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[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy is in the infirmary, trying to set up some voice activated device he got from the bar.

"Okay Noodle, take pulse."

"Pulse is four hundred and eighteen beats per minute."

"... Nope, that doesn't sound right."

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[iprotectyou]

Baze staggers in, using his staff to support his unsteady steps.

"Fight," he says, gritting his teeth against every pull of his clothes on his oozing wounds, five long cuts from his shoulder blade to his hip.

"Logan and a stranger. With claws."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Bloody hell, that looks sore." Guppy says, moving quickly over to him and helping him onto the nearest bed.

"You got any medical conditions I should know about apart from being dead?"

[iprotectyou]

"Not... that I know of," Baze says, groaning as the movements into the bed tug on the deep cuts. He hisses through his teeth as he twists to lean his staff against the side of the bed.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy runs the scanner over him.

"It's just superficial." he says. "I can fix this with the skin fuser. You're going to need to keep really still though, it'll take a bit of time with all this lot."

He puts some clean gauze over the worst of the wounds. "Put some pressure on this while I work on the others."

[iprotectyou]

Baze is dozing lightly, resting on his belly, though he'll wake up if someone comes into the room. He's worn out from heartache--having to start the lightbow project over again is a sucker punch--and his wounds. Guppy fused the latter, so Baze is merely waiting until the soreness goes away.

[messwiththebest]

Will he, though? If someone is invisible and moving very silently?

[iprotectyou]

Err. Maybe not if she's moving very, very silently? Which she appears to be. His eyes flutter, but aside from that and a soft breath, he doesn't show any signs of rousing.

[messwiththebest]

Eventually she finds a comfortable perch on a nearby bed, legs swinging freely.

And it is at that point that she chooses to become visible, thermoptic camouflage flickering away from her skin and hair and clothes.

"Now what have you done to yourself this time, my friend?"

[idontneedluck]

There's a clatter outside the door of someone moving too fast with a stick and being careless in his haste. There's also a mildly startled and reproachful squeak and a series of hurried and distracted apologies when said person almost runs over the waitrat that came to fetch him.

"... Baze?" The question is sharp, fretful and restive like he hasn't quite decided if an answer or silence would be preferred. Chirrut steps into the room, grumbling under his breath in irritation as he gets his staff awkwardly braced against the entryway.

[iprotectyou]

The noise rouses Baze before Chirrut says his name, but he still tweaks his back trying to twist to better see his friend. Baze draws a sharp breath over his teeth, and exhales it through his nose.

"I'm here, Chir," Baze says, stretching a hand out to him. The larger Jedhan has a tight smile on his face. He hopes the smaller one can hear the smile in his voice, and not the tenseness.

[idontneedluck]

He hears a smile in that voice, pain in that breath, and hesitation in that movement.

He can smell blood.

It is good that Baze can smile, but the rest fully justifies the growled curse when he manages to stumble over a stray (not so stray, just in his way) stool on his way to Baze. His hands refuse to settle, automatically searching for damage over Baze's body once he's in range.

His staff hits the floor with a clatter, forgotten.

"Baze, what happened, how bad..."

[mjolnir_retriever]

[OOC: Ooops, stuck this in the wrong place the first time!]

It's long enough for Guppy to get Baze fixed up, but not all that long after, when Thor appears.

He's vanished the cape and the scale mail somewhere (into a dimensional storage pocket attached to Mjölnir, is where), and he's long since stopped crackling with visible electricity, but he's still looking kind of irritated. Not with Baze, though!

"Baze Malbus, my friend. You're well?"

[iprotectyou]

Baze rouses when Thor enters the room, as it would be difficult not to with an Asgardian entrance. The Jedhan twists a little to better see his Asgardian friend, and smiles at him, though it's a bit thin.

"Yes, I'm fine, thanks for asking. Did you get Logan and the other one squared away in the cells?"

[mjolnir_retriever]

There are Asgardians capable of subtlety! But Thor is not really one, and it's never really an Asgardian default mode, so... yeah.

"Yes." There's who he's irritated at, yep. "For now. I will consult with X to determine the most suitable sentence for their offense."

[sunbaked_baker]

Some time later... Much later, actually...

Later enough that Ivanhoe felt secure (though reluctant) in letting a young girl under his protection leave the relative safety of the kitchen... young Rae peeks around the infirmary door frame. She wants to make sure Baze is all right, but wouldn't want to distract if it's dire and the doctors need to work, or interrupt if Baze is resting.

[iprotectyou]

Baze opens his eyes, turning his head slightly on the pillow to better see who's entered the room. He breaks into a broad smile.

"Hoi, Rae. May the Force of others be with you!"

He hopes she doesn't mind that he's just going to stay prone, with his cheek on the pillow.

[sunbaked_baker]

Baze is awake, and talking, and smiling. That's not nothing, but yes, she notices him not being keen on moving.

"...With you, too." Her smile is real but small and still tinged with worry. "Are you hurt bad?"

[irish_vagabond]

Also much later, Cassidy comes downstairs into the main bar and smells blood. Like, a lot of blood. The waitrats can clean up all they want, but Cassidy is still going to smell the blood in the air.

The scent kind of diverges, one way toward the cells, the other way toward the infirmary. That can't be good.

Cassidy picks the infirmary.

Poking his head 'round the door, he notes the only occupied bed in the room with a very large occupant.

"Holy shite, mate, what the hell happened to you?"

[iprotectyou]

Baze rouses before Cassidy speaks, but just barely. The large Jedhan turns his head to better see his smaller Earther friend, but feels a full-body shudder as he tweaks his sore back. The blood is all over Baze's jumpsuit, dried along five long tears from shoulder blade to hip.

He smiles, and though it's pained and tight, gratitude shines in his eyes.

"Cassidy! Hoi! May the Force of others be with you!" Baze says, extricating a hand from underneath himself to wave at his friend--which also tweaks his back. Ow. He settles back on the pillow reluctantly.

"I'm okay. Some fighty idiot opened me up with his claws because I was stupid enough to get in the way of him disemboweling some other fighty idiot. Guppy used the skin fuser, so I'll just be sore for a week or so. I'm good!"

See? He's totally fine. Yup.

[irish_vagabond]

"I missed a disemboweling?" he says dryly as he frowns over Baze's no-longer-wounds. His jumpsuit looks like it went through a shredder, though.

"What were you doin' tryin'a-- oh, right, you're on the Security team. Well, Jaysus, that's a helluva fight to be breaking up, but I'm glad you're still in one piece."

[is_the_motion]

Bonnie hurries to see him, with soup, and looks around the door to see if he's awake.

[iprotectyou]

Baze rouses at the sound of someone rushing about, and twists his neck to see who it is. When he spots Bonnie, he breaks into a smile that, while pained, is not forced.

"Hoi, Bonnie. May the Force of others be with you!"

[is_the_motion]

"Well hey there, looks like Guppy got yer back in one piece." Bonnie says, bringing over the flask of soup. "How you feelin' honey?"

[cutting_edgex23]

X, after some bloody sparring with Thor, and conversations with both Logan and Creed, stops by to check on Baze, too.

She is careful to make noise as she approaches.

"Baze."

Beat.

"You are healing?"

[iprotectyou]

Baze rouses before she says his name, but only barely. He snorts as he wakes, taking in a breath. When she speaks, he twists to see her, and ends up tweaking his back.

"X. Hoi. May the Force of others be with you," Baze says muzzily, blinking the sleep out of his eyes.

"I'm healing up just fine. Guppy fixed the skin, so I'll just be sore for a week while the torn muscle heals underneath."