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Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: Scene 2.5E - Zach

Wyatt makes his way back to the Lone Pine, a wooden box in his arms. He looks over his shoulder to see if Rebecca is following.
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She stalks after him. The look in her eyes is clearly of the 'I want a cigarette and a drink right now' variety, but she doesn't do either despite both being in her pockets.

She comes up beside him and blows out a deep breath. "Reckon I should apologize to Uncle T. But with ever'thin' goin' on, seeing someone pointin' a gun at'cha was a little more then I was ready ta take calmly. But ya haveta remember I walked inta this -- mess. It has me outta sorts. Despite what I knew, I didn' believe things'd be this bad." She frowns. "I'd still like ta know what Hank was thinkin'."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject:

"Bah, don' worry bout T so much... He'll snap outta whate'er spell he's bin under. It's bin gettin' on mah nerves ta see him like that, and I was hopin' yer arrival would help. And maybe now it has..." Wyatt takes a few more paces to the deck, where Doc Dee looks at both of them curiously from behind a screen of cigar smoke. "Anyhow, I'm sure yer cousins will find out 'bout Hank."

Doc Dee nods in their direction, "Whatcha got there, kids?"
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Rebecca grins. They could be 90 year sold and Doc Dee would still call them kids.

"Medical supplies," she replies. "Not sure what all's here yet, an' there's more in the barn ta look through, but this'uns full of medications. Includin' one I'm hopin'll clear up Zach's infection."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:28 am Post subject:

Doc Dee squints at the box and puts his cigar out on his boot. "Well, let's take a look, hmm?" he says excitedly, a smile on his face. He walks into the house and holds the door open for them. "Let's use the bathroom..." He closes the front door and follows Wyatt and Rebecca through to the bathroom downstairs. The bath tub has become a cleaning and sanitizing station.
Wyatt opens the crate and finds an array of medicine that they begin to sort out. Things are labeled, but poorly. The names are not what Rebecca, Wyatt or Doc Dee expected. They are names of doctors and their formulas, printed plainly in black on white labels.

"Dr. Richard's miracle formula", "Dr. Alex's cure-all", "Dr. Crowe's rot-B-gone medicine", Dr. Josephine's mighty mix", "Dr. Cox's essential supplement". The containers are small vials of clear liquids packed neatly in paper and cardboard boxes.

Packed in also are expensive syringe sets, rubbing alcohol, first aid supplies, as well as salves, ointments and pomades with equally strange appellations, the labels very plain-looking and professional.

Doc Dee looks puzzled, so does Wyatt. "Which one's tha right one?" Wyatt asks.
Doc Dee shrugs, he looks at Rebecca and asks with a slightly raised eyebrow, "Is this sum sorta joke?" He doesn't look upset, simply surprised.
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"F*ck me swingin'....." Rebecca rolls her eyes heavenward then bangs her head against the wall one. She scowls narrow eyed at the bottles before she finally picks up Dr. Alex's. "Start with this'un. I'll have ta get Finn ta do somethin' 'bout his imaginative bent later."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:56 am Post subject:

Wyatt says, "Hm!" and marvels at one of the packages, wondering about the sorcery Finn is responsible for.
Doc Dee nods and chooses a sampling of each and a clean syringe set. "Let's go see Zach then."

They get up, Wyatt puts the top of the box back on and closes the bathroom door after Rebecca.
They make their way upstairs, familiar creaks and the smell of musty summer air.

As they pass Rebecca's room, she sees that the door is open. Inside are children, some with visible bandages, some of them sleeping or comatose. Rebecca's furniture has been taken out to make room for bedrolls. Doc Dee opens the door to Zach's room, one of the smaller guest rooms in the house. It smells like burnt cedar in there.

Zach is as pale as the sheets he lays on, except for two dark circles around his eyes. His right arm and shoulder are heavily bandaged. His lower torso and chest are bandaged as well, covered by a white sheet and dark blankets. The sunset light filters through gaps in the curtains of a lonely window. Rebecca can barely recognize him. His chest barely rises and his skin is covered with thin droplets of sweat.

Wyatt goes to the chair next to the bed and picks up the towel in the bowl of water, he drains the water from it and pats Zach's brow and, lifting his head, wipes down his neck. Zach's body remains limp.

Meanwhile, Doc Dee lays out the syringe set and Dr. Richard's miracle formula, reading the list of ingredients. He begins preparing it, judging how much will be needed or however much he thinks should be tested. He approaches Zach, kneeling next to the bed and hesitates. "Now, Rebecca, we can trust this... Finn fella, right?"
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The need to turn her childhood home into a hospital galls her, but she remains quiet as they make their way to Zach. She quietly sets down her own crate and stands at the foot of the bed, studying her second oldest friend. It only serves to make her sad and angry. Watching Wyatt nearly breaks her resolve to keep her tears in check until she has some privacy to grieve all that has befallen Cimarron in her absence.

She turns at the doctor's question slowly. "Yeah," she replies quietly, her eyes never leaving the brothers. SHe finally moves and to stand beside Wyatt's chair. "Show me this mark."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:29 am Post subject:

Wyatt leans over Zach and pulls the covers back. He then begins to undo the bandages on his right shoulder, revealing burnt looking flesh. It smells odd and infected. It looks moist and has the color and texture of wet charcoal. It looks like a wound rather than a scar.
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She leans in for a closer look, Hank's pistol digging into her side where she stuck it in her belt. She notes the size and shape of the affected area. Rebecca wrinkles her nose at the smell. She looks at Wyatt and straightens. "Did this happen at tha same time as the rest of his injuries? Has it changed in size at all?"

Without waiting for his answer, she moves the confiscated handgun into one of her duster pockets and then shrugs out of the duster and hangs it off the door. Digging through the crates, she finds a box of gloves and a topical antibiotic - though that requires reading between the lines of the frivolous labels. Rebecca hesitates over a set of surgical instruments before picking out out a flat bladed scalpel.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:12 am Post subject:

Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 720 Location: Oklahoma

She frowns at it a moment. Then she takes the blade and carefully scraps away some of the blackness from the edge of the wound to see underneath, damn glad Zach's unconscious.

"I ain't never seen tha like. Might turn out I was over optomistic 'bout what these meds could do. We may want ta ask Finn ta have a look at it," she muses as she works. "If it's related ta what's been happenin' in an' 'round these parts, he may have seen it before. He's been fightin' along the Black Road since b'fore I met him. I've only been involved in a coupla of skirmishes."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:26 am Post subject:

"Mh-hmm," Wyatt agrees.

She gets a bit of the blackened skin tissue off and underneath the flesh is still dark. A clear, oily substance oozes slightly out of the wound. It looks as if the skin has grown over a wound but improperly... The flesh looks a bit like rotted bark.
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Her frown deepens. She holds a hand out for the cloth Wyatt has been using to wipe the sweat from Zach earlier. "Have ya seen this, Doc? Looks like somethin' might be under tha skin."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject:

Wyatt hands her the towel after draining some of the moisture out. Doc Dee leans in closer, adjusting his spectacles. "Hmm... Yeah, it's bin gettin' darker lately. We examine it everytime I change the dressing which I try ta get ta once a day."

"His pulse is too weak for me ta operate and remove tha damn thang..." he says after leaning back.
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