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Tweak says, "i has a bwendon"

Selene (bulletsandblood) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-08-27 10:07:00

Entry tags:

!dropped, day 20, leonard mccoy, location: gym, selene

Who: Selene and OTA [Is there a doctor in the house?]
What: Vampires are not the types you send looking for medicine.
Where: The gym, clinic area.
When: Day 20 - Early Evening, around 6pm.
Rating: PG-13.
Status: Complete.

She couldn't believe she was doing this. It wasn't her fault Gambit had gotten sick. If he was sick he was that way before he came to her, all cut up and bleeding and practically begging to be a snack. And she certainly hadn't tasted any sickness... although, she was admittedly more distracted by the rather potent kick his blood had to it. That boy may have been mortal but he wasn't human, not in the traditional sense. Human blood didn't taste like that. Even now she could feel the heat flowing through her veins.

So by her count it wasn't her fault he was sick, but she certainly didn't want him to become fatally ill either. After all, if she wanted him dead she would have taken care of that this morning. She didn't particularly care for the note either -- great, how many more people were going to find out what she was? -- but at least it wasn't as gruff and demanding as it could have been.

As she had no way of knowing if any of the tunnels might take her to the gym, Selene reluctantly returned to the church. She did take the opportunity though to replace the chest atop the door. A quick check of her map in the dying light had her groaning. The gym was clear across town. Of course it was. Rolling her eyes, the vampire threw open the door and paid the birds no mind as she sprinted her way to the gym. She arrived no worse for wear, though once she stopped so she could open the door a few birds tried to attack her. A swat of her arm sent them in the opposite direction and she ducked inside, pulling the door shut as a few more thudded against it. And now, the hard part.

Hair was pushed out of her face as she strode over to the area that clearly served as the clinic, eyes skimming the area though she didn't know a thing about medicine. "Alright. Who's a doctor?" she snapped, tone a little harsh. She wanted to get this over with. And never mind those few smears of blood on her coat and bodysuit, it wasn't her blood.

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justmybones
2009-08-28 04:57 am UTC (link)

So, she was glaring; McCoy was used to that, he'd had a wife after all. In fact, his wife used to put her hands on her hips, too right when she thought he was being particularly difficult. You women, all the same, weren't you?

"Well, I can't say I'm in anybody is in much of a condition to get to him, especially with those birds out there," he replied shaking hsi head a little. "I've seen some impossible things; but dive bombing birds? Not something I'd think was as painful as it turned out to be." He was rolling his eyes, ignoring the pain in the slice above his left eyebrow as he did so.

"I doubt he's caught anything that would kill him overnight; or else we'd all be sick with it." Let's face it, in most cases the most fatal of diseases were also the most communicative. Judging by the fact there hadn't been a massive outcry for medical care lead the good doctor to assume that this friend probably just had the sniffles.

"Wasn't fine, but you didn't think he was sick?" That seemed like an odd way to think of things, so the physician sort of repeated her odd sounding statement right back to her. Did that make sense to you, Selene?

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-28 06:22 am UTC (link)

"Sometimes the small things can be the most painful." she almost absently remarked. They were usually the most annoying, at least.

His phrasing made her stiffen for the briefest of moments. Oh god, she hadn't accidentally turned him, had she? No... no, that couldn't be. She hadn't taken enough for that, nor had she shared so much as a drop of her own blood. Really, she wasn't so sure he could be turned, since he wasn't a normal sort of human. But it wasn't something she wanted to test. "I suppose that's true..." This doctor would certainly know better than she would. When her words were parroted back to her she had to bite back a sigh. She couldn't very well say Gambit had been lightheaded and weak because she drank his blood. Blood... hm. Her gaze briefly went to that cut she could see above McCoy's brow; it might not have been bleeding but it wouldn't take much. Selene closed her eyes a moment and mentally shook herself. Focus. "I haven't exactly dealt with a lot of sick people over my lifetime so I'm not really quick to classify people as such. And since the birds seemed to have pecked him apart rather well I assumed that was the cause for his weakness." There, truth! Even if it wasn't the whole truth, but close enough. This whole situation was really starting to frustrate her.

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justmybones
2009-08-29 11:10 pm UTC (link)

"You have that right," Bones responded, putting his hands on his hips.

"Well, if it's just pecking there really isn't much I can do to help. Just get the wounds cleaned up so they don't get infected. Though, Being gouged a bit shouldn't really make a person all that weak, at least not for long." Hazel eyes looked over across the gym. There were plenty of people in here who'd been pecked today, and most of them seemed not so much worse for wear; not that he'd point that out to Selene or anything.

"Anything else I can help you with?" His brow rose and fell with the question. She looked fine, and since he'd already said he was a physician, she probably wouldn't have too much further use for him.

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-30 12:04 am UTC (link)

The vampire sighed and tried her best not to seem too annoyed. This whole situation was making her frustrated and she just wanted it over with. "Yes, well, trust me, he's lost a fair bit of blood so it's no surprise that he's weak." And she again mentally chastised herself for not having the presence of mind to take into account bloodloss from the birds' wounds. "Look, just show me where the antibiotics are and I'll be out of your way." Because surely there couldn't be that big a difference between one pill and the next, was there?

Selene was already turning away, walking over to where he had gestured in the first place, and she made a brief face as she glanced over things. How horrible, to have to worry about sickness all the time. She paused to pull out her journal, jotting a quick note to whomever it was that had written her, and she frowned at the reply she got back. "Oh, what the hell... fluid in his lungs?" she muttered to herself, brow furrowed deeply in confusion. All this medical nonsense was completely over her head. One of those in her coven that ran the experiments on the lycans they captured and killed, they'd know what these people were talking about.

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justmybones
2009-08-30 12:16 am UTC (link)

"How'd he manage to do that?" Well, now you had him interested. "What'd they do, scratch up every inch of him?" Then she was already turning away, headed in the direction of the clinic's medical supplies.

There were bandages and bottles strewn all about. The bottles were labeled quite nicely; though, it was unlikely that any of the names would mean anything to Selene. Bones just crossed his arms. "You can't be serious." He leaned against the would-be exam table between them, propping himself up on his elbows. Then he heard her mutter something that sounded conspicuously like 'fluid in his lungs' which made the doctor's brow raise. "Fluid in his lungs?" He asked, sounding concerned. "That friend of yours?"

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-30 01:14 am UTC (link)

"Pretty much, actually. Looked more like a wild beast got to him than a bunch of birds." she absently replied. There wasn't a chance in hell she was going to mention biting Gambit and drinking his blood. Far too many people in this place knew what she was already.

Brown eyes looked up from the pages when she was questioned, not having realized she spoke loud enough to be heard. "Apparently. His friend says he's got..." Selene paused to glance down at the words again, searching her mind for the right pronunciation. "Pneumonia. Isn't that like the flu or something?" If she only knew how obvious she was making it that this was an area she knew next to nothing about.

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justmybones
2009-08-31 01:45 am UTC (link)

Lips pursed and brow rose and the physician was trying to determine what to make of that statement. "Can't say I've heard of too many 'wild beast' attacks." This woman felt too prickly to be truthful, and that left Bones uncomfortable. It left him to wonder why she wouldn't be straight about something. He didn't like when people weren't quite up front - perhaps it had something to do with years of being a doctor and having people either cover up symptoms or make them out to be worse than they were- all it amounted to was more work for him as he tried to figure things out.

"Pneumonia? He's seen a doctor then?" Last thing Bones wanted to hear was a common cold being called pneumonia. "It's not the flu. It can start at the flu; it's more a severe chest infection where liquid drains into the lungs causing difficulty breathing."

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bulletsandblood
2009-08-31 04:47 am UTC (link)

Selene shrugged, looking confused yet irritated about the whole situation. "I've no idea, there's so many people around this place calling themselves doctors. Perhaps there's one staying at the museum, that was the last place I saw him." Well, under the museum, but that really wasn't important. She assumed that was where Gambit still was. God, she hoped he was still there. She really didn't feel like running all over this place avoiding birds just to take him some medicine.

As he explained what it was her brow furrowed, and she again thought back to earlier in the day when she had been with Gambit. "Sounds painful." She absently remembered the boy rubbing at his chest a few times, but she hadn't particularly thought anything of it. After all, the wounds from the birds were everywhere, surely they had to itch or otherwise be uncomfortable.

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