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Tweak says, "*I milked it myself!*"

Krystle Harrison (omggirlonthenet) wrote in memebells,
@ 2012-01-13 20:23:00

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[rated] nc17, [rated] pg-13, [rated] r, [type] choices, [type] crack, [type] dark, [type] fluff, [type] memories, [type] serious, [warning] possible triggers

Good Ending/Bad Ending meme
Do you get a happily ever after? Or a 'Rocks fall, everyone dies'? Why not both?

* Post your characters and set up two scenes. One with an ideal setting (They got what they always wanted, hit it big, became rich and famous, etc.) and one with a bad twist of events (They're homeless, everyone hates them, maybe they're even dying!).
* Others respond to one of the two settings (Or both in different comments, if they want!)
* Respond.
* ???
* Profit!!!

Just remember: no ending is set in stone, good endings can turn sour, and bad endings can be made better. Just see where it takes you and enjoy the ride!

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	calmestmind 2012-01-22 06:41 am UTC (link)
	"It's probably going to be a half hour or so." Raven said, relaying the news and resting her fingers lightly against the back of Erik's hand for a moment, "Would you like to go outside?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-22 06:43 am UTC (link)
	He barely feels her fingers on the back of his hand and shakes his head at the question. "No. I'm not going anywhere." He was going to stay put or at least that's what he's telling himself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

calmestmind
2012-01-22 06:53 am UTC (link)

"Alright." She said with a nod, "But let me know if you change your mind." She nudged him towards the chairs lining the wall, "Let's have a seat, this'll be a while."

It was almost an hour later before one of the doctors emerged to talk to them, explaining that it was what appeared to be a network of tumors, operable, yes, but dangerous simply due to how many of them there were, and they needed to know the risks before making a decision, since Charles wasn't capable of making it himself at the moment.

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	lookforcreator 2012-01-22 06:56 am UTC (link)
	To be honest he didn't care how long it was going to take. He preferred to stand but eventually he sits down beside Raven. However the moment the doctor mentions tumors Erik's hands tighten into fists and there's a slight creak of metal. "What kind of risks?" All he wanted was for Charles to get better. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

calmestmind
2012-01-22 07:07 am UTC (link)

Raven's fingers curled around Erik's wrist, as much a warning as it was meant to calm him, just giving a nod for the doctor to continue.

It wasn't an extensive list, but it wasn't a list that instilled a lot of confidence, either, given as how 'death' was one of the possible outcomes, though there wasn't a high chance of that, nor paralysis, which was also on the list, both full and partial, and temporary, loss of one or more senses, the list went on, mostly because any work with the brain was going to be dangerous.

Raven just nodded once after the doctor had explained, fingers tightening against Erik's wrist again, "Do it. Any chance that he'll recover is better than where he is now."

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lookforcreator
2012-01-22 07:11 am UTC (link)

A part of him wanted to snap at the woman beside him and tell her that it wasn't her decision to make. That Charles was under his care not hers but he doesn't. No, his hands just clench that much more. So he just nods to it and would do what he had to in order to be there when Charles woke up.

The moment the doctor was gone, however, he jerks his wrist out of Raven's grip and stands pacing the floor the metal around them threatening to come loose.

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	calmestmind 2012-01-22 07:19 am UTC (link)
	Except for the fact that it was her decision, since she was the next of kin. She unfolded from her own seat as soon as things started to rattle, catching Erik's arm again and steering him firmly towards the nearest door, taking him outside. She was stronger than she looked, quite a bit so, "Erik." Even just that word was a warning. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-22 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	Perhaps she was but it wasn't just her damn decision. She didn't share Charles' bed. Not that he'd ever bring that up. Just as he was letting her call the shots now. Once outside though he jerks his arm free and turns away from her. Her warning didn't really mean a damn thing to him. There was only one man who could ever sooth him and he wasn't awake right now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

calmestmind
2012-01-23 04:26 am UTC (link)

"Don't you dare." She said, just a little more sharply than she intended to, but she knew he needed something to shake him out of it, "Don't you even start to think that your worry about this, your pain is somehow more important or deeper or more relevant than mine is, Erik."

She shook her head, eyes flickering to yellow for a moment, red seeping into the roots of her hair before she got ahold of herself again, "You aren't the only one he's saved, Erik."

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lookforcreator
2012-01-23 04:31 am UTC (link)

Those eyes narrow and that isn't going to really shake him out of anything either. "It has nothing to do with who he saved and who he hasn't saved, Raven. You're family. So no one is stupid enough to think their pain is more relevant than yours."

His voice is rough and raw the pain clearly there, "Charles is more than our savior. More than my savior, Raven. Far more." And it hurt that he couldn't do a damn thing about what was going on. He felt helpless and he didn't like that feeling one damn bit.

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	calmestmind 2012-01-23 05:28 am UTC (link)
	"I may be family." She shot back, "But you're everything for him that I can't be." There was something almost bitter in the tone, though it wasn't directed at Erik as much as at herself. She'd been about to say more when something quiet and calm spread over them both, the same way that Charles' presence filled a room when he went in to stop an argument. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-23 05:32 am UTC (link)
	He was about ready to shoot something back to her because of that bitter tone before frowning. Charles wasn't awake and they both knew it. But the feel of his mind... that presence spreading over them has the metal bender closing his eyes. Charles always did know when him and Raven were fighting. Just because he was out of it didn't mean he didn't know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	calmestmind 2012-01-23 05:40 am UTC (link)
	He'd always known, and likely he always would know, whether or not he was conscious for it. Raven took a deep breath, steadying herself a little, "He's going to be alright, he has to be." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-23 05:41 am UTC (link)
	Erik wasn't so sure about that but he gives her a smile that doesn't really light up those eyes. "Of course he will be. He always is." Whether he believed that or not was a whole other story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	calmestmind 2012-01-23 05:44 am UTC (link)
	"We should go back inside." She said, after a moment, "In case they have any more questions, and so we can be there when he's finished." She took a deep breath, running a hand through her hair, "And someone should call home, tell them what's going on." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-23 05:46 am UTC (link)
	He gives a slight nod to all of that barely even registering it. Reaching over he takes her hand leading her back inside. To be honest he doesn't want to call home but... "Do you want to or should I?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

calmestmind
2012-01-23 06:00 am UTC (link)

She squeezed his hand, just once, reassuring as much as anything, "I can." She nodded towards the nearest nurse's station after pointing him back towards the waiting area, "Come get me if they need anything."

Not that they were likely to so soon into things. In fact, it was another eight hours before they needed anything else, and that was just her signature on a few forms. Of course, throughout that time someone kept them informed, now and again, as to what was going on, and Charles' presence ebbed and came back against their minds from time to time, though never enough for words.

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lookforcreator
2012-01-23 06:05 am UTC (link)

"I will."

He's not sure how the others took the news of what happened to the precious Professor. Then again he was still trying to process everything as well. The sad part was he was starting to get restless again. Them having her sign forms didn't make him think things were going okay. In fact it made him think the complete and total opposite. The only thing to keep him soothed and from bringing the place down was the occasional presence of Charles' mind against his own.

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calmestmind
2012-01-23 06:13 am UTC (link)

Any time there was an update, Raven slipped away to the nurse's station to call the mansion and let them know. He was in surgery, he was still in surgery, he was in recovery, he was back in surgery and finally, nearly ten hours after they'd initially arrived, he was officially in recovery, and would be until there was a free bed in an ICU room.
They weren't able to see him just yet, as recovery was a cleanroom area, but one of the nurses led them to the ICU waiting room and it was only another fifteen minutes, the longest fifteen minutes of Raven's life, before someone came to tell them he was in a room and they could see him.

He was there, amid a bank of monitors, wires and cords, looking small and pale in the hospital gown, pristine white bandage around and across the top of his head, marred only by the bulb of the shunt at one side, making sure any residual bleeding drained and didn't build up inside his head.

Raven bit the inside of her cheek, but slipped forward, fingers resting against the back of one of Charles' hands, "Oh, Charles."

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lookforcreator
2012-01-23 06:20 am UTC (link)

There was a few times where Erik had to step out of the hospital all together. Especially when it was getting to the point where he felt like he was suffocating or that he was going to get sick. However he always came back sitting beside Raven. It was far too many hours (even if it wasn't really THAT bad) when they got the updates. Just as it had taken far too much control for him not to snap when they told them that they'd have to wait longer.

For a moment he can't even fully step into the room his eyes transfixed on Charles. On how pale the telepath was and all of those wires and cords. Its a good few more moments before he moves to the other side of the bed taking one of the telepath's hands in his own, running his thumb along the back of it.

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calmestmind
2012-01-23 06:25 am UTC (link)

Charles' brow creased, the movement barely perceptible under the bandages, he made a quiet sound in the back of his throat, not quite a groan and not quite an attempt at words, but it faded again a moment later, replaced by an almost-groggy mental voice: Erik? Raven?

Raven managed a smile, even though she was biting back tears, relief mostly, "We're right here."

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lookforcreator
2012-01-23 06:29 am UTC (link)

Erik's eyes were so transfixed on those damn wires that he barely even caught the telepath's mental voice within his mind. Just like he's not even noticed the tremors in his hands or his body. Nothing was going to happen here that shouldn't of.

"We've been with you the whole time, Charles."

Even though his hands were shaking his voice was steady and calm somehow.

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calmestmind
2012-01-23 06:35 am UTC (link)

There was another quiet sound, somehow puzzled this time, followed by: What's happened? Still sounding just as groggy as he had before.

"Brain surgery." Raven answered, figuring that it was no use trying to cushion that, since he was likely to know if they were stalling anyway, "They got six tumors out, there were others they couldn't get to without it being too risky for you."

Her fingers slipped from the back of Charles' hand to the back of Erik's, she'd noticed the trembling, but had it pegged as worry or stress more than anything else, just like her own relief was making her a little giddy.

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lookforcreator
2012-01-23 06:43 am UTC (link)

"You worried the hell out of us, Charles."

However the moment Raven's fingers slip to the back of his hand he jumps slightly. Like a snake that had uncoiled or something along those lines. He pulls his hand away clenching it into a fist to try and stave off the trembling but it wasn't working. The only one that knew why he'd be like this was a bit out of it.

"Just rest. You're going to need it."

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	calmestmind 2012-01-23 06:49 am UTC (link)
	The next sound was almost pained, almost immediately after Erik's hand had been withdrawn, brow furrowing once more, Don't think I can do anything but* rest* There was silence for a few moments more, though his presence was undeniably there, stay? It was somehow quieter than the first statement had been, as if he were expecting to be denied. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)