ϡ - Appointments Post
This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with folkloristic anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written
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Giles' voice, when it comes over the journal, is tired, rasping, and faint.]
...Helios? Can you hear me?
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I'm here, yes. Wh-what's wrong? Where are you?
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[There's definitely something wrong - Giles' breath is rattling in his chest as he takes a breath in.]
...do you know where it is?
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Hold-hold on.
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When Helios arrives outside the house, he'll find Giles just inside the front door, leaning against the wall and pressing his jacket to his throat. A trail of blood leads from the front steps of the porch to where he is, and blood is smeared on the walls and floor around him, on top of soaking down his chest and coating the hand keeping the makeshift bandage in place.
His skin is pale and his eyes are closed and his breathing is faint, but he is still breathing.]
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[ Helios will be over the other in a second using healing magic as fast as possible. ] Answer me please?
[ Helios is staying calm as possible his hands are indicative of this as they are shaking, slightly, but all the same he's still doing his damnedest to mend the wounds and keep calm. What happened? Neck wound would suggest a...vampire but he can't be sure. ]
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Helios?
[He swallows, painfully.] I'm... [What? Fine? Even Giles isn't going to lie that much.] ...alive. I'm alive.
Th-Thank you for coming.
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[ God there was a lot of blood it almost reminds him of...no he's going to think about it, not the time. A few more minutes healing and it should at least partial stop the bleeding. Still the blood loss alone needs to be dealt with...and Helios is no doctor. ] No need to thank me. We...we need to get you to the clinic. You've lost lost a lot of blood. And I-I don't... [ Have anything that can help. ]
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Everything w-will be fine. [He's not sure who he's reassuring. Maybe them both. He laughs shakily as another thought strikes him.] I'm c-certainly not going to let another vampire f-finish me off. [And Helios can thank Buffy for the resurgence of the gallows humor. But it's always reassured Giles when things are bad more than anything else.
He opens his eyes a little further, enough to take in Helios' face instead of just Helios' shape, enough to seem a little more alive.]
Clinic. Y-Yes. Can, can you get us both there?
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Vampire? How many? And do you know if Buffy is alright? [ He's working as fast as he can looking up at Giles every few seconds. He'll go back over to the other and lift Giles to his feet with a slight grunt before walking slowly into the circle. The clinic is vividly portrayed within his mind so it should be an instantaneous teleport. ] Close your eyes, it'll only be a second.
[ And with that the circle around them will glow a blueish hue before a bright white light envelops the both of them. He might feel a deep cold surround him as everything else goes black. The next thing Giles will ( ... )
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Helios, you're...
[He almost apologizes again, because he forgot that this sort of magic requires blood in Helios' world. And he knows that he's grown to depend on Helios way too much for this sort of thing - that thought has never been more vivid in his mind than it is now.
But what good will apologizing do? He's already lost the blood. Giles just...closes his eyes and looks away and tries to answer.]
Vampire. One.
...I don't know.
[He obediently closes his eyes when Helios says to and tries to stay upright without actually holding on to him.
Unfortunately, the teleportation forces Giles even further out of his own equilibrium when he's already shaky at best. He barely has time to note the familiar ground outside the clinic before his stomach roils.
So he'll reflexively shove Helios away before dropping back to his hands and knees to be sick all over the ground.]
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[ Why yes he did just swear because he had made another mistake and this is the result. What an extremely botched rescue attempt this was. ] I-I'm sorry I shouldn't... [ a sigh before he swallows thickly. ] We're almost there just, just a little bit further.
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[Giles' voice is almost a pained growl as he stares fixedly ahead towards the clinic. Shaking like a leaf, exhausted and weak and well past empty, he'll nevertheless attempt to get back to his feet under his own power.]
Walking...w-wasn't an option. N-Not now.
[And he makes it back to his feet, through raw determination and stubborness, although he's still swaying dangerously from the blood loss and the after effects of the teleportation. He looks over at Helios, making sure to meet his friend's gaze.]
Helios, I'm alive. [Unspoken but implied - "thanks to you."]
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But yes, alive, that's all that matters. [ He knows the implied very much so. He gives the other a weary smile however shaky it is as he opens up the door to the clinic. He might also begin to laugh lightly because man you sure gave him quite a damn scare there Giles. ]
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[Please laugh, Helios. Please don't freak out. It's something for Giles to focus on. It's something good.
He's bloody and pale and shaky, and Helios probably has more than his fair share of Giles' blood on him, by now. But they're at the clinic, he doesn't feel quite so much like he's actually dying, and Giles is absolutely determined, with every fiber of his being, to be okay. So he just holds on to Helios for support and focuses on walking.]
Just...n-need some bandaging.
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You need more than bandaging. I-I don't know if there's blood bags for a transfusion in here. [ Let alone the fact that he doesn't even know how to do one. But it couldn't be that hard if it really calls for it he'll call someone, anyone, that might know. But they'll finally make it into a room and Helios will set the other down on a bed. He'll set off to rummaging through the cabinets for bandages and alcohol to clean the wound. ]
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