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Jul. 10th, 2005 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sawyer's walking down the hall to his room, his newly-acquired tube of lotion in his crusty, green right hand. He has to stop after every couple of doors to rest, catch his breath. It's during one of these stops that he realizes that his skin isn't just crusty.
It's scaly.
Like, lizard scales scaly.
He groans and slides down the wall to a sitting position. Resting is nice.
It's scaly.
Like, lizard scales scaly.
He groans and slides down the wall to a sitting position. Resting is nice.
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Date: 2005-07-11 02:17 am (UTC)"You ok?" He doesn't seem too worried. It's probably because he's not.
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Date: 2005-07-11 02:19 am (UTC)"Does this look okay to you?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 03:25 am (UTC)He pulls up sweater arm to show the scales running up his arm. "Runs the entire length of my right side. Fucking bar."
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 03:37 am (UTC)As if that makes him remember his discomfort, he begins scratching his right side. "It's probably contagious. Want a hug?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 03:51 am (UTC)He sits silently for a bit, trying to catch his breath. Then, "God, that part hurts."
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 04:12 am (UTC)Miraculously, he does... though he's still leaning against the wall for support.
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 03:26 am (UTC)She hurries over, setting the box on the floor, and feeling his forehead all in one movement. "Sawyer, Baby? What are you doing out here?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:29 am (UTC)"The bar gave me this." He holds up the tube of lotion in his scaly right hand.
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:33 am (UTC)"It's gotten worse?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:36 am (UTC)He pulls up the bottomr of his sweater to show his scaly side. "See?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 03:46 am (UTC)He holds up his right arm (which now ends at the wrist) and stares. "WHAT. THE. FUCK!"
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:50 am (UTC)So she stares.
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:56 am (UTC)The right hand is still clenched around the tube.
He says the only thing that pops in his head: "Okay, this is gross."
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:01 am (UTC)She leans over to pick up her box and shifts it onto her hip as she rests a guiding hand tentatively on his (left) shoulder. She's not so sure anymore about that sponge bath she'd been planning.
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 04:12 am (UTC)She sets the box down again so she can open it and guides him into the room.
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 04:51 am (UTC)She manages to gesture at it without actually looking at it again.
"We should probably get those clothes off. They might irritate it, or something."
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Date: 2005-07-11 01:09 pm (UTC)"I'll get cold." Never mind the sweat pouring off him.
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Date: 2005-07-11 02:36 pm (UTC)"Here," she says as she carefully (oh so carefully) tries to pull the shirt off his prone body. "Can you raise your arms for just a moment?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:36 pm (UTC)His chest is split almost exactly down the middle with normal pink flesh on the left and scaly green skin on the right.
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:51 pm (UTC)"Okay, now your pants," and she reaches out to unbutton his jeans, stopping only once when her knuckles accidentally brush the reptillian skin.
She takes a deep breath and, murmuring an apology, goes back to work sliding his pants off.
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:08 pm (UTC)The lizard-rash continues down his leg to just below his knee.
Sawyer pulls the wasteband of his boxers away from his body and inspects the contents. "Everything still seems to be attached there," he chuckles weakly.
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:14 pm (UTC)She's not sure she wants to know what worse could be like, and it's that last thought that convinces her.
"Have you used the lotion yet?" she asks as she begins to peel the thin cotton underwear off his body.
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:19 pm (UTC)Sawyer glances down at her. "Maybe you ought to let me handle this. Last thing we need is you going all gator-skinned, too."
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:27 pm (UTC)Finally, finally she's loosened the shorts enough that she can more or less pull them down his legs. She tosses them on the floor and makes a mental note to have those clothes washed soon, just in case. She also, purposefully, does not look at his naked, green crotch.
"Could you han-, er, give me the lotion, please?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:52 pm (UTC)"Here you go, angel, but I'm starting to think this is a little more than Jergens can handle."
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Date: 2005-07-11 04:57 pm (UTC)"Is it helping the itching at least?"
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Date: 2005-07-11 05:01 pm (UTC)It's a weird thing to have goosebumps on sweaty skin, but that's exactly what he has... at least, on his regular skin. Lizard scales don't get goosebumps, it appears.
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Date: 2005-07-11 05:09 pm (UTC)She sets the lotion aside, abandoning that idea, and pulls the comforter he's laying on until it covers his body. She carefully tucks it around him and then climbs onto the bed beside him. Draping her own left leg and arm over his, she kisses his cheek and then snuggles closer.
"You need a healer."
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Date: 2005-07-11 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 05:32 pm (UTC)"It's okay. Go to sleep," she says softly, and her voice breaks a little at the end.
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Date: 2005-07-11 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 05:51 pm (UTC)Cautiously, she crawls off the bed and heads for the door, dimming the light as she does.