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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[governmentninja]

He chuckled a bit, though not too much. It still hurt when he laughed. Or breathed, for that matter.

"A little column A, a little of column B," he answered. "You're not going to be here that much longer, though.

"Do you need anything while you're in there?" Quarantine units were never exactly known for their entertainment centers.

[letmelive]

"Nah, Chris brought me some stuff earlier," she replied, gesturing at the bag sitting on her cot. She tilted her head when she looked back at him, giving him a half smile.

"The company's nice, though. Gives me a break from having to listen to Luis whine about how much his arm hurts." And also as long as Leon is here she knows he's not running around doing things other than resting.

[governmentninja]

Leon shook his head, but by the grin he was wearing, it was clear that he was more amused than anything else.

"He's gonna milk that one for all its worth. But we do owe him and his staff for coming up with the suppressant."

[letmelive]

"I know," she replied, nodding her head. "Which is why I'm putting up with the whining politely and not telling him to stuff it." See, Leon? Your girlfriend is the picture of grace and humility.

[governmentninja]

Classy dame, that Claire.

"If he gets too out of hand, you can always suggest that he get a soothing tentacle massage from Stacy if he's still sore. That'll usually shut him up."

[letmelive]

Claire grimaced at that before chuckling, shaking her head.

"I'll keep that in mind," not that she minded Luis's complaining TOO much. And he'd given her useful information about Steve, as well, so her conversations with him weren't entirely unproductive.

She fell silent for a moment, looking Leon over, before speaking again.

"How are you doing?"

[governmentninja]

"I'm fine," he responded, almost automatically. Since, really, he's had to explain to everyone that he's not dying

He took a breath through his nose, mostly upset at himself for the reflex response.

"Seriously. I'm fine," he assured her. "I've had worse injuries which were treated by far less capable people than we have here." Like people who saw fit to treat a bullet wound by bandaging the outside of his clothes.

"You don't have to worry about me."

[letmelive]

She rolled her eyes at him, shifting so she could lean her shoulder against the side of the bubble.

"I'm your girlfriend. As crazy as you make me sometimes, it's still my job to worry about you."

[governmentninja]

"I'm trying to take it easy. -er," he added. He was more or less incapable of taking it easy for long stretches, but he was making an effort for the short term. Only Leon could work at not working. "I know I'm not 100%, but moving around is still good for me.

"Though Sherry thinks I shouldn't leave the bed for any reason." He tilted his head and grinned at Claire. "What have you been telling her?"

[letmelive]

"I haven't told her a thing!" Claire replied, raising her eyebrows and trying to look as innocent as possible. A second later though her face split with a grin and she shrugged her shoulders. "Besides asking her to make sure you don't overdo things until I get out so I can take over bed duty."

[governmentninja]

He couldn't help the small laugh that escaped. He shook his head, but his smile didn't leave.

"She's trying her best, and she gets all huffy when I don't listen. It's cute. Though she can't use all the same tricks that you do when it comes to keeping me in bed. Its kind of unfair."

[letmelive]

"That's probably for the best," Claire replied, smirking at Leon. "If she were just as good as me at making you behave I'd end up with a power struggle on my hands when she hits her teenage years." Not that Claire didn't kind of expect there to be a struggle here or there anyway.

[governmentninja]

"You say it like she won't be a handful when she hits teenager anyway." Leon was not looking forward to that.

"She's taken after the best of both of us. And she's smarter than either one of us."