03 | Action & Text

[imaginationswoes]

Who: Airy & OPEN
Where: Genessia Hospital
When: March 29th - April 3rd
What: After these happenings. She's in the hospital for a few days before being allowed to head home and some text's to friends.
Warnings: Talks of Blood and injuries.

[Airy doesn't remember the first 12 hours in the hospital which saves her from at least twelve hours of boredom. She isn't good at staying put and thinking about her kidnapping makes her head spin and then hurt. She can't have caffeine or anything else she enjoys because of the medicine they have her taking and the steady stream of blood being pumped into her arm. Her ankle and shoulder are bandaged but the painkillers stop them from hurting.

The worst part about painkillers is that they make it to hard to focus on things like reading or writing but it isn't enough to just knock her out and make her sleep. She ends up playing a lot of candy crush on her phone; after sending a few somewhat awkward texts to those she knew.

Her stomach rumbles and she drops her phone onto her abdomen as if that might make the insistent feeling go away. Airy really likes eating, specifically breakfast, and while the food here isn't awful it isn't very good either. She misses real food and that fact alone makes her sad.]

Text; OPEN

I'm bored. Anyone interested in talking? Or telling me a story? Any distraction?


Private Text; Danny & Dave & Nathan

Thank you for saving me.

Private Text; Cas

Sorry... I have the candy and real, not spidery moving twinkies. Something came up... I don't know when I'll be able to stop by. I haven't forgotten though!

I'll see you soon okay?

Comments

[stairsbro]

That's hella unfortunate. Damn truck can't pull in front. That's going to make leaving in a hurry to put out those sick fires a bitch. Adds like two minutes to our time. It's all about speed. We're gonna need a bigger fort. I'll get more pillows.

[ having conversations with sleeping friends is a thing he does. he looks back over at her, frowning slightly ]

You okay?

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy mumbles something incoherently before shifting slightly.]

It's to dark...

[She repeats, her tone becoming more frantic though still in the soft tones of sleep.]

[stairsbro]

It's okay. You've got a flashlight. I mean, that's sound dream logic. Just imagine up a flashlight.

[ calm. he watches her for a long moment then looks back to the phones, putting hers down and using his to check the network a little. ]

My dreams are dark too. It happens. Just don't stay there.

This is entertaining me ><

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy mumbles again, curling her legs a little closer to her chest.]

Flashlight- [She repeats this word softly while continuing to fall into her dreams.]

it's cuuute.

[stairsbro]

And a lamp and a spotlight and the entire fucking sun blazing down on you, shining all this fucking light. You're going to need some sunglasses because this dream's going to be hella bright now.

[ he gets up, takes the clock off the wall and adjusts the time on it. ]

XD

[imaginationswoes]

...to bright...

[Airy grumbles, her tone now sounding annoyed.]

stop...

[stairsbro]

Fuck. The sun doesn't have a brightness setting, Airy. You can get a cloud in front of it.

[ he shakes his head in some sort of amusement. puts the clock back - now exact. ]

[imaginationswoes]

...stop...

[She mumbles again, her face turning to press into the pillow.]

the monkeys...

[stairsbro]

What? Stop the monkeys? 'Kay, I wasn't expecting monkeys to pop up but I guess this is like an actual normal dream happening here. Maybe they're chill monkeys. You can play cards with them. They can wear little suits. One of them is serving drinks.

[ sits back in the chair, taps his foot. ]

[imaginationswoes]

No... stop...

[Her voice is softer than before.]

[stairsbro]

No, it's okay. That one likes serving drinks. They're not monkey slaves. They get large pay checks.

[ surely that's what she wants stopped ]

[imaginationswoes]

Dave...

[Airy is still asleep but she manages to say his name as if he's being ridiculous in some way.]

[stairsbro]

Yeah, I know. That's stupid. What would monkeys do with cash? We gotta pay them in bananas.

[ he's up again for only a moment, peeking into the hallway - slipping out for a second then quickly returning to his chair with a little juice he stole off a passing cart, some rubber gloves, a medical mask. shh. ]

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy's still asleep in bed, though her arms are slowly curling around her pillow which means her head till soon fall back onto the mattress. Clearly they should allow patients two pillow or a pillow and a stuffed animal.]

Clouds...

[stairsbro]

Jade used to see the future in clouds. [ it's a quiet remark. he's busy pulling a rubber glove over his head and blowing it up with air from his nose. a nurse peeks in the room because he left the door open and scolds him for how dangerous that is. you could suffocate! and?, he replies. he yanks it off anyway. asks for extra pillows. she says she'll see what she can do and wanders off.

It takes twelve minutes, nine seconds for her to show up with them. ]

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy's pillow is now completely in her arms, her head has rolled back and she's stopped talking because of the position and is merely mumbling. Her lips are parted slightly as she's breathing through her mouth and not her nose.]

[stairsbro]

[ he has four pillows. he would've liked more but he's lucky the nurse even obliged. he's leaning over airy, trying to carefully slip one under her head without shifting her awake. quietly mumbling ]

Airy, rotate. Gotta get some neck support in here. Maximum fluff.

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy mumbles but doesn't move. Her head is light though so as he pushes the pillow beneath her it begins to slip on it's own. Her head rocks slightly and she begins to stir.]

[stairsbro]

[ gets one pillow under her head, leans across her - using a hand on the edge of the bed to balance himself to tucks another pillow near the other side so if she rolls over, she's still on a pillow. - tries to slip a third on under her head now ]

Shhhhhhiiiiiit. Pillow jenga. Don't knock Airy awake.

[imaginationswoes]

[CONGRATULATIONS-ISH!

Airy doesn't wake up as Dave moves the pillows around. What does wake her up is Dave talking as he's trying to slip the last pillow beneath her head. Airy freezes as sleepy eyes blink up at him.]

Dave? What are you doing?

[stairsbro]

[ curse his inability to let silence fill a room. he freezes ]

Uh. [ what does this look like? he's got an arm reached across her, with a hand gripping the edge of a pillow. he's leaning over, so he's pretty close to her face with his fair freckled currently starting to turn red face because wow why did she have to wake up this second ]

Tucking you in. This is awkward.

[imaginationswoes]

[Her cheeks flush a bright rosy red as she looks up at him. Airy doesn't move, she isn't sure when she can move without making this more awkward so she's going to just stay still.]

Yeah... a little.

[She can smell his breath which isn't bad or anything but that feels like a weird thing to smell or maybe a weird thing to notice.]

[stairsbro]

[ he should move. he should definely move. he's sort of freaking out and not doing that as fast as he wants to. ]

Sleep okay? I mean, not that this is the position I should be engaging in small talk with you in. Let me move. Just - yeah. [ he straightens himself out, plops back down in the chair with a sigh. everything's still cool. ]

Got more pillows.

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy swallows feeling the heat in her cheeks rise. When he moves she exhales a slow breath though the flustering red to her face doesn't seem to want to fade. This is really embarrassing and she's hooked up to a heart monitor. What's that sound? It's just her heart about to jump out of her rib cage.]

Yeah, I was sleeping fine. [Sort of, she had a pretty weird nightmare like dream but she doesn't really want to talk about it.]

Thank you for the pillows. Pillows are great.

[Airy really hates it when she gets like this.]

[stairsbro]

[ dave's attention seems to be on the heart monitor instead of airy's face. he's not really sure he wants to look - spare her any embarrassment and further mask his own. he was way too close. he hopes that didn't come off as creepy. she'd probably be too nice to say. ]

Yeah, you're welcome. Pillows are pretty rad. Comfortable and capable of being used to build forts.

[ he goes quiet, takes one of the phones and uses it to record the heart monitor beeping to the sound of their mutual awkwardness about him momentarily being close enough to notice little flecks in her eyes of color. ]

That's a pretty sweet beat. [ get it. because it's a beat.... ]