face, Saanvi's eyes light up.
" You know Fritz-"
" Fritz is not my name."
" Yeah, well I gotta call you something. As I was saying, Fritz, we may have more in common than I originally thought."