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maureen tucknott ;; sailor chibi moon (chibiusagi) wrote in starlighting,
@ 2008-09-07 21:25:00

WHO: Maureen Tucknott and Kaitlyn Bell
WHAT: A random run-in between the two characters
WHEN: Monday, September 8th in the afternoon after classes at NYHS end
WHERE: At a New York hospital, the lobby and then down some random hallways
RATING: TBD

Had it been a month yet? A month since Maureen had started her freshman year at New York High School? Well, it almost seemed like time had just flown and it was the middle of September. But who knew how long that feeling was going to last for? According to many of the older students she had just met, things slowed down immensely when midterms were around the corner. Frankly, Maureen didn't care either way. It was high school, her first year here, new people in almost every single one of her classes. She rather would have time go a little slower so she had the chance of meeting new people and forming new friendships.

At the same time, if time went by fast, she wouldn't mind speeding through her schoolwork, exams and homework. And maybe spare herself from ever having to go to a football game and see people she just met turn into monsters and injuring the rest of the students. She hadn't been there herself but she knew plenty who had been and had told her most of what they could remember.

Was high school supposed to be this scary? It didn't seem so when her mother was talking about it. Yet, she was hearing things that normally came right out of a really crappy teenage horror flick. That would one side of her that was thankful that didn't go. And yet there was one other side that went "damn, you should have gone to help". Help what? Help those people? What was a mere fifteen-year-old like her going to do? She could barely open the jam containers when they were brand new. But it was just a strange feeling that she should have done something.

Well, weird feelings aside, Maureen was just glad she had gotten through the day without having to experience that incident, hands on herself. When the bell marking the end of her last class rang, she put away her books and headed out. It was pretty warm today but at least it hadn't been pouring cats and dogs like it had been on Saturday. She didn't mind rain that much. It was fun to walk in if you were wearing the right amount of clothes. The idea of walking in it when you're carrying a not-so-waterproof bag to hold your books, however, was unappealing.

The first stop after school was not home, but, as she had told her father that morning, the hospital. All summer, she had been hoping she could start a volunteering job there, maybe something to occupy her for a couple of days a week. She wanted the experience. It was going to look really good on her school record, especially when she decided to go to graduate school. Medicine was interesting, but there were so many health-related fields, she hadn't been able to stick to only one just yet. That's where volunteering was going to come in handy. A bit of experience at everything and maybe she'd learn what she wanted to do.

Getting her way around and to the hospital wasn't much of a problem. The bigger problem was finding this volunteer office. The security guard there, having been engrossed in a conversation with a pretty young female nurse, had pointed vaguely down one hallway. Glowering slightly, she walked down the hallway, looking back and forth at the doors. Just her luck.. she had to get brushed away like that because the dude was far too busy flirting to help him out. There was another hallway that Maureen started to head down, but, nope, no volunteer office that way. She turned back and walked into another corridor. After minutes of walking, she stopped and looked around. Had she just walked in a circle?

She crossed her arms with a frustrated growl and practically glared at the doors within her view. This wasn't supposed to take long. By now, she could have been home having some pound cake and a glass of milk and just relaxing in the couch before starting on her homework. Why had she bothered coming here at all?

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lunarkat
2008-09-07 11:37 pm UTC (link)

Kaitlyn had spent a good portion of the day trying to decide whether or not she should visit the hospital once school was let out. She kind wanted to visit the students that had been injured in the football game, to make sure they were going to be alright. There had been seventeen deaths already, she didn't want any more, and just peeking in on them would make her feel a little better. She had also wanted to visit a few friends. Really, the more she thought about it, there was no down side. So here she was, striding down the halls of the hospital, ignoring George who was, like always, flirting with the nearest available female, and making her way to the maternity ward. Talking to the nurses there was always the best, and sometimes they let her help with the newborns.

She'd been about to get on the elevator when she spotted the young girl glaring at a the doors. Hadn't she seen that same girl go into the hospital when she'd passed to park? She strode over towards Maureen and smiled pleasantly. "Lost?" Kay asked curiously, coming up beside her. "Maybe I can give you a hand. Who're you looking for?" She knew her way around the hospital well enough, and a good number of the people in it. She had interned here for a year, and spent a good portion of her time here even when she didn't have to. Many had been kind enough to help her with her homework and sort.

Kaitlyn glanced around curiously. Well she was either here to visit someone, or here to work, and either way the girl wouldn't get what she was looking for in the radiology wing. George probably pointed her this way. He was awful absent minded when he was busy flirting. Not the best quality in a security guard, but she could bring it up later.

"I'm Kaitlyn. Used to work here, so I should be able to point you the right direction." She explained, figuring it might be a good idea to introduce herself. The girl looked kind of familiar as well.

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chibiusagi
2008-09-08 12:39 am UTC (link)

Oh, finally. Someone who would likely point her in the right direction. But she didn't need to ask anyone to know she was in the wrong place, especially when she ended up peeking into a door and finding a huge machine in there. X-ray. Most likely. She was young but she wasn't dumb. She was also very lost so she was going to welcome any guidance she could get in here as long as it led her to the right place.

"Yeah. I was actually looking for the volunteer's office? The security guy pointed me in one direction but when I went down there, I didn't see the office so I went down another hallway and well, here I am." She seemed nice and trustworthy anyway. And the fact of the matter was that everyone else around here seemed to be either too absorbed in their work to help her or was just completely disregarding her. Hopefully it was the former, because she would have hated to work in a place that wasn't pleasant.

"Hi, Kaitlyn. I'm Maureen. I wanted to just get some paperwork for the volunteering. Since I know I would probably have to go back to my school and get working papers and whatnot." Silently, she praised herself for knowing the procedure to even that much. Her parents had explained to her what to do already. Whether she was going to be considered old enough to work was a different story.

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lunarkat
2008-09-08 11:26 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, sorry about him." She didn't work here anymore, but a lot of it still came out as habit; apologizing, helping people out if they were lost, and Saturdays she still came in sometimes with coffee and snacks for some of the overnight nurses because after a while hospital food just doesn't cut it anymore. Kat was friends with these people, and knew her way around, so she'd still do whatever she could to help them out when she was here.

"He probably had you going in the right direction, but you don't really want to talk to the guys in volunteering -- They get awfully irritable around this time. I'll show you around a bit, and help you get those papers." Kaitlyn offered, the doctor who supervised student internships usually had some spare volunteer paperwork for anyone who happened to get sent to him by mistake, and he was a lot nicer then the others who wouldn't be in the best mood until after they'd had a break for dinner.

"So you want to be a candy-striper..." She started, leading the way to the elevator again, and motioning for Maureen to follow. "You'll want to make friends with people in the delivery room, and on the second floor filing room if you get the job. They're the nicest, and you'll basically deliver flowers and stuff to patients or sort papers. If you're not doing that they'll usually have you changing bed sheets, running errands around the hospital, cleaning messes..." Kaitlyn explained as they made their way up to the third floor, realizing she was talking a lot, but the girl seemed nice enough, and Kat wanted to help her out. Which included all her fun insider tips. "One of the filing guys is doing this as more of a part time job too, he wants to be a chef. So sometimes you'll get lucky and he brings lunch in for everyone working there. It's delicious."

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chibiusagi
2008-09-09 09:31 pm UTC (link)

Oh, god, maybe she should find some other hospital to work in, Maureen thought, wrinkling her nose slightly at the thought of the rude people in volunteering. Then again at least there was SOME bit of humanity in this building. She was probably enough to keep her here. "Thank you so much," she replied with a smile. Really, this woman could have just went on with her life like the others but she was taking her time out to help her. It felt very flattering.

Maureen followed her into the elevator, hanging onto every word. "Well, I did think of starting off small. I have pretty much the next four years to get experience since I just started school. Candy-striper does not sound bad!" It was a surprise that someone in their first year would already be thinking of the future. This was their teenage years... Maureen should have been thinking of just making friends and having fun. While she did want to do that, it didn't mean she could do that without keeping a smart eye on her future.

"You work here too, right?"

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lunarkat
2008-09-09 10:00 pm UTC (link)

She smiled fondly at the girl, thinking much of the same thing. The girl was awfully young to be thinking about the future like this. It reminded Kat a little of herself. "No, I used to intern here." The blond said, kind of disappointed she wouldn't get to work with the girl. Not to say she couldn't drop in on her when she visited the hospital if she got the job.

"I'm the school nurse at York Prep now." Originally she'd wanted to be a pediatrician, but the school nurse job worked out pretty well now that she had to find the scouts. "If you have any questions though, you're welcome to email me." Kaitlyn offered, leading the way to the student internships office. It was headed up by an elderly man currently on the telephone, who motioned for them to wait a minute when he saw Kat at the door.

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chibiusagi
2008-09-14 09:08 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, okay," Maureen replied with another nod. "Yeah, I know a few friends of mine that I went to middle school with ended up with York Prep. Question, though -- is the rivalry between that school and New York High School always so bad?"

She hoped she would at least get a chance to meet her old friends again without ending up being the brunt of taunts by some of the older kids. Sure she could stand up for herself if she wanted to but in general, Maureen really liked to avoid conflict.

"From what I've heard, it is." At least from what she was told was happening before two monsters at that game showed up.

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lunarkat
2008-09-15 08:08 pm UTC (link)

"Usually. This is only my first year at the school though. I think things will be more civil from now on...At least, for a little while anyways." She shrugged. When the stuff with the Darkness was over, and things settled down it was likely old rivalries would come up again.

Kat glanced into the office again, smiling when the elderly fellow inside hung up the phone. She motioned for Maureen to follow. "Hey professor." The blond knew the doctor well, the nickname was fitting as while he didn't actually practice medicine any more, he was always giving advice to the newbies. "This is Maureen. She's looking to be a candy-striper, get some volunteer time in, and I told her you'd have the paperwork."

The doctor peered down through thick glasses at the young girl, a warm grin playing over his lips. "Pleasure to meet you, Maureen. I'm Doctor Jones but you're welcome to call me professor like the others." He said, pulling a small folder from one of his desk drawers, and offering her the papers she'd need. Application, rules, permission waivers, and other such related things in a neat little packet. "Come see me whenever you've got all that in order, and I'll see to it you get placed in a nice department."

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