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Marie the Squirtle ([personal profile] punchwaves) wrote in [community profile] smash_logs2011-12-09 01:37 am

If I kissed you where it's sore, would you feel better?

Who: Marie, Volgin, YOU!
What: Visiting some jerks.
Where: PokeCenter OR Hospital (depending on who you're visiting).
When: Wednesday (the 7th) afternoon and BEYOND. Marie'll be out the 16th. Volgin will be leaving on the 9th.
Warnings: Possibly some potty language.

Marie
The timid Squirtle had gotten himself into a bit of trouble.

Just the threat of an attack had caused Marie to act without thinking. He should have known better than to use a water attack on someone that radiated electricity. But thinking hadn't really been a part of Marie's series of actions that had lead him to an uncomfortable cot in FDC's PokeCenter.

Marie was lucky. The party ball that had miraculously activated itself had ultimately saved his dumb, little life. The nurses in the PokeCenter didn't understand how he had survived. Unfortunately, Marie likely wouldn't be able to remember much of the event either, including the Heart Container that had fallen so graciously onto his head.

He had drifted into consciousness just outside the PokeCenter. Fucking yellow and green hair. Everything went dark again after that.

/

Volgin
Volgin came to.

When he did, this all felt familiar, especially the bandages and agony coiled around his chest like red ivy. For a moment, he almost was certain he was back in the 1930s, the tensions of war high on the horizon and the stench of Fascist bastards unable to honor their treaties lingering.

And...

... Panic boiled in deepest reaches of his gut, coming to the fore as a raw terror as he realized there was a hole in his head. A gap in his memory. It occurred to him that he had no idea how he ended up here. His last waking moment was with Raikov, settling down for the night, murmured sweet nothings and dirty promises whispered between them, then...

Volgin tried to scream, but a haggard cry was all that he could manage; the brutal revelation of what might have just transpired, of why he was here, cut through him deeper than any fool who fancied himself clever with a knife. No, this had happened before, a young, beautiful officer he had taken a fancy to, this had happened before when he lost himself, back when his control was still feeble, and he was dead. The stench of cooked meat, and he was dead.

He could remember the smell, but...

Hyperventilation made the pain in his ribs hurt all the more, but pain was a fleeting sensation he had long since learned to suppress and suppress again: Volgin's world was Raikov's safety. He could not stand the thought, could not live with the thought, that for some reason, whatever reason, he had been the cause for his death. His affliction, his goddamn alteration forced upon him in the name of the privilege of being a comrade, had claimed another one.

It was times like these where he was coming to another realization, that he simply was not meant to live with any semblance of normalcy. Sometimes, he was not sure if he could stand it anymore. Sometimes he could content himself with being a monster of the purest hatred, but he, an emotional animal at heart, was not sure if that was what he could be in all quarters.

His uncharacteristic cry just brought a nurse over to fuss with him. He could not bring himself to say anything else, but feign unconsciousness until she left.

What the hell happened? He still furiously racked his fragile memory for whatever clues. He could not let his weakness, his feelings, get the best of him yet.

This had the Soviet left alone soon enough, bandaged on a makeshift set up of three beds to accomodate his size. A long curtain granted him his own illusion of privacy, which he was not sure who else was on the other side of it. He remained there.


[OOC: Just add a little note on who/when you're visiting in the subject line!]

[identity profile] punchtheflute.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Sonny stood at the end of the bed, letting the others get in closer. He had no details on what had happened beyond Marie was in a fight and so he was searching the sleeping form for anything majorly wrong - which there didn't look to be except he wasn't awake.

....hopefully that wasn't going to be permanent.

[identity profile] punchmtsilver.livejournal.com 2011-12-12 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Red still said nothing, but he quickly moved to be at the side of the bed. His expression revealed nothing of his emotional state but Marie was alive, which was always a relief. Thank Arceus for Pokemon Centers and thank Bulba and Green for their swift response. He'd have to thank them properly sometime.

But now, Marie.

"..."

Deep breath. Time to wait until he entered the conscious world of his own accord.

[identity profile] punchpokeballs.livejournal.com 2011-12-14 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Chika, on the other hand, stood far away from the bed, it was hard for to accept what laid in front of her eyes. Still yes, it was a good thing that Marie was still alive in the first place, but still...

"... fucking bastards." The Pikachu silently muttered.

[identity profile] punchlava.livejournal.com 2011-12-15 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
"He'll be okay," Sasha told Chika, patting her head. The Charizard's usual cheerfulness was decidedly numb, but she did her best to at least keep the team's spirits up a bit. "Let's worry about him first and figure out what happened later."

[identity profile] punchmtsilver.livejournal.com 2011-12-17 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Red exhaled. A long, low breath that seemed to echo everything he was feeling. Frustration, fatigue, exasperation, worry and a certain tenacity. Then he broke his silence.

"Marie? Can you hear me?"

[identity profile] punchtheflute.livejournal.com 2011-12-18 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Sonny leaned in just a little bit. If ANYTHING could wake Marie up, it was Red's voice. His hands were behind his back, and all his fingers were crossed.

[identity profile] punchwaves.livejournal.com 2011-12-20 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

In his weird half-uconscious half-asleep state, Marie heard his teammates talking. They sounded distant, as if they were in another room. Their talking slowly began to stir the young Squirtle. In response to his trainer, Marie let out an uncharacteristically low-pitched gurgle. His eyes opened ever-so-slightly and he looked for his trainer.

He felt pretty embarrassed, seeing his teammates looking back at him as his eyes glanced over the room.

[identity profile] punchtheflute.livejournal.com 2011-12-22 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"....oh. Phew."

It wasn't much to say, but the releif it conveyed was probably palpable. Seeing him wake up was reassuring and it felt like a weight had been lifted from Sonny's shoulders. However, he stayed where he was, sure that the others would prefer to get in and coddle him first.