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wesleynotponcy ([personal profile] wesleynotponcy) wrote2012-03-14 11:22 am

From the Causeway to Room 504, Wednesday Afternoon

A week after being checked into the hospital in Los Angeles, Wesley was free to go.

And as it turned out, Wesley was not really all that skilled at steering a wheelchair. Or... skilled at all, really. The process of transporting himself from the tip of the causeway all the way to the dorms involved quite a bit of bumping into things, a fair amount of swearing under his breath, and more than a little damage to the wheels of the damn thing.

It also took over an hour, what with the occasional (and then... less occasional) much-needed break to stop, breathe, and avoid straining the injury that was confining him to this stupid thing in the first place.

But. Eventually he made it. After, you know, swearing quite a bit to himself on the elevator ride up to the fifth floor, and bumping into quite a few walls and all of that.

It was safe to say that he he'd made more noise than intended, let's leave it at that.

[[door and post both open! and consider this your warning that if i forget to mention the chair in narrative for the next couple weeks, he is still in it, yup.]]

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh! No, no, back in my home dimension," Wes clarified quickly. "In Los Angeles. They're, ah. Not all that uncommon in my line of work."

Beat.

"Zombies, that is, not... guns. Though guns aren't terribly uncommon either. Er. I just mean to say, this sort of thing does happen."
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[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-03-15 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Alex had gotten shot at a lot of times, so he knew that this sort of thing happened. One of his old teammates was minus her original arms.

"Yeah, but hopefully not very often?" he tried to point out.

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well. You know Wesley and his insistence that his roommate was actually as weetiny as he looked and behaved.

Wes winced a bit, but decided to go for the literal interpretation. "Not... very often, no," he granted.

Sometimes the zombie cops were actually teenage girls. And the guns were, like, knives and lighters and aerosol cans and things. FAITH.

"It was, ah, just a one-time occurence," he promised. "And I'm told my colleague Charles was very quick to eliminate the threat." Sorry, zombie cops of Los Angeles.
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[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-03-15 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly, Alex just wasn't very good at helping him keep up that illusion.

"Good, 'cause getting shot sucks," Alex said conversationally, sitting on his bed and crossing his legs. "I mean, I haven't ever actually been shot. I got stabbed in the gut, though, that really sucked...actually that happened twice, but the second time I just died then." He shrugged a sort of 'what are you gonna do?' shrug. "But, I mean, people I know who've been shot, it seemed to suck. Except my dad, he just doesn't care. But yeah, I've been there. I'm sorry, you're gonna be real uncomfortable for a while, huh?"

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Nope, he really wasn't.

Wesley blinked. A few times, actually.

"Er," he said after a moment. "You'll have to forgive me, I'm actually still on, ah, on some painkillers. But -- yes. Would be the answer there; yes, there's, ah, there's still a bit of discomfort. Did you say you were killed?"
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[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-03-15 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Alex said. "Did I not tell you that before? Yeah. I mean, how did you think I went from a demigod to a god? Well, I mean, it's way more complicated and messy than that, but that was the last step, I had to die to burn away my mortality." He was pretty sure that was how his dad had explained it to him, anyway. "Anyway, I was fighting this undead guy called Gorgon to buy the rest of my team time to escape--and, well, our fight had already been always going to happen, he didn't fear anything and he had the twin to my sword. And...I lost. So I died. And then I got better and here I am!" He made a little 'ta da' gesture, like a game show host.
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[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Now, Ordinarily Wesley would have quite a few follow-up questions to a story like that, Alex, make no mistake. But today he was, you know, kind of codeine'd out, not to mention fresh from having heard a pretty intense story from Kennedy, so there was just a bit of disoriented blinking and some mental fuzziness where he normally kept his nerdiness.

"...right," he said, dazedly, and shook his head to try to get some thoughts working there again. "And this was... when was this?"
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[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-03-15 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, like...before I came here," Alex said. "Obviously. I mean, I was dead for...I don't know, a while? And then I came back and then I came here." Because apparently being a god of fear didn't get you out of high school.

"So, how long are you gonna be in the chair?" Alex looked around. "I should probably clean my crap off the floor..."
Edited 2012-03-15 04:00 (UTC)

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
"...right," Wesley said again. "Well. Ah. I'm, ah, I'm glad everything, er, worked out for you, then?"

...yeah, that was what he had to offer right now. He'd get around to asking other questions -- lots of other questions -- later, but for right now... he'd just leave it at that.

"I'm told I need to stay in the chair for at least two to three weeks," he reported. "And then for as long as I need afterwards in order to stand comfortably. But there's really no need to go to too much trouble; I'm sure I can, er..." He steered forward, aiming to get to his side, and ran over something idk it's moddable. "...manage," he finished, peering over the side of the chair to see what he'd destroyed.
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[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-03-15 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, it was just some comic books. "Yeah," Alex said, scrambling back off the bed to, at least, reorient the piles of crap so they would be less in Wesley's way and/or shove them under his bed. Organizing could come let's be honest, never later. "I can't just leave this stuff around for three weeks, come on, don't be stupid."

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, as long as you're certain," Wesley said, though internally he was sort of rejoicing. Because come on, he'd banged up the poor chair enough on his way here as it was. No need to go running over stuff and beating it up more even within his own room. "Thank you, by the way," he added, steering more easily now over to his side of the room and gingerly easing himself up and onto his bed. "I appreciate it."
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[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-03-15 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, well," Alex muttered, sniffing at a t-shirt from one of the piles. Dirty? Clean? Eh, a washing wouldn't kill it. He put it actually in the laundry basket. "I try not to actively be an asshole," he sort of joked. "Especially not to the wounded."

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Alex had a laundry basket? Huh. Wesley decided to privately write it off as a painkiller-related hallucination. If he saw it again, well, maybe then he'd believe it.

"Again," Wesley said. "Much appreciated. If you're ever, ah, stabbed again, I'll be more than happy to return the favor."

A beat.

"Er. Please, ah, do try not to get stabbed again."

The exceptionally articulate stylings of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, ladies and gentlemen.
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[personal profile] godofxbox 2012-03-15 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Sure he did! It was that thing sort of half-in his closet (which he wasn't even sure he could shut the door to if he tried) that most of his dirty laundry was, you know, around.

"Oh, well, you know." He threw a few more things in the laundry basket. Wait, not those jeans, he could still wear those again. "I'll try, but, no promises."

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2012-03-15 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Would wonders never cease?

"Do your best," Wesley suggested.