The Chief at this point had finally finished his flask of whiskey, by now feeling a slight tingling sensation in his head, which helped to dull the horrible pain he was feeling in his left eye. The Chief had a piece of debris impact against his left eye back in Funky City, and because of the rushed nature of the evacuation and of the rescue mission that followed soon after, he wasn't able to address this issue. Despite the fact that half his vision was blurred.

Maybe it was the alcohol suddenly taking effect. Or perhaps it was the sudden realization that he wasn't expected to undertake another mission so soon, but the Chief had headed toward Suku, pulled up a chair three feet away, placed it with the back of the chair facing the Master Chief, and sat reversed on it.

After a few awkward minutes, the Chief turned towards Suku, and said "My eye is fucked up."

Suku gibb-slapped the back of Sam's head as soon as she had mentioned giving alcohol to the aforementioned 'lil squirt'.

"Don't give my lil' squirt alcohol." growled the monstrously motherly Suku. She then pointed down at Carina, "And you don't drink anything these guys give you. It'll make you sworlier than a pig-whore at a swinfest. And no I'm not explaining what a pig-whore or a swinefest is."



Suku spun around, pulling a scalpel out of her overshirt's inner pocket and pointing it at one of Ran's eyes. Once again the genuine smile was on her face, somewhat unsettling with the scalpel being held to his eyes.

"My my, what should we do about that." said the Doctor, pearly whites shining.

"Ngah." The bottle sloshed in Sam's hand, spilling booze all over the table. She sighed at the waste. "But it'll make her big 'n strong, an' all the other kids her a - oh. She ain't listenin' anymore." The marine turned slightly to look at Suku almost stabbing Ran in the eye, returning to nibbling on strips of bacon with a thought of par for the course.

Carina was busily rolling her empty can on the table when Sam's offer was uttered and then stopped with a firm slap along the backside of her head. She knew who did that almost instantly as Suku's growl and voice followed after. And once again leaving the child with more questions than answers.

She was about to open her mouth to ask what such things were but had promptly been shut down before even beginning. Carina'd opened her mouth again to tell her mother she wouldn't accept any of the drinks but then watched as Suku swiveled around on her chair with a scalpel right next to Ran's eye.

Naturally Carina just sighed before going back to the can.

Sean just kind of sat back, dozing off slightly as the announcements about the squad's accomplishments went on. He was really only there for two of those, and didn't feel like they'd done anything all that special during any of it, either. Regardless, based on what he'd heard about their new posting (what little there was to hear), it certainly didn't sound to him like they were being 'praised'. More like buried in an out of the way place where they weren't in any danger of messing anything else up. He took another bite of his manroll, chewing slowly, completely and utterly ignoring Suku and Ran. Even if he hadn't been around these people for long, his own meetings with Suku and his time around Ran gave him a good idea that this was probably something which could be counted on to happen with almost alarming consistency.

Alex withdraw her can of energy drink upon Suku's comment hat little girl should not drink anything providne by marines. Alex was not really sure if she was part of that, since she was half marine and hald medical staff, but she was not willing to risk that.

SHe finished her tasty meal and then looked at Suku, wishing to ask an question. But chief was ther first talking about his eye. Something seemed to be bad with it. It meant that Alex was responsible for that. She was with him in Funky city and that meant she did not took good care of any problem Chief Ran had.

"What is the problem chief," Alex asked Rui. She knew that Suku wanted to play with Chief firt, but she was not in mood for that. No matter how mad Suku could get at her later.

The Chief just sat there on the chair, crossing his arms on the top of the backrest and supporting himself. Like a man staring down a bear, the Chief had to show no fear against this terrifying beast that some ass had thrown into the medical profession.

"...Why the fuck do you carry a scalpel with you?" Was his only response to Suku, before turning to Alex.
"I've been working with fucked up depth perception ever since Funky City. I'm pretty sure this thing is fucked." Indeed, the swelling around his eye had gone down some since Funky City, but it was still swollen enough to hide how putrid the Chief's eye had become.

"I don't really care who removes it. But I do care how it's removed. And I'd rather not have it removed with a rusty spoon or something." His one good eye darted to Suku at that.

"We'd have to take an X-Ray and do some tests to see how far the infection in your eye has spread." said Suku, tapping the butt end of her scalpel onto the table. The woman rubbed her chin and inspected the man like a hooked and butchered piece of cattle. She lifted the scalpel and began to motion it around, as if performing some sort of operation. Her stare was distant, deep in thought before she broke that focus and set the bladed utensil back on the table. She grunted.

"The Medical facilities on this station are a little lacking, but I think we can rip that eye out if we need to." said Suku as she picked up one of the spoons that had been lying around. She pointed it at his eye like she had done the scalpel and smiled sweetly once more. "Okie dokie, just sit real still."

Alexandra was really expecting Suku to do just that. And she was not saying nothing at all, there was good chance that the infection in the eye spread too far anyway. That said Alex would probably do the same, only she had her combat knife with her and now scalpel. Though even if they removed the eye right now, it could not be put in cryo here.

"I'll get bukkit of ice ma'am," she said to Suku and went to cooks. She was calm, and it really did not matter if they removed eye here or in the tent set up in hangar-bay.

"But momma... don'tcha think y'need ta take his eye out where ya work? 'cause if y'do it here... won' a bunch'a people see you takin' his eye out 'an get sick tummies?" Carina piped up as she saw the woman waving the spoon about. And the doctor's lack of love for more than one patient a day.

" 'cause y'know... more people'll show up 'an ya'd have to work on'em to."