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First Aid – Office #24, Friday, Period 5 [Week 2]

Hawkeye had contacted all of the students this week to let them know to meet him in his office. There were sandwiches and cold drinks on the desk and everyone had a chair to sit on. "Eat! Drink! I promise it's not cafeteria food. Not every week is going to be like last week. Unfortunately, history says that some weeks will be like last week. Sometimes they'll even be like this week with the visitors some people have walking around. You're more likely to find yourself having to put your friends back together than most high school students, and I'm sorry to say that you a proportionally high number of the students here have had to deal with losing someone they love. Personally, I hope you never have to use anything you learn in this class, but in case you do, let's make sure we cover topics you want to learn. Talk to me. Talk to each other. The syllabus is as flexible as a gymnast made of dough. That's pretty flexible."

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Like you have to talk in front of your peers.

Cassidy

Jane Lane

Dru Anderson

Karla

Kurt Wagner

Tim Drake

Momoko Akatsutsumi

Bruce Wayne

On topic, off topic, whatever works. Get to know your classmates, your teacher and your sandwich. Mmm sandwich.

Cassidy looked around and then looked back at Hawkeye. "I would like to learn more about the best way to bandage wounds depending on what kind they are and where they are located."

"And how bad they are?"

Cassidy thought about this for a moment. "Since you would never know what the severity of the wounds were until you examine the patient, I think that we would need to learn variations -- especially for when we don't have a hospital or Healer readily available and we have to keep them call and stable until the bigger help could get to our patients."

"We'll look into some ways to keep someone stable once you've got them out of immediate danger."

Karla gratefully took a sandwich. Or two. There was a lot going on today.

"I'd like to know what new technologies have been developed and how they can be adapted," she said slowly. Because Karla couldn't do anything easily. "I have chirurgeon skills, but I know that medicine has been developed beyond that, here."

"We'll try to get you up to speed. I was about fifty years behind the times before I came here. Talk about some heavy reading."

"I'm from a different world entirely, one that has little technology and a lot of magic," Karla said with a tired chuckle. "So if you have any recommendations, I'd appreciate them."

"If you're genuinely interested in understanding modern medicine and not just first aid, you have to start where everyone starts - anatomy. The library has some good resources."

"I want to learn how to field-dress injuries," Kurt answered. "To patch someone up so they're okay until they can get to a real doctor." Not that he was planning on being in any battles or anything.

"That's something I hope everyone will get out of the workshop by the time we're through. Anything specific to home? Someone mentioned frostbite last time. Frostbite isn't exactly your run of the mill in warmer climates, but it's important to someone who lives in colder climates."

Kurt tried to think. "Umm... laser burns? claw marks? Is there something special you do for someone who's been thrown through a brick wall?"

"Hope every bone in their body hasn't been broken, and try to keep them alive if they have. I'd suggest avoiding brick walls whenever possible, but I'm assuming since you've mentioned them it's not always an option. I'll look into the laser burns."

"Well, being thrown into things happens more than being thrown through them," Kurt admitted. Unless, of course, Kitty was there.

"Neither sounds particularly appealing. We can look at some high level trauma like when your body impacts with a wall. You get a soft, squishy body hitting something that doesn't give hard enough and it's not good news."

"Learning how to treat stuff if you can't get to a real doctor would be good," Tim said. "Not just first aid, but if you know a doctor's not coming."

"Sometimes there's not a whole lot you can do without getting the patient to a medical professional." But Hawkeye knew that wasn't always possible, especially for these kids. "Anything common from home come to mind?"

"Not a particular medical situation. Sorry, I guess that's a pretty vague question," Tim said. "We had an earthquake last year, though, and a lot of the city got cut off. There weren't always enough doctors to go around."

"There rarely are. I'll come up with something so we can get all of the bases covered for you."

"I'd like to see some compound fractures," Jane said. "Not so much for the dressing of them, I just wanna see them."

What? It was for a potential painting. That was her story and she was sticking to it.

"I don't know whether to be impressed by your strong stomach or worried about your lust for gore."

"It's for research," Jane explained.

Probably not reassuring, Jane.

"What it's research for has me worried!"

Momoko ate as she listened to the others and their ideas. She wasn't used to being asked what a class should teach and it felt pretty weird.

"I like what everyone else is saying," she finally admitted. "I signed up for this class because sometimes when I'm out fighting, people get hurt. I'd like to do more than just hold their hand until the ambulance arrives. Or at least know when it's safe to fly them to get help instead."

"That we can do. Are there any common injuries you find people getting?"

Momoko thought back.

"Uhm. There were some gunshot wounds recently. Throwing stars once. Sometimes people get hit by flying debris. People beaten up in fist-fights, thrown into walls, hit with steel pipes... Well, actually that was me. Uhm. Knife wounds, giant lizard claw scratches. Stepped on and swatted by giant kaiju..."

"Have you considered an early retirement?"

Momoko laughed. "I'm not even sure retirement is an option! There's always someone needing help. And if I can, that's what I'll do and where I'll be. It's my responsibility as a Heroine of Justice."

"I'd like whatever you can dish out," Bruce admitted in a rare bout of total honesty. "Do your worst to make sure we're really prepared."

"That I can promise. Are there any injuries you definitely want to know about?"

"Gunshot wounds, definitely. Broken bones. Knife wounds..." Bruce said. He felt for a moment like he needed to give some kind of an explanation. "My hometown is a rough place."

"Sounds like a place I used to live for a few years." Only his was a legitimate war zone, not a war zone masquerading as a city. "We'll cover as many violent things as I can cram in. If at the end of it, I haven't covered something to your satisfaction, tell me. There's only so much we can fit into a few weeks."

You could even compliment him on the miserable looking plant in the corner. Or plot to rescue it when Hawkeye's not around.

While Hawkeye was talking with others of her classmates, Cassidy wandered over to the plant that was on his last leaves.

Looking around to make sure that no one was playing too much attention to what she was doing, she ran her hand through the plant's soil.

"Oh you poor thing," she murmured in a soft and gentle voice. "I can tell that you're not feeling so well, but I'll make it better. After she sifted his soil, she looked around one more, relieved to see that everyone didn't seem to notice that she had slipped away from the discussion.

When she almost positive that no one was paying attention to what she was doing, she pulled out on of her hair pins and quickly pricked her finger to make her blood flow. She carefully dropped some of the blood from her finger in hidden part of the leaves and stalks. She said a few things very softly and then transferred some Craft energy deep down into his root.

"You should feel better soon," she whispered to the plant.

*Like I wouldn't notice a bit of Queen-Craft at work,* Karla sent on a distaff thread. She turned around and winked at Cassidy before turning back to continue her conversation.

What Hawkeye said! The syllabus is wide open. If your kid has an idea, I can come up with a class about it.

Can Cassidy go fuss over the plant? :) She'll probably talk to it and use Queen's magic to help it... i.e. Craft and a drop or two of her blood.

Sure!

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