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Savannah Monroe (savannah_monroe) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2013-02-09 16:59:00

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*complete, 2013 02, character: alexis castle, character: brian kinney, character: bud hammond, character: claudia donovan, character: derek reese, character: dominic vail, character: douglas hammond, character: elaine barrish hammond, character: john connor, character: margaret barrish, character: marty deeks, character: maura isles, character: nell jones, character: oliver queen, character: robert callen, character: savannah monroe, character: sean hanna, character: thomas hammond, character: tim riggins, character: tommy merlyn, character: travis marks, character: troy bolton, dead: eric beale, dead: jenna hanna, dead: leon vance, dead: mike renko, dead: nathan ford, dead: nick green, dead: sheldon cooper

RP: Club night
Who: Everyone
Where: Rec center
When: Saturday, February 9, 2013
Summary: It's a Saturday night, but not everything goes according to plan

Saturday nights were nothing like before, but they were still fun. People got to sit around and play, sing, or just talk. It was even better without Brian's magical brownies.

Savannah enjoyed the singing, but her eyes were always on Marty and the twins. She would have never believed two years ago and she'd always be prepared for the worse, but she was. It was something else to put in the long list of 'things G was right about'. She was writing it to and kept it in her backpack, because one day, she would give it to him. She just knew it.

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Re: Oliver/Maura

drmauraisles
2013-02-10 09:13 pm UTC (link)

"Thank you." Maura smiled as she accepted the glass. "Apology accepted. Although, I'm not sure to which situation you are referring. It was a routine physical exam that proceeds much easier and faster when there is cooperation instead of difficulty. But, I shall keep that in mind for future examinations should they be required."

Maura wasn't usually one to pick up on the use of sarcasm, so perhaps he was being sincere in his assessment of her intelligence. In any case, "Intelligence is really an innate function of the brain overwhich I have no direct control. So, it really isn't necessary to compliment me for having it. But, thank you. I trust the experience was not as unpleasant as you anticipated?"

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	Re: Oliver/Maura _oliver_queen 2013-02-10 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	"You're welcome?" Oliver formed it into a question, because he wasn't sure if she accepted the compliment or not. He shrugged. "And it was only half as unpleasant. I have an aversion to situations involving my clothing and people, even those closest to me. But you didn't do what I thought you would, and I survived what you did do, so it worked out in the end." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Oliver/Maura

drmauraisles
2013-02-11 02:12 pm UTC (link)

Maura wasn't sure what to do with the question, so she simply smiled and took a sip of her drink.

"I don't see why, particular with such a routine examination you said yourself you had previously undergone less than six months ago. Are the physical examinations so different in Starling City?" she asked. In any case, I'm glad it wasn't as onerous as were your expectations."

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Re: Oliver/Maura

_oliver_queen
2013-02-11 02:48 pm UTC (link)

"I had no choice in that one. Kind of like here." Oliver chuckled. "I'm beginning to sense a pattern, but you had the much better bedside manner."

A memory tickled Oliver, and he asked, "Vance's email about the antibodies, I'm hedging that was your handiwork. How many anomalies did you find?" Oliver'd had to look up what an antibody was online, but once he knew it made him curious as to how it might effect the organic remedies he knew.

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Re: Oliver/Maura

drmauraisles
2013-02-11 07:20 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, I'm afraid I have no bedside manner at all. It's why I much prefer working with dead people to live patients. Live patients expect things like sympathy and emotional considerations that simply get in the way of the work. All dead people want is for someone to tell the world how they died."

Frowning, Maura tried to make sense of what he was asking her. "I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. You are restricting what you assume to be my discovery? Prevaricating over the origins of the information? If by anomalies you truly mean something uncommon or deviating from the norm, I found none. What was discovered was not an anomaly but a repeated result easily verifiable by anyone trained to see it. Any anomalies discovered would be considered subject to physician-patient privilege and therefore not mine to divulge outside those exceptions allowed for by federal and military law. If you are concerned regarding your own results, as I stated in the original email, results will be made available to you within a week's time."

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	Re: Oliver/Maura _oliver_queen 2013-02-11 09:11 pm UTC (link)
	Oliver tried to follow what she said and got lost by the second anomaly. He shook his head. "I meant the number of unknown antibodies," he tried again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Oliver/Maura

drmauraisles
2013-02-11 10:55 pm UTC (link)

Maura's frown deepened as she tried to reconstruct his initial question into any formation of words and clauses that could be construed to mean what his clarification now suggested. But, grammatically, there was no way to do it. Even her own extensive internal grammarian was incapable.

So, she ignored it and focused on the question at hand...as well as it's subsequent and necessary explanation that would need to follow as a result of the Director's very imprecise email. "Potentially hundreds of thousands," she informed Queen. "What I discovered was not so much a few new antibodies, but an entirely new isotype. There are literally millions of possible antibodies in the body because of the hypervariable region on each. All antibodies can be classified into one of five isotypes in humans and most placental mammals, however. Our blood possesses a sixth. It's impossible to tell how many individual antibodies fall under that isotype with such a limited sampling and equipment, or will fall into it as we continue to be exposed to new antigens and further antibodies are created."

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Re: Oliver/Maura

_oliver_queen
2013-02-12 03:46 pm UTC (link)

"Wow." Oliver had read about the five isotopes that antibodies fell under, when he'd looked up what antibodies were. "It's too bad you don't have the equipment to study it more. Potentially, we could be carrying cures for cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, Altheimer's, the common cold, you name it, in this new isotype." Oliver wasn't exactly the altruistic type, but even he'd have a hard time withholding this from others.

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Re: Oliver/Maura

drmauraisles
2013-02-14 03:25 am UTC (link)

"Or none of them," Maura pointed out, wishing it were that simple. What was it with people? Was it really that hard to see things in a spectrum of possibility? Either research was bad or research would solve everything. Despite what Detective Marks had said a week ago, that wasn't what Maura believed. An understanding of the limitations of research was just as necessary as the research itself.

"Not everyone carries all antibodies. Most are developed as a person is exposed to the antigens. That's why the Native people of American continents were nearly wiped out in some regions by diseases the Europeans brought with them. They had never been exposed. Their bodies did not carry the antibodies necessary to fight the infections. It's why historically only those who had previously contracted and survived such things as chicken pox and scarlet fever were allowed to treat newly infected patients. Their previous exposure meant their bodies already carried the antibodies necessary to fight it and there was a very low risk of secondary infection.

"Further to that, the sample size is too small to properly research any such cure. There are thirty-three people here, including the children. The Alzheimer's Association estimates there are 5.4 million people with the disease in the United States. Of those 5.2 million are over the age of sixty-five. One in eight people over the age of sixty-five has the disease. We have one person who falls into that demographic. Of those under the age of sixty-five, two hundred thousand people live with the disease out of the more than three hundred million people living in this country according to 2012 estimates by the Census Bureau. That's one in fifteen hundred people. The National Cancer Society's calculations suggest 541.8 incidences of cancer of any site per 100,000 men, and 412.3 incidences per 100,000 women, or roughly 0.005 percent of men and 0.004 percent of women. We currently have nine women and twenty-four men.

"Those are the highest And all of that is based on the assumption that the isotype and it's associated antibodies would not just themselves be rejected by a normal human body as a foreign particles. Research on that level is impossible to complete accurately or responsibly with so few subjects. At most we can hope to learn enough to apply to our own medical concerns."

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Re: Oliver/Maura

_oliver_queen
2013-02-14 03:35 pm UTC (link)

"Too bad," Oliver said, actually following that conversation. "I don't know enough about the subject other than surfacely, from what I looked up. My science skills are mostly limited to identifying organic poisons and medicines, though even that won't necessarily be helpful in a different dimension."

He saw Doug approaching. "It looks like you're about to be appropriated by Doug again. It was nice talking to you." He gave her a brief smile and a nod, and departed.

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