Julian & Nico - Medlab

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Nico visits Julian the night he is get into the Medlab. Julian is alright, albeit high on painkillers


Nico entered the medlab with her best poker face, wondering how she had managed to gather the guts to actually go there. Kevin had told her to take the first step, and she had taken probably a little too much to actually do so, but hey, there she was alright? She only hoped Julian wasn't sleeping, or even worst, completely drugged. "Keller? Scream if you are awake."

Julian opened his blue eyes and looked up at Nico with a smile, "Heeeeeey, Minotaru, how's it going?" The drugs were definitely taking full effect, but given the amount of padding and bandages around his waist and thighs, that was probably a good thing.


She almost turned away and left the medlab without another word, but Nico was already there; the fact Julian couldn't think straight was not going to stop her. "Minoru, Keller, don't make me wish you were in a coma." Sitting next to him, Nico felt actually worried about his well being. "What the hell happened again?"

"What the hell happened was a wolf, a big-ass wolf, came at me and bit me on the ass!" Julian shifted a little, wincing as he did, to emphasize the statement. "Took a good chunk of it out and the docs say I'm going to have a spectacular scar."


Nico cringed as Julian explained what the hell had happened in a very direct way. "Why would Nick go and bite you...you know, there? You didn't anger him, did you?" It wasn't really supportive, but Nico couldn't be supportive if she didn't know what had happened, and why had happened. "Or he just went bananas on you?"

"Just went bananas! I mean, one minute I'm pelting him with eggs and dodgeballs because the kid can't dodge worth crap and the next thing I know, he dices my butt. Doesn't seem all that fair does it? I mean...I was trying to help him." Julian turned his head to look Nico in the eyes, "Wow."


If he hadn't been already hurt, Nico would have slapped him, maybe a couple of times. "You were attacking a feral, and one that can't really control himself just yet!" Really now, how come Julian could be such a trouble for others to the point of getting hurt in the process...Nick should be feeling awful now. "Wow, what? Do I have something in my face?"

"Hey now, he asked me to do it, so there," Julian said plainly, skirting the question entirely.


Sighing, Nico tried one more time. "Did he ever told you to stop? Or, I don't know, didn't you consider you maybe should be a little less enthusiastic when dealing with someone that could have killed you?" She remember Nick's feral state at the play, and that was something she didn't need to deal with, magic training going on or not; claws were claws, and she wasn't risking her neck throwing things at anyone.

"And you didn't answer my question."


"I stopped on my own! Kid got splattered with egg, thought I'd be nice and let him go lap it off. Then he bit me. I was being nice!" the wounded boy insisted. After a beat of silence passed he spoke again, "What question?"


Another sigh, and Nico was starting to lose her cool. "You could...ugh, Keller, you are some sort of trouble magnet, aren't you?" If she wanted to know the whole thing, she would need to ask Nick...who was probably not going to say a word to anyone but Catseye...who wasn't going to talk with anyone about it. End of the road, Julian was hurt. "Okay, you were being nice, you unlucky poor you. Forget about it."

"Damn right I was being nice, Nico. Gleason's just crazy." He sighed and shifted again, painfully. "What are you doing down here anyway?"

The fact he used her name took Nico by surprise; they didn't use their names; he was Keller for her, and she was Minoru -or that horrible transformation that had seemed to stick- for him; using names was...kind of personal. "Okay, he's crazy, and he'll need to work on that." For a moment Nico decided she should have just walked away when she could. "Ah, well...what the hell looks like I'm doing, Keller? Someone has to visit you anyway." She was blushing, but hoped it didn't show too much. It did though.

The nice sleepy feeling of the painkillers was starting to wash over him again. "You're a good friend, Nico. Damn good." The boy chuckled and went on, "Pretty too."

The blushing got worse. "Ah, well, t-th-thanks? You are pretty too, I guess?" This was really awkward, maybe because she knew Julian was horribly doped; she still liked the way he talked to her; what a sorry consolation. "If you could talk like that without painkillers, things would be different though..."

"Different...how...?" Julian asked, slipping into unconsciousness.

Nico stared at Julian drifting to sleeping land. "Because then it would mean something real."