video; posted around noon

[paterelohim]

[Tile. Linoleum tile, to be precise, but the camera moves quickly to show a chair and then, finally, Chuck, looking almost grotesque: his face is streaked with blood and ash. He's in the hallway of Skye Medical Center, looking exhausted and utterly beat. A few long seconds pass wherein he seems to be gathering himself, trying to find words. How can

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[ninthserenade]

[For once, Demyx is at a complete loss for words and emotion. He wants to feel upset, but it just isn't coming to him. This is...

Light, this is so...

After a few moments of stunned silence, he reaches for his NV and clears his throat. When he speaks up, he's struggling to put concern into his voice.]

How--Wha... ...But she was doing okay the last time I saw her--

[paterelohim]

Well- uh. Pregnancies aren't supposed to look like that in the second trimester.

Everything happened too fast. It wasn't right.

[ninthserenade]

Truth be told, I didn't really know that. She's the first girl I knew who was pregnant 'n I still have a hard time getting through the first chapter in a science book.

...Would they let people visit after she's out of surgery? I--Or could you keep me updated? She's a good friend of mine 'n I'm worried 'bout her.

[At least he thinks he should be worried.]

[paterelohim]

Well, now you know. [No, that isn't stress cracking his voice. These aren't the droids you're looking for. :| ] It's supposed to be nine months, man. It's-

[Okay, breathe. Breathe.]

Uh. I don't know. I guess it depends on how she is. I'll update later when she gets out, though.

[makes_asteroids]

[No reply. Just leaving now for Skye.]

[paterelohim]

[He'll be there, waiting in the hallway. Staring at nothing.]

[makes_asteroids]

[He'd been at work - stepping out to the dinner for lunch, left behind, money thrown on the table, and ran flying literally up back stairs - stopping at his locker only long enough to pull a clean shirt out, vaulting over railings, hitting the door on the surgery floor hard enough to bruise his shoulder and barely maintained a walk to Chuck.]

Chuck?

[Jinx. My daughter. What happened. Tell me Gabriel knows, that you told him before this. Where's Daedalus Yumeno? Too many questions.]

Chuck, look me at me.

[His voice was eerily calm. Shock and knowing he wasn't the one hurting most, not even close and there was so much to do right now leading a calmness, a solidness he didn't feel.]

[paterelohim]

[Chuck was shivering when he finally looked up, eyes wide and completely lost.]

Hi. [Almost inaudible.] Hi. Sorry- sorry I didn't call you earlier.

[Gabriel got precedence. Chuck wiped his face again, doing nothing but making himself look worse.] It's only been- oh god, it's only been fifteen minutes.

[voice]

[axemeaquestion]

Oh shit. [It takes her a moment to find something else to say, since the only thing that's running through her mind right now is fuck fuck fuck. Finally--] Chuck...? What happened?

[voice]

[paterelohim]

[Aaaand snap.]

What do you think happened?!

[voice]

[axemeaquestion]

I have no goddamn idea, Chuck! Why do you think I'm asking? [That's her ear, by the way.]

[voice] oh yeah, he's coping.

[paterelohim]

I just said, you want it in fucking sky-writing! She had a fucking miscarriage in front of me and there was nothing anyone could do. It was just a- suddenly it was too late.

It was like a- a holy bomb going off.

If she even survives this I'll be floored. And there's nothing I can do now. Nothing Gabriel can do.

[video]

[thecrowingtobe]

[He'd been off shift that day and passed out in his car after getting it working properly again. There were few people he had auto set to his device and Chuck was one of them. Groggy eyed he looked at the post...not getting it at first (though his watering eyes said he got it fast). It took a minute to sit up, messy faced and looking to video. Jinx. Hospital. Odette lost?]

Chuck! What the hell happened?! [The boy on screen looked more then angry when he showed up on video. Worried, angry and shocked really.] Who the hell was looking after her? Where was she?

[At work no doubt! Damn it she should have been resting! Gabriel should have been making her rest or something or... or...--he was climbing out of the car, his NV rattling around, dropped in the front seat, still talking but recording out the open door, showing the boy moving around once in a while. A call from the distance]

You are Skye?

[video ---> text]

[paterelohim]

[Chuck looks overwhelmed for approximately four seconds before thinking fuck this and switching to text with an "I knew I should have stayed in bed today" expression.]

She was at Purgatory with me. Tonight was supposed to be my first day back at work, and we were getting ready.

Yeah. We're at Skye.

[video ---> text]

[thecrowingtobe]

[Sorry man, he really likes you and all but he has an odd attachment to Jinx and this just made him freak a bit. The fact that Chuck went to text means that Claudio didn't get this for.... some time.]

[When he does lean in again to grab his NV in order to try and get a reply he finds it's sent as text. A small growl at that. Damn it! Just... just talk! Why does EVERYONE go to text on him!?]

I... I just need to know what happened! [swiftly texting back cus he has no idea if Chuck would even get this he tossed out a short fast reply]

thx man
gabe with you guys too?
b there soon

[he'll come talk with you in person later... when he's not being a dickhead]

Re: [video ---> text]

[paterelohim]

I told you. She had a miscarriage and she's in surgery.

Gabriel is the one who brought us here. Screw ambulances.

[video] (on hiatus but this is his big sister :|)

[brbomnomsouls]

She lost...

[It takes Soul a moment or two to gather himself, completely stunned. After a few seconds he runs his hand over his face before dragging his fingers through his hair.]

Want some company?

[video] (edited for my derp. :| :| :| )

[paterelohim]

[Chuck nods mutely to the unasked question, but sucks in a breath at the asked one.]

Sure. Sure. Uh, I'm in a hallway on the third floor.

[video] (/patpats)

[brbomnomsouls]

I'll be there soon. Just...just gotta finish up work at the bakery and I'll be down.

[And after a deep breath of his own.]

Don't beat yourself up, okay?

[video] ( ._.)

[paterelohim]

Okay.

[Deep breath. Chuck hasn't even realized that he has been, but-]

Thanks. [Too quiet to hear. He clears his throat and tries again.] Thank you.