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Room #226 -- All Day

Jan 27, 2006 10:25

Vala was bored. She had her nice pain meds that kept her from hurting too much, but Cam had only agreed to go to classes on condition she promise not to get up. So she was sitting in bed, munching on the chocolates Parker had brought her, watching the snow fall outside the window, and flipping through the channels ( Read more... )

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Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 18:49:49 UTC

On her way back from class, Isabel walked down the second floor hallway. She'd been thinking a lot during the day. In her head, Lorne's advice to tell had alternated with Max and Michael insisting she keep their secret. She wasn't ready to shout the truth from the rooftops, but maybe she could tell Vala. Because to tell the truth, she still felt guilty about not being able to stop the attack before things got out of hand. She had powers, there should have been some way to use them.

Telling Vala the truth would give her the chance to try something and possibly help Vala in the end. Max had always been the one to heal. But maybe, just maybe, if she focused hard enough, she'd be able to do it as well.

She took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 18:53:11 UTC

"Hey, come in!" Vala called, happy for the distraction.

Then she made a mental note to stop inviting people in before she checked who was there. Whoops.

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 18:54:53 UTC

Isabel came in and shut the door behind her. "How are you feeling? Did you sleep well?"

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 18:57:00 UTC

"Hey there!" Vala smiled. "Yeah," she lifted up her little bottle of meds and shook it. "Slept like the dead."

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 19:01:57 UTC

"Ooh, the good stuff!" She sat carefully at the foot of the bed. "Be glad you're inside today. It's miserable out there."

"So how long are you going to be out of commission? I imagine it's going to take some time to recover from a stab wound like that?" she asked.

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 19:03:58 UTC

"Yeah," she sighed. "The clinic doctor gave me a note to get out of classes through the end of the week, but I'm supposed to be extra super careful for practically forever."

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 19:09:22 UTC

"Really?" Isabel looked down, carefully studying her nails.

"If there was a way to make things better, faster, would you be interested?" She could feel her heart starting to pound, because who wouldn't be interested in getting better faster. But that meant she was going to have to explain. And she'd never willingly done so before. Peter and Angel? They had both known something was different. Vala, Vala thought she was a normal girl from New Mexico.

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 19:12:08 UTC

Vala frowned. "Uh, sure. Of course." What? "What do you mean?"

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 19:15:10 UTC

"First, can I ask that whatever I tell you stays just between us?" she asked. It was pretty obvious Isabel was nervous considering the way she was biting her lip.

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 19:17:04 UTC

O.K., this was weird. Then again, for this school? It's not like she didn't have her own secrets.... "Sure," she nodded slowly. "I can keep a secret."

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 19:20:47 UTC

In theory, it should have been easy enough to say the words. But it wasn't. Mentally Isabel started and then discarded half a dozen ways to explain before finally saying in a rush "I'manalienandIwanttotryandhealyou."

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 19:24:24 UTC

It took Vala a second to untangle the words. "Really?" she looked up in surprise. "You can do that?"

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 19:28:12 UTC

Isabel was so nervous about telling the truth, she didn't even realize that Vala wasn't all phased about the fact she'd said she was an alien. "Honestly, I don't know. Usually my brother is the one who can heal, but I thought I could try. If you'd let me that is."

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 19:32:34 UTC

Hey, if it worked? Better than a hand device... ooooh. She made a mental note to check with Janet later about that. If this didn't work anyway.

"Sure," Vala said, sitting up a bit straighter and wincing as her side pulled. "I mean if you can help, I'd really appreciate it."

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB izzyalienqueen January 27 2006, 19:35:34 UTC

"Can I try to fix your side first? Because it'll probably be easier if I can actually touch it."

Re: Conversation with Isabel, NFB aka_vala January 27 2006, 19:39:49 UTC

"Sure." Vala moved the blankets down and pulled her shirt up on that side. Loosening the bandages she winced a bit herself as she saw the heavily bruised skin surrounding the line of neat stitches.

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