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Jim [redacted] ([personal profile] searchingfordistraction) wrote2012-04-26 02:32 pm

consequences of haste

He'd intended to refrain from using anything other than telekinesis until he'd got at least the bones of the new system in place, but.

But conversation with the Bar confirmed that Milliways's built-in safeguards would step in to regulate his magic use in lieu of his magic being able to regulate itself. It would, after all, require a remarkable series of stacked coincidences for Milliways to sustain any kind of damage; nothing Jim could do now would be anywhere near enough to set off that kind of cascade.

He still takes the precaution of having a room with extra buffers set up, just in case.

There is, of course, nothing Milliways can do to prevent Jim from injuring himself as he practices, and he finds very quickly that without his own system to guide his focus, his control over anything non-telekinetic is exceedingly poor.

It was worth experimenting with, anyway. And at least the infirmary is handy.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
John does not technically work at the infirmary at Milliways. He is however recognised as a doctor and does have some authority over the rats that work in there.

As if he could avoid it. Something tells him this is probably the case with every poor sod called John Watson.

He's not in the infirmary today, but he's within a decent distance to it, though he's a bit more interested in his newspaper at the moment.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He has to pass by John on the way, and it's a very odd feeling to watch Jim Moriarty, probably badly injured, walk by.

Ignore him, says John's inner monologue. Let the bastard get an infection and die an unnecessarily drawn-out and painful death.

It is against everything he knows that John does exactly the opposite of this, and with an annoyed sigh that he gets up to help. Goddamn the Hippocratic Oath.

"There's no-one in there, and I doubt you can perform a graft on your own," he warns.

He has no idea if it will actually come to that, but from where he's standing, it looks pretty bad.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a brief pause before John grits his teeth and says, "Son of a bitch." He watches far too much American telly and films.

Without saying much of anything else, he waves his cane in the direction of the infirmary, indicating that he'll be right behind Jim.

Why does it have to be here? Why does it have to be him?
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
John may not be the John Watson Jim knows from back home, but like Sherlock, there are some startling similarities. His limp seems more out of habit by this point and that tremor in his hand has run for the hills.

The first thing he does is washes and gloves up, leaving his cane by the sink in favour of the tall, wheeled office-like chair. He does all this without a word, and continues to say nothing as he picks up a pair of rounded-tipped scissors.

Sorry, Jim. But there's a good chance John might even take a bit of satisfaction from what he's about to do.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
The shirt comes off efficiently, but John's skilled and careful enough to do it quickly without exacerbating Jim's injuries. Next is the IV, which he doesn't tape down. Rather than suturing it in place, he uses a Colfex wrap instead. Not ideal, but it seems the best way to go about the problem at this moment.

That done, he's ready to start properly inspecting the burn areas.

"Do I even want to know what you were doing out there?" he asks as he starts to clean the area.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
There's absolutely no point in doing anything to deliberately cause Jim pain. The fucker would probably enjoy it, and even more to the point, is probably expecting it.

So John just keeps on being the professional doctor he always is.

"You might want to avoid doing it in future," he says. "I've not been trained on any of the fancy equipment they have in here, so the best I can do is try to minimise scarring."

There are so many weasel words in that sentence that his intentions right now could be anything at all.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
John looks up at him without looking scared or annoyed or anything. He's the perfect picture of calm right now.

"What makes you think I'd trust you?" he asks, almost causally.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right," John says. "What makes you think I'd trust you not to overload something and injure me?"

Happy?
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
John takes only the briefest of moments to consider this.

"All right. I don't think there's a release for for this sort of situation, but you do understand the risks of the procedure? Namely, me not being trained?" asks John, back to an attitude of cool professionalism.

He's not at all comfortable with this, but no-one else has shown up to take over, and if this is what Jim wants to do, then fine.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"This is exactly the sort of thing people sue about," John points out. Not that he thinks Jim would willingly step foot in a courtroom, but whatever.

"All right," he says. "Where do I start?"

He cannot believe he's doing this. He should have just let Jim come in here and blow himself up or whatever he was going to do.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-26 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
John probably doesn't have to vocalise just how much he hates Jim.

He finds the device and studies it for a moment, making a light 'hum' as he looks it over.

"Last I heard about this thing, it was still in early testing."
Edited 2012-04-26 23:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-27 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
John found something about this device nearly a year ago, and did some research on it out of idle curiosity. There's been a lot of research into burn treatment, with something rather similar being developed in New Zealand as well.

Luckily, Asclepius the infirmary helper rat is around to get a lot of the preliminary set-up started, and being Milliways with all the mixed technology, it's a matter of minutes before everything is ready.

"I don't think this is meant to work on anything that's already healed," John says.

Yes, he's seen the other burns. Unlike his boyfriend, he's just been a bit more tactful about them.
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[personal profile] jumperfucker 2012-04-27 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
If John were any less professional, he might let on that he's a bit pleased to have caught Jim off his guard.

"Right."

With that, he's ready to get started.

"This shouldn't hurt," he says, and starts in on the procedure.

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