Patching things up

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They had taken up residence in the infirmary to start patching up the wounded and see how many people were missing. Tefe knew that some of the prisoners had escaped into the swamp but they could wait for now. Most of them had no idea what they were in for by escaping into the Louisiana swampland. They'd be happy to be recaptured most likely.

She had caused no few blushes and stares by showing up the way she had. It wasn't her fault she could heal her skin but not her clothes after her encounter with the napalm. Now she was dressed in a long shirt with her bare legs and feet showing from beneath it.

Caleb needed to be sat on and healed but he had to sit still for two seconds first, that would be the hard part. Other than than Tefe wasn't sure who else was around and what they still had to do.

"Hold still." The guard flinched when she touched him where he had a large gash on his face until he realized where she touched there was no more pain. "There, not even a scar. You can go now." Flesh wounds were easy, that's why she always healed them first. Bones were much harder.

Hopefully the others were on their way, Tefe wasn't exactly a take charge of a bad situation kind of gal. At least not in a situation like this, when it came down to fighting she usually took care of herself and then left. Others took care of the aftermath and these people were looking at her like she knew what to do.

And really she didn't.

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Travis hovers and nods, preparing to head out to collect either more criminals or more wounded. His injuries look stable enough - he's certainly had far worse.
"The ring'll hold me together fine til its charge runs out."

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"Make sure and come back before the charge runs out then, I don't want to have to chase you." She shakes her head they are all crazy...that included her of course.

"I can help when it's time to chase them through the swamp. I grew up around here."

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He gives her a smile. "I'll go get it recharged when its running low. I'd rather not walk home, or be surrounded by an army I just put back in prison without a ring. And so far, I've gotten a handful out of the swamp, there's a few more in there, but they're easy to track. Most stuff in there is cold blooded or not that big. Trying to balance out moving wounded, and trying to prevent any of the escapees from becoming wounded. And even so, I keep feeling there's something more I should be doing."

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"Yeah because there's 32 hours in the day." She shakes her head. "Cut yourself a little slack, I won't tell anyone if you take 2 minutes to catch your breath and eat something before rounding up the rest of the guys in the swamp."

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The smile remains, though its a bit rueful, and he shakes his head. "I can go without food or rest a lot longer than this. Its not the Belle Reve thing... we have this fairly well in hand, as prison breaks go. Its more about the grand scheme of things. I should be able to figure out what Light is up to, and track his signal... but I'm missing some information here. Some things just aren't adding up, and the math is killing a lot of kids."

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The smile fades and she bites her lip.

"I can help some of the children but not all of them, I just can't affect globally on something like that." And its a version of the sickness she helped create and she turns away from the conversation to pretend to look at another wound.

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He hovers closer, resting a hand on her shoulder. "I managed to help with the last plague, this time, there's just too much unknown. But none of us can help all of them. That's part of what this team thing is about."

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She's not used to people trying to make her feel better and she shrugs her shoulder, not to dislodge but just feeling somewhat uncomfortable with the contact.

"I helped make the original plague. Just keeps coming back to haunt me."

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He nods. "And we beat that one, we'll beat this one, and hopefully someone will beat the stuffing out of the people who brought this one on us. And you're doing your part now to undo it. That's good by me... Ra's... would have ended up with it before, one way or another." he offers, without moving his hand.

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"Thanks. I still haven't got the hang of this team thing but I'm working on it." She turns to look at him over her shoulder.

"I'll do all I can here and for the kids."

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He gives her a nod. "I can't say I'm used to the idea either, but so far, we seem to be doing ok. And right now, you're saving lives, I'm just playing rapid transit and denying some poor bastards their get out of jail free card. You're doing good work... thank you."