punchvolcanoes ([personal profile] punchvolcanoes) wrote in [community profile] smash_logs2010-12-17 12:54 am

Hospitals and Visits, Oh My!

Who: Sick animals and you
What: Hospital visits!
Where: FDC's Pokecenter
When: Anywhere between the 13th to the 21st!
Warnings: Guys being guys. Mons being mons.

For the next few days, everything was a blur for the both of them. Sasha felt sick to her stomach from everything, being unusually quiet apart from the small talks to the people online. But she was afraid no one would ever want to talk to her again after what happened. Guilty didn't even begin to scratch how she felt, especially after fights broke out in school that seemed to imply her attack was the catalyst. It felt terrible.

Most of her days, she spent watching the IV needles run down and drip, looking over at Vinnie but moving her head away before he could look at her and trying to replay the scenario and see what she could have done otherwise.

She could try to learn from this.

On the other hand, Vinnie had no regrets about his own actions. He was convinced that if he'd personally done anything different, pulled any punches, the results of that day would've been much, much worse. Inevitable as it was, it was the consequences that followed which weighed on him, as much as he tried not to show it.

His sister was tearing herself apart. His trainer was disgraced and his family worried sick. And he had disappointed anyone who might've been his friends. Somehow, he had to make it better. In comparison, his own grief felt irrelevant. Maybe even selfish.

It was probably why he was spending more and more time in his human form, even if it kept opening up his wounds. That way, he wouldn't have to be reminded of what he'd lost in Volgin's mutilation. Two leaves, amputated. It was enough to cripple him as a Venusaur.

Vinnie wanted out of this bed. To stop feeling nauseous and weak and get back into action as soon as possible. Maybe then he'd feel less helpless against everything.

[OOC- please post your date of the visit at the start of each log post 8Dc Also Char shows up after the 15th due to a gun shot to the tail. Green team is facing Red Team after that.]

real men don't cry

[identity profile] punchteamrocket.livejournal.com 2010-12-21 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
"D-- ... Don't. Don't be sorry. If you weren't there..." Red cut himself off; he didn't even want to think about it.

"... It's not your fault," he grumbled into the sheet. Two of his Pokemon... No, two members of his family were half-dead and crippled and he couldn't do a damn thing to help. "You guys deserve a better trainer. One that wouldn't have let this happen."

dammit this never happened

[identity profile] punchtheflowers.livejournal.com 2010-12-26 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Vinnie leaned over as much as his aching body would allow to nuzzle his trainer with his wide head. Red, there was no way that was true. That wasn't true. Weakly, the Venusaur tried to blink away the tears in his eyes in an effort to reassure him.

There was no way Vinnie could've ever blamed Red for this. No one was responsible for what had happened except himself.

I'm the one who's supposed to protect you... what do I do now...?

this was not worth the wait at all

[identity profile] punchteamrocket.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Hgfhgdkjghb--" he said, then straightened up. "You worry about getting better." He looked over at Sasha like he was responsible for what happened to her. It definitely felt like it was. "It's my job to keep you all safe. I guess I've been pretty lousy at it lately."

no it was worth all the waits

[identity profile] punchtheflowers.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Vinnie, on the other hand, couldn't bring himself to look at Sasha at all. He'd come so close to losing her, but seeing her lying there like a dying lab specimen almost felt worse. It was a helpless feeling he knew wasn't going to go away... but he wondered how much Red know about the potential future of his condition. Vinnie's chest ached as he asked, afraid of what he'd say.

What if I don't get better...?

STILL NOT WORTH ANY WAITS...

[identity profile] punchteamrocket.livejournal.com 2011-01-08 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"..." Red stared at his feet.

What if they didn't get better? What if they were stuck in Pokemon Centers for the rest of their lives? Or couldn't battle or fly or garden or do anything else they liked ever again? What if they got worse? As much as he wished he could, he couldn't just stick them in their Pokeballs and make everything better.

"You will. ...You both will. Even if you d--" He stopped and tried again, "No matter what, I've got your backs. That's never going to change."