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Tweak says, "I do it all for you, Mulder!"

Josh Foley (fatedtouch) wrote in tensor,
@ 2011-06-23 19:17:00

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josh_foley, kevin_ford

Kevin
Josh sighed, leaning back in his wheelchair and looking up at the sky. It was a beautiful day. Blue sky, bright sun, cool breeze (which was likely someone's doing) and lots of shade. He didn't know how long they'd been outside, but he was starting to get agitated.

He shifted uncomfortably, frowning slightly when it didn't relieve anything immediately.

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_touchless_
2011-06-24 06:20 am UTC (link)

By the time they got back to the room Kevin could hardly breathe for the panic. As soon as his wheelchair stopped he lurched awkwardly to his feet and staggered to the far corner of the room, as far from Josh and his attendants as he could get, and pressed his forehead into the wall. Shaking, he listened to the sounds of the healer trying to coach Josh through something that shouldn't even be happening to him, and tried not to think of what else might go wrong. Tried to keep the room from spinning around him and his power confined, itching and aching, beneath his skin.

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	fatedtouch 2011-06-24 06:31 am UTC (link)
	There was some soft conversation, before the healer went to see if Kevin was alright. An empath had arrived to see to Josh, and possibly Kevin as well when he was through. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-06-24 06:40 am UTC (link)
	"Stay away," Kevin ordered at the sound of someone coming near. His voice was choked and wet sounding and he was shaking almost convulsively. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fatedtouch 2011-06-24 06:41 am UTC (link)
	"You should be lying down," he replied, though he respectfully paused. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-06-24 06:45 am UTC (link)
	"No." He shook his head, forehead rocking against the wall. When he'd gotten over his panic attack and could move again - could be fucking safe, because what the fuck was up with the buzz under this skin? - he needed to go back to Josh. He couldn't like down, that would be too far away. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fatedtouch 2011-06-24 06:49 am UTC (link)
	He turned and went back to the bed, nodding to the empath. Josh it seemed took very well to emotional healing. He was blinking a little tiredly, but was otherwise passive. Which was good, because it would also help calm Kevin. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-06-24 03:49 pm UTC (link)

Kevin relaxed slightly at the sound of footsteps moving away again. At least everyone here knew better than to push him. It took another couple minutes before he could manage to turn around and look to the bed again, to Josh lying there with nurses and orderlies and healers all hovering nearby.

"...is he okay?" he asked in a whisper, attention fixed on Josh past all the others.

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	fatedtouch 2011-06-24 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	"He's resting comfortably," was the answer. "Can you tell us what happened?" asked one of the doctors. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-06-24 10:16 pm UTC (link)

Kevin limped a bit closer, pale with the strain and leaning heavily on the back of the first chair he reached, his eyes never leaving Josh. "He...he said-" His brows furrowed in thought for a moment as he tried to remember. "He said 'it's bothering me', but he didn't say what it was and then...he was staring at his hand, and he said...he said he thought he was going to throw up."

Kevin scrubbed a still shaking hand across his face, wiping away sweat and possibly some suspicious dampness around his eyes.

"I didn't think he really meant it," he whispered, his own stomach twisting and rolling. "And-" He glanced at the doctor, exhaustion, pain, worry, and flat out fear impossible to miss in everything about his posture and expression. "It looked like he went, um...like he flashed gold for a second." He dropped his head and shook it slowly, bangs falling across his eyes. "But I must have been seeing things." If his powers had done that he'd have been better, not worse, after all.

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	fatedtouch 2011-06-24 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	They looked at each other, a few brows raised. One of them left. "It's very...bothering," Josh said, slightly incoherent, and waving his free hand. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-06-24 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	Kevin looked back up at Josh's voice and pushed away from the chair to go to him, his steps uneven and awkward. "What is, Josh?" he asked, reaching for his hand even though he wasn't close enough to take it yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fatedtouch 2011-06-24 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	Josh's hand flapped around. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-06-25 12:07 am UTC (link)
	"Your hand?" Kevin asked, stumbling slightly on the last steps and leaning hard into Josh's bed for support as he grabbed his hand. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fatedtouch 2011-06-25 12:13 am UTC (link)
	"The world!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-06-25 12:45 am UTC (link)

Kevin's face crumpled, and it was all he could do not to cry. He was just...so damned sick and sore and tired and he didn't know what to do. He squeezed Josh's hand tight, chin to his chest to hide incipient tears, even though Josh probably wasn't with the program enough to notice and he didn't give a shit what anyone else saw or thought anymore.

"I'm sorry," he whispered, shaking with the effort of staying upright. "I don't...I wish I could help."

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	fatedtouch 2011-06-25 01:04 am UTC (link)
	Josh squirmed, though his right leg remained stationary. "Why is it so uncomfortable?" he asked, with annoyance. "Probably because you're spiking," replied a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, as he came to stand at Josh's bedside. "Now, Josh, we know you can't stand these, but--" "Nooooooooooo!" Josh whined. "We have to. Just for a little while," he promised. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-06-25 01:17 am UTC (link)
	"Why?" Kevin snapped, glaring at the Agent. He was too tired and wrung out himself for any kind of deference. "Why can't you just leave him alone!? He already feels bad enough." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fatedtouch
2011-06-25 01:23 am UTC (link)

"Kevin, difficult as this may be to believe, we have Josh's best interests at heart. We'd like to see him get better just as much as you. But we can't help him if we don't know everything we can about his condition." He turned back to Josh. "This isn't going to be any more uncomfortable than you are right now feeling 'the world'. You don't have control, Josh. We have to make sure you don't get hurt while your powers reassert themselves."

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	_touchless_ 2011-06-25 01:41 am UTC (link)
	"What do you mean, 'reassert themselves'?" he demanded with a disbelieving snort. "He was just...just puking his fucking guts out, if his powers were doing jack he sure wouldn't be doing that!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fatedtouch 2011-06-25 01:55 am UTC (link)
	"If his powers weren't doing something he'd probably still be in a coma." He looked over his shoulder at Kevin. "I know this is stressful, but we have to monitor as much as we can in case, God forbid, this ever happens again." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-06-25 02:59 am UTC (link)

Kevin didn't know what to do. He couldn't make anything better, but from everything he'd seen so far neither could any of the doctors or nurses or healers or Agents, and what they were doing was upsetting Josh. It made him want to just chase them all out, no matter what they said about having his best interests at heart. Still shaking, he dropped his head to the bed near Josh's hip, hand still gripping his boyfriend's tightly.

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fatedtouch
2011-06-25 03:37 am UTC (link)

"Just for two days," he bargained.

Josh looked up at him miserably. "Will it stop..." His hand waved again. "All the bothering?"

"Maybe. We'll see." He held one band up. "Can I?"

Josh sighed. Dejectedly, he nodded once.

"Thank you," the agent replied. He fastened the first band high on Josh's arm. "Just two days," he said, voice pitched to Kevin as he moved down to fasten the other about Josh's leg. "Kevin will remember for you, okay?"

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	_touchless_ 2011-06-25 03:49 am UTC (link)
	The only move Kevin made was to let go of Josh's hand when he jerked it away to wave it around again. Otherwise he leaned there, eyes closed and face pressed into the bedding. It wasn't like he could do a damned thing to help, though he did rock his head slightly in acknowledgment when he was told to keep track of the days. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fatedtouch 2011-06-25 04:05 am UTC (link)
	"There's still bothering," Josh sulked when the agent stepped away. "I'll write that down," he assured him. "Oh." "Is it gone?" "Yes." He smiled up at the agent. "Good," he replied in a cheerful tone. "We'll see how well that keeps the bothering away, okay?" Josh nodded. "You two get some rest. Kevin, do you need help up?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-06-25 04:39 am UTC (link)

He probably did. Fuck knew he couldn't get up on his own and he wasn't any kind of comfortable, all hunched over himself and the sharp ache where he wasn't quite healing after surgery. But moving sounded like more effort than he could be bothered with, and he just wanted to be near Josh.

"'m fine," he finally mumbled. "Just...shove the chair over?" Then he could just sit back into it and stay mostly where he was.