New Arrival

[thekidsare0kay]

Who: Sollux Captor and ANYONE!
Where: By the coral
When: Today
Format: Starting in prose but I'm happy to follow your lead
Status: Open as Sollux' gaping ocular sockets

He was killing himself. He could feel it in the intense pain that exploded across his think pan like someone was jabbing two culling forks through his eye sockets and then wiggling them around inside his brain.

He was sure he had killed himself. He sort of hoped he had killed himself, because living with that kind of damage was going to suck serious hoofbeast testicles.

And then he'd expected to hopefully find himself safe and sound in the bubbles, where he could spend eternity reliving the few good moments he'd had in his short life and leave the universe-saving and misery to someone else. What he hadn't expected was a whole lot of water, and confusion and a lot of voices, none of which were familiar. It sounded like he'd suddenly landed himself in the middle of a city.

Frightened and confused, he pushed himself up, coughing up a lungful of sea water and yellow blood, and felt around helplessly, searching for something, anything familiar. "Hello?" he called out, but not too loud. Karkat, Kanaya, Terezi and Gamzee had been right there. Why wasn't anyone saying anything to him?

"What happened?"

Comments

[withoutasign]

"Yes. Everyone is from a different time point, it seems, although some of them line up fairly closely."

Signless pulls over the doctor's stool and takes a seat, staying near enough that Sollux can reach out and touch him if he cares to. "We're in a medical center right now. The nurses will come and look at you soon, I believe."

[thekidsare0kay]

He nods and when he touches Signless, he leaves his hand there, curling his fingers around his bicep lightly. He feels stupid, like a grub clinging to his lusus - and doing that was never a safe thing to do with his lusus - but he just needs to know where Signless is.

"I don't know if there's anything anyone can do, anyway. I just strained my thinking sponge."

[withoutasign]

Signless holds his arm still, having absolutely no problem with Sollux wanting to hold onto him, and gently pats the top of the young troll's hand.

"You lost a lot of blood. You probably need a transfusion."

And what a coincidence, he knows someone with the exact same blood!

[thekidsare0kay]

"A transfusion?" He grimaces. "I hope you've got a mustardblood around, then. Though really, I could just pass out for a week or so. I'm sure I'll heal..."

Is there a thread of nervousness in him? He's not sure he's completely cool with the idea of someone sticking a big needle into him.

[withoutasign]

"As it so happens, I do." He squeezes Sollux's hand. "He might even be able to get the blood in you without using a needle."

[thekidsare0kay]

"...I'm not scared of needles." Much. He's more nervous of doctors. "Is he coming here?"

[withoutasign]

"Let me send him a message, and I'm sure he'll be here shortly."

Signless gives Sollux's hand another squeeze, then pulls out his SFC and sends the following message to Psii: CAN YOU MEET ME AT THE CLINIC, PLEASE? I'M FINE, BUT THERE'S SOMEONE HERE WHO COULD USE YOUR HELP. YOU KNOW HOW KARKAT IS MY DESCENDANT? I'M PRETTY SURE YOURS JUST SHOWED UP, AND HE'S HURT.

"There. He should be here soon."

Signless looks over the grievously wounded young troll. "Can I help you clean some of that blood off?"

[p2iioniicii2t]

There, you finally found something to pry him away from trashy television. Good job, Signless, but did it really have to be using his grievously injured descendent?

2ollux Captor ii2 wounded?
II wiill arriive iin a 2hort periiod of tiime.

[thekidsare0kay]

Sollux can't read the message, but he listens as he types on what he guesses is some kind of PDA. He grimaces and nods at the question. "Yeah, I guess? I feel absolutely disgusting."

He's a little nervous, though he doesn't want to admit it aloud. What if his ancestor thought he sucked? He was blind and a mutant and basically in all ways lame. Judging by what little he knew about Mindfang, Dualscar, and Redglare, ancestors were something to look up to. And this Signless guy might not seem like much, but he sure was being nice so far.

[withoutasign]

THANK YOU, PSII. I'LL TAKE CARE OF HIM UNTIL THEN.

Signless puts away his SFC then, and turns his attention to Sollux. He gently removes the hand from his arm and stands up. "Give me just a moment, I'm going to get a water basin and some towels. I won't leave the room if I don't have to, so you can keep talking to me if you wish."

Fortunately, the room has a little sink in it, as well as a supply of clean, fluffy white towels, and Signless doesn't have to go far before he's sitting beside Sollux again, dunking a towel in the hot water and wringing it out.

"I'm going to start with your face, okay? Let me know if I'm hurting you or making you uncomfortable in any way."

[thekidsare0kay]

Sollux listens as Signless moves about, keeping track of his location as best he can. He's nervous about where he is and what's going on, but it could be worse. He nods and takes off Feferi's goggles, popping them into his captchalogue for safe keeping.

"I'm not a wiggler, jeez. I can take a little pain."

[withoutasign]

"I know you're not."

It's just probably going to be more than a little pain, judging by those gaping black holes where his eyes used to be. Signless starts on his forehead, gently and carefully wiping the dried, crusted yellow blood off his pallid skin and out of his hair. The more blood he wipes away, the more Sollux looks like Psii, and Signless falls into contemplative silence.

[thekidsare0kay]

Sollux bites his lip and tries not to flinch as Signless wipes at his face, especially around the eyes. He doesn't say anything, though, waiting for Signless to be done as he resists the urge to whimper in pain.

[withoutasign]

Signless is being as careful as he can, but that still has to hurt. Maybe if he distracted Sollux, he won't notice the pain as much.

"What happened to you? How did you hurt yourself?"

[p2iioniicii2t]

It doesn't take long to fly across the bubble to the clinic, and less time still to be directed to where he needed to go. He floats into the room, the faint hum on his psionics all that gives him away, and stops dead in his tracks.

There is a soft thump as he bumps into the door frame, the Helmsman physically recoiling at the sight.

He doesn't say anything, but he really doesn't have to.

[thekidsare0kay]

"Which time?" Sollux grunts, and gives a flinch at a particularly sensitive area. He digs his claws into the mattress reflexively. "I had a duel with that massive douchebag Eridan, and lost. The feedback from my own eye blasts burned out my eyes, I guess." He swallowed. "Then I had to tow an asteroid using my powers and--"

The sound of a thump alerts him that they aren't alone and he stiffens. "What was that?"

[withoutasign]

Signless glances up, seeing Psii and recognizing the expression on his face. He runs his hand down Sollux's arm, finding the younger troll's hand and squeezing it, but his eyes never leave Psii.

"Sollux, that was your ancestor. His name is the Psiioniic, and he's here now. Psii, this is Sollux, and he could really use some help from you."

[p2iioniicii2t]

He slowly, carefully nods his head. It's probably a good thing that the child is blinded since he cannot see that the Helmsman is stricken by his appearance.

"What ith it that ith required of me?" he asks very softly, even quieter than was his customary manner.

[thekidsare0kay]

Sollux raises his head a little, his ears straining to hear his ancestor. He's not sure how to interpret what he just said, and his brow wrinkles with confusion and uncertainty. The guy has his lisp. Why does he have his lisp?

"Hello, Psiioniic," he says shyly, his fingers tightening around the Signless'. What's going on?

[withoutasign]

Definitely a good thing that Sollux is blind right now. Psii isn't the most expressive troll ever, but it's pretty clear that the child's appearance has thrown him.

"He's lost a lot of blood, Psii. Would you be willing to donate some to him? Or use your powers to help with the pain?"

[p2iioniicii2t]

"I can aid in hith recovery, but not thignificantly," he assents softly, finally floating closer. He's still stunned, he had not expected to see his descendent in this state.

"Hello, child. Do you conthent to that?"

[thekidsare0kay]

"Um, sure," Sollux said uncertainly. "I'm not a child, I'm Sollux," he added, a bit more firmly. He was in a horrible state, he knew, and he was sure that his ancestor must be disappointed. "I'm probably okay, though, I mean, this is no big deal."

[withoutasign]

Sollux, if you could see yourself, you might realize how flawed that argument sounds.

Signless gently and carefully paps the back of Sollux's hand, since he's pretty sure papping him in the face would make everything worse. "Shhhhh, we know. It's okay, we're here to help you, let us take care of this, it's okay..."

[p2iioniicii2t]

Child, you must know how hard your name is to pronounce with a lisp. You've had to have had those teeth at some point in your life. Still, the Helmsman nods and then pauses before actually making a sound of confirmation. Blind, right.

"I will aid you nonetheleth. Adopt a relakthed thupine pothture. I will give you blood."

And far more efficiently than with any sort of delivery system that might be available from a medical professional, he's fairly sure. He moves to sit himself in a nearby chair, looking to Signless. Clearly the other man can handle the hard stuff, like reassuring.

[thekidsare0kay]

The reassurance is really not helping. In fact, Sollux is growing more tense by the moment. He's never really been in the habit of accepting help from others - not even from his lusus, which was so vicious it really didn't do much raising of him as a wiggler and more just tried to kill him at every opportunity.

"What are you going to do?" he asks uncomfortably, shifting onto his back twitchily and clenching his hands tightly into fists. He wants to just leap up and abscond, but he knows he'd just wind up slamming into the first wall he encountered. He can't really stop them from doing whatever they want, especially if his ancestor has his powers as well as his lisp.