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Tony Stark ([personal profile] in_extremis) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2020-05-31 02:39 pm

affliction

WHO: Tony, Billy, and anyone that wants to deal with the fallout from the first bug bites
WHERE: L'hopital
WHAT: Come visit Tony as he recovers and try to figure out what's going on with this infestation!
WHEN: Backdate a bit. Shortly after the rage incident with the Young Avengers (Tommy's included? Unsure.)
WARNINGS: Everyone got a little hurt, some injuries might be gross? Depends on if anyone is here to do actual hospital stuff.


The recovery was definitely going much faster than it would have without Extremis' accelerated healing, but that didn't make Tony any more patient with it. They had worked fast, he had only been out for a few minutes, he knew that much-- he had been completely brain dead for half an hour the last time he had a very similar heart attack, and Nick Fury couldn't keep him lying around in bed for more than a day. He could at least get some sleep that time, though. The shock hadn't burst straight through his chest, leaving him feeling mummified under the dressing that only irritated the raw depression over his heart and the lightning burst that shredded across his back, impossible still to put any weight on. And he had been revived by a team of very professional EMTs, not one frenetic teenager stabbing him with a needle that left his whole chest cavity feeling bruised and swollen and impossible to breath in any other position. If he deigned to stay in bed, he was sitting up, cross-legged, bent over the D.A.T.A. sphere recovered from where he had abandoned it in the diner, excruciatingly trying to coax Extremis from focusing on the physical to let him do some programming, at least, barely mustering a small, golden nanoweb over his fingertips to create a contact point with the sphere.

More likely, though, he was draped in a sweater that made him stiff and uncomfortable, too aware of every stitch of yarn in it, but not feel quite as vulnerable as he lurked around the front desk or break room behind it to try to fill in the gaps of his still unreliable short term memory. He still didn't exactly understand why he was here, what could have possibly gone so wrong after several months of solidly risky behaviour in an alien environment on a morning that, Tony was pretty sure, he only had plans to behave himself with a cup of coffee for once. And he was still owed that cup; he definitely didn't remember enjoying it.
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[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2020-06-06 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
Tony's lack of an angry reaction is a relief to Jon. Yes, there is a telling silence of the man, but it's not an entirely oppressing one. Tony may not accept what Jon has done, but Jon wouldn't want that anyway. He doesn't wish to accept it himself - Or find excuses rather than looking for solutions.

The rattling of the recorder at least tells Jon that he isn't being abandoned, which brings a small smile to his face and he unfolds from his chair to carefully reach for the device he knows he will have to rely on for the time being. The 'thank you' he mutters is small, but genuine. At Tony's question, Jon has a moment of looking up in wonder, only to have that wonder be turned around into appreciative relief with the complete shift of the topic away from the terrible things Jon did or could do and towards things he could do that aren't harmful to anyone. The smile Tony earns in response to that is a glad one and Jon nods as he stands and sets the recorder down at one end of the desk where he can pick it up later.

"Right. Let's go, then." He says gently, adding a little gesture for Tony to come along. He's earned being pampered and fussed over for a while. And Jon will gladly indulge that.