【 Ⅰ 】audio.

[expect]

Hello.

( and then there's a pause; unsure of what to say, or perhaps automatically waiting for a reply. ) Uh, well, I'm Rory. I've noticed people introducing themselves through this over the past few days, so I… am too. ( he loses the thread slightly. ) Hello.

Sorry. I really don't know what to say about all of this. On this. ( leaving answerphone messages into the void? ) It's nice to meet you; I'll be helping out in medical as long as we're here.

Also, I had a sort of question. We've more or less found our way around the living parts of the ship, my wife and I, but I was looking for a few things specifically. ( short beat. ) For example, trousers?

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[loveordeath]

Nice to meet you, Rory Williams.

You can just call me B.

[expect]

Which I'm guessing is not your real name.

[loveordeath]

Nope. Not even the initial.

[expect]

Right.
Nice to meet you.

[loveordeath]

Do you smoke?

[expect]

No, sorry.

[loveordeath]

Drink?

[expect]

A bit?

[loveordeath]

[last one, promise.]

Drugs?

[expect]

No.
Why?

[loveordeath]

Just wondering how screwed you were.

But you don't have any vices. Guess you'll do fine.

[expect]

Thanks?
I suppose that means that there are none of those things here.
What about medications?

[loveordeath]

I'm sure there are. And I'm sure you'd have to buy or trade them somehow.

The medbay is fully stocked.

[expect]

I'll have to go have a look.
And before you think that's my 'vice', I'm a nurse.

[loveordeath]

Male nurse?

[expect]

Male nurse.

[loveordeath]

Not very usual.

Why not a doctor?

[expect]

I thought about it, but I like nursing better.
I like to help people, and nurses spend much more time with patients.

[loveordeath]

You like to get your hands dirty?

[expect]

I guess that's one way to put it.
I don't like to sit back on this sort of thing.

[loveordeath]

That's a good job to have. You get to save lives.

[and she can... definitely respect that. In some way or another.]

Has anyone ever died in your arms?

[Even if she goes and ruins it afterwards.]

[expect]

( UH YEAH KINDA

STARES AT THAT

the answer is yes, more times than he'd like to think about, but he's too busy wondering if he's talking to a serial killer.

finally: ) I'm an emergency care nurse.

[loveordeath]

[Child's curiosity, is all. Not that he'll ever know that, if Mathilda can help it.]

So that's a yes?

[expect]

Yes.
Why?

[loveordeath]

That can't be easy. Watching someone die.

Does it still bother you?