tabula_rasa:

In the bathroom, Jenny tipped a bottle of hydrogen peroxide over her left shoulder and hissed when the cool fluid made contact with the jagged cut just out of her reach It was probably deep enough to need a couple of stitches and a blowtorch to kill the demon germs. Only the fastest and strongest demons managed to inflict damage on her before they were thrown back, the bloody bastards. There hadn’t been many, but it hurt. A lot.

As Excalibur didn’t have a medic or a healer, she debated her pitifully few options. A hospital, which would require full disclosure to treat her, the SHIELD medical office where she’d been treated before and who would know how to deal with her particular brand of weird, or one of her new teammates.

It was going to hurt anyway, and she could direct someone here on how to seal a measly little hole in her skin with SurgiSeal. She had a few tubes for personal use because it was the easiest way to seal cuts and nicks, especially with her brand of weird.

She eased into a robe and went looking for the nearest willing and able teammate.

the_other:

After another long day of classes, Ben Parker is enjoying a milkshake at The Dot with his two best friends in the world, Sidonie and Jake. Sidonie asked Ben if she could interview him for their final paper in Journalism. Ben was still looking for someone to interview, but he tried to put the upcoming deadline out of his mind and focus on the State Championship game in three weeks.

"Ben, do you think you'll see court time in the State Championships against Stuyvesant? The so called 'Sticky Fingers' are last year's State Champs and Midtown is the big underdog. You're the team's star point-guard. Are you nervous?" asks Sidonie Henderson, pressing the "Record" button on her new digital tape recorder. She really wanted her first story for the school-paper to be good, but Ben still wanted to do the story on him, of all people. Sidonie wanted to work for the New York Times someday, and always talked about how she was going to be the "real-life Lois Lane", complete with her own personal superhero.

Ben shook his head at the thought of reporters with their own superheroes and answered the question.

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