✞11 Days since my Last Confession✞

[13th_crusader]

[✝]Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.
Some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.[✝]

[☨]It's late by now, and by the time the camera flickers on to spy on the man, it's already a little too dark in the room to see. Light from the hospital hallway gives a dim view of Maxwell drearily coming in and out of sleep. With a moan he rolls over, not wanting to wake up, but at the same time, not wanting to go back to dreaming that dream again. Shifting, he hears the bed give an unfamiliar creak, and as meticulous as he was, he knew..[☨]

This isn't my bed.

[☨]Dizzily he sat up in the dark, glancing with contemptible disdain to the blinking screen.[☨]

Oh will you get behind me already? I don't know where I am, and you're the last thing I want to see.

[☨]Curling his finger, he gives the screen a flick, snapping if off.[☨]


((ooc: Abel-mun, say he went back to sleep, and he can awake to find Abel there for whenever you get back! <3 ))

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[madwashu.livejournal.com]

Washu notices the frequency and decides to go check up on one of her latest patients.

It's not long before she's in the doorway of his hospital room.

"Welcome to the hospital."

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

[Rubbing his head with a light sigh, he briefly contemplated his next move from here... but his throbbing head and bruised gut halted any thought of scheming right there. Adjusting to the dimness of the room he looked towards the door to see a .. crab-haired, woman?]

Ah.. buongiorno, miss?

[He had the clear signs of a man who looked like he did belong here, or at least thought so, but escape at the moment was the last thing on his mind.]

I'm not in any sort of.. pandemic, am I?

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

Was that .. Italian? Of course it would have to be one of the Earth languages she was unfamiliar with. No matter, she could easily figure out what the word was by the English words it was paired with.

Nope~! You were brought in here for treatment by Little Abel~! Such a nasty ulcer to treat too. You really must be careful with your health~!

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

An ulcer?

[He blinked in surprise, ignoring the comment on that.. Abel fellow.]

So that's what all that blood--

[As he muttered he flicked out his handkerchief which had earlier been covered in it by accident. He usually used it just to breathe through when the incense in the cathedrals got too intense.. but now. Oh it was ruined.]

I can't imagine what caused it, I've been taking fine care of myself.

[As much as this hellhole allowed him. Yet nothing could seem to cure his high-strung attitude towards it all that caused the irritation in the first place.]

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

Stress.

At that she gives him a very flat look. Oh she had noticed his last posts on the com. She tends to keep track of what goes on around her, despite her work.

Which means you really need to relax.

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

[Highly disturbed by this he twitched a brow.]

How does anyone in their right minds relax in a place like this?

[He twisted the blanket in his lap just to have the fine feeling of strangling something.]

I may as well be thrown back in Midian.

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

[Now that got a raised eyebrow from the small scientist. So he was normally this high strung? That would explain the ulcer. She watched as he nearly strangled the blanket in his lap as he spoke]

People manage it. Get a hobby. It's tension and stress like the kind you are exhibiting now that leads up to your current condition along with poor eating habits and lack of rest.

I'm sure there is something around here that you could do to relax.

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

[It wasn't a normality at all really. Discedo was simply likened to him being dropped into the Apocalypse he left behind. Only now he had no army of thousands, a helicopter, bulletproof protection, and a bodyguard who could take a bomb to the face. He was alone. Exposed here even! With his enemies living not even a block away from where he claimed sanctuary.

What was he going to do?

What the Hell was he going to do now!?]

My Lord's will is never finished. No, not till He says it is. How can I be expected to throw caution to the wind when--

[Something was amiss. And he peered down at her, noting her rather petite frame.]

Aren't you a little young to be a doctor?

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

[... So now he noticed her size. It was just her luck she got a patient that was married to his work and serving some God she could care less about. Really, the only thing one could trust is science. Wont humans ever learn?

Regardless, she sighed softly as he peered down at her. Not for the first time she played with the idea of adjusting her height while in this form. Really, was it necessary to look down at her like that.?]

I'm older then I look.

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[Well that was all he really needed to know. Really. A man never asks a lady her age after all.]

I'm aha, terribly sorry I don't think we've been introduced?

[At least fast to face.]

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

[ At least he had a semblance of manners. That was always refreshing in this place. She sighed softly as she crossed her arms.]

"I'm Little Washu, Scientific Genius, and you Doctor by request. Now~! Be a good boy and relax~! What ever is bothering you is making you sick so as your Doctor, I'm ordering you to Relax~!"

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

[He was a dignified leader of a Organization that need not be named, after all. He had curved his demeanor into someone that would be proper and pristine in the end of the Lord, and make him favorable amongst his peers.]

How can I when--

[It just felt so impossible at this moment. Yet he deflated, this woman was trying to help him, and as much as he hated this place and all it's disgusting little insects of people, he could appreciate the hospice wards for what they did for him.]

Alright.. Little Washu, I'll do what I must, but... Is there a time-limit, to how long I can stay?

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

[What an interesting man. He changes moods faster then anyone else she had met here so far. This called for further interaction on her part and possibly a few... tests.]

I would like you to stay for observation for at least a few days. I want to make sure you won't be coughing up any more blood. Now in the mean time, relax why I do some scans.

[With that she poised her hands in the air and started to type the moment the computer appeared beneath her fingertips.]

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

[The archbishop blinked at the translucent computer.]

A.. hologram? Oh, well, va bene, if it will keep that indecency from my mouth..

[Blood was a sacred thing after all. They drank the wine, Christ's blood in communion, not spit it out.]

Eh, do I just lie here or..?

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

"Blood is hardly indecent. It is what keeps your organs and extremities function via gas exchange with the cells of your body. If it weren't for blood and its properties, you wouldn't be alive."

[She didn't even look up as she continued to type away at her computer, taking scans and comparing readings.]

"You're fine as you are for the moment."

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

No but I shouldn't be letting it like that.

It's a precious thing after all, like you say.

[He had no idea what she did. And it was over? Maxwell blinked widely. What kind of technology was this?]

Aha, good to know, very good, though.. I do feel a little bruising still, is that normal?

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

[At his question she looked up.]

"Bruising where?"

[She was more curious then anything as she glanced at the readouts in some alien language. She tapped a few more of the colorful unlabeled buttons before turning back to him and smiling.]

"That is true, though sometimes it can't be helped."

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

In my stomach, that is.

[Flattening his hand on his thin abdomen, he hesitated opening up his shirt, thinking some horror might be found there.]

What did you actually do, while I was out? Not to overly pry but, I do have an overwhelming sense of self-preservation. Life is my gift, my body is it's vessel.

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

[Washu smirked a little at his question, how had she treated it? Random medicine A that she had been meaning to test on someone. Not that he needed to know that. The usual treatments would have been medicines that she doubted were in the city or surgery and as much as she loved to dissect things, he was human so there really was nothing interesting for her to see so why bother.]

"Medicine."

[She glanced at his stomach. No apparent bruises, which meant the interior oblique muscles were what hurt, quite possibly the serosa membrane on the stomach. She scanned the area and smiled a little.]

"Interior bruising is nothing to worry about."

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

Medicine.. Ah, I see.

[Well that was non-conforming.

At this point he did not want to know the details. So long as he didn't die, he shouldn't care at this point.]

I hope I haven't been an inconvenience, Miss Washu.

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

She chuckled softly at his response as she paused in her typing and summoned a cushion to sit on near his bedside.

No more then the usual people I deal with. Though, you are one of the few human's I've treated lately. I admit, it was a nice change.

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

[He didn't see that. He didn't see that! Maxwell ripped his gaze away, choking down the thought that she was using witchcraft of some sort to do that.]


Ah yes.. it feels a bit like humanity is outnumbered here.


[Much to his great displeasure.]

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

Oh she noticed that. It seems her little display of power in order to get comfortable unnerved him. How interesting. Lets see how far she could do this... despite the fact that it was against her medical orders.

She wanted to see exactly what stressed him out.

I wonder why that is. Perhaps we are more interesting then humans.

[13th-crusader.livejournal.com]

Ah.. we?

[Great! Just great! He was being treated by another otherworldly, possibly, ungodly creature. Maxwell breathed deeply, smoothing a hand over his tightly bound hair.]


I think humanity is plenty interesting as it is.

[madwashu.livejournal.com]

She managed to keep her devious smirk from her lips as she noticed how he picked up on her wording. So, that was what annoyed him. Was something this simple causing his ulcers. She would bet A and B that this was it.

Hm.. maybe. Your planet has yet to place a human further then the moon in your own solar system and your space program is laughable.However, I will admit your art is interesting. But, I've never seen a species so bent on destroying themselves.