Nina's Volunteer Time

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:46 am

"My se...bah, no, that came out wrong. Fine, you probably wouldn't be able to help, anyhoo."

by **Nina Madaraki** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:48 am

"You're probably right," Nina says, going back to ignoring Will and spinning in her chair.

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:57 am

A male nurse walks over to see what's going on.

"Just visiting, or is there something medical you need?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:00 am

"Great, a doctor. I was hoping to get checked out; I was...I'm going to say attacked in the arcade a few minutes ago, and the weirdest thing happened to my hand. I feel allright NOW, but I certainly didn't then, and I just wanted to make sure everything was in the right place and whatnot."

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:03 am

"Alright. Well you don't seem to be in pain or urgent need at the moment, so if you can just answer a couple of questions, it'll speed things up."

"Can you describe the injury for me?"

The nurse turns on a switch that lets a doctor know that there's a patient that needs to be looked at.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:06 am

"Well", Will says, extending his hand, "whatever it was grabbed me about the wrist, here. At first, nothing happened, and then I started getting really, really drowsy. I felt like I was going to fall asleep, but before that happened, shooting pains started rushing up and down my arm. It subsided when my friend Marcus...persuaded the other guy to let go, and I quickly got back to normal, but I've never felt such pain. Very disconcerting."

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:13 am

"Alright, and how do you feel now?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:14 am

"Well, I like I said, I feel fine now; this is really just kind of making sure that nothing went horribly, horribly wrong, y'know?"

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:21 am

"Alright. Thank you. Ah, here's the doctor now."

He turns to the doctor, a middle aged man, and relays the information that Will gave him in a succint way.

The doctor steps over to Will and nods. "William, is it? I'm Dr. Holliday. I'm going to use my mutation on you, it won't hurt, but I don't want to startle you. It's just a diagonstic procedure."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:23 am

"Allright, I should have expected a mutant doctor at mutant university. Diagnosticamatize away."

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:27 am

The doctor holds his hand over Will's, and a beam of some kind of light extends, bathing Will's hand and giving him a tingling feeling.

"Hmmm, something attacked your mutation, and your astral self here. But your physical body too. That hand is going to be sore tomorrow, but it shouldn't be anything too problematic. I'm going to give you some vitamins, you lost some minerals in the attack."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:28 am

"'Attacked my mutation'? What do you mean, exactly? This isn't going to affect my ability to shift, will it?"

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:30 am

"No, no real damage was done. If the attack had continued, you might have suffered some loss of ability, but it looks like it was a pretty short event."

"Do you know who, or what did this to you?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:32 am

"...not exactly. I thought it was another shifter at first, because it looked just like my friend Marcus, but after we...persuaded it to let go, it kind of collapsed in to a pile of sticks and stones."

Will pauses.

"And that STILL sounds odd, no matter how many times I mention it."

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:38 am

"Interesting. Well, I'm afraid I'm no expert on that kind of thing. I'd be sure to report it to one of the X-Men. And notify someone if you see any more of these doubles."

"Also, as far as your own case, if you feel anything beyond some small sore spots in your hand tomorrow, come back here and I'll have another look."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:40 am

"Certainly will. Thanks, Doc Holiday," Will says as he gets off the bed and heads out the door.

by **Narrator** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:42 am

"Be careful." Doc goes back to his rounds.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:35 am

As Will steps through the door her almost runs into Sara who has come barreling down the corridor after hearing some swiftly spreading rumours on campus about Will being attacked by something weird.
"Will!" she yelps out, clearly agitated but quickly calming down a little as she sees him seemingly being okay. "What happened? I heard you got hurt by something down at the Zub..."

by **Nina Madaraki** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:38 am

"He's just being a baby!" Nina calls from her chair.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:44 am

"Quiet, you."

Turning to Sara, he adds "Wow, rumors travel fast around here. I'm all right--we think. Nothing seems to have been done on any kind of a lasting level. Doc Holiday says I should be OK from here on out."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:49 am

"Well you seem fine and if the doc says you're fine... But what happened? I heard all kinds of stuff from 'You got in a fight with Marcus' to 'a giant golem made from rocks and twigs attacked you' "

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:54 am

"Split the difference, I suppose. I was hanging out with Marcus, and John, and....one of the winged crew...down in the Xub, when from behind us came...Marcus! I assumed it was Zero or someone having a laugh, but both Marcusses...Marcusii...Marcii...whatever...insisted they were the real thing. After some questioning got us nowhere, John had the idea of having them use their powers, to see which was the real one. I, like an idiot, let "Marcus" try to use his powers on me. Next thing I know, I'm on the ground in pain, and the Real Marcus is knocking the Fake Marcus' block off.

The weirdest part of all was that when FauxMarcus hit the ground, he...changed. Sticks, stones, rope...it's like something out of a fairy tale. A Grimm fairy tale."

by **Nina Madaraki** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:01 am

"It was probably just some weird mutant!" Nina calls out again, "Fairy tales aren't real! That'd be stupid!"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:05 am

"Wow, that's even weirder than what I heard. And I could swear I heard that before, a man from sticks and stones... It's definately some kind of fairy tale, but none of those stories or even the more nasty ones. Like from the ones my grandma used to tell me when my ma wasn't around to stop her. Gwcoir and Pookas and what-not. There's supposed to be all kinds of Little Folk all over the British Isles, but that's just superstitious mumbo-jumbo..."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:13 am

Not even turning to look at Nina, Will adds "Another party heard from."

Returning to Sara, "I know, it's totally bizarre. I wouldn't have believed if it hadn't happened to me, and I STILL might not have believed it if Marcus hadn't gotten a big plastic bag and taken it to Lumis's. I mean, there's no such thing as the Unseelie. It's just stories.

Still..." Will shakes his head, "it was like some kind of horrific scarecrow man. Thing."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:27 am

"Creepy, but Nina's propably right. Although..." She seems to be thinking for a moment. "I know how we could find out. One thing I remember is that the People under the Hills are supposed to live in the earth under ancient marking stones. You know, like Stonehenge. And I know someone who can go down there." She grins, her curiosity and sense of adventure obviously spiked.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:36 am

"Well, now, there's an idea. That might be something to look into--a road trip at some point. I think I better tell Lumis first, though--he might know something about this. And Nina is probably right, it could be some weird mutant power--some kind of remote animation or something."

Will thinks.

"I wish it WAS Zero. Now we have a mystery, and I'm all out of brightly colored vans and cardigans."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:38 am

"Heh, well you must be alright seeing how you're already making bad jokes again." She snickers. "And yeah, you really should go and tell Lumis about it."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:40 am

"Joking, m'lady, is how one keeps sane in an insane world, and being attacked by scarecrow men definitely counts as an insane world.

We SHOULD really go to Stonehenge though, creepy fair folk or not. Get a crew up there...just to look around, you know?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:45 am

"Let's tell Lumis and make it an official investigation slash sightseeing trip. Maybe we can parachute into the place like some sort of special ops team and scare the regular tourists.", she chuckles.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:47 am

"Heh, now THERE'S a plan if I've ever heard one. And maybe after, we can like, I dunno, "investigate" Paris and any other tourist sites I can think of. You know, just to be sure. You can never be too careful. We wouldn't want to be attacked by, uh, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, would we?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:52 am

"Definately! I heard there's an evil ploy to topple over the tower of Pisa too. We really need to do something about that!"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:02 am

Will can no longer keep a straight face at that one. "Right. So, go to Lumis, report strange creepy guy, plan itinerary to defend Europe's landmarks. On it."

by **Jessica Temple** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:53 pm

((17th, sometime)) Jess walked into the infirmary for no other reason than to 'bother' Nina. She was beginning to feel more comfortable with how she felt towards the other girl, more willing to admit that she missed her when she wasn't around.

by **Nina Madaraki** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:54 pm

Nina was stocking some of the infirmary supplies when she spotted Jessica, with a smile she waved at the girl.

by **Jessica Temple** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:56 pm

"Oh, hey Nina." Jess replied, trying to look nonchalant.

"Is there a doctor around?"

by **Nina Madaraki** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:59 pm

"Probably somewhere," Nina says, "Why? Are you dying?"

by **Jessica Temple** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:03 pm

"I have to be dying to see a doctor?" Jess asked, sounding amused.

by **Nina Madaraki** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:08 pm

"Well, I don't think so," Nina says, "But that's the worst case scenario."

"What's wrong?"

by **Jessica Temple** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:23 pm

"I don't feel so good. I think I've got a bad case of 'missing you'"

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