20th Countdown Text// Backdated to the 18th

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[Jinx is certain that Kairi and Xanth are still in one piece. Great news. He also knows that Gideon died and Pamela was stabbed. Was all of this really worth it? If not for the fact that he wanted to see Xanth to make sure Erol didn't get to him, Jinx could have not had the will to keep breathing with those cracking ribs.

There is dried blood

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[electroniccrane]

[When the message came through, it didn't take much work for the Major to find Jinx. She looked down at him in contempt.]

You are an idiot.

OOC: If someone else has dibs, just let me know and I'll delete this. ♥

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[Jinx looks up only to see an unfamiliar face. Oh, well. At leas it's someone.]

Thanks fer th' news.

(ooc: You're cool here~)

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[electroniccrane]

[Snort. She squats down next to him.]

Any major bleeding?

[Doesn't look like it, but better to check.]

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Not anymore. Most of it's dried but th' worst injury's my hand.

[He cringes as he feels the knife tugging on his flesh.]

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[electroniccrane]

[Kusanagi's medical training comes from a world where prosthetics are indistinguishable from the real thing, and thus it consists mostly of "how to keep someone's brain alive long enough for the medic to get there."

Consequently, the hand doesn't worry her.]

All right.

[She starts to pick him up. No way is she letting Jinx lean on her while he takes 10 minutes to stagger to the Clinic when she can just carry him and get it over with.]

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Watch it, Kid! I'm kind a pinned ta' th' fuckin' ground.

[Jinx really has no problem with Kusanagi carrying him to the Clinic.]

Just don't take me ta' th' damn AMU, I hate that place...

[Aww, little Jinx reverted to a pouting twelve year old.]

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[electroniccrane]

[Wordlessly, she works her hand gently under his, and, pinching the knife blade between her finger and thumb, pops the tip out of the ground, without the pain or further damage pulling it free of his hand would have caused.]

AMU is the only one with painkillers.

[She points out the obvious calmly as she sets Jinx's injured hand (with knife) in his lap and scoops him up. Kusanagi spent most of her childhood in hospitals and has very little sympathy for Jinx's whining.]

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[Jinx inhales sharply through clenched teeth. It could be worse. She could have pulled the entire thing out.]

Didn't need them last time I got hurt...

[He cringes again when that arm is placed in his lap. Not from pain, but from the pressure and the tugging. It feels cold and stiff from the loss of circulation.]

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[electroniccrane]

[She stands smoothly, Jinx's weight causing her no apparent strain to carry.]

If you'd prefer to go to your stateroom, I'll take you there.

[The "you enormous child" is left unspoken but hangs there in the air regardless.]

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[How is she even able to carry him? She's so small and Jinx is so damn big.]

...What th' hell's a stateroom? If it's a doctor I don't fuckin' need it. Pinky helped me last time.

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[electroniccrane]

Your quarters.

[She's walking toward the stairwell, because regardless of where she drops Jinx's busted, smelly ass, she has to take the stairs, anyway.]

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Fine then.

[He looks to the woman's eyes when she heads towards the staircase.]

Why don't ya' take th' elevator?

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[electroniccrane]

Weight limit.

[She's a cyborg. Going on a diet won't help.]

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Ya' don't look like you'd cause any trouble fer th' elevator, Kid.

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[electroniccrane]

Mil-spec cybershells don't show it.

[Half the fun of having a body like a tank is the look on people's faces when they realize it.]

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Can't sat I know what a Mel Speck cybershell is.

[He does know that it's a type of 'roboty thing.']