Gaster was walking down the hall with a clipboard in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. He took a sip and read his notes through, to make sure that he hadn't missed anything. He shortly used his blue attack to make his mug levitate so he could put down the force field to the cell.
He picked up his mug and took another quick sip before looking up from his papers, just to find a wide smile greeting him. He almost choked on it. Kate was already ready to start. And by ready, it means that she was wearing a lab coat and had her own clipboard in her tiny hands. She was almost standing on her toes in anticipation while looking at him with stars in her eyes.
"Good morning doctor! Ready to do science?" She beamed and placed a pencil behind her ear.
He didn't answer right away. He gave her the elevator look and wondered where she had gotten that old rag she called a lab coat. That thing looked like it was over 20 years old.
"What... are you wearing?" The doctor asked.
"This awesome piece of art? Well this is my trusty lab coat! I got it hand down by the man who showed me the wonders of science!" She pulled the fabric out to show, which also revealed a lot of permanent stains and mending.
"It's old." He didn't remark it. It was a simple fact.
"Don't question good quality! This old dog still have about 50 more years in 'im! Look! It's double-layer! Fancy, huh?" She winked at him. What was she doing? Did she think he was gonna be impressed?
He was about to tell her, not to wear that thing for the testing, when she just walked past him. He turned on his heel and saw that she already had made her way down the hall to one of the first doors. He had to think quickly. He almost forgot to make his mug levitate, as he, hurriedly had to put up the force field before perusing her.
Sans and Papyrus were left stunned. She just walked past him! They feared for her safety as they saw the angry doctor quickly walking down the hall and disappearing around the corner.
Gaster walked into his office to find Kate, already snooping in his stuff. She was looking through some papers with who knows, kind of information, was written on them. He quickly walked over and grabbed her wrist.
She looked upon him with surprise and confusion. She was still holding a piece of paper in her other hand, which she put down as he pulled her over to a medical table and ordered her to sit on.
"We're beginning right away? You're not gonna introduce me to what project we're doing? Not gonna share the notes of what data we're collecting today? If you and I are gonna work together we seriously need to communicate better than this." She rambled as he picked up the tray full of empty needles for blood samples.
This was going to be so much easier than normal as she actually had veins! He placed them beside the human and his notes on the desk by her other side. She didn't waste a second and peeked at the document without touching. He let it pass as she finally were quiet for a second.
"Your subjects are.. facinating. They're prime examples for lots of mental disorders. Anxeity, Denial, Stockholm syndrome and of course some mild depression."
Gaster tried to ignore her. Nothing she said was any news to him. He already knew all of it. He put on his rubber gloves and sterilized the skin on the inside of her arm.
"How long have you been working as the royal scientist? You don't look THAT old.. well.. It's pretty hard telling age just by the skelleton." She chuckled. She didn't seem to notice (or care?) that he didn't pay her any attention. After finding the vein, he picked up the needle.
"I appoligise for looking in your research without permission, before. You seemed really upset about it. I just thought.. I mean after our agreement yesterday I didn't think it would be a problem and AaaaAAAa.. aa..."
And the needle was in.
"Aaa..And as i was saying: You should use the Dellian method."
Now he was lost.
"Dellian? Sorry, what were we talking about?" He asked. Confused as to how the coversation had come from and where it was going.
"Your notes! I saw that you had used the Minosoouse method for an experiment.. and failed. I just think that you would get better results with the Dellian method instead." She said and careful rubbed her arm after he had taped a cottonball to it.
He frowned as he picked up the scalpel for the next test. He remembered the experiment she talked about. It had been a totalt disaster and he had already given up on it but... He never thoguht of using THIS method for such type of experiment. It was an pretty uniqe thought. He didn't know if it was gonna work, but now he was curios.
He went over to his desk and searched for the files. It didn't take long before he had collected it all and went though the information. He tried to make some head calculations, but this was pretty hardcore math.
He sat down and began scribbing some numbers down but he just couldn't focus! He needed coffee. He picked up his trusty mug and took a sip. Which he sip out again. It was lurkwarm. He needed strong hot black coffee right now. He had gotten to exited over finishing the experiment that he just couldn't focus without. He hurridly exited the room to go and get a new cup. He had made a whole pot this morning in the small kicthen down the hall. It had the most nessersary but he mostly just used the coffeemaker. He had his own kicthen upstairs in his home.
As he walked back to his office he suddenly realised that he had forgotten the human! He began running and to his relief found her in the office... in his chair writing in HIS DOCUMENTS! He went over and slammed down the mug so it's content almost spilled. Kate gave a surprised yelp and jumped in her seat. She then gave him a reproachful look, as if HE had done something wrong.
He opened his mouth to yell a her, when he noticed exatcly WHAT she had written. It was the math problem. She had solved it! He picked up the paper and looked through the equation. It was correct! And she had done it in such a short time. She hadn't lied. She WERE a genius!
Gaster looked down at Kate who had her arms crossed while smirking as if she had just read his mind.
He rolled his eyes and pushed her out of the chair.
"First off, this is MY chair." He said, sitting down. Almost just to prove the point.
"Secondly, what made you think of using the Dellian method for THIS kind of problem?"
"Well.. i've always been great at seeing things from a different angle. It was something that all my other bosses really liked about me. If they got stuck they could ask me to look at the problem and give them advice or ideas." Kate had begun playing with her hair. Seemed like she couldn't be still or be quiet without something to do.
"Interesting. Well.. what would say about..." He began digging in the mountain of paper until he found the document he needed. "..THIS. I've been working on it for weeks but no matter what I do, I can't make it work!" He took a sip of his coffee. The problem had annoyed him for a while now and he badly neeeded the caffine. He didn't know HOW she would try to solve it, but he didn't count on her to..
"Done."
He almost choked. Surely she must have been joking. Right?
"What?" He said and took the paper from her. He couldn't see anything different. Hah! He knew it! There's no way she could have..
"You had a simple typo in the very first line." She pointed at a number.
"You probably meant to write 9, but the pen must have been low on ink so you accidently wrote 3, instead. Which messed up the entire equation." She explained with a voice as dry as a middleschool teacher.
W. D. Gaster were stunned. AND impressed. She was smart and kinda helpful actually. He squinted his eyesockets.
"Are you up for a REAL challenge?"
She cracked her knuckles.
"I was BORN ready!"
Sans and Papyrus grew more and more anxious as hours passed. They had been gone for more that the double of the average time they normally would be 'taken away'. They finally heard the familiar footsteps and turned their attention to the cell entrance. Down the hall they heard.. laughter? And they must have heard wrong because it sounded like the doctor were.. chuckling? Must have been the wind.
Kate and Gaster casually entered the cell as they kept talking.
"And then I said: If you seriously believe that, then you must be the square root of 2. Because right now you are 'irrational'!" Kate said and began laughing at her own joke. Gaster simply lifted his hand to cover his mouth, as to hide a smile.
"I'll see you tomorrow, then." The doctor said, bidding goodbye.
"See ya, doc!" Kate gave a small wave before walking over to her bed to graceless slump down upon.
"Hey, guys!" Kate greeted the skeleton brothers, who just silently starred at her. Stunned over the casual way she had talked to the doctor.
"How did you.. I've spent, who knows how many days, trying to get through to him.. and you just.." Papyrus stuttered. He just couldn't believe what he had just witnessed.
"Well.. what can I say? We're on the same level." Kate said and remembered how the doctor had totally forgotten about the tests he wanted to run with her. Instead, they had been talking and talking for hours while taking notes and discussing theories. At some point, the doc had realized how much time had passed and how he still needed to write his daily report.
"Why don't you start on that report and I'll make myself useful in the meantime?" She offered.
Gaster thought about it shortly. He really needed to finish the report. And fast. He really didn't want to waste time running down the hall to lock her up right now. So he agreed.
"Fine! But stay in this room! And don't bother me!" He said and swung his chair around so he faced the table.
"Oki-doki, boss!"
The doc were nervous at first. He feared that he would have to look over his shoulder every other minute, to make sure she still were there. But she had begun humming a relaxing melody while.. doing whatever she were doing and it didn't take that much time to finish the report, as he had thought.
When finished, he turned around and nearly fell off his chair. For a second, he could not recognize his office. It was.. clean? Well the floors weren't swept and the trashcan were still full, but everything were in its place. Even the papers on his desk were neatly stacked. How she had done that, without his noticing, he had no idea.
Kate just stood and looked really smug. She knew she had done a good job.
It weren't long before the two of them walked down the hall to the cell, together.