[ It's one of those things where your day is fucked and you make that hairpin turn a touch too late -- or the road's not as cooperative as you like and one thing leads to another, and your car gets totalled, while you end up with a split lip, bruised ribs, and a possible concussion which necessitates a trip to the ER.
Damn it, she finds herself thinking, when the sirens wail and bloody hell, she's fine, really; she'd just taken a nasty bump to the head and had seen stars (quite literally, she didn't know that's a thing that actually happens) but otherwise can form complete sentences, like not that hospital, please, because Chuck's a surgeon in the place and at this point a good few of the nurses and patient service assistants already know who she is, and she'd like to be spared the humiliation -- and Chuck's bitching -- thank you very much.
But they route around to that hospital anyway, and it's a pain in the ass because there are clearly people who need to be seen to much more urgently than she does; just give her painkillers, a little bit of disinfectant for the bleeding lip and she'll be outta your hair, yeah? But then someone recognises her as Chuck's girl and she's sure someone had pretty much gone to fetch him (of all things).
...Yeah. She's getting out of here, and who's going to stop her? Certainly not this pounding headache. Or the copper taste of blood in her mouth. Ugh. ]
As you were, ladies. [ Raleigh mutters when she starts towards the exit, past the service assistants at the counter. ]
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[ It's one of those things where your day is fucked and you make that hairpin turn a touch too late -- or the road's not as cooperative as you like and one thing leads to another, and your car gets totalled, while you end up with a split lip, bruised ribs, and a possible concussion which necessitates a trip to the ER.
Damn it, she finds herself thinking, when the sirens wail and bloody hell, she's fine, really; she'd just taken a nasty bump to the head and had seen stars (quite literally, she didn't know that's a thing that actually happens) but otherwise can form complete sentences, like not that hospital, please, because Chuck's a surgeon in the place and at this point a good few of the nurses and patient service assistants already know who she is, and she'd like to be spared the humiliation -- and Chuck's bitching -- thank you very much.
But they route around to that hospital anyway, and it's a pain in the ass because there are clearly people who need to be seen to much more urgently than she does; just give her painkillers, a little bit of disinfectant for the bleeding lip and she'll be outta your hair, yeah? But then someone recognises her as Chuck's girl and she's sure someone had pretty much gone to fetch him (of all things).
...Yeah. She's getting out of here, and who's going to stop her? Certainly not this pounding headache. Or the copper taste of blood in her mouth. Ugh. ]
As you were, ladies. [ Raleigh mutters when she starts towards the exit, past the service assistants at the counter. ]