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Tweak says, "I <3 padded cells"

Edward (shear_innocence) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-06-13 15:38:00

Current music:	Tom Jones- "With These Hands"
Entry tags:	!dropped, day 11, edward scissorhands, kim boggs, location: gym

With These Hands
Who: Edward and Kim! And open to Kaylee later, if she wants to repair his leg for him? ^^
When: 1:00 AM, Day 11
Where: The Gym while Edward waits patiently for his leg to get reattached.
What: Reunion!
Rating: PG for now
Status: Active

Edward was a sweet, patient thing. He lay quietly, as Gambit had instructed him, with his detached leg tucked safely under his cot, for someone to come and reattach his leg, but he was well aware that it might be a while. Since he had seen what kind of shape others were in, like Watanuki (who had had a balcony come down on him), and a man with two broken arms, and another who was deliriously talking about non-parasitic Platyhelminthes due to the generous amounts of morphine distracting him from a shovel in his side. He listened to that man's soft mumbling for awhile, wondering why the inventor had never told him any of those interesting things about flatworms. They would have been scary, if they weren't so small!

Things did get dull, though. Since Edward didn't sleep, he resigned himself to simply staring at what remained of the ceiling in the gym, and the stars that were visible where sky peeked through.

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catchmedancing
2009-06-27 07:42 am UTC (link)

"Oh!" Kim said, a small smile lighting up the good side of her face (she had remembered, this time, that she couldn't move the stitches without pain, so the smile ended up as more of a smirk) as she pictured Edward being forced to sit through hours of etiquette lessons and being taught all about the fine arts, unable to leave or move. That would have been an intelligent tactic to use on her peers in university, she thought, although a bit impractical, since their legs didn't come off easily. "I'd love to hear about that some time." And really, truly, she would. If Edward was willing to tell her anything about his mysterious past, it would bring her joy. "I'm glad you're okay. And I'm fine, mostly. I'll heal. I'm not permanently broken," she assured him, squeezing his shoulder with her good hand.

She looked thoughtful when he mentioned that the suit was sometimes difficult to be mobile in, and eventually offered, "if you ever want to try wearing something else, not just over the suit, let me know. I'm sure we could find something for you." And she was glad, so glad, that Edward had found the whole experience worth it, and not traumatic, despite its awful end.

"Me, too-" she began, a bit shyly. "I--" Cut short by the young woman calling Edward, Kim turned toward her, a fleeting, incoherent pain-addled thought crossing her mind: what if Edward found someone else? What if she's--? But then, he would have had the right to do that. Kim had left, after all.

"Over here," she called, looking up at Kaylee. "Can you...can you fix him?" Kim would give anything if this woman could help Edward. It was almost terrifying, how overwhelming and how deep her feelings were for him.

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