It is important if someone's going around hurting people.
[ But he doesn't look like he's going to press beyond that. It is very clear that most of what Valarie has done with wound care is more on the side of cleaning and bandaging than being at the helm of tools with sharper ends. When Bucky asks him, he frowns a bit and glances at the small kit a moment before looking at Bucky, pushing the kit towards him as he's reaching for it. If he can do it himself, then... well. He can do it supervised or something like that. ]
Not... first hand. I've watched a few. [ His lips press into a very serious line. ] I can help. If you're going to suture it yourself, I'd like to help.
No thank you--the shower was cold enough and I don't need a second.
[ He glances over behind T's shoulder. Engines. He'll remember that, well, as much as he can remember it in the dimness of the hall. The furrows his brow a bit before giving a nod and looking up at him. ]
No. Not very long at all. A few days, no more than that... I work over in the Medbay. A technician.
[ Whatever that means besides doing inventory :v ]
[The Medbay isn’t a bad place to work even if it’s the one location on the ship he avidly avoids going to unless he absolutely has to.]
I’m headed to Mero Deck. Unless you want to keep going that way, you’re welcome to walk with me. We can split up later. The Medbay isn’t too far from here. I can take you there.
[They can’t stand in the hallway talking to each other forever.]
[ Andyr snorts, but seems satisfied with that answer for the most part, catching the tossed q-tips and swiveling around to place them with the others. ]
Oooh, abandoning the q-tips after just a month, you’re a wild man, Valarie.
[ stacking them neatly, for once actually being helpful rather than sabotaging val’s work, he swivels back around, feet swinging idly. ]
And what, pray tell, could possibly be better than q-tips? Kitten sitting?
[ For his own sanity, he's going with believing that it was a joke. It had to have been, right? Not important right now. What's really important is the whole space thing. In fact, his face is pretty much the picture of awed. ]
Holy crap. It's space!
[ He looks back at Andyr and then out into space again. ]
"Oh really?" Stiles is not at all smooth as his mind starts racing. Is he just an over-enthusiastic emo band fan or a werewolf or what? It could be anything.
"I'm not really... uh... So what makes you so weird?" He's just going to plow right through to real questions.
This is Peter's favorite part, an opening to show off just what made him different.
For a moment, Peter just stands there to make sure he's got Stile's attention. In the next, he's gone with nothing but displaced air to show for it. A few moments later, he's back, pulling his googles back down around his neck and waving around some food from the mess hall. He smiles, thumps Stiles on the shoulder.
[He gives an exasperated sigh, but doesn't bother trying to stop the monkey. Tex, on the other hand, has made a huge mistake. The monkey's going to crawl up her shoulder and paw at her head.]
[It looks like she's made a new friend!]
I got the sense I was more like a guinea pig.... [Due to his special eyes, and all.] But I can understand that. If an infection breaks out in a ship like this..... er, it'd get pretty messy.
[ Bucky considers him briefly, then nods. ] All right. Hold the wound closed.
[ This is going to be a bitch, but he's had worse. He sutures it with surgical precision -- a skill he'd picked up for when emergencies happened during a mission. They didn't happen often, but enough that he knows to take care of himself.
It's done within a couple of minutes, and he speaks up finally, quietly relieved that the man isn't squeamish. ] Get me disinfectant and gauze dressings.
[She hopes her caution doesn't worry him too much. It's too early to tell if she's just being paranoid or not.]
I've been here six months, now. And no, this isn't the least bit typical. The entire time that I've been here, our captains haven't changed. Until now, that is.
Not the most popular, no. [She was never a huge fan, but she's even less of a fan of this.]
You're welcome, though I see no point in sugar coating any of this. You're a part of it, best you be prepared for what you've been dragged in to.
[She can't help it, she's been fascinated by the future ever since she arrived here. And now Jim is probably the furthest out that she's met. It's a good thing she was expecting a large gap, so her surprise isn't too extreme.]
Good Lord, you're really three hundred years ahead of me. It was 1947, where I'm from.
[She shrugs.] People seem to be able to tell us apart once they've talked
to us. And we don't have a lot of overlap on friends from this place,
anyway.
[ There's not so much as a flicker on Medusa's face, or even a stir in the depths of her hair. She's ordered millions to their death. She's ripped out the heart of her husband's kidnappers, skewered people on her hair, and never lost a night's sleep. There is no judgment here. ]
Those are solutions. [ One long strands of hair uncurls over her shoulder and laces across his own, a brief reassuring touch to draw his attention back to her. ] I can see that it did not work, but you attempted to address the problem. Who was the other party involved? And if you cannot kill him, and cannot reprogram him, can he be reasoned with?
[Now, wasn't that interesting? Something to file away and think about later.]
I suppose experiences must be different, as well. [After all, who can have exactly the same experiences? That's hard to imagine, but it was amazing what you started to accept here.]
[The touch, as strange as it is, does it's job. He looks back up to her, searching her face for any hint she's disgusted with him, that she's as angry as everyone else had been when his plans had first come to light. He finds nothing judgmental and it relaxes him.]
It was Alice. [Because she's no longer here for anyone to harm over what happened and because he thinks Medusa won't think ill of her for it.] We've tried that, I guess. Pretty sure the reprogramming attempt kind of freaked him out. We talked after that, sort of, recently actually. [They fought, actually, but Peter's not so much as told Wanda about that yet.] He keeps saying I was wrong and everyone seems to think everything will be okay if I just stay away.
[ The hair around them jerks inwards slightly, a sudden jolt of thought. ]
I remember Alice.
[ And then it moves into ripples once more, as Medusa pushes the sudden negative emotion down. The disappointment that the one person she'd remotely liked had disappeared by the time she came back. ]
It is unsurprising that he believes you are wrong. To his perspective, he is a person. You attempted to fundamentally alter his being. [ Again, no judgment. Medusa is comfortable with moral ambiguity. Or outright immorality, when necessary. ] Still, a wrong does not excuse another wrong. What you did does not erase what he has done. And now you think...he is following you again?
[And one of the people he missed the most around the Moira. He doesn't know whether he's glad she missed the fallout of their misadventures or still wishes she'd been there to deal with them with him.]
He came back after me, a while after it. Enough time that I guess he'd been planning it. He acts like it's over now, after he got the last word in. [After he'd gotten the last hit in, more like it.] But I don't know how much I trust that. Look, I don't want another fight with him. I don't want to be sitting in the cells again over him. But I don't want to be stupid and think that it's not a possibility either.
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