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[on_your_nerves]

Bored.

I'm trapped against my will in the Medbay and it's so excruciatingly dull that the only thing I'm able to do right now to entertain myself is reflect on the fact that there are talking ponies on this ship that are capable of grasping objects when they're not in possession of opposable thumbs.

Someone say something that isn't tedious.

SH

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[on_your_nerves]

I'm not going to show you unless you let me out.

Either I get to leave Medbay right now or your awkward phrasing is immortalized forever.

[nerves_of_steel]

You're staying in the Medbay and I'll figure it out on my own. I am capable of doing that sometimes.

Besides, I'm a doctor, we move unconscious people around all the time in entirely professional contexts. I just occasionally get to use that knowledge to extract you from the couch before you put down roots.

[on_your_nerves]

So I'm not couched anymore? Good to know.

By the way, before I went down into the city and got stabbed, I staked out a room for us.

[nerves_of_steel]

You're the one that falls asleep out there. I'm the one that hauls your carcass back to your bed before I can go back to mine with my midnight glass of water.

That was good of you. You haven't found any dead things to put in it yet, have you?

[on_your_nerves]

I'm well aware of our typical sleeping habits, John. There's no need to describe them so explicitly.

As for finding samples, not as of yet, but if that thread above is any indication, there could be the remains of the ravening undead somewhere on this ship. Possibly. I need to start looking.

[nerves_of_steel]

I wasn't describing them for your benefit.

No zombies where I sleep. I'm making that a rule now. In fact, I am making it a rule that no dead things are allowed in our room other than things that are food; and in that case, only food that has been recently obtained/prepared and isn't being used as part of an experiment.

And you don't need to start looking for anything, you need to recover.

[on_your_nerves]

For whose benefit? Why would anyone else care at all about our sleeping habits?

I don't need to recover. I need to not be bored.

[nerves_of_steel]

I don't know, for whose benefit did you imply that I was the one responsible for you spending the night on the couch?

Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?

[on_your_nerves]

That part was a joke, John. Terribly obvious.

And it's only a tiny bit of entertainment. Hardly enough.

[nerves_of_steel]

I'm sure.

Tell you what: if you promise not to try and sneak out while I'm gone, I'll head down to the Media Library that they've got here and download some movies for you, including the one I was just quoting.

[on_your_nerves]

Which bit was the quote?

[nerves_of_steel]

"Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?"

It's from Gladiator. It's a historical drama, set in Rome. Pretty popular in the early noughties.

[on_your_nerves]

It's not anything like The 300, is it? I'll never forgive you for making me watch that.

[nerves_of_steel]

I didn't make you watch anything, I just didn't turn off the telly. You could have changed the channel. I remember, the remote was well within your reach.

[on_your_nerves]

You were entertained by it so I thought if I changed it that you'd just change it back.

[nerves_of_steel]

I was entertained by you shouting at it. I barely remember the movie.

[on_your_nerves]

Do you really mean to tell me I suffered through that travesty of a movie for no reason?

[nerves_of_steel]

I meant what I wrote, it's your decision if it was for "no reason".

Gladiator is better, though.

[on_your_nerves]

What's it about?

And don't be obvious and say "gladiators."

[nerves_of_steel]

Spoil all my fun.

It's about a Roman general who gets sold into slavery and forced to fight as a gladiator after the emperor's son kills his father to take the throne, and kills the general's family when he can't kill the general. The general/gladiator then spends the rest of the movie competing and gaining popularity until he eventually faces the emperor's son in combat in the arena.

[on_your_nerves]

You just went and spoiled it.

[nerves_of_steel]

Believe me, there's more to it than that.

[on_your_nerves]

You just laid out the whole plot. I would have guessed it anyway, mind you, because most movies are hopelessly predictable, but you ruined any chance at all I would have had wondering if I might be surprised for once.

[nerves_of_steel]

Then I'll bring you this one and a few movies that I will refuse to tell you anything about.

[on_your_nerves]

As long as they're not terrible.