The Doctor that Liara had requested had been watching the whole time behind the mirror writing his observations of the human. The first time he saw the human's head jerked to the side, almost as if something had hit him. Normally the Doc would have attributed that to a biotic amp. It puzzled him as to why the human was having the same problems. What puzzled him more was when the pain became so bad the human couldn't stand anymore. A Turian officer moved to help but the Doctor stopped him. The human got to his feet with a lot of effort and made his way toward them. He stopped inches away from the mirror in front of the Doctor. Even though he knew the human couldn't see him it looked like he was looking right at the Doc. Blood started leaking out of one of the human's ears. Before anything else could happen the human vomited onto the mirror. It was more blood. Something caught the Doctor's attention. The human had a small smile on his mouth. His head flinched to the side again but this time the human's legs gave out.
"Assist, now!" The Doc shouted. As the Doctor was shouting the Turian he had stopped earlier was already in motion. Before anybody could do anything his fist went through the glass followed by the rest of his body. A Human and another Turian jumped through the window after the Turian. The Doc went out the door to grab his bag. He made it back in the room just in time to hear the human finish muttering something before he passed out.
"What did he say?" the Doctor asked. The Turian looked up at him.
"I think he said 'that's going to leave a mark'" After a short pause the Doc chuckled knowing what the human was referring to. An orange glow covered the Doctor's arm as he waved it over the human. Liara burst into the room.
"Mordin! What happened?" She asked the Doc. Mordin's fingers moved in a blur in front of the orange glow for a minute before he answered.
"He is still bleeding. Needs surgery immediately. You two," he said pointing at the two that followed the first Turian through the window. "Needs hospital. Move quickly." They moved to comply.
"What happened Mordin?" Liara asked again. Mordin motioned for her to follow. They all made their way to the nearest Shuttle. Setting the human in the back Liara squeezed into the front next to their Turian driver that punched out the window and Mordin got in the back to watch his patient. As the Turian started the Shuttle Mordin turned to Liara.
"Was very strange. Showed signs of biotic implant. Suddenly vomited onto mirror. Ran scan but confused by result. Ran scan again. Same result. He is suffering from Boerhaave's syndrome or Esophagitis. Strange ether way. Rather what he has is more extreme than both. The humans haven't seen ether case in over a century." Liara looked at him strange.
"Mordin I don't know what that is." She stated. The human started coughing. It was a sick and very wet cough.
"Blood is draining into his lungs." Mordin stated. The Turian tapped Liara's shoulder.
"To answer your question it's Spontaneous perforation of the esophagus." There was a moment of silence. The Turian spared a glance to see what the two were doing. Both were staring at him. Mordin blinked a couple of times.
"Correct." Mordin stated.
"Why do you know that?" Liara asked. The Turian shrugged.
"Humans are the only race that doesn't have any scales, plates, or tough hide of any sort. By all means it looks like humans are the weakest race, other than the hanar. But you hear about…"
"We are here." Mordin inturupted. A Team was waiting for them as the shuttle landed.
I came to, to the sound of two voices talking. Their words, I couldn't understand them yet. Where they talking to me? I kept my eyes closed trying to understand what they were saying. One of them sounded like a man that was talking to fast. The other a woman, ah, Liara. I was in a room then…what? Something happened to me. I remember pain. I remember my blood. I couldn't remember what happened. I was in a bed most likely at a hospital. I opened my eyes only to shut them immediately. The glare of the light was just too much. I moved my hand to shade my eyes and opened them again.
"Ah, he is awake. Should have been asleep for another hour." It sounded like the hyper man was next to the bed I was in. I moved my hand way as my eyes adjusted to the light. I found myself looking at another alien. This one looked almost amphibian with horns or rather one horn. The other seemed to be missing. "You gave us a shock. Reaction to the chip implant and radiation from mass effect fields. Humans haven't had that reaction for about one hundred and fifty years. Lucky I was watching you." The amphibian man said.
"Indeed it was." Liara spoke up. "This was the Doctor that I had requested. His name is Mordin . The best of the best as you humans put it." I chuckled at that. I tried to say something but nothing came out. I tried again. Nothing. I looked at the Doctor for an explanation.
" The medicinal nanobots have put your ability to speak in stasis for the next three hours as they repair your throat and adjust your body to the mass effect fields. Your reaction was fascinating." I held out a hand and used my other hand to mime that I wanted something to write with. Liara and Mordin looked at me for a few minutes trying to get what I was trying to tell them. Mordin wordlessly handed me something that almost looked like an ipad with an orange screen. Taking it I looked at it with a blank look. I had no idea how this thing worked. I messed around with it for a couple more minutes until I figured out how to type a message.
'What happened to me?' I wrote.
"Your body reacted violently to the radiation of the mass effect fields, like I said earlier. That reaction in essence shredded your throat. Fascinating, never seen that happen before. The pain you were feeling before was a combination of your body's reaction to the translator we implanted. The radiation from the mass effect field affected that area the most. By the time the bots are done you should be back to normal." Mordin answered. I nodded.
'No longer than two to three hours right?' Mordin nodded. 'Got anything I can read while I wait?'
"Need to put you back to sleep. The bots work the best when host is asleep." I looked at him for a few minutes then nodded. The orange glow appeared around his arm. No sooner had I seen it my eyes grew heavy. I fought it for as long as I could just for the heck of it. I lasted another eleven seconds before I couldn't hold it back anymore and fell into a blissful sleep.
It seemed like it was only seconds before I opened my eyes again. It was dark in here, really dark. I blinked my eyes, something was wrong. I blinked them several times.
"Could someone turn one the lights?" I called out. Hey I can talk again.
"They are on." Mordins voice came from next to me. I jumped. I felt something being waved in front of my face. "Can you see this?"
"No."
"Reaction might be more serious than first thought, unless…how is your eyesight?"
"20/15 I last checked. But that was several years ago. I think it's gotten worse."
"Did you ever wear corrective lenses?"
"I did."
"Did?"
"I got laser surgery on my eyes so I wouldn't have to."
"Ah, that explains your lack of eyesight. The bots are now healing your eyes and correcting them." I felt him wave something in front of me again. "They will be finished in twenty minutes."
"While we are waiting lets go sightseeing." I joke. There was a moment of silence. I heard light footsteps come into the room.
"Good, you are awake. Sightseeing is going to have to wait. I have a few questions for you." Liara stated.
"Do any of them require visual acuteness?" Mordin quickly cut in. Liara paused.
"No, Why?"
"His ocular functions are being repaired."
"Were his eyes damaged?" she asked puzzled. Mordin shook his head no.
"Just old methods of ocular correction." Liara nodded. I closed my dark eyes. No point in keeping them open anyway.
"I need to ask you a few questions." Liara stated.
"Alright, shoot." I said. There was a moment of silence.
"Earlier you said that you were born on the East coast of the United States of America. Is that where you lived?" I tensed slowly. I thought she was going to ask me about how I got there if I remember anything but she didn't. Only one way to handle this.
"Nope." She waited for a moment expecting me to give her more information. I kept my answers short. Why was she asking me these weird questions about my personal life? She went on.
"How big was your family?" I opened my eyes in an attempt to look at her long and hard. My vision was coming back slowly.
"Why are you asking me these questions?"
"I'm building a profile of you to enter into our database."
"Doesn't a profile just include a description, likes, dislikes, and criminal history? Why do you need to know about my family?" A smile tugged a Mordin's lips. Liara paused for only a minute.
"How old are you?"
"You have that information on my Driver's license."
"Are you playing hard?" I shrugged.
"I might be."
"Why?"
"You are asking me questions you already know the answer to. What are you after?" A small smile graced Liara's lips before she motioned for Mordin to follow her out of the room. Of course all I saw was one blue blob wiggle at a greenish blob before the blobs disappeared. I crossed my arms. That was weird in more ways than one. I am usually very open with people. I tell people to be careful what they ask because I will answer and they may not like it. I say that because as my mom always said I was too honest. Why was I stubborn then? That's not like me.
Well a lot of ground covered in this chapter hope you are all keeping up. A slow start but the next chapter has some action in it. I promise (holds up hand) scouts honor.