Jean & Garrison: Really? The Med Lab Again?

[xp_dominion]

Jean checks in on an injured Garrison Kane.



A blown mission in Europe. A desperate defence in District-X that had cost too many lives even if successful. A former member of the mansion now a psychopathic murderer. It had not been the best of times for a mansion. Garrison mused that he should consider himself lucky that, despite every square inch of him hurting, none of his injuries were particularly serious. Even the worst of the cuts had topped out at two stitches. To the point that they'd turned down his request for morphine and gave him Tylenol instead. Narcs.

"I'd ask how you were doing but judging by the look on your face I know the answer," Jean said, glancing over his chart. It was easy to slip into doctor mode when there were injuries. No dancing around anything, just pure medicine.

"Well, I feel like someone stuffed me in a barrel of broken glass and rolled me down a rocky hill after setting it on fire." Kane winced as he moved. "But I'm told it's all superficial. What about you? I know people took some hits in France?"

"Quite a few hits, actually. Wade and the Marauders did a lot of damage. They killed a lot of people. Clarice and Sooraya were also pretty injured. And I dropped a giant statue on Rogue after Laurie dosed her," Jean said, tucking the tablet away into a drawer.

"We're lucky we didn't lose anyone."

"Well, you and Scott in the field tend to tilt the odds in our favour. I'm going to assume Marie is okay because, well, she's done the giant statue thing before. What about you? Laurie's 'doses' can have nasty side-effects." He knew from first hand experience.

Jean shook her head before glancing away. "I didn't give her the chance. I pulled her into my head. Made her think she was still out there on the street. That Wade was after her. She hid. I knew she'd go for ending him bloody. So I used it against her. When someone went after her from behind I made it look like it was Adam. She used her claws...and killed him. It freaked her out. Then she ran...for real," she said.

"Some day, we're going to get her and put her in a cell for a good long time." Kane said. "Sorry that wasn't today." He let out a long breath.

"Her day is coming," Jean said, certain but solemn. They had to get her off the streets before she could hurt anyone else.

"I see we also got one of the horsemen...the actual Death. Marius? He used to live here?"

"Yeah. Good guy. A bit twitchy. When he's not the instrument for a genocidal madman." Kane laughed, a bit of a broken, rattling sound. "Used to get mad when I'd bully him into X-Men missions when he could help."

Jean was silent for a moment. "Are you sure we can trust him?" After all, Laurie used to walk the halls too before she decided to sell her soul.

Kane took a long moment and finally nodded his head. "Yeah. Guy like him, dealing with his mutation... he's almost the perfect villain origin story and he's risked his life for us multiple times. I'm willing to trust him until he proves me wrong."

"If he does I'll set him on fire," Jean said. She paused.

"That came out a little more dramatic than I intended."

"I was kinda set fire to a couple of hours ago so it sounds like a perfectly valid response to me." Kane painfully shrugged.

"I'm still not giving you morphine," Jean said. "No matter how much you give me the puppy dog eyes."

"I have cuts everywhere! And burns! And bruises! And I can finally feel moderate levels of drugs!" Kane protested.

"That doesn't mean you get morphine. It means you get Tylenol and a nap."

"I'd argue that this delays our first date but... man, I feel like seven kinds of hell."

"That's okay. I'd rather you feel better than aching every time you move," Jean said.

"Ruining a perfectly good Elvis song." He said with a sideways smile.

Comments

[xp_banshee]

Aw, this was really cute, guys. I love their rundown/debrief even though they were in one another's ears for part of the whole thing. And poor Kane. No narcotics for you, sir. :)

Great log, guys.