Case # 18: Voice

[19centconstable]

[Breathless! Distraught! Accent!]

This is Constable George Crabtree: I need...oh, please say that there's an appropriately aged doctor about still?

Only I tried to check in on Mr. Spinola, in case he had become elderly, but I couldn't get a response from him by communications device, and he wasn't answering his door so I'm afraid I had no recourse but to break it down, and now there's no rousing him!

[George sounds like he's speaking while driving over railroad tracks. This is because he's shaking Eddie as hard as he can.]

...also I think my shoulder may bruise slightly...

Comments

I just like getting him in deep ends.

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

I am still... the age I was, I will be there shortly.

Can you check his pulse and whether he is breathing for me? Don't move him unnecessarily...

What are you doing to him?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I was shaking him.

Have you been told about the comas yet?

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, that won't do him any good, please stop.

[pause] I know what a coma is. Is he breathing and is there a pulse?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Well I...have.

He is, but have you been told about the comas that go on here?

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

Well...please don't do it any more. I understand your urgency, but it could do damage.

How is there any difference to a normal coma?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Yes, sir.

I'm not entirely sure, but they are. People just...fall into them, for weeks at a time, and then wake up perfectly fine.

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

That... that can't be true. That makes no sense.

[Private]

[becauseheswill]

Get him down to the infirmary if you can. It's probably just a coma, but if there's something else wrong, I'll be able to tell.

[Private]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Are you certain it's safe to move him?

[Private]

[becauseheswill]

If I could take a look at him, I could be more sure. [Freaky not quite supernatural abilities and all.]

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

We're in 2-3. The door is...quite open.

[Private] Spam/assume?

[becauseheswill]

I'll be right there.

Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

[George is hovering over Eddie with a concerned look on his face and a hand pressed against his own shoulder.]

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Is he dead?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

No. No, it looks as though it's just a...normal coma. It's just a disturbing thing to stumble on.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Weird. Are you sure it isn't a head wound or something?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Yes, he's been taken to the infirmary, and looked at by a doctor.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

That's good. They'll fill him up with drugs and then he'll come out good, I'm sure.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

He's certainly in competent hands.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

[BIG. WIDE. EYES.] Is he going to be okay? [She might not like him, but she doesn't want him hurt.]

A bit later...

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Yes. We've gotten him to the infirmary, and I'm certain he'll wake up shortly.

[No he isn't, but: brave face!]

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

How certain?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Er. Quite.

It's a coma. I'd never seen one in person.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

A coma. [Big wide eyes again.] Oh no. George, that's really bad.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

What? I'd thought that wasn't as bad.