damned_institute | Dayshift 20: Dr. Washu's Office [Doctor Office 5]

For Doctor Hakubi Washu, it was like Christmas had just come early, especially delivered by Santa Claus himself. She'd leaped at the chance to use her knowledge for good- well, at least kinda-sorta good?- and more importantly to advance her brilliant new theorem. All she needed were the minds for study, and it just so happened that the Institute had plenty of such minds for the studying, and plenty was being offered for her to do so.

Wasn't capitalism such a wonderful thing?

Thoroughly in her element, Washu had pored through the patient files and gotten everything ready, even managing to add a little 'flair' to her office. Several unidentifiable but quite flashy machines were on her desk, sharing the space with a small bowl of sweets, and the standard-issue padded couch had been 'modified' while she was at it.

She couldn't quite hide her glee as she clapped her hands together and grinned when she heard the intercom. Any moment now, aaaaany moment...

((OOC: For ~~Ichigo~~, ~~Tamaki~~, ~~Darman, Fayt~~, Nigredo, ~~Takaya~~, ~~Yazoo~~, and ~~Zoe~~.))

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Zoe said nothing when she was ushered into the room with the doctor. Her fingers itched for a weapon, but she didn't move to attack the strange looking woman. She didn't do anything except sit down with a straight back and stare that the 'doctor'. She was completely silent and hardly even blinked.

This was all really tiring, but it made no sense to kick up a fuss right now. First she had to figure out who this woman was and what her real role in this place was.

"Huh, quiet one, aren't you?" Washu actually had to nod at that; it would make things a little more challenging, and waking her brain up would make all the next ones easier to work with.

"The name's Doctor Hakubi Washu; what's your name?"

"Zoe Alleyne Washburne," she said after a moment of quiet, using her maiden name as well as the name she had gained when she married Wash. Her face was still set and emotionless. She kept her eyes on the woman before her, taking in every small expression and every detail of her face.

Yep, definitely a quiet one. That was all right, though; sooner or later something could be coaxed out. She gave a name that wasn't her 'real' name, which meant that, for the first time, Washu grinned.

"I'll call you that, but you've gotta call me 'L'il Washu,' okay~?"

Oh, she was completely serious. "I'm new to this place, so before we really get into anything, I do have a question for you. What do you think about this hospital?"

Zoe didn't answer, if fact she didn't say anything at all.

Whew... real toughie, this one. "Hey, the silent treatment's fine, but it's going to make for a really boring session, you know."

Washu smiled slightly, thinking of what to do next. "How about this. What do you remember happening before you got here? Anything at all?" If she was dealing with an amnesia patient, then this was going to be even harder. Someone had obviously given her a fake name while they were at it, that wasn't good.

Zoe still didn't say anything, only watched this woman. She wasn't planning on being helpful, even if this wasn't the Alliance.

Hm... Okay then, time for some drastic measures. She'd get this girl to react, or her name wasn't Hakubi Washu!

She pulled out a device- it looked like a cube with holes on each side- and offered it to the girl. "Would you mind blowing through that, please? The hard way it is~!"

Zoe didn't even look at it, she kept her eyes on this 'doctor's' face. She remained silent.

...huh. Maybe she would have to call this one. Even genius couldn't triumph if there wasn't something, anything, to go by.

"Mm... how about this? If you want to go ahead and go, the door's open. But I just want to know one thing." Here her voice was actually filled with concern, surprisingly enough. "Is there some reason you don't trust me? Is it because I'm a doctor here?"

She was starting to wonder that, perhaps, Zoe had been traumatized by a previous doctor. And if that was the case...

Zoe didn't say anything, only stood up and started to leave the room. It was useless to stay if the 'doctor' said she could leave.

Yep, that kinda confirmed things in Washu's mind. She'd have to get the records from Zoe's previous doctors, if those were even available. If the woman was traumatized, then it was Washu's responsibility as a doctor to make sure that she understood everything.

...and it took her a long moment to call for the next patient. Starting out with a failure, while not uncommon for the genius, still wasn't how she liked it.

Dayshift 20: Dr. Washu's Office [Doctor Office 5]

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