Just a Scratch [TW: Blood]

[ixis]

We've all seen it before. Someone shows up to the Nexus, fresh from some assault or battle, all beaten and bruised. It's just one of those things that happens in this place.

But it's usually newcomers, not well-established residents.

Ixis Naugus has hobbled his way to the Forum, leaning heavily on his staff and looking like hell. His face is covered in blood, in equal parts from his nose and a long diagonal cut slashed across his face. He's been bleeding from it long enough that it's streaked down his beard and stained a good portion of it red. The wizard is also sporting a gouge in his left side; a grievous puncture wound from the looks of it. That's got the whole of that side darkened with blood as well.

Naugus finds himself a chair and drops himself heavily into it, panting for breath. Adjusting both hand and claw on his staff, he looks about before managing a weary, possibly sarcastic, smile.

"How are you today? I'm fine."

Comments

[ixis]

"We agreed to it. Seems the moment consent is given, even if non-verbal, the field will drop." Handy knowledge, that! "She was deadset on teaching me a lesson, but I ended up being the one doing just that. Hah! Idiot girl."

Naugus takes what he's handed, squinting, trying (uselessly) to wipe blood from that one eye, and then squinting again. "I don't suppose you're any good with sutures?" Assuming the kit even has the equipment to do stitches.

[smartass_captain]

"You beat up a chick right after you get your body back." Well, looks like she fought back pretty hard. Props to whoever did that, Jim supposes. Best not to tell Jim who he was fighting with, if Naugus doesn't want another fight on his hands.

Jim's snorting but pulling out the tweezers and rubbing alcohol.

"You owe me a drink for this, Naugus."

[ixis]

He snorts as well, unthinkingly scrubbing the wrist of his claw against his nose; this only causes whatever had managed to clot to come loose and open a fresh floodgate of red. He looks a little tipsy, honestly, but he's been losing a lot of blood since his clash.

"She was more than capable in a fight! I wasn't victimizing anyone." Until he pulled his antics with the portal, anyway. "She was still outclassed, of course. She thought me an-...an impotent old fool." He snorts again, chuckling to himself.

"Why would I owe you anything? Be decent."

[smartass_captain]

"Because I still haven't forgiven you for abusing my body? And i could walk away just as easily. And, I'm the guy holding the needle I'm about to stab into you."

All very poignant reasons for Naugus to be decent here too.

"Did you tell her you just spent time in my body? Impotent. Ha." He's moving to get to work, just let him rub everything down with the alcohol first, including his hands.

[ixis]

"Abuse! Getting rid of unsightly hair is abuse in this day and age? You absolute child. Also, if your insistent 'activity' carried back over to my body, I would have quarantined myself by now."

Though recollection of the bodyswap might bring up some points; Jim by now knows better than anyone how Naugus' skin is tough and hide-like. A conventional suture's needle might not be enough to mend the cut on his face.

Welcome to try, though.

[smartass_captain]

"How about sleeping on stone so I could barely stand straight when I got my body back? Man I thought you'd thrown out my back." Jim shakes his head.

"So, this is probably gonna hurt." Jim never said he was going to be careful. If it's a questing of the needle or Naugus's hide giving in first, well, then they might need something else.

He could just go get Bones' tricorder. but where's the fun in that?

[ixis]

"Not my fault you're soft," he mutters, shutting both eyes now. Just gotta...rest a second. Wait for that moment of double-vision to pass.

One eye snaps open again when poking starts though. "Ow," Naugus states simply with a profound frown. The implement manages to kinda poke through before...yup, it bends. Wonderful. "OW. Get off me. What are you doing? Butcher."

Although that raises some impressive questions as to what was good enough to punch through his side like it apparently did.

[smartass_captain]

"The fuck is your skin made out of, bricks?" Jim pulls the needle out and stares at it. "Look at this. Naugus, what the hell. Did you fight Verity's trainer?! Are you sure that was a chick who roughed you up this badly? Because a bear couldn't cause this kind of damage easily. Christ."

It's for the best that Jim is talking too much to allow Naugus a word in edgewise. You really don't want to tell him who you were fighting with Naug. Stick with bear. It sounds cooler anyway.

"I'll be right back." Normally he'd just call Felix for magic hands, but he remembers that was the one thing Ixis was allergic to, so back to the ship for a spare regenerator and hypo it is. He'll just put it back before Bones knows any better. Less fun, but then he'll get bonus points with Verity for getting along with her racist grandpa housemate.

"Alright, you." He gives the hypo to Ixis. "Jam this into your neck. Trust me. It'll help with the pain. I'm gonna use this on your cuts to try and close the wounds. This thing works on Klingons, it should work on you."

[ixis]

"She got in some lucky shots. That's all. And had a very sharp knife." He did get stabbed, didn't he? He remembers that being a thing.

While Jim is gone, Naugus amuses himself with thinking back on his grand victory, snickering to himself, kicking his feet idly. At one point, he notices some blood got on the chaos emerald of his staff and stops laughing to scrub at it. With the glove that's already smeared with blood as well. It doesn't work well.

When Jim arrives, he squints with curiosity at the hypo. "Jam into my-...? What barbarism is this? Can't I just eat it?" He gnaws on it to try that out.

[smartass_captain]

"Listen, I'm not the one who got into a fight with a porcupine woman." Jim takes the hypo out of the magis mouth and administers it himself. There's a pinch but Naugus works begin to feel the pain recede almost immediately. "It's science, not barbarism. "

He tsks as he sees the gash on the other's face, before shaking his head and holding the faintly glowing device over the skin. It itches slightly, but the wound starts to close up.

"Can't believe I'm helping you. .."

[ixis]

"I'll be sure to remember this." Maybe. Probably. He's got a brain hardwired to remember grudges, not kindness. But maybe he'll put in an effort this time.

"Porcupine woman...? No, no, the Quickster's a male. Wait, have you met him? Is he here!?" He looks around frantically, suddenly, probably jostling Jim's work. The bloodloss is making him weird.

[smartass_captain]

"You better." Now that the pain isn't as much of an issue JIm's hoping Naugus willsit still so he can--

"Goddammit Naugus do you want this closed or not?" He pushes the magi further into the seat and tries to hold him steady while Jim keeps the device an inch or so above the regenerating skin. Hide. Whatever this guy has. "I don't know who that is and I don't care. I was commenting on your injuries. What else is hurt?"

It's going to be a minute until that face gash is closed fully, but Jim seems pretty committed to helping the guy out.

[ixis]

"Don't act like you don't know who he is. The Quickster. Hero of Mobius. Fastest thing alive. Eternal thorn in my side. I'd beaten him before, you know. At his most powerful and I still beat him. But despite all that, I allied with him. Against the doctor. The doctor was the one who-...I'm here because of him..."

He's rambling, slumping slightly to one side, eyes fluttering in an attempt to keep open. At least grampa telling his war stories keeps him still so that cut can get knit shut.