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[whatialways_do]

Who: Max Guevara and OPEN to anyone in the clinic.
What: Max waking up from the lobsters.
When: Tonight, March 23
Where: The clinic
Rating: PG, maybe PG-13
Notes: Prose or actionspam is fine. This covers all the time after she leaves the clinic as well, so if you think she would track you down as oppose to your character coming to the clinic, feel free to set that up too. This is the most flexible log.



[When Max comes to, the first thing she thinks is that someone mindwhammied her again. Which she hates, for the record. She doesn't remember any of it, but it's the most logical thing to have happened.

Then she realizes that she's sore and feels like crap, and she thinks that maybe it wasn't someone messing with her head. Maybe it was someone messing with HER. She groaned as she started to push herself into a sitting position before realizing she's in the clinic.

Great. Juuuuuuuuust great.]

Comments

[whatialways_do]

Actually, I was born a transgenic.

[that was a little more accurate]

I was born with the purpose of being a super soldier.

[valuedstrength]

[Steve is visibly unsure about how to feel concerning that. It's one thing to volunteer, but Max didn't exactly have a choice in the womb.]

Is there a war going on where you came from?

[whatialways_do]

[sighs and shakes her head]

Nope. They did it just because they could.

[valuedstrength]

I want to say I'm sorry you didn't get a choice, but would you have been born if they hadn't done it? I don't want to ask you a lot of personal questions. I just want to understand why they'd do it to someone who didn't have a choice.

I knew the risks so whatever happened was on me. How can anyone decide that for someone else?

[whatialways_do]

Well, it was easy for them. They didn't consider us people. We were just the latest weapon they decided to manufacture.

[valuedstrength]

[Steve is quiet a moment. It's pretty clear to see how badly this sits with him. He just doesn't know what to say about it. Does he go off on all the reasons that's wrong? Comfort her about being born into a life about that? He's stuck a little longer before settling on a question.]

You don't believe it, right?

[whatialways_do]

[It's the silence that she hates the most when she tells this story. The silence is when things are still unknown, when she doesn't know if they're going to swing one way or the other.

But then he ask that, and she grins.]

Nope. Not even a little.

[she then hops off the bed]

It's why I escaped when I was nine.

[valuedstrength]

[He smiles. That's relieving even if there's questions as to how everything worked out following. Steve can guess okay since she seems fine nowm but he wouldn't be Steve if he didn't ask.]

Everything work out alright?

[whatialways_do]

[nods]

Yeah. More or less.

[valuedstrength]

That's good to know. I got to admit when you first said it I was a little worried for you. Life's tough enough as it is without people seeing you as something you're not.

[whatialways_do]

[shrugs]

I know who I am. People don't get to dictate that for me.

[valuedstrength]

[Steve nods.] No, they don't. [Now switching gears since he feels confident Max is okay at least in this respect.]

Have you seen the doctor yet?

[whatialways_do]

Nope.

[and she isn't planning on it]

I'll just have Chase check me out later.

[valuedstrength]

Will you take it easy? [She did really give him a scare.]

[whatialways_do]

[No.]

Promise. I'll go right to my room and relax. No heavy lifting.

[valuedstrength]

[Well since she did promise.] Thanks, Max.

[whatialways_do]

[she grins]

And I think I owe you a thank you for bailing me out of the kitchen.

[valuedstrength]

You don't have to thank me. You'd have done the same thing.

[whatialways_do]

Damn straight I would.

[nudges his shoulder a bit]

But only for you.

[valuedstrength]

[Steve smiles.] Yeah? What did I ever do to earn that?

[whatialways_do]

I just like you that much.

[valuedstrength]

I'm honored either way.

[whatialways_do]

Good.

[she starts walking ahead of him, before turning back and pulling him into a hug]

Thank you.

[valuedstrength]

[He's too surprised to return it just yet.] ... It was nothing, but you're welcome.

[Now she's getting it back.] Just don't scare me like that again. Deal?

[whatialways_do]

[nods a bit against his shoulder]

Deal.