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givehimthemedicine · 1 year

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El lying in the pizza kitchen unresponsive, scary pale. her nosebleed has soaked through napkin after napkin, but might finally be beginning to slow. she doesn't look like she's fighting anymore, but she won't wake up.

Mike's the only one who's seen her like this before - never this bad, though. they think she's just wiped out from the bath and the fight, and that is some of it, but they don't know she drained her battery jumpstarting Max's. even El doesn't know that it's a good thing she passed out when she did, because just a little more power and it would've been a trading of lives.

they decide that wherever they're going, they'd better get going. Jonathan gets the front of his shirt all wet carrying El to the van and they get her laid out the back.

they debate for fifty miles. Mike, desperate not to have her death on his hands, is the one saying maybe she needs medical attention at first, but accepts that taking her to a hospital is all but offering her back to the people who are hunting her.

El finally opens her eyes and half-focuses on Mike just long enough to mumble "Max?" like Steve did "Nancy?" but they're all relieved.

Mike searches the van for something to recharge her. Will has half a thing of peanut m&ms in the cupholder, but Jonathan says do not put m&ms in her mouth when she's barely conscious, she'll choke on them. Argyle, who everyone thought was asleep, suggests they chew them for her like a mama bird. Mike makes that face.

everybody feels better when El rouses enough to sit up for a minute and have some nice medicinal m&ms and lukewarm coke before zonking out again.

Argyle and Jonathan take turns sleeping and driving. Mike and Will agree to take turns keeping an eye on El. Will stretches out next to her and is out in a minute, and Mike has no intention of waking him for his turn. he's exhausted, but watching over El and Will makes him feel like he's doing something. besides, he has a lot to think about.

those are his two most important people there, asleep side by side on the floor of some guy's weed-and-pepperoni-infused van in the middle of nowhere. it's still almost novel to see them together; for so long they seemed to take turns in his life. they're strangers from two different planets. they're brother and sister, suddenly. it's nice. it's really weird.

El wakes up halfway normal for a McDonald's stop the next morning. normal enough, Mike thinks, to talk about last night, but she doesn't, so he doesn't either.

Jonathan orders five coffees and they're all for him. Argyle teaches El to put her hashbrown inside her egg mcmuffin. Mike, too tired to object, donates his ham to her and goes to sleep.

they're almost through Kansas. El asks if they're sure it's good to drive through this place called Misery they keep talking about.

#if you're not gonna tell me what happened in the 2 days I'm just gonna have to make it up on my own #el will argyle: mcdonalds! mcdonalds! jonathan: buys 1 black coffee #mine #headcanon #ficlet #mike watching el try to unhinge her jaw like a snake to eat an egg mcmuffin made of two eggs three hams three buns and two hashbrowns:#why don't you just eat two sandwiches #el: oh I only want one

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