baby's first trip to the doctor c:

[was_no_monster]

[modern medicine is amazing.

the first time his idiocy had cost him his pulse, it had taken him months of fading in and out of conciousness as his heart slowly healed enough to beat, and another of miserable illness as his pulse washed all the rot that had settled into his flesh out into his bloodstream. not to mention how weak he'd been after, and how long it had taken to regain his strength.

it's only been a week, though, and while he's still weak and fighting off several nasty infections at least he's conscious. and clearheaded. true, they had to get a machine to pump his blood for him to get him that far, but he will damn well take that and the hospital stay over the alternative of taking a slow, painful year to heal.

...even if being awake does mean being bored almost to tears.]

Comments

[forscience]

[AND THEN FROM THE CEILING; presumably she shot the portal through a window or something]

Kaitokaitokaitokaito-

[forscience]

AAAAA

[THUD.

hey, at least she didn't land on you.]

[was_no_monster]

[yes that is much appreciated although it doesn't quite stop him from trying to wince anyway. ...also he's not sure if he'd wouldn't rather be bored now; he likes her, but she's a little... well, high energy. something he does not have a lot of right now...]

Miku. ...Do you— [coughs. stupid throat wound] —mngh. Do you need me to call a nurse for you?

[...wow he even sounds half dead]

[forscience]

I'M FINE!

[t-though wow, you're not]

[was_no_monster]

[nope. and you are loud... wry]

...mmm, I can hear that. That's good, though...

[forscience]

I heard you got chased by the army and were dying of cancer! I came to help!

[subjecting]

[HAVE ANOTHER PORTAL except this one is on the wall. Where portals should be. If you have any expectation of landing on your feet, that is.

Rather than Miku, however, it's KaITO who walks through. He pauses when he recognizes the body in the hospital bed. There's a moment of mental debate — whether he should stay or leave — before he turns around to check on this portal. It was already closed.]

How inconvenient.

[was_no_monster]

[dry, but not overtly cranky-sounding]

There's always the door.

1/2

[subjecting]

It wouldn't take me where I want to go.

[He sounds like he's explaining something to a child.]

...that is, if it's going where I suspect it's going.

[subjecting]

[And then he brightens up, approaching the bed. Hello there.]

However, you don't seem like you're going anywhere for a while.

[was_no_monster]

[he's not sure if he should be worried... starts to sigh, and ends up coughing instead, one hand going up to press against the bandage wrapped around his throat with a jerky, mechanical motion]

Not unless I have to, at least. Getting here was difficult enough.

[subjecting]

I can only imagine. [Gross, fleshy thing.]

Who did you harass this time?

[was_no_monster]

I didn't. ...They were loudly proclaiming death by torture to anyone who wasn't happy, and I looked understandably horrified by the concept, so that clearly meant I had to die as well. By dismemberment and burning.

[miraculost]

[daddy is back \o/ with snacks \o/]

[was_no_monster]

[just in time for me to awkwardly roll over and start having a coughing fit! nausea plus a cut throat is in fact the actual worst]

[miraculost]

[...oh son 8( puts the snacks down and goes to his side, putting a hand on his shoulder]

[was_no_monster]

[guess who has gone from too cold to too warm :/ of course the only times he would get sick are when he's already miserable...]

I think— [cough] Think that this possibly counts as one of the stupidest things I've ever done.

[miraculost]

[at. at least the artificial heart means that feverblood is getting cleaned? hopefully?]

... At least it was stupid for the right reasons.

[smoothes some hair out of his face]

And at least you're still alive...

[was_no_monster]

[|(]

Only because- because I got lucky. That's- it's unacceptable.

[inshepherdscloth]

[a priest is here '-' with a little potted plant '-']

... How are you?

[was_no_monster]

[oh hello :D]

Better than I had expected to be, thankfully. And speaking of thanks, I believe I owe you mine.

[inshepherdscloth]

[setting the plant on a table]

Ah, there's truly no need. Neither of us wanted to see that happen to you.

[was_no_monster]

[shaking his head]

Whether you did or didn't, you saved me from death— or worse. I could very well have lived through what they had planned for me.

I told you that I take that sort of thing seriously.

[inshepherdscloth]

I truly consider it no more than my duty.

[pauses, then gives a wry smile]

... and he is just grateful not to have lost one of the first people to be kind to him, little though he likes to admit it.

[was_no_monster]

[chuckles, and promptly starts coughing. damned throat 8|]

Aaah, well. I supposed I can understand that sentiment.

[hesitating] ...How, exactly, did you get me out of there? There were still- still two left when that girl...

[not Miku, her name hadn't been Miku and he refuses to think of her as such. she didn't deserve her name or her face. bringing one hand to cover the gunshot wounds, both new and old]