thebastion | [day 191] "It's very unfortunate I have to say this, But the world is going to end today" [closed]

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[day 191] "It's very unfortunate I have to say this, But the world is going to end today" [closed]

Who: Haruka, Takane, Colin, Ryu (4)
Open: Closed
When: Day 191
Where: Skyway -> Bastion
What:

It was an extremely average day,
Without a single obstacle in my path
Until I was bored, listening to the radio,
And I heard this voice that said:
"It's very unfortunate I have to say this,
But the world is going to end today"

Format: action
Warnings: STUPID SICK TEENAGERS

[ She stood there, frozen, eyes wide and breathing heavy.

Takane didn't know what had happened. One moment, she was turning around to make her way out of the school. The next ... she was here.

In a place she didn't recognize.

In a place that was ...

She didn't even know how to describe it.

Takane slowly turned around, eyes scanning the area she now found herself in. Did she fall asleep again? Was she dreaming?

No, she had to wake up. Haruka was at the hospital. She needed to go see him! She had to find him and tell him-- ]

AUGH! Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UUUUUUP!

[ ... But clearly, that wasn't working. Takane frowned. Okay. She started walking, looking around. Maybe if she walked around long enough, she'd wake up.

Or figure out what was going on.

No way this wasn't a dream or something, though. She'd have to wake up sometime.

Takane walked for a while, keeping an eye out for anything that might clue her in as to what was going on. She didn't find one.

But she did find something else.

The moment she saw him, her eyes widened again and she could have sworn her heart stopped. She rushed over to the limp, unmoving form of her ~~love~~ friend, placing a hand on his arm and shaking him a little.

He couldn't be here. Not really. This was just a dream, right? Haruka was in the hospital.

Still, her emotions at seeing him like this were very real. ]

H-Hey ... Hey, Haruka ... Haruka, wake up ...

[ Tears welled up in her eyes again, and she roughly took him into her arms, shaking him a little more. ]

Haruka ... Haruka! Hey! Wake up, Haruka!

[ Those tears rolled down her cheeks. No, nonono. He wasn't waking up. This was a dream, and she still couldn't do anything. She was totally useless. ]

HELP!

[ She screamed out the word, looking around to see if maybe anyone was around to hear it. ]

HELP! WE NEED HELP! SOMEONE, ANYONE, PLEASE! P-Please ...

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I can look it up in a medical textbook if he doesn't remember...

[Colin frowns slightly, and he sighs. Yeah, it's coming down to him, isn't it?]

You two were the only ones we found out there. Heck, you were the only thing we found out there, other than a half-ruined gurney that we had to cannibalize for parts to make a stretcher...

[Ryu nods, and looks up at Colin. He's not sure what to do, since Yukio and Haruka are both using a lot of words he doesn't know. Should he be worried? It sounds like he should be worried, but he's not sure.]

No one... ?

[Haruka's shoulders slump, gaze going to his hands.

Tateyama-sensei... Ayano... Shintaro... all of the students in that school, all of the people in the hospital, and only he and Takane... ?

His fingers curled in to the scratchy blanket, but it only lasted a moment before he sighed and let go, lifting his head up with...

a smile.]

At least Takane is here with me.

[And that was all he was going to say about it. No reaction beyond that.

Well, aside from leaning over to list his medication to Yukio.]

You'll have to ask Takane when she's awake about hers..

Edited 2014-06-02 07:20 (UTC)

[The lack of a normal reaction is a concern in itself, at least to Yukio. He's a very logical and composed sort of guy most of the time, and he didn't take the news nearly this well on arrival. In fact, he might've dug himself a mental pit of denial and hidden in it for a few days while avoiding his only remaining family in the universe in favor of wandering the Bastion and sleeping on benches.

But now isn't the time to press. If Haruka can keep himself calm, best to let stay that way.

He jots down the medications as they're listed off, lips turning down in a little frown.
He recognizes some of these, and they're nothing he knows how to produce or procure, but scarier than that are the names he doesn't recognize at all.]

I definitely will.

Edited (cooooode) 2014-06-04 07:23 (UTC)

[Colin glances at Yukio, and he gives him a faint smile.]

I've got some texts handy that you might be able to consult for anything you're unfamiliar with, Doctor. I know that this isn't your specialty.

[He looks back to Ryu then, and he grins.]

And just think, Ryu. This isn't even the worst kinda of complexity we can see in medicine. You're keeping up with it very well.

[Finally, he looks back at Haruka.]

The surgery you had... is this the first heart surgery you've undergone?

I'm trying. There's nothing like this in my world. There's healing magic, but that can only do so much.

[He doesn't feel like he's keeping up well at all, but Colin's words make him feel a little better.]

[Haruka has spent his entire life smiling even when he felt physically miserable. This is no different.

Given enough time, he'll have that moment everyone does where the reality hits and he can't keep up that smile. His will just be... later than others.]

It was! My doctors were trying to hold off on that. They were hoping my medicine would have been enough since I didn't start having symptoms until I was in middle school.

Ah... why?

[Colin, you are a life saver. Yukio's frown fades, but not entirely as he listens to Haruka's explanation. Such a sudden spiral down seems strange. He's no cardiac specialist, but he knows that heart problems can go undetected for years, the symptoms either nonexistent of manifesting in ways that just don't draw enough attention.

Even so, to have be overtaken by his symptoms so quickly, even while on medication...]

[Colin is wondering much the same, Yukio. ESPECIALLY since Takane was definitely poisoned... Still, no sense to worry the kid right now. Especially since he'll have enough to worry about once the weight of the situation hits him]

Just trying to get a background for your condition. Also, trying to determine how much you've been through. Since this is your first, I can probably patch up those surgical incisions. Far easier than waiting for them to heal.

[He grins at Ryu.]

Yeah, this is a complex field, probably one of the few that's more complex than the work I do. People study for years to become doctors, and longer still to keep up to date.

You kinda dove into the deep end with us on this one.

[Says the guy who's done two rather advanced treatments without any hands on training.]

Yeah... I can tell. I've seen the insides of monsters after battles, but never a person's insides. It might depend which kind of person, too - I don't know if the insides of someone from the Wing Clan would be different than the Frog Clan, or something like that. Most healers can help close wounds or get rid of poison, and in towns you can usually find someone who knows how to set a bone, but there's not a lot of stuff like in here.

[He's heard of places where those injured in battles are taken to rest, but those places tend to be places where people die more often than they recover.]

[~~Congrats you two, you've won the "figure out what's wrong with the HaruTaka route in Kagepro" award!~~

In all seriousness though, even Haruka had found it strange to have taken his usual medication that day only to feel so weak, worn down and achy by the time afternoon classes had rolled around.

He just couldn't think at all over what could have caused it...

Just like before, though, he approached all of this with a smile, though this one was more apologetic than the first.]

I'm sorry for being so much trouble.

[Yukio smiles at Ryu.]

If you'd like to learn some basics, I'd be more than willing to teach you. Everyone should at least a little knowledge of first aid.

[Now, now, Haruka, none of that. You're going head to head with a fellow stepford smiler.]

There's nothing to apologize for. We all have to try to take care of each other here.

If anyone here needs to apologize for anything, I'll eat a sheet. You can't help if your health takes a turn for the worse. We're just here to patch you back up, and see to it that you're okay.

[Colin smiles, and he looks at Ryu.]

It would be handy to learn, and I recommend taking him up on it. I was only able to help Rin the way I did because of my first aid training. In the meantime though, can you grab me some warm water and towels? I want to close those incisions, and we need to remove the sutures.

[He glances at Yukio.]

If you think it's okay, that is.

[He pauses, then he rubs the back of his head sheepishly and looks at Haruka.]

And, naturally... if you want me to. Sorry, getting ahead of myself. I do that sometimes.

Edited 2014-06-06 07:14 (UTC)

Sure. I can bandage wounds but that's about it...

[This place doesn't have fish that cure things and that's weird. But Ryu nods and scurries off to find the warm water and towels. It shouldn't take him too long, and getting those kinds of things would probably be good anyway no matter what they decide to do.]

Oh... well...

[Sheepish Haruka is sheepish.]

Uhm. If it's not too much trouble. I would like to get better as soon as I can.

[I just want to be normal...!

Ugh. That thought again... those images... it had to be a dream.

Right?]

Edited 2014-06-06 07:33 (UTC)

We can work out a time to go over some basics later. There might be other residents interested too.

[Yukio nods after Haruka gives his consent, tucking his notepad away. He assumes he'll be the one removing the sutures while Colin uses whatever crazy future tech it is he has to close the incisions.]

That's fine with me.

[ Voices. She could hear voices. One familiar, and a few more that she didn't really recognize. Takane slowly returned to consciousness with a groan. Her eyelids still felt so heavy, but she forced herself to open her eyes anyway. Everything was blurry as she did, but it was slowly coming into focus.

Kind of.

Her voice was quiet and tired sounding, but she did manage to say something after a little bit. ]

H-Haruka ...

[Colin turns his head at the sound of Takane's voice, and he grins.]

Well well, Snow White rejoins the land of the living once again.

You had us worried.

[Ryu turns to look at the girl, smiling.]

Hi there.

Takane...

[Haruka let out a sigh of relief at hearing her voice, sitting up so he can see her and she can know he's there.]

[Heading over to Takane's bed, greeting the girl with a calm smile before reaching out to check her vitals.]

Hello, Takane-san. Haruka-san is right here in the bed next to you.

[ If she weren't feeling like she'd just been hit by a truck, she'd probably be retorting back to Colin not to call her 'Snow White.' Right now she's all kinds of confused. She's gotten that she's in a hospital. And Haruka's here. But how ...

... And then everything came back to her. How she and Haruka had ended up in this weird looking place, how she screamed for help, how these people came to help them, and then ... suddenly, she couldn't breathe. She couldn't talk. She was unconscious pretty soon afterward.

What had happened to her? It was all weird, and it happened so fast ... ]

Mrrn ... wha's goin' on?

[ Her speech is a little slurred, and her voice raspy and quiet. ]

You two both had medical incidents out on the Skyway. We managed to get you back to the hospital in our outpost.

We were just about to close Haruka's incisions when you woke up.

[He gives her a warm grin, not wanting to worry her just yet about the poison... but oh, he'll be talking to her a little later, you better believe it.]

Both of them are really nice. You won't have to worry.

[He doesn't know about the poison or he'd be more worried, frankly.]

[There's not much Haruka can say to this, so he just waves so Takane in her groggy state can see him.

Good morning, Starshine, the ~~Earth~~ Bastion says hello!]

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