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[ooc: After this]

It is several hours before Guppy stirs, the painful bruise where the jab struck immediately obvious. Slowly he opens his eyes, trying to focus on the room.
He is on the bed. Fully dressed. Didn't get here myself. How did I get here? Knocked out. Who? LEE? Going to kill me, going to burn house down, going to get me!
He leaps out of bed, immediately regretting it as the dizziness of being knocked out hits him. He drops to the floor and curls up to stop himself passing out again, his breathing getting faster and his pulse racing. He feels sick and is almost dripping with sweat, trembling like a leaf in the wind.
And somewhere in his head something shouts out.
You are having a panic attack. CALM DOWN.
He fights it, forcing himself to take slow deep breaths, whilst mentally reciting the chapter of one of his text books on panic attacks.
He has just managed to calm down when he remembers how he actually was knocked unconscious, sparking off a massive adrenaline rush that nearly gets him going again. He stumbles to his feet and heads to the middle of the landing, where he sits in his 'safe spot', with a view of each direction anyone could come at him from.
"Abs? Nina? Aeryn? Aargh!" he yells as the cat approaches, purring. Scampi looks frightened for a second, then cuddles close to his poor master.
Once he has established that there is nobody in the house, he creeps downstairs and immediately finds a note.

Guppy, some lunatic came in and attacked Abs. He's hurt but he'll be okay. We're at the ED. Don't worry the police got the bitch, and she's being locked up out of our hair - Nina.

"Oh shit."
Guppy races up the stairs and goes through the bathroom door back into the bar, looking for help.

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"Can we hide in some orner and pretend to be snogging?" Asar-Suti asked, with a little smirk.

Guppy goes bright red and fiddles with his hair, noticing for the first time that he has a manicure.

"But... but... if we do that neither of us will be able to see."

"I don't have to see; I will send a spark of godfire to find the cells," Asar-Suti said. "And while I do it, my focus is with that, not with where I am, so pretending to snog is a valid excuse. Nice nail colour."

He lifted his hand, and on the palm, a tiny purple flame formed. Asar-Suti blew on it, and it flew away, into an open window of the police station.

Guppy squirms.

"Well okay. But no tongues. And... respect the breasts. And no feeling my ass."

Asar-Suti laughed out loud. "We won't have to actually snog, just pretend, while my mind is with the spark of godfire - I am really that, while I camouflage my manifest form as to be snoggig," he said.

There was a likely corner, and he swept female!guppy up in his arms, and hid their faces with his hair without their lips actually touching.

His eyes went utterly blank as his mind switched over to the fiery spark that was also Asar-Suti.

There was the time that bullies stole his trousers on the way to school.
There was the time he found out Anita was asking him on a date the night before she got married just to see what it would be like.
There was the time Abs told him, on his first day at work, that his boss was deaf, the ward sister an alcoholic, and another nurse a man-eater.
However this moment has to rank highly as one of the most embarrassing of his entire life.

Asar-Suti just stood there, slightly headbanging to simulate snogging motions, and otherwise did nothing whatsoever, while his mind explored the building with that spark.

"Disgusting." A couple of old ladies say loudly to one another as they go past.

What's it to them? He thinks indignantly. If I want to snog a dark god in the middle of a street I will.

He puts his arm around Asar-Suti and tries to imagine he knows how to snog.

After a long while, Asar-Suti let go of Guppy, and the tiny purple spark flew out of the window to rejoin the dark god.

"Okay, I kknow where she is," he announced.

That was what they had come for, in any case.

"Great." Guppy says, withdrawing thankfully.

"Please lead the way. We're attracting too much attention."

"We are not; a young man and a young woman snogging are about the most common sight on any known world," Asar-Suti blithely declared, leading the way inside.

"Do we just wander in as if we knew what we're doing, though?"

"Is there no way in from the outside? I don't think we'll get far that way. There will be codes and things. I don't really know. I've never done this sort of thing before."

"Okay. Think before we act. Good idea. Let's stop and go around that corner there, okay? We can pretend we're going into that alley just to, erm, snog more" - if he said 'bonk', Guppy would probably expire from embarrassment on the spot - "and then I can teleport us in. You'd have to hold on to me, though, and you have to expect to feel dizzy, even sick, for a moment."

Guppy nods.

"Okay."

He follows Asar-Suti around the corner and holds onto him, wondering whether to tell him that he suffers from travel-sickness in a car...

Asar-Suti put an arm around Guppy, and then - they were inside.

And Asar-Suti let go really quickly, in case Guppy decided he needed to puke now.

Guppy falls over as soon as he lets go, puts his hand to his head and fights the nausea. Considering he's already been knocked unconscious once today he does pretty well, and manages not to throw up.

He reminds himself that to do so would probably attract unwanted attention.