Recovery

[badbutsadboy]

Who: Hunter badbutsadboy and his CR
What: Hunter recovering
When: After he gets out of the hospital
Where: Jason's Safehouse
Content Warnings: N/A for now

[He's only in the hospital a few days. Vascular injuries are bad but the artery wasn't completely severed, the muscle was only nicked, and the rest was mostly a flesh wound. It was a low speed, small caliber handgun of some kind.]

[Hunter spends a lot of his recovery sleeping on the pull out couch where he can be checked on. At some point, he plans to ask Nico if Will can heal him (though he wouldn't be shocked if Nico brought him around soon on his own) but Flapjack chases away everyone so he can sleep first.]

[So he spends a lot of time just knocked the hell out on pain meds, until one day he feels like he's rested enough.]

[And then he's left at a crossroads. Huvrye wanted him to stay with someone and he knows he meant an adult. But...]

[But he's still feeling so unsure about it. Even with adults rushing him to a hospital, even with them staying by his side while injured.]

[So whenever he gets a visitor they find him sitting up on the couch, in sweats and fuzzy socks, his arm in its sling packed with ice packs. He sits, staring forward at the TV, expression troubled, lost in thought.]

[The TV is off.]

[Flapjack is squished next to his thigh on the couch and the fingers of his good hand gently pet his fathers.]

Comments

[badbutsadboy]

no butiif it hasd wolvres im willing to leanr

[He was bad at typing even with two hands. This is significantly worse.]

[demigoth]

[ The speak option on Nico’s phone reads that as “No beauty-aif it hast wolvers I’m willing to leaner”, which makes it less than helpful. He figures it out on his own, which he should do anyway, but won’t. ]

OK im taking the bus to central city

[ About ten minutes later, having ridden the magic school bus until it hit a familiar part of the city, Nico rushed after another student, as this is not his stop, and then made his way to the bar quickly.

It does occur to him that wandering Central City is how Hunter got hurt, but Nico doesn’t want to shadow travel if he can avoid it. Up through the secret passage and into the apartment with a knock, and Nico pops into the room looking icy and windstung because his only concession to the winter is zipping up his jacket and fingerless gloves with skeletal hands on them. ]

Hunter? I brought the game -

[ Nico doesn’t watch a lot of tv, but he knows that it’s supposed to be on.

He takes off his backpack and drops it - the cards rattle around in their box within, but the backpack sounds light as it hits the floor. Nico sits in a sprawling slouch on the sofa. ]

Did you want to watch something instead?

[badbutsadboy]

What?

No, I was just...lost in my thoughts.

[He turns to face him, getting more comfortable on the couch, assuming they're going to play the game on the cushions.]

Is this a card game? Or a board game? Or a video game? [Dylan introduced him to the last one.]

Or...

[He stops.]

Are there any other kinds of games?

[He honestly wouldn't know.]

[demigoth]

[ Nico almost asks if Hunter wants to be lost in his thoughts, because he doesn't want to be the person to force someone out of their gloom. Or - does he, but no, he's missed that chance. ]

It's a card game.

[ He digs the box out of the bag and drops it between them for inspection. ]

And - yeah, there's physical games. Like capture-the-flag, different kinds of races, the Olympic sports. Sports are games.