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 Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:11 pm
Maia knelt by Lori. She took his free hand and muttered a soft thank you. She stayed there for a few moments, trying to grasp all of this.
She stood then, shakily and looked Toby over. A lump in her throat formed, and she swallowed. This wasn't a nightmare. This was real, and Toby wasn't--why wasn't--"He isn't healing?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:17 pm
Lori gave no reaction. He was concentrating too hard, doing too much.
"He's stopped bleeding," Dari responded quickly, "He just isn't-- It's not healing like it should, and we don't know why. I expected him to just stand back up and be fine but he's been getting worse--" He was rambling. "The woman is good, she's... they took okay care of her, but we had to--"
Lori shook his head and Dari bit his lip, which looked odd on an otherwise emotionless face. A bit shiny, maybe?
Suddenly Lori fell back, smacking his head hard against the stand of some monitor. The nurses rushed over. Dari instinctively pulled his ring off of the string and pulled it on. His face was red. His eyes were wet. He had been crying. Tears still lay on his cheeks. He snuffled and helped the nurses lift Lori, all three of them, onto the stretcher Toby had arrived on and rushed him out.
"I should call Luca," Dari said, rubbing his nose and snuffling again. he took out his phone, but then he just stood there staring at it. His back was to Toby, and he was afraid to turn around.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:31 pm
Maia went over to Dari. She took his phone from him gently and wrapped her arms around him. Toby'd always been fine, he'd always said he'd been fine; her words to Dari earlier had been horrible. They both loved Toby. "I'll call Luca," She said. She swallowed again, turning to dial Luca's number.
She explained what'd happened to Luca, and it seemed he'd left his phone. He'd gone silent and there was a ceramic crash as something fell--or was thrown?
There was a pause and a shuffling announced Luca's return. "On my way."
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:38 pm
Dari accepted the hug and fought back a sob. It'd be okay. It'd be fine. Werewolves were extremely difficult to kill, right? Toby always said so. He stood then and turned to hold Toby's hand in the stead of Lori, wishing he had some sort of magic power to make this all better. He was just a sack of slime. Just a gelatinous sack of nothing in a human skin.
He heard the crash. Heard Luca's voice.
"Lori's going to be pissed," he said with a little laugh. Lori, who had leaped up onto the stretcher and immediately started trying to heal the bare-chested werewolf, regardless of his wounds. Dari put a finger to his lips and just watched.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:46 pm
"Luca needs to be here," Maia said, glancing at Dari. "And that's why I did it. He can't be mad at me." Not while her boyfriend was in this state. She took one of Dari's hands, and moved a chair next to Toby's bed with her free one, sitting there. She took his hand and held it.
"Get a chair," she said, letting go of Dari. "Sit with me."
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:01 pm
Dari stood and ran from the room as if Toby might choose to expire as soon as he left. He took a chair from the nurse's station and slid in beside Maia. He leaned over and rested his cheek on Toby's bed. He stroked Toby's spidery cheek and snuffled. For a long time he didn't say anything. The silence grew.
"...he did it for me."
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:05 pm
Maia had gotten used to the silence; when Dari spoke, she looked up, almost startled. She wiped at her eyes. "What?" She asked. "Dari, what happened?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:13 pm
"The original information was two hunters and the entity. We found their old camp, but it was abandoned. We kept looking. They'd called their friends? We found them at an old farm. The entity was shot, so we couldn't just hold back. We were all sure she'd be dead. There were... ssssseven. Eight. ...seven or eight. They didn't want to talk. They wanted to shoot. We had to kill a few of them. We had to wipe the others, I, uh... They." He paused. Tears were falling again. he was looking to the side as if thinking, but wasn't he eidetic?
"One of them came out of a side door. Double-barrel. He shoved me out of the way, and the second barrel hit. Right here." He motioned to a space nearly chest and nearly gut at the same time. "The arm started healing." He lifted the arm Maia was holding the hand of to show the clean gauze wrappings. "The other one started but didn't keep going. He fainted while we were wiping them."
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:26 pm
Maia turned her chair slightly, releasing Toby's hand to wrap her arms around Dari. She held him tightly. "That sounds like him," she sniffed.
But why had he stopped healing? Was one of the bullets silver? She'd never figured out if that was myth or reality. She hadn't let go of Dari. That lump had jumped back into her throat, making it difficult to speak. She swallowed painfully, trying to rid herself of it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:32 pm
Dari turned and wrapped his arms around Maia, cradling her head with one of his hands. He shook his head and simply enjoyed the embrace for a while. The hospital would be buzzing. The agents would be asking questions. The staff would find out eventually. It was all a huge ********, and worst of all they may lose Toby. Somehow. For some reason. Nobody was sure. His body had already rejected the shot in his arm, but the metal still lay in his chest. Something had halted the healing process, and it was... a mess. Truly a mess. Maia was lucky to not have seen him with the wound exposed. The poor thing might have fainted.
"He can still breathe, though. That's good. He's got at least one good lung. And his heart's beating. It must have missed his heart." So then why was he still suffering?
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:50 pm
Maia looked up at a noise outside the hospital area. "I think Luca's here," She muttered. She wiped at her eyes, looking back at Toby. "Yeah. Thank God for that." There was still a chance they could save him. It seemed so small. He wasn't healing. She'd witnessed his self healing abilities first hand.
She leaned over Toby's bed, whispering. "I don't know if you can hear me," she began. "But I love you. I love you. I love you and you're going to get better. You have to." She couldn't lose him. It was selfish, that thought. Just seeing him like this, so pale, made her heart feel like it'd burst.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:56 pm
Right. Luca. Dari looked to the door, then to Toby, then back to the door. He was the special agent here. He had to stay calm. One last snuffle and he stood.
"I'll be right back." He kissed Maia's hair briefly and headed out of the hospital suite and toward the parking lot. He wasn't bleeding, he didn't have any blood on him, no. He could go get Luca no problem.
The alien returned several minutes later with Luca in tow. He had already explained the situation.
"To the left there. Toby's on the right. The entity--" Luca didn't care about the entity. "He might still be unconscious, but he should be fine."
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:04 pm
Luca didn't say much; he thanked Dari and went to the left. He put the flowers he'd brought on the bedside table and sighed. He didn't blame Lori. Toby was one of his greatest friends, of course he was going to try his best to help him.
"Love?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:10 pm
"Mm."
Lori couldn't move very well. He raised a sluggish hand about an inch or two in greeting. He was hooked up to oxygen, little tubes in his nose, and a saline drip for the sake of fluid retention.
"He's dying."
Not necessarily the best way to start a conversation, but he was still a little woozy. This was no cold.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:16 pm
Luca swallowed. Well. That was...that was... A tear ran down Luca's cheek and he went to take Lori's hand. "We won't let him," he said. He couldn't. For ******** sake, the guy was a werewolf. What could even do this to one?
"Maia called me." He leaned over and kissed Lori's cheek.
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