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[nita_callahan]

Nita and Sharpe, supporting Jack between them, lead the way into the Infirmary, followed by Merriman and Moiraine. Nita glances around and jerks her head towards an open bed.

"Over here."

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[gramarye1971]

It's the work of a few moments to get Jack into the empty bed. The pristine white bed-linens are soon marred with dirt and grime, but cleanliness is the least of the priorities at the moment. Extra pillows are pressed into service, supporting Jack's injured knee, and finally he is in a stable enough position for a more thorough examination to begin.

[nita_callahan]

"I patched up his abdominal injuries," Nita says, "the worst of it. His arm's stabilized; we should take care of that, and his knee. If there are head injuries, I didn't get a chance to deal with them."

The burns, cuts, and bruises are obvious enough.

[blue_ajah]

She had been moving slowly enough after releasing the portal that she was the last one into the room. Upon hearing this, however, Moiraine takes a steadying breath and glides forward, approaching the bed where Jack lies.

The Aes Sedai is visibly weary, but determined.

"I can assess his condition," she says quietly. "I should even be able to Heal him, but it might well be best if we if we sought Nynaeve Sedai--"

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Something pulls him part of the way back to reality; a smell. An all-too-familiar smell.

Antiseptic. The sterile, cold smell of a medical facility. The same smell as when he'd woken up from having bones broken, from when they'd injected him with drugs that made every nerve in his body scream with pain, when they'd patched up broken bones, cuts and burns without painkillers.

Oh shit no, I'm not back there, I'm not, I'm not there anymore--

Human shapes loom over him and he shifts, trying to move, trying to get out, but he can't lift his head very far, his breath starting to come in jerky gasps, the room spinning in a blur in front of his eyes.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_righthandman_/]

Chase is resting comfortably on one of the beds, sleeping the sleep of the utterly exhausted. His chest rises and falls slowly and you wouldn't know anything bad had happened to him.

If he's dreaming, you won't be able to tell.

[agirllost]

After making arrangements for Tony, Kim slips back into the infirmary.

She takes a seat next to Chase's bed and reaches out to hold his hand.

So many things she wants to say but right now she's quiet, trying not to break down. Her body's still waiting for a fight.

A few yards away, her Dad's future lies in doubt, but there's nothing she can do. She's too weak to help with power and her healing ability is non-existent.

Upstairs, Tony's in a room. If not for the massive exit wound, he could be sleeping.

Tomorrow, everything's going to change and part of her's afraid of the future.

But now, there's silence, and Chase is healed. He needs a shower. They both do.

After a few moments, she moves her hand to his wrist, then forearm. He's healed, she's missed him, and she's exhausted. Tony's gone, Chris is safe, Chase is here, her Dad's life rests in the hands of people she trusts - and she's so tired.

She moves the chair closer, until she can lean forward and use her folded arms as a pillow. Chase's breathing is deep and even and the world slowly fades into darkness.

[angela-edmunds.livejournal.com]

Angela had stayed in her room for a few hours after the rescue teams had left so she didn't have to talk to anyone. She couldn't talk to anyone else, she needed to be by herself, to wait and worry.

She'd ventured down to the bar a little later and heard the buzz about the rescue teams coming back, and had run up here--just to check.

There's her Grampa, he's sleeping, but she can tell he's healed at least a little.

Mom, where's my Mom? Where's Dad? she thinks frantically, looking around. When she sees her Dad, looking as if...not much has happened, she hurries over and there's her mother, sleeping against his bed. She takes a shuddering breath and though she really hasn't cried since the first team had left, the tears come now as she bends down and hugs her mother from behind.

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

After her father left, Chris stayed behind in the infirmary, wanting to be around when Jack woke up. She dozed off for a bit, lying in the bed next to his, trying to relax. It didn't quite work, even after her nap she feels tense, jittery.

She sits in the chair next to Jack's bed, watching him sleep. He looked better than he had before, most of his wounds had been healed hours before. Still too thin though.

Gently, almost hesitating, she reaches out to touch his face, wanting to reassure herself that he was real and this wasn't another dream.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

He wakes from a deep sleep as someone touches his face and he flinches momentarily, instinct taking over. Opening his eyes, he's not sure exactly what he's going to see, and for a moment before his vision clears, his heart starts to beat faster in rising panic; he's in an infirmary of some kind.

Then, however, he sees Chris' face looking down at him, and the fear changes to hope; hope that he's not dreaming or hallucinating. Hope that he's finally home.

"Chris?" he asks, his voice rough and barely above a whisper.

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"Sorry," she whispers as he startles awake. "I didn't mean to wake you."

[angela-edmunds.livejournal.com]

Her mother is huddled over her Dad's bed and she approaches her grandfather's bed cautiously, even though he's asleep.

There aren't words to tell him how sorry she is for everything, but that all seems so long ago now. She sits down beside him quietly before placing her head beside his hand on the bed and closing her eyes.

Tears trickle between her closed eyelids until she falls into a restless sleep.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Something's ticklng his hand as he wakes, and he pulls his hand back reflexively. Opening his eyes, he feels a small rush of relief seeing that he's still in Milliways, as he half expects to wake up and find it was all a dream or a hallucination; to find himself in the dark and alone once more.

Looking down to see what it was that had touched his hand, he sees a mop of familiar strawberry-blonde hair. He stretches his hand slightly so he can touch the top of Angie's head, stroking her hair just as he had when she was a toddler.

[angela-edmunds.livejournal.com]

It's a little while before she wakes, but she does, noticing that someone is stroking her hair. She lifts her head and whispers in a trembling voice, "Grampa?"

She catches his hand in hers, gently, she'd seen how bruised and hurt his hands were.

[agirllost]

Somehow, in the harsh light of day he looks worse.

A lot of the scars and bruises have disappeared, but he's still so thin - thinner than she can ever remember seeing him - and although she knows it's him, it still takes her a moment to process.

Chase is sleeping. She can sit with him for a while.

Moiraine, Nita, Merriman, they did all they could. She doesn't know what happened to her Dad over last month or more, but she hopes it hasn't broken him.

He seems so fragile and she lays her hand gently over his.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

He's half-waking due to the movement around him when someone touches his hand, and he yanks it away, his eyes snapping open. But it isn't a guard standing there, or a medic with a needle in their hand; it's Kim, and he swallows to keep from choking up just seeing her.

"Hey, Kim," he says, his voice nearly gone, and not just from the lump in his throat.

[agirllost]

She rests her hands in her lap, not wanting to scare him. His reaction makes her inwardly shudder and the look in his eyes -

"Daddy," she whispers, trying and failing to hold back her tears. His voice is barely like she remembers, not like the way he sounded on Christmas.

So close to losing him and in the most horrible way she could imagine.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_chappy_/]

After checking in on Chris, Ryan is back in the infirmary. He needs to talk with Jack about a few things.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Jack's got his eyes closed and he's tired, but he's not sleeping. Having dozed off a couple times and waking from nightmares that left his shaking he's not in a rush to go back to sleep.

Instead he's lying there, one hand propped against his forehead where a headache's begun to throb.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_chappy_/]

Taking a seat nearby, Ryan looks at him. "Jack, are you awake?"

[nita_callahan]

[Millitimed to Sunday.]

Eventually, Nita's fallen asleep in a chair near Jack's bed.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Jack snaps awake from a nightmare with a gasp, his instinctual reaction to tense for a fight, to expect that he's still in China. It only takes a moment for him to realize that he's not, that he's still in Milliways, but that doesn't stop his heartrate from jumping.

He blinks to clear the sleep from his eyes and spots Nita in the chair nearby, asleep.

[nita_callahan]

Her doze is broken when he starts awake, and she sits up.

"Jack?"

[blue_ajah]

At some point after speaking with Merriman, she returns to the infirmary to check on Jack.

Moiraine's movement across the floor is nearly silent, save for the soft sounds of footfalls and the whisper of silk.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Jack's lying back in bed with his eyes closed when he hears it; the sound of softened footsteps and the rustling of fabric. Instantly he tenses, his muscles rigid and he glances around himself for a weapon; of which there isn't much to hand. He's not even thinking of where he is and who it could be; he's reacting on instinct.

[blue_ajah]

"Do not be alarmed," she says swiftly, pausing where she stands. "It is Moiraine, Jack. Do you know me?"