Tess Holt (fairplay) wrote,
@ 2012-04-05 01:02:00

Emergency services and the police had been informed. Tess had made sure there'd be the specialists made available to the hostages would be briefed on what they'd gone through.

Tess had cleaned and treated her skin. Her forearm was bandaged.

...She was still so tense. It wasn't that she couldn't handle the pain -- damn straight it wasn't! -- it was that she still felt so locked down.

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	fairplay 2012-04-05 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Dealing with it is a good idea, if we can do it without disturbing the others." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-05 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	"Probably, but you'll want something to bite down on in that case. It will heal... but it will be an excruciating thirty seconds or so." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fairplay 2012-04-06 12:24 am UTC (link)
	"I can cope. Get me a cloth from the top drawer, please. " (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-06 04:29 am UTC (link)
	He nods once, before blurring into motion. He's back with the cloth in a moment. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fairplay 2012-04-06 04:32 am UTC (link)
	"Thank you. Start when you're ready; tell me if there's anything I need to do." She places the cloth in her mouth to deal with the screaming without being too loud, and offers her arm to Steven." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

madeofgoesfast
2012-04-06 04:37 am UTC (link)

He shakes his head. "Just try and keep still." he replies, "When this is over, you're going to be starving too, so if you're not too nauseous, we'll likely want to go find food." he adds, before placing both hands on her arm, at either end of the wound. He concentrates on lending speed to just the small area, speeding up the metabolic processes, doubling, tripling, quadrupling... and continuing far, far beyond that to accelerate the healing process, compressing it into a matter of seconds.

Of course, that also means she experiences all of the pain of the whole healing process as well, along with her arm feeling generally out of sync with the rest of her, and her body's fuel reserves are drawn off at an amazing rate - likewise not a terribly pleasant feeling.

But the arm is definitely healing.

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	fairplay 2012-04-06 04:42 am UTC (link)
	And unlike when Tess knocked herself down in the process of getting the wound, she definitely needs the stifling now. It hurts. It hurts so much, and she doesn't stop herself, and she's screaming into the cloth, her face tearstreaked. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

madeofgoesfast
2012-04-06 04:45 am UTC (link)

His expression offers her all the comfort he can, but he's well aware that its a type of pain most people never experience. True to his word, however long it feels like its been, in thirty seconds, he draws his hands away, letting her metabolic processes slow back to normal with a month's worth of healing having taken place.

He lets her have all the time she needs, nestling her in close to him.

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	fairplay 2012-04-06 04:47 am UTC (link)
	And she'll just cling to him quietly for a while. ...Goodness, she'd never let anyone else see her like this. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-06 04:50 am UTC (link)
	He's well aware that this state is for his eyes only. He just holds her until she's ready to move more on her own. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fairplay 2012-04-06 04:51 am UTC (link)
	And there she'll stay for a while. Finally. "I could commit felonies for some soup." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-06 05:11 am UTC (link)
	"Then soup you shall have. What kind?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fairplay 2012-04-06 05:19 am UTC (link)
	She thinks. "Miso." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-06 05:28 am UTC (link)
	He's dressed in a matter of seconds, calls in the order - her soup, and a substantial lunch for him, then holds her a little longer, before rushing out to pick up the order and rush it back, still hot. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fairplay 2012-04-06 05:29 am UTC (link)
	She sighs weakly. "Always so good to me." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-06 06:06 am UTC (link)
	"You're totally worth it. Now eat, you'll feel better. I'll go get more if you need it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fairplay 2012-04-06 06:16 am UTC (link)
	And Tess gets to work eating. "So... supervillains from hell. Quite a day." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-06 06:21 am UTC (link)
	He digs into his own food, glancing up at the comment. "Yeah, I'd heard about those sorts of things, but this is my first run in, especially with someone so proud of it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fairplay 2012-04-06 06:43 am UTC (link)
	"Messed-up priorities." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madeofgoesfast 2012-04-06 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, and then some." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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