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Fifteen Bells: [ACTION/WRITTEN]

[Archie woke up yesterday. How is this new? Well, after getting some fairly critical stab wounds from Grell, he was put on a ventilator and kept under sedation for a few days. The ventilator was exchanged for a less impressive-looking concentrator yesterday and he was taken off sedation. He spent yesterday sleeping anyway, since anesthesia doesn't generally leave you bright-eyed immediately afterward.

This morning, he is talking and eating Jell-o, which is a new experience. The most important bit comes written on the journal network in wobbly handwriting courtesy of the heart monitor clipped on his finger.]

I have been informed that I may have visitors. I'd like to know everyone is all right.

Kennedy

[Anyone who comes in will find him looking predictably weak and pale but lucid and in good spirits, or possibly catnapping after a dose of painkillers.

OOC: Purely for the sake of mercy, Archie is unaffected by the event.]

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Let me know if you'd like some help moving stuff over from your apartment, then.

[Joke. Worse joke.]

Buffy tells me that McCoy isn't quite himself, at the moment, unfortunately.

I've not seen him. I've been sleeping most of the day. Wonderful stuff, morphine. Not to mention it's the only thing to do.

Especially on morphine.

I could bring by some books later, if you want.

Could you!

It takes me a few tries, but I have regained the ability to read.

Do you have a preference?

I have Around the World in Eighty Days at my flat. The Little Prince. Probably something else as well that isn't written by a Frenchman.

Can I get in to your flat, or should I pick up some spare copies at the library?

...you also might like H.G. Wells, if Verne's your taste. But starting new books on morphine isn't really advisable.

No, I wouldn't say it is. Perhaps something more familiar, then. What about Phantastes?

Interesting choice.

But I remember seeing that one a couple of months ago. Before, well, you know the rest. You probably want the 1858 one instead of the one they reprinted in 1970, is that right?

I...don't remember which one I read, actually. Both are after my time.

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I'll bring both.

You can pick your favorite.

Thank you. [It makes him think of his nurse's stories from when he was a kid, mostly.] Might you also bring Iliad?

[Phantastes being a fairly slim book.]

[His tone is dry, but amused.] Ambitious for a man on pain medication, aren't you?

Yes, I can bring Iliad.

Oh, I've read it a hundred times. I could probably recite half of it. It's the other half I'm worried about.

Which half?

[Sounds of movement. A door opening and closing.]

No particular half. The text I remember isn't all consecutive.

[He'd been facetious, anyway.]

A collective half.

Still an admirable effort.

I didn't mean it literally.

You should have specified.

Beg pardon, then. And thank you.

You're quite welcome. I should be there soon.

Thank you. [He leaves the journal open, but turns away from it, exhausted and ready to catnap until Giles arrives.]

[Giles will hang up once he reaches the library.

He'll arrive at the Battle Dome clinic about half an hour later with the requested books.]

[Kennedy was asleep, but wakes when Giles arrives. He yawns and stretches as much as he can in his situation.]

Good God, I've been awake for a day and I already can't wait to leave this place.

You have my deepest sympathies, Kennedy. [Giles sets the book down on the table and takes a seat.]

Hospitals and clinics in general can be impossibly dull, when they're not in the middle of a war zone.

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