FTEC, Wednesday, Evening Shift [Nov 21]

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It was a rather happy Ronan who made his way into the clinic on Wednesday evening, setting his backpack behind the desk. He frowned to see that they still had Adah in as a patient, making sure to check on her and see how she was doing.

But other than that? Definitely a happy Ronan.

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Front Desk

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Ronan's around. There's even a small jar of cayenne sitting on the desk, in preparation his usual visitor.

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Isabel was pretty sure this was going to have to be a quick visit since she needed to finish getting packed and she still wasn't sure exactly when they were going. But after how she'd spent part of last Wednesday night, she wanted to come by just to prove that things were back to normal.

After a stop at the Perk, she made her way to the clinic and stepped inside. "Evening!"

Re: Front Desk

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"I have a date!"

... It probably said something that these were the first words out of his mouth this evening, though they were swiftly followed by, "And, uh, hi."

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"And a good evening to you to as well. It's nice to see you to," Isabel teased. "My day's been pretty nice. Thank you for asking."

She set the drinks on the counter then pulled over a chair and made herself comfortable. "A date? With who? Anyone special?"

Re: Front Desk

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Grabbing his drink, Ronan popped off the lid and liberally sprinkled it with cayenne. "Peter Petrelli," he said. "We met up at the Perk earlier today, and... yeah. I'm cooking dinner next Tuesday, we're eating in my room. Nice, small, intimate. Great way to get to know each other better." He paused. "And show off my cooking."

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Isabel fixed her own drink with a generous splash of Tabasco and lifted it in a toast. "Congratulations. I'm both impressed and incredibly happy for you. And should you need a sous chef to assist with the cooking, you know I'm there for you."

Re: Front Desk

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Ronan raised his drink in response. "Thank you! Why impressed? And I appreciate the offer, but I think I'll handle this one on my own."

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"Because you work both quickly and apparently smoothly?" she answered, taking a sip of hot chocolate. "And I mean that in the very best of ways. Of course now I'm a bit disappointed I can try to play matchmaker any more then I have."

Re: Front Desk

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"Well, I don't know how smooth," Ronan replied, blushing a little. "I, ah, rambled. A lot. While I was sick, I mean. I kinda... told him several times that he was really cute." His grin returned. "So, today, I just made sure to tell him that while I was only rambling because I was sick, what I was saying was definitely true."

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Isabel couldn't help laughing. "I'm not going to disagree with you. At all. He's very cute. He's also a very nice guy. Just like you. Which is what I told him class on Monday."

Re: Front Desk

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"You did?" Ronan blinked. "You... you really were matchmaking? Seriously?"

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"Very, very mildly," she grinned, amused by Ronan's reaction. "Why wouldn't I? He's a friend. You're a friend. You're both single?"

Re: Front Desk

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Ronan blushed. "Oh, uh, thanks." Funny, he could ask Peter out easily enough, but find out that someone else thought he was good enough for Peter?

Re: Front Desk

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The blushing was too adorable and one more reason why Isabel thought they'd be good for one another. "Not a problem. At all. I hope it works out. I'd like to see you both happy."

Exam Rooms

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Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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When she pings in, the poor girl.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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It has been, as she sat with idle blinking and slight movements toward sounds, a day of colors for Adah. Blurry at first, nearly inconsequential, but, as day passed and the light of it receded into the quiet darkness, which seemed to make the beeping of the machines attached to her echo more, they began to slash. What seemed dull before now seemed too bright; shadows seemed to shift in ways that confused her, seemingly too deep to exist. Most importantly, amid the confusion of the slashing colors, Adah Price began to feel pain. A little bit, at first, a dull tugging at the back of her head that seemed to spread, seemed to grow more intense, until the colors disappeared and all there was was the pain, built up on itself, waiting in her dormant inactivity for just the right moment of awareness to rush in.

She closed her eyes tightly; she was able to get her teeth to clench slightly but that was the only movement she could manage, it would seem, although the urge for more, to release the pain, was strong. A slow sound, a whimper, started to emerge as confused panic started to accompany the pain. In the midsts of everything, the her breathing became erratic and unsteady, in sharp contrast to the mechanisism attached to her to maintain a pace; it felt that, instead of assisting her, the slower respirator was suffocating her and the panic sharpened. A desperate sound now, trying to call out but unable as she tried to will her atrophied limbs to remove the obstruction. Panic. Confusion. Pain. And all she could do was call out, to avoid being completely swallowed up by it.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Ronan hurried into the room, the quiet sound of the whimpers enough to draw him in. "Adah?" he said. "You're awake!" He rushed over, diagnostics running through his head even as he came over, trying to find the source of the whimpering. He could see the clench in her jaw, not certain if it were source or symptom of the pain, but already reaching out a careful hand and a string of words to try and relax the muscles, if he could.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Considering that Adah's body rarely listened even to itself, especially when it was important, it certainly wasn't going to start listening to the babbling of some wizard. It wasn't even listening to Adah herself, as her panic spiked again over help being readily available but having no way to communicate what she needed besides and wide-eyed, intense stare that she simply hoped could somehow be interpreted. Still trying to will herself to remove her mask, still with her body laying limp and unresponsive. And it hurt. If it could feel pain, why couldn't it feel sensors going from her brain, telling it to move. She drew in a deep, gulping breath, trying to fight off the feeling of suffocating, though she was only making it worse.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Ronan frowned. He'd heard that bodies could resist healing -- that they could effectively be 'stubborn' -- but he'd not encountered it before. Still, from what little he knew of Adah, 'stubborn' fit her as an apt descriptor, so he could rather believe it of her body, too.

He widened the scope of the diagnostics beyond the first problem, trying to see if the clenching was symptom after all, at which point he realised that Adah was breathing on her own -- and thus didn't need the respirator. Knowing that he probably shouldn't, that it should be one of the doctors who did so, Ronan nonetheless moved to turn off the machine, to remove the mask, and hopefully to ease the panic.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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The moment that the Obstruction that Wasn't was removed, Adah's head tilted back and she drew in a deep, deep breath, rasping sharply in her throat before culminating into a slightly hacking cough. It brought tears to her eyes, the way her body was reacting so harshly and then, finally, too late, as if intentionally not allowing it until now, she felt the ability in the fingers on her left hand to move, to clench into the bed beneath her as she fought to control her breaths, looking toward Ronan with wildly confused eyes. She was settling down rapidly now, though, although she was horribly shaken and still didn't know which way was up, down, or what was what.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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"I'm sorry," Ronan said. "I should have noticed your breathing when I first came in, but the pain in your jaw seemed... It drew my attention, I thought I could ease that first. Your breathing -- it seems much improved. Is there anything I can get you?"

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Shaking slightly as she wrangled her breathing to a slower pace, Adah just stared at Ronan, barely blinking except at long intervals where it became almost necessarily because the widened gaze left them dried, and the twitching in the corner of the left from the pain of her neurons firing back into action didn't help either. Words. She was hearing words, almost recognized that as words instead of just sounds, but she couldn't make sense of them, it was all gibberish, although it felt like she should understand them. The breathing staggered momentarily before settling again, after a small, confused whimper.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Ronan frowned again, uncertain if she'd understood, but there was little he could do otherwise. Her body resisted his attempts to heal it, and the diagnostics indicated that whatever else was going on, her body was healing itself. Her brain... he wasn't even going to begin to try to understand exactly what kind of damage had gone on there, and it was old enough damage that, he realised, she must survive well enough with it.

Still, he left the room, returning moments later with the novel he was reading. He sat down, not far from her bed, and began to read, close enough that if she became aware enough, she could ask for assistance.

OOC

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I may crash for a nap for an hour, but other than that I'm around all night.