theairlock | sixth investigation

[Still.... going to go double check that she's alive. She'll put her hands on Queenie's neck and check for a pulse. Is there one?]

[There is a pulse but it's almost worryingly faint.]

[Oh no oh no oh no she grabs Queenie's shoulder and rolls the woman onto her back, panicking enough that a soft pat turns into a slap on the cheek.]

Queenie! Queenie, wake up! Don't you dare leave me!

[One might expect a slap like that to result in startling someone awake. Queenie just groans softly, shifting like she wants to turn away from whatever caused that but her limbs are too heavy to do so.]

QUEENIE! WAKE UP RIGHT NOW!

[She's going to start shaking the poor woman now.]

[Church this morning is on his way to the morgue for........reasons, but there's a commotion in Kip's room.

Kip's room...is Queenie's room HE IS COMING IN THERE]

Don't-- [don't tell him that she's gone--]

[She looks over and growls.]

She's alive! But she won't wake-

[She stops when the announcement comes up. A moment later she crumples onto the floor, breathing rather heavily.]

[A soft whimper.]

Wha...? [Weakly trying to push one of those hands off because fuck you this is a horrible way to wake up.]

[It's fine to go back to sleep now, Queenie. Just... go back to sleep. She's not shaking you anymore...]

[Sleep is lovely and if no one is trying to drag her out of it that is precisely what she will do.]

[No, no, fuck, no, Nishitani--but Queenie can't just sleep through it, and if Nari's going to have a.......moment, then guess what, Church is gonna just have to scoop Queenie up in his arms.]

Q, babe, you gotta get up now.

[Mmm this is better than slapping, much better. In fact... Leonard you smell good. Just gonna snuggle down here and...

zzzzzzzzzz]

[Hey do you know what's good for waking people up early in the morning, from a military standpoint? Besides the sound of gunfire and alarms. Cold showers! So just...gonna...maneuver her into the shower and lay her gently against the wall and then there's gonna be a rude af blast of cold water.

wake up grab a brush and put on a little make up]

[And this time she blinks! Not startled or upset the way she should be but slow and lethargic. She lifts one hand to fend off the water but her reaction time is miserable. Leonard knows damn well that she's not one to sleep anywhere near this heavily.

But she's at least more vaguely aware than she has been so far?]

[She keeps TIME, she's AWAKE before ANY of them usually. Nari's being--Nari's being upset and the opposite of how Nari usually is, so he's got to do something and he doesn't have the medical experience to know what to do if someone's ODing on something. Because that's exactly what he's afraid of.

He ducks into the shower, blocking most of the flow and takes her face in his hands.]

Q, you gotta talk to me, you have to tell me what you took, what's going on, please, please, just stay awake and talk to me.

Cap'n?

[Soft and slurred more than her usual accent but it's there. Her eyes are still mostly unfocused but she's blinking again, brow furrowing as she tries to concentrate, to figure out what's going on.]

Where...? 's happenin?

[Okay that's enough of the shower. He'll even get some fluffy fluffy towels to wrap around her.]

You're still in Kip's room, Q, it's fine, you're just having a really hard time waking up right now, and I need--Nari should just be in the other room, but if you can remember anything you took--

[Hold on:] NARI get the FUCK in here and have a breakdown later!

[She shakes her head, clenches her eyes closed and groans as the world spins.]

Take? I didn-

[And then adrenaline does a number on this waking up thing. She jolts upright, eyes wide as she grabs Leonard's shirt.]

Tani? Where's Tani?! Should be here...

[Church don't let her get up. She's gonna try but she's just gonna hurt herself.]

[She didn't. Oh god. Then maybe Nishitani--

He tries to hold her down, which honestly is in no way going to be hard in her condition, and toweling her down.]

He's not here, just--what do you remember? You have to tell me what you remember last.

He... He went ta his room? [She frowns, raises a hand to her head, trying to think through how much her head hurts.]

I was waitin... he had to... get something? [But if that's all then why is she so scared right now?]

Everythin's real fuzzy Leonard... I don't... Where is he?

Did you hit your head on anything? Did you drink anything, eat anything? [Mmmmmm look who's avoiding the ultimate question there.]

No. I didn'-

[Nope, she's fighting you now Church. Let her up.]

Where's Tani? [Shit everything's wet and she's so weak and kinda dizzy. Standing is so hard to accomplish.]

[Especially when he's got the leverage and strength to keep her down.]

Queenie listen to me. He's--he's...he's in the rest area on the ground floor.

[And this is the worst part. He can't keep dancing around it.] He's gone. There was an announcement.

What do you mean he's g-

[Outrage that gives way to fear and sorrow before she can even get the sentence out. For a moment she just stares at him, horrified and afraid.]

N-no... no he was supposed to be with me. He was- We-

no... [barely more than a whimper and then she's collapsing into him, clutching at his shirt. Before she has a chance to really start outright sobbing though she starts to slip, her grip going slack as the unnatural exhaustion tries to drag her under again.]

[He doesn't know what it is, and even if he knew what it was--what if it's magical, what if it's an internal injury, what if it's oxy or another painkiller or there's so much stuff in the medbay and who knows what kind of stuff came out of the dumbwaiters, even if he knew what it was he doesn't really know how to treat it, what if he does something wrong, and Nari's not--

He doesn't try to wake her this time, just hums a tune to himself and keeps rubbing her as dry as he can with the towels, trying to comfort even if she's slipping away. Gathers her back up in his arms, tucks her back into bed. Gets started looking around Kip's room.

And sits with her, after, holding her hand. Until the trial, he's not leaving this room.]

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