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Yo! Fluff nugget!

How's it going?

[have a huge tub of ice cream tromped on your desk. It's Cotton Candy flavored]

[Fluff... nugget?]

[Blinkblink.]

[ICECREAM!]

[Don't mind him, he'll be cuddling it with a rather happy giggle.]

[So nice and cold! Ace must have been carrying it in a bag.]

Thanks!!!!

[Looking up with total adoration from within a ring of paper piles filled with notes and lists and plant drawings.]

Smoker's goal was to bring ice cream because reindeer + heat + "Cotton Candy Lover" = ice cream. WELL.... for doctors who heal his men, the children that were kidnapped and experimented on by raving psychos, and who helped repair Smoker himself.

But, ASIDE FROM ADELA, he will not let ANYONE ELSE FIND OUT ABOUT THIS WHATSOEVER. And if Straw Hat is there, he will punch him in the face and carry on as if none of this happened. Seriously. HE IS NOT THERE, WOULD NOT BRING ICE CREAM TO A PIRATE OF ANY KIND AND CERTAINLY NOT AS A THANK YOU THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

He does, however, have a one-legged red-head in tow in wheelchair, because she needs to talk to the doctor about that one-legged thing and Smoker promised to help her make it easier so she wouldn't have to do it alone.

I-It's not for you b-baka. It's just because he happened to be in the neighborhood... that he never ever would be in anyway. Shut up!

Honestly, she was having a hard time not laughing at Smoker as he just seemed awkward the whole time. It was still a very hard topic to speak of, but it made it easier to have Smoker there with her and, debatably, struggling more with the visit from the start than Adela would for the whole thing.

All there was to do was wait in the lobby for them to be called back to talk to Chopper. Hopefully he wouldn't be too preoccupied with appointments there.

He'd almost forgotten all about his appointments and it actually took a rather amused nurse tapping on his door to break him out of his piles of books and notes. OH! Right, someone had actually asked to see him. He'll grin sheepishly and shove his current project aside so he could jump down and make his way out to the waiting area.

The little furball rounded the corner and suddenly froze just out of habit.

OMG WHY DID YOU BRING SMOKER??

After a moment or two of running through possible reasons Smoker might be after him, he is totally like his icon. About the only reason he could think of right off was that Luffy had forgotten to pay for something he ate...

Sorry, he'll be too worried about how much the bill was to speak up for a few moments.

Smoker instantly smirked and shot Adela a smug grin. SEE? He's TOTALLY terrifying to most pirates.

But he holds up the cherry ice cream.

"Thank you present."

An eyeroll.

"And she has to talk to you about professional work."

Edited (icon fail) 2016-07-23 18:50 (UTC)

Okay, she was not expecting a little reindeer person. Him flailing and worrying had her a little worried as well, but then the backwards hiding...

That was too cute.

Adela had to turn away, using a hand to cover her mouth as she just tried to keep her laughter in. Okay. Okay. Deep breath, now.

When she did meet Chopper's eye again, it was with a smile that was intended to reassure.

"Smoker is right, I have come to speak with you... Chopper, is it?"

At the mild explanation, Chopper will instantly relax and come out of 'hiding' with a slightly fidgety straightening of his little lab jacket. The name plate might actually have just his initials because otherwise it would be wider than himself. Also, the jacket actually fit him so evidently there was a nurse around with WAY too much time sitting around during their shift.

"Oh! I thought Luffy skipped out on paying!" Don't scare him like that, looking all grim and stuff. But... Icecream! And doctoring! Chopper nodded with a wide grin and waved at them to come with him. Best get his 'present' out of the heat and they could talk. "Yep, I'm Chopper! You've probably already been told a little about me but if you have any questions I don't mind answering."

And back towards his office they went! He won't even bother checking to see if Adela is keeping up alright or needs help since either she'll be fine or Smoker with help out. And it isn't as if fifteen inches of leg makes it hard to keep up. But at his office, Chopper will look up curiously. "Hm... Maybe we should talk in the next room? My office might be a bit cold."

Chopper had discovered the joy of AC and the occasional visits from a certain too-tall marine. And cotton candy ice cream thanks to a certain flame-head. His office might just possibly feel like a small freezer to the unfurry. Except Smoker probably cared just as much as he had on Punk Hazard, young humans sitting in metal-framed chairs might care just a bit.

Indeed. Smoker is unfazed by cold or heat. He's too stubborn to let petty things like temperature faze him. But he assumes that since Kuzan dropped by to visit Adela and ice the office, she'll probably be fine. Probably. Even if she seems to like warmth more than not.

"Did he skip out without paying?" Smoker lowered his sunglasses to peer ominously at the miniature pirate. Don't make him hunt down your captain for a beating. He'd enjoy it.

Adela had to sigh at that - honestly...

"Smoker, even if he did, is that not for the authorities here to handle?" She asked, turning to look at him with a slight frown. Not that she'd stop him if he went and did so anyway, but they still had something else to discuss.

... She had not known Luffy would be such trouble, though. Apparently that 'king of the pirates' ambition wasn't for nothing. Anyway, back to Chopper.

"Whichever room is fine, so I will leave it up to your discretion, Doctor."

"Probably not, I gave him some beli..." Chopper admitted and opened the door to his office. Most of the available surfaces had stacks of papers strewn across them and there are bundles of herbs and flowers hanging from the ceiling, jars of various things piled on the shelves, and diagrams hung on the wall. And it felt very much like a fridge with the ac on full blast. On second thought, there wasn't enough room for three people, wheelchair or not... "Er... maybe the next room would be better."

He'll just be tucking that lovely tub of icecream into the mini-fridge before leading the way to the typical exam room. Without really thinking about it, Chopper will grow himself to a more humanoid almost-seven-feet tall in order to push the bed-table-thing out of the middle of the room and up against the cabinets. "Right! So whatcha need?"

Have a too-innocently-friendly grin, Adela. There are reasons Smoker hates the Strawhats.

Smoker sighed, rolled his eyes, and leaned awkwardly against the wall.

He was sorely tempted to bark out some growling warnings about pirates doing things no one was allowed to, but Adela's reproach made him bite them back. For now.

Even with the truce from Punk Hazard still in effect, it was stranger than he expected to be standing in a pirate's office and actually here to ask a favor. Such was fate.

OKAY HI SUDDENLY CHOPPER WAS VERY TALL AND MUSCULAR WHAT

It took Adela a moment to regain herself, clearing her throat and calming down after a moment. Honestly she should have expected Chopper to be able to change like that, having already met Marco...

Once she was settled the red head nodded to Chopper, smiling again for him as she began, "As you can see, I do require some assistance getting around due to a missing left leg... I was hoping I could come to you to help change that, Doctor."

Without further preamble Adela pulled out the schematics* for her own automail leg, spreading it out in front of Chopper so that he could see it more clearly, "This is Automail, a unique prosthetic attached directly to the nerves of the human body. When installed correctly, it can function as a normal limb -- in this case, I would have two working legs again instead of just one. The problem is that I cannot attach it alone - that is what we have come to ask you about."

Adela took a deep breath to pause, knowing that it was going to be a lot to take in and that what she was about to say could mean that she would get turned away once more, "I cannot attach it myself because... This is a specialized surgery that requires a steady hand and mind. It will also cause me immense pain, as I cannot be sedated or even numbed - I am needed to be fully conscious and able to respond, so that throughout the process it can be determined if everything is connected properly. I require someone else to do it if I want any chance of it being done successfully."

"I will not lie, it would probably be the worst pain I will ever experience in my life, and it is one I am willing to endure if it means I am able to walk again. Knowing that, would you still be willing to learn and perform such a procedure?"

Sorry, Smoker, you're getting put on the back burner when it came to actual doctoring. He'll take the schematic with light fingers and started studying in with a slight frown as he listened to the explanation. It took a few seconds to get past the mechanical jumble but then it resettled in a new set of bones, muscles, nerves, and skin. So what if they were cables instead of tendons? A leg was a leg. Though he would need a more mechanical-minded person to ask about the shock absorbing aspect, and it didn't look there was anything to adjust for possible growth since he wasn't sure if Adela would grow any taller or not.

"Hmmmm... It would be a lot easier if Law or Frankie were here. It's easy to see the reason behind the pain since all your nerves would be getting a lot of sudden feedback in a way you wouldn't be used to. Pain is the body's way of saying something isn't right, you know." And then he'll shrink down and move have a look at Adela's legs, after a glance for permission of course. "I'm fairly good at surgery so I wouldn't have any problems if you're willing to have me! But... I'd like to see if there's a way to just hook up a small section of the leg instead of doing it all at once and get your nerves to accept the potential new leg. Or at least see what kinds of pain management we can use without effecting the outcome."

After a few moments of total professionalism, he'll have a slight break in that in order to oggle the diagram with total stars and fanboy glee. Another cyborg!!!

That's okay, he was pretty much expecting that, and Smoker has a tendency to prefer fading into the background. Although he can't resist adding, "I was thinking the same thing," regarding Law or the cyborg that is, "But you're still one of the best."

So don't you dare mess up or downplay your skill and make her worry more.

Adela nodded, smiling a bit as she watched Chopper and allowed his examination, "I would not mind seeing if there are ways around, believe me. I merely wished for you to be aware that I am prepared for what it will be like even if there is none. We have time, and you come highly recommended to me by a few people here so I believe I should trust whatever judgement you may have for it."

Smoker's saving grace was that she didn't explictly say who, at least.

Are you ready for this?

Smoker probably is, hopefully he warned Adela.

"Of course I'm one of the best! Luffy and Zoro would have died and Doctorine would kill me if I w-"

Waitaminute... Watch that fur start to grow more and more fluffy and perhaps a bit of heat-blur starting over his head.

Here it comes!

"SHADDUP YA SHITHEADS!!!" Yep, full clap-dance mode is active! "Sayin I'm the BEST! ASSholes...! ShitHEADS!..... Asssss...."

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23rd? ISH UP TO ADELA :T

23RD WORKS FOR ME As does this order if that's okay?

Works for me! <3

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*I can totally spell right guys? Also dang she dove right into that explanation...

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