Oni watched as the doctor did what he had to do with his usual professional stoicism. However, it brought flooding back memories of her own loss of a limb and she could feel phantom pain starting as it sometimes did. Going over behind a tree, she pushed against it, retching onto the grass while he worked.<br/><br/>When the wolf passed out, Necare smeared a salve over the stump to make every effort to stave off infection. He turned to Oni while he prepared an injection of fluids to administer to the wolf who'd lost a lot of them.<br/><br/>"I need you to run back and get the truck." Oni wiped her mouth off and looked at him, slinging the rifle over her shoulder.<br/><br/>"... are you mad? Brianna is never going to-"<br/><br/>"I do not have the time to argue, Oni. Go get the truck. NOW."<br/><br/>Doc was never one to raise his voice and Oni's eyes widened. He was certainly serious. She turned and ran off quickly. After a while, the sound of an engine roared up, its headlights piercing through the forest. Crushing some brush as it came through, Oni parked it after turning it around.<br/><br/>Getting out, she pulled the door to the cab open. The doctor stood and looked at Oni, pulling a sheet out of his pack.<br/><br/>"Lay that down on the floor." Oni did as he said and the doctor motioned her over.<br/><br/>"This is really... gonna be heavy." The doctor motioned for her to move to the top part of the wolf. Taking her legs, Oni grabbed her shoulder and her back. The steam in her arm was hissing in protest as it strained to lift a rather heavy object. She lifted heavy metals all the time but never a nine foot wolf creature.<br/><br/>The doctor lifted her lower half, betraying a strength his form hid. They grunted but got the wolf lady moved into the cab and was able to close the door. Necare stayed in the back and proceeded to keep trying to push fluids into the woman, covering her with a larger blanket. Both to hide her and keep her warm.<br/><br/>"Drive like you mean it!" Oni got in the cab and said a prayer to some gods she didn't believe in. Flooring it, the truck bounded out of the forest, hit the nearest road and began speeding south towards the city. Fortunately, she was attentive enough to ignore any semblance of safe driving and made a 45 minute trip in 20.<br/><br/>Getting out, the doctor went in around a back entrance ramp to his clinic and came out with a huge rolling stretcher. Oni hopped in the back and moved to get the giant woman onto the table.<br/><br/>"I hope you know what you're-"<br/><br/>"What the HELL are you doing?!" A voice broke the relative quiet. A large woman in a corset stood by the side of the Dahlia tavern entrance. Brianna was the matriarch of the establishment and also the assignment holder for the Triad. And she didn't look happy.<br/><br/>Necare moved to cover the wolf woman's body quickly. "We have an injury. I'm taking her to my clinic."<br/><br/>"No shit, Tavien!" She usually addressed the doctor by his middle name instead of his nickname. "What the hell is so big?! Did you find a giant?!"<br/><br/>Oni bit her lip as the doctor began wheeling the injured woman to his clinic entrance. "I promise I'll explain later."<br/><br/>"You definitely WILL! And don't think I don't see you either, devil woman!" Oni winced as Brianna turned and stormed back into the pub.<br/><br/>She swallowed hard. "We are so dead."<br/><br/>"So is this woman if we don't hurry." The doctor turned on the lights in his lab. Vials and beakers lined the walls and trays full of surgical implements sat on wheeled carts. Bags hung on stands with tubing and for a relatively clean workspace, it still looked creepy as hell.<br/><br/>Necare went over to a... huge, stable mortuary table, the only thing big and strong enough that would hold the woman and give him room. Oni shivered. "I hope that's not an omen."<br/><br/>He pulled the stretcher over and slid the wolf woman onto the table after lining it with another cloth. Moving quickly, he went to get a bag of fluids and came back over. Finding a vein on the back of the hand that didn't get removed violently, he inserted a port and taped it down, beginning to let some fluids drip back into the woman. A clean blanket was draped over her.<br/><br/>"Do you need blood?" Oni looked at him, then at the wolf woman laying there. Despite the entire situation, she couldn't help but feel a pang. She'd been that woman before. It wasn't pleasant.<br/><br/>"I don't know which type she needs. We have to hope the rumors of regenerating wolfkin are true." Oni went and shut the door quickly, barring it from the inside. The doctor gave her a syringe of something meant to help her heart keep beating, one for potential infection and began washing and sterilizing the wound and several others he found on her.<br/><br/>Oni sat there in a chair and watched. "Can I do anything else?"<br/><br/>The doctor shook his head. "We've done what we can. We just need to hurry up and wait."<br/><br/>That was the hardest part.