086. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

private;;unhackable;

It's probably a trap. Even though there's a logical check and balance--someone will be cursed, that's been the established or at least most sound reaction to the button press. Will the cursing be permanent though with someone else's escape. Escape, let's use that oh, so loosely.

I don't want anything from back home. I don't want any money here. To not press the button would be a waste. I could end up somewhere else. I could be in a coma after all, a high grade level of sleep function with the illusion of reading. "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas."

I'll do it. And I'll be proven right. And in knowing what to expect, then there shouldn't be that many surprises. Can't say I didn't try to leave. What idiot wouldn't? ...the list is pending.

Later today. After the hubbub dies down.
end;

Two things: what's the status of the human matchstick?
What's the deal with the usual suspects around here?

Comments

[backseatangel.livejournal.com]

Human matchstick?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Would you prefer Crispy Glover? I don't know what his name is. Some guardian angel he had.

[backseatangel.livejournal.com]

...

Someone got set on fire?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Apparently. Unless he's a lunatic and he did it himself. That doesn't sound dismissible.

[backseatangel.livejournal.com]

God. Was it a curse? Because of these boxes?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

He's a little skimp on the details on account of being severely burned. Wilson probably has the story through osmosis.

[backseatangel.livejournal.com]

How awful.

[as_damaged]

Which usual suspects?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Hello, Usual Suspect.

[as_damaged]

What do you want to know?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

What color are your toenails... What do you think I'd want to know?

[as_damaged]

So far nothing unusual has happened to me. I'm concerned about--

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Are you playing the game show?

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

This really isn't the time to make jokes.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You got to make time.

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

Not during something like this.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

But...laughter is the best medicine.

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

That's a stupid phrase. Laughter isn't going to bring people to life again, or heal burns.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

He's not dead. And I'm a doctor. I work because it makes me happy. Laughter makes me happy. So I keep working. He gets medical treatment.

[dr_conscience]

Last I heard and saw... he's hanging in there, somehow.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Good. Better than good.

[dr_conscience]

Yeah. Closer to impossible.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

He's on fluids, right? And his vitals are stable enough to sustain him.

i totally forgot to label this voice :\

[dr_conscience]

Of course. He was stable enough, last I saw...

[Pause... comes back sounding fairly distant.]

I... haven't been in today, yet.

<3 voice;

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You haven't.