What if I'm dying already? Huh? It was like this before, when it -- [ Tony bites the words off, stares up into Stephen's eyes with feverish desperation, his own smudged with purple, bloodshot. Trying to get him to see. ]
The palladium poisoning. It was like this. Something inside me, broken. Leaking some kind of.. of nasty shit into my blood. Something I have to fix.
[ He tries struggling again, pathetically; it hurts, the tubes pulling, Stephen's grip on his bruised skin. His head is throbbing and his heart feels like it's going a mile a minute, but he's so much better than he was, why can't Stephen see that? ]
I just need to get it out, I need to get it out of me. You're supposed to be my -- my friend. You should be helping me, damn it, I can feel it inside me, it's gonna burn me up --
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Date: 2024-07-15 10:11 pm (UTC)The palladium poisoning. It was like this. Something inside me, broken. Leaking some kind of.. of nasty shit into my blood. Something I have to fix.
[ He tries struggling again, pathetically; it hurts, the tubes pulling, Stephen's grip on his bruised skin. His head is throbbing and his heart feels like it's going a mile a minute, but he's so much better than he was, why can't Stephen see that? ]
I just need to get it out, I need to get it out of me. You're supposed to be my -- my friend. You should be helping me, damn it, I can feel it inside me, it's gonna burn me up --