What if I bleed, What if I break; [Open to anyone in Medbay]

[letmelive]

Claire had somehow managed to sleep through quite a lot in the last day and a half. Maybe she would've woken up sooner if she'd had any idea of what was going on around her, but whether it was the drugs or overall fatigue from blood loss and the energy it had taken to keep awake until shed been put under, she slept through the night and most of the day. She came close to waking up a few times, stirring in her sleep or voices pulling her up from her dreams, but she'd slip under again before fully waking.

After a while, she just couldn't sleep anymore, however. She wasn't particularly quick in the waking aspect, of course. She was aware first that she wasn't in her "bed" in the precinct almost immediately. Her stomach felt oddly numb, and slowly she blinked her eyes open, staring up at the ceiling above her, a look of slightly disoriented confusion passing over her face. One hand moved to her stomach, and she felt the bandage there, remembering.

I got shot. The thought was a little disturbingly calm. She briefly considered sitting up to get a better look around her, but there was a dull ache underneath the numbness, and she decided she was pretty good in the position she was currently in, for the moment. She did turn her head, though, when she caught movement in her peripheral vision.

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[governmentninja]

"Hey."

She would recognize the voice, and despite some added bruising, she should recognize the face too.

Leon, who still looked like hell, had gotten up from the chair he was sitting in. He was standing at her bedside now, leaning over her.

[letmelive]

Yes, she did recognize that face and that voice. And despite the fact that she was the one lying in a hospital bed with a bullet wound, she was ridiculously relieved to see that while he was looking a little worse for wear, he was otherwise fine.

"Hi," she replied, giving him a sleepy smile while her eyes scanned his face, taking his injuries in more thoroughly. "You look like crap."

[craaazyisland]

"Slinking" was the only way to describe how Steve came back into the medical bay. He looked around carefully for any sign of Leon or Sherry and when he found none, only then did he dare to venture any further in.

It was stupid for him to be avoiding Claire's daughter and her... friend and he knew it. She'd probably scold him if she found out he wasn't getting along with Leon even if, if you asked him, it was more like Leon wasn't getting along with him. He had as much right to be here as anybody and Leon didn't get to dictate when he could visit Claire or for how long. Only Claire herself could do that.

Speaking of, she was awake. Now caring very little, he rushed up alongside her bed, but still kept his distance and looked noticeably edgy about it. "Claire! Hey, about time you woke up!"

[governmentninja]

"Rough couple of days," he explained, smiling a little now that she was awake and insulting him. She really was going to be fine.

"How do you feel?" Stupid question, but he had to ask anyway.

[letmelive]

After her earlier visitors had to clear out, Claire had fallen very quickly into boredom. There really wasn't much to do when you were supposed to be 'healing.' So, when she heard another familiar voice she was only too happy to be occupied from the boredom.

She smiled at Steve, pulling herself into a somewhat sitting position, having to be careful of the stitches in her stomach.

"Well, I thought about sleeping the rest of the week but I don't think I've got that kind of time to commit."

[letmelive]

"Oh, great," she replied to his question, lifting her head up a little so she could look down at the spot her hand was covering. "Can't even tell I've got a hole in my stomach right now."

[craaazyisland]

Steve grinned and sat down in the chair nearby the bed. "Yeah, seriously. People are gonna think you do nothing but lie around all day."

He looked immensely more at ease all of a sudden. "How do you feel? I hope it doesn't hurt too much."

[governmentninja]

He nudged her shoulder lightly with his hand.

"Yeah, you're fine.

"I'm glad. You had me worried there for a little while."

[letmelive]

"Nah," Claire replied, settling back against her pillow and folding her hands over her stomach. "I'm pretty numb right now." She imagined she'd be sore in a little while, but right now it wasn't too bad. She looked over at him, tilting her head slightly before speaking again.

"Thanks for your help down there, by the way."

[letmelive]

"Sorry," she replied automatically, dropping her head back against the pillow and looking back up at him. "It wasn't really on my list of things to do today...or yesterday." She frowned a little, not really able to visualize a clear time table of unconscious for obvious reasons.

"How long have I been out?"

[craaazyisland]

"Oh, nah. Of course," Steve brushed off the thanks, though couldn't wipe the grin off his face. He felt like he had more to say to that but saying it would only make him look stupid, so he left it at that.

He folded his arms up behind his head and leaned against the wall. "You really outdid me this time. I only got shot in the arm before. Let's call it a truce from now on, okay?"

[letmelive]

Claire laughed a little at that, wincing as the movement caused the dull ache she could feel coming back as the numbness started to wear off.

"Okay, sounds good to me. I'm really not in a hurry to get shot again."

[governmentninja]

"It's all right," he told her. It's like it was her fault she was there.

"You've been out for about a day and a half." Which felt like forever to him at times.

[craaazyisland]

"Well, good," he said, faking a tone of authority.

And then awkward silence. Steve's apparent favorite conversational tool. "So," he said after a moment. "They made me leave earlier but now that you're up, is there anything I can get you?"

[letmelive]

"A day and a half?" she echoed, screwing up her face briefly before shaking her head.

"So what happened? With the... thing?"

[letmelive]

She shook her head, reaching her arms behind her and arbitrarily straightening out her pillow.

"Unless you can smuggle me a book or something, not really."

[craaazyisland]

"Hey, I can do that," he offered immediately. "I'm bored out of my mind here. Just tell me what kind you want and I'll go get you a stack."

[governmentninja]

Leon rubbed his forehead a little. That was something he did not want to think about right now. Or ever again, for that matter.

"It got delivered, it's locked up safely in stasis. And all but one of Sam's group is locked up in the brig."

And, yes, there's a lot in there he is not telling you right now, Claire.

[letmelive]

Oh, she could tell he was omitting a hell of a lot, and she looked at him with suspicious consideration for a moment, trying to decide if it was worth pressing it.

"So everything went just as planned?" she finally asked, her expression settling more into neutral territory. She wasn't really in the frame of mind for a big fight, but she felt like she deserved a slightly better explanation then what she'd just been fed.

[governmentninja]

"Not entirely," he answered. He wasn't going to lie to her, or fight with her, but he only intended to answer what he was asked.

He turned his gaze towards her wounded stomach. "That definitely wasn't part of the plan."

[letmelive]

"I meant that more as I don't think you can," Claire replied, smiling a little. "The only paper books I know of around here are probably in the Vatican, and I'm not really huge on theology." She shifted a bit, shrugging her shoulders.

"Everything's in the Media Library, and you might be able to download stuff to the omnicomms but I'm not really sure how." Claire didn't even really pretend she was an expert with electronics.

[letmelive]

"Oh, good. I'd hate to think you were using really complicated plans involving tons of people as a veiled attempt to kill me." Scarcasm is pretty much a kneejerk reaction for Claire. She shook her head, trying to focus on what was important. Frowning a little she looked off to the side as if her answers lay with the wall, before looking back at him.

"So who had the itchy trigger finger? I heard the gun shots but when I stopped to look where they were coming from, things got a little hard to follow." Pain and bleeding tended to make it hard to focus.

[governmentninja]

"I tend to be much more direct when I'm handing down a death sentence." Which, itself, goes a good way towards explaining that whole mess.

"That was Winchester. He was aiming for me, but I managed to get out of the way. Unfortunately, the bullets didn't bother stopping on their own."

[letmelive]

Claire nodded her head slowly, again oddly relieved that the bullets hadn't found their intended target.

"Was anyone else hurt?" She hesitated, frowning a little. "Besides Jo, I know she got shot in the back with rock salt," which made her question why when Winchester had used non-lethal means to attack Jo why he'd switched to lead when fighting Leon. She mentally tried to add that to the slowly growing list of questions she wanted cleared up.

[governmentninja]

"A few people." He shook his head. "No one was killed, fortunately, but things went sideways quickly, especially once they got desperate. A number of bystanders got hurt."