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On the inside she was freaking out beyond all belief, she hated this so very much. It really wasn't the fact that she was being cut open that bothered her so much as the fact that she couldn't see what was going on, and the fact that very soon, basically everything from midriff down would go absolutely dead. It was a helpless feeling that she didn't enjoy.

But she was holding up well. Currently she was stomach down on one of the all too familiar examination tables in the back sections of Meta on Ingenuity. Her current focus was the feeing of cold metal agaisnt her cheek. And there was something about being stripped from waist up lying on a table face down that was absolutely nerve racking to her. "H-how long is this goign to take." Yes, she was bothred.

Robert laid a hand to her hair, petting lightly a moment before he went back to drawing clear liquid into a syringe, following it up wiht a vial of some specifically programmed nanos. Shaking the thing to mix it all up, he let it settle before makign sure no air had leaked in. "I'll try to go as fast as possible, alright?"

Oh he knew this scared her beyond belief. Had to bee hell to loose feeling to more than half your body. But had to be done though. One hand placed on her shoulder as he injected that substance into a few key points along her spine. What was it? A block, to deaden off nerves for a time and block out pain. Though nothing in it to make her drowsy or put her out, she would freak on them if he did that. "You'll be okay, I've never failed you before have I?"

He looked over his shoulder for a moment to James, who was being himself he guessed. "One more threat and you're out." He was serious about it after all. Jelena was upset enough as it was at all of this and he didn't need threats to add to the tension.

"Can we please just not try and raise our voices." Of course the cuff on her wrist that was monitoring her pulse showd that slight jump before evening back out. Oh yeah, she was freaking out on the inside.

He was taking to slipping on the standard medical ppe, gloves and what not. "Just tell me when you feel it take affect. If we have to up your dose we will." Yeah her little bouts of medication addcition made doseage hell. He was already at three times her original levels. But his attention turned to James. "I assure you, this is all going to be easy. Surely you know that."

"Okay, can't feel can we get this over with?"

"Take a few breaths and calm yourself down a moment. You're throwing your vitals." He let a few minutes lasp before his diappeared frome Jelena's line of sight, picking up a laser scapel and goign to work at slicing into flesh along her spine. One long slice to open skin then anotehr to work fast lower levels of tissues. Delicately and slowly working his way down till metal bioware was exposed. Great things about nano technology, could cut through anything then nano fuse it back with no ill affects. Though he made a grimace at first glance. Wear and tear easily visible thus far to trained eyes.

She was trying to find her happy place. Though it seemed far and out of reach. Sure, Jelena couldn't feel what was happening, but she could hear and she knew what was going on out of the line of her sight. Currently seh was focusing on her breathing, though breaths were coming and and out through her mouth rather than her nose. Funny, that cold metal she was lying on wasn't so cold anymore, rising body heat from her little freaking out warming metal.

Camp only gave James the 'step back' look as he had ventured over to have a look see himself. But the look that James had given him was pretty much dead on the mark. No wonder she was hurting. But down went the organic tools and out came the inorganic. "Jelena take a breath dear, and count backyards from ten for me."

Happy place, happy place, where was that damned happy place? Though green eyes side glanced James as he had come back to her line of vision, and he took to petting at her in that soothing manner. Hey she wasn't objecting, whatever kept her calm. Okay, take a breath. "Ten, nine, eight..." She knew why she was counting.

Why she counted his fingers took to easy work. After all it was basics, bioware front and side jointed column to allow all normal movement the natural spine had, with internal wiring cased inside. Front panels were duly popped open as well as the flexibly clear under casing that bundled wires. Though even those internal things were showing their share of damage from use. Had that done by the five mark. From that he located the main feed and went about clamping it off with specially designed hardware so that feed was killed to her brain. The result? Jelena loosing all feeling from midriff down.

"One." And with that last counted number, it was all gone. All the feeling she was used to, simply gone. Rather almost immediately her pulse jumped up, a staccato beat going. And her eyes closed, and for a moment she held her breath as she tried to push down that helpless feeling. Same old feeling from that night, an the few days that had followed.

"Jelena, you have to breath dear, stable yourself back out. You know you're fine. We're right here.

"The thought is appreciated but even I know the difference between things being asleep and this." Even when they were asleep, you still knew they were there, you could look at them and move, that tingly feeling would alert the body to wake things up. But this was just...nothing there. At any rate, her pulse wasn't going down at the moment.

She was about ready to cry, but she let her eyes flutter open and blink a few times to perhaps keep tears at bay. "And I'd rather not think about bioware right now...can we stop this now? Please?" Boy was she sounding slightly desperate.

"Jena, if you don't calm down why I do this I'm going to put you out." And he knew she hated that more than what was currently going on. But he was poking and proding around, sorting through wiring and and components, checking every possible thing. Okay he's admit, things had really gone downhill since last year. What the hell had she been doing?

A look exchanged to James and he had nodded lightly. Yup, this girl was all wrecked up. She had to of had some moments where she was in some serious pain, though he knew she probably drugged it off. But he was almost finished, just had to check a few more key areas. Hopefully Jelena wouldn't pass herself out by then.

Her eyes had instinctivly taken to following that light as he was waving it back and forth in front of her eyes, natural reactions wanting her to focus on what was in front of her. Of course James' words behind the light made an eyebrow arch as her mind was registering what the hell he was doing.

Hey anything to keep her mind occupied. After about ten minutes though he pulse did drop back into a more calm rate, though still a bit racey. Then a slight smile. "Are you trying to simulate and outer body experience for me there dear?" Still on the edge of freaking out but doing better now. It was nice to have him there for her to focus on, him and his light. Then she cringed. "Ah...Ow..."

"Sorry." Of course that had hurt her, why? Because he had been tinkering around some and that entailed messing with wires, keeping some primary ones shut off while allowing a few to get back into the mix of working order. Of couse when those got released it was a p***k of electic impulse to Jelena's brain.

"Yeah jsut what I need, trippy images. I'm surprised you'd be the one to let me have hold of those what with the fog I've been in for the last month or so. Though she had contented herself for a while in amusement of things. Hell it was nice to have her mind somewhere, she usually didn't and things were usually more hectic at this point. Though another cringe. "Ow, whatever you're doing, stop doing it..."

"It should hurt with what you have going on in here." Yup this was all going to have to redone. Eveything was practically only a few months or hard wear and tear from being shot. But soon enough he was statified and took to reversing everythign he had done, letting her bioware regain itself as he set all back where it needed to be then took to mending what he had cut with those wonderful little nanos. "That should do it Jena, don't get up right away, you remember what happened last time." And he went about monitoring her vitals for the time being.

OH yes she did, it wasn't fun. She'd practiclaly chipped teeth in that fall. "James can you get me my shirt?" Because she couldn't sit up right now either, she was jsut not getting that tingly feeling back.

Okay she'd admit it, she appreciated the help, especially seeing as sitting up wasn't the most fun task at that immediate moment at all. But composed now she had turned to lay on her hip, propped with an elbow to look at Camp. Yeah, she felt how everything down was trying to reorganize itself, so she'd lay there a bit longer and let her body aclimate again. "And go on, be horribly blunt about it."

"You want blunt and truthful? All right. Excessive wear and tear, even a bit of unnatural bending. Casings are wearing thin as well as some wires are. I don't know what the hell you've been doing but you sure know how to work your body over. Jena you're going to have to get that replaced, no if ands or buts about it." And he held up a hand to stop her protest which she had opened her mouth to give. "Don't try to fight on it. It comes down to two choices for you. Get a replacement job done, or don't walk. Hear me?"

Jelena closed her mouth as he had held up his hand and merely took on that sullen look. Well she had done it hadn't she? Had finally pushed too hard in some aspect and screwed herself over. "Loud and clear."