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[bedeviledspider]

WHO: bedeviledspider and YOU!
WHERE: Reilly’s hospital room!
WHEN: Between Last Weekend (roughly November 12th) and Now. Just note the time in the header.
WARNINGS: three guesses who’s high on pain meds! the first two don’t count.
SUMMARY: Reilly recovers from his near-degeneration experience in a City Hospital. OR: Reilly’s medication turns him into an

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Any day, really. Someone needs to look after him :|

[secondhandwebs]

She left to get jello for five minutes...okay, more like most of the day, since no matter how sick her cousin might be, school, work, and patrol marched on. Walking in to a smoldering bit of former latex on the ground was enough to make her wonder if maybe she shouldn't just take a week off from it all instead. Or at least start assigning shifts in here.

"Good morning, starshine."

He is perfectly capable of setting everything on fire I mean taking care of himself. :|

[bedeviledspider]

He was beaming at her. Maybe it was because he was that desperate for a distraction - for some reason, the nurses disapproved of people trying to climb out their windows to fight crime - or perhaps it was the medication. Either way, it was a bit disturbing.

"May!" Aaaand now he was smiling. That did not help. "We're safe now, don't worry."

[secondhandwebs]

"Please don't tell me your first arch-nemesis is balloon themed."

It's the drugs, she knows it's the drugs, but him smiling still made her grin back. As well as walk over to the bed and give him a kiss on the forehead.

[bedeviledspider]

"Heh. Pop!"

Normally, he'd be shoving her away from him right now, and part of him desperately wanted to. But the rest of him was... sort of enjoying being alive and with family. For once.

"No, no. My first arch-nemesis was the Kingpin! Who was a little balloon-esque in shape, but..."

tuesday afternoon sometime??

[molecularity]

[ so gwen's been exploring the city since monday afternoon and by the time tuesday rolls around, she's tired, but generally in a bit better headspace. she doesn't want to head back to her apartment quite yet, though, and is getting a little cold when she thinks, hey. i wonder how reilly's doing with the whole screaming and being delirious with pain thing.

which is how she comes to be slowly sneaking her way into his hospital room, looking a little nervous. because seriously what is that burning smell. ]

Hey.

works for me!

[bedeviledspider]

[ he looks a bit sheepish. flashing her a nervous, awkward smile. it's starting to dawn on him that this is the first time he's ever met gwen in person and...

okay, delirious rambling was not a good way to make a second impression. but this? this was definitely worse. ]

Heeeeey, how are you? Gwen, I'm guessing?

awesome /o/

[molecularity]

[ that gets a small smile out of her as she adjusts her grip on her bag and walks into the room a bit more. ]

That's me. And I think I'm doing better than you are right about now. [ she pauses and raises an eyebrow at him ] They've got you on the good stuff, don't they?

[bedeviledspider]

[ he answers that question in the form of the world's dorkiest guffaw. she is never going to believe his tough vigilante act after this. ]

Heh. It's... veryyyyy good, whatever it is. I should ask Peter, he would know, that egghead. But hey, hey, hey! Enough about dweebface. Unless you want to talk about his face, in which case we... we really need to talk about how I pull it off so much better than he does.

any day I guess?

[batghoul]

Cass tended to confound the nurses by just appearing in Reilly's room, and this particular day she'd silently materialized next to his bed and rested a hand lightly on his arm. Her grip tightened instinctively on his arm, and she jumped to her feet when he jolted awake. The last few weeks had put her a bit on edge when it came to Reilly and his health, after all.

I guess YOUR FACE

[bedeviledspider]

Reilly stared blankly at her. As if unexpected side effects weren't bad enough, his re-emerging spider-senses were doing a number on his perception. Jumping at everything, because anything could be a threat. He shook his head, slowly, and squeezed her hand.

Flashed his sorriest smile. "Did I do something stupid? Tell me I didn't attack the doctor this time."

Again.

why you gotta be that way ;_;

[batghoul]

She just shook her head, and taking the fork from his lunch tray, bent down and lifted the smoldering piece of plastic off the floor.

"Just... the balloon. Again," she said, trying to give him a reassuring smile. After all, May would probably show up with more.

i hurt because i love

[bedeviledspider]

"I told her not to get a green one," he muttered, turning towards the wall. Like that explained anything.

Then he took a deep breath.

"So, uh. About... what happened that night."

WEDNESDAY SURE

[arakhnes]

[ when jess heard that reilly finally got into the hospital, it took forever for her to manage to get a day to visit him, thanksgiving break or not. and honestly, she was grateful for the time to just... think about it.

he brought up degeneration. he was scared it was going to happen to him. and honestly, she was a little afraid herself.

it already happened to one of peter's clones.

so slipping into the room, backpack at hand, she just. stopped at the doorway. and pointed. ]

The balloon's on fire.

[bedeviledspider]

[ He just turns towards the balloon and... smiles. Serenely. ]

So it is.

[ Uh. Well.

At least one of them doesn't have his inevitable degeneration on their minds any more. Apparently. ]

[arakhnes]

[ she frowns and makes her way across the room, picking up a juice cartoon and then ripping it open, dumping it on the balloon and putting out the fire. ]

Pain killers?

[bedeviledspider]

[ he makes the thwipp-y, web-shooting fingers at her. is that a yes? he seems to think it's a yes. ]

Bingo!

But listen, listen, listen. My spider-senses were all like "look out over there!" and I was all like "goblin balloon!" and then it was like "pffft" and that's a good sign, right?