[Thank god-- thank god-- she'd watched Booker die a few times. Not many, not before Comstock cottoned on and had them killed, but enough. She's seen gore. She's smelled blood and watched brains splatter over tile.
Because while she's played doctor over these past few months, broken legs and shallow scratches aren't like this. This is-- this is like her eye, this is sickening levels of gore, gore that one can't just stitch up and walk off, and good god but it's nauseating.
So thank god she's seen it before. Thank god she can keep a level head right now.]
You need to tell me what you need done.
[Because while she can hazard a guess, he's the one who knows better. Just here, just in this one area, and she'll never admit it when this is done, no matter how he needles. And he will needle, because he will be alive.]
Hold still.
[Because she's slipping an IV into his other arm, gripping his wrist and stretching it out, doing it with practiced ease.]
no subject
[Thank god-- thank god-- she'd watched Booker die a few times. Not many, not before Comstock cottoned on and had them killed, but enough. She's seen gore. She's smelled blood and watched brains splatter over tile.
Because while she's played doctor over these past few months, broken legs and shallow scratches aren't like this. This is-- this is like her eye, this is sickening levels of gore, gore that one can't just stitch up and walk off, and good god but it's nauseating.
So thank god she's seen it before. Thank god she can keep a level head right now.]
You need to tell me what you need done.
[Because while she can hazard a guess, he's the one who knows better. Just here, just in this one area, and she'll never admit it when this is done, no matter how he needles. And he will needle, because he will be alive.]
Hold still.
[Because she's slipping an IV into his other arm, gripping his wrist and stretching it out, doing it with practiced ease.]