left me a beautiful disaster; [opeeeeeeen]

[letmelive]

After everything had been sorted out with Steve, there had been a small matter of Claire's injuries. Which turned out to not be so small, when the possibility that she could be infected since she'd been burned by Steve's blood cropped up. So she'd been cleaned up, patched up, poked, and then stuck in a bubble in Contagion for observation.

She hated being down here, but it was an entirely different experience when you were stuck on the other side of the bubble. At least it gave her a lot of time to think about what had happened, and quietly guilt herself about all the people injured and the few that had been potentially infected, like her.

Not to say that she wouldn't talk to anyone else, were they to show up and talk to her.

[ooc: obvs open to anyone who got locked up in contagion too, or visitors, or if people want to visit other lab rats detainees and ignore claire, that's cool too, just leave a note so i know what's up :Db]

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[boulderkiller.livejournal.com]

She didn't get an especially long time to think about things before there was a very urgent visitor, pressing his hand against the bubble like a kid looking in a fishtank.

"How are you feeling?"

[letmelive]

She hadn't really expected to be able to sit idle for long. She was laying down when Chris approached, and she looked over at him before sitting up and shrugging her shoulders.

"Fine? Not like I'm about to start growing tentacles any second."

[boulderkiller.livejournal.com]

"Good," he sighed. "The guys already told me everything. I kinda shook them down until they did..." And he only sounded a little bit sheepish about it.

He shrugged his shoulders slightly and glanced at her worriedly. "I'm sorry I didn't go with you. I should have."

[letmelive]

Claire smiled a little at that, standing and walking over towards the barrier separating her from her brother.

"What would you have done if you'd gone with me? Gotten bled on instead?"

[boulderkiller.livejournal.com]

"Well, then at least you'd have some company in there with you," he teased her. Though they'd likely be locked up next door to each other if that was the case.

"I'm glad you're not any worse for wear. When I heard you were hurt I... might have gone a bit nuts."

[letmelive]

She grimaced, tilting her head to the side and crossing her arms.

"You didn't break anything, did you? Or anyone?" Really as far as she was concerned her injuries were severely minor. She had enough bumps and bruises that she was nothing short of colorful, but the worst of her injuries had really been the whack on the head she'd taken, and accompanying gash. Oh and the burn on her arm but she was pretty sure she'd had worse. Just those hadn't been potentially laced with T-Veronica.

[boulderkiller.livejournal.com]

"No, I didn't. I was good," he assured her with a crooked little smile. "But I did make them call me the second I was clear to come see you." There was a small chair nearby the outside of the bubble. Chris pulled it up to the bubble's surface and had a seat. On it was set a small bag.

"Oh yeah, and I brought you some of your things." He picked up the bag and looked around for the door he could slip it through to be sterilized before Claire could reach it. "I've been quarantined a time or two in my life and I seem to remember it was pretty boring."

[letmelive]

Claire actually grinned at that, gesturing at the door where he'd need to stick things, before moving over.

"Thank God. I was contemplating chewing my own arm off just to have something to do."

[boulderkiller.livejournal.com]

He shoved the bag in through the little door and there was a vacuuming noise as the items were all sterilized, then accessible on her side. "Reminds me of the time you were sick over winter break, back in middle school," he said.

"Though we weren't worried about tentacles with the stomach flu," he added, in a tone of voice that suggested Chris was very worried about tentacles at the moment.

[governmentninja]

Leon should probably still be in bed, but he had the perfect excuse to not be. After all, if Claire couldn't visit him, he'd just have to go visit her then handle a few other things while he's up.

His fingers tapped on the bubble to get her attention, and he peered in at her.

"Hey."

[letmelive]

Claire was laying down and reading the book her brother had been kind enough to smuggle in to her when Leon tapped on the bubble. She rolled her head to the side to look over and see who it was, and when she saw it was him she pursed her lips, putting her book aside and sitting up.

"You should be in bed."

[governmentninja]

He gave her a brief teasing look, as if to say and what are you gonna do about it? but didn't voice or dwell on that particular thought. Instead he just shrugged a bit.

"The bed isn't all that comfortable when you're not in it." Which was a perfectly valid excuse for him to not be in it either.

[letmelive]

A slight smile tugged at her lips, but she looked down quickly to hide it, shaking her head a little and picking at her pant leg.

"That's so not a valid excuse."

[governmentninja]

He let out a small chuckle, but didn't argue the point. He expression sobered a little after a moment, though.

"How are you?"

[letmelive]

She didn't answer him for a moment, frowning down at her knee, before letting out a sigh and looking up at him.

"I'm okay." Not really anywhere close to the truth, but physically, she was fine. "I'm probably not going to turn into a monster, so that's cool."

[governmentninja]

"Good to know, but that wasn't what I meant." He didn't bother repeating the question, but he didn't really have to. The way he looked at her, it was easy to see he was worried about her.

[letmelive]

"Yeah, I know." She sighed again, propping an arm up on her knee before leaning her chin against her hand. She didn't answer right away, looking down at the floor.

"I screwed up. And a lot of people got hurt because of me."

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

Sherry wandered into the quarantine room with a particularly annoyed look on her face. Her father had given her the slip. He was going to get such an earful when she found him.

She stopped in front of her mother's bubble and waved. At least she was really okay. Instead of just telling her she was and being horribly injured.

Like a certain father who was wandering around probably trying to do all the work he possibly could. "Hi Mommy."

[letmelive]

Well, okay aside from the surface injuries and the being stuck in quarantine.

Claire looked over when Sherry arrived, and sat up immediately, smiling warmly at her daughter.

"Hi sweetie. You doing okay?"

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine," Sherry assured her mother. "I was looking for Dad, and I thought he'd be in here. Have you seen him?" She put her hands on the bubble and peered in at Claire.

[letmelive]

"He was here earlier, yeah." she smiled a little, arching her eyebrows. "Did he give you the slip?" She wasn't particularly surprised. With her stuck in the bubble, Sherry was only one person to try and keep Leon from overdoing it. And that was sometimes a challenge.

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

"Yes," she admitted. She puffed her cheeks out in annoyance. "We need to get Dad a leash, so if he wanders off too far we can just pull him back." Her father was a big guy! Maybe not as big as her (scary) uncle, but still big. She should not have lost him so easily, when he only needed to be in one place.

The next time she found him, she was going to sit on him. Sherry stopped looking annoyed for a moment and gave her mother a long look. "Will they be letting you out soon?"

[letmelive]

Claire chuckled at the idea of Leon on a leash, but didn't say anything out loud, just amusing herself with the mental image. At Sherry's question she nodded her head, crouching down so she was a little more level with the girl, though she was noticing that didn't work as well as it used to. Sherry was getting tall.

"Yeah, I only need to be in here a couple of days. I should be out in no time."

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

"Good!" Sherry cheered up a little bit. "It's hard to keep an eye on Dad. And Boon." For a moment, it looked like Sherry was considering tying the dog to her father. At least then they'd both be in once place. "And not being able to say good night to you normally is annoying."

[letmelive]

"I know, I'd rather be sleeping in my own bed, believe me." Or Leon's, but really his room was more like an extension of her room, some days. She smiled at Sherry, tilting her head to the side.

"You can take care of everyone for another day until I'm out of here, right?"