023: VIDEO

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[A view of the good doctor and a small team in surgery. Chase is wrist deep under yellow, iodine-swiped skin.]

And that's what it really means to have your stomach tied up in knots. Well that looks much prettier than it did before - the rest seems clear. Book scans and barium for five days to check things are moving through clearly and the other adhesions shouldn't be problematic...

[He lifts both hands free, gloves bloodied to the wrist, and backs up.]

If you can close up here... Have me paged when she's through recovery so I can explain the switch to open. I'm going to-

[Wipe out.

Whatever Chase was going to do, it's interrupted by him suddenly crashing out of view behind the table. Surgical tools and kidney bowls of unidentified matter shower to the ground. There's a groan and, just at the edge of shot, a foot clad in a bright red stiletto being tentatively stretched out to one side of the table.]

I'm going to go and strap my ankle.



[ooc: still unwell so still backdating, sorry sorry <3]

Comments

[eiremagic]

[Make sure she doesn't see that scar]

Eat spinach.

[intheblanks]

[As long as she doesn't turn her head too far.]

I'm not anaemic.

[eiremagic]

Yet.

[intheblanks]

[He leans on his good side and crooks his arm, tugging her in a little.]

It's cute that you worry.

[eiremagic]

[She allows this, nudging closer]

Someone has to. You live with a fairy tale princess and the fucking spider queen.

[intheblanks]

[Oh. Well then.]

She can be reclusive and wears a lot of black. I think the nickname's a bit of a leap.

[eiremagic]

Chase.

[She rolls her eyes]

I was here the last time she was. No one knows now but everyone knew then. I'm not sharing it because fuck, she doesn't hurt me or mine and you seem attached.

[intheblanks]

[He hesitates, still unsure if it's wise (or even his place) to admit to knowing, too. Finally he nods, faintly.]

I was here, too. I don't remember that.

[eiremagic]

No you weren't.

[Eden shakes her head]

She left before Eoin even came here, and you didn't show up until after Eoin did.

[intheblanks]

But she knows me from before. [And he has his own, vaguer memories of the same.] Or is that just the break in my memory?

[eiremagic]

She was here before you left and forgot everyone.

[A shrug]

[intheblanks]

[It's frustrating, these broken bits in his own head. Not knowing exactly who came when and why.]

How did everyone know?

[And there, admission.]

[eiremagic]

It was different, the City, then. More people with magic, not the wand waving shite kind, but real magic, the kind with consequences.

[She shrugs again]

Tony told some people. She was more open, then, too.

[intheblanks]

[He'd have more questions if it didn't make the depth of his involvement too obvious.]

She's a friend. There have been enough chances for her to hurt me if she was going to, I'd rather have her on my side.

[eiremagic]

Yeah, you probably do.

[intheblanks]

[He looks down at her.]

Somewhere along the line real magic, with consequences, must have been something I got used to.

[eiremagic]

Don't get cocky because I'm a fucking sap who loves you, Chase.

[His office is now right there.]

[intheblanks]

[There is a chair in it. It has wheels. This variety, Chase will consent to, and he helps himself down into it.]

Thank you.

[eiremagic]

You're welcome.