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[Parker Gabriel]

Doctor Lime
Background provided by Parker Gabriel in “Lime Doctor.”

Born Jessica Christie Logan, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 10 July, 2033. Daughter of Francis "Frank" Logan by the former Lara Davidson, who were both killed in the winter of 2036 when a short-circuited space heater burned down the ramshackle house they were inhabiting in a slum of Fort Dix. Was rescued from the house, the only survivor of the fire that burned it down she was, by Paramedic Sergeant Timothy Curtis of the Fort Dix Fire Department; proved to have no other known surviving family. Hence Sgt. Curtis, who was also a World Army Air Force Medical Corps Reservist, and his wife, Dr. Iris Conway, M.D., who had performed the burn-treatment surgery that had saved her life, reared Jessica as their step-daughter.

When her step-father asked her, the following year, what she wanted to do with her life, reminding her that he had almost lost his own life saving hers, Jessica asked him, in turn, what he did whenever not rescuing fire victims. Informed of his WAAF Medical Corps Reservist status, she decided, and told first him and then, three weeks later, her step-mother, that she wanted to join the REGULAR WAAF Medical Corps. She also made it clear to both of them that she wanted to know how to use firearms, specifically to protect those whose lives she was attempting to save from being killed by people trying to attack them.

But at sixteen, one month before she was due to graduate from high school, Jessica was orphaned a second time, when her step-parents were both killed in a car crash. This occurred as her step-mother was attempting to drive her step-father to the Army base where he was stationed when on his reserve duty. Herself personally penniless because all the money she had ever possessed of her own was entirely committed strictly to medical-school tuition, she was disqualified from receiving her step-father's pension benefits to care for the house where she had grown up, as he had not been killed in the line of duty.

Enrolling in Rutgers, The State University, at Fort Dix, and living in a dormitory she still describes as having been a "dump" for her entire studies period there, she also enlisted in its Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program and graduated four years later, in 2053, with an M.D. degree and guaranteed membership in the West Point Military Academy Corps Of Cadets. There, Logan's first drill-mistress was Cadet Sergeant Kathleen Stein; but that year alone, Logan advanced to the top of her class, ironically becoming Stein's drill-mistress along the way, and graduated from West Point as "First Captain," or valedictorian, of her class--that of 2057, the very year Paul Metcalfe (the future Captain Scarlet) enrolled in West Point. Logan has noted that with a war then being fought and the WAAF then needing all available help, West Point was admitting non-American cadets by then. She also calls the graduation speech she wrote and delivered, as is required of all West Point First Captains, "unbelievably lame."

Joining the WAAF Medical Corps as a second lieutenant and assigned to a WAAF Medical Corps hospital not far from Winchester Air Force Base, Logan was quickly promoted to captain (a promotion she still remains unconvinced that she deserved at the time) after she ignored personal safety to save the life of newly-promoted WAAF Brigadier General Charles David Metcalfe, Paul Metcalfe's father and the base's eventual general in command, when improvised explosive devices destroyed half his motorcade while it was traveling through a hot zone just outside Winchester Air Force Base which was then being shelled by enemy fire; this also earned her the nickname of "Doctor First Captain." Brigadier General Metcalfe himself had likewise been promoted, in his case to major general, the day after almost being killed. In the WAAF Medical Corps hospital, Dr. Logan treated now-Major General Metcalfe's legs for shrapnel injuries he had sustained and from which he then still suffered, and kept him under her care, till he could again walk unassisted and without pain, for two months.

By 2064, Dr. Logan had been promoted to full colonel in the WAAF Medical Corps, and was stationed at the WAAF's Gibraltar Base, whose WAAF Special Forces ("Red Berets") squadron now-Colonel Paul Metcalfe was then commanding; the two struck up a friendship there. In that year, Edward Wilkie, Cloudbase's future Dr. Fawn, brought one of his AutoNurses to Gibraltar Base, but did not stay to demonstrate it himself. Thus neither Metcalfe nor Logan met Wilkie till both were actually assigned aboard Cloudbase.

In the early months of 2067, former World Navy Admiral and former Universal Secret Service Director for Great Britain Charles Mason Gray, now Colonel White of Spectrum, personally recruited WAAF Colonel Logan into the Spectrum Organization and gave her the code name "Dr. Lime." The one-year-long training course she took at Spectrum's Koala Base began two months after the Cloudbase senior staff officers, including Paul Metcalfe, now Captain Scarlet, had graduated from theirs.

When the Mysterons's war of nerves on Earth began as a result of Captain Black, commanding the Zero-X Mission to Mars, ordering an unprovoked atack on the Mysterons's complex in Mars's Valles Marineris region in violation of orders, Dr. Lime was assigned to serve as a "sleeper" (agent-in-place) while working at a private medical clinic in England. As an at-post listener to high-level confidences patients of such clinics might share with their doctors on a strictly seek-and-report basis, forbidden to take open action against patients, and ordered to exclude confidences violating the Hippocratic Oath and/or irrelevant to Spectrum from her reports, she was allowed to use her real name to work in any clinic employing her, but expressly forbidden to reveal her own Spectrum membership, even to other Spectrum members, unless it was relevant to her assignment; Colonel White trusted her to be able to decide when it was, and he expressed hope that Dr. Lime would develop a good bedside manner working in such a clinic.

Logan found just such work at an obstetrics-gynecology clinic in Norwich, England, which tended to local "Sloane Rangers" but accepting no military patients, operated by Dr. Oliver Watson, one of whose junior partners in it she became. Watson was a notorious alcoholic (and both physically and vocally a dead ringer for Charles Gray aka Colonel White) whom the World Navy had shamefully discharged after he had botched suppressing the premature labor of Charles Gray's wife and killed her and her unborn son after he had been heavily drinking on duty. Logan did indeed develop that good bedside manner as a junior partner in the clinic, as Colonel White had hoped. (Watson, who was cold and distant and had a poor bedside manner having nothing to do with his alcoholism, never learned Logan's identity as Dr. Lime of Spectrum.) During his operation of his clinic, Watson, who despite his alcoholism and high tolerance of liquor was otherwise a good doctor and shrewd with money, kept his favorite intoxicant, vodka, in used bottles of sterile irrigation water, which it resembled. Since he insisted on being paid in cash, and since he paid his entire staff in cash too, Logan soon became a millionaire, as did all the members of Watson's staff.

When the Mysterons took Watson over three days before Dr. Lime's thirty-eighth birthday, threatening that "Colonel White will be ruined by his greatest injury," events chronicled in “Gray Admiral, White Colonel,” Logan unwisely interfered with Captain Blue's investigation of Watson and did not disclose to him that she was Dr. Lime of Spectrum. But after Watson's likeness was destroyed, Dr. Lime was reassigned back to Cloudbase as one of Dr. Fawn's relief personnel.

Status: active duty.

[chrisbishop]

Hi Parker, welcome back!

Thanks for your text. However, while it's interesting, I'm afraid we cannot use all of it for the fanon database. If you look at the database, you'll notice that most of the text you find in there is spoiler free and that we content ourselves with a very short information. Just a teaser giving the basic of information of the character. We wouldn't want to give away all the goodies, don't we? The aim of the database is to inform about the characters just enough for people to make them curious and go see the actual story (stories), not to give an actual, complete biography of the character.

So when we'll update the database, we'll take only a small sample from the text, if you don't mind.

The text you provided is certainly thorough, and we appreciate you enthusiasm, but there is no need to give that much information. If ever you decide to do the same exercice for other characters, keep the above information in mind before submitting the text. We don't want you to give too much effort needlessly, for us to keep only a fraction of the work you would have done!

[Parker Gabriel]

Hi Parker, welcome back!

It's good to be back.

Thanks for your text. However, while it's interesting, I'm afraid we cannot use all of it for the fanon database. If you look at the database, you'll notice that most of the text you find in there is spoiler free and that we content ourselves with a very short information. Just a teaser giving the basic of information of the character. We wouldn't want to give away all the goodies, don't we? The aim of the database is to inform about the characters just enough for people to make them curious and go see the actual story (stories), not to give an actual, complete biography of the character.

Works for me.

So when we'll update the database, we'll take only a small sample from the text, if you don't mind.

Not in the slightest bit. In fact, I was afraid I had given TMI.

The text you provided is certainly thorough, and we appreciate your enthusiasm, but there is no need to give that much information. If ever you decide to do the same exercise for other characters, keep the above information in mind before submitting the text. We don't want you to give too much effort needlessly, for us to keep only a fraction of the work you would have done!

S.I.G., Colonel.