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21,076 / 50,000 - 42% done!


Go me! <3

Bones annoys me, but it has its charm. I say it's the dead bodies.


“Catch,” Sanzo says, and Goku, without even looking, extends his hands. He cushions the impact as best he can, because he knows Sanzo, and Sanzo has a tendency to chuck around things that are priceless, or fragile, or deserve better, usually a combination of all three.

“Are you fucking insane,” Gojyo yells, and yeah, that pretty much tells Goku what he’s holding. He looks down and sure enough, he is looking into the empty eye sockets of a human skull. He smiles at it, and smoothes the arch of its brow with his finger. She looked sad.

Behind him Gojyo is still yelling at Sanzo, who isn’t paying attention.

“Gojyo does have a point, Sanzo, you shouldn’t throw human remains around like that.” Hakkai arrives with a disembodied arm in his hand, a sight which will never ever, as far as Goku is concerned, be comfortable. The arm has been neatly sliced from the rest of the body, to which the skull belongs. Hakkai extends the arm in Sanzo’s direction. “Here you go, I’m all done.”

“She’s dead. What does she care?”

“If I ever die,” Gojyo says, turning around, because Sanzo starts stripping the flesh off the bones and that is too gross, “don’t let at bastard anywhere near my remains.”

“Then do us all a favour and shoot yourself in the presence of witnesses and leave a written confession.” Sanzo raises a brow and turns to give Goku a look. “Is there a reason you’re not working yet?”

“Trying to make sure Gojyo won’t be shooting you.”

“As if.”

“Don’t tempt me, kid,” Gojyo says, sauntering over and dropping a hand into Goku’s hair.

“I’m not a kid.” Goku starts turning the skull over in his hands, holding it up to the light. It’s clean, which is fortunate – his first day on the job, the interview in fact, Sanzo handed him a mostly skinless head dripping with ooze and blood. Goku had been warned three artists had been fired on the spot for dropping the remains and making a run for the toilet. He held his own and handed the head right back.

***

“I can’t work with this,” he said, going to fold his arms across his chest and then abandoning the thought. The rubber gloves were sticky with goo.

“Any particular reason you aren’t doing the job you are supposedly qualified for?”

“Yeah, I don’t work with spam or jam. I ain’t a chef. This isn’t a human head.” Too shapeless, for one, considering the lack of skin there were not enough visible ligaments, for another, plus it smelled like spam and jam.

Sanzo gave him a look over his glasses, a look that seemed to update his status from an annoyance to what later turned out to be an even bigger annoyance. Goku grinned, and held out his hand. “Hi, I’m Goku.”

“I’m your boss, it seems. Get working.”

“Yeah, sure. Do you have something that’s not edible?”

“That depends. Is voraphilia a fetish of yours?”

“Is what a what of mine?”

“If you want to work here, do improve your vocabulary.”

“Excuse me for not keeping up with the current list of sexual deviancies.”

Sanzo pursed his lips, which caused little lines to form on his face, which in turn told Goku that this was a smile he was trying to obscure with a frown.

Goku followed the doctor to a table, on which a complete skeleton was laid out. He squinted. No, not complete. “What happened to the jaw?”

Yet another of the ironic half-smiles. “It hasn’t been found yet.”

“So… you know he got into a fight that had torn off his jaw, but don’t know who he is?”

“More or less. Dental records don’t match anything, apparently a likeness is next on the list of checking who this might have been. Hence you, wasting my time. How do you know it’s a he?”

Goku resisted the urge to shrug. Even he was bright enough to know this was a test and not an actual question. “Pelvic bone, skeleton seems too wide to be female, and a really wacky forehead.”

“Where did they find you, grade school?”

“Triangular pelvic bone indicates male, as does the correlation of length and width of the skeleton, plus a very pronounced supraorbital ridge, that works for you?”

“Whatever.”

The ‘whatever’ signed the deal. Goku had a job, Sanzo had a facial reconstruction artist and the FBI liaison had someone normal to talk to, when he brought a fresh batch of human remains to identify. Life was good, for the most part. Goku occasionally had to get his hands dirty and create a face to a skull, which hadn’t yet parted with the flesh, but he had the stomach of a concrete elephant, so he wasn’t bothered.

Strangely enough, when Sanzo asked him out the first time, the conversation had also started with a human head. The thought was just a little disturbing, and Goku was starting to suspect that Sanzo had a skull fetish at the time.

***

“Goku!”

“What, sorry?”

Gojyo sighs in exasperation. “Is there a reason you’re staring at the skull? Does it have the name of the murdered written on its forehead?”

“If it had, you would have noticed it already. At least I hope so, or I might lose faith in the crime-solving powers of the FBI,” Goku says, rubbing his thumb against the zygomatic arches. The tissue markers indicate these were pronounced…

“You know, I am deeply uncomfortable with you spending your free time with Dr Skull-fetishist over here. You are getting snarky, and snarky is not a good look on you.” Gojyo rolls his eyes and turns to Hakkai. “C’mon help me out here. They should break up, shouldn’t they?”

“Do not drag me into this, Gojyo,” Hakkai says, holding his hands up. “Though I do agree, Goku, it is inevitable you glean some of Sanzos habits, but I vote for something less anti-social.”

“I could try smoking.”

“No,” Sanzo says, whirling a tibia between his fingers as if it were a baton. “I’m enjoying the banter.”

“No, you don’t.” Goku sets the skull on the table and grabs a sketchbook. “You pitch a spazz every time I talk back to you.”

“Excuse me?” Sanzo says, even as Gojyo guffaws with laughter and Hakkai hides a smile behind a bloody sample.

Goku looks up and grins.

Date: 2009-11-12 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pandawolf.livejournal.com
Excellent fic!
My own experiences regarding autopsies were ranging from fabulous to stomach-churning. Especially when they opened the stomach. And head. It's fantastic in the psychotic king of way, I must say.

Date: 2009-11-12 12:41 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (39 Possessive)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
I am currently looking for a way to get myself into an autopsy, because this is something I would like to see. I might be a smigde disturbed. XD

Thankies!

Date: 2009-11-13 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pandawolf.livejournal.com
Autopsy can be very thrilling ^^
I like to think that nothing squick me but still, I can't deny that intestines are not pretty
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Autopsy can be very thrilling ^^
I like to think that nothing squick me but still, I can't deny that intestines are not pretty <I can stomach the brain, lung, liver, or whatever it is though</small>.

Any sequels? *bats eyelashes*

Date: 2009-11-12 02:17 am (UTC)
ext_41634: (39 is love)
From: [identity profile] rroselavy.livejournal.com
As ewwww as the subject is, it's also lovely banter, your forte :-D

Thanks for sharing!

Date: 2009-11-12 12:43 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (39 Staring at the sun)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
Bet you a nickel I can write vanilla smut that would be totally and utterly gross. :D I am in no way planning, or plotting out, or in any way moving towards expanding the above fic from Sanzo's pov, just FYI.

*grins* Thank you!

Date: 2009-11-12 12:57 pm (UTC)
ext_41634: (Default)
From: [identity profile] rroselavy.livejournal.com
**wibbles** I am so not taking that bet :p

Date: 2009-11-12 01:05 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (Ukoku - scientist)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
*pats you* I'm afraid I have bad, bad news, Ms Favourite Beta Person. :D

Date: 2009-11-12 01:07 pm (UTC)
ext_41634: (Sanzo fan)
From: [identity profile] rroselavy.livejournal.com
**dramatic pose** Bring. It. On.

Date: 2009-11-12 01:13 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (Sanzo - it'll be fun)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
*evil, evil grin*

Date: 2009-11-12 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orvida.livejournal.com
Very morbid but i definitely enjoyed reading it.

Sanzo can be so crass sometimes and Goku just rolls along with it. And Goyjo and Hakkai make the perfect combination to bring fun to the quartet of misfits.
congratulations on getting 42% of nano done. 0.0

Date: 2009-11-12 12:45 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (39 when the sky is dark)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
I love morbid. It rocks. <3

Plus, it's a wacky procedural cop show, and whatever Dean has to say on the subject, I love wacky procedural cop shows.

Thank you!

Date: 2009-11-12 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suanz.livejournal.com
Nice!!! You could write a whole series, ya know, if you want to. He He He...

Thanks for sharing.

Date: 2009-11-12 12:46 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (39 not for anything)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
I am in no way planning, or plotting out, or in any way moving towards expanding the above fic from Sanzo's pov.

Thank you, for reading!

Date: 2009-11-12 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suanz.livejournal.com
Oh ok...... So when can we expect another update??

(Ha Ha Ha.... Just teasing. ^_^)

Date: 2009-11-12 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gen50.livejournal.com
lovely bits indeed....

Date: 2009-11-12 12:46 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (39 starry *heart*)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
Thank you. I do like me some gross corpses to go with me meals, thank yew very much. :D

Date: 2009-11-12 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moshesque.livejournal.com
Eee, I love it! And go you on the awesome word count! *glomp*

Date: 2009-11-12 12:47 pm (UTC)
ext_33880: (39 love is sunshine)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
^______^ I am oddly in love with it too, it's so gross and disturbing.

Thank you! <3

Date: 2009-11-15 12:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 3x9fallinggrace.livejournal.com
OMG School is OVER! I can start reading your wonderful stuff now. And what wonderful stuff this is. I am in love with your dark sense of humour ^^

Date: 2009-11-16 09:31 am (UTC)
ext_33880: (39 Simple Things)
From: [identity profile] keire-ke.livejournal.com
^_____^ Thank you! It's only too much fun, I admit. Enjoy!

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