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Daniel LaRusso ([info]seekingbalance) wrote in [info]museful,
@ 2021-07-29 22:22:00

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Entry tags:[meme], [rated] nc17, [rated] r, [warning] possible triggers, crack, dark, fluff, gen, hurt/comfort, love, nsfw, romance, shipping

Minor Injury Meme


A meme for those minor injuries that won't leave you down but make it hard to live your life. The breaks, sprains, and the hurt/comfort that comes with them.

⇥ Post with your character (note the name and fandom and any preferences in the subject line).
↠ You or the people replying roll once for type of injury and again for the scenario or pick your own.
↠ Have fun.

INJURIES

1. SPRAIN: you stepped the wrong way, twisted the wrong way, and something has gone terribly wrong. Just remember RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation.

2. FRACTURE: You step off the sidewalk, working in the backyard, and suddenly BAM!! But it's not a sprain, oh no, you're in a cast for the duration. Good luck trying to get to work.

3. PULLED: It's not bad enough for medical attention but it still hurts something fierce. Break out the tiger balm or someone to give you a hand because you've pulled something. That awkward moment when you think you want vicodin...and nobody will give it to you.

4. MIGRAINE: Light hurts, air hurts, moving hurts. All you can do is lie in a darkened room and pray for the pounding pain to go away behind your eyes.

5. THE FLU: Maybe you're physically fine – well… all your limbs are working. You just feel like death warmed over.

6. WILDCARD: Anything else you can think of.

SCENARIOS

1. INJURED! WHAT NEXT?: You're out working, you're out having fun, you're out doing something when suddenly you step, twist, move and our bodies demonstrate just how fragile they really are. Quick! someone call the ambulance!

2. THE EMERGENCY ROOM: All the fun of a waiting room with rewards that include crutches, casts, X-Rays, vicodin, and sometimes just that one nurse who says "Yeah there's nothing wrong with you that'll be 400 dollars."

3. HOME AND SETTING UP THE NEST: Hurt, trying to make a space for you to get around. Hopefully someone is there to help you get to your crutches so you can go to the bathroom and make yourself something to eat.

4. PHYSICAL THERAPY HOME EDITION: The obligatory smut option. Do you not see that I'm wearing this cast?

5. OH GOD HELP I'M GOING TO DIE: That awkward moment when the fact that you are bedridden is crushing down on you and you're terrified you'll do something to make the injury worse. Snappish, angry, and rude - who are you going to take it out on?

6. DRIVE ME TO THE DOCTOR THIS SHIT IS COMING OFF: It's time, they say you can come in, take it off, and begin the next stage of recovery. Failing that, you’re going to grab a saw and cut the damn thing off yourself! Will there be joy, laughter, crying, happiness?

7. WILDCARD: Anything else you can think of.


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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-05 11:29 pm UTC (link)
"There's always a choice," he counters. It took him forever to learn, but he knows that now. He left Cobra Kai because it was the right thing to do, and now knowing what he does about LaRusso's situation it seems wrong to leave him here.

"So what'll it take to get you out? Do they want money? A replacement?"

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-06 12:48 am UTC (link)
The fact that Johnny escaped Cobra Kai and Daniel got sucked right in would almost be funny if it wasn't so fucking heartbreaking. He looks back at the dumb choices he made back in '85 and wants to crane kick himself in the face.

"Money? Hardly. He's one of the richest guys in the Valley." Daniel flexes his knuckles, trying to shake out the pain. "And the only way we get replaced in this place is if we get carried out in a black bag."

"I appreciate the concern, but seriously, don't get involved. It's not worth it." I'm not worth it is left unspoken.

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-06 12:57 am UTC (link)
He lets out a breath, commiserating even if he's clearly out of his depth here. It's instinct to reach over, ignoring the blood to squeeze over his knuckles. Dumb to be doing here, probably, but whatever. He's never been great at doing what he's supposed to.

"Bullshit. There's gotta be a way out, there's always a way out with these things. You put a bunch of rich guys together, there's always a way."

Because like hell is LaRusso not worth it. He might have a hard time articulating the why, but it kills him seeing him like this.

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-06 02:19 am UTC (link)
Daniel flinches at the touch, torn between snatching his hands away or leaning into it. It's been so long since someone touched him kindly. Ironic that it would be his high school rival.

A rattle of the chainlink snaps him out of his thoughts. "LaRusso. You're up."

Confusion crosses Daniel's features. He's already fought. Already won. Why does he need to fight again? "I thought the matches were done?"

"Mr Silver set this one up special." The cage is opened and Daniel pushes himself to his feet. Seems Johnny will get a chance to see just how much Daniel's fighting has changed since that fateful tournament.

As he steps forward, Johnny will be able to see the all-too-familiar cobra emblazoned across the back of his t-shirt. He can't even bring himself to look at Johnny as he steps out into the ring.

Terry watches from his VIP area, bets are placed totalling more money than Daniel has ever even seen in his life.

His fighting style has definitely changed. He's no longer a scared little Bambi just finding his feet. He strikes hard, strikes first, and mercy left the building a long time ago.

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-06 11:22 pm UTC (link)
He frowns at the development, because it doesn't make sense, even as little as he really knows about this whole thing. You fight once and then you get a break until the next time, they don't grab you after you've already fought once. He catches the Cobra though, all too familiar, and his blood goes cold, but before he can ask anything else he's gone.

He moves to the only window he can see, pulls himself up enough to peek through, watching the match. It's absolutely brutal, familiar but in all the wrong ways, because it's not how LaRusso fights. He's grace and halting, sincere but naive and determined, and there are certainly some similar elements but it's nothing like when he fought him. It's Cobra Kai through and through and then some, but he keeps his eyes on it until the end.

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-07 03:15 am UTC (link)
The match doesn't end until Daniel pummels his opponent to the ground shattering his nose, cheek and eye socket. His hands and face splattered with blood. His and his opponents. It's impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Terry looks on - proud and predatory over his prize fighter as the money pours in.

Daniel is led back and purposely avoids looking at Johnny. Can't bring himself to. Doesn't want to know what kind of disgust or loathing he'll find there.

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-08 01:05 am UTC (link)
He keeps his eye on the ring, because it seems important he does. To see it through, considering how certain he was about the whole thing. About scaring Johnny off. It's enough to turn his stomach, to have him puking his breakfast up in the corner because there's nothing left of the guy's face, just a mess of flesh, and when he comes back Johnny's pressed into the corner, jaw grit tight as he swallows against the sour taste in his mouth. But he breathes, a d his stomach settles, and while LaRusso can't look at him, Johnny doesn't have the same problem. Because he can't reconcile the two, he's still LaRusso. No matter what, he's got to be the same guy in there somewhere.

"Hey," he offers quietly, because he doesn't know what else to say. Shifts closer and nudges him with his shoulder. He's here, he doesn't care. He does care, of course he does, but not enough to go running in the other direction, not now he's seen the truth of things. Sure, he doesn't know what the hell to do about it, but he knows the guy doesn't deserve any of this.

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-08 05:29 am UTC (link)
"Don't..." Daniel starts, sounding absolutely broken, like it's taking every ounce of effort not to crumble. "Please don't be kind to me. I don't deserve it." He's made such a mess of everything. He's followed Terry Silver so far down the rabbit hole that he has no idea how to climb out.

He wipes his face on his sleeve - it does little to wipe away the blood, if anything it just smudges it worse.

"Will you please take my advice now? Don't get involved in this. It's not worth it. If you really need money that bad there's always clubs in Encino looking for male strippers and call boys. But I know you, Johnny Lawrence. You don't think I do, but I do. You're worth more than that."

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-08 09:47 am UTC (link)
"So what, I'm just supposed to leave you here?"

He scoffs, because that just seems like a loss somehow. Not that he's got any idea how the hell to get LaRusso out of this, but leaving him in it doesn't seem like the right choice either.

He hears the rest of it, the suggestions to solve his own problem, and okay, maybe it's worth going that route. It's using his body to make money, and he supposes it's not that different from fighting to do the same thing. Probably more lucrative than anything else he could be doing, no matter what LaRusso thinks he's worth.

"You don't know shit about me, LaRusso. But fine. You want me out, I'll get out, but I'm not gonna leave you in here, okay? I'll figure something out. Because if anybody doesn't deserve this shit it's you."

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-11 01:23 am UTC (link)
"Yeah. You're supposed to leave me here. You're supposed to get in your car, drive away and forget you ever even heard about this life. Don't end up like me. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone."

He opens his mouth to say more, only to get cut off by one of Silver's goons entering and handing him a key for a motel and a bottle of isotonic sports drink. "LaRusso. You're done for the night. Mr Silver said to make sure you rest up tonight."

Daniel nods, takes the key and the bottle and waits for the guy to leave. He turns the key over in his hand, looking at the address. At least it isn't far away. He should go straight there, do as Silver says and get some rest. Instead he looks at Johnny as if contemplating something.

"... You wanna grab a drink?"

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-11 11:44 am UTC (link)
Yeah, like he likes that answer. It's a shitty answer, a cop-out he can see from a mile away, but he lets it go for now. Anyway, the goon does a good job at interrupting, making everything tilt like an amusement ride so it's the last thing he expects when the invitation comes. But the answer's obvious regardless.

"So much for me getting out of your life. Yeah, sure. Sounds good."

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-14 05:25 am UTC (link)
"I still say you need to get the fuck out of dodge... but you can leave after a drink." Daniel knows he shouldn't even be entertaining this thought. He should make Johnny pack up and go right now. Do not engage. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

But it's been so long since he's had company that wasn't Silver or someone trying to kill him. The irony isn't lost on him that the one person treating him like a human is Johnny Lawrence. His teenage karate rival.

"There's a bar around the corner." Daniel pulls off his Cobra Kai top, his back and sides are badly scarred - battle wounds from swords, blades, chains, whatever his opponents of the past could get their hands on. There's one particularly bad stab wound that looks on the verge of infection.

He pulls on a clean sweater, shoves his soiled top into his bag and shoulders it. "Ready to get out of here?"

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-14 07:54 pm UTC (link)
Johnny snorts, because if that isn't a line out of a movie, but he rolls his eyes and goes with it. Goes into his own locker to grab his duffel bag, digs out a shirt and a hoodie and pulls both on, but the scars are too clear to ignore even with muscle memory. Those aren't fists or feet, they must be from whatever comes next, and his stomach turns at the sight of it, the fact he's clearly been at this a while. He catches the stab wound before the sweater pulls down to cover it, chews on his lip in something he'll never admit is worry, and files it away to make a comment on later, nodding in answer instead.

"Ready when you are, let's do it. I'll buy, I think I've got room for drink money."

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-16 11:16 pm UTC (link)
"You're not buying. I invited you out. Drinks are on me." Daniel says as he and Johnny leave via the back door. He adjusts the position of his bag so that it isn't irritating new injuries quite as much. Now that the adrenaline of battle is wearing off, it's clear to see that Daniel walks with a slight limp to his right leg. Which, is very much the opposite leg to the one Johnny and Bobby fucked up back in the day. Which suggests whatever happened to it was much more fucked up than anything two angry wayward teenagers could do.

He leads Johnny to the bar. He wasn't joking about it being around the corner, it is literally right there. He steps into the smoke-filled, dim room and heads for the bar and orders two whiskey sours. "Put them on Mr Silver's tab? Thanks."

Once he has the drinks in hand, he heads for a quiet booth in the far corner and slides into it, instantly drawing his feet up onto the bench, back to the wall, knees tucked tight to his chest.

"How'd you even end up here tonight anyway? You get scouted?"

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-18 01:12 am UTC (link)
Oh, he notices the limp. Winces, guilty for a moment until he realizes it's the opposite leg, and then he's only angry on LaRusso's behalf, whether or not he wants it. The guy shouldn't even be in this mess, let alone worse off then they left him. But he follows to the bar, shrugs at the rebuff, even if it's clear that LaRusso's not really paying for the drinks either.

He's quick enough to settle into the booth, watching the other's movements carefully, cataloguing injuries, reading posture, because he might not be Cobra Kai anymore but old habits die hard. He shrugs at the question as he takes a sip from his glass.

"Got in a bar fight and somebody thought it looked pretty good. We got to talking, I said I used to do karate and he somehow already knew I don't have much in the bank so he gave me a tape to watch, said to give him a call if I wanted to make some easy money. First fight was a piece of cake, so I came back."

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-18 04:22 am UTC (link)
Daniel drags his finger up and down the side of his glass, focusing on the condensation, the wet ring it left on the table. He picks up his glass and takes a sip.

"Sounds about right. It's the way they lure you in. Easy money, easy fights. Something cathartic about it too. No rules. Just fighting. The adrenaline. The crack of cartilage and bone. Liberating." Even that didn't sound like the Daniel LaRusso from high school.

"They neglect to mention what happens in the later rounds though. Tell you that you can withdraw at any time until a certain point. But they don't mention that you're gonna have to kill a guy or wind up dead yourself."

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-19 01:49 am UTC (link)
"Sounds a lot like Cobra Kai the way Kreese wanted it to be," he answers wryly, picking at the tabletop and trying to shove down lingering adrenaline from the fight. He LIKES fighting, which is the whole problem, the whole reason he was dragged into it so easy, but having to kill people? Yeah, that's something else entirely.

"What happens if you don't want to fight after that point? Not like they can make you go into the ring."

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-22 04:02 am UTC (link)
What a pair they make. Both chasing the thrill of the fight. Both of them knowing exactly how to use their fists to cause pain. Both shaped by Cobra Kai into the perfect little fighting machines.

Daniel knows he shouldn't say more. Walls have ears. If it gets back to those in charge he's been spilling secrets then he's as good as dead. But he's come this far.

"If you don't fight then they simply get rid of you... if you catch my meaning."

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-24 12:32 am UTC (link)
Walls might have ears, but Johnny's never really cared a whole lot about not doing the dumb, reckless thing. He would have pressed if LaRusso didn't fill in the gap, so at least this saves him the hassle. He frowns deeply, because he does catch the meaning, hand reflexively moving to his neck, subconsciously rubbing it. He doesn't need it spelled out.

"Okay. So I back out now. Got it. But if you think I'm gonna leave you in there you're a bigger idiot than I thought."

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[info]lostbalance
2021-08-26 02:27 am UTC (link)
"I guess I'm a bigger idiot than you thought then. Johnny... I appreciate the concern, I do. But I'm a lost cause. I'm not worth risking your own safety over. Trust me. I'm fucked up. I've done things... terrible things. My fate was sealed the moment I stepped foot inside a Cobra Kai dojo. But you? You got out. And you can get out of this. Go back home. Find a decent job. Don't fuck your life up like I did."

Daniel downs his drink in one. "Promise me? Promise me you won't get involved in something like this again, no matter how bad you need the money."

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-08-27 11:46 am UTC (link)
"Whatever, man," he offers, casual, like he fully intends on listening, like he's never been the type to do what he wants just to be contrary. Just because somebody told him not to. But he reaches for his drink and downs the better part of it. His options are limited as it is, he knows that. College wasn't his thing and he'll be damned if he asks Sid for anything, even if he knows he'll crawl back like a loser if his back's to the wall. Find a decent job, like it's just that easy, like a college dropout who graduated high school by the skin of his teeth has any actual prospects, but fine.

"I'll stay away from the sketchy underground fight circles. I'll go back to my shitty life with my crappy job and try to figure something else out, okay? But shit, man. As much crap as we put you through, if anybody deserves to not be fucking stuck in that shit it's you."

Because it's just...really fucked up that the wide-eyed mouthy optimistic little brat (who finally grew into himself and SHIT is Johnny gonna have stuff to unpack later) is the one who's stuck. Johnny always figured he'd be the one stuck in a shitty life and LaRusso would make something of himself, not...whatever the hell this is.

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[info]lostbalance
2021-09-03 02:01 am UTC (link)
Daniel signals to the bartender for another round of drinks. "Senior year of high school is a happy memory compared to all of this," he says honestly. And that's saying something because Johnny and his Cobra Kai buddies had made Daniel's life hell. They had almost killed him - probably would've if Mr Miyagi hadn't intervened.

How messed up is Daniel's life that those are the happy memories?

"Well I never did know when to leave well enough alone. Guess it finally came back around to bite me in the ass."

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-09-04 09:01 pm UTC (link)
He frowns, uneasy and a little sick, but the next round comes and he's too quick to start in on it. Like he needs the guilt on top of everything else, gnawing at him, and for a long moment he wants to tell LaRusso to go fuck himself. That he's gonna stick this out, that he'll put his neck out for him if he has to because he doesn't DESERVE this, doesn't deserve to be laying things out like that just because they were a bunch of dicks to him in high school. Like one's connected to the other.

"Shut the fuck up with that shit. Yeah, you couldn't keep your mouth shut and didn't know how to leave anything the fuck alone, but that doesn't lead to this shit."

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[info]lostbalance
2021-09-11 02:43 am UTC (link)
"Maybe. But a whole load of bad choices have brought me here and I don't see a way out. I was too blind and too naive to even see I was being led down a dark path. Looking back, all the warning signs were there. Huge red flags."

He picks at the hem of his sweatshirt, tongue snaking out over his lips to dampen them. "Seriously though... don't worry about me. I'll be okay. Or I'll be dead. Either way, my problems will be over."

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[info]swallowed_whole
2021-09-11 06:10 pm UTC (link)
This was clearly going nowhere, not that he had any idea how to fix it; as it was they were clearly bound to just go around and around in circles until somebody finally dropped it. But LaRusso's tongue darted out and Johnny was powerless not to look, and that was clearly dumb. It certainly wasn't about to help anything here, so instead he only picked at his glass and took another large gulp.

"Yeah, too late for that, sorry."

Which was probably more honesty than the guy was looking for, but it slipped out, and it was too late to take back now.

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