Another change of Plans
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cornerofmadnessSo I was talking to Mom and Dad going why am I buying a ticket for a tour tomorrow? If I hit construction (and 6 weeks ago there was construction) I'll miss my tour. Let's do it Sunday. Then I was talking to evil little dog and was wondering should I even do a tour with how crowded it'll be over Labor Day. Then I looked more closely at Union Station Museum. It's FIVE museums in a complex. Well that tears it. NO tour for me. I can go back another day for that. So tomorrow Krohn's Conservatory and maybe the cemetery. Sunday I'll do the five museums and come home. That's a nice weekender right?
Survived the psychiatrist. She's hesitant to give me meds between blood thinners being a bitch when it comes to drug interactions and my bad history with anti depressants. Want to read up on cymbalta? Yeah sure whatever. I was expecting a page. She printed me a 30 page document. Um...thanks?? What she really wants me to do is see a therapist which is what I wanted anyhow. I was telling her my ways of handling things. You are already doing everything I would have asked you to do. Yeah. Not surprised. CBT for the win, I guess.
The interesting thing is (and I hope a) my insurance covers it or b) it's not too pricey) she wants me to have a genetic study done to see about some of my bizarre drug reactions etc. I have to admit that was the most intriguing part of the whole visit. Yes please let's dissect my DNA. I've always wanted to do that but 23 and Me's 'medical' ones aren't that accurate for the price.
It's fandom friday. Here's a thing I wrote
Title: Of Dum-Dums and Fanfic
Summary: Dani is sure Malcolm can find danger anywhere even if it’s simply in Edrisa’s office.
Notes: Written for spikesgirl58’s 6 word challenge. X-ray, Play, Trial, Dip, Fraction & Dangerous. Also written for the Get Your Words Out texts from last night challenge. My text was ‘If work found out I was using THEIR paper to write Karate Kid fanfic I'd never hear the end of it.’
Malcolm trailed after Dani down to the morgue. He sucked on a dragon fruit Dum-Dum, unselfconscious with her. Dr. Le Deux had stocked up some fancy flavors yesterday. He enjoyed the dragon fruit. He’d given Dani a mystery flavored one. She’s given him that look that made the skin around her eyes crinkle in that super cute way that got him right in the gut not that he’d admit it. She hadn’t tried the sucker yet. It was in her pencil holder on her desk. He had a pineapple-coconut for Edrisa. She said she missed the Hawaiian flavors of her birthplace. He doubted this technically counted. Then again since Spam musabi was popular there, did it matter? He’d seen Edrisa eat musabi after giving it a little dip in spicy mayo. She offered him a piece. He promised she’d see it again when he threw up. She believed him.
When they rounded the corner to her office Edrisa yelped and hurriedly tried to hide whatever she was doing with the printer. Nothing could make detectives wonder more than furtive, desperate attempts to hide things.
“You’re early!” She tried to give them a stern look. Edrisa might occasionally play at being the tough guy but unless she was truly angry she had no prayer of pulling it off.
“What’s this?” Dani reached for a piece of paper from the printer hopper that Edrisa had been trying to shield.
“No!” Edrisa swatted at Dani’s hand. Dani cocked her eyebrows up and Malcolm leaned against the doorway watching the drama unfold.
“Edrisa….” Dani drew out her name.
“It’s nothing you’d be interested in.” Edrisa wrinkled her nose looking past Malcolm as if trying to find someone outside the door. “No Gil or JT?”
“JT’s giving testimony at a trial and Gil is at lunch,” Malcolm replied. “Why?”
“I was trying to finish my lunch because there is a back up out there.” She nodded in the general direction of the autopsy room. “And this is the why.” She scooped the paper out of the hopper. If work found out I was using their paper to write Karate Kid fanfic, I'd never hear the end of it. Could you imagine what JT would say?”
“Imagine what I will.” Dani smirked.
Edrisa narrowed her eyes. “And here I thought you were cool.”
Dani snickered.
“Really?” Malcolm arched his eyebrows. “Karate Kid fanfic?”
“There’s nothing wrong with fanfic!” Edrisa flushed
He held up his hands. “I agree. It’s a healthy creative outlet for the most part. It’s the Karate Kid part that’s hanging me up. I would have thought Star Trek or Lord of the Rings for you.”
“I never said that was the only fanfic I write. But that’s not why you’re here.” Edrisa tossed the story on her desk and sailed past him.
“She probably writes it about you,” Dani whispered in his ear.
He nodded, giving his Dum-Dum a hard suck before tossing the remains in the garbage. He didn’t need it to pick up the fumes from the autopsy room. Edrisa flicked on the lightboxes on the wall, illuminating a few X-rays. On three tables were pieces of human beings, badly decomposed and reeking, not his case but oh so intriguing And gross, you’re thinking like Dad. Stop it!
“This is what you’re after. Right here, two bullets.” She pointed them out on the films. “Once I finish up with these folk, I’ll extract them and send them to ballistics. But this will interest you more.” Edrisa ran a finger along a metal plate on the X-ray of the femur. “That will have a serial number and we’ll get an id for your victim then.”
“Thanks, Edrisa,” Dani said, sounding disappointed. “I was hoping you’d have the autopsy done but this looks like that’s a big thing.” She nodded to the body pieces.
“How many victims was this?” Malcolm couldn’t help himself.
“It’s a fraction.” Edrisa spread her hands to encompass the large scope of destruction. “Three and a half but it might be more. I’m not sure yet that these pieces all go together. I’m waiting for Dr. Yu to join me because it’s a two-person job at the very least.”
“Whose case is it?” Malcolm edged closer to the tables.
“As long as it’s not ours, does it matter?” Dani shook her head, knowing it did to him.
“Might be I can help them,” he replied with a little pout, disappointed that Dani didn’t find body fractions as interesting as he did.
“You’re dangerous, you know that right.” Dani patted his shoulder. “Mostly to yourself but dangerous none the less.”
“She’s not wrong.” Edrisa laughed. “And it’s Detective Ortiz’s case.”
“Thanks. Is that all you have for us?” He jerked a thumb back to the light boxes.
“Unfortunately. I’ll call you when we get the autopsy done.”
“Great. Come on, Bright before you get yourself in trouble.” Dani beckoned to him.
“Edrisa, I’ll put this on your desk for you.” He held up a Dum-Dum.
Her face brightened up. “Thank you.”
“And you’ll have to let me read that fanfic one day, only maybe not Karate Kid, not my show.” Malcolm ignored Dani’s light tug on his arm. “And maybe just the PG-13 stuff.”
“You got it!”
“You have a death wish,” Dani said once they were back in the elevator.
“Don’t you want insight into how Edrisa’s brain works?”
Dani held up her hands and backed to the far edge of the elevator. “I know enough. She gets freakier than you.”
“Hey!”
“I call it like I see it.”
“And how I see it is, you like a little freaky.” Malcolm grinned.
Dani crossed back over and brushed her lips to his. “You keep that to yourself.”
“You know me, I’m good with secrets.” He smiled.
Dani laughed at him but Malcolm was barely paying attention. His mind was already back on the meat puzzle down in the morgue while simultaneously wondering what fanfic he’d get from Edrisa and where he could take Dani to dinner next. In this moment, life was good.
Quest for a cure The Witcher
Transform the World: fourteen sci-fi writers save the planet
le tue mani, le tue gambe, le mie mani, le mie gambe Yuri on Ice
Breakfast Teen Wolf
It's All About Food 9-1-1
Good Morning FAKE
9 Crimes Prodigal Son/Batman
Burning Again
Hopeless bad at self care Prodigal Son
Fallen Kingdom Prodigal Son
Of Course it's in a Bookstore Harry Potter
Another Sleepless Night Torchwood
Collect Call Addams Family
Days of Future Past Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Escape to the Country Are You Being Served?
One Love Worth Living For The Owl House
What Happens Elsewhere Harry Potter
Peek A Boo Sapphire and Steel
The Death Wagon of Calais The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Good Night, Sleep Tight The Witcher
Soft And Fluffy Torchwood
Fateful Meeting Harry Potter
Face Of Love 9-1-1
More Traveling
9 Crimes Prodigal Son/Batman wip
Embarkation Point Stargate Atlantis
Exit This Way Minions
End of a Long Day Teen Wolf/Shadowhunters
Art: Kiss Me Dearest Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
2+1 =/= 3 Leverage
Baby Pet the Owl House
Room 206 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Night Light The Owl House
Resorting To Friendship The Owl House
Whipping Prodigal Son
Scene From An Off-World Bar Stargate Atlantis
Escape Stargate
tactical advantage Nikita
Too Good The Owl House
Survived the psychiatrist. She's hesitant to give me meds between blood thinners being a bitch when it comes to drug interactions and my bad history with anti depressants. Want to read up on cymbalta? Yeah sure whatever. I was expecting a page. She printed me a 30 page document. Um...thanks?? What she really wants me to do is see a therapist which is what I wanted anyhow. I was telling her my ways of handling things. You are already doing everything I would have asked you to do. Yeah. Not surprised. CBT for the win, I guess.
The interesting thing is (and I hope a) my insurance covers it or b) it's not too pricey) she wants me to have a genetic study done to see about some of my bizarre drug reactions etc. I have to admit that was the most intriguing part of the whole visit. Yes please let's dissect my DNA. I've always wanted to do that but 23 and Me's 'medical' ones aren't that accurate for the price.
It's fandom friday. Here's a thing I wrote
Title: Of Dum-Dums and Fanfic
Summary: Dani is sure Malcolm can find danger anywhere even if it’s simply in Edrisa’s office.
Notes: Written for spikesgirl58’s 6 word challenge. X-ray, Play, Trial, Dip, Fraction & Dangerous. Also written for the Get Your Words Out texts from last night challenge. My text was ‘If work found out I was using THEIR paper to write Karate Kid fanfic I'd never hear the end of it.’
Malcolm trailed after Dani down to the morgue. He sucked on a dragon fruit Dum-Dum, unselfconscious with her. Dr. Le Deux had stocked up some fancy flavors yesterday. He enjoyed the dragon fruit. He’d given Dani a mystery flavored one. She’s given him that look that made the skin around her eyes crinkle in that super cute way that got him right in the gut not that he’d admit it. She hadn’t tried the sucker yet. It was in her pencil holder on her desk. He had a pineapple-coconut for Edrisa. She said she missed the Hawaiian flavors of her birthplace. He doubted this technically counted. Then again since Spam musabi was popular there, did it matter? He’d seen Edrisa eat musabi after giving it a little dip in spicy mayo. She offered him a piece. He promised she’d see it again when he threw up. She believed him.
When they rounded the corner to her office Edrisa yelped and hurriedly tried to hide whatever she was doing with the printer. Nothing could make detectives wonder more than furtive, desperate attempts to hide things.
“You’re early!” She tried to give them a stern look. Edrisa might occasionally play at being the tough guy but unless she was truly angry she had no prayer of pulling it off.
“What’s this?” Dani reached for a piece of paper from the printer hopper that Edrisa had been trying to shield.
“No!” Edrisa swatted at Dani’s hand. Dani cocked her eyebrows up and Malcolm leaned against the doorway watching the drama unfold.
“Edrisa….” Dani drew out her name.
“It’s nothing you’d be interested in.” Edrisa wrinkled her nose looking past Malcolm as if trying to find someone outside the door. “No Gil or JT?”
“JT’s giving testimony at a trial and Gil is at lunch,” Malcolm replied. “Why?”
“I was trying to finish my lunch because there is a back up out there.” She nodded in the general direction of the autopsy room. “And this is the why.” She scooped the paper out of the hopper. If work found out I was using their paper to write Karate Kid fanfic, I'd never hear the end of it. Could you imagine what JT would say?”
“Imagine what I will.” Dani smirked.
Edrisa narrowed her eyes. “And here I thought you were cool.”
Dani snickered.
“Really?” Malcolm arched his eyebrows. “Karate Kid fanfic?”
“There’s nothing wrong with fanfic!” Edrisa flushed
He held up his hands. “I agree. It’s a healthy creative outlet for the most part. It’s the Karate Kid part that’s hanging me up. I would have thought Star Trek or Lord of the Rings for you.”
“I never said that was the only fanfic I write. But that’s not why you’re here.” Edrisa tossed the story on her desk and sailed past him.
“She probably writes it about you,” Dani whispered in his ear.
He nodded, giving his Dum-Dum a hard suck before tossing the remains in the garbage. He didn’t need it to pick up the fumes from the autopsy room. Edrisa flicked on the lightboxes on the wall, illuminating a few X-rays. On three tables were pieces of human beings, badly decomposed and reeking, not his case but oh so intriguing And gross, you’re thinking like Dad. Stop it!
“This is what you’re after. Right here, two bullets.” She pointed them out on the films. “Once I finish up with these folk, I’ll extract them and send them to ballistics. But this will interest you more.” Edrisa ran a finger along a metal plate on the X-ray of the femur. “That will have a serial number and we’ll get an id for your victim then.”
“Thanks, Edrisa,” Dani said, sounding disappointed. “I was hoping you’d have the autopsy done but this looks like that’s a big thing.” She nodded to the body pieces.
“How many victims was this?” Malcolm couldn’t help himself.
“It’s a fraction.” Edrisa spread her hands to encompass the large scope of destruction. “Three and a half but it might be more. I’m not sure yet that these pieces all go together. I’m waiting for Dr. Yu to join me because it’s a two-person job at the very least.”
“Whose case is it?” Malcolm edged closer to the tables.
“As long as it’s not ours, does it matter?” Dani shook her head, knowing it did to him.
“Might be I can help them,” he replied with a little pout, disappointed that Dani didn’t find body fractions as interesting as he did.
“You’re dangerous, you know that right.” Dani patted his shoulder. “Mostly to yourself but dangerous none the less.”
“She’s not wrong.” Edrisa laughed. “And it’s Detective Ortiz’s case.”
“Thanks. Is that all you have for us?” He jerked a thumb back to the light boxes.
“Unfortunately. I’ll call you when we get the autopsy done.”
“Great. Come on, Bright before you get yourself in trouble.” Dani beckoned to him.
“Edrisa, I’ll put this on your desk for you.” He held up a Dum-Dum.
Her face brightened up. “Thank you.”
“And you’ll have to let me read that fanfic one day, only maybe not Karate Kid, not my show.” Malcolm ignored Dani’s light tug on his arm. “And maybe just the PG-13 stuff.”
“You got it!”
“You have a death wish,” Dani said once they were back in the elevator.
“Don’t you want insight into how Edrisa’s brain works?”
Dani held up her hands and backed to the far edge of the elevator. “I know enough. She gets freakier than you.”
“Hey!”
“I call it like I see it.”
“And how I see it is, you like a little freaky.” Malcolm grinned.
Dani crossed back over and brushed her lips to his. “You keep that to yourself.”
“You know me, I’m good with secrets.” He smiled.
Dani laughed at him but Malcolm was barely paying attention. His mind was already back on the meat puzzle down in the morgue while simultaneously wondering what fanfic he’d get from Edrisa and where he could take Dani to dinner next. In this moment, life was good.
Quest for a cure The Witcher
Transform the World: fourteen sci-fi writers save the planet
le tue mani, le tue gambe, le mie mani, le mie gambe Yuri on Ice
Breakfast Teen Wolf
It's All About Food 9-1-1
Good Morning FAKE
9 Crimes Prodigal Son/Batman
Burning Again
Hopeless bad at self care Prodigal Son
Fallen Kingdom Prodigal Son
Of Course it's in a Bookstore Harry Potter
Another Sleepless Night Torchwood
Collect Call Addams Family
Days of Future Past Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Escape to the Country Are You Being Served?
One Love Worth Living For The Owl House
What Happens Elsewhere Harry Potter
Peek A Boo Sapphire and Steel
The Death Wagon of Calais The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Good Night, Sleep Tight The Witcher
Soft And Fluffy Torchwood
Fateful Meeting Harry Potter
Face Of Love 9-1-1
More Traveling
9 Crimes Prodigal Son/Batman wip
Embarkation Point Stargate Atlantis
Exit This Way Minions
End of a Long Day Teen Wolf/Shadowhunters
Art: Kiss Me Dearest Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
2+1 =/= 3 Leverage
Baby Pet the Owl House
Room 206 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Night Light The Owl House
Resorting To Friendship The Owl House
Whipping Prodigal Son
Scene From An Off-World Bar Stargate Atlantis
Escape Stargate
tactical advantage Nikita
Too Good The Owl House
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