FTEC: All day Saturday

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"Let's make the weekends on-call. Let's rotate who does it. Let's share responsibility." Tommy said in a high-pitched mocking tone. Of course he was mocking himself so it lacked a certain something.

Luckily there was always TV. Today it was a nature documentary about lions and gazelles. It was enough to keep him from being bored as he hung around on the odd chance an emergency or, even better, another candidate for the clinic jobs stopped by.

Especially since he'd placed a mental bet of twenty bucks on the lions.

[ooc: Like it says. Here for emergency care and/or anybody looking for work in the clinic.]

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Granny walked into the clinic, dressed in her usual garb of a shapeless black dress and a black pointed witch hat. She looked around the clinic and sniffed derisively.

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Tommy took one look at her and immediately went back to the lions. "Lady, whatever you need it is way too late. Try the night shift. That chick deals with dead bodies."

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"I aten't dead," Granny said stiffly. "Seems I heard right about this place." She squinted at the television.

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"If you heard it was old lady storage you heard wrong," Tommy said. A commercial came on. Sadly, it was for beer. He turned his attention to Granny. "What? Need help crossing the street or frightening kids? Because lemme tell you, that last one you have covered in spades."

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Granny's lips twitched in what might almost have been a smile, if a smile were to be hiding in a dark corner for fear of being thwapped if it showed itself.

"I hears," she said, "that you was in need of healers." She yanked open a cupboard, shook her head and slammed it shut. "No garlic, no rosemary, no tansy, no burdock root, fennel or St. John's wort. Why, I don't even see a proper cauldron. It's a wonder this town doesn't fester and die."

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"Lady, as far as I'm concerned it can fester and die," Tommy said. He looked her over again. "Healer, huh? What is this some kind of crystal-gazing new age crap?"

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Granny looked at Tommy as if he were a very stupid child. "I'm a witch," she said slowly.

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"No kidding."

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Granny hrpmh'd. "At least you're not blind," she said. She put her hands on her hips. "You can run along now. I'll take it from here."

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"Would, could, can't, won't," Tommy said. He indicated a pile of papers on his desk. "You want to work here, I have to interview you. Something about legalities and not killing people and blah blah blah."

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Granny peered at the boy. This weren't the way things were done back home, but she was in foreign parts now. When in Klatch and so forth.

"Right," she said, folding her arms across her chest and fixing Tommy with a glare. "Ask."

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Tommy rummaged for a form and a pen. With great reluctance he muted the TV. "Hookay. Name?"

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"Granny Weatherwax. You may call me Mistress Weatherwax," she said.

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"If I was calling you 'Mistress' this would be a totally different job," Tommy said. He wrote Granny Weatherwax down. "Also you'd be about a thousand years younger and there's a good chance I'd be blind. Address?"

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"16 Unicorn Street," Granny replied. She didn't understand his "mistress" comment and had the feeling it was the sort of thing she was best not knowing.

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"Age... we'll skip that bit since I don't think the space is big enough," Tommy said. He moved down on the form. "Ah. Here we go. Expertise?"

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"Been a practicing witch since I was a girl," Granny replied.

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"I have no problem believing that," Tommy said. "What's that mean for the clinic?"

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"I have dealt with the maladies and afflictions of a good portion of the Ramtops. I knows how treat just about any illness or mess that people and animals gets into," Granny said sternly.

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"What you do with animals is between you and - " Tommy paused, thinking of the Baron " - actually that might be useful around here. Okay. What's your schedule like?"

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"I rise early in the mornings," she said. "Bit of tending to the garden before breakfast. Once the goats gets her, they'll be milked and fed in the mornings, too." She paused to consider the rest of her day.

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"Goats? No, no, I don't want to know," Tommy said. He wrote that down. "So you're good for manning day shifts?"

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Granny nodded. "Day shifts will be quite suitable."

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"How about being on-call on weekends?" Tommy asked. "That one we'll rotate."

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"That will be quite all right," Granny said.