3306/Broken arms, Kept promises

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Broken arms, Kept promises
Date of Scene: 09 September 2020
Location: Wellness Office
Synopsis: After a fall, Angelica's broken arm gets treated by Sharon and Kitty. Jubilee comes along for comic relief. And it is relieving! Welcome back Jubes!
Cast of Characters: Angelica Jones, Kitty Pryde, Jubilation Lee




Angelica Jones has posed:
Shouting from above.

The shouts die down, reports coming in about a student being hurt. A youth comes ripping through the mansion, yelling for help. Medical, emotional, it's often unclear with the younger minds. Even with this many telepaths, it's actually sometimes a challenge just to get a straight answer!

So when a young-ish redhead with half a tree in her hair is helped through the back yard by a small mob, things become clearer. Burn marks on the clothing don't seem to be part of the problem, but they are definitely clues. This is one of the newest students though, and she's holding her left shoulder with her right. The left shoulder which is hanging at a truly bizarre angle, and her face is strained.

Nobody's calmed down enough to let her talk, but there's definitely enough commotion to draw attention. It would, actually, be hard to miss..

Kitty Pryde has posed:
The door to one of the classrooms opens up. Kitty still hasn't quite decided what to wear to class, if she should dress up to teach or just be herself. Today it was jeans and a nice shirt as if she was still deciding on which message to send so was trying not to set too much precedent.

"Ok, everyone, let's give her some space. I can take her to the Wellness Office," she says as Kitty watches the students swarming around. Something exciting going on always draws a crowd of people around here.

Kitty moves over, making her way through the crowd and starting to shoo people directly and by name, that seems to work better than the general statements. As she sees who it is, Kitty offers the redhead a gentle smile. "You're Angelica aren't you? I know we haven't met yet. I'm Kitty Pryde. Not that long ago graduate, and temporary teacher for a bit longer. Are you ok?" she asks. Kitty motions for them to continue on towards the Wellness Office. "What happened?"

Angelica Jones has posed:
"I'm not...!" A spoken couple of words comes out tinged with pain, but as the redhead looks up she sees Kitty. Kitty, who couldn't scare a fly unless she chose to do so. She winces, more from having raised her voice to someone underserving of a temper born of pain.

She watches as Kitty ushers folks off, grateful tears in her eyes, until it's quiet enough to talk. "It's nice to meet you," she manages, but she's clearly in agony, the broken arm quite visible. "And...not so okay, actually. Is there some place we can sit?" Is there some place we can get a morphine drip, she wants to ask. But for what she has of manners.

As she's led, she nods. "Long story? I fell." A lot.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
Jubi, Jubilation Lee, lee.

Unaware of the commotion, aside from there's a ton of people in the hallway outside the wellness clinic when she tries to come in after a long (relative to her energy level) day at work. Her toes are up, rolling along the heeleys, half paying attention to her surroundings because of the music playing in her ear, and very nearly collids with one of the muscular mutants who had to have been carrying Angelica in in his big powerful arms.

This is certainly not a moment she's using to get close to those arms, "Oh, no, I've stumbled upon you..."

How inappropriate would that even be?!

"What's going on?" Trying to peek in through the cracked door, shove through some of the older/younger students to get to the front of the mobbery without losing her big gulp drink. "Hey! Kitty!" Face pressed right up to the crack, mushed half in so her nose and cheek are stretched and eyes are pulled almost closed, "Wush goin on?"

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty eyes the arm and winces a they make it to the Wellness Center. "Oh my. Let's get you an X-ray and see how bad it is. We might need to grab Hank and see about some extra treatment," Kitty says. She greets the nurse, saying, "Sharon, we've got a broken arm and not sure what else." The medical professional comes over to take a look, while Kitty moves aside. "Oh that has to hurt. Kitty, get her a painkiller, please," she says as she begins asking Angelica what all hurts and gives her an examination.

Kitty asks Angelica, "Fell? Tree or roof? Or, you know. Flying?" she asks, not entirely sure Angelica's power set includes. That's when she spots Jubilee over at the door.

"Jubes, why don't you shoo those people away and come in, we might need to take her down to the base," Kitty says, enlisting some extra aid should the move be needed.

Angelica Jones has posed:
Angelica goes where she's directed, more than happy to be in the hands of someone who sounds as professional as Sharon. She opens her mouth to answer and visibly winces as simply moving aggravates the injury. Her next breath is ragged, and she takes a moment while Jubilee is roped into helping out.

The smile she offers the new arrival is forced, though from the way she looks she normally doesn't have to. She has twigs in her hair and somehow looks better for it, if not for the hunched posture protecting the shoulder and the obvious pain.

"Dropped," she says, soon as she's stable enough to speak. Another breath, and she adds details to the story. "I was...trying to fly?" she says, realizing how utterly stupid and suicidal that sounds. "I had this thought that I c....ngh!" She stops, shifting a little and taking the painkiller when it's offered. Lord yes, painkillers.

"Hi, I'm Angelica and I'm an idiot?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Clear eveyrone out and come in, got it." Jubilee sticks her hand in through the crack in the door, even though she could absolutely open in, and waves at Angelica. "Hai, I'm Jubilee, I'll be right back." Because she's got super serious Jubilation Business that Supercedes any greeting she might have wanted to give today.

"You heard the teacher! Scram! Ovemay ouryay uttsbay eforebay iyay ickkay emthay!" Fizzly flash of light errupt through the cracked door into the Wellness Center, "YAA, YAAA, go on, get..." There is the snapping of what sounds like either a leather belt or a whip.

Either is likely with Jubes.

Then the sound of running feet and a half dozen teenagers vowing revenge against their asian taskmaster and social overlord. "Yeah yeah, big talk from a guy who studied all day to make a D- in ART class. Keep it movin'.."

Enter Jubilee.

Up nodding as she rolls on her heels towards Angelica, Sharon, and Kitty. "Sup. So... tried to fly huh?" :/ faced, voice sounding like this is something she's seen, done, or both.

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty delivered the painkillers and some water. She manages a non-judgmental expression. Sharon speaks up before Kitty can. "You'd be surprised how many injuries have 'tried to fly' as their origins around here." The woman looks at Angelica's pained arm. "Or, you might not be surprised, at that."

Kitty does manage a faint grin there. "Well, there's safer ways to learn that," she offers to Angelica. "And while, 'lake' would be one of them, far better is you get with a teacher about training in the Danger Room. Where falling to the ground can be done without any pain."

She looks up as Jubilee returns, a faint grin on Kitty's face at what she heard out in the hallway. "Jubilee here has been around the block. And lit it up with fireworks. If you have questions as you're settling," Kitty says, and then pauses to reconsider. She looks at Angelica. Back at Jubilee. Then back to Angelica. "Well, just filter the answer heavily, ok?" she says, breaking out in a teasing grin.

Angelica Jones has posed:
Angelica smiles a little at Kitty while preparations are made. The sound of Jubilation taking out the competition in such style breaks through even her current situation, and she lets a moment of admiration touch her expression. That's some hard act to follow, there.

Still, she tries to hold still and be examined.
Swallowing what she's given, Angelica notes one universal truth about health care. The more powerful medicine is, the worse it tastes. "Gah, what is that, distilled swamp?" she manages to ask, choking them down as fast as she can. If it's any measure of efficacy though she's sure to be loopy and calm in short order!

She nods (CAREFULLY!) and says, "Kitty. Sharon. Jubilee, I can remember those." She likely means it, though how she feels in ten minutes will tell the story. "Woo, those are strong." She closes her eyes, opens them again immediately, then nods again. "I just felt like I should be able to fly?" Her speech is a teeny bit slower, but definitely calming. Them's some drugs.

"I haven't been shown the Danger room yet, but ..you know. Came in late to start the semesterr." She should sit down.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"I'm the unofficial, official, welcome commity of the School, I basically know everyone." Jubilee mirrors Kitty's statement of being around the block, bobbing her head, tiny little ringlette braids bobbing on either side of her noggin, "Jubilation Lee, which is short for Jubilee." Slurping from her big gulp straw, which she captures in her teeth while moving the container so it makes that yeeeee-yaaaaaa sound.

You know the one.

"You know what the Danger Room is /not/ good for and I have never done this and do not at all advocate for its use in this manner? Sun bathing in Winter." This is not how she keeps her year round tan, okay? Stop spreading lies and slander.

yeeee-yaaaaaa

'I felt like I should be able to fly' Jubilee is nodding along with that enthusiastically, pointing at Angelica with a finger extending out from her big gulp, looking at Kitty. "She GETS IT.. Girl, lemme tell you... the number of people who unironically just get to fly is beyond bullcrap... Like Sam.. Sam's legs turn into fire and he hits stuff with his head... that is his entire power.. fly, hit stuff with head, don't die.. and be socially awkward.. and the power to be proud he's from Kentucky."

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Sharon's reply comes quick, as if she's used to comments from the students. "Nope," she tells Angelica. "All out of swamp. Those are the concentrated fish innards," she tells Angelica while checking to make sure some of her other bruises are just bruises.

Kitty grins at Sharon and then moves over to gently remove some of the branches from Angelica's hair. "I kind of wish I'd seen this first flight," she says, glancing at the twigs as if trying to imagine what exactly happened.

The comment from Jubilee about sunbathing in the Danger Room causes Kitty to cough suddenly as if she swallowed something down the wrong pipe. That sunny Danger Room scenario on a French Riviera beach doesn't have an author listed, but it goes back to about the time Kitty was 14. Should anyone have checked.

The comments about Sam Guthrie bring a soft grin to Kitty's lips. "Hey, you gotta be you," she says but referring to Sam. "At least he was gracious about accepting his nickname," she says. Kitty pauses beside Angelica, to answer, "Cannonball," before she can ask.

Angelica Jones has posed:
The check-over by Sharon shows a lot of oddness. Angelica has tons of burns...to her clothing. Stripping the clothes off shows a blue outfit beneath that has the Fantastic Four's logo, but it too comes off easily enough. She seems okay with the whole thing, but a glance at the door before her underthings get exposed says a lot; no boys allowed after this point.

She has, beneath it all, not a single burn. "I'm a fire type pokemon," she says with a giggle and a wince. No laughing, got it. But that explains a certain portion of the damage at least.

She extends her arm a little, the busted one, and her ability to do that lets them know that she's ready for x-rays. "Not moving unless ordered doc. Fish innards are workin' fine." She's a tame one, mostly. Unless you count the flying fiasco.

She looks from Jubilee to her pale skin back to Jubilee and doesn't seem able to reply. Tanning? Danger room? "I don't get it," she admits quietly. But that's fine too. She can get it tomorrow.

Then Kitty tags in and Angelica winces, this time for other reasons. "I didn't. Fly, I mean. I landed pretty hard." She looks away, then shuffles to a med processing area under Sharon's direction. "I mean, I think I did but I didn't. I fell from a long ways up, so something stopped me from..."

Splat, she leaves unspoken.

"This close," she adds, making a this-close motion with her fingers..before being ordered to hold still again!

"Yes'm."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Kentucky." Jubilee says at the same time Kitty says Cannonball about Sam's nickname, "Oh... oh yeah, the official pirate nickname one..." Double thumbs up, big nods, not at all mentioning Kitty choking on air at the mention of the sunbathing scenario despite absolutely knowing it was her that wrote it because Rogue has the BIGGEST MOUTH EEVEEERY and shouldn't be trusted if there's booze within arms reach (or several counties).

Ahhh the fresh meat doe eyes of someone not yet aware of the glories that are hardlight projected training simulations. "Dibs on showing her the Danger Room, I called it Kitty... You have to acknowledge my dibs..." Hand sup, holding her big gulp. "Do you watch Star Trek?"

YEEEE-YAAAA

"I'm going to assume you do. The Danger Room is basically the Holodeck except they teach classes on power management, team building exercises in our bid for world dominance through better trained paramilitary soldiers with super powers, and /definitely/ not hardlight sunbathing." Tenative glance at Kitty, side eyes.

"I kind of always wondered how people figured out they could fly.. Is it like a feeling you get when you're walking down a particularly steep set of stairs? Or more like a hold my beer moment when you're standing on the edge of a three story buidling? I'd completely understand both."

And judge neither.

At the glance towards the door, Jubes leans over and swipes it closed with the tips of her fingers, protecting Angelica's modesty. Trailing eyes dancing over Fantastic 4 uni with another glance at Kitty while chewing on her straw.

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty Pryde's only comment when Angelica's undergarment is revealed is a soft, "Fantastic Four? Girl, we have to get you on board with the proper branding," she says with a sigh. "Not that we get action figures or clothing." She gives a little kick at an imaginary rock. Or maybe an empty soup can. The latter seems more sorrowful. Because it means you no longer have soup.

Kitty gently pats Angelica's good shoulder and then goes over to help Sharon. "Ok Jubes, but I'll monitor from the control room," she says. After helping Sharon get ready for the X-rays, Kitty goes over to grab a tablet while they are taken.

She pulls something up and then glances around and sends a video to one of the room's computer monitors. "Not that it's flying, but this is how it happened for me," Kitty tells Jubilee after her wondering how people figured out they can fly.

On the video is the Danger ROom, as Jubilee would recognize. And a very young Kitty Pryde. She looks like a very young teen. She steps into the room and... closes her eyes. And starts walking across it.

The walls suddenly slam together where she's standing, then pull back and Kitty's still there, eyes closed, walking forward. Various dangers attack her and just pass through her. The floor drops away to reveal a pit of fire, and Kitty just keeps walking, on air apparently, not able to see any of the dangers for her eyes being closed.

Kitty turns up the sound, and Kurt, Hank, and others can be heard laughing so hard in the control room that their ribs must be hurting. Kitty finishes crossing the room, never having opened her eyes once. "That was my first Danger Room run. Professor made the scenario just for me," she says with a grin.

Angelica Jones has posed:
"Cannontucky?" Angelica asks, a little bit drugged and keeping up at about eighty percent. She frowns a little and shifts into place, then nods as she's told off about her undersuit.

"It doesn't turn to ash when I power up," she says as if that's important data. It probably is. "Dr Richards lent it to me, I'm supposed to get it back to him someday. Honestly starting to get a little ripe," she adds. Laundry room is an important stop later on as well.

"I do watch Star Trek, big DS9 fan. TNG was a little harder to track, but Patrick Stewart was a god," she says, boding well for her future under Xavier. No comment? Oh go with it people. XD

"And...I got pretty charged recently. I mean, I charge up over time but it was too much, and I had this feeling like there was potential I wasn't tapping. So, I was just talking to a friend and realized, I could. Probably. If I was wrong, I mean, I only hurt myself." She doesn't have a huge opinion of herself, 'parently.

She tilts her eyes, head still as the xrays are worked upon, along with her arm. A nice clean break in her humerus, which means she took a fair amount of force on that impact. Still, she should have been more hurt. Minor bruising, no other breaks, she's either incredibly lucky, or something caught her.

But she's unaware of all of this, watching the video. She tracks the young teen's progress, whispering, "Aww, you were adorable!" with honest gentleness in her voice. She gasps quickly enough though, her heart rate climbing. "How.." She pauses, her mind clicking along. She's not stupid it seems, for all her dumb moments.

"You're a ghost!" Okay, okay. Maybe not smart either.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Cannontucky." Jubes repeats it, several times actually, in varying degrees of volumn. Very obviously testing this new nickname under a plethora of social situations where such a name might come into play. It's important to know the full range of a nickname before rolling out of the show-room after all. "It'll do, but I'm leaning towards Cantuckyball."

Clear appreciation for Angelica's awareness of superior Trek methos, the Asian bobs her head in a series of clipped nods, "I like her." Pointing at said Red-head. "But Commander Troi was my first crush.. followed directly by Six of Nine because half robot woman in a skin tight body suit?" Hands out, unbashful, smug face.

Her hands settle back down, leaning over the protective railing that keeps her from being radiated by the x-ray machinery, arms crossed so she can still sucky the straw with the delicious fruit juice. "Two things. One." One finger held up, "I hate both of you for having cool powers that indirectly lead to being able to fly and or walk on air... /maybe/-" pointing to Angelica because the jury is still out on whether she can fly. "TWO... Kitty is still adorable." Brown nosing, big cheesy grin with squinty eyes and everything.

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty Pryde grins at both young women, moving over to slip an arm around Jubilee after her comment. Angelica will have to make do with looks of empathy from Sharon as she's getting X-rayed. As Angelica's painkiller-assisted assessment of Kitty's power is given, the Jewish young woman breaks out in soft, warm laughter. "You got me," she says with a nod to Angelica.

"I was on board this ship, met a cute boy and made love in a car in the cargo hold. Only we hit an iceberg and ended up in the icy water. And he found this big piece of wood debris big enough for us both to fit on it, but wouldn't let me. Now I roam the Earth trying to find him and haunt him," Kitty says in a tone so good natured that any belief of the tale would have ended even before recognizing the story.

"But thank you for the adorable comment!" Kitty says. "Nah, not a ghost. Just ghostly. I can turn myself intangible, phase myself away out of the normal world," she explains.

Kitty looks to Jubilee and motions towards Angelica. "After she's patched up, want to see about helping her get some unstable molecule undergarments and a few outfits made?" She looks to Angelica. "We have the same tech as Dr. Richards. By which I mean, his tech, when it comes to clothing."

Angelica Jones has posed:
Angelica, for once, doesn't immediately jabber a response. The sea-green underthings she's displaying are lovely, sure, but they definitely aren't formed of unstable molecules. Lycra is a lot of things, but in no way is it fire-retardent.

She smiles, but she slowly closes her eyes, the world spinning just a touch for her. When she comes back she's definitely doped up, having lost twenty seconds or so. "Seven of nine," she says gently. "Annika Hansen would kick your booty, Jube." She's using nicknames, yay! It took heavy doses of drugs, boo!

"You can hate me, it's okay. I'm adorable," she says, getting up as Sharon comes out from behind the barriers. "And apparently I'm done being scanned. Come out, come out, wherever you are." She pauses, then looks at Kitty and Jubilee, then shakes her head gently. "You two. Go do the things. I'm gonna get a cast, and that's super boring stuff. But I want you both to sign it."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"I like her." Jubes says around her straw to Kitty, pointing at Angelica schoolin' her on Trekist stuff. "Can we keep her?" Obviously that's a given, right? Super secret school for mutants and all that stuff. "I've had a lady boner for Annika Hansen since I was 14... I got off on a weird tangent and have dyscalculia." Totally an excuse, absolutely an excuse.

Grinning around the straw now slipping from her thin lips, "Alrighty, once you're done getting your cast, we'll be-bop on down to the labs and get you measured for some unstable molecular daywear." Rattling the empty drink causing ice to clank around inside before tossing it in the trash... even though she totally keeps the straw.

Squinty eyes at Angelica, moving over towards Kitty. "She's going to be a handful and I can't wait to see it."

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty just gives a soft smile. Seeing Angelica make a friend (two actually but Kitty's thoughts are on Jubilee there) warms her heart. Knowing what many mutants go through before they come to the school. Seeing another new arrival be welcomed is one of those things about Xavier's School that makes it feel to Kitty like a true home.

She smiles over to Jubilee, arm about the Asian girl. "Absolutely. On all three counts," Kitty says. "Just, remember, Angelica, if something Jubilee says to you pings as 'mad crazy scheme likely to get us expelled' you should probably listen to that voice. If instead it says, 'mad crazy scheme that would make Kitty laugh' then listen to that one, too," she says.

Kitty looks to Sharon, making sure that everything's good on the medical end. "And we'll get you in the Danger Room to work on your power safely, too."

Angelica Jones has posed:
Angelica lets the Anika comment slide, she's already teased Jubilee enough tonight. She seems particularly cool with the whole 'lady boner' talk too; seems she's had experience with a few people like Jubilee recently. You know. Twits.

"You ARE a wierd tangent," she says a she's bustled into one of those long medical robes, the type that technology never seems to improve. She gets it tied so her butt isn't sticking out (for now) and gets hustled aside. "One sec doc," she says, the painkillers clearly giving her an amplified sense of what she shouldn't be freaking doing!

"Hey, Kitty," she asks, intentionally ignoring half of what Jubilee said because she's mean. "What if it feels like both?" she asks, before Sharon grabs her and physically moves her into the other room. "I can still HEAR YOUUUU!" she calls out, making the doc consider another type of percussive anaesthetic...

After a few seconds, the phrases "Ew, gross!" and "Lady boner hah!" come out from that treatment area...

Along with the sounds of Sharon's sighs.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
"Hey now... I've never been expelled, nor through course of action, gotten anyone else expelled!" Jubilee knows Kitty is teasing, but she still rises to her own defense, mostly so that Angelica doesn't start over analyzing the methodology of whatever plot Jubes is ultimately going to hatch and dismiss it out of hand due to potential expulsions INCEPTIONED into her brain by Kitty days/weeks/months in advance.

"At /most/ I got detention.. and it was ONE TIME... I had a perfectly believable and logical reason for needing six hundred pounds of ammonium based fertilizer..." Defensive, overly defensive. "And nobody was /permanently/ hurt, okay?" Still mumbling about it as she slips out of the wellness clinic, takes a few steps, and begins rolling off on her heels towards the stairs. Gotta get outta these work clothesies.

AS A FINAL CLOSING ARGUMENT:

"YOUR FACE is a weird tangent..." Waaaay too late.

It's called a quip Jubilee, not a Sloooooooooowp.

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty Pryde just gives a soft snort at Jubilee, grinning. She looks over towards where Angelica has disappeared out of view. "Ah, probably best to stick with the not expelled part. But come tell me about it so I can laugh just the same," Kitty answers.

She pats Jubilee's shoulder and then moves over to help clean up from the exam while Sharon is seeing to the cast. "You realize how popular you're going to be, Angelica?" Kitty asks. "EVERYONE likes to sign a cast. Sharon, you are giving her one that can be signed, right?"

Sharon sighs and says, "I can, though these modern ones are easier to get in and out of for her. Her choice."

Angelica Jones has posed:
Angelica, the truly broken and also truly drugged, can be heard. "I mean, I like ...I mean, I don't want to be a bother," she says, trying not to be a nuisance to Sharon. She realizes that it's her job, and that Sharon is being super nice giving her the option, and all the things that make her an empathic person, and she sighs.

In the end she's got a gorgeous plaster cast, clips on it where it can be cut in case of emergency (she'll melt it if she uses her powers) and they decided together that melting a plaster cast is less of a hassle than melting one of the nice metal and plastic ones.

She's also pretty dopey though, so Sharon manages to get a lot out of her. More than the team did on recruitment.

"Kitty," Sharon says. "One second, come over here."

She nods to the side room as she sends Angelica after Jubilee, then gets Kitty to talk for a moment. "She's emitting microwaves. That's an issue. I'd like a dampener in her suits, if possible. To keep the other students safe. And we need to think about celphones. I don't even know how to do that both with and without microwaves, so that part's on you and the tech team. Think you can handle it?"

She seems calm, but there's something worried in her expression. The new girl's a bit of a challenge it seems.