Fandom Clinic, Saturday

[livingartifact]

"Coffee and cocktails," Jenkins mused, as the emergency broadcast ended. "You know, that's a new one even for me."

Then he went to go check on the clinic's coffee supplies, and order several gallons more as needed.

[clinic is open again for one and all!]

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Patient intake

[livingartifact]

Which is now being funneled right past the coffee machine.

Re: Patient intake

[arboreal_priestess]

She wasn't a patient, but she was here for one. "Mr. Jenkins?" she said, oddly relieved to see him in change of all this. She didn't know what was going on, but it was weird and kinda magical, so he was probably the best person they had.

Sorry about the hug, Jenkins. It was just a lot of relief.

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[livingartifact]

Jenkins was startled, to say the least, but life with Cassandra Killian had prepared him at least a little for unanticipated physical signs of affection.

"Ms. Verity. I'm glad to see you're alright. Are you here to visit one of our unfortunate patients?"

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[arboreal_priestess]

"Liam," Verity said, her thumb jutting out over her shoulder to indicate the blonde guy sleeping in one of the cots. Kanan, she recognized from around town, the sleeping Asian girl she didn't think she'd met at all. "I've been off-island since Monday, visiting with my cousin. What the heck happened?"

Everyone had been awake and non-comatose when she'd left!

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[always_someone]

The moment Norman had heard the broadcast, he'd steeled himself and set out into town. There were... things... out there, but making friends with the local ghosts had its benefits, and they managed to keep him on a route through town to the Perk that didn't involve running into roaming packs of evil dogmeat.

Which meant it was about twenty minutes after the broadcast that Norman made his way into the clinic, a little wide-eyed, uncertainly holding on to a few trays of extra large coffees. He had a tab at the Perk, now, to be paid off after his own first payday, but the barista had been pretty understanding, all things considered.

"Does anybody need these?"

Whether they were comatose or had simply been up for the past two nights worrying?

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[livingartifact]

"We do have some of our own, but back up supplies are always appreciated, Mr. Babcock, thank you." Jenkins came over to help relieve Norman of some of the burden. "I take it you took appropriate precautions in obtaining these?"

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[always_someone]

"... Precautions?"

Norman hadn't done any drinking, if that was what Jenkins was asking. He looked faintly quizzical as he handed one of the coffee trays over.

Patient beds

[livingartifact]

For the comatose, who will hopefully shortly be cured!

Re: Patient beds

[firstofitskind]

Still here, still comatose... for now, anyway.

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[arboreal_priestess]

Not for long, anyway, even if Verity had missed the explanation of just how to wake him up. All she knew was that a squirrel had braved Baltimore to talk to her mice--and that was a friendship she was going to have to interrogate pretty hard, yup--and all she knew was that Liam had been attacked and had been lying unconscious in the clinic for days. Alone.

"Hey," she said, slipping into a chair next to Liam's bed and carefully taking on of his hands in hers. "C'mon, Sheriff, asleep on the job? That's not gonna look good come performance reviews."

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[firstofitskind]

There was, of course, no response. At least, nothing conscious. It was brief enough that it could be easily missed, but there was the faintest flicker of light from the hand Verity had taken hold of.

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[uncertain_dume]

Yeah, Kanan was still here, too.

And probably about to awaken to the realization that he could never bad-mouth Earth coffee again.

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[futurespacemom]

He had better be about to awaken!

Hera had brought a very large coffee and was now...more or less sitting behind Kanan to prop him up enough to hopefully get some of it in him.

“Hey, Kanan. I know it’s not caf, but this is supposed to work,” she encouraged him. “I should probably make some comment about this teaching you not to drink, but honestly who would’ve thought any of that would end up like this? Drink the coffee and get better so you can worry about the rest if you want to.”

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[uncertain_dume]

It took some doing. Kanan wound up wearing more coffee than he swallowed, and waking up choking was a new experience for him, but that was at the very least more than he'd done since Thursday night.

Yup. Awake and trying to get up a lungful of coffee. Good morning.

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[intotheout]

Tip hurried to the clinic as soon as she got Kanan's message. The radio had said the monsters were into drinkers, and she hadn't had any alcohol, but she still got her practice sword, her gun, and an extra hard-looking broom handle before heading out.

Look, she was young and anxious, but she wasn't an idiot, okay?

She skidded to a stop once she got into sight of Kanan and bit her lip.

"Um," she said. "So. Hey."

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[uncertain_dume]

Kanan glanced up from another coffee that he was nursing, wondering if he had room in him for all of this, and then blinked.

And grinned faintly.

"Hey," he offered. "I see you came armed for rancor."

He approved. Those things were pretty wicked.

Re: Patient beds

[somethingwithturquoise]

You better believe that the moment Summer's phone buzzed with a few notes from "Lowrider," she and Stance were out of her room and on their way to the clinic.

"Kanan! You're okay!"

Either that, or it was an impostor who knew to text her, which, coming from someone who was replaced by a robot for more than a month, seemed a totally legit possibility.

She stopped short of getting too close, though, not sure what condition he was in no matter how much she wanted to just rush over there and hug him. Stance, on the other hand, had no such reservations, let out a happy bark, and jumped on the bed well before Summer or the nurses or anyone else could stop him.

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[uncertain_dume]

And Kanan let out an 'oof,' holding his cup of coffee up in the air while Stance attempted to lick his face clean off.

... Which was one way to get the last of the coffee out of his beard, sure.

"I'm okay, but I think my dog's trying to eat me," he laughed, his words coming out in halting fits and starts as Kanan carefully timed them around moments where he was least likely to end up with a mouthful of dog tongue. "Stance, buddy, it's fine. I'm fine."

Re: Patient beds

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy still looked like she had since Thursday--pale and wan, with dark circles under her closed eyes.

There was clearly something unnatural about her unconsciousness as she hadn't tried to stick her cold feet onto anyone, even once.

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[not_every_mage]

Anders had gone home long enough to shower and change before returning to the clinic to claim one of the coffees. He waited impatiently for it to be room-temperature before carefully pouring a bit into Kathy's open mouth.

If this didn't work...

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[special_rabbit]

Well, one thing was certain: Amaya would probably never make fun of someone for having champagne for their drink of choice after this. Assuming, of course, if she ever came through it.

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[intotheout]

Tip had rushed over to visit with her now-conscious sword teacher, so when she saw her still-unconscious sword-making teacher, she went out to check if the nurses would mind if she took charge of waking her up.

She figured seeing her student first thing was at least a small step up from seeing a random nurse. It took a little bit of trial and error, a small coffee spill, and a quick sketch in a notebook, but she finally figured out a good way to get Amaya upright enough to get the coffee into her without her drowning in it.

"C'mon, teach," Tip said softly. "You've got more weapons to make."

Re: Patient beds

[revengenotebook]

Paris would never, ever drink again.

If she woke up to learn her lesson, etc.

Re: Patient beds

[intotheout]

Tip had gotten some good practice in with Amaya, so she had a whole system ready for getting coffee into Paris without accidentally choking her.

"C'mon, Paris. Being unconscious this long will definitely look bad on your transcript."

OOC

[livingartifact]

I don't even drink coffee and now I kind of want one.