#involuntary adiction

[mobiusrunning]

shining shadow bursts into the meeting room.

“sting! ohmygod I’msosorry hejustcollapsedand- andIdidn’tknowwhattodo-”

sting doesn’t wait for their babble to end. sting just pulls out a portable blood scanner and takes a sample to analyze. string frowns down at the scanner when it beeps out its results.

“bluejay’s been out of my city for a while, hasn’t he?” sting says almost meditatively.

“er, yeah,” solar flare says as he watches sting take out something that looks like an epi-pen. “he’s been hanging out with sunspot a lot lately. shouldn’t you know this?”

sting frowns a little at bluejay with his full body armour, still in shining shadow’s arms, then pulls the neck of bluejay’s body suit aside to punch the epi-pen looking device into the meat of his shoulder.

solar flare frowns a little because he thought epi-pens were supposed to be injected in the thigh. then again, that might not have been an epi-pen, and knowing the birds and the bees, it might be hard, not to mention embarrassing, to strip bluejay to the point where the needle wouldn’t break.

“he’s been avoiding me,” sting murmurs, putting the epi-pen away. “I think he’s been talking with red tail.” sting glances up to shining shadow, who’s practically vibrating in place. “be careful with him. he will continue to exhibit withdrawal symptoms for the next few hours. the dose I gave him wasn’t enough to entirely counter them, though it should bring him back to equilibrium.”

“withdrawal?” callisto asks sharply.

“yes,” sting says simply, looking up at her. “that’s my city. you can’t live with it.” sting’s mouth twists, looking back to bluejay. “you can’t live without it. the various toxins that my villians have  developed have seeped into the water supply despite the best filters and liver in the air. most aren’t directly addictive, but long term exposure can cause a dependency. he’s been in the city long enough for it now.”

sting sighs and steps back to their spot to pull out a water bottle to toss to shining shadow. “here, for when he wakes up.”

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