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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy ([info]bones_mccoy) wrote in [info]labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-07-02 14:51:00

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Entry tags:active, day fourteen, dr temperance brennan, leonard mccoy

WHO: Dr Leonard McCoy and Dr Temperance Brennan
WHAT: Doctor-y funtiems!
WHEN: Day 14, mid morning
WHERE: By some jousting.
WARNINGS: TBA
STATUS: Incomplete


Dr Leonard McCoy had to admit to himself that just having Kirk here was enough to make things seem a little better. Of course, it didn't change the fact that they were trapped in an incredibly primitive world, even beyond what he was comfortable with, with no hope of rescue. But at least he wasn't alone, at least there was someone else who really knew what it was like to be taken from their universe. Although he was still a little confused about where they actually were. It seemed most likely a planet somewhere, but he just wasn't sure about anything.

He'd felt better about everything, but when he'd woken up, everything had changed again. It seemed almost like a daily thing, and, to him, it was getting very old. He would prefer it if things would stay the way they were, for the most part. Not that he was upset to get rid of the giant board games or the laser tag. They had been fairly odd, and it was no loss to see them gone.

But it didn't seem to him like this new one was any better. Emerging from his room in the morning, he saw that it was all different once more, and he swore loudly. This was definitely getting on his nerves at this point. Everywhere he looked, there was stuff that was just completely incomprehensible to him. He wandered about, looking into tents, watching the dancing with a sardonic little smirk on his face, just looking at everything. In the end, none of it made the slightest bit of sense to him. What was the purpose to all this?

The doctor ended up, just by virtue of curiousity, by a strange scene indeed. Two of the strange little creatures, mounted on animals that Bones recognized from his childhood as horses, running at each other and apparently trying to knock each other from their perch. It looked incredibly dangerous, and he watched intently, just in case his medical services were needed.

"I'm starting to think this really is an incredibly stupid place." He remarked out loud, not to anyone in particular, and took a quick sip from his hip flask.



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[info]braver
2009-07-06 08:12 pm UTC (link)
It had taken Brennan a day or two to figure things out. She had settled into her plain, and quite frankly, inadequate room with ease. But the outside world changed from the large board games to laser tag. And today it was a step back in time to the Renaissance period. Sure, she enjoyed that for the anthropological value, but it was very difficult to get used to a constantly changing environment.

She had read a few pages in the journals, although she didn't do any writing. It was something she was definitely going to have to ease into. It was sitting on her nightstand at the moment, and she half expected it to grow legs and walk away. It wouldn't surprise her. Everything else in this hallucination slash dream slash vision slash whatever, didn't make any sense either.

Deciding that she could do nothing cooped up in her room, she left. She wore a simple pair of slacks, a pair of boots and a short sleeved blouse. At least clothes she liked were stocked in the closet. She coughed at the dust she kicked up upon exiting the dorm and moved quickly to get out of it. She wandered, watching the festivities at different intervals.

She was just passing the jousting when she saw a gentleman leaning against the fence that enclosed the jousting ring. He was watching intently while drinking from a hip flask. He looked relatively normal, although he was wearing an outfit that looked similar to a costume that Sweets had worn to a convention once. They'd been trying to buy a sword and he'd been bidding, dressed up like a Trekkie so he didn't stand out.

She studied him for a moment and decided that he looked like he might have an ounce of intelligence. So far she'd only met two young girls and they hadn't been stimulating at all. She'd also been rather distracted by the whole ending up in another place thing, too. She stepped forward and leaned on the fence next to him. She heard his offhand remark and smirked. "You're not the only one." She glanced at the goblins who were jousting and still felt the itch in her fingers to get ahold of their bones.

"You like the jousting?"

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[info]bones_mccoy
2009-07-07 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Jousting. Didn't they know how dangerous it was? The things people would do for entertainment blew the doctor away at times. Another quick drink from his hip flask, then he slid it back into his pocket. He knew about jousting from a historical perspective, though that was about it. It was very, very strange to be in a place where it was actually going on. The two goblins on the backs of their horses knocked each other off, bounced once or twice, and then rushed to get back only to do it all over again.

"Probably giving each other concussions, or worse." He glanced over at the woman who had walked up, not showing much surprise. After all, he'd known that he and Kirk weren't the only people here, and he was bound to meet some of them. "No, I don't like the damn jousting. Someone's gonna get hurt. I'm going to have to patch up broken bones by the end of this, I'm sure of it." He looked back at the strange creatures, then back at her. "Those goblins, they aren't hurt by much, but what if one of those beasts" He indicated the horse, "Goes insane and tramples them? Surely that would hurt even them."

With a glare at the unfortunate creatures, he continued on. "Broken bones could be the least of it. Internal bleeding, ruptured organs, my God, they're hitting each other with big sticks. Who knows what could happen?" Realizing that he had just ranted for a good couple of moments about medical stuff, which, for some reason, tended to put most people off, he stopped and cleared his throat.

"What about you? Do you like it?" He was trying, at least, though it was somewhat ruined by the rant he'd gone into before. But he was trying.

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[info]braver
2009-07-17 01:42 pm UTC (link)
She leaned against the fence and watched the competition. Raising a brow when the goblins knocked each other off their horses and bounced, only to get right back up and do it all over again. It was somewhat impressive, even if she didn't exactly approve. She was hoping one of them would die so she could take it back to her lab and dissect it.

"Maybe." From the way he spoke, she could tell that he was a medical doctor. And while most of them liked to point out that she wasn't a real doctor, she got on with them tolerably well. "I'd like to see the bones before you patch them up, if that happens." She looked back at the horses as he gestured to them and she had to bite her lip. She remembered a case she had done with Booth that involved pony play and she couldn't help but smile at the memory.

She turned back to look at him. "Well, if you're a good doctor, I'm sure you would be able to patch them up without a problem." She looked at the goblins and wondered if they were really that important. From what she'd understood from Gabrielle, they could be killed and there hadn't been any repercussions from it.

"Actually, I think it's an antiquated and barbaric competition." She turned back to face him and brushed her hair back. "Like most competitive games and competitions, it's a way for men to show their sexual prowess and prove which male has the larger sex organ." She turned back to the jousting. "Although, I'm at a loss as to what these creatures are trying to prove exactly."

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[info]bones_mccoy
2009-07-18 01:13 am UTC (link)
Her words had him arching an eyebrow at her. "Why the hell would you want to do that?" Most people were sort of squicked out by looking at wounds, though, of course, as a doctor, he was immune to that sort of thing. He actually turned to look at her for a moment, surprised by her reaction, but his gaze was drawn back to the jousting, unable to pull himself away while there was the chance that he would be needed.

"It doesn't seem to be a problem, though. These things seem to be made out of rubber." Deciding that they probably wouldn't spontaneously explode or something that would require his attention, he turned back to her, leaning back against the fence, as he took a better look.

Once more, she surprised him, and shocked him a little, too. He wasn't used to... well, anyone, really, speaking that bluntly. Even Kirk was usually a little more restrained than that. But she was also, undeniably, right. "Yeah, well, the idiots should stop trying to prove that before they hurt themselves. People have been seriously maimed, even killed, by this moronic competition."

With a disgusted look back at the jousters, he pushed away from the fence. "Do you wanna go for a walk? I've had about as much of this," With another disgusted look at the jousting goblins, "As I can handle."

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[info]braver
2009-07-25 03:26 am UTC (link)
Brennan was completely aware that she didn't look like a doctor. At least not a medical doctor. It wasn't until she opened her mouth that one even gave the thought that she might be a scholar. But when McCoy put his question so bluntly, she almost smiled. "I'm a forensic anthropologist. It's what I do. I study bones." As such, she had seen more than just a few wounds. She'd seen people ground into chili con carne, flattened between cardboard boxes, waterlogged and mummified. A flesh wound was nothing in comparison.

She turned back when he did. "I am sure that even for them, that would be impossible. But, I would need to study their bones to be absolutely sure. She turned back when he did, though she didn't fully face him the way he did to her. He looked startled by her comment and she bit her tongue. She really needed someone around to tell her when she'd said too much or gone too far. Usually that was Booth, but there was no Booth here. And she quite regretted that fact.

"I agree. If they want to prove who has the bigger sex organ, they should just lay them out on the table and measure." She'd used the immortal words of her best friend, Angela, because otherwise she would never have said it in such terms. But Angela was the more social of the two and Brennan learned a lot from her. Especially slang. She crossed her arms over her chest and then watched as he maneuvered away from the fence.

She contemplated his offer for a moment. She was in a strange land with many strange people. But so far, he seemed to be less strange than some of the others. Besides, she knew three forms of martial arts, she was probably going to be able to defend herself if it came to that. She nodded, jutting out her lower lip as she continued to think it over. "Sure." She pushed off the fence and joined him to one side. "How long have you been here?" She assumed that everyone here had been taken from somewhere else, Gabrielle hadn't said anything about anyone already living here except the goblins.

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[info]bones_mccoy
2009-07-27 04:26 am UTC (link)
"Forensic anthropologist." Some people might have looked skeptical at that, but not him. So what if she was an incredibly beautiful, delicate looking woman? He knew better than to judge someone based on something like that. Some of the most capable people he knew could fit that description. "Well, that explains that." It didn't hurt that she obviously had brains. Most people didn't understand most of what he said, but she would stand a chance.

"It's an expression, 'made out of rubber'." He stopped to consider. "'Course, here it could be true. This place is strange. I don't think I like it." Still, it was better than being in space, he had to give Jareth that much.

The doctor burst into startled laughter, and shook his head. "Yeah, they could do that. Makes much more sense than trying to kill each other with sticks." He frowned slightly. "Kinda phallic, too, hitting each other with hard poles. Suggestive." He might not have said such a thing normally, but then again, he might have, depending on his mood.

"Not long." He considered the layout. Dancing, food, the woods... "Where do you want to go? I've had it about up to here with this ridiculous carnival."

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[info]braver
2009-07-29 04:39 pm UTC (link)
Brennan nodded as he spoke her profession aloud. She watched him look her over and smirked a little. "It explains my interest in the bones, yes." She felt mildly embarrassed when he told her that the rubber comment had been an expression. She had a difficult time with slang, expressions and sarcasm, tending to take them literally. "Oh."

"I am not inclined to like it here, either. It's primitive and changes too often to even begin to get comfortable. I am sure it is too much to hope for a computer or a lab." She didn't technically need things like that for her work, but they helped. She was used to much more primitive situations when she went on digs in third world countries.

Brennan nodded. "Many sports involve long hard sticks and little round balls if you think about it. Baseball and golf for example." She shrugged, "And while women also enjoy sports, it's the men who take it most seriously. Sitting in front of a television, rooting for a team they don't even play on, as if they are the winners or losers. Sports are a way for boys to demonstrate their battle skills, anthropologically speaking. And athletes are emotionally arrested in boyhood acting out childish games as if they have adult importance. The only thing more juvenile are those who watch the sports." She'd had an argument with Booth about that before, but she refused to budge on the issue.

She glanced around. She hadn't gone much of anywhere. "You lead the way, I haven't been out much." She gestured onward as they walked. She was enjoying the company of someone who didn't think she was completely nuts for speaking the way she did. It was refreshing to be around a colleague, no matter if he was wearing strange clothes or not. Speaking of which... "What are these clothes you are wearing?"

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[info]bones_mccoy
2009-07-30 06:15 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, I guess it does." He smiled for a moment when she said 'bones', since, of course, to him? That would always call up images of his best friend who called him that. "Interesting. I don't usually see bones, since the people I deal with are alive. Of course, there are times when it can't be helped."

He frowned thoughtfully as she spoke, and then shook his head. "Hadn't thought of that." He admitted. It was odd, he'd always prefered to do things as naturally as possible with as little technology as he could get away with, but now that he was facing having none at all, except for what he'd brought, he wasn't actually liking that idea much. "I don't need a computer or medlab, of course, but it sure helps."

This was turning into one of the most interesting conversations he'd had in awhile. "Yeah, I did notice that. Most sports are fairly phallic. Hockey, baseball, golf, the list could go on. Not to mention, do you know how many damn people get hurt in those ridiculous contests? It's enough to make me sick." Anything he saw as dangerous could get him ranting, even something like sports that so many people enjoyed.

"Alright." He nodded and set off away from the fair, which, most directly, led them to the outskirts of the woods. He was about to make some comment about the relative peace and quiet, and how welcome it was, when he suddenly stopped and pointed. "Hey, what's that in there, do you see it?" There was a glint of white against the dark earth, ivory colored.

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[info]braver
2009-08-31 02:46 am UTC (link)
"You're a medical doctor. Are you a specialist or a general practitioner?" She glanced sideways at him as they walked. She had gathered by the way he spoke and the way he wasn't immediately disgusted at her talk of bones that he had to be in the medical field.

Brennan actually smiled, moving away from the seriousness that predominated her life. His abhorrence for people getting hurt was almost amusing. She looked away from him, glancing down at the ground in front of her, shaking her head.

She followed him toward the woods, glancing about at their surroundings as they ventured further in. She was just beginning to admire the scenery when she heard him ask if she saw what he was pointing at. She glanced over, peering through the foliage to make out what it was he was pointing at.

"I do see it." She moved forward, knowing a burial site when she saw one. She held up a hand and crouched near the bones, which she recognized as she grew closer. She pulled latex gloves out of her pocket and snapped them on, then brushed the dirt off the bones. She picked one up and held it up against the light. It was unlike any bone she had ever seen before with spurs on the sides and strange ends.

She held it out to him. "Have you ever seen anything like this before?"

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[info]bones_mccoy
2009-09-01 03:41 am UTC (link)
He had to think about that question quite seriously before he answered it. The truth was, as the Chief Medical Officer on board, he had to pretty much do everything. So he thought for a moment, and then shrugged and just went with that. "Hard to say. I do everything. More of a general practitioner, in the widest sense of the word." Specialist certainly wouldn't qualify, so it had to be the other one.

Her smile didn't make a lot of sense to him, but he certainly didn't mind it. She'd had a rather serious way of speaking and demeanor the entire time he'd known her, so it was a nice change. He didn't really have to understand it to find it a good thing.

As she went over to the burial site, he followed, a slight frown of concentration on his face. It was, in a way, a treat to see her in action. She clearly knew what she was doing. But he, meanwhile, had his own work to do. Pulling out his scanner, he started scanning the bone from one end to the other, trying to identify it. It was a good thing he was never without the thing.

"Never seen anything like this in my life." The scanner beeped dismissively, and he frowned. "And neither has this contraption. I saw just about a million different skeletons in the Academy. This isn't like any of them."

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[info]braver
2009-09-05 04:15 pm UTC (link)
She nodded, she had figured as much. He seemed far too concerned with general safety than say, a brain surgeon would be. It didn't make her respect him any less. A general practitioner could do a lot more good than a specialist.

After he took the bone from her, he used some sort of electronic device on it and she frowned, hoping that he wasn't destroying anything valuable with it. She looked away and began to brush dirt away from the other bones she could see poking through the soil. She began to line them up, picking out an order and trying to make a complete skeleton out of them.

She glanced back up when the device beeped and he shook his head. Neither of them had seen anything like this, and she had to wonder just how many different skeletons he had really seen. She'd seen quite a few, but had no idea he was talking about different species. She was still under the assumption that he dealt with humans as much as she did.

She really wished she had a lab now. "There's got to be some place we can examine these more fully." She was used to going on digs and dealing with bones in the dirt, but she always appreciated getting back to her lab where there were instruments that made the job easier.

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[info]bones_mccoy
2009-09-07 01:18 am UTC (link)
Bones frowned, trying to think over the various alien skeletons he'd seen back in the Academy. "Not Vulcan, not Klingon, not with those spurs..." He couldn't place them, not even close. Not that he was done trying. When life gave him a challenge, he tended to get sort of obsessive about trying to figure it out. Setting the bone down, he started scanning around for anything else. No life signs, so that was good... he peered down at the device, then set it for a scan over the burial mound.

"No life signs... Dr Brennan, there's a skull over there." Careful of the bones that she'd laid out, he picked his way around them and then crouched down on the ground, pointing it out. It looked like a stone in the dark, but there were definite eyeholes. She had gloves, so he'd let her touch them.

"Jareth has got to give us a room or something where we can check these damn bones out." He frowned. "We need to go back, get bags and stuff to transport these. And then just go until we find a room where we can sort this out." His tone was gruff, but to be honest, he was powerfully excited by this discovery. He was the sort of person who always needed to be kept busy to be happy.

"Yeah. Some bags and then we just find a room and take it over." It sounded good to him. And if Jareth didn't like it, well, he had a few words for the Goblin King on that, and on several other, subjects.

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[info]braver
2009-09-16 04:03 am UTC (link)
She was in her element. She could almost forget that she was in a foreign land talking to people in funny uniforms. And then he had to go and mention alien life forms of which she'd never heard the likes. She glanced up at him, her blue gray eyes skeptical and doubting his sanity. She didn't say anything, except, "Not human... either." She glanced back down at the bones. They were far to small to be human, even a human child. They had the structure of a fully grown being. The spurs on the bones and the other anomalies, such as the lack of marrow, completely baffled her.

She glanced up again when he mentioned that there were no signs of life. She merely nodded and then looked at the spot he pointed out. He was right, there was a tiny skull poking through the dirt. The sockets were full of soil, but she brushed it away easily enough. The bones hadn't been there long enough for the dirt to be compacted, only long enough to completely decompose. She pulled the skull free of the dirt carefully, the small lower jaw was no longer attached, but she could see where it did. There were strange bony structures on the skull that were not present in humans. She wondered if it was the result of some tragic plastic surgery, but highly doubted it. No one in their right mind would do such a thing to themselves.

"We need a box. Something that will keep the bones from touching each other. A bag is too destructive." She stood from her crouch, hips aching. It was a good ache, though, one she missed. She didn't go out on digs nearly as often as she'd like now that she worked so closely with the FBI. She pulled the latex gloves from her hands and balled them up in her palm. "I'm sure there is a box around here somewhere." She took a look at him. "Right?"

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[info]bones_mccoy
2009-09-18 01:17 am UTC (link)
Bones didn't have any background in this sort of thing, not other than, of course, the medical courses he'd taken, but he was the sort of person that did need to be kept busy. Otherwise, he got bored. It was part of what had contributed to the failure of his marriage, he was fairly certain. But he just couldn't handle being inactive, and this was the most interesting thing he'd found to do so far.

He didn't quite understand the look she gave him. He hadn't thought that his comment was that strange, really. But he shrugged it off. Who knew where she was from? Maybe she didn't know the things he did. Anyway, the bones around were way more important. With one more scan, he frowned slightly to himself. "The bones don't have the same calcium content as ours." He shook his head as he looked down at the display of his scanner. "I don't think they belonged to a life form like anything. Life, undoubtedly, but not as we know it."

Finally, he sighed and put the scanner away. "There's just no way to know what the hell is going on until I can do more tests on these things. Tell you what. Let's go get boxes or whatever to get them somewhere safe. Meet back here in a half hour or less, sound good?"

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[info]braver
2009-09-18 02:02 pm UTC (link)
Brennan rubbed her palms on the front of her pants. They got a little damp inside the gloves sometimes. One hand settled on her as she looked at Dr. McCoy. Her gray blue eyes lined in black scrutinized him. She knew that he was an able doctor, or pretended to be, in all truth she hadn't seen him do anything except wave some electronic device around the bones. She nodded in agreement to his proposition. "That would be acceptable. I will meet you back here in less than thirty minutes, then."

Without further comment or acknowledgment, Brennan turned and walked away from the forest. She knew there was a kitchen in the main building, and if they didn't have boxes, maybe they would have cookie sheets or something else that was flat. She wanted to be very careful with the bones and didn't want to chance damaging them before she had a chance to examine them fully. She headed for the kitchen and ignored everyone in the place as she bee-lined for the swinging door. She searched cupboards and storage shelves before she came up with one relatively small box and several cookie sheets.

It didn't even occur to her that other people might not want to use those cookie sheets once they found out what had been transported on them. She was focused on her own needs, not the needs of others. She was back at the dig site in about fifteen minutes and had already snapped a pair of gloves on. She was carefully pulling the bones from the dirt and laying them out on the cookie sheets. The skull went in the box.

She didn't even glance up when she heard footsteps approaching. "I found cookie sheets."

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