Re: Once More, With Feeling « Reply #105 on Apr 23, 2006, 7:23am »
OOC: With permission from Mist. I blame this on my Beauty and the Beast soundtrack.
While the docs did their stuff, Tell wandered over to the window and was surprised to see the golden glow of soft morning sunlight filtering in. They must have worked through the night.
Softly, she began to sing.
"Little world, it's a crazy city Not a day like the one before Little world, full of singing people Waking up - to - say..."
In the background, one of the doctors pressed a button on a beeping machine, which suddenly leapt into a playful tune.
"Bonjour!"
"Ahoj!"
"Hallo!"
"Salut!"
"Jambo!"
"There goes Doc Beckett with his blood for testing To find out where this virus dwells! Not a morning quite the same Since the morning that we came To this long-lost Ancient world,"
"Good morning, Tell!" Called a passing man.
"Morning, Rydell!"
As Tell passed by a row of beds, the patients within them sat bolt upright and began singing.
"Look, there she goes That girl is strange, no question - Dazed and distracted, can't you tell? Whether part of any crowd Her head's always on some cloud No denying she's a funny girl, that Tell."
"Shalom!"
"Goddag!"
"An-nyong Ha-se-yo!"
"Ni hao!"
"Olá!"
"Kon-nichiwa!"
"That goo - it lives!"
"This door malfunctions!"
"There must be a better rhyme for this than bra!" Belted out a rather embarrassed nurse.
A row of doctors leapt forward in Tell's wake.
"Look, there she goes, that girl is so peculiar! I wonder if she's feeling well? With a stash of useless facts And a mind that's most exact What a puzzle to the rest of us is Tell!"
By this time, Doctor O'Connor had reached a recently-uncovered Ancient device, which a pair of scientists were attempting to figure out. As she approached, the two hummed soulfully, bringing a slower, gentler tone to the tune.
"Ohhhh, isn't this amazing?" Tell sung. It's some new-found cool tech-no-logy! Noooo idea what it's doing, But it's shiny, what a neat and great discovery!
A woman's head poked out from a cubicle hidden from view by a curtain. She sang:
"Now, it's some wonder that she made Bravo Team, Her brains have got no parallel--"
A doctor glanced up from his chart:
"But behind that fair facade, I'm afraid she's rather odd, Very different from the rest of us..."
Everybody chorussed:
"She's nothing like the rest of us, Yes, different from the rest of us is Tell!"
"Hey, look everybody, it's Captain Stackhouse!"
"Right at the moment when I met her, saw her - I said "whatever", then "farewell". In this world there's only she, Who's as much a pain as he!" Stackhouse shot a glare at Adam before continuing. "So it puzzles me why I'm now joining Tell."
As Tim stalked on by, a gaggle of women stared after him lustfully.
"Look there - he goes! Isn't he dreamy? Captain - Stackhouse! Oh, he's so cute! Be still - my heart! I'm hardly breathing! He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome brute!"
"Bonjour!"
"Nazdar!"
"Hola!"
"Mais oui!"
"Goddamn those Ancients!"
"Can you translate--"
"My thumb--"
"--north pier!"
"--turned black--"
"'Scuse me!"
"I'll get the doc!"
"Where's Doctor Weir?"
"This thing--"
"My drain--"
"--it beeped!"
"--it's clogged!"
"What are his ailments?"
"There must be an end to this ridiculous song!" Tell belted out the words with feeling.
"If one thing's sure, it's gone on way too long!" Tim crescendoed.
The entire medical bay joined in with a final, climatic chorus:
"Look there she goes, a girl who's strange but special! A most peculiar mademoiselle! It's a pity and a sin She doesn't quite fit in 'Cause she really is a funny girl, A loony and a funny girl, She really is a funny girl... that Tell!!"
Re: Once More, With Feeling « Reply #106 on Apr 24, 2006, 6:08am »
The music faded away, and there was yet again that uncomfortable silence that followed. It seemed that not everybody enjoyed the singing quite as much as they appeared to while in mid-song. Adam looked from Tim to Tell, a smile on his face, which had remained since the beginning of the song.
"You should definately have kept up the singing back in high school," he said to Tim, happily. "I've no idea why you ever stopped. Can't have been out of embarrassment - as everything else seems to be. You don't have anything to be embarrassed about. Does he, girls?" he addressed the ladies who had - for some reason - been following Tim around all morning. "Perfectly good voice."
Re: Once More, With Feeling « Reply #107 on Apr 24, 2006, 6:14am »
Like everyone, Darwin had been sitting up all night in the hope that something might change and be fixed. While the singing epidemic did not exactly hold the same kind of irritance as some illnesses, it was beginning to feel a lot like having the hiccups all night, fall asleep, only to wake up and find that they're still present.
He groanded as the song ended (not only because it was from one of those ever-annoying classic disney movies that so many people seemed to treasure, and thus he endevoured to tollerate them). Then he smiled at Adam's comment.
"You did singing?" he said, arching an eyebrow to Tim. "I'm not saying that's weird or anything ..." he added quickly, before pausing for thought. "Actually ... er, in all honesty it is weird. I mean - you! But, it's a good thing ..." he trailed off, remembering that, once one had dug themsleves into a hole, there was no way to dig out.
Re: Once More, With Feeling « Reply #108 on Apr 24, 2006, 6:17am »
Tim glared.
"You know," he said - sounding like someone who had just rolled out of bed with a sore throat from all the singing of the day before and little sleep, slapped on whatever mix of clothes he could and headed out for more work. "If I didn't know any better, I'd have a good mind to suspect that you set this all up just to hear me sing," he said to Adam.
"Ever since I told you about my singing in high school, you've always attempted - and failed - to have me sing in your presence ..." he sighed. "You're stupid enough to pull a stunt something like that ... but not this, thankfully."
Shaking his head, he sat down - feeling for all the world like an elderly man with barely any strength left that once he was standing he had lost all energy for the day.
"So," he said, "are we anywhere closer to being ... cured?"
Re: Once More, With Feeling « Reply #110 on Aug 4, 2006, 6:15am »
If anyone had been looking at the glassed-in lab next door, they would have seen Kaylee hug Dr Beckett as if they'd discovered something very cool.
After which time, she came busting back out into the infirmary, ushering Dr Beckett ahead of her and singing in a terribly cutesy voice:
He was a famous doctor man from out Aberdeen way He had a certain style that no one else could play He was the top man at his craft But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft He's in the army now, making retrovirus’ He's the boogie woogie Scottish boy of Company B!
Kaylee did a little twirl and was picked up by a nearby doctor and spun around. The two then proceeded to do a fast-paced tap dance across the room, as Kaylee continued singing.
They made him check the blood work for the singing plague It really brought him down because the symptoms were vague The captain seemed to understand Because the next day the cap' went out and drafted a band And now the company jumps when he sings the results He's the boogie woogie Scottish boy of Company B!
Kaylee, with Beckett and the other doctor, leaned forward, hands on their knees, wiggling their butts and smiling brightly, before forming a Congo line of people making train motions with one hand, the other one gripping the person's belt in front of them. They gained more people as the train danced about the room.
A-toot, a-toot, a-toot-diddelyada-toot He tests it eight-to-the-bar, in boogie rhythm He can't test a slide unless the bass and guitar is playing with him He makes the company jump when he sings the results He's the boogie woogie Scottish boy of Company B!
He was our boogie woogie Scottish boy of Company B And when he tests those boogie woogie samples he was buzy as a "bzzz" bee And when he runs tests he makes the lab techs jump eight-to-the-bar He's the boogie woogie Scottish boy of Company B
Da-doo-da da-doo-da-da da Da-doo-da da-doo-da-da da Da-doo-da da-doo-da-da da Da-doo-da da-doo-da-da And the company jumps when he sings the results He's the boogie woogie Scottish boy of Company B!
Kaylee, along with several others finished with a flourish, kneeling down, arms outstretched, fingers waggling and large smiles plastered on their faces.
Kaylee looked around sheepishly, helping Beckett back to his feet. "Well geez I wish that would stop happening," she mumbled.
"What I meant to say, is we think we know what's causing this. There are nanoviruses in all the blood work. They certainly weren't there in any of the earlier samples. It's strange the bio-hazard systems haven't picked them up though, like they did with the last outbreak."
Next to her Beckett hissed at the memory of the last outbreak and Kaylee absently patted his arm.
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