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apocalipped

New York, Saturday Afternoon Into the Night

Dec 22, 2012 17:55

When all was said and done, Jono could honestly say that he'd had better days. Sure, he'd had worse days. His life, it seemed, was an endless parade of worse days, all vying for a position at the top of the worst-days ladder.

( At the moment, this one was pretty high up there. )

people: april ludgate, people: christian cord, people: vincent stewart, people: jubilation lee, people: new warriors, people: angel salvadore, people: miranda leevald, people: karla, places: new york

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glacial_witch December 22 2012, 23:16:47 UTC

Karla was finalizing her plans for the break and decided to see what Jono was up to. Like, say, whether he was over being a grizzly or whatever it was he'd been.

...And to see if he was over his desire to murder her. You know, that too. That was important.

Ring ring ring!

apocalipped December 22 2012, 23:23:46 UTC

Yeah, no. That desire was still there. It was just a little muted thanks to some mighty painkillers that Jono had been given.

Painkillers that didn't exactly help him all that much. Not when answering his phone had started, initially, with a failed attempt to reach to where it was sitting next to his hospital bed with his stitched-and-bound left arm.

He was still swearing when he got the receiver to his mouth, with Miranda's help.

"-Bloody sonofa motherfu-"

"Told you to let me hand it to you, blue boy."

"Hello."

Jono was stubborn. And trying to live down the whole princess-carry thing, with little success. So if his answer was a touch terse... well...

glacial_witch December 23 2012, 00:27:18 UTC

"I take it I'm still in trouble," Karla said with a small sigh. "Kiss kiss, Jono. Wait, was that Miranda I heard?"

apocalipped December 23 2012, 01:46:17 UTC

"You're still in trouble," Jono said, rather definitively. "And yes, that's Mira. I'm in New York at th'moment."

You know. In a hospital bed. With weeping puncture wounds in his arm and leg. Good times.

glacial_witch December 23 2012, 04:33:36 UTC

"Oh," Karla said, frowning. "I don't suppose you're there for the holidays? Spending Christmas with the team and a complete lack of danger?"

You shut up, Jon. She was allowed to be a hypocrite if she wanted to. You were about to be, so nyah.

apocalipped December 23 2012, 04:35:32 UTC

"Um..."

Yeah, he had to think about that one. For... a long moment, there.

"I'm safe?"

He didn't sound sure about that, really. But then, Jono didn't have great experiences in hospitals in the first place.

glacial_witch December 23 2012, 04:37:44 UTC

"Okay, I'm just gonna call bullshit on that right now," Karla said, pursing her lips. "Because you just used the same tone of voice I do when I'm trying to get around answering questions that'll get me in trouble."

Stop picking up her mannerisms, Jono. Especially the ones that get you in trouble.

apocalipped December 23 2012, 04:41:50 UTC

But he was on drugs, Karla. All fucked up on painkillers.

"I am safe right now. In the hospital. They gave me morphine."

"Oxycodone, Jono."

"That too."

Drugs were drugs. Right? That's how it worked?

glacial_witch December 23 2012, 19:28:11 UTC

"..."

"..."

"..."

"WHY ARE YOU IN THE HOSPITAL ON MORPHINE?!?"

apocalipped December 23 2012, 19:40:06 UTC

"Because it hurts," Jono replied, totally logically. "A bit like the ringing in my ear, now."

"Oxycodone," Miranda supplied, helpfully. Because she was the one who used to sort of specialize in messing with the crap running through a person's bloodstream, and all.

"There was a... Underground. Big Machine... smith."

"Machinesmith, Jono."

glacial_witch December 23 2012, 19:41:49 UTC

"...Underground? Like the king with the tight pants?" Karla, why were you trying to get sense out of a drugged Jono. "Or literally under the ground?"

apocalipped December 23 2012, 19:51:48 UTC

"... Yes."

Look, where Jono was from, everyone wore pretty tight pants.

"Yes?"

glacial_witch December 23 2012, 21:31:37 UTC

"...Put Miranda on the damn phone," Karla growled. "I want to talk to someone with sense."

not_ecstatic December 24 2012, 03:58:58 UTC

"Sense? But I--"

"If she's talking about sense, she's asking for me, Blue. Give me that."

There wasn't much protest from Jono as Miranda snatched the phone, considering it came along with a raised fist, poised to chuck him in the shoulder a good one.

"Hey. Blondie?"

glacial_witch December 24 2012, 04:05:54 UTC

"The one and the same," Karla said with a sigh, rubbing the bridge of her nose. "If I ask you what the sweet bloody Hell happened, I'll get a sane response, right?"

One that was close to coherent, even?

not_ecstatic December 24 2012, 04:11:32 UTC

"Seeing as I got out of there in one piece, yeah, you will," Mira replied, rolling her eyes at Jono as he attempted to big-sad-eye her into giving him his phone back. "We got into some more trouble than we bargained for on a mission, and half of us had to scurry to regroup so that all nine of us wouldn't end up dead. Jono here got trapped in the underground with the Big Bad, and kept the three he was down there with alive long enough for us to come crashing in again with backup."

Wasn't that great to hear, Karla?

Ish?

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