#the next couple of answers shouldn't be this long but No Guarantees Since I Like To Ramble

[steddieas-shegoes]

for your prompts if you're still doing 'em, (it's not really a sentence but still):

Eddie sitting in Steve's lap, doing his thing, being as normal as he can be. They're talking to each other in low voices, in their own little world (Steve's hands are probably somewhere in Eddie's hair, or in a place they really shouldn't be around the kids, you choose,) and the rest of the party just looking at them like "wut"

You choose the ending :)

Steve’s anxiety was through the roof, and since he couldn’t really figure out why, he’d naturally settled in his one guaranteed safe place: Eddie’s lap.

He was keeping his hands busy, braiding Eddie’s hair and letting it fall, braiding again, letting it fall.

Repetition felt good.

Especially as he felt the anxiety leaving his body with every braid.

Eddie’s hands were resting on his legs while he told him about the campaign he would be starting next week. They both knew Steve only understood about half of what he said, but it helped Steve stay centered in the moment, gave him something to focus on.

They were too busy talking to each other to notice that everyone kept throwing long, questioning glances their way.

Steve let out a giggle when Eddie’s hand reached up to poke his side, sensitive around the edges where his scars were the worst.

Eddie knew to be soft.

“Okay, what is happening right now? Please tell me I’m not the only one seeing this.”

Dustin’s voice was quieter than usual, which drew the attention of Steve and Eddie away from each other.

“How long has this been going on?” Mike asked, lip curling in anger or disappointment, maybe even disgust.

“When were you gonna tell us?” Lucas asked, sounding mildly hurt.

Steve and Eddie looked at each other, then down, as if just realizing their position.

Eddie raised his brow in a silent question.

Steve gave a single nod in answer.

“It’s been a couple months. Wait!” He yelled when they all started chiming in. “We were going to tell you all at the next movie night. We just wanted to get our feelings handled together before involving everyone.”

“Feelings? What are the feelings?” El asked innocently.

“We love each other. A lot. And it was easier for us to figure it out without everyone since this is kind of new for both of us,” Steve answered.

“So you guys are always gonna be this gross?”

“Watch it,” Eddie said to Max. “But yeah. Probably.”

“You have to keep the door open three inches,” El said. “That is the rule for love.”

Everyone burst out laughing, even El after a few seconds.

“I think we should probably keep the door shut all the way,” Eddie smirked.

“Gross!” Everyone chorused at the same time.

[glitteraffe-art]

How could the HEV perform a diagnostic test of the user to apply medical attention? Using sensors?

Yes, the HEV could perform diagnostic testing of the user with a variety of sensors. In my version of the HEV suit, the sensors and associated health monitoring accessories would be:

“Atmospheric contaminant sensors”

· Sensor for radiation (Geiger counter)

· Sensor for chemical waste

· Sensor for biohazards

· Sensor for acid/corrosive chemicals

· Sensor for heat damage

· Sensor for cold damage

“Vital Signs Monitoring”

· Sensor for electric damage

· Sensor for blood toxins

· Major and minor lacerations detection

· Major and minor fracture detection

· O2 Meter

· Heart Rate

· Blood Pressure (Blood loss and internal bleeding detection)

· Electronics associated with morphine injection mechanism

(Yes, this list is a little longer and differently organized than the one in the first Anatomy of a HEV suit because I’ve double checked a few things and found I was missing a few! By the way, here’s a short video that I thought was relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oPGjA5-4AM. It covers how the HEV handles status and damage conditions in the gameplay of the original Half-Life.)

Instead of having a single diagnostic test, the HEV would constantly monitor the readings from each of its sensors. Should the sensor detect something that falls outside of the threshold of ‘normal’ health, the HEV would then apply the appropriate medical treatment.

More under the cut:

In the case of the electrical, heat, cold, radiation, chemical waste, and biohazard status condition sensors listed, multiple of each kind of sensor would be placed on the outside of the HEV. If the sensors sense a level of radiation/chemicals/biological contaminants that exceeds a set amount, or exposure to electric shock or extreme heat/cold, they would signal the HEV, and the HEV would flash the appropriate status icon to the wearer (in-game the icon shows up on the lower left hand of the screen, but to the wearer it would be on the HUD (Heads Up Display) on the helmet), verbally alert the user of exposure to the substance, and potentially attempt an appropriate treatment based on the situation.

For the blood toxin sensor – there only needs to be one of those, and it would be inside the HEV, with a port into a vein (In my version of the HEV, it would likely be connected somewhere in or around the morphine injection mechanism’s port). Again, if the sensor senses that one or more toxic chemicals has risen above a certain concentration in the blood, it would signal the HEV, which would register that there are toxins in the blood, verbally alert the user, and potentially take immediate medical action.

As for major and minor laceration detection, and major and minor fracture detection, the HEV doesn’t have the opportunity of direct sensing and must infer the state of the user through the data it detects.

To detect lacerations (cuts, scratches, gashes), just off the top of my head, the suit could potentially use a web or mesh of interwoven sensors woven into or in between one of its lower layers. Should the sensor mesh be broken in an area (by a slash or other wound), the loss of a signal in the area would indicate the suit has been breached and the skin has probably been broken. It’s not 100% going to be accurate –there’s always the tiny possibility of the sensor mesh being broken, yet the wearer underneath being miraculously unharmed – but if it’s strong enough to break through all the HEV layers it probably slashed through the wearer too. However, this mesh layer would lose accuracy over time as it gets more and more slashed, so I would have to look a little deeper into the topic of laceration detection before designating a mesh of sensors as the go-to method of detecting cuts/gashes/slashes.

As for fractures (broken bones), it would likely again be more of an inference. There isn’t a way to directly detect fractures outside of X-rays, and an internal X-ray machine is out of the question. The HEV is supposed to prevent you from getting exposed to radiation, not expose you to more of it! So, instead, the HEV would have multiple accelerometers (which measure the speed something is accelerating in) in several orientations and locations, as well as force sensors (to sense if the suit got hit by a force), and potentially gyroscopes (for orientation), would be placed all over the HEV.

Should the HEV detect a force greater than a certain limit on a body part, it would assume that the wearer got a fracture there. For example, if somebody throws a bowling ball at the wearer, once the wearer was hit, the suit would detect the force of the bowling ball hitting the wearer and the location it was hit at, and determine if the force would have broken a bone there.

Alternately, should some part of the wearer suddenly accelerate and then stop suddenly it could also infer that the wearer has probably broken their bones. For example, is the wearer falls from a tower, the suit would measure sudden acceleration, then would detect the force on the suit and sudden deceleration when the wearer hits the ground and infer that the wearer got a fracture and the location of the fracture.

The O2 meter detects remaining oxygen available to the user and alerts the user of the amount left. The HEV does not have a visible oxygen tank, and the wearer does not tend to last long underwater, so it may just be measuring the amount of oxygen circulating within the suit as the wearer breathes in and out the same air. (The HEV could potentially be refreshing/recycling the air with chemical means, but I would have to look more into that.)

Heart rate sensors, of course, detect heart rate. Blood pressure sensors (think blood pressure cuffs), of course, measure blood pressure. These sensors would constantly monitor heart rate and blood pressure and help the suit determine if overall vitals are dropping –obviously, if the wearer flatlines, that’s bad, but even things like erratic heart rate could indicate issues. A sudden drop in blood pressure (especially associated with detection of a sudden force/slash/acceleration) likely indicates to the suit that the wearer has lost a significant amount of blood (both external and internal blood loss will decrease blood pressure), so should the blood pressure sensor sense that, it would alert the suit, which would trigger the suit to verbally alert the user of blood loss and (potentially, in light of the compression suit in my version of the HEV suit) activate compression at an area where the force/slash/acceleration was registered at.

Lastly, the electronics associated with the morphine injection mechanism would be necessary to determine whether or not to inject morphine into the wearer, and the time of last injection (to prevent overdose – if the wearer gets badly hurt a bunch of times in 10 minutes, there’s no point in injecting them with morphine every time they got an injury!).

[mrsseverussnape]

Love Is You - chapter 11

A/n: hopefully this is gonna be posted… It was very stormy and the power is off for hours because of it. I tried to create a moodboard and i am trying to post it but even my own data is not working very well, the storm was that bad and probably damaged something… I deserve some comments after trying that hard to post that😂

    Christmas was around the corner, but Scarlett wasn't as excited as she used to be even it was her favourite time of the year. She was planning to celebrate it with her kids but apparently, they had other plans which she found out quite late. Sirius has invited Leo and Remus over for a boys Christmas celebration and Carina would celebrate it with her boyfriend's family this year. Actually both of the kids have offered to stay with her but she didn't want to ruin their plans for her own enjoyment. Then Scarlett thought to spend the day with her parents just like the old days but it turned out they have already booked a holiday, they would be in Switzerland during Christmas week. So this plan has cancelled too for her. Normally she wouldn't mind staying alone but on special days she would like to have a company, especially this year she needed it more. Scarlett thought if she could invite someone over for Christmas but she didn't have many friends and the ones she had already married and would celebrate it with their families or they were living in abroad. Then one possible person came to her mind but she wasn't sure if he had someone special to celebrate the Christmas with. But she wanted to give it a try and wrote a letter to Severus and invited him over for dinner.

    Christmas had a special place in their relationship. They have started dating on December, couple of days prior Scarlett's 18th birthday then she has invited him to her house for Christmas break when she found out he would stay at Hogwarts and with that he could meet with her parents. And the best memory of that Christmas was the present that Severus gave to her. He has got her a white British long hair kitten that she fell in love with immediately. Severus has gotten that idea since Scarlett was such a cat lady and actually she was a cat herself as an animagus, also she has told him about her late cat who passed away a year ago. Scarlett has named the new kitten Pearl and she has become basically their baby and in the summer of the same year they got another kitten together and named him Paul. The warm feeling of the memories made her smile, these happy memories has become her comfort zone lately.

    It was the Christmas evening and the kids were ready to leave while Scarlett was busy decorating a cake. Leo and Carina came to the kitchen to say goodbye to her.

"Mum the cake looks delicious but isn't it way too big just for you to eat?"

"I will have a friend over, i won't be alone."

"Oh you didn't mention that. Now we don't feel as guilty for leaving you alone. Who is coming?"

"Professor Snape."

The kids exchanged looks for a moment. They still haven't said anything to her about the trunk so she had no idea that they know about her past relationship with Severus Snape.

"It will be great for you two to remember good old days, I am sure you have missed them. Have fun!"

Scarlett looked at Carina rather suspiciously after what she just said. She was asking and talking a lot about Severus and her lately. "Thank you... Are you leaving?"

"Yep, take care and don't drink much mum."

"Okay mother." Scarlett rolled her eyes at her daughter. "You two have fun and say merry Christmas to everyone from me." She kissed their cheeks goodbye. "Love you."

"Love you too mum, bye!" Carina and Leo both apparated at the same time, leaving Scarlett by herself.

She did the final touches on the cake and put it in the refrigerator to set. Now she needed to get dressed before he came. Scarlett decided on a velvet bodycon dress which is off shoulder and its emerald green colour was complimenting her copper red hair beautifully. She brushed and styled her wavy hair and finally put her signature red lipstick. Scarlett looked herself in the mirror and enjoyed her view truly for the first time in a while. She hasn't dressed up fully for a long time and she has missed seeing herself like this.

    The knock on the door took her away from her thoughts. She rushed to the door and took a deep breath before opening it. When she opened the door and saw him standing there with a winter bouquet and wine bottle in his hands. It was such a coincidence that he has picked a velvet emerald green jacket to combine with his black trousers and shirt.

"Welcome Severus, come in! It is snowing outside."

"Hello." He smiled and entered the house once he lived in together with her, handed her the bouquet and the wine he brought. “These are for you.”

"Ah thank you, the flowers are so pretty!" She inhaled the flowers’ scent.

"Not as pretty as you..." Severus couldn't take his eyes off of her, Scarlett has aged like a fine wine.

She blushed lightly at his statement and looked away from him. "You can directly go to the dinner table; we better eat them before they get cold. And you know what, i cooked everything by myself, no help from the house elf!"

"Today is the big day then huh? You are showing me your improved cooking skills?"

"Oh yes today is the day!" Scarlett giggled while they were taking their seats.

He looked at the small feast that she prepared for them. It wasn't a classic Christmas feast since both of them were vegetarians but everything was looking more than perfect.

"I must say, i am already impressed Scarlett. Everything looks and smells splendid."

"Everything tastes splendid  too, i guarantee." She winked at him. "Help yourself, bon Appetit!"

    After the dinner they moved to the couch with their drinks in hands. Severus has really enjoyed the foods even he admitted that Scarlett's cooking skills have moved from 1 to 5 point. Scarlett was more than happy to hear that because cooking wasn't her best skill at all.

    Hours have passed and they have talked little bit of that and little bit of this, ate the cake Scarlett has baked and listened to some music from the record player. After 4 glasses of wine, Scarlett had an unnecessary amount of courage and suddenly asked him if he had anyone in his life even though she wasn’t sure if she wanted to hear the answer. Severus wasn't expecting that question at all but he had the answer.

"No, i don't." Severus finished off the wine in his glass. Starting a new relationship didn’t even cross his mind after their breakup. It was either Scarlett or no one for him.

"How come you are still single? You would make a great husband, i am sure."

Severus sighed and shook his head. "Scarlett, you are the only one who value me, every part of me that i don't even like myself... And i am so stupid that i let you go..." He wasn't planning the say those things but they did flow from his mouth, apparently wine has affected him too. But he didn’t care, if they had to do the talk they would now.

"I didn't want to go, you left me..." Scarlett whispered while playing with the wine glass. He hasn't even given her a proper reason, just left her. "Why did you leave? I deserve an answer Severus... It has been years, won’t you tell me still?”

Severus still didn't want to tell her the reason, he was sure it would make Scarlett very upset but he knew he should eventually. The reason has made sense to him at the time but the moment he broke up with her, Severus has regretted his decision deeply but he couldn't turn back because he has thought she wouldn't want him back anymore after how much he hurt her.

Severus took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, this talk wouldn’t be easy at all for both of them. "I will tell you but please let me finish it before saying anything… You remember that nightmare-like times between us and Sirius… I have visited Sirius when he was at the hospital after his suicide attempt, this was before your dad informed you about it. All he talked about was you and how much he loves you, how much you mean to him. And i thought maybe he loves you more since he tried to kill himself after you cut the ties with him, because of me... Scar i don't know, i just thought that he could give you more things than me and you deserve the best so i decided that you would be happier with him than being with me... Don’t look at me like that…"

Scarlett couldn't believe the things she just heard. She has always thought that he fell in love with someone else or he didn't love her anymore. "Severus, that is the stupidest thing i've ever heard from you... Didn't i show you enough that i was in love with you deeply and i was so happy with you...? I didn't want anyone or anything else but you Severus. I loved you… but apparently you didn’t love me enough…"

“That’s not true…” He couldn't dare to look into her eyes or say anything else, the words stuck into his throat. Now he knew it is a stupid reason but as a young boy it made sense to him. Severus has never thought a beautiful and rich girl like Scarlett would be his friend, let alone be dating someone like him. And there was Sirius, Hogwarts's most handsome boy and Scarlett's lifelong best friend, plus he was in love with her like crazy. Sirius looked like a better fit for Scarlett rather than himself, he never felt confident against Sirius, Severus didn’t have the looks nor the money while Sirius had both. But now looking at Scarlett and Sirius's divorce, it was clear that his thoughts were nonsense because he would never cheat on Scarlett, ever.

"Severus...?"

Scarlett’s trembling voice brought him back to reality from his thoughts. Severus looked into her tearful eyes, she always told more with her eyes and Severus liked that silent communication but now her eyes had an effect of a dagger and stabbed his heart. Then his eyes moved to her red lips and unconsciously he leant into them ever so slightly but he pulled himself back in the next second he noticed what’s he doing, he shouldn't have kissed her even he wanted nothing else. Scarlett was the same; her heart was wanting to kiss him but her brain was saying it's not a good idea at the current situation.

"I better go... Thank you for the dinner." Severus stood up to leave suddenly;  If he stayed any longer, he was scared that he wouldn't control himself and the conversation had a tool on both of them.

Scarlett just nodded, she still couldn’t process the things Severus revealed. "Good night..."

"Good night Scarlett..." And he vanished in the air.

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