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Tweak says, "We're all alright!"

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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	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)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-23 06:52 am UTC (link)
	The metal bender wasn't so sure he could stay in that room. Not with all the wires right there but he leans back in his chair, retaking Charles' hand. "Of course, Charles. We don't plan to go anywhere." And they'd regret it if they tried to make him. Even if he, himself, probably didn't look so good. This was about Charles though and not his own nightmares. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	calmestmind 2012-01-23 06:56 am UTC (link)
	Charles relaxed almost immediately at that, the faint tension in his expression leeching away again, fingers twitching against Erik's hand. Raven relaxed as well, just a little, though she could tell that Erik was still uncomfortable, though she didn't know the reason why, aside from the fact that seeing Charles like this was more than a little unsettling. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-23 06:59 am UTC (link)
	When Charles relaxed Erik just sat back in his seat. If Raven had questions then now would be the best time to ask them. When the metal bender was half there and half not. Though she'd have to bear with him a bit since his focus is on the telepath in front of them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	calmestmind 2012-01-23 07:02 am UTC (link)
	She wasn't going to ask, not about that, at least, though what she did ask was: "Will you be alright while I call home?" Charles, for his part, seemed to have slipped back off to sleep, still working through the residual effects of the anesthesia. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lookforcreator
2012-01-23 07:06 am UTC (link)

"Hmm...?" Shaking his head he gives her a small smile. "I'll be fine. Let them know that he's going to be okay." That he was awake so to speak. Not awake right now obviously but he was recovering. Leaning back in his chair he shuts his eyes so he doesn't have to see all the wires. At least Charles had better care than what he, himself, ever did at the hands of Shaw.

Unfortunately sitting in that room was just making him paler and sicker to his stomach but he wasn't leaving the telepath. Over his dead body.

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	calmestmind 2012-01-23 02:48 pm UTC (link)
	Charles was resting easy, and he did so for a few long minutes, before the quiet, almost tired mental voice came back: I can feel them. The ones they couldn't remove. Probably some sort of residual effect from the anesthesia, or the painkillers, given as how the brain didn't have any nerve endings to feel things with. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-24 12:03 am UTC (link)
	At least one of them could rest easy. Well... two of them more than anything. Raven and Charles. Him on the other hand... not so much. Though he rode it out just to be there for the telepath. He's half out of it when he hears the telepath's mental voice. "Can you?" He doubted it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	calmestmind 2012-01-24 02:25 am UTC (link)
	There was a vague nod, before he realized that even moving his head hurt, and he fell still again: Yes. Dark spots. His brow furrowed again, still puzzled, fingers twitching against Erik's hand again: You don't want to be here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lookforcreator
2012-01-24 02:29 am UTC (link)

"I'm fine, Charles."

Which was a lie but that was beside the point. He wanted to be there for Charles it just... his mind was on Shaw. On the amount of wires and the way... well, just on the experiments that the man used to do to him.

"I'll be fine waiting right here till we can take you home."

Even if the doctor has asked him more than once we're sure if he was alright or not. He'd just said that he was. There was no way he'd let anyone check him over.

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calmestmind
2012-01-24 02:54 am UTC (link)

You aren't. You won't be, it's going to make you crazy. Leave it to Charles to know a lie when he heard one, even when he was still recovering from brain surgery.

Another vague head shake and a quiet, almost pained sound in the back of his throat: Full recovery could take weeks. Maybe months. His brow was still furrowed: They can't be certain there's nothing wrong yet, the surgeon's worried there might be. Too much bleeding.

Chances were good no one had actually TOLD Charles that.

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	lookforcreator 2012-01-24 03:12 am UTC (link)
	"I said I'll be fine, Charles." It's almost a growl even when he knows that the telepath was right. Stay here was going to make him crazy. Charles talking about how it could take weeks or months... well as long as they didn't have to stay in the hospital. "How do you know that?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	calmestmind 2012-01-24 03:19 am UTC (link)
	How do you think? There was a flicker of a smile, Take Raven home when she gets back. Make sure she eats something, she always forgets to eat when she's worried. It was difficult to say if this was deliberate redirection or if he wasn't fully cognizant of his subject changes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-24 03:21 am UTC (link)
	"We're not going anywhere until they say we can take you home," he says watching the man before him. There was no way in hell that Erik was going to up and leave him in this place. "I can't leave you here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	calmestmind 2012-01-24 03:25 am UTC (link)
	You can't stay the whole time, Erik. Visiting hours. It's a hospital, not a hotel There was no real reprimand in the statement, he was too tired for that, I'd much rather you go home and recover for a while than stay here and go mad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookforcreator 2012-01-24 03:28 am UTC (link)
	"I'd rather go mad than to leave you here alone with strangers." With humans. But he's tired of arguing if that's even what it was they were doing. Just like he was ignoring his own body. "Fine." It wasn't fine as far as he's concerned. When Raven comes back he'd take her home. Take them home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)