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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 10:18:04 GMT -8
Mia's mental state was...not strong. Her eyes shifted around the room she was in, barely conscious of her surroundings. She could tell she was in hospital and that her family were surrounding her bed...how long had they been here? Minutes? A few hours? She knew she'd been here a lot longer...fuck she was sore. Everyone looked worried and she wasn't fully aware of what she was saying. Despite the pain she felt happy? Was she cracking jokes? Possibly. Her conscious mind was unable to get a grasp on what was coming in and what she was spouting out in turn, her reality was just a hazy fog right now, slowly trying to lean which parts of her body hurt to move and quickly learning it was all of them. Okay just...sit here...enjoy your families company...yeah...
Why was she here again?
As Mia struggled to keep a grasp on Reality, the family did their best to handle the situation. Each of them was on edge in their own way. Bergan didn't know what to say, and he hated himself a little for needing to suppress a light bit of laughter everytime Mia tried to make a joke about her situation. Karla was alarmed she could even make jokes. Mark was growing more uncomfortable as he tried to figure out something he could say that didn't bring another joke...gritting his teeth as he tried to resist the urge to yell at her, make her wake up despite all the medication and light sedatives being pumped into her. Mia couldn't even tell her mom was on the verge of tears beside her, just beaming at her like she was a little tipsy...
"Excuse me...Mr and Mrs Kearney?"
Eyes darted up to the doctor standing in the hall way. A quiet moment of silence, Henne leaned over and kissed her daughter's forehead, earning a giggle and a "Bye byeeee mommy~" from the fighting blonde as her parents left the room, the two elder Kearneys stepping into the hall to talk with the doctor, carefully closing the door behind them.
"What's the word doctor...?"
Bergan wrapped an arm around his wife, listening carefully to the Doctor's word as he tucked his clipboard under his arm, his expression cautious, but faintly reassuring.
"Its...looking good. Anyone else I might doubt there odds but your daughter's surprisingly feisty even for her." His light words brought brief smiles to their lips, before he continued to analyze the situation further. "We had a look and we managed to get most of her fractured bones into a state of recovery. If that was all there was, a girl like her...she'd be out of here and on bed rest tommorrow but...well..."
They all knew why Mia couldn't go home just yet, but not even the doctor was willing to speak it just yet.
"...We'll keep a close eye on her. Your family is...free to visit whenever you want. We have spare guest rooms here for close relatives to stay with their patients overnight if either of you want to keep an extra eye on her...cases like this can always have complications, but I can promise you she has the highest level of care here."
Both parents were faintly reassured, but Bergan was still the only one who was capable of forming words quite yet. He held Henne just a little tighter against his chest, stroking one of his hands through her hair as he looked over her head to the doctor.
"I think Henne here is gonna need that room...did she have her phone on here? There're are a couple of people who need to know she's here..."
It was a brief few minutes before Bergan had his daughter's phone in hand, Karla managing to unlock it for him and bring up the phonebook, scrolling through the names and reaching one of the two he needed, standing a short distance down the hall from Mia's room, his voice its usual deep, gruffer tones, but with a hint of worry to it.
"Oi Nik lad...you free to talk? Mia said you've been a bit busy lately..."
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 13, 2017 13:13:03 GMT -8
Nik had indeed been busy. After getting back from Era, he'd started immediately on taking care of a bunch of League and moving-related affairs in preparation for his job change. Then he got roped into being Orion's accomplice in a crime (okay so it was more that he caught Orion and favored trying to help him get out without being identified over watching his own back but still). Then he got a call that Dasha was in the hospital after nearly blowing herself up, and while there had to talk to mom about covering costs and damages for his and Orion's little adventure.
And that was just his first day back. He'd collapsed after with only a text to Mia, and the following day had to take care of more League stuff and tried to call Mia to see if she wanted to grab lunch. He knew that was a pretty shitty anticlimactic first meeting after so long not seeing her (even if some part of him was amused that they used to hang out only once every week or two and now barely over a week felt like ages), but he was too eager to see her to wait longer... Though he'd have to regardless, since her phone hadn't had signal or was dead at the moment or something? Leaving a message felt like an especially shitty first contact though so he just decided to call later. Then later was swamped by more errands and checking on Dasha again and a night spent making up for his time with Orion having been cut short the day before.
After that was another morning of errands followed by house-hunting with Orion, and as nice as the latter was on a lot of levels the exhaustion of going so non-stop for days and the stress of knowing he really did have to find/pick something soon was starting to catch up with him, so... Mia just got a brief call recapping the day's events and saying he missed her. (He.. did say that, right? It was a pretty short call and he was pretty out of it but... surely? If not she had to have understood that from him finding time to call at all, right?)
More house stuff and paperwork and negotiations mixed with a lot of trying to catch up on sleep and cool down in the next few days, during which... Mia seemed busy too? Nik was a bit less so finally, but still not exactly bursting with free time, so as much as he wanted to see her, he told himself this was fine, this was part of being an adult, this was largely his fault for having so much on his plate all at once all of a sudden, and they'd just have to catch up extra hard when he did finally get to spend real time with her.
...Until he got a call from Mia's number-- "Hey babe, sup?" -- only to hear her dad's voice on the other line.
A sense of overwhelming fear and dread overcame him. "What's wrong. What happened?"
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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 13:23:57 GMT -8
Oh how little Nik knew about how appropriate that response was. If anything it only made Bergan more gad he called, between Mia needing someone like that and just the fact that if Nik had heard any of this days later he probably would have been punched in the gut with it. Ai, Bergan had an inkling Nik was the best bet for a first call (even if that was majorly due to his name coming way before Vesta's alphabetically) "Lad she..." He wanted to say she was fine, but between her condition and how she was reacting to it, even with the medication as an explanation...
"...She's in a rough ways lad...there was an accident or sumthin' on a league mission and, well...we're all in the hospital with her now..." There was a light pause, some ruffling down the line as Bergan scratched at his beard, trying to find the words. "Look she's pretty out of it but...I think she needs someone like you here when she comes down..." He didn't quite know what to say. He had this sense from how Mia talked about Nik that he was far more the one to talk things out...Bergan himself was just struggling not to say the wrong thing like Mia herself might, and Henne was barely able to speak at all right now.
"Lad I really don't wanna put a burden on ya if you're busy...she'll be fine, she always is but...a'thought you should know."
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 13, 2017 13:51:31 GMT -8
In a rough way. Accident. League mission. Hospital. Nik was stunned at first, then his jaw clenched tightly shut to avoid a furious outrage. Some wispy thought in the back of his mind thought he should be grateful, even flattered, that Mia's dad called him and said she needed him but...
Deep breath in... Deep breath out... "Which hospital and room."
Across the room, Jasna looked up from where she rested on the couch. ...Did he say hospital? A-fucking-gain? Were they having a sale??
As soon as Bergan conveyed the directions, he flatly replied, "Give me thirty seconds," and hung up the phone.
... ... "MOTHER FUCKING GODDAMN SON OF A SHIT." His phone hit the ground, bouncing and clattering along. He took a few more seconds, huffed, and then went across the room to retrieve it. The impact didn't even shut it off. Technology today, man...
"Mia this time. You coming fuzzbutt?" He looked to Jasna, who looked down at her still-casted leg and squirmed a bit uncertainly before flopping over on the couch. "All right. Be careful while I'm gone."
He appeared in the waiting room, the hospital not allowing teleportation directly into rooms, recalled Lucy immediately, and found Bergan quickly. "Do I need to sign in or can I just go?"
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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 14:03:55 GMT -8
Conveying the information Bergan was...more than a little unnerved by how matter of fact the lad seemed to be. Was he okay? Mia did say he was busy so maybe it was just a bit of stress...knowing he could teleport the thirty seconds comment didn't shock him in the slightest, and he managed to squeeze in a "See ya then lad'" Before the hang up, walking down towards the waiting rooms to see if he could meet the boy halfway.
Catching him not too far from Mia's room itself in the end, he lifted up his hands and just tried to...bring him to a halt for a second, Bergan of all people knew that the next door was not one he wanted to rush through. "Yeah son ya' can go right in but just...do me a favor and take a deep breath there for me? She's...just assurin ya she's fine but even with how she is I think you're gonna need to make sure you're calm and ready before you head in there...alright?"
Karla was walking up the same hall from behind Nik, not having realized he'd been called, Chezzers following not far behind her, arms filled with small goodies, both from one of the hospital's little snack shops and a few "get well" items from Liggsians who heard the news when she was rolled in.
"Oh er...hey guys...Dad you-?" She clearly seemed a little concerned as she glanced between the two of them, Bergan shaking his head. "Just gonna show 'im in now..." Eyes shifted back to Nik, trying hard not to sound patronizing, his concern as a parent pushing through as he wanted to make sure Nik was calm heading in. "...just making sure he's alright..." Heh...they already had Mark and Henne on the verge of their own kinds of freakouts, they didn't need a third.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 13, 2017 14:56:42 GMT -8
Deep... breath... in... Slow... breath... out. "I'm not the slightest bit all right," he replied, voice flat and low. "I'm pissed. This is the third time I've been in a hospital in the past two weeks. I'm pretty sure if my reckless dumbass boyfriend had his way it'd be four." Or would be, but Nik swore if he put him through that any time soon he was not going to forgive him. "I spent a lot of last week visiting graves, including one of a 14-year-old kid I was pretty fond of." Whose death his own actions had pretty directly contributed to in the grand scheme, for that matter. "I am..."
A slow, exasperated sigh escaped him as he ran a hand down his face. "So fucking done with dealing with this kind of shit right now."
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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 15:04:18 GMT -8
Oh...Bergan almost felt bad for calling him up...this could have waited really but...even then he felt like Nik needed to know what sort of state Mia was in. It was only fair really. If he'd found out days later she was in this state and couldn't have been there to help her through it well...it wasn't something to linger on. All the same, Nik sounded like he'd been through a lot, Bergan nodded back towards Mia's room and made a step to the side to let Karla and Chezzers through, the pokemon pulling in his shoulders a bit s he passed Nik, moving on behind Karla.
"Look lad...you're free to go in there but if you need a second thats fine too...we can go to the canteen, take a second, breathe, talk...truth be told I'm...I'm fairly useless in there anyway and I think Henne could used the break herself." He held a soft expression, clearly fine with either option but giving Nik the opportunity to just take a moment and rest if he needed to, it did sound like he'd been through a lit."
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 13, 2017 16:27:53 GMT -8
Blaaaaah blah blaah blah ugh. Nik didn't want to talk. He... he might want to talk, later. He did appreciate Bergan being willing to. But right now he just... wanted to be about as high as Mia probably was, honestly, and then maybe sleep for three days and wake up to a world where everyone had calmed the fuck down but he digressed.
He just walked past Bergan and into the room. Ugh.... He'd gotten pretty banged up. Dasha had less visible injuries but her main one was a lot more severe. Mia looked as bad or worse than both of them put together. How bad should he expect Orion to wind up? Ha....... ugh.
She looked conscious but he wasn't sure how alert she was yet, and announced his presence with, "You know, there are way more effective ways to get attention."
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SOMEONE CHALLENGE MY GYM ALREADY |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 16:40:33 GMT -8
Bergan could tell it may not have been the best idea to let Nik past him, but...the lad seemed determined to see Mia, whether it was a need to, or just a need to get it out of the way and finish his rough week. He let out a heavy breath of his own, and followed behind.
In the room, Henne, Karla, and Mark where all sat around the bed. Henne wasn't on the verge of tears anymore but she clearly wasn't too comfortable in her own way. Karla was keeping herself calm, lightly laying a hand over Mia's own, the gym leader's eyes half closed. Mark seemed like he'd just taken some sort of load off his shoulders, breathing deeply as he hung his head. Each of them briefly looked to Nik, the motion in the room catching Mia's attention, and while there was still a hazed look in her eyes she was smiling brightly at seeing him.
"Niiiiik! Nik nik!~ You made it!~" Giggling a little, his own words barely registering, she looked around at her family and Chezzers in the corner. "Nik you have got to give me a hand, these guys are just not picking up on all my amazing puns!~"
Mark groaned, deeply. Not in the sense he'd just heard a bad pun, but as if he was pushing the limits of how much he could control his anger at this point.
"I mean seriously!~ These are just some 'armless jokes I don't see why everyone's getting so upset!~"
It was then Mia lifted her right arm, bringing it into view...at least what was left of it. From the elbow up, it was heavily bandaged, from the elbow down...it was missing.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 13, 2017 17:07:32 GMT -8
Mia happy to see him was a brief relief. As much as he reminded himself of all she'd stuck with him through and what a saint she could be and that she should know by now that she could always be direct with him when she had a problem, the most paranoid parts of him had still started to worry she was mad at and/or ignoring him. This helped quiet those fears, though that was a rather background process just now.
Then came her big reveal, and the reason Bergan was so intent on preparing him became much more clear.
Despite everything, in the back of his mind, a single loud HA did sound, but unfortunately for Mia, it wouldn't make it to the surface beyond one momentary twitch of his lip.
That was followed by running his hand slowly down his face. He should... be freaking out, panicking, demanding to know if she was okay or had any other severe injuries he couldn't see right away but.... Nope. No he... had passed his stress event horizon and did not have the energy to even consider any of that.
"The question is, do I even wanna know what you did?"
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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 17:34:27 GMT -8
{hours ago...}Mia's body was sore, her vision blurred as she opened her eyes again. The last hour or so was like a mess in her head, a lot of motion, people running around her, loud voices and maybe a squeal from...from her mother? Was it some weird nightmare...? Her vision began to clear and she could tell she was in the hospital...she tried to push herself up but slipped, her body moving before her hand and hitting the back of her head against the wall behind her, groaning and thankful for whatever had softened the blow...fuck it still hurt though...
"Miss Kearney...?"
Her eyes darted to the source of the sound but took a moment or two to bring the picture into focus, resting on her elbow and taking slow, deep breaths as she tried to focus. Her whole body felt like it was in a constant state of low level agony, and she couldn't quite tell why yet. She could tell she was in the hopsital...a nurse? Had something happened.
"Yeah...yeah I'm...here...Ugh. I crash my bike or something?"
"I...no. It's actually a lot more serious than that...a hiker in the woods tells us a pokemon guided them to you and called for an ambulance to bring you here. The league informed us you were on some form of mission but they refuse to share the details."
"Heh...sounds like them alright..." Steadying herself as she sat up, finding her left arm far more reliable than her right at the moment, she slowly took the world into focus, she could feel the tight skin around her stitches and the bandages around her head, brain still not quite all there yet. "So lemme guess...a few rounds of poke-center healing tech and I'm back out?" She managed a faint smirk, knowing it didn't work on humans but they had their own close machinery these days.
"Actually...Miss Kearney you're going to be under treatment for a...a fair while. Your family can come see you in a moment but we wanted to make sure you understood the gravity of your own situation before introducing them to you. For starters...the surgery on your arm was-"
Her arm? Huh. So that's why it her right arm felt so numb. No wonder she couldn't get a grasp on anything if she was still pumped with local anaesthetics. She lifted her arm, and a word rung through her head.
"Unsuccesful..."
Mia was forced into an outer body experience as she stared down at her own arm...the world was silent to her beyond that point. The nurses continued words were muffled gurgles at best as she took in the reality of what she was seeing and...found herself unable to accept it. She didn't know at what point she'd started yelling, at which point she'd started trying to push out of her bed. Why was she even doing it? Her body was just...raging at nothing. Hands pushed her down and she continued to struggle, and eventually, her eyes were forced shut again... As Nik asked his question, Mia gave a light shrug, lifting her other arm as if she was going to rub the back of her neck as she often did, only for a leather cuff tieing her to the side of the bed got in the way, giggling at just being reminded it existed before beaming back at Nik, sticking her tongue out briefly before she replied. "I don't really know, Nurse said the League wouldn't tell 'em and I don't remember!~ They'll probably tell me when I get out of here though..." Her head dipped around the room, spotting an empty seat and pointing to it. "Yours.~"At the side of the bed, Mark sighed a little heavily, frustrated by how light Mia seemed, not fully registering that this was entirely the work of some light sedatives and heavy pain meds, just getting more and more frustrated by how she was turning this into some big joke. "Least she's not making puns...anymore at least"
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 13, 2017 17:52:51 GMT -8
Really. Really? Okay then... He doubted the League would tell him either, with things as they were. ...Maybe he could get ahold of Beth? His effects manager, Gwen, had been pregnant for a few months and neither she nor her husband had really complained about the early maternity leave; but Nik had helped his main receptionist get another job in the League as a secretary. Her clearance wouldn't be any higher than before, and she may or may not be willing to snoop around given they got along well enough but never really hung out or anything, but it might be worth a try? Ehh he'd think on it later.
As Mark commented, Nik glanced over and shrugged. "Let her have the puns, dude. I'd probably be as bad or worse in her shoes, and laughing's better than crying."
He pulled the chair as close as he could to Mia's side across from Karla and got comfortable, propping one foot across his other leg. "I hope you understand though babe," he started. "Whatever you did is gonna have serious consequences." He was sure she knew that. Her family knew that. But that wasn't why he was saying it now.
"You're not gonna be able to hold my and Vesta's hands at the same time. And if we ever watch movies together you're gonna have to deal with all kinds of fighting over who gets to sit on your good side. I hope you're ready for that."
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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 18:15:21 GMT -8
As Nik moved to take a seat, Bergan filled his own from before, sitting next to Henne and wrapping an arm around her shoulders, glad she'd started to calm down, the woman taking a slow, soothing breath, thankful Nik hadn't freaked out, but at the same time oddly unnerved by the same fact, looking to her husband to see if he'd told Nik anything before he walked in, only to get a shake of the head as the husband and wife quickly understood eachother.
"Yeeeah Mark. Lemme have the puns!~ They cost me an arm and a leg to get!~" She;d giggle for a moment or so before adding quickly enough to Nik. "Don't worry, I''ve still got both of those."
Her jokes just earning a growl from her brother, Bergan at least felt safe enough to give them a faint chuckle, Mia pointing her stub at her Dad quickly silenced them however, despite the fact she'd entirely meant to give him a thumbs up, forgetting for a moment her inability to do so.
As Nik began what everyone thought was going to be a serious lecture, Mia was still beaming brightly...though...as the rest of the room took it as a joke, her head just slowly began to hang, her blonde hair slipping through the head bandages and lingering over her eyes as her head hung, her next breath a little staggered as her mood swung entirely in the opposite direction...why was she making jokes about this? None of her family had dared push how serious her injury was and before Mark could lash out about it, Nik's intended joke hit her like a punch to the gut.
"I...y-yeah...G-guess so..."
Her left hand lightly gripped the sheets by her leg, and unable to do the same, the bicep of her right arm tightened as though it tried to, Mia faintly hissing as it worsened the pain at her joint for a moment to push past the medication.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Nov 13, 2017 18:29:51 GMT -8
ARM AND A WHA-- okay. Okay good he was about to be pissed.
As she reacted to his later bit, Nik frowned. He wanted to be upset that his attempt to be calm and light about this had somehow been what set her off but... heh. As easily as he seemed to push her buttons sometimes, he couldn't even pretend he was slightly surprised at this point. Oh fucking well.
He slowly sighed. "Don't sweat it, babe. They make all kinds of high end prosthetics now, and especially if you were doing League stuff when this happened they're bound to cover whatever you need." ...He should have been discouraged by the reaction his first attempt at humor got, but he guessed he wasn't kidding with Mark, ironically. "..Of course, it won't be half as strong as your real one, but science can only be expected to achieve so much. Matching divinity is hard work."
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Post by Mia Kearney on Nov 13, 2017 18:40:39 GMT -8
Despite the near crying sounds in each of her breaths, a chuckle seemed to break it's way through as Nik continued to speak. With her mom on one side and Karla on the other Nik likely didn't have a seat too close to Mia herself. Wordlessly she lifted up her good arm and tried to lean forward from the headrest, catching herself on the cuff that had her tied down, smile just faintly evident in her tone as she tipped her head towards her sister.
"Karla...you mind if-" "Oh, don't even worry about it." Easing out of her own seat Karla offered it up to Nik, Karla clearly getting it right as Mia made no objections. If Nik filled the seat, she'd just lean over to him as best she could, face resting against his shoulder as she laugh-sobbed into his shirt, still smiling as she did all the while. "I'm...I'm sorry..."
Despite the tears, Mia's family seemed far more at ease as she processed this in a way that was, to them, a lot more natural, the jokes having put them on edge and finally the tension in their shoulders was loosening up, Bergan giving his wife a tight squeeze as he flashed a smile at Nik. Even if it had been an accident, he was glad to call him if it got this out of Mia.
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