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 Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:52 pm
Dari smiled and let his head relax on his neck.
"Thank you. That means a lot." His own views on religion differed as well, but that didn't make it mean any less that Cody's parents and their church would be praying specifically for his brother. "I am. I really am." Just performing some amateur silver-dialysis. "Maia's with me, Lori's been in and out... it looks like everything's going to be okay. It was scary at the beginning. We almost lost him. You know he took the bullet for me?" Well, the buckshot, but you didn't come back from shotgun wounds.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:02 pm
"Did he?" Cody was stunned. Toby had sacrificed his own life to save his brother. Well; maybe that was typical of siblings, he honestly didn't know; but Toby was definitely a great guy. "I'm glad he's doing better," he said.
"When can I see you?" he asked. He needed to see Dari. To see for himself that Dari was physically and emotionally alright.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:05 pm
"Mmhm. He got one in the arm, and one in the trunk." He smiled over to Toby, whose monitors were all beeping with perfect rhythm. He knew Michael was in there somewhere, probably half-dormant and as bored as he was, but definitely helping.
"Um. Well." He was still rather firmly affixed to Toby's circulatory system. "It should only be a few days? Once he's awake more--" at all "--I wouldn't mind a day out. It's sort of monotonous here."
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:10 pm
A few days. Alright. "And you have your phone back," He said, "so I can call you? You'll give me updates? I'm worried about you guys." How was Maia holding up? He couldn't imagine how'd he'd be, if it were Dari in the hospital. But. If it had been, he was fairly sure he'd be knocking on whatever door he was behind. Secret agent hospital or not.
"We'll go camping. I'm on spring break next week."
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:12 pm
"Yup! It turns out I can't legally Facetime in here, federal building and all. I miss you. I miss your face too," Dari said, grinning. "That sounds good. I feel like he's going to yell at me to get out more when he's not so doped-up, too."
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:16 pm
Cody groaned. "I really hate your job," he muttered. He couldn't see his boyfriend, who'd just had a traumatic experience with the near loss of his brother, and he couldn't face time him. "I miss you, too." Everything about him.
"Sounds like him," he said. Always looking out for Dari. Damn good guy.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:19 pm
"I know, I know, it's a lot of red tape," Dari said. It was more that Cody could have understood at this time. "I'm worth it, though, right? And yeah, of course. I would rather it have been me, but at the same time I'm glad it wasn't."
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:37 pm
"Of course," Cody said, smiling into his phone. "Baby, even if you worked at the circus, I'd still want to be there for you." It killed him, that he couldn't be. Stupid secretive government!
"If it'd been you, make no mistake. I would've hacked every fbi thing possible until I found where you were. Then they'd have to let me in to see you."
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:43 pm
Dari laughed. What a shock Cody would be in for! Poor Cody. It still was a beautiful sentiment, though.
"I know. The same goes for me, if you have secret teachers' union hospitals." He sighed. "Soon. Soon I can come see you, and it'll be sweet. 'Sweet as a summer night without a breath.'" Did Cody know Shakespeare? A lot of larned folk did, but he wasn't an English teacher. It didn't matter. "I love you, and I miss you. I'm going to kiss you 'til we're both blue."
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:02 pm
"We do," Cody said. "We have secret teacher meetings too, and we spend long hours pretending to be cleaning our classrooms when we're really plotting to take over the world by corrupting the young."
He paused. "Are you quoting Shakespeare at me?" he asked. "I love you so much. Take care of yourself and update me whenever you can."
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:10 pm
Oh, and there were people everywhere that would believe him! How sad the world could be. Dari shook his head, still grinning.
"Oh, don't worry, the Feds know all about those meetings," he said, and then nodded, "I am! Yes. Yes, I am. I love you too! You can call tonight if you want, after work. I'm assuming I caught you on break or...?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:46 am
"I'm on lunch," Cody supplied. He had another twenty minutes before class was going to start, but he really ought to prepare, he supposed. "I'll call you tonight." He wanted to hold Dari right then. To declare love. "I hate saying goodbye," he added, aloud, and sighed. "Darling, just know I'm here for you if you need someone to talk to.I'll let you go. Talk to you tonight."
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:51 am
Dari nodded reflexively.
"Alright. I look forward to it," he said, "I love you. Talk to you later."
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:01 am
It was only one more day, and in the evening the veining was gone. The doctors drew a vial of blood and found no erroneous silver molecules and declared the procedure a success. Michael fled without a word and Lori came to help heal the remaining wounds before Dari completely detached and a new syringe was drawn up. Toby was breathing easily on his own now and his heart maintained a steady pace even without the presence of the specter.
The doctor injected the clear fluid and in seconds Toby's eyes fluttered open. He reached up to rub an eye, and was then given the usual test. Who are you? Where are you? What year is it? He followed up by asking the date and simply nodded when he found out he had lost a full three days.
He smiled over to Dari, who was stroking his hair, and then to Lori, and then seemed to notice Maia and reached out for her. The color was already returning to his face.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:11 am
Maia went to Toby's side, her eyes wet. "Hi, love," She muttered, moving to kiss his cheek. She was so relieved, so happy. She didn't know how to express it. He was alright. The silver was gone, and he was alive.
She was so, so grateful to Michael and Dari.
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