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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[pushfall]

For a little while. You weren't awake at the time.

[ Hence checking up now. She scratches absently at her hairline, looking for something to do with her hands. Eventually she settles for propping the mirror up against the wall. She doesn't really want to get into how long she'd sat there before recognizing that she needed to leave for a number of reasons. ]

I heard about what happened.

[darkart]

All right. [ Privately, he's relieved he doesn't have to explain. Being injured is bad enough without having to go on about it. ] I'm fine. How are you?

[pushfall]

Unimpressed.

[ Overall, not with him. Everything here is just another dead end.

Worried about him and half ready to open an artery just to make things right.

Mad at herself for not being able to stop it, however irrational that notion. ]

When are they letting you leave?

[darkart]

Soon as the drugs are out of my system. [ So that's why he sounds loopy. ] I can have muggle painkillers fine, they just don't work very well.

Anything happen?

[pushfall]

[ Claire doesn't even have a reference point for how long that might take. ]

Magical resistance? [ That sounds stupid but... seriously. And - ] I followed some voices and got a headache.

[ And a bleed in her eye and some other stuff but it seems inconsequential at this point. It's not like half of her face was almost removed. As far as the other stuff goes - the murals running and Smiley showing up - Claire feels like he can approach that when he's less high. ]

[darkart]

You can get headaches?

[ Claire hasn't said in so many words that she can't feel pain, but he's not stupid. ]

[pushfall]

[ Claire chews her lip and shrugs. ]

No. [ She'll have to tell him about it sometime. Not now. ] Something with the halls and voices, I guess. It went away pretty quickly, it's not -

[ Well. ]

[darkart]

It's not getting your face partially removed by a rogue window?

[ Flat. ]

[pushfall]

[ A little blunter than she would have been, probably. Buuut then again maybe not. It's a thing that happened and there's no sugarcoating it. And she wasn't there and didn't stop it and only has a (pretty good) suspicion as to who might have done it, given the randomness of her own experience. Misplaced guilt is still guilt. Anger is still anger. ]

Yeah. Pretty much got it in one. I'd like to partially remove the balls of whoever did it with a rogue window.

[ Violence is a girl's best friend. ]

[darkart]

It wouldn't have been possible without the ship's horseshit. There's no point in seeking vengeance.

[ It's not that Severus isn't angry, he just understands the logistics. ]

[pushfall]

Alright, so I'll just find the ship's balls and partially remove them with a rogue window.

[ Claire has understood the logistics plenty of times in the past and that's never stopped her before. Not that she would actually castrate anyone.

Maybe. ]

I am sorry that I didn't catch you any of the times that you were awake.

[ Feelings. ]

[darkart]

It's all right. I haven't been the best company.

[ Disgruntled but quiet; Severus is barely not a terrible patient, but only because he knows better. ]

[pushfall]

Doesn't matter. [ Asleep or awake or high off of his mind, it wouldn't have. ] You're excused from being even relatively decent company on account of all the muggle pain killers, but you only get one exemption so. Keep that in mind.

[darkart]

I'll remember to go with the raw pain, next time.

[ He might have preferred it; he's lucky, he passed out when it was the worst. ]

[pushfall]

[ Claire grinds her molars together slightly but is quick to smile all the same. It's small and tight around the eyes and tired, more than anything, but when are any of them not tired? It's been a long several days. ]

Let's work on making sure there isn't a next time, more than anything. [ She bends forward to adjust the mirror again, as it has begun to slide down onto the stretched and clean fabric of her bedspread. When it rights again, her legs are folded. ] It's so dark in there.

[ Maybe she should turn down the light on her end so it doesn't blind him. ]

[darkart]

Mm. [ Should he be more agitated about everything? He's just too tired. It's so extreme it's just ridiculous. ]

I'll probably be light sensitive and have trouble focusing for a few days still.

[pushfall]

[ It could have been a lot worse, Claire reminds herself. ]

Having a dimly lit room finally comes in handy.

[darkart]

I'm in medbay still.




[ :| ]

[pushfall]

Right, I know, but. Eventually you won't be. It's not like you're going to get discharged from medical and get the okay to go stare up into a bunch of fluorescent lights.

[ Then again maybe. Wizards and science. ]

[darkart]

I'll be fine. Treatment was instantaneous.

[ Severus is plainly uncomfortable with anyone fussing over him, though he's tolerating it from all sides patiently. ]

[pushfall]

Treatment might have been, but recovery's obviously not. [ She does know a thing or two about instantaneous recovery. ] I'm not here to fuss over you, but I'm also not opposed to sitting on you if I have to.

[darkart]

Well that I wouldn't mind.

[ YOU KNOW WHAT FINE ]

[pushfall]

That's supposed to be a threat, not a reward.

[ She does a very good job of keeping her expression very flat. ]

[darkart]

Oh, pardon me.

[ Extremely Proper. ]

I'll remember to pretend to be suffering should you ever implement it.

[pushfall]

I have a serious lack of faith in your ability to make that very convincing.

[ Also Extremely Proper. A challenger emerges. In the back of her head she's just thinking this is a punishment everyone will enjoy but she's not going to say that when he's not even out of medbay yet. ]