#Dr. Crawford

[arcadian-litterateur]

the klein-paige legacy | the wilds x tmr crossover

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summary: when wckd sends a girl up into the glade, dr. crawford learns about dr. paige's great-grandmother, gretchen klein, and realizes that it must run in their family to experiment on teenagers.

wc: 1.1k

warnings: knives, implication that girl glader was supposed to be for the gladers' pleasure, mentions of the basic plot of the wilds, talk of canon deaths/injuries in the wilds

a/n: so i thought of this a couple days ago at midnight and couldn't get it out of my head and then i wrote it within a couple hours while doing schoolwork. it wasn't supposed to end up being crack lol but then all of a sudden it was. that being said: this fic does not represent my views on the character of dr. crawford whatsoever. i do not actually believe that she was lacking in common sense. i just needed a character for ava paige to interact with and then the characters just ran with it. so it ended up being a silly goofy little one shot that i hope you enjoy!

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟 who came up in the Box was feisty.

The minute Gally had jumped down into the Box, she drove a knee in between his legs, sending him to his knees in pain. Newt jumped down beside his friend, hoping that he'd be able to calm the girl down, but she simply bared her teeth in warning. When he ignored this warning and reached out for her, she twisted his outstretched arm behind his back and secured him in a headlock, pressing a knife to his neck.

She'd found the knife on the ride up after waking up with no memory and a crumpled note in her hand. She'd immediately shoved the note through one of the holes in the side of the Box and watched it fall down, down, down. She would not be what the note implied. Not for the boys in “the Glade” (whatever that was), and not for anyone. So instead of letting her fate be decided for her, she'd crawled around the moving cage, looking for a weapon, and upon finding a knife, got ready to defend herself.

Dr. Ava Paige watched these events take place through her state of the art viewing screens, lips curving into what should have been a smile but really just looked evil. Another woman stood to her left—Dr. Crawford—and this woman was typing notes as fast as she could, cataloging the girl's actions and Dr. Paige's observations.

“She probably thinks she wasn’t supposed to wake up yet. She probably thinks that note is supposed to be her true fate. It’s just a trigger, in reality. Supposed to get her survival instincts kick-started. And just as I expected, her first survival instinct was to defend and attack,” Dr. Paige mused, rubbing her chin between her fingers. “The exact same instinct shown by Group B.” She glanced over at Dr. Crawford to see if the woman pick up on her train of thought. 

“What first survival instinct did Group A show?” Dr. Crawford inquired, and Dr. Paige grinned. The other woman was asking the right questions. 

“Not that,” Dr. Paige laughed. “Their first survival instinct was to strengthen and explore. They were out in the Maze within days, and the rest of them stayed behind to start building using the supplies we sent up. It took the girls a month before they were willing to explore the Maze, instead painstakingly scanning the Spring to make sure of its safety and then testing all of the supplies carefully to make sure they were safe.” 

“So the boys jumped right in, and the girls were overly cautious?” Dr. Crawford summarized. Dr. Paige hummed in response,

“You could say that. Or maybe, the girls were just the right amount of cautious for a group of teenage girls trapped in a strange place. I think of it as Group A trusting that the supplies were sent up for their own good, whereas Group B wasn't so trusting, and wanted to make sure the supplies weren't another way to subjugate them.” Dr. Crawford seemed to only slightly understand, but didn't voice her confusion. 

“It's a mirror image of our society, don't you think?” Dr. Paige continued, to which Dr. Crawford didn't have an answer. This just caused the older, blonde woman to chuckle, “In our society, men are used to automatically profiting. Automatically being raised up. Whereas women in our society are used to automatically being oppressed. Automatically being pushed backwards two steps for every one step their male counterparts take. Therefore, men trust the powers that be much more readily because they assume those powers are on their side. They've never known anything different. But women automatically assume those powers are out to tear them down. The two groups acted accordingly.” 

Dr. Paige's grin grew as she stared at the monitors, watching the girl in the Glade give subject A5 a bloody nose. “Lucky for them, I'm neutral.” 

Dr. Crawford wasn't sure why this was so funny, but she laughed along anyway. She liked her job, so if laughing with Dr. Paige let her keep it, she'd laugh with Dr. Paige. 

“You know, it reminds me of the research my great-grandmother dedicated her life to,” Dr. Paige said all of a sudden. Dr. Crawford didn’t respond immediately, unsure of what she was expected to say, but that was fine, because Dr. Paige barrelled onward. “Dr. Gretchen Klein. Brilliant woman, unfairly discredited. She studied whether Gynotopia was a legitimate strategy for peaceful power transfer. Her methods were a bit…unprecedented, though. Much like our methods, in fact. She’s an inspiration to me.”

Like a dutiful assistant, Dr. Crawford asked, “What did she do?” Dr. Paige grinned as a hint of mania glinted in her eye.

“She staged two plane crashes to strand a group of girls on a deserted island and a group of boys on another deserted island to see who was able to handle it better. Then, disguised as a government rescue team, she observed their behavior during recovery from the ordeal. Eventually, the two groups met and had to work together to get off the island that they were recovering at…which was in turn just another deserted island. 

“Just as Dr. Klein expected, the girls lasted the whole fifty days without needing intervention, while the boys did not. And when the groups were placed together, the girls naturally took charge, and the teenagers worked together to get off the island. Unfortunately, they were able to receive help before Dr. Klein could perform damage control, and her experiments were exposed to the public as unethical, murderous schemes. But her research did help influence a surge in female leadership, as even those who were horrified by her methods agreed that they did what they were supposed to.” Dr. Crawford had the gall to look horrified at this, but Dr. Paige just scoffed.

“Don’t look at me like that. We’re so much worse.” 

And Dr. Crawford had to agree. After all, when she looked into Dr. Klein’s research more closely, she learned that there had only been four casualties. A girl named Linh, who died of internal bleeding, a girl named Rachel, who had lost a hand in a shark attack, a boy named Seth, who’d died of blunt force trauma to the head, most likely caused by one of the other subjects, and a girl named Martha, who’d gone into a state of catatonic shock during the last few days of the trial. Dr. Crawford shuddered when she realized that the two deaths that occurred during the study were both subjects who knew about the experiment—who were working with Dr. Klein. What did that mean for those working alongside Dr. Paige? 

Dr. Crawford kept her hands tucked under her covers that night, afraid she’d wake up in the morning to find one of her hands bitten off by a monster under her bed. She came to the conclusion that blonde scientists were crazy, and drifted off into a fitful sleep full of griever-jaguars and bunny rabbits, slowly realizing just how twisted WCKD truly was.

the end

#fanfiction #one shot #the maze runner #angst #tmr #crack #tmr crack #crack fic #tmr characters #tmr newt #tmr gally #tmr minho #tmr imagines #tmr headcanons #dr. ava paige #ava paige #wckd #wckd is good #dr. crawford #dr. gretchen klein #gretchen klein #the wilds #the wilds gretchen #crossover fic #fusion fic #fanfic #tmr and the wilds #tmr x the wilds #the wilds x tmr #the maze runner x the wilds

[will-graham-coded]

#brian zeller #jimmy price #science husbands #frederick chilton #dr chilton #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #hannibal the cannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal shitpost #hannigram #hannibal #will graham and hannibal lecter #will graham nbc #will graham #beverly katz #jack crawford #abigail hobbs #alana bloom #bedelia du maurier

[verysickofthisshit]

god bless dr. chilton. he really told jack that disemboweling each other was will and hannibal’s idea of flirtation and then jack did not believe him. he was there for reputation and the money. i can understand that. my king really be making a lot of points that no one listens to. he said yo hannibal makes a lot of jokes about eating people maybe we should look into that. and he was RIGHT!! curse of cassandra goddamn

#hannibal lecter #hannigram #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will graham #jack crawford #dr chilton #frederick chilton #he did his best god bless

[jay-wasstuff]

He had a mild seizure typing so you spelling police can chill

#dr lecter hannibal #hannibal x will #will x hannibal #hannibal lecter #hannigram #hannibal #dr hannibal lecter #will graham #hannibal meme #hannibal memes #murder husbands #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen #lawrence fishburne #bryan fuller #jack crawford #tw #tw unalive

[diioonysus]

dresses + art

#portrait of sabina seupham spalding by federico de madrazo y kuntz #portrait of anne blackett by maria verelst #portrait of mary sylvester by joseph blackburn #portrait of lady and her daughter by philip alexius de laszlo #ms hugh hammersley by john singer sargent #alice crawford in the role of olivia in “twelfth night” by william logsdail #portrait of lady by jules louis machard #lady dr. m by friedrich august von kaulbach #i cannot find this artist for some reason #juene suissesse de brienz by joseph desire court #princess maria carolina augusta of bourbon by franz xaver winterhalter #portrait of josefa del aguila ceballos by federico de madrazo #princess tatiana yusupova by franz xavier winterhalter #portrait of a lady in a white gown by unknown #fairies by madeleine jeanne lemaire #portrait of a lady by hugh de twenbrokes glazebrook #phila franks by thomas hudson #portrait of marguerite de seve by nicolas de largillere #portrait of marie-anne de chateauneuf by nicolas de largillere #penelope bayfield by thomas hudson #portrait of louise-elizabeth of france with her son by adelaide labille-guiard #i cant find this artist so if someone knows please let me know #self-portrait with harp by rose-adelaide ducreux #portrait of irma geijer nee von hallwyl by julius kronberg #countess carolina maraini sommaruga by vittorio matteo corcos #portrait of millicent duchess of sutherland by john singer sargent #flaming june by sir frederick leighton #portrait of anne of austria by peter paul rubens #judith by eglon hendrick van der neer #portrait of donna franca florio by giovanni boldini

[kieran-hayward-art]

random sketchbook stuff from the past month that's mostly just drawings of jeffrey combs✌️

#my art #painting #sketchbook #star trek #deep space nine #weyoun #reanimator #beyond reanimator #herbert west #terry farrell #star trek enterprise #thy'lek shran #love and a 45 #dinosaur bob #dead man walking 1988 #wings hauser #dr mordrid #anton mordrid #from beyond 1986 #crawford tillinghast #jeffrey combs #candyman #daniel robitaille #mark hoffman #saw 5 #sorry i can't tell you the name of the klingon woman she appeared for 2 seconds in an episode of tng and was uncredited ;n;

[astralbondpro]

From Beyond (1986) // Dir. Stuart Gordon

#From Beyond #Crawford Tillinghast #Jeffrey Combs #Dr. Bloch #Carolyn Purdy-Gordon #Carolyn Purdy Gordon #Stuart Gordon #B Movies #B Movie #Low Budget Movies #From Beyond Gifs #Gifs #B Movie Gifs #Horror #B Horror #AVB #AVBGifs #AVGifs #AVFromBeyond #AVFromBeyondGifs #AVBHorror

[weyounthevorta]

Flights of Fancy

Flight 326 is almost sold out, and you have to select your seat for that long haul flight overseas.

Which Combs do you think would be a nervous flier? Who would steal the arm rest? Who would keep their seat in the upright position the entire flight? Who are you sitting next to?

#jeffrey combs #jeffrey combs poll #herbert west #reanimator #crawford tillinghast #milton dammers #weyoun #star trek #shran #Lonnie Hawks #dinosaur bob #Jay Brooks #john reilly #D-day #francisco #harriman gray #Andrew Paris #Doc Haggis #Alan Shuba #Bill Knight #roger schector #bartok the great #doctor mordrid #Dr East #brunt fca #father jonathan #prisoner 50557 #Kevin mulkahey #penk #tiron

[sanity-dance]

Nbc hannibal characters in terms of cuntiness

#hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal #will graham #freddie lounds #frederick chilton #dr chilton #chiyoh hannibal #chiyoh #beverly katz #bedelia du maurier #alana bloom #margot verger #abigail hobbs #jimmy price #brian zeller #miriam lass #abel gideon #bella crawford #jack crawford #rinaldo pazzi #tobias budge #reba mcclane #georgia madchen #francis dolarhyde #cordell doemling #mason verger #franklyn froideveaux #garret jacob hobbs

[will-graham-coded]

#hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #hannibal the cannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal shitpost #hannibaledit #hannibal #dr chilton #frederick chilton #jack crawford #will graham and hannibal lecter #will graham nbc #will graham #nbc hannigram #hannigram on the run #hannigram #beverly katz #jimmy price #science husbands #brian zeller #abigail hobbs #alana bloom #gay

[twolongcows]

Cracked ship from the twitter timeline ❤️‍🔥

#ash williams #crawford tillinghast #anton mordrid #jeffrey combs #dr mordrid #evil dead #from beyond #my art #signature is my twitter handle

[jay-wasstuff]

Hannibal: *makes numerous cannibal jokes/puns*

Jack: LMFAOO FUCKING CHILL BRO! 😂😂

Will: *makes ONE cannibal joke*

Jack:

#hannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal x will #will x hannibal #hannigram #will graham #hannibal edits #hannibal edit #hannibal meme #Hannibal memes #dr hannibal lecter #jack crawford #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen #lawrence fishburne

[undeadgayboynes]

i cant

#jeffrey combs #reanimator #herbert west #dead man walking 1987 #dead man walking 1988 #castle freak #john riley #dr mordrid #anton mordrid #love and a 45 #Dinosaur Bob #Frightmare #the frighteners #Milton Dammers #from beyond #crawford tillinghast #andrew paris #the phantom empire #I dont even know man #its 3:30 am

[raging-himboifcation13]

made silly images

#jeffrey combs #re animator #herbert west #ash williams #evil dead 2 #evil dead #army of darkness #crawford tillinghast #from beyond 1986 #from beyond #barbara crampton #dr katherine mcmichaels #katherine mc michaels #lydsposting

[shadowthefaghog]

i like heem. (baby's first edit......)

#friends & mutuals don't look at me. this is for jeff nation's eyes only #i have to do my part. #jeffrey combs #frightmare 1983 #herbert west #crawford tillinghast #cyclone 1987 #the phantom empire 1987 #dead man walking 1988 #doctor mordrid #anton mordrid #lurking fear #dr haggis #felony 1994 #mr combs #kuggs edits

[mobiussnose]

Every time I watch a pre 2000s Jeffery Combs movie my immediate reaction is “my god. that poor little twink. look at what they’ve put him through. indescribable horrors. those bastards. it doesn’t matter the crimes he’s committed just look at him.”

#Herbert west #milton dammers #Jeffrey combs #dr mordrid #anton mordrid #reanimator #Frightners #stu matcher #castle freak #crawford tillinghast #cellar dweller #from beyond #dead man walking