A Medical Facility, Manaan, Monday Fandom Time

[suitably_heroic]

"I can't believe he actually has friends," Mira muttered. "I mean, I know some of you saw one, but I'm still pretty sure that was just a vivid hallucination."

Mical plucked the comlink out of her hands. "He does," he said, "and I have just notified them of his present state. It is a shame we couldn't recover this earlier; I can only imagine they have been worried."

Mira rolled her eyes at him.

"... all right, he is overly abrasive," Mical allowed. "But he took a beating because we could not exercise patience." He looked up towards the kolto tank that still held Atton's now largely-healed body. Unfortunately, they had not been in time, and some of the scars that loomed large across the man's torso and arms were... ugly.

At least they had been received well here in Ahto City. It made things easier - and gave them a chance to consider the future.

"They're planning to take him out in about ten minutes," Mira said, hopping off the cabinet she'd been sitting on. "Do you wanna be here when he gets out? Because I don't. Someone's going to have to tell him about Meetra."

"True," Mical said. "Perhaps we'll be lucky and he will take it with grace..."

"I wouldn't count on it," she said, strolling past him and out of the room.

He blew out a sigh and turned back towards the tank. "I suppose I will be here, then..."

[[ for those who know who they are - and a little bit of ocd ]]

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Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade hated medical bays. Hated. He hated the smell, he hated the quiet, he hated everything about the sterile cleanness.

He wrapped his arms around himself, found a corner to push himself into where he could watch as many of the exits as possible and waited for Atton.

Re: Afterwards

[myownface]

Sparkle wasn't even going to bother with words. Sparkle had been thinking of the important shit on his way out the door to get his ass here, and he'd packed the essentials.

Well. He'd packed one bottle of Fireball whiskey. Which he was silently offering to Cade now.

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"I drank all of his other stuff," Cade said with a tiny, tiny smile as he accepted the bottle. "Tough poodoo for him."

Re: Afterwards

[myownface]

"He had it coming," Sparkle declared, crouching down beside Cade. "He can't leave messages like the ones he left for me and then expect to come back to his booze stash, you know? Not going to happen."

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"He told me to drink it," Cade said. "Wasn't gonna say no to that. Not with that kind of asshole message."

Re: Afterwards

[myownface]

"Wait, he told you to drink his stash? Damn, he just told me not to be an idiot."

And so Sparkle had burned through what little alcohol he'd had on hand at the time, and then had screamed his throat raw trying to force Atton into answering the phone with the power of his voice alone.

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"That's 'cause he knows there's no way to talk me out of being an idiot," Cade said, drinking another swig from the bottle and handing it back to Sparkle.

Re: Afterwards

[myownface]

Sparkle accepted the bottle and took a long swig from it, himself.

"This just tells me that I need to put more effort into being idiotic, now."

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"We can go get tattoos," Cade suggested, "or get our ears pierced again?"

Re: Afterwards

[myownface]

"Permanent decorative scarring and putting new holes into our heads is never the wrong answer," Sparkle decided. "I could go for that..."

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Astral," Cade said. "We'll find a place after they throw us out of here."

Re: Afterwards

[myownface]

"We manage to get drunk enough, and I figure between the two of us, we can get 'Atton is a fucking idiot' tattooed to our asses."

It seemed apt. People tended to like cherishing big landmarks like that in their lives, right?

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Won't be stupider than a couple other ones I already have."

That is not a ringing endorsement for anything ever, Cade.

Re: Afterwards

[suitably_heroic]

Took a couple of runs of the towel through his hair before it stopped being sticky before Atton considered himself halfway presentable or whatever, but fine. Presentable.

He was not going to think about how weird Cade looked all rolled up in a ball like that, because that just made him comfortable.

"You wouldn't happen to know how to get a decent bottle of juma in here?" he said, swaggering up to the guy out of physical awkwardness instead of intent.

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Ask Sparks," Cade said with a grin he couldn't hold in. "He came prepared. You look like poodoo."

Re: Afterwards

[suitably_heroic]

"I feel like someone released an entire herd of bantha on me," Atton complained, "and then threw the poodoo in after them."

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Teach you to get into a stoopa...whatever the kark you did," Cade said, glaring. "Your message wasn't exactly heavy on detail."

Re: Afterwards

[suitably_heroic]

"We went back to Malachor V," Atton said, dropping his head back against the wall. "Screws with your head."

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade just stared for a long moment. "Well of course it karking would, stoopa. It's MALACHOR V."

Inside voice, Cade.

Re: Afterwards

[suitably_heroic]

"Keep it down, keep it down," Atton snapped immediately. "Damn it, my head can't take this kind of thing. Anyway, I think we blew it up. Think. My head's a whole lot emptier, I can tell you that much."

Ten solid years of the echoes of screams in your brain - losing them now was kind of big.

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Good riddance to it, if so," Cade said, moderating his voice, which was as close to an apology as Cade ever gave. "Ugh."

Re: Afterwards

[suitably_heroic]

"Ugh is about right," Atton said. "Space, I hate kolto baths. Never had one this long before, either."

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Beats the alternative," Cade said.

Re: Afterwards

[suitably_heroic]

This would not be the appropriate time to admit he'd almost let himself die back on Malachor.

... Actually, it was Cade. There'd never be an appropriate time.

So Atton just shrugged. "Sure," he said, "but it's still a pain in the ass."

Re: Afterwards

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"And everywhere else," Cade said, "judging by the look of you."