Tai-San:The Stairs:Balancing Chi

[_tai_san_]

Secretly glad to leave the scene in the Main Cafe behind, Tai-San would have preferred it be for other reasons, but this was what it was. Siva had run off from the Extra Cafe perhaps, the last place Tai-San had seen her sitting, and now Lex was going off on Gel and storming off to the Second Cafe. Siva, however, was her immediate concern, her aura

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[_salene_]

Everything was happening so fast, and spinning out of control, Salene's head was starting to hurt, and her stomach wouldn't stop doing that sickening flip flopping thing, watching as everyone reacted. Ebony reacted badly, and Salene frowned, she hadn't meant what she'd said, but now that she'd said it and seen how Ebony reacted, well, Salene couldn't help but feel she'd hit a specific nerve. Shaking her head and closing her eyes for a second, Salene reminded herself that it didn't matter right now, what mattered was Tai-San and that was all.

Lex stormed off, and Ebony began taking control, after Alice, and Jay, it seemed as if Ebony was almost as concerned as others about getting her to the hospital. Confusion was setting in, she didn't know what to think, but she knew they were right, and she watched as Patch walked away to set things up, passing by the volunteer with the backboard. Salene motioned where to set the backboard before explaining how to lift Tai-San carefully to Dax and Alice, motioning for Lex to help since he was so adamant about helping carry Tai-San anyway. Together the four of them got her up and the backboard slid underneath her before laying her back down gently. "Right, Alice? Dax? You two go on ahead, I'm right behind," she promised with a nod to the volunteer who was going to direct them to the hospital directly.

Turning to Jay, Ebony, and May, Salene gave them a firm worried line of a smile, "Thank you, you guys, she'll be fine, I'm sure, we should probably get cleaned up after dinner. I know Dax is on cafe duty but I think I'll give him the night off, he's been trough a lot today," her eyes darted guiltily to May then down to the floor with a blush. "Thanks, again, Jay, for your help, and, don't worry Ebony, everyone in the Mall heard you," she meant it in a light way, but it came out kind of snotty, and all Salene could do was arch her eyebrows worriedly and sigh. "Sorry, I, better go check on Tai-San, and help Patch, he gets kind of stressed," she motioned at Hawk who was standing up at the top of the stairs to come on down if he liked, before turning and heading off in the direction of the hospital.

[_ebony_]

At Salene's openly bitchy comment, Ebony folded her arms over her chest and gave her the most disgusted look she could possibly muster before instantly turning her back on her. God, and she actually wanted to help this woman?!! Well, it wasn't just Salene she was trying to help. If it was just that, she wouldn't have gone to all the trouble of blackmailing Jack into bugging the office. But damn if Salene couldn't be a hooch. Pointing back to the place where the, (at least in her opinion) largely ineffective city leader had just been standing, Ebony looked angrily over at Jay. She wasn't angry at him at all, but it was easy enough to see she was pissed. "Did you see that?!!"

She walked past him, pacing back and forth once or twice and glancing over at May. This wasn't helping, she had to calm down. Being angry would only make things worse and worse was the LAST thing she needed right now. Finally stopping her pacing, Ebony took a deep breath with her backs turned to everyone else, glancing upward and counting to three silently before turning back around. She was calmer now, still seething, but less explosive. Part of her wanted to be in the hospital when Tai-San woke up so she could do damage control, but in a way, that might look suspicious. Besides that, she really didn't want to see Tai-San lying unconscious, knowing she'd tried to murder her. In the end, the desire to be there in case Tai-San said anything damaging won out and Ebony slowly walked back over to Jay. Her gaze fell back on his bandaged hands, noting that if Jay had refused to carry Tai-San because he didn't think he'd be able to, he must have hurt them worse than she'd thought. "You should let Patch have a look at this after he's finished with Tai-San." Ebony made sure to cut him off before Jay could say anything to the contrary. "And no arguing. I really don't want to have to fight with you too." The words themselves would have seemed blunt and catty but they were said with an edge of care that helped ease the rough edge off them. "Come on. I'll go with you."

[tribal_may]

Lex’s outburst towards her caused a glare to take over her eyes, and before she was even really aware of what she was doing, she took a step closer to Lex. That little punk thought he could order the whole world around at his whim. Besides, what was he so worked up about? He was with Siva and not Tai San and here he was acting like Ebony had just struck down the love of his life. Damn, if you can’t make one happy, why try at more? She decided that his words weren’t really worth any reaction from her, so she choose to ignore him until he marched his way towards the hospital.

Watching as Dax and Alice took Tai San to the hospital, she waited for a few moments before she would follow them. As Salene spoke about Dax, she nodded in understanding, very thankful that once all this was figured out, Dax would be free for the night. Meeting Ebony’s look, she shrugged a bit. “ Don’t worry about it, Ebony. It was an accident.” May nodded then started on her way to the hospital. Twice in one day, not a good record.

[tribal_jay]

Feeling very guilty that he was needed, and couldn't help because he'd stupidly injured his hands earlier, Jay stood by to one side. If he couldn't help, at least he could stay out of the way. Why did people always presume that Ebony was up to no good? There wasn't one amongst them who hadn't made some kind of mistake in their lives, did they want it held over their heads forever? Poor Ebony, she never had any female friends, and even her own sisters were often at odds with her. No wonder she was always so defensive. He wanted to comfort her, to stroke her arm, or take her hand, but his stupid hands were throbbing painfully, and slightly swollen from their earlier abuse.

There were so many people giving orders that Jay felt even more useless, but at the same time he was glad that there were other people who could handle matters when he was unable to do so. He watched Ebony's reaction to the whole scene, and her regret over what had happened was clearly evident to him. Why couldn't everyone else see it? The more that he saw of her care and concern the more convinced he became that it really had been an accident. She was nearly beside herself with worry, and when she started for the hospital he quickly followed. If only there were something that he could do to make her feel better...