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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:12 am
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Yesterday they'd cut his arm off and today it was his birthday.
Puck - his new Gastly - had turned up with cardboard cone party hats plus party hooters. Aulus hadn't been sure whether he should laugh or cry but in the end he had done neither because a nurse had turned up with actual real clothes, finally relenting to his pleading.
Getting into the sweatpants and t-shirt was more difficult than predicted due to soreness in his... well, most of his everything really. It was also difficult because of- yeah, because of that. He didn't look at his arm or rather at where his arm should be; he hadn't been able to bring himself to do so yet at all, not even a glance. What he did instead was wait for the nurse to put the IV line back in to his hand, put on one of the brightly coloured hats, and swing his legs gingerly off the side of the bed. Char helped him to his feet and took hold of the... whatever you called that wheely thing that carried the IV bag. Thingamie.
Right then.
Okay.
Taking a deep breath in and letting it out again Aulus moved over to the curtain, Char hovering beside him with the thingamie and presumably ready to catch him if he fainted or whatever s**t.
s**t.
He hadn't actually talked to Alex yet. Most of the last almost-a-week he'd been too out of it on painkillers to even think of getting up and as they seemed to be leaving the curtains closed as a matter of course at the moment he hadn't been able to so much as glance over, see his friend was awake, and wave. He was up now though, up with real clothes on and all ******** ******** ******** ********, how was he supposed to-? Ugh. Okay. This was Alex... that almost made it worse. He didn't want to freak him out but... but.... Well this wasn't going to go away, and there was no chance he was just going to avoid his best friend. He wanted to see him. He needed to see him. He needed... he just needed to be close to somebody he trusted, that was all. Everything was- He- He just wanted- Why had it?- He needed- He couldn't deal with!-
Aulus took another deep breath in an poked his head - just his head - around the curtain. "Hi." He blew on a party hooter with a cheesy 'toot!' sound. If Alex turned out not to be awake he was going to be pretty embarrassed.
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:58 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:17 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:23 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:40 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:49 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:11 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:23 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:06 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:12 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:06 pm
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For some time - he could not have said how long - Aulus remained like that, silent except for ragged breaths and the occasional sob he couldn't choke back. He wanted desperately to cling onto Alex but he didn't dare, didn't want to put stress on his friend's injuries. This wasn't right, wasn't fair; one of the major reasons they'd both gone there was to try to put that place behind them but now, now-!
Eventually the tears slowed and Aulus pulled back, wiping his face on his arm. "Sorry," he mumbled, voice hoarse and shaky and eyes cast down again. "I... I wasn't planning on that." To say the least. "I just, I... I don't know." Swallowing, sniffing and wiping his eyes again Aulus gave a tiny shrug. "Is what it is, right? We're all alive."
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