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Kaori had her head bowed, teeth clenched together tightly and her eyes locked shut. She nearly jumped out of her skin as someone grabbed her hands. Her eyes shot open again as she stared for a moment at the girl now before her. She swallowed hard, slowly taking in the woman's words. "I-I...!" she began, but quickly bowed her head, swallowing again as she tried to recover herself.

After a short while, she opened her mouth again. "M-my friend has been h-hurt and his robot said he o-only had three hours left b-but I couldn't find anyone to h-help!" she finally managed to gasp out. Her tail had curled tightly around her waist and her face was still covered in rapidly falling tears. "I-I don't know wh-what to do!" she wailed. "Th-there's poison in h-him!"

"Calm down miss, I can probably help but I need you to show me where he is." Celestial gently let some of her healing magic creep down her arms, lighting them a nice purple. It rushed from her fingertips into the girl, sending waves of calm and comfort her way.

She really is shaken. I can probably fix whoever he or she is in three hours, or at least steer them from the fatal problem. I'll need something to boost my powers slightly depending on how bad it is though. I need an energy drink...

Quickly, Celeste snapped herself back to reality and smiled at the girl. She carefully turned them around and stated walking down the hallway slowly, waiting for an indication of a room.

"Just point the room out to me and I'll do all I can to help. I can't promise anything, but we can try getting that poison out of their body... is it a boy or a girl? And I would like a name.."

She didn't want to rush too many explanations out of the obviously panicked girl, but she needed to know these things if she was going to help her friend.

"Oh wait, I don't even know you." Celestial smiled gently at the girl as they walked down the hallway, hoping for some answers.

Celeste smiled at the frightened girl and reached for the door handle with one ungloved elegant hand. The door handle was only turned halfway before Celestial froze.

"His name is... Shepard Miranda"

Shepard? Like Gordon's...? She had been supposed to help! s**t. Mentally Celestial kicked herself and regained her calmness.

"Welcome Kaori," Celeste said with a gracious smile, "I've been here over a year, it's an amazing place. I hope you come to like it."

Celeste tucked a free strand of ebony hair behind one ear nervously. Her Violet eyes sparkled unnaturally as she carefully opened the door. A flood of screams flew through the air, catching her unbraced.

As a reflex, Celestial sent a silencing spell around the room, everything went quiet, the headache that had began to pound in her ears quieted down.

A bottle of energy drink mixed with magic booster and asprin appeared in her hand. Celeste down it fully in one go before she set it in the garbadge and came to inspect Sherpard.

Celestial got down on her knees beside his bed and went through the usual routine, check pulse, heart rate, difficulty in breathing... Before she even dared examine him with her magic. Her body settled down, her nerves relaxed and her energy tripled.

Smiling gratefully, she ended the silencing spell and placed three cool fingertips on the man's forehead. Her white magic spiraled down her arm and dove into his body. She grimaced at what she found. It would be pretty simple to remove, but consisted in a lot more pain then was necessary. A extra kick for the unexperienced healer trying to deal with Shepard's illness.

Sighing, Celeste pulled back and wiped her hands on a nearby towel, sending out a mind com to a nurse in the vicinity.

I need a sterilized needle, a clean roll of bandages and a needle. As well as 30 mg of number 482

"That should do it." Celeste turned to smile at Kaori. "I'm just waiting for some supplies then I'll get started."

((I'm going to bed, I will continue tomorrow))

A knock on the door floated into the now silent room. A creak represented the wood opening onto a doctor pushing a tray infront of him. On it lay everything Celeste had asked for. The doctor was quite handsome with sandy blond hair and large sensitive green eyes. He looked concerned as he saw the struggling man on the hospital bed.

"Celeste..." the man said in a pleasent baritone, "This looks bad, do you need help? I'm free for the moment..." Celeste smile gratefully at the man but shook her white-capped head gently.

"No, I think I can handle it Doctor Smith." She nodded once at the Doctor and smiled as he left and closed the heavy door. She sighed then, her face losing it's cheerfulness. Celeste looked everything over then began to prepare the needle.

Jabbing through the top of the bottle of medicine, she flipped it over and carefully removed the exact right amount of liquid. Laying it down on the blanketed tray, she switched to the sterilizing packet, putting some alcohol on a cotton wad.

Marching over to the man, she slipped his shirt sleeve up over his elbow and tyed a string around his upper arm. She then swabbed at his vein with the cotton ball and carefully inspected it, making sure it was all sterilized.

She threw the cotton away then gingerly picked up the needle and returned to the side of the bed. Carefully she laid a holding spell on him, still Shepard. She removed the string, placed the needle and pushed. Normally you only increased the circulation when you took blood samples.. but this chemical needed it.

After pushing all the liquid into his arm, she removed the holding spell, deosited the needle and once more sterilized his arm. After a quick cleanup she set and alarm.

"Now we wait 5 minutes for it to spread, it'll push the poison to one part of his body, then I have to act rapidly or that body part will die completely. I just have to p***k him on that body part and suck out the poison. I already have an impresive immunity to this poison, I have immunity to most things. This way he gets healed and I don't have to experience the pain of the normal way of withdrawing the poison."

((Holy splinter-toed spazzmice Batman, I got busier with my graduation than I had though. O.x Sorry for not roleplaying despite Effla's summer job - simply havn't had the time or energy to write any decent stuff. I'll try to make this sensible IC.. Somehow.. >.>))

Effla, a brown-locked elven girl, now stood at the main enterance of the Hospital. She certainly wasn't a familiar sight there - the only time she had been to the building was when she had signed in for her internship. Since then she had been next to impossible to find, had anyone gone looking for her.

In addition to the rareness of the event, Effla could gather looks for her temporarily odd appearence. Despite her elven heritage and long, pointed ears, she usually looked like a delicately built human girl. Now her brown hair had bits of wines and moss clung to it - looking almost as if they had grown in it rather than random trash. The right side of her face had something in it that looked like an irregular, green tattoo that spread to her pointed ear and neck and dissapeared under her shirt. Her deep green, plain tunic and dress of similar colour however seem clean. Her bare, greenish toes peeked under her skirt, along with the tips of her sandals.

The elf had an odd expression on her face, mostly because only the normal-coloured half of it showed any emotion and had a fully open eye. She added and awkward smile and a blush on the normal half as she walked to the place where she had been advised to wait for patients earlier, the front desk near the main enterance.

But you're ok... right?

Alyssa's dust colored eyes settled on the oxygen machine that was keeping Hiro's breathing at a regular pace incase he could not breathe on his own just yet; she finally realized how much damage she had done to him. If they hadn't stopped Alyssa would have killed him with another wave of telekinetic energy; it scared her some to think about it too.

"Yes..yes I'm fine. Now, rest up Hiro." She tugged on one of her braids uneasily after Celeste left to help another young lady whom seemed to be screaming; what the hell was going on? Alyssa couldn't help Hiro really if he needed it while she was away, but it looked like it was up to her to make sure Hiro kept healthy.

She turned back over in her hospital bed and stared down at the blood stained sheets with a soft glare. The red substance of her posession was dry enough for it to fall off; some of it at least. Sheepishly, Alyssa began picking off the dried blood, and let it fall into small heaps onto the floor.

She would wave her hand, and the particles would fly out the window obediently, but she had a weird sense of paranoia about her; Alyssa didn't like the though of Hiro's blood being on her bed like she would normally like...she was freaked. "Don't feel guilty Hiro..I did this on my own," she whispered, fiddling with the fine cloth that covered her bandaged legs and naked lower half. Alyssa had slipped off her jean skirt within that moment of silence between she and Hiro; it felt nice in an akward way.

The thought of Hiro being in the bed next to her with her skirt lying next to her beneath the cloth that kept the real damage that was done to her a secret; Alyssa had no intention of telling Hiro how badly she had gotten injured. He was worse off, and ALyssa was not one to complain about damage done to her; her mother taught her at least that much.

A pink tint rose to her cheeks as she thought more so into the idea; how could she think of something like that right now..? Her eyes shifted from the bed to Hiro, then over to the opened window where she noticed a small bluebird resting on the sill.

Alyssa hissed loudly, causing the bird to topple off the window and fly off into the sun. She giggled hatefully and spat onto the ground; the sun disgusted her in more ways than one. For some reason, birds never sparked her intrest either. They were annoying to Alyssa and couldn't seem to make any sort of decent music; that was her opinion at least.

She dragged her attention away from the sill and back to Hiro whom was looking up at her through his oxygen mask. "What are you staring at?" Alyssa asked quietly, her hand running down her braid cautiously; what was he thinking exactly? For once, she wasn't going to read his mind about anything; Alyssa was still to tired to use much of any energy right now.

Hiro had closed his eyes again as he focused on breathing. He'd never set foot in a place like this before. Where he came from, this type of machine didn't even exist, so he was very greatful for it now. His home was so... primitive compared to here. Maybe he and Yuki could return someday and show the occupants some of the wonderful things they were missing out on. With the constant fighting, an up to date hospital would be just the thing.

"Yes..yes I'm fine. Now, rest up Hiro."

He paused his thoughts of home as he heard Alyssa's voice in his head and he very slowly nodded, but was somewhat afraid that if he moved too much, something would mess up. He was definitely afraid to move his arm, having seen the needle in it when he'd glanced around earlier. He shivered slightly at the realization and winced as the movement hurt his injured wings. It was kind of funny, how something simply like a needle could make him so uneasy, yet he just shrugged off the fact his wings were currently destroyed and ribs had been broken.

"Don't feel guilty Hiro..I did this on my own."

He frowned slightly as he heard this, but was unwilling to disagree right now. He knew she could read his thoughts if he ranted mentally, so he settled for shrugging the thought away, but not before he'd responded with, You don't feel guilty either then. It was... both of us. He exhaled softly again, his eyes still closed as he just laid there on the bed. He was feeling rather helpless, to anxious to move.

He smiled faintly and glanced over at her as he heard her hiss. Then he blinked, shaking his head very gently. "Wh-why are you... chasing off harmless birds?" he asked with a small, weak chuckle.