WHO: Andre and ickle Adelaide
When: Adelaide's first day as an intern!
What: snarkyness!
Today was the day. The day half the attendees loved, half of them hated. New intern day. Personally Andre didn't care either way, mostly it just meant more slave... ahem... people to do his more mundane boring work while he worked on more interesting things. He was discretely looking over his chart watching the newbies filter in. So far he didn't see anything spectacular. Well there were a few that looked promising. Today would be a fun day.
Adelaide cracked her knuckles as she brought up the rear of the interns. She felt no need to rush ahead and look like an eager brown-noser, ready to run and get the residents coffee or whatever they drank here at Mungo's. For all she knew, they sucked on lemons to keep their motors running--Adelaide really hadn't done much research on the hospital. All she knew was that there had been an
abundance of healer interns this year (her being the only female), and one by frickin
one, they were going to be weeded out and she was going to be left triumphant as the best.
Really. Priyaranjan Patil? He
so wasn't going to make it past a week.
She'd have been fine with standing in the back and just nodding along at the pauses, but Adelaide couldn't
see, because the interns this year decided to be exceptionally
tall and she was a normal height. So she pushed and squeezed past Cunningham and made it to the front of the group, blowing a big chunk of hair out of her face.
Andre had the honor of telling the interns the general rules and such, then who the tormenter would be for the following year, well if they made it that long. He peered over the brim of his glasses as a shorter girl pushed her way to the front. She made good use of her elbows, he almost felt sorry for those in her way.
"Everyone here? Good, because I don't put up with stragglers. I'm Healer Jordan and you're not following me around this year. I don't deal with interns, they tend to be highly annoying. Anyways, general rules, listen to your residents, on call rooms are off limits, do what your told. Learn. And most importantly don't kill anyone." He finally put down the chart he was looking at the entire time and picked up the intern folder, flipping through the pages. Couldn't any of them have normal, pronounceable names?
"Find your name then go around asking everyone who your resident is until you find them." Andre tossed the papers on the counter. This ought to be very amusing. He highly doubted that he'd be allowed to do the intern welcome again.
She wasn't sure if the boys were scared of her, or if they were just pansies and let the girl go first (probably a bit of both), but Adelaide reached the counter first and pushed the papers around to find her sheet. She snatched it up, finally, and pushed through the rush to stand off to the side. What--what the hell was this nonsense?
"Wait!" She spotted the healer that had so haphazardly left their documents, and she grabbed his sleeve. Oy---he was tall. Adelaide craned her neck back to get a good look at this man, Healer
Jordan. Who did he think he was? He was definitely
not in charge, and he was only like--why, he couldn't be more than two years older than her! That wasn't intimidating at all! "Why does it say I'm in the maternity ward indefinitely!"
Andre's eyebrows shot up as he felt someone grab his sleeve. He looked down finding the small asian girl latched on his arm. "Well first of all," he said pulling her hand of his arm. "I don't make the assignments. I also don't care. Secondly, you could be in peds dealing with whiny kids and bitching parents. And thirdly, you're a chick, you should be happy. Maternity ward is full of sunshine and rainbows."
Andre couldn't figure this one out. Last year the girl was over excited that she got assigned to the maternity ward. This one looked out right pissed off. "It's not a permanent assignment anyways. That's just what your resident prefers. You'll get to try everything else too."
"Ex
cuse me?" Adelaide sputtered greatly, mouth contorted into a great expression of shock and disbelief. She heard snickering behind her and quickly sent a fist into Priyaranjan Patil's gut. After hearing a satisfying grunt, Adelaide turned her attention back on the resident who was being a
complete asshole. "I'm not a
chick, thank you, I am a legal
witch---not that it seems like
you would know what one looks like,
but."
Adelaide really did know better than to talk back to her superiors, but
no way. No way! She was not going to be called a
chick and told that she had to go into pediatrics or the maternity ward because she was a
woman. No way---she wanted to get her hands into some juicy cases like--like---LIKE. Well! She couldn't think of anything at the moment because she was beyond furious.
Andre took a step back when she turned around threw her fist into the intern who was laughing. So she was one you didn't want to mess with. And that just made it all more entertaining to Andre. "But what? How about we take a deep breath and take it down a level or three. Chick, witch, its not that different and I'm not
trying to be insulting, you just happen to take it that way. Now if you are done bitching, I'll have you know, Healer Donovan is one of the best spell damage healers we have at Mungo's. Second only to me, she just happens to prefer the maternity ward, so you'll see plenty of interesting cases."
He looked over her head to the rest of the interns watching the exchange. "Any other complaints about assignments? Didn't think so. I have work to do now, have fun finding your residents."
"You---you are most definitely being---"
Adelaide couldn't get a word out, she was so surprised by this man's tone. Healer
Jordan's tone. No, no she was going to call him---Healer Jerkface
that's who
he was. Just because she was an intern didn't mean he could talk to her like he was some--
no one was allowed to talk to
anyone like that and he needed to--STOP BEING A JERK.
She puffed her cheeks greatly and contemplated throwing something at him. She should, she really should---but that would get her kicked out of the program. Screw this program! Screw it, if it made her into a big jerkface like
him then she didn't want to be a bloody healer, no sir, not one little
bit.
"Is it a
requirement for a resident, to be completely rude and insulting? Because even though you're
not trying, you are--being insulting." Okay, so she couldn't help
that.
"Oh did I hurt your feelings? I'm
so sorry. But this is a hospital, and believe it or not people
are dying. I don't have time to walk around on eggshells and protect the feelings of all the interns running around here. In fact if you make it, and are still around here to have interns you will quickly learn that in order for them to make it through the program and become a decent healer you have to be rude and insulting, protecting your feelings and being happy-go-lucky all the time isn't going to benefit your education." Andre didn't even know why he was trying to explain it to this girl.
"This is not an easy program. If you're going to get pissy because you're feelings got hurt I suggest you leave now."
Well. When you put it
that way. Adelaide continued to glare up at Healer Jerkface, even though it finally clicked, how hard this internship was going to be. It wasn't like she hadn't
know, but in all fairness--she was pretty smart, and tough, and---could handle basically
anything, but. You
still needed to be aware of your surroundings.
Well--all right, then. She could deal with this guy, it wasn't like he was going to be her boss or anything; just another resident she'd have to listen to to get by. That would be fine, that'd be
great even, because then she could show him that she was the best and he would be like
oh, should've been nice to
her, and---
"Fine," she snipped, ending her mental ramble with with a slight huff and a turn. He didn't need to know that she actually might've taken his advice to heart. Totally didn't deserve to know any of that.
