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POSTED ON Nov 13, 2023 19:21:20 GMT
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the hospital is nothing like being bathed in the blessed waters of a celestial being. the doctors do not offer life-changing advice and the soothing of the soul. and after all the rest of her adrenaline fades, and the shock wears off, she is horribly alone in sterile walls and the nightmarish thought that despite everything, she had failed.

but for all the magic surrounding isaac and suicune and their avatarship, they did not have the one boon gifted to her by the hospital: morphine. 

the shale had been removed from her side. she sports sutures along her hip. they said she was lucky it didn't puncture any organs. the tradeoff is that it had cracked her bone.

her ribs are purple, bruised to hell and high water, but those are wrapped. despite being banged around as she was, she's walking limping away with only a light concussion. the bleeding from her ears and her nose had been the strenuous vibrations from fernando's infernal wigglytuff. nothing that lasted more than a few days, save for a ringing tinnitus.

she had forgotten, before she'd left for the mirage island, that she had switched her emergency contact from to .

the woman's given a rundown. she's given a bunch of pieces of paper for different prescriptions. and then she's shown to freya's room.
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Whatever part of her felt genuine fear had been well and truly excised and cauterized. The phone call from the hospital, instead, has her putting down her tools (she’s pulling apart this cool motorcycle she found lying around to repurpose for something else) and scrubbing the grease from her hands.

It’s always one tragedy after another in Hoenn. She has the distinct feeling that, before, she’d cared too much. Now it’s just another drop in the bucket.

She holds Freya’s meds in a plastic bag with the hospital’s emblem on it and waves at the outpatient nurse as she escorts the patient to the teleport pad.

“Don’t worry, I got it. I’ll make sure she eats the Fentanyl patch.”

She can’t stop herself snickering at the horrified look on the nurse’s face as the sliding doors whirr shut behind them.

“So, patient zero, where too? The casino? Try the last of your luck? I hear buffet seafood is great for broken ribs.” She has the metal arm hovering around Freya’s waist, to lift her if she falls. Her Gardevoir, Kanaya, stands on the other side, expression sharp and sour.




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POSTED ON Nov 17, 2023 2:24:35 GMT
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eating something doesn't sound very good right now. not much sounds very good right now. her whole stint here has been somewhat of a haze and she had blinked owlishly at ana when she'd shown up, and is still kind of looking at her right now, almost like do i know you? and then a shock of recognition will go through her and she will nod to herself and that's that. 

all the pain is very far away, but she can't shake the thought that she is very, very, very lonely. and the place she has to go too is going to make her lonelier, because it's not where she wants to be. 

"casino sounds really, really good," she says with a dip of her head. a wince. "ana, where do you live?"
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Freya’s got the opioid woobies. She just lets her vibe, can see the way her eyes fog and her edges blur.

“Oh, you know, around.” She sets metal fingers gently against Freya’s hipbone, once more amazed at the sensitivity she built into her servos. Her flesh hand wasn’t nearly so responsive.

“Would you rather go there?” she adds, quieter.




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"around," she says, tasting the word's curves. ana touches her other hip and it's like she's balancing out the shock of pain in the other one. the cracked and splintered bone, put together again like some macabre humpty dumpty with the best doctors ever grande has to offer. the best healing. the best pokemon. only the best, best, best, for miss councilwoman morningstar.

"do i pay you enough?" she asks. 

and also: "yes, please."
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"Yeah, around. Yeah, of course you do. It’s not you, it’s-- well, you’ll see.”

She nods to Kanaya who activates the warp pad and skeets off through timespace with Freya in tow.

They emerge in a dark space. Its cold, and smells like concrete, dust, and faintly of motor oil. Square beams of light shoot in from a paneled garage door across the way. The ceiling is high and arched, bare bones joists and nails; there are shelves cluttered with mechanical components, paint, tools, and just-- just a bunch of shit, really. A motorcycle in a stage of disrepair rests in one corner; the far wall is dedicated completely to what look like robot organs and limbs.

“C’mon in,” she says, opening the door from the garage into the house proper, helping Freya up the single step, “mi casa es su casa and all that shit.” Kanaya strides in ahead of them and disappears around a corner.

It’s not a bad house, all things considered; slummy for Ever Grande would fit right in in middle class Slateport. It’s on the vestiges of a neighborhood, thinning out amongst the wild Hoennian coastline. The garage opens into a small kitchen with mismatched cabinets; the floors are new, the countertops new, but half the doors are wood and half the doors are sleek stainless. The microwave doesn't match the fridge. A space on the other side of the half-finished bar peninsula is open for a dining table or foosball table or whatever ends up going there, eventually.

Remnants of a wall and a partially framed in support beam lead into a large space with new, untrimmed windows looking out into the forest. A shiny Ninetails is curled up in the corner, snoozing.

A mishmash of birdfeeders and houses pepper the trees outside, bright spots of color among all that Hoenn green. A Venusaur lumbers about, nosing through the brush.

“Did the central air first but it still needs rewiring and some quality of life upgrades,” she says, guiding Freya around a pile of tools and an orange toolbelt laying haphazardly on the floor. “Gotta do new floors throughout and I want jacuzzi tubs and-- yeah. I dunno. I don’t want it to be… too perfect.” Something itches at the back of her mind, the memory of a doll trapped in her dollhouse and the smell of warm bread, and she makes a mental note to buzz that bit out better when next she attends to her memories.

Kanaya steps out of the first of three bedrooms on the upper floor and gestures them over. There’s new floors and dark blue curtains on the two small windows. Dark wooden shelving has been hung up but is as of yet bare.

There’s a queen sized bed in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle sheets and matching pillowcases set up for Freya against the wall, in the middle of the room. A Breloom is fluffing the pillows. Kanaya leads Freya to the bed, her face an amalgam of stern apology for this being the only spare bedset she’d had access to.

“Bathroom’s right across the way. Bryda, can we get a table or something in here? Thanks.” She rustles through Freya’s med bag. “How you doin’, champ? Feelin’ okay? Or at least not atrocious?”


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POSTED ON Nov 21, 2023 0:00:17 GMT
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freya is under the impression that they are going to ana's house, not a dusty garage. and so she is a little bit confused at the sudden change in surroundings. too many new things get caught in her vision and the shapes are kind of blurry and she can't quite hang onto all of it, but there is an oily taste in the back of her mouth and ana is very warm. 

she winces as she steps up, feeling like she's eighty years old.

they walk - well, ana walks, freya kind of shuffles. freya has the weirdest sensation that she's been displaced. or, no, rather that the house has been displaced - bisected by two different universes, one of the modern age and one made entirely of a future bent around its edges. like it wants to be something but it can't because its roots can't find purchase. 

"it's a house," she says, but she means a home. it's lived in. it's not a place being squatted in, even if it looks like ana's taken a hammer haphazardly to whatever section of the place the place gets unluckily electrocuted into being in her brain. it's not like the hotel, with her most memorable things tucked into sagging boxes, sheets thrown over them, littered with things that aren't hers. 

"it's beautiful out back," she adds, neck craning as ana leads her around the working construction site.

despite her mostly stoic face, she does not feel good. and when she's creaking into the bed, the relief is palpable by way of her shaking shoulders, the long exhale that leaves her as she lays down. 

"i feel like i fought off two gods hell-bent on destroying me," she says dryly. and with a shudder, "i'll take the pills please."
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“It is!” she says, smiling at the room around them with a sort of dopey glee. “And I bought it myself. No nepo money.”

She sets up some pillows and helps Freya lean back onto them, assisting her with moving the blankets. Bryda brings in a side table from somewhere else in the house. A gaggle of Pokemon have gathered outside the bedroom door, peering around it like small children.

“It’s just the right amount of wild, I think. Peaceful, but civilized enough to stop me turning into a recluse that shakes her walker at those durn kids playin’ on my lawn.”

She triple-checked the dosages on the bottles and measured out the correct amount of opioids in the palm of her hand. Kanaya brings water in a plastic cup with a pink curly straw.

“I’ll try and get a TV set up in here, post haste,” she says, as she gently folds Freya’s fingers around the mixed bag of tablets and capsules, then guides the straw to her lips to help her chase and swallow. “Hey, maybe I’ll make a library run, get you something to read. What do you like?”

She doesn't want to ask what happened. She doesn't really care-- not out of callous disinterest, but because this is Hoenn, and there will always be one, if not two, gods to fight, amongst some other wicked shit. Freya is hurt and needs to heal, that was the end-all-be-all of this situation.




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a tv would be nice. now that she's horizontal, she can tell just how exhausted she is. between this and the medicine, she's likely to lay comatose for a while now. good.

part of her feels bad for wanting to shut herself down into oblivion, but most of her has been yearning for this for weeks. a hard reset for her body maybe. (deep down, she knows she just wants to stop feeling.)

"mostly we just watched romcoms." she never cared much for tv. her parents likes their books in their leisure time, when they weren't spending it by being active. it wasn't until delta came along really -

the pills pass her lips and she drinks them down with the water. and decides to forget that for a time.

"i have books at my place. can you swing by next time? i have some research i could do." she rubs one eye with the palm of her hand. "and you're in charge of the dragons while i'm...recovering. i'll tell tsubaki."

her lids droop. she shifts so she's staring at the ceiling.

"you were wrong, by the way. about them understanding. my best friend cut me out, ana, and i don't know what i'm going to do. i don't know how much more i can lose."
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“Right. Can do. Banana Phone pirates all my TV for me. I’m sure I can find you something.”

She keeps a mental tally of all the shit she has to do now. She doesn't really mind. It’s nice to have something to do; to feel needed. She’s always been more of a rank-and-file worker. She may not have a leadership brain but give her a list of tasks and by god she’ll make it her bitch. “And don’t worry about the overgrown lizards. I won’t spoil ‘em too much.”

Freya’s next words make her hesitate, and she sits on the edge of the bed, careful not to jostle anything that might hurt (which in Freya’s case is probably everything).

“Well, that sounds like a shitty friend to me. I-M-H-O.” She reaches up to push back a strand of white blonde hair behind Freya’s ear. “It hurts, but you’ll be okay. You were okay before them and you’ll be okay again.”




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ana's naming conventions of her pokemon don't make much sense to freya. so when she says banana phone, freya at first thinks maybe ana's trying to tell her she's going to put a children's show on for her. it makes her think of the time she put cocomelon on for twelve-year-old delta. she'd gotten a look of absolute disrespect and disbelief in return.

"okay," she says, even if she doesn't believe her. it should be enough, for now, that she wants to believe her. she leans into the light touch with a smile. but she's also thinking it wasn't okay for you. it hurt ana so bad she had to dig it all out of her brain.

"i saw your husband," she says with a yawn. "he told me i'd be okay too."
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“You don’t sound so convinced. It sucks right now but when you’re not feeling so shitty, it’ll be more manageable.”

It’s a testament to how well she did buzz her brain clean that the comment doesn't even register. Doesn’t ping, doesn’t pitch the pause-twang of a reflection of a memory.

She laughs, nose crinkling.

“Whew, these drugs are doing you good. I gotta get me some.”




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the drugs are doing her wonders, actually. turns out when you haven't had much else to eat but slim pickings of just-okay hospital food and a lot of jell-o cups, it helps the meds kick in quite quickly. 

"i don't feel my side anymore," she agrees and snuggles herself nice and neat under the tirtouga covers. 

"i think maybe he still loves you, the way he was talking. but of course he does. you're amazing." she looks approvingly over ana's frame, over the gleaming chrome of her arm. "and shiny."
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“Good. That’s what they’re there for.”

Little rest and recouping, that’ll do Freya loads of good. Things always seem much more horrible and unbearable when you’re tired and in pain. “Get some food into you in a bit, you’ll feel better.”

She flexes her metal hand and smiles at it fondly.

"Yeah?… good for him.” Her voice is vaguely dreamy.

She watches the servos flick and fall as she touches thumb to fingertips.

“Very shiny. I might swap out some of the LEDs for purple, but I didn’t want to get beamed as a Rocket on sight. Not fair that they get a monopoly on the color."




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"my card is...somewhere," she says. currently, it's sitting in a locked drawer in her office desk. she hadn't felt the need to take it with her on the battlefield, which is probably for the better. and doesn't have keys to her desk (but freya has no doubt in her mind that the girl could pick the lock if she really wanted to). 

her phone is in her things and freya gestures vaguely towards it. "order whatever you want. password's 4-5-1-2-2-0-1."

she admires the arm with ana and then her brows furrow with worry. thumb to fingertip and when she touches her ring finger, there's nothing there, but that can't be right.

"ana, i think you lost your ring."
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