[Video] Then I drown in a precious little meltdown...

[gaveherwings]

To all my patients...

[Daedalus is speaking levelly to his holobook NV, which is propped up in the booth of a diner possibly recognizable as the one across the street from Skye Medical Center. A waitress passes with a pot of coffee, gives him a comforting pat on the shoulder and an 'It'll be okay, Doc' which he half-cringes away from, before drawing

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[Video]

[steel_goddess]

...I'm sorry Doc. [Samus is upright for the first time days, a bandage over half her face to cover the burns and lesions, and another around her neck. She'd fought to get up at the sight of him under attack, to struggle out of bed to help...only to be sat back down by one of the nurses like she was an infant.]

I never meant...I'll make this right somehow.

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[gaveherwings]

I agreed to this, remember.

Are you alright? Pyke's not letting anyone in to harass you. I can assure you, we are not handing you over to SERO Hospital, no matter what.

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[steel_goddess]

I'm fine...been watching the news posts I missed while I was under. [Her one good eye is haunted, dull and lusterless where before it was bright.]

Lots of people dead, lots of people hurt, including you.

Pyke's fine. We don't like each other, but we understand each other. I'm going to fix this, I have some ideas...[Some really, really bad ideas.]

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[gaveherwings]

I'm sorry, please, don't- ...this was a truth that you were very bold in bringing to light. And the public's reaction, that's not your fault.

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[steel_goddess]

No I can't control how people react...but I did this, I brought everything to the fore for people to react to. I'll make it right.

[Samus swings her legs over the side of the bed, resting her hands on the edge of the bed for balance.]

...would AGI have the authority to have you re-instated?

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[gaveherwings]

AGI!? AGI has nothing to do with Skye Medical Center.

I wouldn't want to work for Afterglow anyway.

[Video ; Private]

[steel_goddess]

No that's not what I mean. I know you wouldn't, I was just wondering if they could flex some political muscle to get you re-promoted in Skye, not as an agent of theirs.

[No nurses right now, so if she's going to get moving it has to be now. Reaching up she starts to unwind the bandage from the burns on her neck. Pulling out the cords is going to suck.]

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[gaveherwings]

I don't want their help. I'm sick of being in the debt of people I don't care for.

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[steel_goddess]

You won't be in anyone's debt Doctor, -I'm- going to fix this.

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[gaveherwings]

Wait. Samus. Just what are you doing?

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[steel_goddess]

I have something AGI wants apparently. I'm going to see how badly they want it, and what they're willing to pay to get it.

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[gaveherwings]

They want your knowledge of the core, Samus.

Please. Don't get caught up in the factions.

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[steel_goddess]

Exactly. And if I give them my knowledge of it, maybe they can flex some muscle and get you back where you should be.

I fucked up Doc, large. A bunch of people died, a lot more are hurt and now SERO knows who and where I am. I have to fix this.

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[gaveherwings]

I will make myself clear once again. I don't want AGI to be flexing any muscle on my behalf.

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[steel_goddess]

Dammit, I'm just trying to help! It's my fault you're in this mess, that everyone's in this mess! Why can't...I'm just...I...

[She's breathing hard and fast, trying to absorb everything that's happened since she was comatose, sinking down the edge of the bed onto the floor and putting her face in her hands.]

F-fuck.

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[gaveherwings]

Please....get off the floor and back in your bed.