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Under"making things worse for everyone"taker ([personal profile] exequies) wrote in [community profile] snowblindrpg2017-02-10 05:16 pm

[Log] An apple a day keeps the doctor away [closed]

Characters: Bucky Barnes, John Watson, Steve Rogers, and Undertaker (walk into a bar...)
Location: Building 131 (the hospital)
Date: Day 208, midday
Summary: Undertaker revives at the hospital after being dead for several days. He's found by both Bucky and John. Also I suck at summaries.
Warnings: Suicidal ideation and mentions of suicide.

131: The roof of a large, square hospital. At first, it seems like this is as far as you can go--but actually, there's a door on the rooftop. It's locked, but there's a card key reader attached. As for what spared it from having its parts stripped? It was frozen over with ice, though not any longer. The building can now be entered from the rooftop.

The hospital is eerie in its silence, and snow presses in against many of the windows, keeping much of it in sterile darkness. It still smells like a hospital; the antiseptic is fresh, and there isn't much dust. Someone must be cleaning it, and yet it's clear no one is here. The hospital is four stories high with one basement, all connected via the elevator lobby and staircase. Unfortunately, the wall of the elevator lobby has been torn open all the way down, exposing it to the bitter air outside. While you can explore and remain on most of the floors of the hospital at night, you cannot travel between them until it's daytime once more, as the lobby seals itself up at curfew.

The first floor has both more and less relaxed areas. There's an operating room down here, too, as well as another sort of laboratory, and a large section of this floor is taken up by labor delivery. The hospital has a generally oppressive atmosphere, but this area is marginally less so. Only marginally, though. The rooms in the delivery wing are larger than the rooms upstairs, with a more private atmosphere, but there are extra beds in here, and even VIP delivery isn't private on first blush. A closer inspection reveals the rooms only really seem fit for one of the beds. Others must have been added later for some reason. The lobby is very large here, with plenty of seating available for waiting. There's a door that works, also, opening to the south into a small, empty parking garage and finally revealing the rest of the ice tunnel area. During the day, at least. It's locked at night like everything else. There are finger-sized slits cut into many of the mattresses. One of the bathrooms on the first floor has signs of a fire having been set, with scorch marks. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO, CONTACT @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE" is written on the wall. "ALFIE SOLOMONS, 1922. Camden Town, London, England, UK, Europe, Earth. Day 165, February 24." is carved into the wall. Underneath the RECEPTION sign is the following, scrawled in black crayon:
"NⓍ NIMA
where is it?
73 74 69 6c 6c 20 73 65 61 72 63 68 20 69 6e 67"
jumpthegun: (confused | that's not right)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-02-18 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Prove it? [John's not even sure what to say to that.] Uh... we talked earlier and were gonna meet here. Bucky wanted you to travel with me.
fiteme: (07)

[personal profile] fiteme 2017-02-20 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, it's not like they arranged a password ahead of time. Steve sighs. That will have to do. He cautiously peeks around the corner.]

Okay. Hi. Sorry about that.
jumpthegun: (confused | from a book)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-02-21 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[He's so... tiny. After seeing the Captain America of later films for so long, seeing Steve pre-serum is bizarre. The man is shorter than John which is a rarity, indeed.

Well, you do run around with giraffes, darling.]


No worries. Um... Bucky's here.
fiteme: (15)

[personal profile] fiteme 2017-03-06 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Steve freezes, stares with wide eyes, and then slowly comes around the corner.]

He is?

[Don't chase him down, don't chase him down, don't chase him down.]
jumpthegun: (confused | headscratcher)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-03-06 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Right. He probably shouldn't have led with that.]

Yeah, but he's not feeling particularly sociable at the moment, if you know what I mean.
fiteme: (18)

[personal profile] fiteme 2017-03-09 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Steve sighs and leans back against the wall.]

Yeah. When is he ever, I guess.
jumpthegun: (srs | empathy)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-03-10 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[John offers Steve a sympathetic look.]

He's just worried what you'll think of him, mate. When someone changes like he has...
fiteme: (26)

[personal profile] fiteme 2017-03-12 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. [He plays with his gloves, not looking at John.] I guess I thought he'd realize. I'm not gonna give up on him. But I guess he doesn't remember that, either.
jumpthegun: (srs | phone call)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-03-12 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I think... he's purposefully ignoring it. [Fear is a funny thing.]

I've let him know you were heading to the area, too. At least it won't come as a complete shock if he bumps into you.

[The doctor takes another step closer.]

How are you doing yourself? Physically, I mean. If you need anything, medications to make this place easier, it's probably better for me to do a consult in-person.
fiteme: (18)

[personal profile] fiteme 2017-03-15 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Steve stays where he is, files the information about Bucky away for later, and focuses on John's offer.]

I'm doing mostly okay, considering. Could probably use some stuff for my asthma, though.
jumpthegun: (srs | level with me)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-03-16 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[John nods.]

Sure. I prescribed meds for that for... uh. [For you, he almost says.] There was another version of you here. He needed meds, as well. I can assign the same thing, or if you have a particular medication you prefer, it can prescribe that, along with an inhaler. What were you on at home?
fiteme: (15)

[personal profile] fiteme 2017-03-16 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Steve frowns a little at the mention of the "other him," as he always does, but he shrugs.]

Whatever I could afford. So... I don't know. I guess whatever... whatever he had before will probably be fine.

[But... wait a minute.]

Hang on, he was a Captain though, right? Didn't he have the serum? Did it not... did it not get rid of all of that?

[Steve's suddenly panicking a little. Erskine told him the serum would make him... well, perfect, physically. So what happened? Did it not actually work?]
jumpthegun: (worried | uh...)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-03-16 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
It did, but this place... [John gestures around them to encompass the whole of it.] The nanites in our blood strip away special abilities and enhancements. They stripped away most of the effects of the serum.
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[personal profile] fiteme 2017-03-16 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well that makes... a certain amount of sense. Steve sighs deeply. Well at least he knows the serum works, even if it doesn't work here.]

Okay... so he got all physical problems back, huh. [He sighs.] Then yeah, might as well get whatever he asked for.
jumpthegun: (srs | phone call)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2017-03-17 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[John nods and pulls his pack off for a moment so that he can get at his tablet and put in a prescription.]

You never did tell me if you found anything worth finding around here. Hospital's a decent place for it.