Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 24, 2009 23:40:18 GMT -5
Zephyros nodded slowly, "I think I can..."
The horror of what he had done refused to leave his thoughts... the pain the knife had caused in his wrists reawakening fresh as daylight, his body wanting to jerk the same way it had in the shower... he swore he could feel the warmth pulling away from his limbs and tightened his arms around Jason. "Yes, I think I could use something to eat please, Professor..."
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Vincent Hawk
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Post by Vincent Hawk on Oct 24, 2009 23:45:39 GMT -5
Vincent nodded. "I'll be back as soon as possible." After I get a new shirt on... ugh.
He turned and left the room quickly, shutting the door softly behind him.
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Post by ianharris on Oct 25, 2009 0:17:01 GMT -5
Barely a minute late, the door opened again, and the person who limped into the sick bay was not Vincent. Ian's legs hadn't quite healed up yet. He still walked with a limp in his right leg, but he was sure that would heal up within a few days. But that was not his concern at the moment.
The mage walked... limped... with an air of anger, but it was not a violent rage like he had succumbed to a few days ago. This was a colder anger, an anger that came from something far deeper than a reaction to an event. An anger that had been brewing since Ian found out about the blood in the bathroom, and finally realized why Zeph had been acting so odd in the sick bay.
In a way, he was more furious than he had been when he had dashed off after Jonathan.
Ian made his way over to Zeph's bed. He pulled up a chair and sat, crossing his legs and fixing Zeph with an emotionless stare. It was almost a minute before anyone spoke, and that someone was Ian.
"In the words of a very wise woman," He said flatly. "'At this moment, you are the most selfish person on planet earth.'"
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 0:22:20 GMT -5
Zephyros' eyes filled with tears and he looked away, choking, "I know. Oh gods, I know..."
He looked at Jason and closed his eyes, trying to put his head as close to Jason's as he could without causing himself any pain. Tears burned under his lids, sliding down his cheeks. "I know I am..."
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Post by ianharris on Oct 25, 2009 0:28:24 GMT -5
Ian sighed, allowing his emotionless face to give way to... something. It wasn't pity. "As long as you understand that what you did was for you and no one else... then you'll avoid making the same mistake in the future. A future which you now have again. Selfishness gets you nowhere."
He leaned back and watched Zeph and Jason. Happy as he was that these two were alive, this emotional bullshit and suicide attempts had to stop, or else somebody was really going to get hurt. "Learn that lesson. I did, and look how-" He stopped speaking at once and took a deep breath. "Never mind."
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 0:54:14 GMT -5
Zeph bit his lip. "I don't know what I was thinking... how I thought this could solve anything... I must have... I just... just wasn't thinking."
He looked at Jason, his eyes heartbroken again but in a different way. "Jason... can you forgive me?"
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Jason Hiller
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Post by Jason Hiller on Oct 25, 2009 0:59:06 GMT -5
"Yes," Jason replied faintly, looking into Zeph's pained face and leaning into his embrace. "Just promise me, never again... Please."
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 1:25:27 GMT -5
"Whatever promise it takes for you to believe me," Zeph said fervently. He closed his eyes, leaning his head toward Jason more. "It looks like I'm the one who needs to earn trust again..."
He looked over at Ian, looking... apologetic. "From everyone."
Suddenly his expression became sharply inquisitive. "And why would you have heard these words from a very wise woman?"
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Post by ianharris on Oct 25, 2009 1:31:42 GMT -5
Ian shifted in his seat. Why do I let these things slip out? He thought bitterly. But he supposed that Zeph and Jason deserved to understand why Ian was so furious about the situation.
"Because..." He took a deep breath. "Zeph, I told you about the funeral. You know how much that affected me. After that, I slipped into a deep depression... after all, what I learned that day rocked my world. A week after that... I swallowed everything in the medicine cabinet. Paula... that's my cousin... she's a detective... she found out just in time to rush me to the hospital. She's the one that told me that, in the hospital."
"You... er... she told me that I wasn't protecting anyone. That at the end of the day, I was protecting myself by removing myself from harm's way. I didn't want to face the responsibility for my... uh... for my 'actions'."
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 2:04:29 GMT -5
Zephyros visibly flinched, swallowing weakly. "You and I have more than we thought in common, Ian..."
He moved his head to look at Jason again and everything swam in front of his eyes. He trembled... and blacked out, his arm moving from around Jason to fall limply over the edge of the bed, all color drained from his face again. His chest rose and fell steadily, his breathing far stronger than it had been the night before, but he held impossibly still...
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Post by Jason Hiller on Oct 25, 2009 12:29:12 GMT -5
Jason jumped in alarm as Zeph fell limply back onto his pillow. He was still breathing, but he was so still...
"Zeph?!" he whined in fear, then raised his voice to a shout. "Aramis!"
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Aramis Aldin
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Post by Aramis Aldin on Oct 25, 2009 14:41:25 GMT -5
Aramis jolted awake, scrambling to get free of the blankets he'd wrapped tightly around himself. He fell to the floor with a thud and scrambled to his feet, rushing over to the others and tripping on the way. Catching himself before he hit the floor again, he made it to Zeph's side and checked his pulse. His dark eyes closed slowly and he sank to his knees, resting his head on the edge of the bed.
"He just pushed himself too hard, Jason. He's okay. Just... pushed too hard..." Aramis said, exhausted. He was grateful it wasn't anything more than that... he didn't think he could heal anyone right now.
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Post by Jason Hiller on Oct 25, 2009 14:49:44 GMT -5
Jason nodded, wrapping his arms gently around Zeph. He thanked Aramis softly before turning his eyes to Ian and addressing him nervously.
"Maybe we should stop talking about... things like that..."
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 14:57:51 GMT -5
Zeph groaned a little and his eyes flicked open, looking up at Jason. He smiled softly, lifting his hand from over the edge of the bed to stroke Jason's face softly. "Jason... you look so worried..." he whispered, still unable to speak any louder.
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Post by Jason Hiller on Oct 25, 2009 15:00:50 GMT -5
Jason sighed in relief, stroking Zeph's cheek. "You blacked out... I panicked. It'll be okay. You need to lie still, don't strain yourself." He looked toward the door and added, "I hope Professor Hawk gets back soon... you need to eat and drink something soon."
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Post by ianharris on Oct 25, 2009 15:17:24 GMT -5
Ian watched the entire situation play out in front of him, unable to do anything. Poor Aramis... the boy had been forced to step in and do healing that was far beyond him. There was a day when Ian would have never stopped lecturing the boy for this amount of unsupervised magic, but he supposed that this was special circumstances. Where the hell was Ms. Evans-Barros, anyway?
"Perhaps I should leave." He said, but he did not stand up. "I said my piece and I'm not sure that there's very much I can do here, other than be moral support. And I think Jason pretty much has that covered."
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 15:23:17 GMT -5
Zeph looked over at Ian, "Thank you... I needed to hear it... And I will probably need to hear it again."
He looked up at Jason, then at the exhausted Aramis. "And I'm not the only one who needs support."
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Post by ianharris on Oct 25, 2009 16:35:46 GMT -5
Ian nodded. He stood and limped over to Aramis and lifted him up as best he could. "You should lie down." He said to the younger mage, helping him climb into the bed next to Zeph. "You look exhausted. Get some rest."
In the back of his mind, and the middle and the front as well, Ian wondered where Ms. Evans-Barros had vanished off to. Ian made a mental note to either start looking for her or get the staff to start paying Aramis by the hour...
...that was a terrible joke. Shut up, Ian.
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Post by Aramis Aldin on Oct 25, 2009 21:05:05 GMT -5
Aramis felt himself trembling, nodding quickly at Ian's suggestion he get some rest and tried to help Ian get him into a bed. He didn't even bother trying to pull the sheets and blankets over him, he just closed his eyes and fell asleep again. He shivered in his sleep, but didn't wake to try to warm himself up. If the school had fallen down around him he probably would have still been asleep.
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Vincent Hawk
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Post by Vincent Hawk on Oct 25, 2009 21:25:00 GMT -5
It was a frazzled and frustrated Vincent who re-entered the sick bay several minutes later, with a clean shirt on his back, a tray of food in his hands and a frantic Diana at his side. He crossed the room quickly and set the tray down on a nighttable next to Jason and Zeph's bed, giving Ian a nod of acknowledgment and pulling the blankets up over the sleeping Aramis before turning back to Diana and speaking calmly to her.
"See? Everyone's doing fine. They just need to eat and rest, and they'll be right as rain." Physically, at least.
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Diana Hawk
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Post by Diana Hawk on Oct 25, 2009 21:52:24 GMT -5
Diana sidestepped him and hurried over to where the three boys lay, anxiously fussing over them. She knew what had happened to Ian, and about Jason's fall -- she had seized every opportunity she saw to help the two boys along -- but this new injury was shocking in its sheer suddenness and magnitude. She turned to Zephyros, her eyes wide and pained.
Are you doing alright, Zeph? You're so pale... do you need anything? Are you warm enough?[/color]
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 21:57:59 GMT -5
"I'm sorry Professor, I don't know what you're saying..." Zeph said apologetically, looking at the others in the room. "C-could someone translate for me?"
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Post by ianharris on Oct 25, 2009 22:00:57 GMT -5
Ian sighed and rested his elbows on the edge of Zeph's bed. "I'll do it." He cleared his throat. "'Are you doing alright, Zeph? You're so pale... do you need anything? Are you warm enough?'"
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Zephyros Aetai
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Post by Zephyros Aetai on Oct 25, 2009 22:07:11 GMT -5
"Thank you Ian," Zeph said, giving him as warm a smile as he could muster. He turned back to Professor Harrows, giving her the same smile he had Ian.
"I am well enough, Professor, considering the circumstances. I am not looking forward to hearing everyone come tell me what an idiot I am... and that food is smelling really good." His gaze traveled to the tray, as his head tilted to be closer to Jason. He still had one arm wrapped around his boyfriend, holding him close.
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Jason Hiller
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Post by Jason Hiller on Oct 25, 2009 22:49:05 GMT -5
Jason leaned over toward the tray, pulling it closer so Zeph could reach it. There was an assortment of foods on it, enough for three people. Much of it was rich in iron -- probably meant to help Zeph with his bloodloss. Others were dairy-free, Jason noted, and obviously meant for him. The rest was likely reserved for Aramis... who would probably not be waking up any time soon.
"How are your hands doing?" he asked, looking over at Zeph. "Will you need any help eating?"
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