The Lousiest Patient in the World

[canadiansixpack]

Logan's used to taking care of himself. He's spent decades in the wilderness, in pitched battle, and wandering the face of the earth alone, relying on his own sharpened instincts and his healing factor to keep him alive

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[genequeen]

Madelyne is not entirely welcome here.

To be honest, she really, really doesn't care right this moment.

She has enough power at the moment to pull of a trick she hasn't done in a long time. Reaching out, she holds Logan's position in her mind and she /moves/ herself there. It isn't a simple thing to do with telekinesis and she hasn't had the power until recently.

There is a displacement of air and a breeze taht kicks up because of it as she appears in the room. The look on her face as she sees Logan is a mix of many emotions.

[canadiansixpack]

Logan is in a half-doze in the medical bed when the redhead makes her appearance. There's little mistaking that he's not himself. He's pale, and slightly jaundiced, even with the weathered tone of his skin, and his eyes are dark and sunken. Bandages - another anomaly - wrap the deep wounds on his arms, legs and torso where the steel bars of MODOK's restraints passed through him. They're not healing well, a side effect of the adamantium poison coursing through his body. Infection is a potential life threatening possibility.

Logan is not renowned for his self-preservation instincts. He shifts, his eyes opening at the disturbance, and raises a hand to shield his eyes from the light as he tries to focus. His throat is dry, which makes his response little more than a rasp when he realizes who it is. "Maddy?"

[genequeen]

There have been many times she's wished that she still had the healing abilities she once did. Right now might be the most intensely that she's felt it.

"Logan."

She steps over to his bed and sits down in a chair next to the bed. Reachign over, she puts a hand on his arm. Slowly but surely, she does what she can do, though. The pain he's feeling slowly begins to ease back from him. It isn't all at once but it will likely be noticable after a bit of time.

[canadiansixpack]

The haze lifts somewhat, but Logan's never been good at taking help, and especially not if it'll take something from someone else in the process. He doesn't have the strength he's accustomed to, but he pulls her hand from his arm after some moments with a grunt. "Don't overreach yerself, darlin'."

He doesn't want to be seen like this. Vulnerability is another thing the mutant is ill-acquainted with. "Don't ya got somethin' better ta do than be here?" he gripes, fighting down another surge of nausea now that he's awake again.

[canadiansixpack]

He seems to have that effect on her. Ill or not. Logan looks at her with those dark eyes. "It ain't like I could stop ya right now."

[genequeen]

"I don't think you could stop me even were you well right now. Either way. I'm still asking."

There is a smile this time.

[canadiansixpack]

"Hn. It'd be hard ta do anythin' with that brain o' yers if yer unconscious," he points out. He'd shake his head, but it's too foggy right now. "I've been through worse, darlin'. Maybe I've looked better, though."

[genequeen]

"Maybe some day we can test that but that day isn't today. And you do look awful, Logan." At this point, she'll just wait for him to fall asleep and do it anyway.

[genequeen]

Madelyne follows him again with the IV stand. It is a hard hard thing for her not to do anything but follow him. She's starting to feel awful as well, though not as bad as Logan does.

[canadiansixpack]

He makes it back to the bed, and has to pause again for a while to get up the energy to get back into it. "Want ta know th' ironic thing?" he says. "Slim did this ta me."

[genequeen]

"..... What?"

There is a flare of the corona of her power around her after that comment.

[canadiansixpack]

He's exhausted, but not too exhausted to miss that. "Don't get yer knickers in a twist, darlin'. I got pushed ta th' edge o' my sanity. Only way ta stop me from killin' him and Alex inta the deal after shreddin' MODOK ta pieces."

[canadiansixpack]

The response is muttered rather than spoken; a labored rumble rather than a clear phrase. "Didn't hear ya complainin'."

[_kittyninja_]

"Logan!"

Kitty smiles warmly at her old mentor.

"Hi."

[canadiansixpack]

He's looked better. Definitely looked better. He turns his head slightly and cracks an eye open. "Don't ya got somewhere better ta be than moonin' over the old man here?" he grumbles, though it's clear he doesn't entirely mean it.

[genequeen]

"No. And you never will hear me complain about it."

In those circumstances.

Madelyne looks over toward Logan, continuing to hold the pain dampening.

[ms_tique]

A curl of smoke wafts into the room.

"I'm insulted." Mystique takes another long drag, blowing it straight at Wolverine. "Only one token death threat and two half hearted warnings not to touch anything. You'd think I was a matron aunt and not a cold blooded killer."

She lights a second cigarette and offers it to the mangled lump of flesh in the bed. Damn. It's strange seeing him like this.

[canadiansixpack]

"Ya must be gettin' soft in yer old age." The mutant opens his eyes, and looks first at the shapeshifter, then at the proffered cigarette. "If yer plannin' ta kill me with cancer, yer in fer a long wait."

But he takes it anyway. The furball will likely kick his ass later, but it's been three goddamn days since he had a smoke.

[_steelmagnolia_]

"Momma?"

Rogue comes in and looks at Logan. She's been here once or twice while he's been sleeping. Never stayed too long.

[canadiansixpack]

"It's like a freakin' zoo in here," Logan gripes. "I should be chargin' admission."