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『伊達政宗』ᴅᴀᴛᴇ "LET ME DO IT KOJURO" ᴍᴀsᴀᴍᴜɴᴇ ([personal profile] inroad) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology2015-12-05 10:12 pm

your mind's still trapped in twilight

CHARACTERS: Date Masamune & those that I owe a prompt to for this/discussed with.

DATE: after jail-breakout and dispersing

WARNINGS: will update if needed but probably not. He's just delirious from sickness .

SUMMARY: basically his escaping the playpen and then getting his five year-old ass dragged back to the doctor, anyway.



[ he tells himself he must have done this on purpose but he doesn't remember anything to back that claim of his up. He crawls out of the river bed, choking and coughing and gagging until it turns into involuntary retching of blood and bile. All that does is worsen his confused state and his inability to properly focus. This shouldn't be happening, he repeats over and over. His heart is racing as if he just ran here rather than arrived by horse and the chest pain he experiences is little better.

It was better to get out of there if this is the reality of his state, though, he's sure. The unfortunate thing is that it makes it a hell of a lot harder to figure out what to do next. Masamune has no plans on dying—but he wouldn't be responsible for anyone else's death, either, and in the chaos it was a rather rash decision that had no time to be considered. He made a promise to someone to survive (to whom he can't remember right now how stupid of him to forget a face and a name) but everything is suddenly such a mess now that the fight or flight response has drained from him. His condition seemed to deteriorate rapidly upon leaving (or was he the only one that hadn't noticed because it took too much concentration to keep steady?)
Now even breathing, no matter how hard he tries to calm it, is like gasping for air as the world around him spins. Maybe he can just lie here and rest for a few moments? Maybe he is far enough away from whatever he's running from that he can pull himself back together.

He buries his head in his arms, collapsing fully against the bank and tries to calm himself. It only results in a shudder from him despite his best efforts and he feels his horse's snout nudge against his head for a response but he doesn't react. How is his horse here, anyway? Is this real? He wants to tell it to find Kojuro. Kojuro will know what to do.

(He's lost in his own head in sickness, but he already knows that wherever he is, Kojuro is not. Kojuro is missing or has never been here to begin with. Masamune is alone. He's really absolutely alone. Illness like this is the worst because it renders the victim helpless and like a child and he's far too easily lost in fears that stalk him in his very own shadow, relentlessly seeking to plague him once a fracture is found.)

don't look down on me. don't reject me. don't leave me. don't hate me.

don't leave me like her. don't hate me like her.


He believes he merely thinks what he actually says now as he tries to lift himself upon the ground, doubtful and uncertain of himself as much as anyone else that looks on would be.
]

Kojuro, I need you. [ he grits his teeth, fingers curling and sinking into the mud. He hates this. All he can remember is being sick as a child, right now, and it's this same terrifying feeling that brought on all his problems from the start. Why does it have to always ruin everything? Why is Kojuro— ] Why are you somewhere I can't reach...?
grunehexe: (pained)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2015-12-06 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Sieglinde has seen so many patients since the jailbreak, but selfishly, there had been one in particular she kept praying would walk through the door. Or be carried, or dragged, or anything that meant she'd be able to treat him. Even though her fears about his condition had been confirmed, that infection of the blood had set in, at least once he was there she could do something.

It had taken her quite some time to fix him. The infection and fever had been too far gone for her to not use the magic ALASTAIR had taught her to purge it from his system, but that left the actual wound- excising the contaminated flesh, treating what remained with salves, forcing a potion down his throat that would battle fever and flush any remaining poison from his body, and bandaging what needed it, adding splints at the shoulder and elbow to prevent him from moving the joints.

Knowing he wouldn't wake for some time didn't stop her from hovering at his bedside waiting for it, or from falling asleep there.

The touch at her head and the faraway impression of a voice rouses her- but not fully, not yet. Enough though that she presses her cheek into his side, groggily reaching to pull her sleeve over her eyes and block out the light, her hair a black curtain over the sheets she'd pulled over him.]


Masamune... ?
grunehexe: (content)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2015-12-06 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Was she doing alright? Sieglinde picked herself up slowly with a groan, unsure if the bone deep ache in her was from sleeping hunched over a bedside or from overuse of the magical abilities she'd newly come into. Her feet were throbbing, and her head along with it-

But Masamune was alive.

He was now, anyway, and conscious. Pushing her disheveled hair from her face, Sieglinde slapped her cheeks a few times with her open palms to try and wake herself up, shaking her head. She was fine.]


Mm, I did.

[Save his life, at least. But that wasn't something she'd ever hold over him, or against him. She tried to smile, even though it wavered slightly, wriggling her fingers and stretching them out to prepare for examining him.]

How do you feel?
adlantisag: (» 78)

[personal profile] adlantisag 2015-12-06 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Where would she go, if she were wounded? Light-headed, bleeding. Perhaps it's the Atlantean in her, but she would find water: water to bathe in, water to drink, water to clear her mind.

The light from her pendant guides her steps. The air is cold, but she doesn't feel it. Her anger sustains her.

She's still furious. How dare he? How dare he leave her, how dare he simply flee when he was so injured, how dare he be so pigheaded when they needed--when she needed him! Needed him alive!

The forest is black and bleak around her. She worries she may find him dead, collapsed in a thicket. She follows the course of the river as it meanders through the trees. It's shallow and bubbling, but she's seen people drown in shallow pools before, too exhausted to pull themselves up and out. Water is treacherous by nature. ]


Masamune?

[ She calls out his name into the dim night, until her pendant catches the edge of a shining crescent moon helmet. ]

Masamune!

[ It won't be long until she's by his side, now. ]
grunehexe: (sidesmile)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2015-12-06 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
["Tired" was a good general summary of how she expected him to feel, and it brought the smile to her face finally, even if it was faint, a mere curl in the corner of her lips. Sieglinde leaned forward, placing a small, bare hand on Masamune's forehead to feel his temperature.]

Well, if you're dreaming that's good.

[It meant he wasn't unconscious, but actually asleep. Which really was good, she wasn't bluffing. As was his temperature- only a low grade fever.]

... I am tired as well. Thanks to a certain someone who needs to roll over so I can check his wound.

[That's you, Masamune, which she signals with a gentle push on his uninjured shoulder. She couldn't deny her own exhaustion, but she had it in her for a simply check-up. Especially when the patient had been someone who had been taking care of her here in this place, when she had been alone.]
sediments: (boline and why this!)

[personal profile] sediments 2015-12-06 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Bolin hadn't even noticed that Masamune had been there, the quarry of the mod of guards. All he'd seen was a group of angry looking city guards, and assumed that they were up to no good. He had no idea if they were chasing one of ALASTAIR's or someone from the Order, but it hadn't really factored into his decision, feet swift and strong against the ground, and his hands jutting out in a very real attack.

He's glad then, that Masamune had brought attention to himself. His spirits brighten when he sees the older man, oblivious and eager as he hurries over.

And even though he knows that the time spent in jail couldn't have been a cakewalk, it's still shocking to see the kind of state that Masamune's in now. Bolin's sense of protectiveness immediately surges, and he hovers at the older man's side with his hands drawn in toward his chest, and his brows furrowed with concern. ]


Masamune, oh man. We've gotta get you to a doctor or a healer or something! What happened?
sediments: (bolin and instant regret!)

[personal profile] sediments 2015-12-06 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Bolin is generally a dynamic person. For an earthbender, he's not particularly rooted in the ground, and instead has a tendency to move this way and that, and right now is no exception. He's kind of anxious, shifting his weight from foot to foot as he hovers outside of Masamune's door, a frown on his face.

And when he quietly creaks in, his expression does nothing to hide the concern on his face, the worry that gives way to his jittering. ]


Hey, Masamune. [ He greets, like things are totally normal. And for a moment, he acts like they are, expression forming a kind of awkward grin as he holds out an offering. ] Look! I brought apples!
grunehexe: (quieted)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2015-12-06 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sleep, admittedly, sounded very, very good at the moment, particularly sleep in a bed proper and not hunched over it from a chair. Since receiving what magical ability she had from ALASTAIR, Sieglinde had never used as much as she had the previous night- and she will know now for the future how draining it is, but for now, she doesn't even have the energy for her usual near-comical reactions to such a scandalous proposition, lightly swatting his uninjured arm as her face puffed up slightly, managing only a slight pink in her cheeks.]

I would be ruined for marriage forever if word of such got out- honestly, you are a cad.

[But a living one. Small hands, (sure hands), moved to his wound, carefully removing the salve, blood and pus crusted bandages from his wound that had gotten soggy over night, inspecting the rather gross sight with a clinical eye and nary a wrinkle in her nose for smell, nodding when she was pleased with the coloring. Free of further signs of infection.

Without missing a beat, albeit slowly, achingly, Sieglinde reached for a new roll of bandages, a jar of her salve, and sat to gently reapplying the medicine, her expression soft despite the fact what she'd just accused him of.]


Thank you.

[Said specifically in English, since he seemed to have a fondness for the language and she had just learned it herself back in her own world. "Thank you". - and not for offering to let her get some sleep.]
tachiboner: that i forgot my ice cream at your place (i'm still depressed)

pikachu i choose NOW.

[personal profile] tachiboner 2015-12-06 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Splitting up, partially, was the best way to go here, he'd figured - they'd cover more ground this way, and the quicker they found Masamune the better - but at the same time, considering that stumbling around the woods in the dark had gotten them into this predicament in the first place, he wasn't about to let them get too far from each other.

So he'd started in a different direction with a light of his own, being careful to keep either Kida's light or the sound of her voice just close enough to be found again.

Which means that when he hears the timbre of her calls change, so too does his direction change - working his way back towards her, and hopefully also towards -

- yeah, he knows that voice, too.]


Found him?

[Need some more muscle to drag him back and/or pop some sense into him? Kida's a strong independent woman, but one more set of hands is never a bad thing when dealing with a jerk as stubborn as Masamune, right.]
adlantisag: (» 80)

[personal profile] adlantisag 2015-12-06 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I have--come quickly!

[ And there's Masamune's voice, cutting through the dark, to confirm it. She sees Muneshige's lantern out of the corner of her eye, but it does little to ease the cloud of fury in her mind. 'What do you want?' As if it isn't obvious. ]

Do not take that tone with me, you pathetic miscreant.

[ He's waist-deep in water, water that can only be icy. Close by, an animal she only dimly recognizes as a horse. Masamune's horse? It's of no concern to her. She doesn't have the leisure to approach it.

She braces her knees and bends, one hand fisting in the back of Masamune's shirt. If he's well enough to get all the way here then he's well enough to get himself to a healer, and the fact that he didn't only makes her angrier. ]


Get up!

[ Kida may not look very strong, but she can absolutely haul a grown man off his feet, and there is no gentleness in the way she yanks at Masamune now. Water sloshes, mud gives way. A snarl tears out of her throat. ]
grunehexe: (gaze)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2015-12-07 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Humph.

[Despite the fact that she was secretly sort of pleased with the idea that he would risk a scandal in order to protect her from an undesirable marriage (the plot of at least one questionable novel she's read in her day), she doesn't give him more than a lofty noise that is likely to supposed to sound like chastisement. But really, it's to disguise the fact that while once she had been quite avid in her search for a suitable man to carry out the famed lineage of the Green Witch, the appropriate male to father a daughter to continue the cycle she had been born in...

Those had been based on lies. And she didn't like to think about it, not when he supplied her with a convenient distraction for such things in the form of his wound. She, in turn, provided distraction with an offer to speak.]


I believe it is the language of the English, not dragons. But yes, I speak it.

[She'd admittedly always imagined dragons speaking Latin, but that was neither here nor there, carefully making sure to gentle her touch as she smoothed a salve over the puckered opening of his stab wound.]

I speak many tongues.

[A requirement for her duties, for learning. Ancient German, Latin, Italian, Gaelic... For spells and her ancient tomes. English, however, was her newest accomplishment.]
sediments: (bolin and hey that's cool!)

[personal profile] sediments 2015-12-07 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Seeing the other man in good spirits gets Bolin to perk up, the concern fading from the lines of his body as he heads over to sit where Masamune had indicated, not unlike an obedient dog. The bed creaks as he sits down, and he sets the bag of apples between the two of them amiably. ]

Yeah, just ignore the fact that they might be stolen.

[ Probably not something he should reveal about a gift, but that's just how Bolin tends to roll. His bright expression does soften somewhat however, as he looks the older man over, not forgetting the hardships of the prison.

He follows his statement up with a, ]
How are you doing though?
grunehexe: (bandages)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2015-12-07 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Knowing almost nothing of the Orient beyond what she'd briefly been introduced to by a thirteen year old Victorian Earl, Sieglinde couldn't know the concept of dragons differed in their societies- but she did know how to apply salve well, and she's soon finished with the task, instead beginning to unroll a new wrap of bandages, measuring how how much she'd need.]

Of course not.

[Nimble fingers reached for the chain around her waist and pulled a smal pair of scissors from the ring on the end, snipping where needed and moving to lay the first swathe of gauze.]

And how many do you speak? You are a lord, are you not?

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