| [Jan. 26th, 2009|01:50 pm] |
Ibiki kept the emotion off his face. It was easy now, second nature even, to hide his thoughts while reading someone else's. Natsumi's fidgeting with the condiments was more telling than her carefully chosen words. She wasn't happy. She was concealing something, he thought, and fightig with herself about how much to tell him. Probably worried about how much he could guess from what she did say. And she was furious with herself, feeling like she'd let someone down. Her father maybe?
She didn't want this on her official record. If she'd been raped, it was no wonder she didn't want her brother or father finding out. If she'd been raped, would she let any medic examine her, or would her dignity and shame overrule common sense?
She needed a medic. She needed to be examined and treated, whether she let it go on record or not. There were ways around official channels.
Ibiki couldn't stand to think what he was thinking--that the first and most likely thing to come to mind was sexual violence. And that he could take it so matter-of-factly. He had changed, he thought, from the boy she once knew.
"If you really don't want it on your record, there's a few field medics in the Hunter ranks you could go to. Guy here on the third floor, Shiranui Genma." He hesitated, scowling. "He's a player. But he's also an Eros-Ops guy. He'll understand what you've been through, know why you want it off record."
He couldn't believe he was actually sending Natsumi into Shiranui's path. The man had a different partner in his bed every third night, and he didn't seem to be particular about gender. But he was Eros-Ops. They were a different breed in that corps. And he was a good field medic by all accounts; good enough he could have been recruited for the medical corps if he hadn't ended up an assassin.
He reached a hand out for Natsumi's, to stop yet another reordering of pepper and salt. "Don't be stupid about this. If you're hurt, get it treated. Shiranui's smart enough to tell you if he thinks you need to see a real doc. Just watch yourself with him. Don't act too friendly." |
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