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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 235799" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Ray pulls into the hospital at speeds that should have had him arrested.  Even so as he runs into his office, he's intercepted by one of his nurses*"You're obscenely late!  I couldn't get ahold of you at home, your cell phone was turned off, and you wouldn't answer your beeper," she snaps, taking his briefcase from him, and shoving his surgical scrubs at him.  "You have two ACL reconstructions, two knee scopes, and - "  *Ray throws up a hand to cut her off.  She abruptly stops, then takes a deep breath*"Sorry doctor, we just got a little frantic when no one could get ahold of you.  The patient's prepped and on the table."*With that, she leaves.  Taking her words as the unsubtle hint they were meant to be, Ray closed the door and frantically changed into his scrubs.  One shoe off, one shoe on (diddle-diddle dumpling, my son John, his mind continued inanely) he scrawled an note to himself to call the coroner during his lunch break.He dropped his cell phone and beeper on his desk, then froze."Your cell phone was turned off and you wouldn't answer your beeper," she had said.  Ray never turned off his beeper, and he was certain he hadn't turned off his cell phone last night.  He almost never did anyway.  But both devices were entirely dead.  It looked like they had both run down at the same time.He blinked.  He had purchased the very best most long-lasting batteries and battery packs for both items just because he almost never turned them off.  For both of them to run down at the same time was damn near mathmatically impossible-He stopped himself right there in mid-thought*"I'm paranoid.  I'm only paranoid.  Right."  He gulped down the last of his coffee (stone cold by this point), and headed out the door at a fast walk.</blockquote>

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