You're a drug dealer?!

[holbydelboy]

Characters: Fletch (holbydelboy), Jackie Ma (jinzhong), and Milyn (cherrywood)
Date: 15th March, following this thread
Location: Apothecary
Situation: Fletch found out Milyn made dangerous hallucinogens and wants answers. Knock, knock. It's Jackie, and he brings *~*~feelings~*~*
Warnings/Rating: Angry British guys, angry triad guys, and possibly more.


So. Dust and Lucid, two of the biggest drugs on Tu Vishan, and they were made by someone Adrian Fletcher liked. He doesn't like the thought of that... So he's going to get confirmation.

It's early morning when he walks up to the clinic in the water sector, finding it open, as usual. Kind of odd for someone who's just been outed as the primary reason many people got drugged and won over to some cosmic evil's side. But, then again, Milyn wasn't exactly normal. Even by kedan standards.

So, he's going to push his way into the room. "Milyn?" He calls out, finding the front of the shop empty. "It's Fletch."

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[holbydelboy]

"For the record?" Fletch replies, shortly. "Someone I care about just got stabbed, and a load of people just showed up who I barely know and have started having magic glowy stuff happen everywhere." What's he supposed to think? So, yes. He's going to treat them all with a side of apprehension until proven otherwise. His tone then becomes a lot more clipped. "Also, I'm a trained nurse who specialises in emergency care, so I kinda know what I'm doing, thank you very much."

"And what I'd suggest, in my medical opinion, is that we let Professor Sage heal first." Mostly because he actually trusted Raine. But... to make him not seem entirely rude. "Makes sense to only tire one person out at the same time, right?"

[ruinsprofessor]

Raine notes the arguing, but she let it drifts past her; she can't afford to break her focus to snap at anyone right now, let alone those who are doing their job and stabilizing Milyn despite disagreements.

Instead, she casts. Urgency lends her speed, and bit by bit she shapes her mana, into a form rarely used but nevertheless blazoned strong on her mind. The Dreaming taught her how to do this, in Valishaera, and indeed it's a little dreamlike, the way this spell goes, the way the sheer force of the mana involved is beginning to stir the air itself.

It takes much longer than is normally feasible, but since she has backup, since she isn't alone, it works. "Fairy Circle!" Raine says, authoritative, and the circle beneath her vanishes in favor of four small constructs of mana, winged like butterflies, which take to cardinal directions. As they spread apart vivid green light goes with them, paints the floor in broad swirls and curves, and the people it touches will find a bone-deep warmth as the light seeps into them, targeting injuries and speeding healing to several times the natural rate. It easily encompasses the entire room, wiping away bruises in a blink, deeper injuries with slightly more time.

When all the light has faded, Raine wavers, and has to fling her other hand out to catch herself on the floor. "Fletch? Dove?" she asks, looking for a status update.

Sorry about her snark! D:

[phoenixstrut]

Dove gives an almost indignant look, but quickly sheds it, focusing again on Milyn and the energies now pouring over her. In my medical opinion... Her angel's arrogance can't help but rear it's proud head, but she remains quiet, instead electing to send a bolt of pride Zatanna's way and continue to pour her Light into the woman.

When Raine casts and Zatanna's energy rises, the Light within her reacts even more brilliantly, her eyes flashing gold at the sudden surge. Wow. It certainly feels like all of their Gifts work in the same way, but Raine's is absolutelybeautiful. She can't help but stare at the butterflies as her Light continues to pour, and she gives a soft laugh in awe at how quickly Milyn's body mends itself under their care, her attention only shifting this time when Raine all but collapses. After a quick assessment, Dove decides not to ask if the mage is okay; she just appears drained, and given the performance she just witnessed, Raine has every right to be. She can't imagine having to pull from one's own energy to heal, and figures it's probably more important to Raine that she answers quickly.

"She's stable-- completely stable," she responds, laying her hand over Milyn's abdomen for a final read. "Everything is mended and she's not gone into shock..."

Yet. And if for some reason Milyn's body decides to start betraying her-- it was a lot of foreign healing, afterall-- Dove's going to continue pouring Healing Warmth into her, feeling carefully as it helps the woman's body continue to create and replace the lost blood, albeit at a much slower rate than when the healing had begun.

[backwordscompatible]

(Un)fortunately for everyone in the immediate vicinity...Zatanna had always been rather good at multitasking. Even at fourteen, she was capable of flirting with Robin while in the midst of a heated battle with whatever baddie of the week was attacking them that time.

Which meant she was more than prepared to maintain her steady stream of stabilizing magic and, simultaneously, roll her eyes at Fletch.

"Oh, don't even play the who-loves-her-mostest card with me, pal. I've known her since before Malicant was--whoa."

She cut herself off as Raine's casts reached her. A rush of peaceful warmth. Thanks to her semi-regular magical self-healings, Zatanna had no injuries of her own to speak of (besides a growing headache that not even Raine would be able to rid her of), but she could feel the energy rushing through her to the point where she found herself having to hold back on the stream she'd been delivering to the Cherrywood Healer until then.

"Nice." She offered her approval, and risked glancing back over her shoulder. "What about you, Raine? You still with us back there?"

[holbydelboy]

Whatever response Charge Nurse Fletcher had forming in response was cut off the second the Mystic Arte fired off... because Milyn wasn't the only one with injuries. His head instantly clears, his hands going up to feel the back of his head, eyes widening.

"Bloody-" He mumbles, under his breath, before blinking and getting back to the task at hand. He takes Milyn's wrist and places his hands on two pulse points, going silent for about a minute.

"Pulse still tachycardic at 142, regular. GCS... 5. Peripheral perfusion..." He presses a fingernail on the hand he's holding. "Cap refill more than 2 seconds, but..." He checks over her body a quick moment, taking care to note the colour of any exposed skin. "I wouldn't worry too much. She seems to be clear. We should still treat for shock, just in case. Can someone get a chair, or something to lift her legs up?"

And then, to Raine; "Do you need anything? Water, somewhere to sit?" Because he's not quite sure how that level of magic affects his boss... considering it not only healed Milyn, but himself.

[jinzhong]

Jackie was still in pain and about to get real fuckin' shouty because the sniping was super not helpful, but then Raine's arte hit and at least one thing that was bothering him was taken care of. And according to Fletch and Dove, Milyn was going to make it. He sagged a little.

"Man. All right. That's a relief. I mean, her heart is in her stomach, but mine was in my throat," he said, trying to make it a joke.

[ruinsprofessor]

"I'm fine," Raine says, waving the others off. Milyn is the priority here. "I don't usually expend so much mana at once, that's all." When she's steady she stops leaning on the floor, sitting back on her heels instead and flicking her glance around the room. Yes, Fairy Circle did as it was supposed to do, and she's never been more thankful for that sojourn in Valishaera.

She hasn't missed the sniping, and her eyes are sharp on Fletch and Zatanna, but that's up to them to sort out now that they're past the stage where someone's life will be in danger if an argument happens. They're adults. Raine will say something if they stop acting that way.

"What happened?" Raine wants to know finally. She uses her staff to brace herself on climbing to her feet, and fetches a chair from the other side of the room for Fletch. She pauses. Reviews what Jackie said. "--Did she move her heart?"

[phoenixstrut]

Dove keeps a hand on Milyn's wrist as she listens to the exchanges and watches the others, reeling silently in all that had just happened.

She gives Jackie a halfway amused look at his attempt to make things lighthearted, but is all the more curious about what had happened to cause this entire fiasco.

"I was going to ask... She's that good at shape shifting?" She shakes her head. "Who did this? Was it because of the drug thing?"

[backwordscompatible]

Zatanna offered a half-hearted shrug at the discussion of Milyn's heart, unable to bring herself to be (that) surprised.

"Unless that's what her biology is like. I wouldn't know. Never...actually studied any of that stuff here." As talks drifted back towards the cause for the assault, however, she visibly frowned. Even folding her arms across her chest, previous quibbling with Mr. Nurse almost forgotten. "Given the timing, I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of people were pretty pissed about that, given how much trust we've placed in her over the years. I mean, she did watch over our sleeping bodies that year we were in Dreaming."

[jinzhong]

Jackie nodded. "Yeah. I think that's what she did. But it was a major shapeshift, and she's lost a lot of blood."

[holbydelboy]

Fletch has his stethoscope out, now that things aren't exactly life-threatening, pressing it to the area where Milyn shifted her heart to. He frowns, shifting the bell about, before pressing it onto the area.

"Heartbeat's steady. Still a bit fast, but, yeah, she's lost a lot of blood." He listens for a moment more, before...

"I think we should say she died."

[ruinsprofessor]

Raine watches Fletch, absently folding her arms. "But she did watch over us, and carried out that duty admirably," she points out. "In this situation, it's impossible to say purely 'good' or 'evil.' And, currently, it's a moot point." They're not going to let her die, after all.

Fletch's suggestion gets a sharp look from Raine, but she sees his reasoning. "You think they may try again," she says. "If we support the idea that they were successful after all, then it will protect Milyn and possibly encourage the perpetrator to relax and slip up."

It isn't the worst idea she's heard.

[backwordscompatible]

Zatanna's eyes narrowed again, this time for a different reason.

To her credit, she did bite back her tongue when the idea was initially proposed. Allowing Raine to offer a bit more explanation. And...it was a pretty good reason. Milyn's safety was their top priority at the moment, and no one could deny there was every chance she was still in danger.

"I don't like it." She wasn't arguing against it, but she was still going to make her feelings known. "I get what you're saying, yeah, but...in my experience, keeping secrets like this rarely ends well. And you know some people are going to be pissed when they eventually do find out."

[holbydelboy]

"I'll announce it." Fletch replies, looking up. "I've not been here long enough to build a reputation, and it was my idea. I wouldn't want to put anyone else in danger."

He shifts, rocking back onto his haunches.

"That's why I'll make the announcement."