Re: Sewing up a Drunken Sailor (Semi-Private?)

by Guest Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:28 pm

His head lowered and even though Adonia couldn't see his face she would be able to see the change in his body. His eye was narrowed to furious slits, his shoulders squared and his mouth twisted into a snarl. He raised his spare hand to hit her, because she was being stupid and because she was there...Because she was there....

His hand freezes in mid-air, and whatever energy he had coursing through him seems to evaporate and the hand goes limp and drops back onto his lap. "Adonia...." he whispers, apology behind her name.

He looked exhausted and defeated and very lost...But there were no tears, just emptiness. He dropped the gun and it skittered across the floor, sliding under the cot out of sight...

by **Eos** Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:41 pm

Eos stared at the white haired kids. Unfreezing after having a pistol to his head. They had a weird relationship, he realized. If Jack had hurt her though, he would probably be missing in the next few days.

He stayed quiet, feeling like he was intuding on a private matter.

((Fail post is fail))

by **Achlys Adonia Argyris** Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:43 pm

Adonia winced as he raised his hand to strike her, but held her ground, daring him to go through with it. Despite her defiant stance and behavior, as he lowered his hand - the pistol clattering out of sight- she breathed a shuddering sigh of relief.

Her heart sank like a stone as she saw him crumple. She couldn't bear to see that look of despair in his eyes. She heard the apology in his voice and, hands shaking slightly, she took his face in her hands, kissing him gently, willing him to understand how she felt about him. "What do I have to do to convince you that I love you?" she whispered.

"I'll do anything, Jack.... Just tell me, please?" Her eyes searched his face for any sign of life.

by **Eos** Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:39 pm

Eos shuffled awkwardly as Adonia kissed her pirate. He didn't need to see that. But started grumbling things when Addi asked what she could do to 'prove her love'. Disgusting.

"He'll probably ask you to do something like count all the stars, or seperate the salt form the sea..." he murmered to himself. Those were the kind of things the gods asked for to prove you loved them. The only one who had ever completed her task was Psyche, who was now, more of less, happily married to Eros, god of love.

by **Achlys Adonia Argyris** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:08 pm

Adonia turned to glare at Eos, her face flushing violently. She had quite forgotten the teacher was there, and while she didn't blame Eos for this entire squabble, the Spartan certainly wasn't making the situation any easier.

"I wasn't speaking for your benefit, SIR" she said with a mild sneer. She turned suddenly to grab a bottle and a large jar from a nearby medicine cabinet.

Coming back to the table, she took the damp cloth from Eos' cot and began swipe the blood from the gash in his leg. "And I would appreciate it if you would keep your comments about it to yourself," she said firmly, grabbing the jar and poring a small amount of a red powder into her hand.

"This is cayenne pepper" she explained. "It won't hurt you and it will slow the bleeding while I try to get Jack's shoulder set and closed up. I don't want him bleeding to death."

Without waiting for an answer, she began dabbing the powder into the wound not quite as gently as she could have, tying a length of leather just above the gash, again to help stop the bleeding.

"I'll need to sew you up once I'm done with Jack." she said matter of factly. "That gash won't close up on its own... too deep. Do you want a painkiller, a knock-out drug, or do you want to 'suffer through it like a man." she said with a steely look.

by **Eos** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:17 pm

"Whatever you say nurse Adonia," he grumbled, but let her work.

"Wait pepper!? That doesn't exactly sound-" He winced as Addi rubbed the red powder in. It burned, less than he expected it to, but still it burned.

"I'll suffer through it, thank you very much," he snapped, wondering if that was actually what she thought about him.

by **Achlys Adonia Argyris** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:40 pm

Adonia rolled her eyes at him as he snapped at her. She liked her teacher very much,. He was like a brother to her, but she did not appreciate him needling Jack like that. Things were bad enough between the two men without him acting like a child.

"Whatever you say, sir" she said tightening the knot on his leg with a gentle yank (if that kind of oxymoron makes any sense) and turned her attention back to Jack and his shoulder.

"Now please hold still Jack" she said gently as she cleaned the large gaping wound in his shoulder a carefully as possible, trying to cause as little pain a possible.

She finally gave up on the cloth. Instead she used her magic to summon water from the large basin on the table into a ball in her hand. She then placed her hand on the wound ending the water through the wound gently to clean out any grime that might be lurking from the fight, sending the water neatly into the sink and dabbing cayenne pepper into both sides of the wound.

She then felt along his shoulder until she found the break in his collar bone.... it was completely out of alignment, but seemed to have broken quite neatly.... thank God.

She gulped and looked up at Jack, idly sending another gob of water into his empty socket to wash it out for him. "J-Jack?" she said gently, hoping he would come out of his 'comatose' state enough to respond. "Y-you're shoulder is completely split... I need to reset it...b-but it will be painful, so I can give you a knock-out drug or a painkiller.... Jack? Please say something?"

by **Eos** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:54 pm

Eos watched quietly. It took a lot to piss off Adonia, and he had managed to do it. He decided to be good, and not egg on Jack anymore. He boy didn't need anymore wounds, not today at least. His shoulder was split and it didn't sound very good.

by Guest Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:01 pm

"I'm fine..." he muttered to himself as he got the energy to actually respond to something. He just didn't feel like doing anything, felt like he was hanging onto the world by his fingernails. Maybe a good dose of pain would make him feel like he was alive...not the empty, hollow shell he felt like at the minute. His eyes were half shut and his frame had sagged and folded in on itself.

"Just get it over with..."

by **Achlys Adonia Argyris** Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:11 pm

Adonia swallowed hard. She searched his dead expression and knew it would be useless to try and convince the stubborn pirate that the knock-out drug would be better, but she hated to cause him pain.

With a deep breath she finally squared her shoulders, turning to grab a wooden dowel from the table. "Don't say I didn't warn you though" she said with an apologetic look, moving his hands to where he could hold onto the edge of the bed. "Hold on to that.... and bite down on this... I don't want you biting off your tongue" she said placing the dowel in his mouth.

"Here we go..." she muttered putting her hands on the bones and with a sharp tug, she pulled the bones together with a nasty grinding sound. She winced, but did not let go in case he tried to lurch away. She couldn't have him pulling the bone apart again, not matter what he might do.

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