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Collette ([personal profile] whatsupcroc) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-06-07 11:05 pm

(open) days go by and still i think of you

Date & Time: June 4th - 9th
Location: Initiative Hospital
Characters: Collette & Open!
Summary: Shenanigans while ill at the hospital.
Warnings: Hospital gowns, illness, trauma, silliness.

[ June 4th-7th ]


Her fever spikes the most during her first few days in the hospital. Collette hesitated to tell anyone; there was little to do but wait it out, and she was more preoccupied with the coughing when she was awake and aware of her surroundings than she liked.

She's even abstained from using the network that often, having difficulty concentrating on the bright screen.

What she didn't expect took her, and several nurses, and any potential visitors, by surprise. When the fever ran too hot, and her delusions started edging toward frightening territory, Collette reacted.

Once, where there'd been a sick girl, there appeared a crocodile. Mouth opened, it hissed and growled at everything that moved in the room, one lash of its tail taking out the IV pole. The privacy curtain is doomed to be half torn down while Collette isn't taking charge of the reptilian brain: it was one very frightened crocodile reigning over a disheveled hospital bed.

[ June 7th-8th ]


She had the crocodile under control when she found herself having episodes of coming to while morphed golden retriever or coyote, hiding under chairs, or wandering the hall with her hospital gown trailing awkwardly between her legs.

Twice she ended up in the cafeteria. Collette really didn't quite understand how she got there.

[ June 9th: after this ]


On the 9th, the fever broke, but it wasn't something she noticed. Not after everything else that happened after she escaped to the hospital roof.

Collette was shaking from something entirely unrelated to her illness, even if the shivering could have been attributed to it. She was scared to close her eyes, scared of coughing because it left her vulnerable, tired and sick and scared all around.

This, she decides, Takes the award for royal suckage.
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[personal profile] pixieboots 2013-07-23 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
You'll be out of here in no time. [ It's something he can say with confidence, at least. She will be, if anyone ever is. ]

Those UE guys can't hide forever. You just... [ get well ] -sit back and let the rest of us do the heavy lifting this time around.
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[personal profile] crocodilesmiles 2013-07-26 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
( He's a good kid. She's not sure what kind of crazy and horrible stalks after them in Gotham, but she's liked everyone from there she's met, and she likes Dick, too. He might be the youngest Robin on her personal record, and she might have a history of unintentionally prodding at his insecurities, but he's a good,m capable kid, who sometimes needed to be a kid.

And sometimes, she guesses, he needs to feel like he is the superhero in the legacy he's all wrapped up in. She just hopes he's aware enough to know, like Jason knew, that doing it alone, or thinking he could take on a war as a whole, just wasn't possible.

She nods her head. )


Don't do anything I wouldn't do, Rob. ( She winks. ) Be as careful as you can, okay?

( Don't get killed tracking down the desperate ones. )