In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

"Hospital? You can wait eighteen hours to see a doctor in the
emergency room here, it's a big joke, and they are on strike now! Even
Samu is the same thing, you bleed to death waiting, waiting for the little
truck!"
Max returned with the Cyber Ciné materials bag and the gun.
"The stuff is here, he just wanted her."
"He needs medical attention. Now, Max," Penny said.
Alessandro mumbled through his tissues, "Why don' Penny and
I go do duh hodel, bring duh bag, day have securidy dare, I will be
okay."
"Are you crazy? I mean, really, duh hotel?" Penny said,
exchanging the blood soaked wad for a fresh one.
Maia, calmer now, held her phone and mentally flipped through
her options, but it was Max who spoke up.
"Here's what you do, okay? You're not going to like it, but it's
perfect," he said as he sat down on the ottoman next to Alessandro.
"Dude, call your mother, pronto, ask if we can all stay at the
house, because of the door, you know, and we bring the bag with the
stuff, okay? She will be so happy to have her wounded tesoro back
home. She can get her doctor, you know the fat one, to check you out,
and we can relax and use the house as a base of operations."
Maia cut in, "He's a homeopath!"
"He has his own clinic!" Max snapped, turned to Penny. "It's a
nice house, with a garden. Not far from here."
Alessandro groaned. "Bede, addiamo, bud you phone."
Max fished Alessandro's phone from his jacket and scrolled
through until he found the number.
"Allo, Madame Tivoglio, bonsoir, c'est Max a l'appareil." Max
hemmed and hawed in French until Alessandro snatched the phone
from him.
"Si, baba, vivo, vivo. No, baba, si, baba, Tre bersone, o capito,
bene, ciao. She will send duh driver and will call duh docdor. She says
she will be happy do pud you up."
Penny went back into Max's to gather up her tech. When she
returned Alessandro's eyes were swelling shut. Max sorted through
some odds and ends of lumber to nail shut the busted door. Maia had
disappeared into one of the back rooms.
"Stay awake, okay?" Penny said, nudging his arm as she sat back
down with her knapsack on her knees.
Maia came back head to toe in beige plaid, dragging three
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