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There are things Jing Yi expects when he flies through the window to his rooms.
Like his rooms. Like the floor being where he expects. Like all the furniture being out of the way of anyone flying through a window.
He finds none of those things.
There may or may not be a crashing noise. Or a very undignified yelp.
Then the nurse sees the scars on his arms.
"...is that... a very odd chickenpox scar?"
The nurse sounds very faint. "I... didn't realize there was a lab escape in the past twenty years."
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A reaction isn't unexpected, it's always a "there for the grace of Heaven go I" disease. But, uh. This is a nurse? This cannot be the first time she has seen this. "...why would a lab be involved?" (His image of a lab involves a lot of cauldrons and cinnabar and very little smallpox?)
"Because smallpox is eradicated outside of a lab in Russia and a lab in Gilead."
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The future has many great qualities, he just wishes he knew about them ahead of time, so he could go 'Oh yeah, I had horrific chicken pox and no one could stop me from scratching.' (Technically that last part is even true!)
"That's good to know!"
"I'm... not sure who I'm supposed to report this to?" the nurse says. "The CDC? The scars look old, you don't look contagious... I mean probably someone knows about the lab escape?" She comes to a decision. "Where were you and when did it happen? I'm going to file a report in case someone was covering up a lab escape."
"I was eight, so--" there is a marked pause for maths "--2033. In... China." (Sorry government of future China for the weird hot water he may be about to put them in, but also considering the fact that there's been probably several dynastic changeovers, not that sorry.)
"Ugh. Someone needs to know about this. Thank you for telling me."
The nurse finishes up her mysterious actions (hitting him in the knee with a hammer! telling him to open his mouth wide and say "ah"!) and then sends him off to pee in a cup and get something called a 'blood draw.'
He can go do that. He prefers not to hand off his bodily fluids to strangers, but if that's how medicine works now...?
That is in fact how medicine works now!
The blood draw person says "this will pinch a bit" and then sticks a needle in his arm that in fact hurts quite a lot.
He has experience with needles! Though usually not being used to steal his blood for unclear reasons.
The blood draw person says, "are you up to date on your vaccinations?"
"A vaccination is where we inject a weakened version of a virus, so that your immune system gets practice fighting it, but because it's weaker you don't actually get sick and you can't transmit it to anyone else. There are vaccines for lots of illnesses-- measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, chickenpox, influenza..."
"I have. Had most of those. ...the diseases, not the vaccines." Please do NOT look at his arms and freak out, once was enough,
The blood draw person visibly grimaces for a second before his face smooths over into professionalism.
"...You should still be up to date on your vaccines, employers will ask about it and we don't really have records for people who have natural immunity to measles, mumps, and rubella."
Stab stab stab needles in his arm.
So very, very stabbed. But hey, now he can officially say he won't get measles?
And strict instructions to come back to a nurse's office in three months for more stabbing!
The immigration office hands him two rectangles, one paper and one made of some weird material Jing Yi doesn't recognize, which are respectively his PIN card and his ID card, and now he is officially a resident of Cascadia.
He is now the proud owner of of some Cascadian Rectangles. (Goodness they love their Rectangles.)
He heads out, checking to see if Lev is still around.
Lev is standing outside the immigration office on his phone.
He looks up. "I told the lab that this was the most important thing they're going to see all year and they should set aside everything else and test it, and guess what? You are definitely from the past and not insane."
"Well, that's good news!" Though honestly its an open question whether time travel is better or worse than going mad. "Oh, and you could have warned me about the smallpox."
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