"Yeah.  It's gonna be okay little one.  We live to fight another day."

+They laid there comfortably and Milo stroked his fingers through Alex's hair until Theo got back with the gift shop insanity bag.  Finally Milo uncurled himself from around Alex and went to sign the card and make his goofy balloon penis for Geller.  He let the boys sign the card as well and then the three of them tromped out to the waiting room where Otis was.  Walking towards his second Milo flicked a finger at the brim of Otis's hat, knocking it off.+

"Up and at'em.  We're going home. All of us, together." +Milo looked back at Frik and Frak.+ "We'll stay at your place tonight.  Just till all the word comes in on this mess.  Someone call Pinky and Karma and tell them to just meet us there."

+It wasn't permanent, just for the night.  But Milo was going to make sure they were all in one giant body pile somewhere while they slept off the stress of this mess.  Waiting for Otis to sign the card Milo went to hand the card and balloon to Silent.+

"These are for Geller.  When you get to see him let him know we were here.  And tell him we'll visit whenever he's ready, but right now I think he has enough to cope with. And tell Jessie I love her and that I'll see her at the swamps tomorrow.  Love you too Rainbow.  Keep your head up."

+Then the rats took their leave of the hospital.  Milo stole Otis's keys since only one bike was there.  Otis would ride bitch curled up around his King.  They went by the Hookah to bike up Milo's bike and would then go meet Frik, Frak, Karma, and Remi for a little rat slumber party.+

+'Messing around', Alex of the Killjoys.  The facts sank in and that look of confusion slowly slipped away.  By now his brain was running out of room to put all these new facts and bits of reconvening information.  It was like a Jenga tower of terror and he wasn't sure what else he could force on himself before his head would implode.  His tongue licked the rough curve of his full lips and he looked down for a moment.  His eyes halfway closed, the skin at the corners wrinkling slightly as he tried to clear his vision.+

"Jessie.  I need a favor." +Geller took in a long slow breath and then let it out softly.+ "I need to go home.  To my home.  With my family and maybe sleep for a fucking week. I'll pay Angie here to come take care of me or something.....you can do that right? Private nursing appointments, whatever the cost, and she can report right to you, but I can't stay in this hospital."

+He wasn't going to go rushing all over the city.  Not without a lot of sleep and more food in his system first, but he just couldn't stay there in this fish bowl of a hospital room with people coming in and out with questions and new facts and it was just....not going to happen.+

"How long before you can get the paperwork done?"

+It might be awhile, it sometimes could be, so Geller covered up with the sheets again thanks to Angie's help and came to an arrangement about having Angie out to the house as a live in nurse for a few days, just so Jessie was satisfied that he was resting and not out joining the Flying Walenda's.  Letting himself sink back against the pillows he stopped Jess once more before she could leave.+

"If Silent and the others want to crawl in with me there's room for a few in the bed and some chairs in here.  I'll bet they're all about as tired as I am and I know it'll speed up the healing process more." (Though how in hell that was possible he didn't know - it was fast enough as it was). 

+As he settled into the bed his face turned to the side and looked into Angie's crystal blues once again, giving her a sad soft smile.  She was sitting in a chair in the corner, and he felt comfortable knowing she would be there if he needed something.  Turning over onto his side he closed his eyes and tried to block out his thoughts.  They were his worst enemy at that moment.  The anger that ate up the inside of him earlier drained out slowly and he tried to keep the pictures that threatened from fully taking form.  Then one by one he felt hands, mouths, the heat of bodies as the pack joined him.+ 

+He heard a chairs legs slide along the floor as Silent pulled it up next to the bed to sit and watch over them.  Dee was at his back and Maya in front of him.  Alex...well he wasn't sure if she crawled in with him or took a seat with Silent.  Nike came in with them and pulled up a chair near Silent but closer to the head of the bed.  Geller's arm that was draped over Maya stretched out to take the vampires hand, recognizing the worried expression on her face.  He was alright, she could stop worrying.+

+The smell of wolves, the heat of the pack, and after one of the longest days in his life he would give anything to just shut off the pain.  Too bad he had no idea what was coming next, no idea that even at that moment his cousin was speeding towards the hospital herself, but for the moment he could rest.  For the moment this world didn't have to be the real one.+

Whatever else had been going on during the rest of the evening, Alex wasn't sure, as after Jess had done her healy healy hocuspocus stuff, and healed most of her injuries. All that was really left now was the worst of what had been. So broken ribs were no longer broken, just cracked and bruised. And her wrists which had been raw from the silver, were not nearly as bad anymore as they had been. But being healed took alot out of you, and so she'd ended up in the waiting room, curled into a ball in the corner of the room, fast asleep. hair over her face, untill someone, she still wasn't sure who, poked her, and herded her half asleep butt into Gellers room.

Giving a sleepy, half dazed look to the other wolf, she gave a sleepy wave, and with Dee on one side of him, and Maya on the other, Alex managed a thickly accented and groggy "glad yer ok..." And sank into the armchair that all hospitals seem to have, that lay sorta flat. Putting the foot part up, she curled up on her side into a little ball around herself. She was tired, and while Jessie had taken most of the pain away as she'd healed, now that her power wasn't flowing through her anymore, it was creeping back, and laying on the floor hadn't helped.

While she could have lay at the foot of the bed with the three wolves, she didn't relish the possibilty of someone accidently kicking her in the ribs. So the chair it was. Once they were all home, she'd crawl in with Silent, or Ash, or whoever. For now, unless someone moved her, she was passed out, and out for the count.

She awakened a few hours into her sleep. In the still of the night, when there's nothing left but you and your soul, it speaks to you. Loud. Clear. It tells you about the lies you fed yourself all day just to get through. It stirs you in the middle of your dreams and brings you to awareness, so you're looking into the darkness and seeing nothing but the truth.

She heard Avery breathing beside her, she heard the steady pulse of her heart, the warmth of her skin. Avery didn't really need her tonight. She needed Avery. She needed something to keep her mind away from the glaring facts that were now screaming through her mind.

When she walked into the lycan hospital, she had no one else around her. It was just the tall blonde, clear eyes frozen in what might have been fear. Or pain, or a nightmare that would not let her be. Just before she stepped into those doors, she closed her eyes and took a breath. Exhaling, she made her entrance. It was probably not the smartest thing she'd ever done,then again, maybe it was. No matter, it was what she had to do. She didn't care if her name had been tossed around, she didn't care that there was a whole shit storm of complications around her coming here. She needed to see that he was okay, she needed him to know that she cared. Whatever happened when he left, happened, she wouldn't justify or deny any of it. Jenna had been on a mission to become something she could never be. But damned if she didn't give it one hell of a shot.

She had a belly full right now. Of her pride, of her fear, and of her uselessness to make this better. Her belly was full because she swallowed it all, every last part and parcel of it to be here. It was a choice. Hers.

She asked politely at the desk where his room was. Amazingly she was led directly in. For whatever reason the path was clear, until she entered his room. Instantly she smelled him. Him and the other wolves. She stood there, in the dimly lit hospital room, letting her eyes make out his form. It hit her again, just like it did when she found out he had been rescued. He was really alive, he was breathing, and living, and within a few feet of her. Her mouth went dry,she grit her teeth against the emotions that hurt more acutely than any blade. It was unbelievable how powerful emotions could be. She could fight, she could run, she could pretend, she could do any number of things with ease. There was nothing easy about this.

 She knew it would likely wake them all, but she stepped closer and said one word. "Geller..."

+Jenna might be surprised at this group of shifters will to sleep.  Alex had been through hell and back herself, and had a belly full of her brother.  Maya had flown all the way from London with no sleep.  Dee had been leading a military tight organization all night running rats and wolves from one end of town to the other, and Silent just looked like an emotional truck had hit her.  Then there was Geller, and somewhere in the dream he was having, a dream of playing chess with the red eyed copy of himself, he smelled Jenna; just a little scent of violets.+

+His nose crinkled and an arm tightened around Maya for a second as he swam closer to consciousness.  Then he heard the whisper of his name and every inch of his body went rigid and still, his eyelids opening at once.  Over the fluff of Maya's baby fine blonde hair he could see Jenna standing in the doorway.  All the thoughts that he'd been trying not to think since laying down came rushing back in all at once.  The only other person awake was Nike and the vampire was keeping her own counsel for the moment.  Geller gave her hand a squeeze and softly said something that sounded like 'I'll be right back.'  Careful not to wake the others he pushed lightly eased his arm out from under Maya, and moved Dee's arm off of him.  It was a bit like a maze trying to quirm and duck and dodge arms and legs and hair in order to slide out of the covers, climb over Maya and finally get out of the bed.+

+There was absolutely nothing dignified about it.  As sleek and lithe a lycanthrope as he could be there was very little way to get out of a tiny hospital bed buck ass naked without waking your sleeping partners and do it looking anything but odd, especially when you were still pretty sure that your skin didn't fit right.  But finally his bare feet were on the floor and he'd even managed to exit the bed with his ass pointed away from Jenna which was a big brownie points move.  Reduced awkwardness by a bit.+

+Quietly he moved on legs still weakened for want of rest and nourishment and made his way to the bathroom door where he was pretty sure Angie had said there was a robe.  Why she had left the robe so far from the bed was anyone's guess, and it hadn't occured to him to ask at the time.  As he pulled the hospital robe off the back of the door he sighed and looked it over.  At least it was an actual robe and not the kind where he'd have to make embarassing butt viewing decisions all night.+

+Well muscled arms slid into the sleeves and he was surprised how smooth the fabric felt against his newly grown skin, the body hair that usually dusted every inch was still fine and new and he looked much less like the neanderthal man that was so familiar.  Luckily he wasn't bald as a cue ball on top of it.  Geller had to ask himself why the hell he was running over a mental check list of injuries and what he looked like and the answer came to him immediately.  It was because he cared about what Jenna thought of him.+

+Tying the sash on the robe he put a finger up near the fullness of his lips to motion her to be quiet then he slipped past her in the door, several inches taller even walking in his bare feet, but he was careful not to touch her as he passed.  There was so much unspoken, so much unsure and he wanted them to have a chance to talk.  Heading to the room next door he held the door open and let her inside first before following behind, and lest those in the hallway be curious he made sure to close the door snugly behind them.  Turning to face her he leaned back against the door in that casually relaxed pose that was so common for him except that this time it was out of necessity.  Something to lean on was very very helpful right then for multiple reasons.+

"Jenna."

+Saying her name he let his black and silver eyes fall from her golden blonde hair to the point of her toes and was still amazed that it felt like he had only left her house the night before.  His body and mind still didn't recognize the loss of time.  Who knew if it ever would.  Finally his eyes returned to meet hers and he just watched her a moment before he said.+

"I don't know what to say...." +And that was the truth.  For one minute he just couldn't find words for everything, but he knew that they would come.+

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-Jessie had given Angie all the information she would need on Charles Geller including his address, phone number, and instructions for his care.  That was all she needed to begin the process of making herself a regular fixture in the mans life, giving him ample opportunity and cover up for being there when Ishmael chose tocall Nico from the man.  It still bothered her that she was not given the control over the device which switched Nico on and off inside Geller's head, but good things come to those who wait.-

-After Jessie went to see to the paperwork she headed back towards Gellers room, wanting just one last peek at him before she left for the evening.  There were plenty of other patients and things going on at the hospital but since Angie was not actually a nurse and since she didn't care one bit about anyone else in the hospital she had no intention of staying to help.  She would use the time wisely instead, attempting to find out where Ishmael had hidden the scientist so that she could probe his mind for more understanding of the science behind that pesky chip in Geller's brain.-

-Her hand gripped the doorframe as she looked inside the room and when she saw that Geller was gone and a red headed wolf was laying there in his place (See Ashes Post in Hospital Thread 2 for clarification on this) her face twisted for a moment in a look that was equal parts adorable and full of rage.  Leaving the doorway she paused a moment with her back to the wall, eyes closed as she tried to sense where he had gone.  Slowly she let her eyelids raise to half-mast and walked in a careful line down the hallway to the room that Geller and Jenna had gone into.-

-Djavo's, much like their Nephilim counterparts, are confounding to the senses because there is a half of them that simply does not belong to the things of this world.  So for all intents and purposes they give off no special signals of what they are.  To less powerful vampires and shifters a djavo would simply seem human, and to the strongest of paranormals a djavo might read like a mildly interesting psychic or paranormal or some sort.  But in the wide scheme of things they simply didn't set off warning bells.  Their scent was that of a human, their energy seemed human, and using their powers they could make themselves practically disappear.  It wasn't real, Angie wouldn't know how to just disappear from reality, but she could make herself so quiet, so unobtrusive that no one would think anything of their presence.-

-She relied on this as she stood outside the door.  The shifters inside might sense her, might think a nurse had stopped in the hallway to take notes, but other than that her presence wouldn't stir up much of a fuss.  Leaning against the wall she pressed her hands back and into it, her palms connecting to the plaster as she closed her eyes and listened to what was going on inside.  She picked up the conversation between Geller and Jenna until she head them beginning to leave and then she pushed away from the wall, turned on her heel, and left the hospital altogether.  She had a scientist to find and she knew how to get to Geller once he was home.  All in all it had been a very productive night.-