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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.
crocodilesmiles: (☇ smile and duck down your head)

[personal profile] crocodilesmiles 2013-08-01 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"No. Just relevant all over again," she said, plucking at the blanket and glancing toward the IV drip line that was definitely no longer in her arm. The nurses would eventually be brave enough to re-enter.

Probably.

"Make sure if you and your beetle friend get sick, you take care of it, okay? No brave face, just pull through it stuff."
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[personal profile] khajidont 2013-08-02 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd be a pretty big hypocrite doing that and still volunteering here. I've given the you're hurting people other than yourself maybe ten times already today," Jaime said, rising to his feet.

It was true, too. People who just decided to power through it endangered more than themselves. That was just one way to spread the virus around, after all, even if people were too stubborn to admit it to themselves. The best thing you could do for everyone involved was to turn yourself into the hospital so you could be safely quarantined from the rest of the public at the very least.

"I don't think I can get sick so long as I'm in here, but if I do... consider it a promise. I'm glad you're in here, anyway."
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[personal profile] crocodilesmiles 2013-08-02 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not," she quipped, "I'd rather be well!" But it's said with minimal true protest, more of a well known and well worn desire shared by so many here at the moment.

"Thanks for stopping by to check on the croc situation, BB."