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[Sam's in what looks somewhat like a more high-tech tattoo parlor - one of the body modification studios - and he looks more worried than panicked as he glances at the phone, his attention clearly at something (or someone) on the floor. In the background there's definite arguing going on:]

Sir please, you shouldn’t be [Only the first speaker was visible, a young woman with a variety of piercings and tattoos, likely the attendant given the scrubs she was wearing, visibly alarmed as she was trying to convince the person on the floor to stay there.]

I’ll be fine, christ you nag worse than my mother ever did- [Obviously this wasn’t working as well as she hoped, face paling slightly as there was an uncomfortable-sounding crunch and breathless cursing that followed the irritated reply.]

Hey, so if any of you teleporters are paying attention, I could use a little help here. And heads up to the hospital, you're gonna have a pain in the ass coming in real soon. [Sam glances away from the camera for a moment and pinches the bridge of his nose as he adds an aside] Stephen, you need to go to the fucking hospital, legs don't bend like that.

I’m not going to the fucking hospital, I can fix this myself-

[Narrator: But he couldn't.]

Please, someone get here and shut him up. Doesn't look like anything life-threatening, but he's got broken legs and god knows what else. And he's in the shittiest mood I've ever seen him in, and that's saying a lot.

[ooc: red is Sam, blue is Stephen, replies will probably come from either one (or both), but don't expect Stephen to be very nice.

Also Stephen's replies will come via yelling at Sam's phone. ~~Because Sam is a jerk and won’t let him snatch it~~]

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Give me a minute?

( he's clearly not dying, so he can take a minute, right. )

What happened?

One of those weird canisters from home - you know how Thor got one and he lost an eye? Well, Stephen's all beat up and has a couple of broken legs and refuses to get his dumb ass to the hospital because he doesn't think it's necessary.

[There's just. A long-suffering sigh. Sam's clearly willing to wait, but man, he's tempted to knock Stephen unconscious so he'll stop arguing with him.]

I'll be fine I'm not dying, I'm a doctor, and I have magic just help me get home and it'll be fine I don't need a hospital!

Does he need a healer or a teleporter? Because I can do both.

I mean, if it's okay.

Whatever help you can offer, that'd be great.

Especially if you have earplugs.

[He loves you, Stephen.]

Healing trumps hospitals every time.

{Sam you are the worst]

( an easier solution that they can both agree with, especially with stephen being so. grumpy. )

Got it. Hold on a sec.

( while he puts his phone away, takes a moment to figure out where they're holed up at (he could have just asked, but. too late for that now) and creates a nice, person size rift in the space just to the side of them; far enough not to go through stephen or sam, because that'd be uncomfortable. billy steps through it, hands still lit with blue sparks as he looks over to the mess that is stephen strange. )

Must've been something pretty strong. .

[Sam flashes a grateful look at Billy. You are his favorite person right now and he will bake you so much cake when he's done spending too much time trying to keep Stephen in the hospital.]

Dunno, he hasn't said anything about what did this to him, he's just been arguing about not needing help.

[Stephen was absolutely a mess, from just generally looking like he'd been pummeled by the Hulk to the broken legs it's clear he's going nowhere fast. Being so damn magically drained on top of it was just the greatest bit of icing on the 'fuck Stephen Strange' cake that was his day.]

Justin and Thor make an unpleasantly brutal team.

( do you ever just see someone who is supposed to be leagues above you broken down into a giant mess and wonder what the hell happened to land you there? because that's. about where billy is right now. he's not panicking. but mostly because panicking requires pulling together more than few strands of syllables in his head to form actual thoughts. it's not even the first time. this just never gets easier. )

What'd you do to piss off Thor?

( he's not waiting for an answer, kneeling down on the floor with magic-fizzed hands as he starts murmuring under his breath, a quiet chant of iwanttohealhimiwanttohealhim. not a very heroic way to heal someone, but generally it works. )

-You know, that's a good question.

[His world's Thor, at least, is an amiable kind of guy. Doesn't mean he can't be angered - and Stephen has a unique talent for pissing people off that seems to be multiversal - but it's hard to see him beating a Midgardian, even a sorcerer, into a pulp.]

And who's Justin?

[Sam watches Billy do magic with interest. He's largely familiar with Stephen's brand of magic (enough that he's learning, albeit slowly), but it's always cool to see other techniques at work.]

[It never gets easier. Stephen can certainly attest to that. You just learn to shove past it, to keep moving in spite of the mental emergency breaks.]

Long story short she's kind of a ghost rider right now. Justin is one of Mephisto's little demon friends.

[Or not so little if the extent of damage was any clue. Damage that seemed unfortunately resistant to healing- a few bruises lessened a shade or two, but for the most part, Billy would find there was simply too much demonic energy lingering that seemed to be muddling his healing attempts.]

( he has no idea who justin is, mephisto being involved is never a good sign, and then there's also the "she" thing (since when did that happen? how far behind the timeline is he?) and ghost riders but all of those--don't hold as much weight as how much trying to heal stephen is draining him but not quite fixing the problem.

lips twist into an uneasy frown, cutting off the repetitive chanting; he's definitely getting closer to panicking, thanks. none of this is a good sign. )

Sorry. ( closing his hands, he lets the magic around them dissipate, drops them down onto the ground. ) I can't heal it, something's off. To the hospital?

What the hell is a ghost rider?

[Sam never stops with the questions. He doesn't look too surprised by the fact that Thor's a woman - look, you hang out with your alternate universe pals enough, you either hear about this shit or just assume that every kind of weird clusterfuckery is possible - and he doesn't know who Mephisto is, but he can make an educated guess by the name and-]

Have you been hanging out with actual Satan?

[Sam no don't make everyone explain comics not-satan]

If you don't mind giving us a lift, that'd be great. You got enough juice?

[Not that he has any idea if there's "juice" involved, but he wants to make sure Billy will be all right if he helps them.]

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