二十七

[anatural]

[ action ]
[Korra is done with the hospital. So very, very, VERY done.

Unfortunately, neither her body nor the hospital staff agree. Just a few more days, they promise her. You sustained major trauma from those bullet wounds. Personally, she finds the pain less traumatic than the terrible smell and the snoring of her roommates. (She's able to think this only because of really excellent pain medication.)

The biggest problem with being stuck in the hospital, though, is that it gives her too much time to think. About the injuries she sustained. About how she's going to need physical therapy. About the fact that no matter how hard she tries, she might never be able to move the way she used to again. The doctor warned her that her shoulder will be prone to popping out of its socket, and that her muscles may be stiff and harder to move than before. She's very lucky that none of the bullets shattered bone or nicked any organs. She could have died or been paralyzed. She tries to remember that and feel grateful, but mostly she feels like, bit by bit, everything that makes her her is being chipped away.

She hates hospitals.]


[ooc: open to any and all visitors or hospital staff!]

Comments

June 1st

[prosopopoeia]

[It isn't exactly that Marie thinks there is connection between the girl she injured and the destruction of her laboratory. Really, there is no reason to assume that without an explicit designation as such. Marie assumes the attack was political, that the deities hired someone to do the deed in response to the recent string of freedom propaganda. The main theme of Marie's work is escaping the City, the shoe fits.]

[No, she comes on the same day because her emotions have been worn down to nothing, numb inside. There is no other reason.]

[anatural]

[Her pain medication is starting to wear off and her entire body hurts. It's making her more than a little tetchy. When the door opens, Korra expects it to be one of the nurses, or maybe Tohru, and so she tries her best not to snap.

The last person she expects to see is Marie.]

You.

[She can't move her arm or muster up the strength for an airbending attack. So she settles for screaming.]

NURSE! NURSE!!!

[prosopopoeia]

[Marie just looks like she's getting a headache.]

Be quiet.

[She's made no attempt to come further in the room, just standing in the doorway.]

[anatural]

[Be quiet? Be QUIET?!?!?! YOU SHOT HER!!!! It doesn't matter that Marie doesn't seem to have a weapon and isn't advancing into the room. The fact that she's here at all is enough to make Korra's heart pound with fear and stop the breath in her throat.]

NURSE!!!!!!!! SOMEBODY!

[prosopopoeia]

[There are nurses coming. Marie glances at them tiredly before returning her gaze to Korra, empty.]

[She tosses a book onto one of the chairs for guests. A habit she's picked up from all of Chekov's stints in the hospital.]

[Then she turns and leaves, shrugging past the hospital staff who are much more interested in calming the screaming girl.]

[anatural]

[Korra flinches as the book flies towards the chair. But nothing hits her, and the strange woman leaves. Flooded with adrenalin, relief, lingering panic, and pain, Korra can't speak when the hospital staff floods into her room. All she can do is cry -- hideous, wracking sobs that are less about Marie and what happened and more about everything that her life has been this past year.]