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"well then." he got up and went to a cabinet in the other corner opening it and pulling out some old blankets.

"Not enough for all, but we have one for both you ladies." Gallen took his jacket and laid it on top of Howie, "Their and something for him." Gallen wanted to be polite to the young women, thus giving them first dibs on the blankets their office stored incase any of the radio personalities pulled an all nighter. So not to seem like a jerk to Jess's, he guessed Boyfriend, Gallen decided to let the young man use his jacket as a blanket. Gallen sat down in his chair.

"Well if you need anything don't hesitate to ask. Oh yeah I should let the dynamic duo know we have company, I'll be back in two shakes." he got up and left the room heading back to where the studio was.

"The Dynamic Duo," Jess copied, finding his name for his friends amusing. Taking the blanket from Gallen, she thankfully wrapped it around her, burying herself in its warmth.

A far-off smile flickered across her eyes. It was her old passion, her obsession. A young boy's face flickered across her unseeing eyes, giving her feelings unfelt in quite some time, yet felt so often. Her, right where she was and the circumstance reminded her of a certain time - a time with memories of snow, cold... a power-outage. He gave her his only warmth; his blanket. She was lost in memory once again, and slowly lulling herself into a sleepy daze.

Jessica snapped all-too quickly from her daydream, looking around the room. For a moment she seemed to question where she was, how she got there, and who she was with. But soon the memory was regained and she handed Dai the supplies she requested. For everyone's sake, she hoped Howie was asleep or under enough to not feel anything.

"Sorry, Howie," she murmured for various reasons.

Jessica was reacting in a similar way that Gallen was acting, but not as extreme. She wasn't too horrified of blood, but it was still freaky that Howie's head was seeping pus and other less than savory things. She looked over to Gallen with an understanding half-smile, and nodded that he should go get some coffee.
Returning her gaze to the 'operation' she forced herself to not look directly at the wound, no matter how morbidly curious she was.

At the time the needle was pulled out, Jessica scooted quickly away. She was -deathly- afraid of needles, even the sight of them made her cringe. A freaky smiled crossed her face, insanity slowly seeping from her guarded visage. But all signs of craziness were very quickly suppressed; she had already gone overboard once tonight, that was more than enough.

"I... uh... I'm not cut out for that sort of work." Jessica replied a little too quickly after Dai ask her about being a medicine person. Heck, she would kill more patients than helping them. Most of them would end up being stabbed by something; the rest would run out screaming that she was insane.

((She'll only kill you if you make her angry of if someone makes her angry. Even then its not likely she'll be able to get something sharp. ninja ))

Howie was awake, but he seemed quite happy to let Dai go on poking him with various implements. Every once in a while, he muttered something unintelligable and stirred, but otherwise he was drifting off somewhere in a distant la-la land. Yeah, he felt the pain, but he dealt with pain all the time. It was nothing big.

When she was done, he turned his head experimentally (or perhaps stupidly). A muddled swear escaped his mouth in a kind of dull, detatched tone, but it didn't stop him from getting in a last word before his inevitable trip to unconciousness. "'M a charmer, 'oo. Whan... whan... 'snot so fuzzz..." With that brilliant statement, he slid into a heavy sleep.

((Howie: I'm not a gang member, I'm a free agent!

Hehe, however youse guys wants to do it is fine. You'll have trouble hanging onto Howie, though. He doesn't do 'friends' so well ^^; ))