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accidental audio | open to action at the hospital

[Rrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

Rrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

This is a patient trying to get a nurse. He mutters.]

What the hell does it take...

[Said patient is now turning the device around and around in his hands. Funny looking phone, this.]

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Freddy's lucky to be from a time when smoking indoors hasn't been practically banned all across California. He returns that tilt up, mirroring the expression...followed by a wink.

"Marlboro Golds if that ain't too much trouble." This he says to her under his breath, even though no one else would hear them. In the back of his mind he does wonder why Eden is letting him get away with this much. He makes no grand illusion about pulling any wool over her eyes. Freddy knows she's making an exception here which is starting to stretch in his opinion.

Gosh, Freddy, are you really going to start doubting why this girl is being nice to you?

It's not that she holds any illusions about him, or even about a friendship with him. Eden just has a tendency to gravitate towards newcomers that remind her, in part, of herself. She's read his chart - she knows why he was in the hospital. She makes no excuses for why he would possibly come in that way, unless he was in trouble - either he asked for it, by getting involved in something, or he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but the wrong place where you end up that badly fucked up is somewhere you knew you shouldn't have been. Eden's been in both situations moer than once.

"Oy, don' get too picky, boyo," she drawls. But that's really nothing, honestly. "And yeh can' smoke em in here, so fuckin' promise that. Wouldn' want another surgery to fix yehr face." Both from the explosion and from when Eden would break it for doing something so stupid.

Considering how he showed up he can't help holding the skepticism. None of it makes it to his expression or his tone though, and he definitely knows better than to ask her why. It's the same reason why he hasn't asked Larry why he took a bullet for him, maybe that'll come later. Not in a public hospital room, Christ.

"I will not light one up in here," Freddy says to her the same way a religious man would swear to God. He doesn't want surgery on his face, thanks. He likes his face.

"Good." She stands up, picking up her kit. "Do what the nurses tell yeh, yeh'll be out of here and on the street before yeh know it." Although Eden is hardly one to advocate for staying in the hospital, considering she left AMA the last time she wound up in the hospital bed herself.

"I'll see yeh around, yeah?"

The same hand waves at her, friendly, casual, natural.

"See you, Eden."

If they mean in hospital stay terms, probably. Beyond that? Freddy really doesn't have a fucking clue.

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Doing the rounds...again and again;

Doing the rounds...again and again;

Doing the rounds...again and again;

Doing the rounds...again and again;

Doing the rounds...again and again;