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Sergeant Rick Doyle || 28 Weeks Later ([personal profile] fuckthemission) wrote2012-06-11 01:03 pm

04 | voice/written/action | Kidnap shifts are a bitch, and I hate 'em.

[June 9th (Nighttime)]

[Doyle returns from the mission and hopes distantly that the shift placed on him would be gone. It is not, and he's got an insignificant wound that probably needs a few stitches and something to disinfectant. He basically makes a beeline for his place, locks himself up (and may run into people along the way, despite his attempts to be sneaky). He'll just have to wait for it to wear off.

Yeah.]


[Voice]

Can anyone do me a favor? Probably a doctor at the clinic--I need, uh. A kit for stitching up minor injuries, things like that? Something to disinfect a wound? I'm not really in a position to go down to the clinic... If we can arrange somewhere to pick it up, I'd really owe ya.

[If you're in Community Housing 7, you might feel a phantom heat passing through the Floor 3 hallway. Also if you're Doyle's neighbors or you're above or below his room, sorry about the weird heat that seems to bounce around your place. :|]

[June 10th]

[It's getting worse. He's feeling a lot more restricted, a lot more like he's drowning in peak summer heat. Started sweating more; he takes nightly walks like he does sometimes, though more-so to escape how his room smothers him. Eventually, though, he starts to realize that he can't go to the grocery store, or the restaurant, or the item shop. Or the middle of the plaza. Frankly, he realizes he's just shoving heat in people's faces wherever he's at.

There's some joke to be made about making people want to take their clothes off, but he's too tired to amuse it. He temporarily stays in an empty house further back from any people, just until this wears off. Needs food, though. Going to the grocery shop isn't going to work out. At all.

A while later, an anonymous person pens in
this handwriting:]

[Written / Anonymous]

I'm stuck in a predicament, and I kinda' need food. If anyone can drop some off at the house I'm staying in, I'd really appreciate it--and I'd owe you one. Just on the doorstep, and I can do the rest.

[If people do decide to help out, he'd appreciate it. He even pens the house number. Just don't be alarmed if you help, or even if you just walk by, that something unceremoniously warm is seeping through the walls of the house. He's got the air on, the fans on, and he's still not feeling too relaxed.

He also goes out and sits at the lake. By the time he's there for an hour, two, he sits in the water and feels some semblance of relief for once.]


[June 11th]

[Fucking hell. Fuck.

He's given up on shirts. He's drinking a lot of water, too. Been sitting in the shower at the unspecified house until he prunes up. It offers a little relief. Not a whole lot. When it starts to rain he goes outside, goes back to the lake, sits in the water, in the rain; he hasn't gotten sick from it yet, so he's not about to stop.

When the rain clears up, he drags himself onto the shore and lays there. He feels too hot. He's going to burn up--they're going to burn him all up, aren't they, those assholes?

Too hot... Ugh... Too hot.

It's raining and overcast and he's laying here suffocating in heat.

What were the odds.]



((ooc: basically anyone within a 10-foot radius will feel like they're in a really hot desert that will progressively get worse the closer they go; the heat is stifling and hard to be around. Another 10 feet after that, there's a mild heat that'll probably be more recognizable on the rainy days. Touching him'll make you feel like you're being burned. Also to note, it only effects living things. So no actual hot objects. :|b

It'll go away before anything gets too intense for him, but he's a little freaked out and anxious and all that.))


mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (sympathy)

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[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-06-26 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds like it. I'd almost be tempted to say you'd be better off getting sedated the next few days or something, but I... think you're probably safer awake and suffering through it. [She sets the food down on the nearest table.] I can keep this up for you, though. It doesn't take much.
geniustheveil: (pgsm ☤ eh?)

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[personal profile] geniustheveil 2012-06-26 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Amazing! You must be very skilled. It must have been something you practiced a great deal.
relictusdeus: (Sadism)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2012-06-26 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He contemplates letting loose a teasing remark that he has never heard of one using a rifle in their love-making, but he bridles his serpent's tongue, letting Doyle pass. After all, he'll have to save something for next time too, no?]
faithfulflame: (Mars Smile)

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[personal profile] faithfulflame 2012-06-26 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha. How long have you been here, then?
no_compromise: (telling the story straight)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-06-26 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Viral watches the man quietly, not moving to offer assistance right yet. From the looks of the situation, there was little for him to do.]

...it's a Shift, isn't it?
fleurdesel: center, tired, sad (Some time to breathe)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-26 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[She has to walk close to get by him anyway. Make for the bathroom and start up cold water. That is her intent, at least. She doesn't make it that far-

He staggers, he wheezes, and Adele's at his side without thinking, grabbing his shoulder to help him upright before she staggers back with a low hissed string of obscenities.

It'd been like sticking her hands into a fire, she can't keep from staring at them, whole, unharmed, but throbbing with that phantom pain. There should be blisters. Broken skin. Blackened flesh.

But they're whole and unmarked.]


That...stings. Like a bitch.
fleurdesel: right, serious, sad, angry (Thoughtful)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-26 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I know Rick.

[A moment more for the sensation to recede. No blisters. No burns. Just the odd flare and hypersensitivity that comes with stung flesh. He can't stand on his own much longer.]

...This. This is going to-. Shit.

[She weaves past him, panting through grit teeth to finish running the cold water in the bath. Doubles back for him and approaches. Wrapped in a coat too big for her and gloves she hopes is his.

It won't help. Much. But it is better than nothing.]


Can you stand?
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (okay go on)

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[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-06-27 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
It's chemistry. Science, stuffed into a staff.

[IT'S ONE PIECE SCIENCE, DON'T QUESTION IT.]

I'm sure. This isn't costing me a damn thing but time.
Edited 2012-06-28 11:46 (UTC)
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (ahehe)

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[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-06-27 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
...although. I might need to go get a coat.
geniustheveil: (pgsm ☤ nice young lady)

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[personal profile] geniustheveil 2012-06-27 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I certainly try my hardest. It was something that was important to me all while I was growing up. [Yes, largely due to her mother's expectations and pressures - at first. But she'd made the choice for herself in the end, and on her own terms. She's proud of that.]
faithfulflame: (Mars Half Smile)

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[personal profile] faithfulflame 2012-06-27 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That...is an understatement sometimes.

[She covers her mouth with a gloved hand and giggles just slightly]

no_compromise: (libera me from hell)

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[personal profile] no_compromise 2012-06-27 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
They're like untrained beasts that way...

[A snort. The actions taken by the Malnosso would never fly in the Spiral King's military, even with the use of dirty tactics. Victory was one thing, idleness was another.]

At least you don't need to worry about getting sick from the cold.
alloys: (☢ randy said...nuffing.;)

voice;

[personal profile] alloys 2012-06-27 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. Once in a blue moon. Well--good luck with the whole. Sunbeam problem. Give the battle dome a shot.
fleurdesel: left, sad, shock, tired (It hurts)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-28 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[This is a bad idea.

This is going to hurt.

Don't. Just. Don't.
]


...merde.

[Low, curt, under her breath and she bites down on anything else she might say and steps in fast. Loops an arm around his ribs and swears a stream of curse words the moment she's within a foot of him. Grits her teeth and bears it, hauling him up once he's stable and starts leading him to the bathroom. It's close. It burns. Christ she's on fire and it hurts and she can't think and all she has to do is drop him and get away but it burns-

She's crying while they walk. Stagger. Limp. She makes it all of three feet with him, to the closest door frame before she has to let him grab hold of that and scramble away. Double over in the hall and sob quietly to herself as the burning eases.]
fleurdesel: center, tired, sad, serious, work (It's done.)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-28 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She can barely breathe where she's crumpled, curled up on the floor just trying to think past the searing throb along her side where she'd been in contact with him. This time it felt as though she'd been burned, it didn't fade as fast- if it would fade at all. As soon as she drags herself a few feet away the heat abates. The throbbing slows. Stills. Stops.]

...fuck.

[That had been the singularly most painful experience of her life that she can recall. Being shot wasn't so enduring. Bleeding out left her cold. That had been...

She'd rather not think about it anymore. Scrapes herself to her feet and resumes dragging ice from the kitchen to Rick's bathroom, filling the tub. It hurts to get close enough to throw it in, but. It's only ever for a few seconds. She shoves her hands under the cold tap water every time for some kind of relief. Pulls a chair in to sit several feet away, stripped down to her undershirt and sweating while he soaks in the tub. A small bowl of ice and water full of rags for her. Him. Whoever needs them.]


...has this. Helped?
fleurdesel: center, sad, serious (My condolences)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-28 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Feel as though I'm burning alive? No. I will take my fate back home of being shot and bleeding out in a hall over experiencing that again, or in truth, any day.

[It's low, rough, and exhausted. The bathroom wasn't so large that she could be a comfortable distance. Far enough she didn't feel rubbed raw, cracked open, and boiling, but. Not comfortable by any means. After a moment spent dripping and miserable in her chair she grabs one of the rags in the bowl of ice water and drapes it over the back of her neck.

There's a long moment before it registers as to what she's let slip. For a second she's tense. Quiet. He didn't need to know. She hadn't meant to tell him. This passes, and. Well. It doesn't mater, not really.]


Not your fault, Rick. I shouldn't have gotten so close. And the Malnosso should not be such bastards.

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