My kingdom for an Advil.

[x_maker]

If someone would be so kind as to bring me some headache medicine, I would appreciate it greatly.

Yes, I realize that me and painkillers are rare bedfellows, but I think I pulled a Dayspring and pushed my powers a bit today.

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[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

So I should really not bring the cowbell then?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Right now light hurts. Loud noises would probably be worse.

[xp_daytripper]

So why are you replying to comments then? As an old hand at the powers headache, take the nice painkillers, turn off the journals and try and sleep it off.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Because I can type and read with the monitor off. I taught myself Braille a few years ago, and rigged up a display so I could use the computer at 3am without waking up Kyle. I'd sleep, but my brain doesn't want to sit still.

[xp_daytripper]

I'd offer to help with the not-sleeping, but you really don't want a bed full of cockroaches...

What have you been up to that's broken your brain like this? If you don't mind me asking, that is. Enquiring (read: nosy) minds and all that.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing big. Doug and I foiled a would-be robbery in the city today, and once the adrenalin wore down, my brain's been trying to reconcile the fact that I had a gun pointed at my head (despite it being unloaded, which I discovered quite to our advantage that I could tell just by looking at it) and I didn't fall down in a little quivering mass of cowardice and metal.

So I'm not sure if it was pushing my power like that that's caused the headache, or just general stress.

And now I have a Jennie in my lap who has tripped upon entering the dark room. Oddly, this makes me feel better.

[xp_daytripper]

Just a normal day in the city, then? *grins*

Think I might go check on Doug, see how he's shaping up if someone else hasn't beaten me to it. You enjoy the girl in the lap - they're considered pretty theraputic.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

I had a gun pointed at me. How do you think I'm shaping up?

No powers headache, just an ache in my sternum that refuses to go away, even though I know it's psychosomatic.

[xp_daytripper]

About as well as I thought you might be doing, then, which is why the going to check on you. I would have been around sooner only a) I didn't know and b) I had some anger to manage and I wasn't inflicting that on anyone but Sarah's dart board.

And it might be hypocritical of me, but go talk to Sofia. I think she'd have some experience with gun-related issues.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

The day was saved, nobody got hurt, and the guy turned himself in peacably. We managed, and neither Forge nor I froze up. I had a bit of a breakdown afterwards, but that's the time to have them.