The smell of antibiotic and medicine lingers in the air when you enter the medical bay. Entering medical section is nothing unusual to you from your previous career, except it did not have a rather suspicious looking bucket with questionable content at the corner of the room. Is that blood splatter you are seeing? Since it looks like so. You are tempted to ask Medic about it but know better to leave it alone for later visit. Probably. You are not certain. And, as for the man himself, he is easily found by his desk, writing something on his paper. He seems enchanted with his writing by the time you are inside the office, and show slight surprise expression on his face. Slight, mind you. Just like when you are reading something and didn't realize someone is in the room and you are unfazed by it when you notice them. Just slightly surprise. Which what Medic's doing at you, lifting his face from his paperwork, acknowledge your presence with eyebrows up, "Oh, Assistant! I didn't hear you coming. My apologize, I vas too fixated viz my vriting," he smiles, almost apologetic.
You shrug it off and come closer to him, but still in appropriate distance where you respect his personal space, "Not a problem, Medic. I should have knock... a bit louder next time," it brings chuckle from the both of you.
"Gives me a few moment to finish zis paper and ve shall have our time togezer," his wording is weird but you let it slide and nod your head, giving the man the time and space he needs.
Examining the shelves will be your temporary business for the moment. Row of files are orderly organized alphabetically, yearly, numberly (if it's even a word) in one shelf. You could easily find your class file at the start of the alphabetical row, fingers tempted to slide open the glass but you decide not to. At another shelf you find bottles are lining up neatly with the name of their content written on each of the sticker plastered on their body. Despite a rather gruesome surgery he did to you before, he certainly make sure his office is neat and clean. Just like any sane doctor's office would be. You note to ask him what the bucket of whatever is doing at the corner of the room later.
"Alright, I'm done!" he speaks rather slowly at the 'alright' part and then excitedly at the last words. He spins on his chair and face you who is standing by the medicine shelf, looking back at him with acknowledgement.
He gestures you to sit on the empty chair in front of him which you obey to do. You comfortably settle yourself on the wooden chair, facing the Medic who patiently wait for you. When he is certain you are settled, he begins to speak, "How are you feeling, my friend?"
You are certain his question is connected to the previous event with you in the respawn room back then. He found you crouching and having tremor all over your body, heavy breathing, on the floor miserably. If someone forgot, you were 'defeated' by the enemy Scout and died before waking up in the respawn room. Know the feeling when you wake up from a really bad nightmare where you died? That's exactly it but with the addition of unbearable pain all over your body. It felt like every muscles and bones in your body tightening and moving against together to form solid body, just like when you try to place your misplaced joint back to its place, but repeatedly for a period of time. At that time, you wish you was never respawned and just die entirely.
"Not so much of a pain anymore. But I can still feel the atoms in my body working harder than usual to cope up with it. You know, first time is always hurting..." you say humorously.
Medic snorts at your joke and shake his head,"I assume you're feeling alright, zen."
"Yes, I am," you nod. Honestly, you are feeling quite uncertain. Will you experience it everytime you respawn? How did the others cope up with it?
He gives you a lingering look before standing up from his chair, walking toward the medicine shelf. He picks a few bottle and each he inspects before his decision fall to one particular bottle. You watch him with wonder, foots drumming silently onto the floor beneath you. He comes back to his chair and settled down before placing the bottle on his desk closer to you, "Take zis two times everyday, morning and night before you go to sleep. It vill help viz ze pain and accelerate ze body's adaptation to ze respawning system."

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Uncalled For || TF2
ActionWhat if you're signing up yourself for a test of the new weapon that Mann Co. had built and joining the mercenary in battle as the new class? Team Fortress 2: The Heavy poster by William Henry. www.williamhenrydesign.com