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chitose_miyuki in the_zoneWho: Shishido and Miyuki
What: Boob trauma
Where: Medbay
When: August 1st-ish
If there was one danger in welding it was the heat. Heat so intense that it could easily go through a welding jacket, honestly. Which was a negative when you had some body part just hanging there when you bent over said hot metal and then brush against it and just-
Yeah, Miyuki had burnt her boob. The female welder hazzard. And so here she was peering into the med bay in hopes of getting some good burn cream to help her ailment.
Life was hard.
Shishido thought having more medical staff would mean he'd have slightly less work. Turns out that was wrong. He was once again the lone man in the medbay thanks to the way people had just disappeared.
Glancing around, he noticed a girl hanging out near the doorway. "You're free to come in," he called out. "I'm the only one in here right now."
Miyuki came in, head cocked at the short (average sized) man who had called her in. "You a doctor? I came because I need some burn cream."
She started unzipping her coveralls to strip her top down to just her sports bra. And then she peeled that off too because ow, it hurt.
Yup, big red mark right on her tit. Lovely. It was a good thing stuff like this didn't phase her much.
"Yeah, I'm a doc-" Shishido stopped speaking as the girl literally started stripping in the middle of the medbay. Where anyone could just walk in at any point. "Hey!" He yelled, trying to stop her. "Wait!"
He wasn't quite quick enough though because there was now a half naked girl in front of him. He tried to do the polite thing and avoid looking at her breasts. It helped that he wasn't interested in them but that didn't make it much better, especially since she was so freaking tall (what was it with this place and all the tall people?). "Over here," Shishido said in a voice that showed just how much this whole situation pained him. He pointed towards a bed that had a privacy curtain. Not that she seemed to care about privacy.
Miyuki shrugged. "It's just a boob. It's not going to hurt you or anything! It's not even like, a big boob."
She still moved behind the privacy curtain, before taking her chance to examine the damage on her boob properly. "Awe shit it's blistering. I should have moved away sooner instead of finishing the weld..."
Well at least she listened. Shishido was glad for that much at least. And a burn was a simple enough thing to deal with. Going over to Atobe's well-stocked cabinet of various sprays, Shishido could hear her talking as he looked for burn spray. He winced at the mention of blistering.
"Why didn't you stop once you got burned?" Shishido asked as he joined her on the other side of the privacy curtain. And got a face-full of breast again. This was not his day, Shishido thought as he quickly looked up, trying to bite back his embarrassment.
"Well, I had a weld to finish." Miyuki shrugged. "And it's not like I even notice it when I'm starting to burn anymore. You get kinda... used to it I guess?"
Miyuki looked at the clearly embarrassed Shishido like he'd grown a second head. Shouldn't doctor be more professional? "You okay, bro? Seriously, it's just a boob. It isn't going to attack you or anything. It's injured."
"Sorry, this isn't really my area of specialty," Shishido admitted. He closed his eyes, taking a moment to try and get his self-control back in order. "I'm the resident physiotherapist, Dr. Shishido. My area's injury prevention and recovery but we all have to take turns keeping an eye on the medbay."
"I should have asked this already but what's your name?" Shishido asked. "We have to record who comes in and why." Plus having her name would let him double-check any allergies real quick. Not that burn spray should cause an allergic reaction but watch this be the one time it did.
"Oh! Shishido-san! Sen-nii and Kenya-chan mentioned you!" Miyuki relaxed now that the doctor didn't seem to be freaking out because he saw some boobs.
She held out a hand for Shishido to shake.
"I'm Chitose Miyuki! You can call me Mi-chan if you want!" She offered up happily, the resemblance between her and her brother pretty obvious in that moment.
Apart from the boobs.
Shishido quickly typed in 'Chitose' before pausing. That explained her height and why she'd looked vaguely familiar. Then he finished typing in her name, quickly cross-referencing the allergy list and the burn spray ingredients. No matches. Perfect.
"This will probably be a little cold," Shishido warned as he picked the burn spray back up and turned his attention back onto Miyuki. And then paused when he spotted the hand held out for him to shake. "How about we take care of the burn first?" He suggested.
Miyuki laughed and moved to hold her boob steady for Shishido to spray, since he was so insistent on treating her and getting the boobie put away. "I mean it's burnt, so it's not like I'm really eager to put clothes back onto it. But sure!"
"This will need to sit for a few moments before you can cover it anyways," Shishido said while he sprayed the burn. "Do you get burned often?" Because if this was going to be a frequent occurrence, it made sense to keep some burn spray in the cabinet of basic medical supplies for people to freely take and use.
"All the time!" Miyuki replied, nodding to her arms. They were covered in little burns and the scars of not so little burns. Proof she was a welder! "I usually don't have to bother with the burn cream, but I'd rather my tit not scar. Y'know?"
She made a face at how cold the spray was, and then at the strange sensation as the futuristic burn cream made the burn pretty much shed all the layers of burnt skin cells. Which was gross, by the way. The whole burn just sloughed off, leaving tender, fresh skin.
For the first time, Shishido noticed all the burn scars on Miyuki's arms. He was reminded of Gakuto's arms. "This stuff is crazy," Shishido said, noting the expression on Miyuki's face. "I wish I'd known about it sooner. I know someone who really could have used it."
Miyuki shook her head. "It feels uncomfortable to use, so I usually avoid it. Usually can prevent scarring, though."
She wondered who Shishido knew who could have used burn cream, and why the hell he hadn't used it. It wasn't a particularly new technology.
"I don't think I've ever used it on myself," Shishido admitted. Burns weren't an injury he'd gotten many of before. "I'll get some put in the free use cabinet though just in case you do want or need some again. That way you don't have to wait for someone to be in - especially since most of the other medbay staff seem to avoid this place."
He paused for a moment before adding, "you should be fine to cover back up now too." And even though Miyuki didn't seem to be the sort to care about privacy, Shishido stepped around the curtain to give her some anyway.
"Yeah, I was hoping that I'd get to see Kenya-chan here... not that you're not great to see too, Shishido-sensei! Even if you're afraid of boobs!" Miyuki laughed, zipping her coveralls back up and hiding the offending tits, though she didn't put the bra back on for the time being.
"I'm not sure where Nurse Oshitari went," Shishido started then paused. "Not afraid, just not used to dealing with," he added, trying to defend himself. "My area of specialty's in stuff like muscle injuries so I haven't had to deal with a lot of injuries to that area of the body." Then after a moment he added, "plus you just kind of stripped without any sort of warning."
Miyuki laughed more. Oh yeah, Shishido was absolutely afraid of boobies. Silly man.
"To be fair, I stripped once I got here because the bra was killing me. And pulled muscles because of boobs are pretty common... if there are women around. I guess when you get off this rock you'll find out."
"Generally people either strip immediately to get a substance off their body or they wait until they have a little privacy," Shishido pointed out. Then he realized he was getting pulled into a childish argument with someone who was essentially a complete stranger over something that really didn't matter now.
"Unless you have any questions, you're free to go," Shishido told her. "There's no need to have you stay for any observations."
"Got it, next time I'll strip in the engineering bay and traumatize poor Niou!" Miyuki laughed at the mental image of Niou and boobs. They didn't go together well at all. "Anyway, what time are you off? Are they keeping you here all night by yourself?"
She clearly wasn't ready to part ways. Sorry Shishido... you'd seen her boob. Now you were practically her best friend.
The idea of someone actually managing to traumatize Niou made Shishido snort involuntarily in amusement. He wasn't exactly the guy's biggest fan so it didn't sound like a terrible idea in Shishido's book. "I know the engineering bay is just down the hall, but are you sure want to walk around topless?" Shishido asked, unable to keep the amusement out of his voice. To answer her question though, he glanced at the clock and was surprised by the time. "I've got about another hour until my shift is up."
"Huh, hopefully someone comes back by then. It would have sucked to have shown up to get some burn cream and found the place empty..." Miyuki shook her head at how dumb it was that the medbay was understaffed during second shift.
"You'd think with more of us, there would be more people around," Shishido said. "But there are a few people who don't like to spend their time in the medbay or will spend as much time as possible hiding in their office."
Moving over to the cabinet of medical supplies set up for anyone, he added, "if you ever need something simple and no one's around, you can grab from here. Just record your name and what you use in this book."
Miyuki nodded her head, making a mental note of the cabinet that Shishido was directing her to. "Sounds good, thanks Sensei!" She finally got up, like she might leave. "Hopefully next time I meet you I can keep my shirt on!"
"That would definitely make things a little easier," Shishido agreed. And since she was basically done being a patient, Shishido relaxed further. "You'd think after a few months I'd be used to getting called 'sensei' and 'doctor' but I'm not." He'd barely graduated when the UEA had scooped him up to come here after all.
"Haven't been a doctor for long, huh?" Miyuki laughed and nodded her head in agreement, getting pumped to encourage Shishido. "I bet it's weird, to suddenly be getting so much respect and stuff. But I assume you worked hard to become a doctor, so you deserve that respect!"
"Not really. I graduated and then came here almost immediately after so it's been..." Shishido's voice trailed off as he quickly counted. "Probably about 6 or 7 months now." Then he laughed and added, "plus, with Jirou and Gakuto being here, it's been easy to slip back into being informal about a lot of things."
"Oh! I know Gakuto-san! He has me testing the metal he made to see what I can do with it!" Miyuki perked up at the familiar name. "He's a nice guy! A friend of yours, huh? That must be nice! I miss all my close friends from home a lot!"
"I heard about that metal," Shishido said with a nod. It certainly was interesting and served as a reminder that they were no longer on Earth. "I've known him and Jirou since we were all little kids. And at least you've got your brother here. That has to help some."
Miyuki made a face. "If he stops being so overprotective and weird every time I talk to guys it would be nice... seriously, he acts like everyone is out to get me. As if all the guys here aren't too old to be interested in someone my age anyway."
Overprotective siblings were the worst.
"Besides, isn't almost everyone here gay?" That's what it seemed like based on her observations.
Shishido chuckled in sympathy. "Yeah, older brothers can be annoying that way. Thankfully mine's back on Earth so I don't have to worry about him." And then he laughed even harder at the whole 'everyone being gay' remark.
"I haven't really paid attention outside of my friends," Shishido admitted. "But it does seem like there are quite a few guys here who are gay." Himself included.
Miyuki nodded her head sagely. "I think the UEA selects gay guys on purpose so they can avoid babies on their fledgling colonies. At least that's the conspiracy theory I read before coming here. It's no big deal to me, though. I mean, I'm here to work, not to flirt."
That just made Shishido laugh harder. "I wish I could say the theory was wrong but it sounds plausible enough to be true." Then he shook his head and added, "I came here for the adventure. It seemed cool to a kid who'd never left Earth. The flirting just kind of happened by accident."
Miyuki looked curious, giggling a little as she looked at Shishido. "That's right... you and the morale guy, right? Ohtori-san is cute! And tall. I don't feel freakish beside him! Good taste, good taste!"
An embarrassed blush spread across Shishido's face as he nodded. "How did you know about that?" He asked, trying to ignore his embarrassment. He hadn't really gone around telling people about that. The only ones he'd brought it up with were Gakuto and Jirou. So was Choutarou going around talking about their date? Or had they somehow entered the general rumor mill?
"Your friend commented publicly trying to set you two up. It was pretty obvious. I bet everyone has it figured out at this point." Seriously, you could learn a lot of what was going on around base just by reading people's comments. "So I take it you've done more than just crush on him now?"
Shishido groaned. He'd been trying to forget about that. He'd almost even accomplished that. "Yes and no," was the most he admitted. He really didn't feel like having his private life becoming the topic of public gossip. Granted it was feeling like that was becoming less and less of a possibility the more he spoke to Miyuki.
Miyuki laughed. "I won't tell anyone, bro! If you're shy about it my lips are sealed. Going around spilling personal secrets is so uncool!"
She was a good person and not a gossip.
"You really do have good taste though! Ohtori-san is manly yet graceful! Just the way a good guy should be!"
"Thanks?" Shishido wasn't sure what else to say. It was a strange compliment, that he had good taste in guys, but he wasn't going to argue it. "It's more like we haven't really talked about or figured out what this is yet." So Shishido didn't want to go around spreading news about something that wasn't decided on yet.
Miyuki nodded her head. "You're still at that unsure beginning point. I get that. I hope it goes well for you both!"
She clearly wasn't going to stay too focused on a subject Shishido wasn't keen to talk about, so she went and changed the subject.
"So you're here because it's an adventure? That's a bold reason to take a posting in the middle of nowhere like this, but you aren't wrong." The place was an adventure.
"I honestly didn't think they'd take me," Shishido answered, relieved that Miyuki had dropped the whole topic of his love life. "I applied on a whim before I was even done with med school. I figured they'd want more experienced people for their medical staff."
Then he shrugged and added, "I spent my entire life on Earth. My family's been in Japan for as long as I can remember so this whole thing felt like a chance to do..." Shishido trailed off, not sure of the right words for just what had driven him to do this whole crazy thing in the first place.
Miyuki looked wistful, nodding her head. "I've lived on earth my whole life too, so when I got this job offer it sounded like... I guess you're right... a big adventure. And the chance to be a part of something important." She paused. "Plus the chance to be taken seriously in my profession."
"How's that going for you?" Shishido asked, being polite. There wasn't anyone around so he didn't see a problem with continuing to be friendly. "Being taken seriously in your profession?" Whatever that was. Something with welding, obviously, but other than that, Shishido wasn't sure. He could relate to that feeling though. Shishido felt the same about medicine.
Miyuki let out a looong sigh. "Well, everyone still treats me like a kid, but that's to be expected with my age. I guess most of them are a little better about the fact I'm a woman, though I still get a lot of surprised looks and comments over my choice of trades."
Working in a male dominant field could be tough.
"I can only imagine," Shishido admitted. He had no idea how that was since he'd graduated and come here, only to end up in a place full of people who were mostly close in age to himself. Even his boss was his age. And then the whole woman thing...yeah, not exactly something Shishido had a lot of experience with. "You're free to go whenever by the way. I'm not holding you here for any observations." Though it'd make sense if she was waiting to see if her brother showed up.
Miyuki laughed. "Okay, good to know. I am having fun talking to you though... maybe we can meet up when we're off work? You could meet my dog!"
She seemed to remember a comment about Shishido liking dogs.
Sparkles practically appeared in Shishido's eyes as he was reminded that there was a dog on base and that Miyuki was the one who'd brought said dog. "YES!" He immediately yelled out a little too loudly and enthusiastically. At least Shishido had the decency to realize that because he hung his head, embarrassed, as he said, "yeah, I'd really like to meet your dog."
Miyuki laughed and nodded her head, pleased that Shishido would appreciate Tigger. "Okay then, message me and we'll work out a time to meet up! I bet Tigger will love you!"
For now though she got up and headed towards the door. She still had some work to finish, after all. "Bye, Sensei-niisan!"
Sensei-niisan was an entirely new one. Shishido just laughed a little at the new name and waved. "I'll send a message later," he promised.
But for now, he had to record that she'd come to the medbay. And hopefully the rest of his shift went by quickly and peacefully.
What: Boob trauma
Where: Medbay
When: August 1st-ish
If there was one danger in welding it was the heat. Heat so intense that it could easily go through a welding jacket, honestly. Which was a negative when you had some body part just hanging there when you bent over said hot metal and then brush against it and just-
Yeah, Miyuki had burnt her boob. The female welder hazzard. And so here she was peering into the med bay in hopes of getting some good burn cream to help her ailment.
Life was hard.
Shishido thought having more medical staff would mean he'd have slightly less work. Turns out that was wrong. He was once again the lone man in the medbay thanks to the way people had just disappeared.
Glancing around, he noticed a girl hanging out near the doorway. "You're free to come in," he called out. "I'm the only one in here right now."
Miyuki came in, head cocked at the short (average sized) man who had called her in. "You a doctor? I came because I need some burn cream."
She started unzipping her coveralls to strip her top down to just her sports bra. And then she peeled that off too because ow, it hurt.
Yup, big red mark right on her tit. Lovely. It was a good thing stuff like this didn't phase her much.
"Yeah, I'm a doc-" Shishido stopped speaking as the girl literally started stripping in the middle of the medbay. Where anyone could just walk in at any point. "Hey!" He yelled, trying to stop her. "Wait!"
He wasn't quite quick enough though because there was now a half naked girl in front of him. He tried to do the polite thing and avoid looking at her breasts. It helped that he wasn't interested in them but that didn't make it much better, especially since she was so freaking tall (what was it with this place and all the tall people?). "Over here," Shishido said in a voice that showed just how much this whole situation pained him. He pointed towards a bed that had a privacy curtain. Not that she seemed to care about privacy.
Miyuki shrugged. "It's just a boob. It's not going to hurt you or anything! It's not even like, a big boob."
She still moved behind the privacy curtain, before taking her chance to examine the damage on her boob properly. "Awe shit it's blistering. I should have moved away sooner instead of finishing the weld..."
Well at least she listened. Shishido was glad for that much at least. And a burn was a simple enough thing to deal with. Going over to Atobe's well-stocked cabinet of various sprays, Shishido could hear her talking as he looked for burn spray. He winced at the mention of blistering.
"Why didn't you stop once you got burned?" Shishido asked as he joined her on the other side of the privacy curtain. And got a face-full of breast again. This was not his day, Shishido thought as he quickly looked up, trying to bite back his embarrassment.
"Well, I had a weld to finish." Miyuki shrugged. "And it's not like I even notice it when I'm starting to burn anymore. You get kinda... used to it I guess?"
Miyuki looked at the clearly embarrassed Shishido like he'd grown a second head. Shouldn't doctor be more professional? "You okay, bro? Seriously, it's just a boob. It isn't going to attack you or anything. It's injured."
"Sorry, this isn't really my area of specialty," Shishido admitted. He closed his eyes, taking a moment to try and get his self-control back in order. "I'm the resident physiotherapist, Dr. Shishido. My area's injury prevention and recovery but we all have to take turns keeping an eye on the medbay."
"I should have asked this already but what's your name?" Shishido asked. "We have to record who comes in and why." Plus having her name would let him double-check any allergies real quick. Not that burn spray should cause an allergic reaction but watch this be the one time it did.
"Oh! Shishido-san! Sen-nii and Kenya-chan mentioned you!" Miyuki relaxed now that the doctor didn't seem to be freaking out because he saw some boobs.
She held out a hand for Shishido to shake.
"I'm Chitose Miyuki! You can call me Mi-chan if you want!" She offered up happily, the resemblance between her and her brother pretty obvious in that moment.
Apart from the boobs.
Shishido quickly typed in 'Chitose' before pausing. That explained her height and why she'd looked vaguely familiar. Then he finished typing in her name, quickly cross-referencing the allergy list and the burn spray ingredients. No matches. Perfect.
"This will probably be a little cold," Shishido warned as he picked the burn spray back up and turned his attention back onto Miyuki. And then paused when he spotted the hand held out for him to shake. "How about we take care of the burn first?" He suggested.
Miyuki laughed and moved to hold her boob steady for Shishido to spray, since he was so insistent on treating her and getting the boobie put away. "I mean it's burnt, so it's not like I'm really eager to put clothes back onto it. But sure!"
"This will need to sit for a few moments before you can cover it anyways," Shishido said while he sprayed the burn. "Do you get burned often?" Because if this was going to be a frequent occurrence, it made sense to keep some burn spray in the cabinet of basic medical supplies for people to freely take and use.
"All the time!" Miyuki replied, nodding to her arms. They were covered in little burns and the scars of not so little burns. Proof she was a welder! "I usually don't have to bother with the burn cream, but I'd rather my tit not scar. Y'know?"
She made a face at how cold the spray was, and then at the strange sensation as the futuristic burn cream made the burn pretty much shed all the layers of burnt skin cells. Which was gross, by the way. The whole burn just sloughed off, leaving tender, fresh skin.
For the first time, Shishido noticed all the burn scars on Miyuki's arms. He was reminded of Gakuto's arms. "This stuff is crazy," Shishido said, noting the expression on Miyuki's face. "I wish I'd known about it sooner. I know someone who really could have used it."
Miyuki shook her head. "It feels uncomfortable to use, so I usually avoid it. Usually can prevent scarring, though."
She wondered who Shishido knew who could have used burn cream, and why the hell he hadn't used it. It wasn't a particularly new technology.
"I don't think I've ever used it on myself," Shishido admitted. Burns weren't an injury he'd gotten many of before. "I'll get some put in the free use cabinet though just in case you do want or need some again. That way you don't have to wait for someone to be in - especially since most of the other medbay staff seem to avoid this place."
He paused for a moment before adding, "you should be fine to cover back up now too." And even though Miyuki didn't seem to be the sort to care about privacy, Shishido stepped around the curtain to give her some anyway.
"Yeah, I was hoping that I'd get to see Kenya-chan here... not that you're not great to see too, Shishido-sensei! Even if you're afraid of boobs!" Miyuki laughed, zipping her coveralls back up and hiding the offending tits, though she didn't put the bra back on for the time being.
"I'm not sure where Nurse Oshitari went," Shishido started then paused. "Not afraid, just not used to dealing with," he added, trying to defend himself. "My area of specialty's in stuff like muscle injuries so I haven't had to deal with a lot of injuries to that area of the body." Then after a moment he added, "plus you just kind of stripped without any sort of warning."
Miyuki laughed more. Oh yeah, Shishido was absolutely afraid of boobies. Silly man.
"To be fair, I stripped once I got here because the bra was killing me. And pulled muscles because of boobs are pretty common... if there are women around. I guess when you get off this rock you'll find out."
"Generally people either strip immediately to get a substance off their body or they wait until they have a little privacy," Shishido pointed out. Then he realized he was getting pulled into a childish argument with someone who was essentially a complete stranger over something that really didn't matter now.
"Unless you have any questions, you're free to go," Shishido told her. "There's no need to have you stay for any observations."
"Got it, next time I'll strip in the engineering bay and traumatize poor Niou!" Miyuki laughed at the mental image of Niou and boobs. They didn't go together well at all. "Anyway, what time are you off? Are they keeping you here all night by yourself?"
She clearly wasn't ready to part ways. Sorry Shishido... you'd seen her boob. Now you were practically her best friend.
The idea of someone actually managing to traumatize Niou made Shishido snort involuntarily in amusement. He wasn't exactly the guy's biggest fan so it didn't sound like a terrible idea in Shishido's book. "I know the engineering bay is just down the hall, but are you sure want to walk around topless?" Shishido asked, unable to keep the amusement out of his voice. To answer her question though, he glanced at the clock and was surprised by the time. "I've got about another hour until my shift is up."
"Huh, hopefully someone comes back by then. It would have sucked to have shown up to get some burn cream and found the place empty..." Miyuki shook her head at how dumb it was that the medbay was understaffed during second shift.
"You'd think with more of us, there would be more people around," Shishido said. "But there are a few people who don't like to spend their time in the medbay or will spend as much time as possible hiding in their office."
Moving over to the cabinet of medical supplies set up for anyone, he added, "if you ever need something simple and no one's around, you can grab from here. Just record your name and what you use in this book."
Miyuki nodded her head, making a mental note of the cabinet that Shishido was directing her to. "Sounds good, thanks Sensei!" She finally got up, like she might leave. "Hopefully next time I meet you I can keep my shirt on!"
"That would definitely make things a little easier," Shishido agreed. And since she was basically done being a patient, Shishido relaxed further. "You'd think after a few months I'd be used to getting called 'sensei' and 'doctor' but I'm not." He'd barely graduated when the UEA had scooped him up to come here after all.
"Haven't been a doctor for long, huh?" Miyuki laughed and nodded her head in agreement, getting pumped to encourage Shishido. "I bet it's weird, to suddenly be getting so much respect and stuff. But I assume you worked hard to become a doctor, so you deserve that respect!"
"Not really. I graduated and then came here almost immediately after so it's been..." Shishido's voice trailed off as he quickly counted. "Probably about 6 or 7 months now." Then he laughed and added, "plus, with Jirou and Gakuto being here, it's been easy to slip back into being informal about a lot of things."
"Oh! I know Gakuto-san! He has me testing the metal he made to see what I can do with it!" Miyuki perked up at the familiar name. "He's a nice guy! A friend of yours, huh? That must be nice! I miss all my close friends from home a lot!"
"I heard about that metal," Shishido said with a nod. It certainly was interesting and served as a reminder that they were no longer on Earth. "I've known him and Jirou since we were all little kids. And at least you've got your brother here. That has to help some."
Miyuki made a face. "If he stops being so overprotective and weird every time I talk to guys it would be nice... seriously, he acts like everyone is out to get me. As if all the guys here aren't too old to be interested in someone my age anyway."
Overprotective siblings were the worst.
"Besides, isn't almost everyone here gay?" That's what it seemed like based on her observations.
Shishido chuckled in sympathy. "Yeah, older brothers can be annoying that way. Thankfully mine's back on Earth so I don't have to worry about him." And then he laughed even harder at the whole 'everyone being gay' remark.
"I haven't really paid attention outside of my friends," Shishido admitted. "But it does seem like there are quite a few guys here who are gay." Himself included.
Miyuki nodded her head sagely. "I think the UEA selects gay guys on purpose so they can avoid babies on their fledgling colonies. At least that's the conspiracy theory I read before coming here. It's no big deal to me, though. I mean, I'm here to work, not to flirt."
That just made Shishido laugh harder. "I wish I could say the theory was wrong but it sounds plausible enough to be true." Then he shook his head and added, "I came here for the adventure. It seemed cool to a kid who'd never left Earth. The flirting just kind of happened by accident."
Miyuki looked curious, giggling a little as she looked at Shishido. "That's right... you and the morale guy, right? Ohtori-san is cute! And tall. I don't feel freakish beside him! Good taste, good taste!"
An embarrassed blush spread across Shishido's face as he nodded. "How did you know about that?" He asked, trying to ignore his embarrassment. He hadn't really gone around telling people about that. The only ones he'd brought it up with were Gakuto and Jirou. So was Choutarou going around talking about their date? Or had they somehow entered the general rumor mill?
"Your friend commented publicly trying to set you two up. It was pretty obvious. I bet everyone has it figured out at this point." Seriously, you could learn a lot of what was going on around base just by reading people's comments. "So I take it you've done more than just crush on him now?"
Shishido groaned. He'd been trying to forget about that. He'd almost even accomplished that. "Yes and no," was the most he admitted. He really didn't feel like having his private life becoming the topic of public gossip. Granted it was feeling like that was becoming less and less of a possibility the more he spoke to Miyuki.
Miyuki laughed. "I won't tell anyone, bro! If you're shy about it my lips are sealed. Going around spilling personal secrets is so uncool!"
She was a good person and not a gossip.
"You really do have good taste though! Ohtori-san is manly yet graceful! Just the way a good guy should be!"
"Thanks?" Shishido wasn't sure what else to say. It was a strange compliment, that he had good taste in guys, but he wasn't going to argue it. "It's more like we haven't really talked about or figured out what this is yet." So Shishido didn't want to go around spreading news about something that wasn't decided on yet.
Miyuki nodded her head. "You're still at that unsure beginning point. I get that. I hope it goes well for you both!"
She clearly wasn't going to stay too focused on a subject Shishido wasn't keen to talk about, so she went and changed the subject.
"So you're here because it's an adventure? That's a bold reason to take a posting in the middle of nowhere like this, but you aren't wrong." The place was an adventure.
"I honestly didn't think they'd take me," Shishido answered, relieved that Miyuki had dropped the whole topic of his love life. "I applied on a whim before I was even done with med school. I figured they'd want more experienced people for their medical staff."
Then he shrugged and added, "I spent my entire life on Earth. My family's been in Japan for as long as I can remember so this whole thing felt like a chance to do..." Shishido trailed off, not sure of the right words for just what had driven him to do this whole crazy thing in the first place.
Miyuki looked wistful, nodding her head. "I've lived on earth my whole life too, so when I got this job offer it sounded like... I guess you're right... a big adventure. And the chance to be a part of something important." She paused. "Plus the chance to be taken seriously in my profession."
"How's that going for you?" Shishido asked, being polite. There wasn't anyone around so he didn't see a problem with continuing to be friendly. "Being taken seriously in your profession?" Whatever that was. Something with welding, obviously, but other than that, Shishido wasn't sure. He could relate to that feeling though. Shishido felt the same about medicine.
Miyuki let out a looong sigh. "Well, everyone still treats me like a kid, but that's to be expected with my age. I guess most of them are a little better about the fact I'm a woman, though I still get a lot of surprised looks and comments over my choice of trades."
Working in a male dominant field could be tough.
"I can only imagine," Shishido admitted. He had no idea how that was since he'd graduated and come here, only to end up in a place full of people who were mostly close in age to himself. Even his boss was his age. And then the whole woman thing...yeah, not exactly something Shishido had a lot of experience with. "You're free to go whenever by the way. I'm not holding you here for any observations." Though it'd make sense if she was waiting to see if her brother showed up.
Miyuki laughed. "Okay, good to know. I am having fun talking to you though... maybe we can meet up when we're off work? You could meet my dog!"
She seemed to remember a comment about Shishido liking dogs.
Sparkles practically appeared in Shishido's eyes as he was reminded that there was a dog on base and that Miyuki was the one who'd brought said dog. "YES!" He immediately yelled out a little too loudly and enthusiastically. At least Shishido had the decency to realize that because he hung his head, embarrassed, as he said, "yeah, I'd really like to meet your dog."
Miyuki laughed and nodded her head, pleased that Shishido would appreciate Tigger. "Okay then, message me and we'll work out a time to meet up! I bet Tigger will love you!"
For now though she got up and headed towards the door. She still had some work to finish, after all. "Bye, Sensei-niisan!"
Sensei-niisan was an entirely new one. Shishido just laughed a little at the new name and waved. "I'll send a message later," he promised.
But for now, he had to record that she'd come to the medbay. And hopefully the rest of his shift went by quickly and peacefully.
