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Jason in Wonderland - Part 3
Who Are You?
Part 1, Part 2, AO3
“Not all who wander are lost.” Gotham smiled. It was cruel. It was uncaring. It was welcoming.
“A̵̍̑͜r̶̞̳͋e ̸͍͜͝ÿ̶̢̥́o̸u No̸̖̯̽t̴͘ Họ̸̅̅m̸̿ẻ̸̩͘?̷̅ M̴̢͙̜͇͓̂̑̉͝͝¥̶̖͙͖͇̳̃̿͑́͠ Sð̶͓͚̟̟͚͗̅̃̋̒ñ̸(Mine, mine, MINE)(My-Twice-Born)(My Red Knight)(My Beloved Bloody Butcherbird).”
“Your Son?” Jason tasted the name, the title, on the tip of his tongue.
Gotham smiled. Gleaming white teeth, straight and perfect, sparkled. ‘Dangerous’, Jason's instincts murmured.
“My Dear Robin,” she called.
Jason blanched.
“I am Not Robin.”
Gotham smirked.
“I am Not Robin,” Jason protested vehemently. Gotham gave an arched brow.
“My Son, My Robin, My Knight.
Blood Red Shrike, Redbreast Bright.
My Son, My Robin, My Knight.”
Gotham sang.
“O’ Robin.
Wast Robin not borne from mine own very flesh?
Didst thee not nurse on mine own blood and tears, teethed
on mine own bones. Sleepeth and swaddled under
mine own night skies blanket?
Hath I not raised Robin on mine own streets?
O’ Robin.
Didst Robin’s first steps not tread in milk-teeth sneakers
upon mine own broken back?
First words not chirped
to mine own visage, in mine own ears
With a chick’s cheeping?
O’ Robin.
With downy feathers of red, green, and gold
didst Robin’s first flight
not beginneth
with a leap
into mine own arms?
And after thee wast Lost to me on distant shores
Forsaken Son, didst thee not Returneth to me?
Thou art Walk Against Death as my Red Knight
When you crawled out from Death’s Hold and Birthed yourself from my soil bed
Wast thee not then Born Again?
O’ My Darling Robin
O’ Son of Gotham
Son of Catherine, Son of Sheila, Son of Willis, Son of Bruce, Scion of Alfred,
Scion of Wayne.
Jason Peter Todd, Gotham runs in thy veins.
It’s in thy blood. I’m in the marrow of thy bones. Tis in thy DNA
If You, who left and returned to my bosom,
If You, with me in your lungs, vanquishes those that prey on the humblest,
are not My Robin then… Who Are You?
If ye,
Who didst turn a Circus Child’s erstwhile boots and infant wings
Into a Gotham Legacy, art not Robin mine
then…
Ẃ̸̰h̵̞͎̓̔o̷̪͌̀ Aṛ̴̽t̷̛̖͉̾ T̴̩͍̿ḫ̴̇o̷̙̼̔ù̸̜̊?”
Jason’s mind blanked. Suddenly Red Hood, a name Jason had ripped off that blight on Gotham. That he wore second-hand. That he executed, ruled, and governed with, suddenly seemed ill-fitting, (too small) and unsuited (wretched) relative to everything else he had been. Bright, Wonderful, Magic. (I’m Robin and being Robin gives me Magic)
“I, I, I hardly know” Jason replied. “But I know I'm much changed from then, since when I was Robin.”
“What do you mean by that? Explain yourself Ṙ̵̳͊ob̵͛͝ḯ̵̙͕̍n.”
Jason shook his head. “I can't explain Myself beyond that I'm hardly Robin anymore. I don't even know how I, myself, came back from Death, you see.”
“I don't see,” said Gotham.
To Gotham, Robin was Robin was Robin was Robin was Robin.
“I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly.” Jason answered politely, “I don't understand Myself. Only that being so different is maddening.”
“It is not,” said Gotham. A Spirit born from the minds of thousands across generations; Gotham was Gotham was Gotham, no matter the skin or time the City wears.
“Surely, being like one kind of person then being like a totally different kind, whilst still being treated like they're the same. Is that not strange?”
“No.”
Jason scowled, frustrated at his failure to get his point across, and at Gotham’s refusal to see his way.
“Robin died!” Jason ground out, “Robin died with broken wings, a busted skull, choking on smoke, and with fire eating away at my flesh.” Jason gasped for air, “Robin died! And when I came back, I wasn’t Robin, I WAS MAD!!!”
Doubling over, Jason keened. His throat choked. His skin itched. His chest burned. Frustrated, desperate fingers clutched and dug for absent relief. His head SCREAMED!
Then he felt a gentle kiss upon his brow. A Mother’s Benediction. Jason gasped. Frantically, he rubbed away the welling tears of relief at the sudden calm.
“What was that?!” Jason demanded in quiet, seething, wide-eyed disbelief.
“You seemed to have developed a hypersensitive autoimmune response. Recollections of your demise seemed to have triggered an anaphylactic shock on an ectobiological scale. Your hybrid ectobiology are causing seizures that are, despite overt superficial similarities, of a state atypical of a Ghost’s Death Day because of- ”
“Speak plain english!” cried the Butcherbird to his Lady Gotham. “I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!” Jason breathed heavily in the silence. Gotham’s eyes are hooded, as garnet hair flutters and writhes upon her bare shoulders.
“You had an allergic reaction. At the very core of you.” Then with a wave of her black gloved hand, the scene blurs.
...
Jason stands on a rooftop with a gargoyle for company and two others:
Gotham’s Dark Knight and Robin Boy Wonder.
The Dark Knight is an amorphous spiked shadow-blob from the neck down and a facsimile of a horned shadowy head with a pair of white beaming eyes from the neck up.
Boy Wonder meanwhile is a five foot nothing dark haired kid dressed in a colourful top, a bright yellow cape, and green booty shorts with matching pixie boots. His indistinct youthful features behind the domino mask place him anywhere between the ages of 8 and twice that.
“Holy macaroni, you’re in rough shape!”
“Hmm”
Jason blue-screens.
“Did we break his brain?”
“Hnn”
“Should we-”
“Who are you?” Jason interrupted. Jason already knew. But he just wanted them to say it.
Whispers rasped from the rustling wind.
“I am Vengeance . I am The Night .”
The Dark Knight’s shroud flared to impossible, intimidating heights.
“ I’m Batman.”
Jason felt his skin break out into goosebumps as he stared up into the night sky dominated by Gotham’s Dark Knight.
“AND I'M ROBIN!”
Like a bright firework bang, Robin shone high in the sky.
Fwip, fwip, fwip, fwip.
An iconic dazzling quadruple flip splashed against the sky. Robin gracefully danced with gravity to finish with a beautiful descent. The moves were Dick Grayson.
But that was a rough Gotham brogue - kenned from the mouths of street alley rats.
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this hc is eating me alive i need to get it out of my brain
anyway
gilmore girls x batman crossover
tldr: jason todd is rory gilmore’s twin brother who was kidnapped by nurse sheila haywood soon after birth. lorelai was consumed by grief, so no one knows about him
(tw: implied infant death (not actually tho))
post red hood arc, jason returned as red hood, fucked up tim, did the duffel bag crime lord thing, then id reveal to the bats & redemption
he’s teamed up with the outlaws as hood a few times, but usually sticks to crime alley and is going to monthly dinners at the manor at this point
jason does a dna test as part of a regular check up (he hasn’t had one since before his death) to get all his information updated and verified in the bat system
finds out that lorelai gilmore is his bio mom
sheila haywood was married to willis todd when jason was born, hence him thinking she was his bio mom
he also finds out about rory in a background check
he pieces together that they're twins
then goes to stay a week at the dragonfly inn during rory’s spring break
he leaves paper trail that duke picks up
jason was last to use the bat computer and duke was checking something before his day shift and found lorelai and rory in the search history
he pieces it together and hides it from the other bats to give jason some space and time like a good bro
eventually duke and cass team and up and follow him when he takes too long for their taste
various asides of dick, tim, damian, and bruce being kinda clueless/writing off jason’s disappearance for an outlaws mission or smth silly and mundane (ex: an austen estate viewing)
eventually, b, dick, and tim catch on and start getting suspicious about jason’s disappearance
so cass and duke stall then dip to follow jason
the rest of the bats follow soon after (maybe a day or two later after duke and cass)
with each snippet of bats being suspicious or silly, we get a snippet of jason meeting and interacting with townspeople
jason and miss patty get along hilariously well and taylor hates jason and vice versa
jason attends a town meeting
jason meets the gilmore grandparents and charms the shit out of them, then casually drops in “when i was a gotham street kid” or something like that near the very end of night
for jason disappearance, im thinking that there were some complications with their birth, so the twins had to be held in the hospital for a day or two. then sheila haywood, one of the nurses, either straight up kidnapped jason and disappeared, or told lorelai that he passed away and then disappears with him.
also, jason and rory bonding over being bookworms, both of them speaking spanish (or jason teaching her spanish beyond a classroom setting), jason inheriting his grandfathers height, the gilmore grandparents being friends with martha and thomas and/or alfred, rory gets introduced to sibling chaos, sister bonding trip, logan shovel talk, kirk and/or luke being suspicious about jason at first, awkward luke and jason bonding moment (cooking together?), jason becomes sookies favorite bc cooking buddies and he respects her kitchen
basically the characters work so so well together, the amount of really well fitting avenues that this hc could go is crazy
ideally, i have the timeline set in gilmore in mid season 5 and have some scenes written, however i’ve not written jason before and can’t get his characterization down right.
this is free for anyone to use and expand upon, please do!!
#jason todd#red hood#batman#bruce wayne#dc comics#gilmore girls#rory gilmore#lorelai gilmore#headcanon#crossover#jammy whammy posts
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everybody loves somebody, danny wagner
warnings : angst, fluff, arguing, language, suggestive language
word count : 1.7k+
When you were invited to your sister's wedding, you and Danny were still together. Now, you and Danny had been broken up for about four months. Six years, down the drain.
You had no idea who to bring with you as your plus one, but Brittany said you could come alone.
After the ceremony, Brittany and Michael had their afterparty. You were across from Danny at the bride’s table. Danny was at the groom’s table. Your back was turned towards Danny, so you couldn’t see him or the rest of his party.
You felt a tap on your shoulder and turned to see Hazel, Sam’s girlfriend. You stood up and hugged her, she was your best friend before you and Danny called it quits.
She pulled away and asked if you wanted to get a drink. You followed her from the bar and sat with her as you waited for your drinks.
A girl with long brown hair came up and sat next to Hazel. “Hey Hazel! Who’s your friend?” the mystery woman asked, flagging down the bartender to order a drink.
“This is my best friend, Y/N! Y/N, this is Sheila, Danny’s date.”
“Oh. Hi! It's nice to meet you Sheila!”
You saw Danny get up out of the corner of your eye and come over to where the three of you were at the bar.
He walked up next to Sheila and put his hand on your lower back. “Sheila, would you like to dance with me?”
You heard the song that was playing, Everybody Loves Somebody by Dean Martin. That was your song. Every Friday night, you and Danny would slow dance in your living room to that song.
He knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to upset you, and he was very successful. She grabbed his hand and they walked away to the dance floor. Your eyes followed them as they walked together, hand in hand. Hazel put her hand on your shoulder as Sam walked up to her and asked her to dance.
She apologized for leaving you alone and you told her to go. You were now alone at the bar, nursing your amaretto sour.
You could sense a presence next to you. You knew that Dior Sauvage from anywhere. You refused to look at him, but he kept staring at the side of your head.
“Please, leave me alone Danny.”
He wouldn’t move from where you were and tried to grab your hand. You swiped your hand away from his and kept it in your lap.
“Please Y/N, look at me.”
You shook your head and grabbed your drink, leaving him alone in the bar. You walked back over to the bride’s table and sat down next to your little sister, Abby.
You put your drink down and she laid her hand on your shoulder. You heard him laughing at his table. You turned, wanting to see his beautiful smile again, but soon regretted it.
He was laughing, with Sheila. You downed your drink and scooted the chair out, grabbing everything you came with and left the venue.
You got back to your apartment and you were greeted by your dog, who was happy to see you. You pet him a few times and went into your bedroom.
You quickly shook off your dress and showered, rinsing off the entire night. You finished and got out, going over to your bathroom sink to do your skincare and your hair.
You opened the medicine cabinet and grabbed some product for your hair. You put it on the counter and lifted your head back up, something had caught your eye.
You looked in the cabinet and saw a pair of silver earrings, which belonged to Danny. It had quickly occurred to you that he still had stuff at your apartment. You had them in your palm and held onto them.
You got dressed and went into Danny’s side of your closet. You grabbed a duffle bag and set it open on your bed. You grabbed all his sweaters, pants, and underwear that he had at your house. You gathered his jewelry and delicately put it in the bag.
You zipped it and put your slippers on, going to return his clothing. You opened your front door and saw Danny, standing there in the matching sweater you got him, along with some sweats.
“Hi.”
“Hey. Here, you left these here.”
“Keep it.”
“I don’t want it.”
He sighed and asked you, “Can we talk?”
You nodded and moved to the side, letting him in. Hanz started barking and ran over to Danny, jumping up onto his legs.
You closed and locked the door, turning to see Danny sitting on the floor petting the dog.
“Hi, Buddy! I missed you too!”
You walked into your open kitchen and asked him, “Can I get you anything? Coffee?”
He stopped petting the dog and looked at you, “Do you have any of the banana soda I like?”
You nodded and grabbed the banana cream soda and grabbed him a cup of ice, pouring it into the cup for him.
He got off the floor and sat at one of the barstools. You handed him the soda and turned to make yourself a cup of coffee.
“You still have the Nespresso I got you?”
“Daniel, coffee is coffee.”
He laughed and cleared his throat, trying to avoid the awkward silence between the both of you.
“What did you want to talk about?”
“Tonight. Us. We have a lot to discuss.”
You sipped your coffee and said, “No, we don’t. We aren't together anymore, you moved on, so have I”
“No, you haven’t. Or else you wouldn’t have walked out of your sister's wedding after seeing her and I laughing.”
“I don’t know what you thought you saw, but it wasn’t because you were laughing with her.”
“Why’d you leave?”
“Forgot to feed Hanz.”
“No you didn’t, you always feed him before you leave.”
“Why are you here, Danny? To interrogate me?”
“No, Y/N. I came here to talk to you, about tonight, about us. By the way, I never said I moved on.”
“Have you?”
He clamped his hands together and put his head down. “No, I haven’t. I try to forget what we had every night before I go to bed, but I can’t. I can’t stop thinking about you. The way you loved me for me. You put up with my long studio nights for six years, I can’t just forget about that.”
“What is your point, Daniel?”
“The point is, I still love you and I never stopped.”
You scoffed and took another sip of your coffee, not knowing what to respond with.
“I’m serious. I love you, goddamn it. As much as I try to forget, I can’t fucking get you out of my head.”
“Danny, please. I can’t do this right now.”
“No! Listen to me,” he put your coffee mug on the island and grabbed your hands. You looked at him and let him continue.
“I still love you and I want us to try again. I know I wasn’t home, which caused us to break up, but we are finished with the album and the single, please. Please, I am begging you. I miss you so fucking much.”
Your eyes watered and you shut them, not wanting him to see you cry.
He let go of one of your hands and wiped your tears. “Don’t cry, Baby.”
“I don’t, I don’t know what to say.”
“You don't have to say anything, just listen.” You opened your eyes and lifted your head to look at him again, silently telling him to continue.
“I was at my happiest when I was with you. I find myself unable to sleep without you next to me. I wake up and feel around on your side, only finding nothing. I miss when you would bring dinner for the both of us to the studio and we would sit and eat together. I loved when you would wash my hair after a long day. I miss you.”
You cried harder at his kind words and he stood up, pulling your head to his chest. He wrapped his arms around you and held you as you cried, stroking your hair.
You pulled away from his chest and he grabbed your face and kissed your forehead. He let go of you and walked over to your record player.
You heard the familiar beginning of Everybody Loves Somebody and felt him come up behind you. He turned the stool away from the island and towards him.
He extended his arm out to you and asked, “Will you dance with me, Dove?”
You nodded and wiped your tears with your long sleeve shirt then took his hand. He pulled you off the seat and walked with you into the living room.
He let go of your hand to move the coffee table, pushing it closer to the window. He grabbed your hand again and pulled you closer to him. You wrapped your arms around his waist and held your face close to his chest.
He enclosed you in his arms and rocked both of you back and forth around your living room.
He kissed the top of your head delicately, swaying you to the music. You tilted your head up at him and rested your chin on his stomach.
He was looking out the window as it started to rain. You were looking up at him when he turned his head back to look at you.
“Hi, Dove.”
“Hi, Danny.”
He moved one of his hands to rest it on your cheek. His golden honey eyes were looking into yours as he slightly moved his head down to yours, his eyes gazing down at your lips.
You lifted your head to meet him halfway and carefully placed your lips upon his. He pulled away from you and rested his forehead on yours. He licked his lips and kissed you again, a little harder this time.
He laughed and stopped to say, “Mm vanilla, my favorite.”
You laughed at his words and moved away from him. “Sadly, I have to work in the morning and it's almost 1 AM. You're welcome to stay here if you want,” you said and headed for your bedroom door.
“No, I’ll leave. I don’t want to intrude,” he gathered his keys and leaned down to pet Hanz before standing back up.
You sighed and turned around to face him, “Daniel, are you gonna take me to bed or not?”
#danny wagner x reader#danny wagner angst#danny wagner fic#danny gvf#danny wagner fanfiction#danny wagner fluff#greta van fluff#greta van fic#gvf fic#danny wagner one shot#danny wagner imagine#greta van fleet fic#greta van angst#gvf fluff
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I find the basic fandom tropes for the BatKids to be so boring. I think it’s just me, but they’re like… really stale. Like old bread. Not even the good kind of old bread that you can make croutons with.
My takes under the cut:
Trope: Jason was abused by his dad and neglected by his mother then was homeless on the streets for a period of time.
I like his original (post-crisis) background where his mom had cancer and took drugs to deal with the pain and where his dad tried so hard to provide for him and Catherine, resorting to illegal means, then getting sent to jail then killed very shortly after being released before he could return home. That’s an interesting and complex relationship with his parents. Jason loved his parents. He had no frame of reference for parents who don’t love their children because otherwise he wouldn’t have trusted Sheila Haywood so easily.
Furthermore, I imagine he grew up in a very tight-knit and supportive community. In his introduction (post-crisis), he stashes the Batmobile tires in his apartment. It’s clearly his based on the personalization. I imagine that after his mom died (in the hospital), social services never came for him, effectively being abandoned by the system, but his neighbors provided what little support they could offer simply by not chasing him away and looking over him staying in the single room flat. He had one neighbor who even held onto his legal records for years after, waiting to give it to the rightful owner. Jason fended for himself by fencing off tires and probably other things, but he has a faith in people that only started to wane after becoming Robin.
Trope: Tim was criminally neglected by his parents and they emotionally abused him.
Rich people do have a tendency to just throw their children into the most convenient boarding school and rarely interact with their children. Oftentimes, they have kids out of social obligation. But Tim’s parents did love him. They were distant and often focused on their own work and hobbies, but they proved they cared about him enough. Jack had his flaws but he did genuinely care about Tim’s wellbeing. Also, I can never get over the issue of Tim meeting his mom again just talking to her and Janet listening supportively. I like the idea that they used to take Tim with them everywhere when he was younger and only put him in boarding school at a later age in order to socialize. They trusted that the school was taking care of him (even if Tim did escape quite frequently to be Robin). It’s such a damn shame that Janet died so early into Tim’s tenure as Robin. I wish I could have gotten a better characterization of her in like No Man’s Land or something. Or just Tim being a proper corporate heir to Drake Industries for longer instead of being mildly upper middle class with a comatose-then-emotionally distant father before becoming the Wayne heir.
I feel like Jack Drake is like the epitome of the “father is for emotional distance” meme. He’s well-meaning, but he’s still a man of the patriarchy.
Trope: Stephanie is from a family reminiscent to Jason’s.
I have no idea where the fuck this characterization came from. Like. Have they never even READ Steph’s wiki? Did they just go “Jason but female and waffles and purple”??? Arthur Brown was a host to a game show that was popular enough to feature celebrities and the rich and famous. His whole villain origin is that he hates the stupidity of the rich, and he ended up blowing up on TV. The scandal got him unemployed and he resorted to theft to make ends meet after. Later on, he became a strategic criminal adviser or something. Cluemaster eventually got caught and put into the Suicice Squad, eventually dying. Meanwhile, Crystal Brown is an overworked nurse who takes extra shifts to make ends meet. She’s basically a single mom at this point. I think she gets addicted to something in order to get by and goes into rehab at some point after Steph’s death. Steph loves her mom and has very complicated feelings about her dad. When she was pregnant, she feared that Cluemaster would harm her baby in order to get to her.
Anyway, the whole point of this is that my perception of Steph is that she was raised solidly middle class. She’s from the Bowery, not Crime Alley. Her parents used to send her to gymnastics classes, and she was very good. They took her out after Arthur was unemployed.
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Day 9 - Oxygen
@mediwhumpmay
Fao’s chest had been bothering him. It definitely wasn’t right, as much as he tried to ignore it. Some virus or another had been floating round as always, the kids bringing god knows what home from school. He’d been suffering with it, the way he always did, but he was trying to push through. He didn’t particularly have a choice, he had to work. At least he wasn’t as busy as he had been in the past. Working up to clinical lead, he’d been doing more admin and taking more responsibilities that way, which meant more time at his desk. That was no bad thing, especially when he felt like shite.
That didn’t mean he was purely non clinical, and today he’d been picking up the slack of an understaffed service. He’d rushed down the stairs to ED, called down for a consult, and his breath caught in his chest to the point he had to pause at the nurse’s station, trying to ignore the wheeze.
The cough wasn’t great either, and Fao winced when it started, knowing just how bad he sounded. It didn’t last long, and he paused to push some hair from his face, still leaning against the nurse’s station for a moment longer to pull himself together.
"Wolfie. Fucking finally." Harrison rounded the corner, shaking his head at Fao. "We paged you lot ages ago."
Fao cleared his throat, huffing at Harrison. “Understaffed.” He said gruffly. “Who am I seeing?”
Harrison narrowed his eyes. "How long have you been sick?"
He rolled his eyes. “I’m fine.”
"You're not. Jamie? Which room is free at the moment?"
“Oh, don’t start, you know what my chest is like.” He said, but didn’t move. “Which patient am I seeing?”
"Yeah, fuck that. Call gensurg again for me? I'm gonna take Fao down to 6." Harrison ignored Fao.
“Good luck trying to get someone else.” Fao said, but his voice cracked and the coughing started again, undermining him. He could feel the wheeze in his chest, the tightness across his ribs and the lingering pain under his sternum. The coughing itself made him feel dizzy, and he pressed his lips together.
"Yeah, no. You're not alright." Harrison moved to support Fao, his arm wrapped around the other man. "Come on, before you end up collapsing."
Fao groaned, leaning into Harrison as the room lurched and his legs gave out from under him.
"You fucker." Harrison swore, shifting to pick Fao up. "Someone get the doors, please! We're going to resus."
People made space for them, concerned muttering as the resus doors were opened. Jamie, who had appeared not long after Hars originally called for him, found an empty bay, calling the doctor into it.
"Right then, we all know Fao. Just collapsed, shortness of breath, multiple previous spontaneous pneumos. He decompensates very quickly. I need full obs on him please, and if someone can get the X-ray, that would be great." Harrison called to their team, moving to listen to Fao's chest.
Fao came round quickly, batting at Harrison’s hands on him. “Piss off.” He grumbled.
"Yeah, lovely. How long has your chest been fucked?"
“Since I was 17?” He tried, but the cough that followed didn’t help him out.
"Faolan. Don't be a dickhead."
“Ooh, full name.” He teased weakly. “I’ve had some shitty cold since last week an’ I can’t shift the cough.”
"How long have you been wheezing for? Bringing anything up?"
“Last few days? Mostly dry.”
"Have you bothered to take your inhaler?"
Fao shot him a look. “You have to ask?”
"If Sheila doesn't kill you, I'm going to."
He rolled his eyes, turning to cough. “It’s fine, ’m fine.”
One of the nurses huffed. “Fao, can you stop fidgeting so we can get some obs? Please?”
“I’m fine, honestly. All a fuss about nothing.” He protested.
Harrison could have smacked him. He returned to Fao's side, face like thunder. "Fao, I swear to god. When you collapse on me again, you lose the right to complain. Lie still and let us do what we have to do. You look like shit, the obs we've got have been shit, and let me guess, you feel like shit."
“I jus’ went a little faint, it happens.” He protested. “I’ll be fine.”
He glared at him. "So your sats are supposed to be in the eighties?"
Fao hesitated. “Eighties?”
"You're sitting 89."
“Oh. Deep breaths, then.”
"And oxygen. You need some nebs."
“It’s probably jus’ postural, let me sit up and I’ll be better.”
Harrison didn't bother replying, but let the nurse by his bed adjust Fao to sit up. "Can someone get me five of salbutamol and five hundred ipratropium? We'll get a litre of normal saline running, start him on a broad spectrum abx, when we get bloods back, they can change it. Have we got the ecg done? Ah, brill."
He took a moment to read over Fao's strip. "You got any chest pain? Any palpitations? How have they been the past few days?"
Fao went to answer, but quickly changed his mind as he saw Harrison’s face. "It's been a bit tight but it’s not been awful. Nothing close to what it used to be. Thought it was just the infection. Is it that bad?"
"It doesn't look like you're having a heart attack or anything, but you've got a few runs of AF I'm not too happy with." He admitted. "Nothing I'm going to run off to cardio with you for, but enough that I want you to stay on monitoring for a little bit. Chances are, it's just the infection. We'll get that sorted, and you'll be better."
Fao nodded. “I hope I’m not having a fucking heart attack.” He grumbled. “I’ve really not felt that awful, I swear.” If Harrison was worried about his ECG, then maybe things were serious. Ely was going to kill him.
"Can we get some IV hydrocortisone too? And a gram of IVP, help with this pain, settle the temp too, hopefully." Harrison called to his team, taking stock of his observations again. He listened to Fao's chest again, and nodded. There was a slight improvement to the wheeze, but it only highlighted the crackles. God knows how long he’d had this infection brewing.
Happy things were moving in the right direction, and that the staff were sorting the things he'd requested, he pulled the chair closer to Fao's side. "Hey, sorry for being a bit pushy."
"A bit?" He managed a laugh. “Try a lot.”
"Don't be an arse." Harrison said, reaching for Fao’s hand and giving it a squeeze. "You really aren't very well at the minute. I bet this has been going on for longer than you're gonna admit, but it's gonna get sorted.
"I know you know the medical side of things more than most of my patients, but sometimes that makes it harder for you, too." He sighed. "Right now? I think you've got a pretty nasty infection that's more than likely this cough you've got going on. Your lactate is pretty high right now, obviously your oxygen is a fair bit lower than we want, and your heart rate is fast. Part of the rate will be the nebs we're slamming into you, but at the same time, I think you're septic.
"We're gonna keep you here, try get this wheeze sorted first and then send you down to x-ray. You've got good air entry, I'm not too worried that you've got a pneumo or anything, but with your history, I want to be safe. We'll try and get your pain under a bit more control, get you more comfortable, but I need you to tell me. We're not mind readers, although I can tell when you're bullshitting me." He squeezed his hand again. "Is there anything you want from me? Anything you want me to do? Do you want me to call Ely? Sheila?"
“Sorry, septic?” He asked, taking a moment to take in all Harrison had told him. He felt bad, sure, but he’d been convinced it was nothing more that a chest infection he was struggling to shift, a bit of a wheeze that would go in time, a nice hangover from all of his history. He’d not been expecting Harrison to be that worried. He definitely felt crap, and Hars was right, the nebs weren’t helping his heart rate to feel any better. “It doesn’t feel like a pneumo, it just feels shitty.” He admitted. “You should call both of them. I’m not going to be able to escape without an admission, am I? Have you sorted another gensurg consult for that patient of yours? I think the bleep is still in my pocket.”
"The other patient is doing a lot better than you currently are. I'll be honest, right now, I'm doing my best to keep you from HDU." He sighed, breaking from his doctor mode. "You've really not been well, Fao. Why didn't you tell someone? You've been running after the kids like a maniac, too. They'd have got someone in to cover you, take some of the pressure off. You need to put yourself first, or at least higher up on the chain."
“You can piss off with HDU.” He told him, digging in his pockets for the hard plastic of his bleep, which he shoved at Hars. “I honestly don’t have time to be ill. I took a couple of days off last week when I felt rotten, got some rest, but then I needed to come back in. I’ve not been sniffly, just the cough, and I can manage that. Not smoked in a week. The kids have so much on, and unsurprisingly they’ve not been well either. Been doing more non clinical hours, but we’re a surgeon down today and I had no other choice.”
"Well excuse me for giving a shit about you." He retorted. "You're my best friend, I need you to be okay."
“I’ll be fine. Supposed to be picking the kids up, though.”
"Tai's off today, he'll pick them up."
“Thanks. Ely’s on nights and she can’t get them picked up and sorted before she needs to come in.” He mumbled. “Sorry I fainted on you.”
"They can come have a sleepover. It's not a problem." He dropped his gaze. "I really can't lose you, Fao. I need you, and that means you need to put yourself first."
Fao cleared his throat, pushing at Hars gently. “Shush. You’re not getting rid of me.”
"I'm not that shit of a cons."
“Oh, course not.”
Harrison smiled. "How's everything feeling now?"
“Bit better.” He admitted.
"Can I have a listen?"
Fao nodded. “Mm, go on.”
"Thanks." He hummed, standing with a groan. He listened to Fao's chest again, taking a moment. "Good news or bad news?"
Once Harrison had finished, Fao shuffled to get comfortable again. “Bad first.”
"The infection sounds like shit."
“And the good news?” He tried, looking hopeful.
"Your wheeze has pretty much gone, you've got really good air entry - especially for your chest, I'm surprised. And your blood pressure is doing a lot better."
Fao grinned. “So no HDU?”
"We'll move you to monitoring in a bit, too. I want to keep an eye on your lactate, but it’s looking hopeful."
“Good.” He said, and after a minute. “Thank you.”
"You're welcome." Harrison returned his grin. "Even if you do make my life difficult."
“I know it’s clinically a bad picture…” He murmured. “But I’ve felt worse than this.”
"That's not something to be proud of."
“No, it’s… I honestly didn’t think it was this bad. Almost felt worse wit’ the cold?”
"I know, it's okay."
“Didn’t know the AF was bad.”
"I've seen it worse. It's probably just because of the infection, the nebs, all of that. They're not long runs, and they're not super fast, nowhere near where they have been."
Fao nodded. “Haven’t really noticed it, an’ I usually do. Haven’t been bothered for ages, cardio told me to piss off.”
"Course they did." He rolled his eyes. "Honestly, I'm not surprised you didn't. Your body was busy compensating for everything else."
He nodded again. “Yeah. Sorry. Is Finn in?”
"Should be soon. Sheila should be dropping him off, actually." He grinned. "Rock, paper, scissors for who has to call her?"
“You can. I can’t possibly. Too ill.” He said, gesturing at himself.
"Dickhead. I'm glad you're feeling better."
He coughed, but he was grinning. “Had a good doctor.”
"I'll take the compliment. Let me go ring Sheila first, and then I'll catch Ely up, yeah?"
“Tell them both I’m fine, yeah?”
"I will."
“Hug?” He asked, trying his luck.
"Yeah, come here." He leaned over, pressing a quick kiss to his cheek before giving him a gentle squeeze.
Awkwardly Fao lifted his arms to wrap them around Hars. “Thank you.”
"I'm always gonna be here for you."
“Here to kick my ass, more like.”
"Sometimes you need that, too."
#mediwhumpmay#mediwhumpmayday9#mediwhumpmay2023#oxygen#chest infection#sepsis#oc#fic#faolan blackwood#harrison cunningham#whump writing#whump prompts#fao ignoring his health as per#hars doesn't take his bullshit#which is just as well#bc someone has to tell him off#collapse#faint#unwell
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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch: “Live Free or Die Standing”
The basics: When a whistleblower is chased by the drug cartels and a DEA Agent is killed, the team and Talia Del Campo start the search.
Written by: Eric Christian Olsen co-wrote "Mother" in season 11.
Directed by: Daniela Ruah directed "Russia, Russia, Russia", "Lost Soldier Down" and "Pandora's Box".
Guest stars of note: Mercedes Mason returns as DEA Agent Talia Del Campo, last seen in "The Guardian", part one of the three-part season 10 finale/season 11 premiere. And since we're talking about the three-parter, who killed Ellie Simms? Duncan Campbell as NCIS Special Agent Castor, back from “Hard for the Money”. Brian Leigh Smith was Bomb Tech Aaron Roberts, a role he played in “Mother” but he also appeared as a police officer in "Overwatch" and was a wingman in "The Bear" season 12 premiere. Rick Pasqualone as Martin Henderson, Goya Robles as Miguel Flores, Dan Gauthier as Carlyle Huntington, Larry Herron as DEA Agent David Ramirez, Carolina Gutierrez as Emma Ruiz, Alicia Urizar as Isabella Cruz, Pam Trotter as Loretta Dawson/Desk Clerk and Sheila Wills as Thelma.
Our heroes: Try to save a marked man.
What important things did we learn about:
Callen: Not here.
Sam: Teamed with both Fatima and Rountree during different parts of the episode.
Kensi: Teases Deeks about a mancave.
Deeks: Looking to spend their money on a welcome to the family package for Rosa or Pilar.
Fatima: Tackling gun runners.
Rountree: Never saw “Top Gun” but knows Goose dies.
Kilbride: Filled with righteous indignation.
What not so important things did we learn about:
Callen: Absent.
Sam: 15-minutes early or you’re late.
Kensi: Likes the mindful breakfast.
Deeks: Jacks down a breakfast man-shake like a Neanderthal.
Fatima: Etsy fan.
Rountree: Man-shake fan, too.
Kilbride: Voted red since Coolidge and has lots of guns.
Where in the world is Henrietta Lange? Who knows but she should check in soon – Eric Beale is mailing out checks.
Who's down with OTP: Kensi and Deeks were great if a little forced.
Who's down with BrOTP: Not Talia and Rountree. Those scenes were not great.
Fashion review: Sam is wearing a long-sleeve black tee-shirt has he has for a lot of episodes this season. Kensi is wearing her white sweater with the thin blue stripes. For Deeks, a royal blue henley. Fatima has a multi-color quarter zip zipped all the way up under a dark blue jacket. A long-sleeve green tee for Rountree. The Admiral is in a dark blue suit, white dress-shirt and an aquamarine tie.
Music: No.
Any notable cut scene: One. In the retirement home, Rountree and Talia are going to speak to a Wayne Brown. Brown bought several weapons. Banging on his door and not getting a response, Rountree wonders if Brown is at the gun range. Talia shoots back debating if he’s “tossing his hot dog down the hallway.” Rountree thinks Talia is an HR nightmare. As a diligent federal agent, Talia thinks they should be checking to see if Brown is “shampooing the Wookie.” Brown’s nurse brings the sleeping man to his apartment in a wheelchair. He’s sound asleep. Calling Rountree “Rounbush”, Talia thinks Brown can only butter his own buns.
Quote: Anything from an angry Admiral in this episode. From interrogation with Huntington, to yelling at the team to save Henderson to cursing at the gods for the system’s decision to bury Henderson’s video – this was a great episode for the Admiral and Gerald McRaney.
Anything else: A shootout is happening in the dark. Two men are running upstairs. One says “Please God help us.” They make their way to the roof of the building. With just a chair to barricade the door, one man, armed and who looks like law enforcement says he’ll watch the door. The other man goes down the fire escape to get away from the shooters. Before he starts down, the man at the door says “Don’t trust anybody. They’ve got people everywhere.”
With the fellow climbing down the fire escape, the man at the door tries to reposition himself. He’s been shot. Gun drawn, he waits for what’s on the other side of the door.
As the other man gets to the street, he pulls out his cellphone and tries to get it to work. Before he can, the headless body of the man barricading the door lands at his feet. The people in the street start screaming and running. The survivor is covered with blood spatter.
At 7:58AM, Kensi and Deeks arrive at the office. They are greeted by Sam’s “It’s about time.” Deeks points out they are actually two minutes early to work. That makes them 13-minutes late is Sam’s world. Deeks likes being early too but Kensi has the “clock management skills of a tree sloth.” Kensi likes a mindful breakfast while Deeks inhales a “man-shake” like a Neanderthal.
Looking at an envelope on his desk, Deeks thinks it is a Dear John letter from Eric Beale. Sam and Kensi both have an envelope as well. There are instructions on the envelope that nobody should open theirs until everyone is present. Sam says “we” have been waiting for Kensi and Deeks to arrive. Deeks asks who is we? We includes Rountree at his desk, drinking his own man-shake. Inspector Deeks just learns about the desks by the old wardrobe.
Sam, Kensi, Deeks and Rountree open their envelopes to find a $10,000 check for each of them. Eric writes that in Silicon Valley, success is confused with happiness. Eric is sharing some of his success with his friends and hope it makes them happy. Deeks thinks Eric was inspired by Gibbs (great call-out show). There is also a $10,000 check to each of the team member’s favorite charities. Eric’s only stipulation is that the gift has to be spent – no putting it in the bank.
Rountree finds Eric to be a modern-day Robin Hood. Only if the Sheriff of Nottingham is riding on a Segway talking Klingon Sam adds. Deeks would strap on some green tights and be Eric’s Merry Man for $10,000. The Admiral makes a note of that offer and adds it to the growing list of things he can’t unsee now that he’s with OSP. They have a case. Deeks asks if the Admiral got a check. He did. And he’s ordering noise-canceling headphones and soundproof glass for his office. Deeks giggles all the way to Ops.
In Ops, Deeks tells Fatima to check her desk. She already has and has been “doom scrolling” on Etsy until she heard from a very special guest. Talia Del Campo pops up on the big screen – she’s on a plane and opens with “Welcome Avengers.” She wishes she was there to give everyone extra gluten muffins and Deeks a long and inappropriate hug. That gets a “Yes please” from Deeks and laughs from everyone else.
All was well with Talia until 24-hours ago when the DEA lost contact with one of their agents who was on a protection detail with a cartel whistleblower. The DEA Agent was the man barricading the door – David Ramirez. There are some really terrible headless photos on the big screen – don’t do that show. Sam offers condolences. Worried about the whistleblower, Talia turns the briefing over the Fatima.
The missing man is Martin Henderson, a 20-year Navy veteran who retired to work in sales and distribution for a firearms manufacturer. Henderson found that straw buyers were being used to make weapons sales and those weapons were being shipped to the cartels in Mexico. Mexico has one legal gun shop in the whole country and they sell about 10,000 guns a year. These straw purchases are moving 250,000 guns illegally into Mexico each year.
Fatima asks her little “Norwegian Weasel” if he has any guesses why there isn’t a crackdown on this. He doesn’t have an answer. Since nobody wants American guns in the hands of Mexican criminals, the Mexican government is trying to crackdown by suing the gun manufacturers the way the parents in Sandy Hook did. Martin Henderson was supposed to testify about the gun sales. Talia expects to arrive in 30-minutes. She has two addresses for the team to check out. With the clock ticking, Sam knows there will be six different body bags for Henderson if the cartels find him first.
As Deeks drives, he is looking for an update from Fatima. Henderson has not contacted his family or the DEA. The addresses Talia sent was the only leads. One is connected to Carlyle Huntington, Henderson’s boss. Fatima sends a photo that Kensi considers a “hard swipe right”. Huntington has a clean record and a lot of money with homes in LA, Manhattan, ranch house in New Mexico and a penthouse in Mexico City. Kaleidoscope caught him entering a restaurant called La Bocca Felice, which impresses Deeks. Sam and Rountree are on their way.
Feeling he lost a bet, Deeks asks why are they going to Lancaster. There is an address that is the last thing Henderson sent out before disappearing. The address is a large ranch house being remodeled. Sam is worried – nobody knows what is in Lancaster so he wants Kensi and Deeks to be careful.
During the drive to Lancaster, Deeks asks Kensi if she has any idea what they should do with their $20,000. Kensi thinks put it back in the house. Make the garage a staycation paradise, maybe get a pool table. Deeks is intrigued. Get a flat screen TV, a minifridge and a golden shark. Deeks laughs and calls her cruel and heartless. Kensi laughs at how the joy in his eyes all melted away. Deeks is offended she’d use his golden shark to trick him. He’d also like to know what are they going to do with the money – “for real.”
Since they’ve been busy and it only just happened, Kensi doesn’t really have plans. Deeks does. He’s thinking satellite phone, iPad, monogramed towels. Kensi says they have all those things. They do but maybe for Pilar or Rosa. Deeks has been reading and part of adopting a teen from another country after making them feel safe and loved is giving them the opportunity to stay in contact with their extended family. Kensi loves Deeks and thinks it is so thoughtful. But since she brought up the golden shark, why not a pinball machine?
Blowing right past the parking valet, Sam and Rountree walk into La Bocca Felice. Huntington is having a meal with a female friend. As Sam and Rountree go to Huntington, two bodyguards try to stop them. They are not good bodyguards – they are in handcuffs in short order.
Walking up to the table, Sam notices Huntington is drinking an expresso martini at 10AM. “Well, I don’t do coke anymore.” He also denies that the bodyguards were with him – he’s never seen them before. With his date leaving early, Huntington is willing to talk to Sam and see “how poorly our tax dollars are spent.”
On the phone, the Admiral is exasperated. Nobody got Henderson’s testimony in writing. Anything would be better than nothing and the way things are going, they have nothing.
Kensi and Deeks pull up to a house under construction in his truck. Deeks has been watching the show. He can’t understand why they say “federal agents” since everyone either runs away or starts shooting. God bless you Martin A. Deeks. He thinks they should yell Jonas Brothers and honestly, I’m, not 100% on board for that. Kensi still says “federal agents” as they kick in the door. The house is empty but under construction.
Fatima calls. There is video of Kensi and Deeks getting out of the truck and going into the house. NCIS’s threat management team picked it up on the internet. They’re being watched. Since they’re in “frickin’ Egypt” there is no time for back-up. Kensi asks could the footage be from a hacked surveillance camera. She and Deeks hid near the windows, gun drawn. Fatima can see them in the house in the video. They are right outside of the house. Deeks finds this all a bummer, he didn’t plan on bleeding today. Kensi thinks the $10,000 shouldn’t go to hospital bills. Going outside, everyone is gone. All the construction workers are gone but their trucks and equipment are still there. They wanted Kensi and Deeks to know they were being watched.
In interrogation, Sam finds it interesting that Huntington didn’t ask why he was being brought in. Huntington isn’t interested in acting oblivious. He knows Henderson is missing. Sam asks for a reason Henderson would be missing and Huntington snarks about a second family. He knows about Henderson working the DEA and NCIS dropping by his “brunch with benefits” confirms that. Huntington finds it odd that Henderson’s ex-wife and daughters haven’t approached him. He has contacts all over the world and they didn’t ask for help. They didn’t ask for help because Henderson is working against him. Selling guns and ammo isn’t for everyone. Henderson obviously became “allergic” to his great salary and hefty 401K.
Pushing back, Sam thinks Henderson learned about the straw buyers. Saying his company is bulletproof (pun intended), Huntington invites NCIS to get a warrant and look thought all of his paperwork, they haven’t broken a single law. The ATF is in Huntington’s offices right now looking around. They aren’t going to find anything. Huntington does tell Sam and Rountree that the two bodyguards at the restaurant really weren’t working for him. Now, if someone really believes that guns purchased from Huntington’s company are smuggled into Mexico, the cartels have a good reason to keep Huntington safe. Leaving interrogation, Rountree tells Huntington that he doesn’t like him. Huntington tells him the night is still young.
In the main room, the Admiral doesn’t like Huntington either. Fatima pops up on the plasma, she has over 100 gun purchases coming from a single address with the names of multiple buyers. Talia has arrived and is looking for “a wingman to be her Goose.” Rountree asks “who’s Goose” and it is hard to tell who is more offended, Sam or the Admiral. Sam can’t believe Rountree never saw “Top Gun”. “Of course he hasn’t, unless it’s in 30-second clips on TikTok or they’ve made it with vampires.” Rountree gets to work with Talia today while the Admiral tries to work on Huntington. As he leaves, Sam tells Rountree that Goose dies in “Top Gun”. Rountree is not pleased. The Admiral is going after Huntington.
Walking into interrogation, the Admiral is greeted by Huntington with an AARP joke or “Bring Grandpa to work day.” The Admiral admits he’s 74 (when the episode was filmed, so was Gerald McRaney). He should be living on a beach in Costa Rica, reading a cheap spy novel and drinking an expensive single malt. Instead, he’s in LA. He goes on a long tirade about LA types.
Moving to the wrong side of the table, the Admiral needs a name of someone who can find Henderson. Huntington replies “Keyser Soze.” That gets a chuckle from the Admiral for being clever but look where clever got him. Huntington thinks clever got him a lunch date with a woman half his age and twice as hot.
Getting serious, the Admiral explains that if Henderson is caught by the cartels, he’s getting a Columbian necktie and the Admiral goes into great detail on how that happens. Touching the Admiral’s suit, Huntington asks if that would be considered business causal. The 74-year old Admiral takes Huntington’s hand, turns his wrist and has him face down on the edge of the table. Asking one more time, the Admiral wants a name. Huntington blurts out “Miguel Flores”. As the Admiral leaves, Huntington said he didn’t see Kilbride as a “smug, anti-gun snowflake”. He’s not – he’s voted red since Coolidge and he’s got more guns than Huntington has empty bottles of Viagra. This is about choosing financial gain over human decency.
In the main room, Sam is impressed. The Admiral admits having not made a move like that since BUD/S. Fatima is back on the plasma. Miguel Flores is an immigrant who became a US citizen after spending 10-years in the Navy. Now, Flores crosses the border daily with handipainted tiles. Fatima can’t find a brick and mortar address for Flores but he has a boat near Sam’s and two expensive vehicles – a Raptor and a Ducati.
As Sam is about to go to the boat alone, the Admiral reminds him they work in teams. Fatima is out of Ops and working with Sam. The Admiral wants blood, answers or both. He’d really like both.
Clearing the perimeter of the house, Kensi arrives at the home’s garage where there are three additional locks. Deeks finally gets in by doing a crane kick and they find the expensive Raptor with handmade Mexican tile.
Screeching to a stop, Talia jumps out of her Honda and apologizes for being late. She makes several In-n-Out jokes and Rountree isn’t there for it. Approaching the front desk of this retirement home, Talia introduces herself and Agent Squaretree. When Rountree corrects her, the two bicker and the desk clerk is not amused. Fatima wants a list of residents, some have purchased over 100 guns. The clerk gladly turns it over with a warning that if they are going to talk to anyone, knock hard. It was water aerobics day and after 10AM, that place becomes frisky. Rountree could have lived without that image. As Rountree and Fatima walk up the stairs to find the residents, a younger woman – obviously not a resident – walks down.
Exiting his car, Sam talks about spending the $10,000 as an extension of your happiness. Sam would take a family vacation, maybe help Kam with a car down payment. Fatima asks as a millennial, should she stop buying useless items from Etsy. Depends, Sam tells her. “Do they spark joy?” Coming across the Ducati, Sam asks for Miguel Flores, who is working on his boat. Sam goes “federal agent” and really should have gone Jonas brother. Flores takes off. Sam chases while Fatima goes around. When Flores goes where Fatima stationed herself, she blocks him into the water.
After examining the truck, Kensi finds it squeaky clean. Thinking that moving Mexican tile doesn’t pay for expensive trucks and a fancy motorcycle, Deeks uses a broomstick to try to get into a strange spot in the ceiling. Deeks is a fan of the home repair shows and Zillow porn surfing. Climbing into the overhead, Deeks is walking around when he finds a dead body when he falls through the ceiling.
In handcuffs, Flores says he doesn’t live in the house. He just drives the tiles back and forth. Fatima promises NCIS can help him but he thinks he’s dead man walking. His family – mom, dad, two little brothers – all depend on him for money. If the cartels learn he’s talking to NCIS, the family will be killed.
A woman named Thelma invites Talia and ”Agent Rounleaf” into her apartment. They think Thelma is a straw buyer but she has guns. They are old fashion rifles. Thelma hasn’t bought any of the guns no the list. When asked about her ID, Thelma tells them there was a robbery in the building so the front office keeps the IDs safe. The desk clerk collected the IDs. When Talia and Rountree go back to see the desk clerk, her throat was cut.
In the boat shed, Huntington’s lawyer arrived. She tells the Admiral that Huntington is returning to New Mexico on a six o’clock private flight so she wants to wrap things up.
The bomb squad checked out the house. No bombs. The bad news is their sub-surface tech found something in the walls of the house. While Kensi is asking how they can look into the walls, Deeks just busts one up. There are guns all through the walls.
In an NCIS-style Zoom call with the faces on the plasma, Talia and Rountree matched the out of state IDs with the purchases of the guns. The desk clerk was the straw buyer. Lawyer Deeks says even if they can connected the guns and Loretta to the cartels, that doesn’t give them anything against Huntington’s company. Sam doesn’t want to get caught in the weeds – Henderson can make all those connections when they find him. They have to get either Huntington or Flores to flip. The Admiral will start with Huntington.
With his lawyer in interrogation, Huntington waits. When the Admiral walks in and tells him he can go but not before calling him a few names. More than a few. The lawyer doesn’t thinks they have to listen to the Admiral. Huntington gets off a few shots at the “Captain”. Saying that the country was born in genocide and hasn’t had a good war since the Great War. When Huntington finishes, the Admiral says he was a solider who fought for Huntington’s right to be a jackass.
Huntington continue to talk about soldiers fighting because big business wants them to. The Admiral calls Huntington a war profiteer who can sleep at night because of the distanced between him and the bodies his weapons killed. Huntington replies about drones killing children and calling it diplomacy. When the Admiral talks about a particular atrocity committed by the cartels, Huntington says that means there are less mouths to feed. “Does your dead mother in heave know what you’ve become?”
Standing, Huntington’s lawyer wants them to go. The Admiral talks about Huntington’s mother, a church secretary and a middle school teacher. She made people’s lives better and is crying in heaven because “what you are is an abomination.” Huntington breaks – he could tell every the Admiral every straw buyer, every cartel person who gets a gun but nothing will happen because of the corrupt lawyers and lobbyists and judges. Pointing to his lawyer, Huntington says he didn’t hire her, the cartels did to keep the system safe. She pulls out a pen and asks him to get up and go. When Huntington is about to give up Henderson’s location, the lawyer stabs Huntington in the neck with the pen. Huntington is dying. While tending to Huntington, the Admiral calls for Castor to arrest the lawyer. Huntington is foaming at the mouth – there was poison on the pen.
Stopping LAPD before Flores is put into the back of a black and white, Sam begs Flores to help them. Fatima says NCIS is ready to get his family from Mexico and bring them to the US, granting them asylum. Flores turns them down. His family will be dead before the agents get there. Sam understands that the cartel helped him get to the Navy, get dual citizenship. With the power to save a man’s life, Flores can strike down the monsters who own him and his family. Flores asks for his phone. Sam says the right thing to do and the hardest thing to do are the same thing. Flores finds out Henderson was found – he’s in a warehouse in Culver City.
Sam and Fatima are five-minutes out from the warehouse. If he survives with a speeding Talia, Rountree things he’s seven-minutes out. The Culver City PD is ten-minutes out and the building is on fire. Sam and Fatima do not have full face respirators to go into the fire – budget cuts. Fatima found something to buy with her $10,000. Rountree and Talia have them. The Admiral orders, “Sam, save this man.”
As they get to the warehouse, Sam and Fatima are immediately under fire. The Hellcat and the gunmen get shot up. Taking some deep breaths, Sam runs into the fire. In the warehouse is the woman Rountree and Talia passed at the retirement home. She’s shooting at Sam while everything is on fire. Sam follows her. In the middle of the warehouse with flames around him, Sam finds Henderson covered in his own blood.
As the woman who Sam was chasing before finding Henderson is about to flee, she is stopped by Talia. Talia warns her to drop the gun. The woman would “rather die standing.” Talia tells her to shut up and drop the gun. The woman asks if Talia believes in the devil. Talia does. When the woman brings her arm up to shoot Talia, Talia shoots her on the spot. “Tell him I say hello.” The woman tries to take Talia out before dying. She is killed.
Sam runs out of the burning building with a dying Henderson in a fireman’s hold. Getting into the ambulance, Sam tells the EMTs that Henderson must live. Rountree sees Henderson was holding onto his phone. Looking at the phone, he sees that Henderson was recording. Asked what to do with it, Rountree is told by Fatima to send it to the office and hope it was worth the lives of two good men.
The Admiral is arguing with someone on the phone because while the video can’t be used as testimony it could be used for probative value. The Admiral gets a text – Henderson died going to the hospital. Livid, the Admiral says he will bury the video. Kensi and Deeks arrive and the Admiral is screaming in frustration in his office. Deeks notes the soundproof glass has not arrived. The Admiral marches to Ops, telling Kensi and Deeks they weren’t in the office, they saw nothing. Deeks thinks murders often make that statement.
Kensi is willing to spend her $10,000 to buy a time machine so they can go back. They can do this case again only smarter, faster, so Henderson survives. Deeks wouldn’t mind not riding the “corpse coaster” from the ceiling. Kensi’s phone buzzes, so does Deeks. A blocked number sends a message to over 200 NCIS staffers. Putting it up on the bullpen’s plasma, it is Henderson’s video. The guns were marketed to Mexican cartels using quotes of Mexican heroes on the guns slides. Everyone knew they were sold to straw buyers. Henderson said he can’t look another atrocity committed by the cartels and know that he played a role in this – he didn’t want to be a whistleblower but now he is.
Kensi and Deeks watch from the bullpen. Rountree watches with Talia in the warehouse parking lot. Sam is watching in the ambulance with Henderson’s body. In the video, Henderson talks about being the father of two beautiful girls, spending 20-years with the Navy defending his country and 10-years selling his soul. He knew what he was doing was wrong. It ate away at his soul. “Speak the truth and the dawn will come.” He says goodbye to his daughters and is shot. “I love you so much.” The woman Talia shot kills him, complete with the line about believing in the devil.
Kensi and Deeks looks up and sees Kilbride at the top of the stairs. They all know what he did.
What head canon can be formed from here: This should have been a better episode. Parts of it – where they weren’t overdoing the comedy, were terrific. The goofy physical humor with Deeks, the bad behaving Talia to Rountree – who has done nothing to earn her dismissive attitude – was all just a bit too much. It works so hard against the amazing work in the dramatic scenes.
Based on the show’s history, wouldn’t Kensi inhale a shake for breakfast while Deeks have a mindful morning meal?
For those wondering, a gift of $10,000 is not a taxable event and will not trigger an audit. That number has gone up recently but $10,000 is the commonly thought threshold. Eric talked to a good tax lawyer.
Episode number: Episode 299 overall, the 19th episode of season 13.
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Shameless writers made Sheila into the shittiest, most awful mother by getting rid of Karen. Like you're just gonna let your UNDERAGE, RECENTLY BRAIN DAMAGED daughter leave for wherever with her sexual abuser*, almost twice her age, unstable, sex addict, piece of shit husband, with the baby she didn't want (nevermind that you thought he shouldn't be around the baby like an episode ago idk I don't get what happened there) not even returning the favor for her caring for you when you couldn't go outside due to your mental health???? AFTER you apologized for all you did before???? I get Sheila is supposed to be kind of naive as a character but as a mother you can't afford to be THIS DENSE. Where's the change that makes the apology meaningful??? Nowhere: shittiest mother, outright stupid.
*(this is a whole other fucking thing, he TOLD a bunch of doctors and nurses and staff or whatever that he went down on her as she was unconscious under THEIR care and no one did anything?? Call the cops?? I just can't believe no one thought it was weird to go down on a girl on a COMA. Hello??????? Assuming they told her mother... HOPEFULLY????? I just can't think anything nice of Sheila. At all.)
#she's like... dumb as a brick#and not in a good way#and then she goes and tells debbie 'my daughter's a mean girl' as if you're both angsty teenagers insulting each other in the school yard#YOUR HER MOTHERRRRRR#YOU!!! ARE!!! HER!! MOTHER!!!!!!!!!#AND YOU CHOSE A BABY OVER HER!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCKKKKKK????????#shella went from being on the top of characters i like to down under#sheila*#i think i got it off my chest uff#shameless#text post
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Celebrating a UHS Student Employee’s Graduation and Journey at University Health Services
Braydon Demasters, a longtime student employee at University Health Services (UHS), graduated on May 11 with a bachelor's of science degree in biology after serving in various roles at UHS for two years.
Demasters joined UHS in the summer of 2022 as the Patient Education Management intern through the Texas Leadership Education and Development (Texas LEAD) summer internship program.
“During my first internship role at UHS, I worked under Sheila Mahon in the Gynecology clinic,” Demasters said. “In that role, I went through all of the patient handouts and paperwork so that I could update the content when needed. This served as a really good introduction into all that University Health Services offered.”
Demasters said he worked in the UHS administrative office, where he began building strong professional relationships with the staff. As his summer internship was coming to a close, the administrative team recognized his potential and offered him a position as a student assistant, allowing him to continue his journey with UHS.
“I was thrilled to be invited to stay on,” Demasters said. “I worked as a student assistant for my entire junior year and I really enjoyed all of the people I was working with.”
In the summer of 2023, Demasters worked with Renee Mathews, Director of Nursing Services at UHS, to create the Accreditation Optimization internship role.
“We had just gone through the accreditation renewal process with Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care,” Demasters explained, “so I was given the task of organizing and categorizing all of the feedback we had received from that process.”
Renee Mathews was one of Demaster’s supervisors while he was in the Accreditation Optimization internship role. She said from the start she knew he was going to be able to handle whatever they threw at him.
“We learned pretty early on how capable he is,” Mathews said. “He is able to capture what we need quickly and eloquently and he has remarkable attention to detail which helps his ability to handle high-level work.”
After Demasters finished up his second summer internship, he returned to his role as student assistant to the UHS administrative staff.
“By this point, I was gaining more confidence in my work and was able to take more initiative,” Demasters said. “It was nice to collaborate with other areas in UHS to help in whatever ways I could.”
Despite taking on various roles during his time at UHS, Demasters said that the experience has given him an immense appreciation for the exceptional level of care provided by the UHS team, from the providers to the nurses and the support staff.
“Before my time at UHS, I didn’t realize the huge amount of work it takes to serve the student body at UT in this capacity,” Demasters said. “But I noticed very early on the amount of dedication that the folks at UHS have.”
Demasters said he has always encouraged others to be proactive about their health, but since his involvement at UHS, this commitment has become even more of a priority.
“Being a student at such a large institution can sometimes make you feel detached and like you are just a number,” Demasters said, “but the people at UHS are truly willing to give you a very personalized experience. It has been so rewarding to have this experience and to witness the amount of work and care UHS puts into their jobs. They want students to be able to feel their best and do their best, and it is amazing to see.”
Mathews said she enjoys having students in the office so they can learn, grow and develop new skills.
“Students are always willing to take on a project and devote their time to it,” Mathews said. “I do love to watch them grow. We work so closely with them so we are able to see their interactions improve in a professional setting on top of all the knowledge they are getting from doing their day-to-day tasks.”
Demasters said he plans to take a gap year after graduation, but knows he wants to pursue a career in optometry.
“This job has helped me solidify my love of working with patients and helping them advocate for their healthcare,” Demasters said. “I know the skills and things I have learned while working here will follow me into the future and one day into my career.”
-Erin Garcia, Healthyhorns Outreach and Social Media Coordinator
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THE FACE IS FAMILIAR… BUT I CAN’T PLACE THE NAME!
Same Actor / Different Character ~ Part 3: “Here's Lucy"
It used to be quite common for actors to be cast in multiple roles on the same series. Not in principal parts, certainly, but in supporting and minor characters. Lucycoms were no exception. Although the world created by these shows was representative of reality, the characters who populated them often gave viewers Deja vu. By the time "Here's Lucy" premiered in 1968, Lucille Ball had developed a repertory company of actors that she used time and time again.
For the purposes of this discussion, we won't include background performers (aka extras) as they were nearly always drawn from the same pool of actors. Also, those who played multiple characters need to have at least one of them identified by name.
MARY WICKES
Lucille Ball's good friend tops the list of actors who played multiple roles, with seven characters in nine appearances. When the series premiered, she played a secretary friend of Lucy Carter's named Isabel in two episodes. Perhaps there was no room for Isabel, so she disappeared, but Wickes did not! Due to the fact that she played a nurse in her breakout role in The Man Who Came to Dinner (both stage and screen), she also played several nurses. She even showed up as Lucy's sister-in-law, a nun, another type that she was often cast as in films. In addition, she was a maid to an eccentric dowager, a Montana matriarch, and a nosy neighbor.
JACK COLLINS
Collins' six appearances span from season one in 1968 to the series finale in 1974. He played secret agent Johnson, expectant father Mr. Phillips, Vincent Price's producer Curt, Harry's eye optometrist Dr. Proctor, Harry's accountant Arthur Collins, and Harvey Stevens, proprietor of Harvey's Welcome Inn. Perhaps Collins is best compared to versatile actor Charles Lane on "I Love Lucy"?
CAROLE COOK
Lucy's protege is back with more interesting characters - five of them, to be exact. She started the series as a wacky woman in Carol Burnett's audience, played crusading neighbor Sheila Casten, bridge club member Lillian Rylander, gangster Ma Parker, and Cynthia Duncan, a Lucille Ball look-alike. Ma Parker was by far Cook's largest and most adventurous role on the series.
IRWIN CHARONE
Charone made five appearances on “The Lucy Show” and an equal number of “Here’s Lucy” episodes. Mr. Garfield of the Nippy Whippy Whipped Cream Company , dog owner Mr. Farnsworth, neighbor Chester P. Franklin, a permit office clerk, and college dean Phillips.
ROY ROBERTS
Roberts made an impact as Mr. Cheever on "The Lucy Show." His first appearance on "Here's Lucy" was as the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy in a two-part season opener filmed on location. He returned as a NASA's Dr. Jensen in "Lucy and the Astronauts" (1971), Warden Maginetti when "Lucy Goes To Prison" (1973), and Dr. Honeycutt when "Lucy is N.G. as an R.N." (1974).
RHODES REASON
Reason was a handsome leading man type who easily played a variety of roles from 1968 to 1973: Bradley Henshaw, Jim Simpson, Sam Toliver, Lieutenant Egan, and Keith Davidson.
ROBERT CARSON
Carson was a busy Canadian-born actor. While he never played supporting roles, he wasn't just an extra either. On "Here's Lucy" he played Martin Philips, Buzzy Brock, Sergeant Lou Holmes, and Officer Hurlow.
ROBERT ALDA
Alda (father of Alan) was best known for originating the role of Sky Masterson on Broadway in Guys and Dolls (1950). He did four episodes of "Here's Lucy," the first as himself, hosting the Secretary Beautiful Contest. The role was originally written for Don Ameche, then re-cast with Ross Martin, before Alda was finally given the part. He got to use his musical theatre skills singing the pageant’s theme. He put his musical skills to use again as Dean Butler in "Lucy, the Co-Ed" (1970). He also sang as Captain MacClay in a two-parter set on a cruise ship to Hawaii.
WALLY COX
Cox had come to the nation's attention as Mr. Peepers. On "Here's Lucy" he played ex-con safecracker Rock Barnett, wimpy Wally Manley, diamond cutter Gustav Vandermeer, and toy tycoon Tommy Tucker.
DORIS SINGLETON
Singleton created the role of Caroline Appleby on “I Love Lucy.” She was slated to appear as Doris, a secretary colleague of Lucy's, on "Here's Lucy," but the role was eliminated after the first episode. She returned, however, for three more appearances, all as secretaries to the stars: Petula Clark's secretary Miss Perkins, Eddie Albert's secretary Patty, and Lucille Ball's secretary Doris, a role modeled after Ball's own secretary Wanda.
WILLIAM LANTEAU
William Lanteau was a theatre actor who was most famous for playing Charlie the Mailman in On Golden Pond. His theatrical background surely helped him disguise himself in his four roles on "Here's Lucy". Unlike past guest actors, he looks significantly different in each one: Mr. Sherwood, a supermarket manager; Mr. Minkle, building superintendent; Spike, Ginger Rogers' secretary; and Edgar St. Vincent Kinkaid, antiques store manager.
DICK PATTERSON
Patterson was seen by Lucille Ball performing on stage and cast on "The Lucy Show." He continued his relationship with the redhead on "Here's Lucy" where he played computer matchmaker Mr. Morton (Ball's real surname), TV host Dick Dunkirk, Joe Namath's football coach Hennessy, and director of Lucy's pickle commercial Steve Thompson.
RETA SHAW
Shaw was a star of stage and screen (big and small) and Lucille Ball enjoyed working with her. This time, in the series' third episode, she played Mabel Ryker, using the same first name she had in The Pajama Game on stage and screen. She played Rita Forrester in "Lucy and The Group Encounter" (1972), and Mrs. Witherspoon, Lucy's prospective new boarder in "Lucy's Tenant" (1973).
LOLA FISHER
Fisher understudied and replaced Julie Andrews on Broadway in the musical My Fair Lady. She was seen as in "Lucy's Working Daughter" (1968), as Mrs. Pomeroy in "Lucy in the Jungle" (1971), and Bunny in "Lucy and the Franchise Fiasco" (1973).
CLIFF NORTON
Norton played Sam the Plumber who's overalls turn up on Richard Burton. He was an undercover detective looking for scalpers in an episode starring O.J. Simpson. Lastly, he got title billing in "Mary Jane's Boyfriend", playing accident prone Walter Butley.
BEN WRIGLEY
Wrigley was a British actor who appeared in My Fair Lady (1964) and Bednobs and Broomsticks (1971). so he was a natural to play butlers to Liberace and Jack Benny. He also played Homer Pomeroy in "Lucy in the Jungle" (1971).
BRUCE GORDON
Gordon was best known for playing gangster Frank Nitti in the Desilu television series "The Untouchables" (1959-63), a role he satirized on "The Lucy Show". He trades on that reputation again as Doc Porter in "Lucy and the Ex-Con" and Rocky in "Dirty Gertie", another organized crime scenario. For a change of pace, he played Grandfather Konstantine Kasos in "Lucy's Wedding Party."
ELLIOTT REID
Reid's work with Lucy goes back to "I Love Lucy". Here he plays three roles: Detective Harvey Gaines, Sammy Davis Jr.'s Director, and the host of Milton Berle's telethon.
PHIL VANDERVOORT
Vandervoort was (briefly) Lucille Ball's son-in-law and Lucy believed in keeping it in the family, casting her children, her husband, and her cousin-in-laws on the series. Vandervoort, a handsome young man, makes only three appearances but each one is made to look dramatically different, perhaps to obscure his leading man good looks. He plays Kim and Craig's musician friend Steve (the most 'normal' of his appearances), computer geek Joe Hackley, and beaded handman Tommy.
BARBARA MORRISON
Morrison returns to play two more imposing and imperious women: Harry's date Lady Agatha Warren, and finicky shopper Mrs. Murdock. With many other members of Lucy's acting company, she turns up as a diner in the series' penultimate episode.
HARRY HICKOX
Hickox was best known for playing anvil salesman Charlie Cowell in the 1962 film The Music Man. He played a drill sergeant on "The Lucy Show". He played three different policemen on “Here’s Lucy.”
BILLY SANDS
Sands played Mr. Larson, Lucy's milkman, in two episodes, but he also played Billy the bookie in a third appearance.
DON CRICHTON
Crichton was a dancer on "The Carol Burnett Show" and also did small roles, just as he did on "Here's Lucy". He danced in the series premiere, and then acted, playing Don in "Lucy, The Conclusion Jumper" (1968), and Steve in "Lucy, The American Mother" (1970).
LEW PARKER
Parker, best known as Marlo Thomas' father on "That Girl", was seen on the very first episode of "Here's Lucy" in 1968 as Mr. Caldwell. He returned in 1971 as Mr. Adams, the manager of an All-Nun Band.
LYLE TALBOT
Talbot, a veteran film actor, played Harry's Lawyer and his best pal from Bullwinkle U, Freddy Fox.
JACK MANNING
Manning played Mr. Walters, the manager of the showroom presenting teen idol Donny Osmond as well as Mr. Hubbell, a ceramics store owner who runs art classes, both during season 5.
RICHARD DEACON
Deacon was one of Desilu's favorites, appearing on "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," "The Mothers-In-Law" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show." For "Here's Lucy" he played unemployment office worker (with show biz aspirations) Harvey Hoople, and Loan Officer Elmer Zellerbach.
ALAN OPPENHEIMER
Oppenheimer played the part of the previously unknown Uncle Herb Hinkley, Lucy's brother. He then turned up as Lucy's doctor, Dr. Matt Parker.
OTHERS WHO 'HIT A DOUBLE'
Robert L. Stevens (River Guide / Alan Stevens)
James Brodhead (Tilford / Mr. Miller)
Mike Howden (Ski Instructor / Flight Attendant)
Ivor Barry (Producer / French Chef)
Hal Dunlop (Major Dunlop / Mr. Greenway)
R.G. Brown (Office Manager / Walter, Eva Gabor's Assistant)
Ernest Sarracino (Mr. Nicoletti / Tony)
Cecil Gold (Fred / Cecil)
Jimmy Bates (Clarence / Billy Joe Jackson)
Robert Hogan (Captain Perry / Jack Lucas)
Johnny Silver (Mountie / Benny)
Jody Gilbert (King Kong Woman / Prison Matron)
Ed Hall (Officer Egan / Numbers Smith)
Marc Lawrence (Joe Grapefruit / Ruby)
Florence Lake (Little Old Lady / Trixie)
Eddie Quillan (Cabbie / Mr. Jackson)
Al Checco (Detective Bobby / Dr. Crawford)
Dick Winslow (Harvey / Nightclub Emcee)
Susan Tolsky (Sue Ann Ditbenner / Miss Quigley)
CELEBRITIES WHO DID 'DOUBLE DUTY'
CAROL BURNETT (Carol Krausmeyer / Herself)
MILTON BERLE (Cheerful Charlie / Himself)
ROBERT CUMMINGS (Bob Collins / Bob Henning)
EVA GABOR (Eva Von Graunitz / Herself)
PAUL WINCHELL (Carlo the Tailer / Little Old Jeweler & The Great Pierre Barmarche)
ED MCMAHON (Ed McAllister / Himself)
LUCILLE BALL (Lucy Carter / Herself)
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On this date in the world of music…
July 21st
1966 - Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Get Away'. The song started life as a TV jingle for a petrol advert.
1969 - The Beatles
The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song 'Come Together' at Abbey Road studios in London. The track became the opening song on The Beatles Abbey Road album and was later released as a double A-sided single with ’Something’, their twenty-first single in the UK and twenty-sixth in the US where it reached the top of the charts.
1973 - Jim Croce
Jim Croce started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'. Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later.
1973 - Alex Harvey
Canned Heat, Nazareth, Edgar Broughton Band, Groundhogs, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Medicine Head, all appeared at Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England. Hell's Angels arrived in force and proceeded to drink the site dry. Initially they paid for the booze, but when the money ran out a deputation was sent into the audience to collect donations of 10p per person. About 20 minutes into his set Chuck Berry was showing one of the Angels how to do his duck-walk properly. He did one from one end of the stage to the other and disappeared into the wings. The band played on, the Angels bopped, and Chuck legged it to his car and drove off at high speed, never to return.
1979 - Tubeway Army
Tubeway Army scored their first UK No.1 album with 'Replicas'. The band led by lead singer Gary Numan were the first band of the post-punk era to have a synthesizer-based hit, with their single 'Are 'Friends' Electric?'
1987 - Guns N' Roses
Guns N’ Roses released their debut album on Geffen Records: Appetite For Destruction featured the singles 'Welcome to the Jungle', 'Sweet Child o' Mine', and 'Paradise City'. The album now has worldwide sales in excess of 28 million, 18 million of which are in the US, making it the best-selling debut album of all time there.
1990 - Roger Waters
Roger Waters' The Wall took place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. Over 350,000 people attended and the event was broadcast live throughout the world, Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O’Connor and others took part.
2002 - Gus Dudgeon
Producer Gus Dudgeon, who worked with artists including Elton John, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Kiki Dee, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Strawbs, XTC, and Joan Armatrading, was killed aged 59 in a car accident near Reading, together with his wife Sheila. They had been driving along the M4 motorway on their way home from a party when Gus fell asleep at the wheel of the Jaguar XK8 convertible, crashing down an embankment at speed and ending up in a ditch.
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith
Composer Jerry Goldsmith died after a long battle with cancer aged 75. Created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows ‘Star Trek’, ‘Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘Dr. Kildare.’
2005 - Long John Baldry
UK singer Long John Baldry died of a chest infection. He was one of the founding fathers of British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1960s performing with Blues Incorporated and Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars. He later fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, with Rod Stewart and then Steam Packet with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Also a member of Bluesology with Elton John. He also narrated on Winnie The Pooh recordings for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the Sonic The Hedgehog computer game.
2007 - Don Arden
Sharon Osbourne's music mogul father Don Arden died in a Los Angeles nursing home at the age of 81. Dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business practices, he steered Small Faces, Black Sabbath and ELO to stardom.
2008 - The Police
The Police played the first of two nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado during the final leg of their 152-date world Reunion tour. The tour became the third highest grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $340 million.
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Pills, Chills and Thrills [Nurse verse]
Sheila has become a registered nurse in the Emergency Department at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago. While Sheila enjoys the rush of the ER, yet there are some pitfalls: LONG hours, exhaustion due to lack of sleep, short staffing, violent patients and visitors, gorey accidents, death, medication, vitals, paperwork and a caffeine addiction. Her body is often sore and tired (especially her back from lifting patients of all sizes and on her feet constantly running down the hallways when there’s an emergency), yet she hasn’t lost her sense of humor. Sheila hardly goes home at her apartment in Chicago because of the long, demanding hours and usually winds up sleeping in the on-call room because she’s too tired. Even if she does go home, she ends up sleeping on the couch and hasn’t slept in her own bed for about 6 years. It’s hard for her to sleep because of neighbors fighting or playing loud music. She’s glad she has invested in ear plugs when she’s home.
#shermerclassclown#muse verses#verses#nurse verse#nurse#er nurse#pills chills and thrills [nurse sheila]#Return to Shermer [IT chapter 2 verse]
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Verse affiliated with @bctglrl that alters events spanning The Killing Joke, A Death In The Family, The Lost Days and Under The Red Hood - If anyone else wants in on this verse, let either of us know :)
Instead of being paralyzed, Barbara died from the injuries the Joker inflicted on her. Jim Gordon, stricken with grief, uses his resources to find Ra’s Al Ghul and revives Barbara with the Lazarus pit. Barbara is furious. She didn’t to be resurrected and is angry that the choice was taken out of her hands.
Jason knew nothing about Barbara’s resurrection. His grief over her death was a major contributing factor to the change in his behaviour that had Bruce pulling him from Robin duty and running away to find Sheila. Jason had no idea it would lead to his own death, nor did he know that he too would be brought back from the grave, though by different means than Barbara had, or that when he returned, he'd be back on the streets again and would spend almost two years with severe cognitive issues from the brain damage he’d suffered, unresponsive aside from a subconscious survival instinct and the muscle memory of his ability to fight.
It was Barbara that found him in that state and took him under her wing, nursing him back to physical health after discovering that Jason’s condition was the result of the Joker killing him too. He remained catatonic, though, seemingly permanently so until Barbara made the difficult decision to bring him to the Lazarus pit.
The pit brought Jason out of his fugue state, repairing the remaining damage to his brain, along with what of his other physical injuries were still in the process of healing. It didn’t, however, undo any of the injuries that had healed on their own, leaving him scarred and with permanent side effects in the form of chronic pain, PTSD, and other changes to his mental health associated with the physical alteration of his brain function.
They set up a new life in the Narrows, living in an apartment rented under a false name, with Barbara taking to training Jason to the best of her abilities, and Jason setting himself on a path to becoming better than his adoptive father and former mentor.
Together, they plan to take down the Joker for good, both for themselves and to stop him creating any more victims, and stand against Batman and anyone else who gets in their way as they seek to bring real vengeance and justice to Gotham’s streets.
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Schizophrenia: Putting It All Together
There is no cure for schizophrenia. But there is treatment. These treatments save lives, but the side effects can be hell. Last week we talked about what schizophrenia looks like when all of the symptoms are present. This week I’m going to talk about what a person with schizophrenia’s life looks like during the day-to-day.
For a person with schizophrenia, taking medications every day is of utmost importance. The delusions from schizophrenia can be traced back to an over-release of the chemical dopamine in the brain. Anti-psychotics merely plug the leaky dopamine pipe. Once the leaking pipe is stopped, however, the person starts feeling much better and may decide they do not need their medications after all. Bad idea. The hallucinations and delusions come back with a vengeance (Lewis).
But there’s another problem with the dopamine suppressing drugs: they don’t target just the areas where the delusions originate, but also the rest of the brain. And what’s another disease associated with low dopamine? Parkinson’s Disease.
A person taking these anti-psychotic medications can not develop actual Parkinson’s Disease from the drugs, but may have pseudoparkinsonism with similar symptoms such as a hand tremor, issues with balance, and difficulty walking. They develop a shuffling gait, mask-like face (a decrease in ability to show expressions on their face due to paralyzed facial muscles), muscle stiffness, drooling, slowness in starting movement.
The person taking the medications may experience dystonic reactions where spasms occur in discrete muscle groups such as the eyes and neck (the patient will have chronically raised shoulders like a tortoise shell). They might have a protruding tongue, difficulty swallowing, and spasms around their throat which, if bad enough, might lead to a compromised airway. This is obviously terrifying.
Most of these side effects develop shortly after starting or increasing the dose of medications. A more long-term side effect, however, is tardive dyskinesia. It’s characterized by “abnormal, involuntary movements such as lip smacking, tongue protusion, chewing, blinking, grimacing, and strange movements of the limbs and feet” (Videbeck). Keep in mind the person is fully aware of the strange movements and are probably embarrassed. This bizarre, uncontrollable behavior may lead to further social isolation. Is it really a wonder they want to come off their meds?
And in all this, the anti-psychotics are only treating half of the problem. In the previous post, I mentioned positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms are those symptoms that are added experiences to a ‘normal person’: hallucinations, delusions, etc. Negative symptoms are things such as depression, withdrawal, loss of joy, etc. Anti-psychotics do not treat the negative symptoms.
The struggle of day-to-day living for a person with schizophrenia is enormous. Because of this, pharmacology is just one part of the treatment. Individual and group therapy is key. There, things such as family dilemmas and medication management can be addressed. Clients can undergo social skills training where complex social behavior is broken down into easier to manage parts. Some very creative people have put together environmental supports such as signs, calendars, hygiene supplies, and pill containers to cue clients to perform various tasks.
If a schizophrenic person has a good support system, they have a better shot than most. Family education and therapy are known to diminish the negative effects of schizophrenia and reduce the relapse rate. Unfortunately, good support systems are hard to build and even harder to sustain. It’s hard to take care of someone who believes everyone is out to get them. Or to be patient with someone who offers very little in return: no smiles, flat expressions, lack of joy. Unfortunately, this is a part of the therapy that is forgotten about the most.
So take all that together for a moment and imagine life as someone with schizophrenia or a caregiver of someone with this disease. I’m going to give you a quick example from the perspective of a writer:
Hunter moved into the apartment down the hall from his parents. He’s super excited to be independent and have a place of his own. For the past several years since his diagnosis, Hunter’s routine has been the same: get up, get dressed, brush teeth, etc. all in the same order every day. Unfortunately, just as he is about to take his medications, someone knocks on the door. It’s the maintenance guy just stopping by to let Hunter know the power might go out for a few minutes later that day. But it’s enough to distract Hunter and he forgets the meds. He goes on, grabs his bus pass, and goes to work at the deli. While he’s at the bus stop, people keep staring at Hunter. He tries to ignore it, as he leans back in his seat smacking his lips and wipes a bit of drool from the corner of his mouth.
Hunter gets to work on time, but finds Ricky working that day. Ricky laughs aloud at Hunter’s slippers. Apparently, he forgot to change his shoes too. All day, Ricky mocks Hunter’s slow movements, his shaky hands—just whatever he can to get under Hunter’s skin. But that’s not the worst of it. Hunter is used to Ricky, but the customers start whispering about him behind his back too. And then there’s one guy that’s watching Hunter just a little too closely. Later on that day, Hunter sees the guy across the street, watching him through the window. Hunter takes the bus home, and all the people are watching him now, talking about him. He sees the guys again outside the bus window. Now Hunter knows he’s being followed.
When Hunter gets home, he locks the door and goes to kitchen. He grabs a meat hammer and sits by the window where he’s sure he hears the man outside, talking about him. The man says he’s going to get Hunter. He’s going to burn the apartment complex down and kill him and his parents. Hunter runs out of the apartment, not wanting to be trapped inside a burning building.
Later, his mom stops by and can’t find Hunter although his coat and wallet are inside. She searches the apartment complex and finally finds Hunter barefooted and hiding behind a dumpster. By now the voices have grown too loud. Hunter doesn’t recognize his mother and charges her with the meat hammer. A neighbor stops Hunter and restrains him until the ambulance can arrive, but Hunter is institutionalized until they can get his delusions under control. Unfortunately, this is the third hospitalization this year, and Hunter loses his job at the deli. Without the extra income, he has to move back into his parent’s apartment and start over.
All because the maintenance guy stopped by.
People with schizophrenia are just that: people. I hope this information has helped you gain a better understanding of the condition so that we can portray those effected by mental illness accurately.
Sources: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, by Sheila L. Videbeck, fifth ed., Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011.
Lewis, J. (2011, March 6). The Future of Schizophrenia. Dr. Jack Lewis. http://www.drjack.co.uk/the-future-of-schizophrenia-by-dr-jack-lewis
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Hi! Kind of new to your blog and I got a little lost with the characters 😅 Would you mind explaining the main plot or the characters’ background a bit so I can understand the stories a little better? Thank you and sorry for the trouble!
Hey!
Don't apologise at all! It is quite confusing - especially as we have different AUs for our characters!
We're going to do a full intro post for each of our characters, so keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, a quick rundown of the mains.
Fred and Sheila Daniels, adoptive parents to both Fao and Finn. Fostered Harrison on respite. Sheila works as a nurse when Finn and Fao are old enough (in her eyes) to fend for themselves. Fred, on the other hand, stays the furthest away from medicine as he can get, and works as a history professor, writing books in his spare time.
Fao Daniels, the eldest Daniels son, and very independent. Served in the army until an accident ended his career and he returned to the UK as a surgeon. Family: Amelia and James Blackwood (parents), Friend and Sheila Daniels (Adopted Parents), Tomas (Uncle and former 'guardian'), Finn (brother), Luke, Beth, Arthur (kids). Partners: Alex, Ollie, Harrison, Elyana Lozier.
Finn Daniels, the youngest son. Fred's nephew, suffered a TBI when he was ten thanks to #apollothecat. The accident caused his epilepsy and added to his chronic pain. Followed in Fao's footsteps and went to medschool, though he found his place in the ED. Family: Fred and Sheila (adopted parents), Partners: Jessica Weston.
Steve Cunningham. Neurosurgeon by trade, now Harrison's adoptive father. Needs to be protected at all costs, would do anything for Harrison. Mentored Fao while Finn was recovering from his TBI. Family: Bella (wife), Jonathan (son), Amy (daughter), Harrison (adopted son).
Harrison Cunningham-Cole, Steve's son and the reputation of troublemaker. Bounced around the care system after his parents (the Tanners) were arrested for abuse. Has his fair share of crappy partners, but finally found the love of his life in Tai. Works as an ED cons. Family: Steve (adoptive father), Kieran, Alfie, and Levi (adopted sons). Partners: Marcus, Conor, Taidgh Cole.
Taidgh Cunningham-Cole. Harrison's husband and dad to the three kids. Works as a physio, and has a diagnosis of late onset T1DM. Originally from Ireland, he moved to London to train, and met Harrison when he broke his ankle and was hopped up on pain meds.
Elyana Lozier - owned by @epochandeons , Shiv and Ev's best friend IRL! Ely works as an anaesthetist, and somehow fell in love with the idiot that is Fao. Also has seizures from a car crash. Adoptive mother to Luke, and bio to Beth and Arthur
Jessica Weston, another long-suffering partner. Has been Finn's girlfriend since they were nine, much to everyone's amusement (and Finn's denial). Works as a lawyer and has way too many brains to be with Finn, but family game nights prove why the pair are together. They have a daughter, Amelia, who was bit of a surprise to the pair.
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what fic ideas are you MOST EXCITED to write (hopefully. maybe. if we're lucky) for Fear Street? what ideas do you want to see, but don't feel up to writing for one reason or another i.e. too much research involved, not the right genre for you, etc.
ahhhh!!! shiit, dude. i'm gonna answer this under the cut bc some of it's nasty, ngl.
i would rly like to write the ruby movie u know we're prolly not gonna get but ngl, that would defo take a shit ton of research. that would take me forever and i am already buried in wip.
obvi i'm only attached to like 10 versions where both berman sisters survive. that's already been written a couple times tho. i'm p busy rn so i haven't read those fics yet, but oof!! they're defo on my list!!!! i'd be p excited to write that if i had a version that was distinct enough...which ig i'll know after i read the existing ones.
ziggy getting killed by ruby. u know me and my gory sensibilities. i also think it'd be a neat angle, since another user on here pointed out, she's p close with ruby's mom.
pre-1978 cindy/alice having a rly mean and brutal argument that evolves into angry + angsty sex.
ziggy/sheila gritted teeth enemies to lovers where they team up against nick, torture him to death, and then have passionate sex on top of his dead body. it's gross, yes, i'm a gorror fan, i am gross sometimes. i'm thinking in this 'verse somehow ziggy figures out it was nick summoning the devil and this time, sheila's ass is actually grateful that ziggy saves her. she body worships ziggy during sex and submits to some srs spanking and erotic sadism to apologize for being a bully. this fic would be total porn. nothin deep, just porn for porn's sake.
super angsty fic where one berman sister has to kill the other. i'm thinkin they both survived nightwing 1978 where tommy is still the killer but later, after being rejected by ziggy, nick purposefully picks cindy's name to hurt her. soo cindy gets possessed and ziggy gotta kill her. maybe resuscitation is successful tho, soo no bummer ending? idk. i have a couple different versions in my brain. i'm not *usually* one for downer endings, but also, grief oriented horror resonate big w me, so.
lighter platonic fic of ziggy + nurse lane bonding. ziggy venting her frustrations of being ignored and snubbed by her older sister and bullied by her peers. mary finding solace in the company of a young girl bc her own is gone and her grieving process is complicated by the circumstances.
day in the life of martin at work. housekeeping and custodian-ing are not identical and his position involves more maintenance work than mine (not that mine has none, esp not at my old place where they p much called me for any maintenance nonsense whenevs the actual maintenance guy was ??? well idfk where he was, i stg that guy was hungover half the time) but it's p similar in certain aspects and i 10/10 guarantee that man has seen some shit. literally. martin hanging out with ziggy after long day at work, maybe they go dance on nick's grave or smth.
yes, i keep returning to the idea of alice being the killer in nightwing and running wild with a chainsaw. i just. see it. and yk me, i love my gory messes. chainsaw camp slasher = big bloody mess.
hmm...not much for deena or sam in my mind rn, so u'd think that means i don't like them but it's honestly just the opposite?? i love them and their story was so perfectly done in the canon proper that i don't feel any need to add onto it or explore it from another angle, or alter it for my own purposes. tbvh i feel fully satisfied with their narrative in canon in such a way it brings me inner peace...but if i think long enough, i'm sure i'll come up with some kinda au for them i'd be interested in.
whew!! what one am i *most* excited for? pervy me rly wants the alice/cindy idea, sensible me would be excited to write the 1978 sequel where cindy's the next killer. in an ideal world where i already knew more abt errday life in the 60s and didn't have a guaranteed 10+ hrs of research before proceeding, i'd be most excited abt writing ruby lane's possession. but at present the sheer amnt of research that would take me when i've already got much other work and the tory + max werewolf fic a perfect but demanding undertaking, like...oof. i can't rn.
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