[Mari]

Ashe's condition upon being transported to the hospital was pretty dire. Near death and broken, the fact that her body was basically a mystery to everyone outside of her specific universe only complicated issues and made recovery slow. None-the-less, two important distinctions had to be made. One, Ashe had survived and was indeed getting better slowly yet surely. Two, she was conscious again. All of her bloodstained clothes had been taken off and set aside, leaving her in that dark purple jumpsuit that covered her body below her head. In all honesty, it was difficult to tell whether that was actually a bodysuit or just the color of Ashe's synthetic skin. There was no visible seam to be found, and the hospital staff had been unable to find a way to get it off. It did look like a bodysuit, though, keeping her somewhat modest where she laid. The teenage girl's silver hair, normally up in a ponytail, laid free of its bindings. It was wavy in an almost supernatural way. Surely, physics did not allow for such ludicrously bouncy and luxurious hair naturally.

After Ashe had been in intensive care for a bit, she was now open to visitors. She honestly hated the down time; it wasn't really her style. However, she couldn't argue with her body's weakness. She'd just have to wait it out. Maybe someone would actually show up and visit her, a distraction that would easily brighten her day.

[Coolshaymin]

Chell just stood at the desk staring at the Nurse Joy manning the reception desk. They were having a silent stareoff it seems that made the atmosphere in the lobby a tad bit uncomfortable.... Not because there was any conflict in the room.

Nor was it because Chell still had ripped clothes. She would of put on a different change of clothes but her uniform was the only outfit she had and she had not found someone to sew it yet. Though it would be understandable if that was the case given Chell seemed to have no desire to get a new outfit.

No, the real reason they were staring intensely at each other in silence was... Chell has been standing there for a good half hour and not telling the Nurse what she wanted. "... Oh, you brought Ashe here. Is that who you want to see?" The Nurse Joy finally broke the silence which Chell confirmed with a nod. "... Would of been easier if you just asked... This way," The nurse granted.

Chell was the one that opened the door instead of the nurse... Chell did not really seem to have that much of trust for doctors for some reason. Probably would of took care of Ashe herself if she knew a thing about medical. The Nurse Joy sighed before shutting the door behind Chell.

Chell looked at Ashe for a good moment before asking, "Better?" Chell was still not the type of person for very many words. She prefers to say things in as direct and short manner  as possible if she had to. And that was when she actually felt like speaking. Ashe was still the only person she felt fully comfortable speaking to.

[Mari]

Ashe's eyes flicked to the door to her room as it opened. She did not move, but her eyes widened slightly as she observed none other than Chell entering her room. Oh hey, it was that lady she'd fought alongside back at the lost reploid city! She'd come back for her! Ashe was honestly... surprised. The other had seemed a bit distant and quiet, and so she had assumed that Chell simply had a lot on her shoulders and had little time for others. Still, it was a pleasant surprise, one that brought a little smile to her face. "...About Halfway there." she replied shifting weakly to sit up so that she could get a better view of the other. She seemed to be a lot more in-one-piece than last time they'd met, and a bit cleaner at that. "I'm really glad to see you made it out alive. I don't remember anything after the building came down." Ashe explained, running a hand through her hair.

"...Did... Did you bring me here?" Ashe asked, somewhat curious. It made sense that if Chell was visiting her, she had to have known Ashe was brought here. Which seemed to suggest... Feeling a little self-conscious, Ashe pulled her legs up against her chest and curled into a ball, wincing as some leftover pain hit her.

[Coolshaymin]

"Because of you. Thank you," Chell answered Ashe's statement to her making it out of there. Still answering in as few words as possible. Still, that was more than the Nurse could ever dream to get out of her. Ashe was the first person Chell has trusted enough to consider a friend in forever. The first time she felt there was someone she could rely on if she needed too.

Chell then nodded as Ashe asked if she was the one that brought her there. That did not really require words so she did not bother that time. Though she had to tilt her head as Ashe curled up after asking the question. "Something wrong?" she asked. She was not entirely sure why she reacted that way.

[Mari]

Ashe smiled sheepishly at Chell in response. Daw. Being called a heroine! That was always something that made Ashe smile. Made her feel all the nice things about all the stuff she did for people. "Hey... It was just the right thing to do, ya know?" she replied, laying her chin upon her knees. "I was just thinking about how I could use some more clothes." Arle replied light-heartedly. She would lol her head at Chell, watching her carefully. "I was just surprised to have a visitor... I hope I didn't worry you too much back there." Arle would go on to apologize, curiously pondering the nature of their newfound friendship. "How are you doing, anyway..? It looks like you haven't changed since the battle."

[Coolshaymin]

Chell was still confused at the needing more clothes comment. She looked fine in what she was currently wearing right now. It seemed pretty indestructible too all things considered. Why would she not have other clothes though is another question that needed to be asked. Chell did not have any other clothes because she has spent a majority of her time as a labrat without a real change of clothes.

Though she also had to think about Ashe's reasoning for helping her. She did it simply because it was the right thing to do? Was it even humanly possible for people to put their own needs before others because it is right? She would think people would be a lot more willing to put theirselves in front if it meant surviving. Was she really that naieve to put her life on the line for something as silly as justice? It really seemed hard for Chell to believe that was the only reason Ashe helped her. She did not question her on it though since that was not too important.

She was distracted though as she snapped back to attention at Chell mentioning her clothing. She reached down and touched her torn clothes that were pretty damaged due to Bifrost. "... It's all I got," Chell answered. She did not elaborate on why that's all she had to wear. She never had time to pick up on sewing either so she was kind of stuck with it. Telling more than it being her only clothing was not really something she considered.

[Mari]

Arle's eyes widened as Chell described an alarming lack of a wardrobe. Now, she was no girly girl by any stretch of the imagination, but even she had plenty of clothes to choose from! How could this have happened to Chell? It was incomprehensible that anyone, let alone a woman, would be content to walk around in a pair of rags like that. Didn't it feel uncomfortable..? That shirt didn't look like it would hold up well, especially if Chell kept fighting, and she couldn't leave her fellow woman hanging. As much as there wasn't anything wrong with feeling comfortable in your own skin, it was inevitable that fighting in your underwear went wrong somehow. "Wanna borrow my jacket..?" Ashe offered, gesturing to a bin that held her clothes in it--which for the most part consisted of her jacket, headband, utility belt and heels. They'd all survived intact, somehow. Apparently being dematerialized while mega-merged made it difficult to damage them. "Might be a little smaller on you than it is me, but it's nice and cozy. Holds up to water well too." she went on to offer, beaming at the other in a friendly manner.

[Coolshaymin]

Chell gave a glance towards Ashe's clothes when she suggested to wear her jacket to make up for her tattered Aperature Science attire. She did not remember anyone ever offering her their clothes before... Though she did not remember that much about her past now that she had the time to think about it... Must of been all the sleep she had inbetween testing sessions with GLaDOS... That side effect seemed to make good enough sense to her memory issues.

She was surprised though the clothes still seemed to be in stable condition. They seemed like they would be much worst for wear like how her clothes were because of Bifrost. Chell looked to Ashe after she took her eyes off the jacket and gave an appreciative smile accompanied by a nod. She did not really have a reason to deny the girl's kindness as she walked over to it.

... Then something occurred to her. When Ashe protected her from the debris she looked a lot like the robot that crunched her... Probably would of attacked if she did not notice the voice was off. She never did figure out an answer for how she managed to do that... "... The croc... You became him... how?" Chell asked as she neared the jacket.

[Mari]

Ashe watched Chell as she moved over to take the orange jacket, waiting to see how she looked in it. However, Chell mildly surprised her by asking the obvious question. It wasn't so much a surprising question as it was a surprising time to be asked. "Oh!" Ashe replied, uncurling from her ball and folding her legs in front of her, reaching into her bedsheets and producing Model A. The metal box seemed to come to life at her touch, beginning to float in the air. It looked at Chell silently, probably because it didn't have a mouth. "That's called A-trans. It's a special ability of my friend here, Model A!" Ashe began, introducing the biometal.

"He can't talk to most people, but he thinks you're pretty cool~" Ashe went on light-heartedly, smiling brightly. Model A seemed to give her a look. "A-Trans is a power I get when I fuse with Model A that lets me transform into other people. All he needs is a DNA sample, which is usually hard not to get when I'm kicking butt--y'know? Sometimes people are really cool though and they offer me a sample just to see how it works." Ashe continued to explain, placing her hands in her lap.

"Sorry if I scared you back there." Ashe finished.

[Coolshaymin]

Chell tilted her head as Ashe brought out her metal friend. She looked to the jacket as Ashe went on about it being something known as A Trans. She experimentally put on the jacket as Ashe spoke about how she needed a DNA Sample to apparently transform into people.

Chell took out her Portal Gun and fired a blue Portal on one side of Ashe's Hospital Room before making another on the other side... Apparently unconcerned about firing her gun in a hospital room. The woman used the portals to see herself as if is was some kind of mirror. She did kind of like the appearance of the jacket if she had to be honest.

"Don't worry... Is it able to copy tools as well?" Chell asked out of curiosity. Honestly something did not sit right with someone being able to assume her appearance... It kind of had that risk of someone trying to pretend to be you. Still, Ashe seemed too naive to really do that. And having someone being able to help her with puzzles using Portals would be nice. She has not come to a complete decision on that though.

[Mari]

Ashe leaned over to get a better look at what Chell was looking at, only for her eyes to expand as tomatoes as she beheld the shenanigans that were Chell's portal abuse. Her mind just sort of spun as she gazed into the horizon of the portal mirror and saw herself looking back at her. "Woah! I've seen some guns that shoot holes in the wall, but yours is something else!" Ashe remarked, easily impressed by this foreign technology. Sure she was arguably one of the most advanced cyborgs in the known multiverse in terms of seamlessly combining the comfort and familiarity of humanity with the utility and power of robotics, but portals? Now that was just cray cray. "It looks good on you, though." Ashe went on in approval, easing herself onto the side of her bed.

The doctors probably wouldn't have approved of her being up and about. Their complete inability to deal with her totally foreign and incomprehensible body likely had them acting very, very cautious with how they treated her. Couldn't be too careful, right? Ashe was a bit more confident she wasn't going to die from moving around, however, and so she thought little of this. At Chell's question, Ashe nodded. "Yeah! I'm not really an expert on how Model A works, but he's always been able to copy tools in my experience." Ashe explained, watching Chell curiously. It didn't seem to occur to her what Chell as thinking, as she was too busy enjoying the view inside Chell's portal. "I lost all my DNA just before I got here, unfortunately." Ashe went on to lament, shrugging helplessly at the situation. Aw, nuts. "...Hey, what happens if someone just... walks through those portals..?" Ashe would ask after a moment, very curious about the technology. The young girl was attempting to imagine herself walking down a long series of portal generated tunnels. Where would she end up? Did it ever end? Was there a parallel dimension in there?

[Coolshaymin]

Chell did not seem bothered by Ashe getting up and moving around. She did not really have the highest respect for doctors so she thought nothing of her doing what she should not be doing. She could not help but give a smile at Ashe's compliment though since it has been what felt like an eternity since she got a genuine one. She was not entirely sure how DNA gave access to tools though... but it sounded pretty neat to her at least.

"They are connected. Watch," Chell answered. She then walked through the portal she was using as a mirror and she was suddenly on the other side of the room. "It is also good for other things. Like this," Chell continued as she shot a portal at the ceiling and then the floor. The last two portals disappeared as she did so. She then jumped into the portal on the floor and started perpetually falling between them at a gradually increasing speed. She seemed to enjoy the sense of endless falling it provided before she shot a blue sphere at the wall. She then fell through the orange portal and performed a long jump across the room and did a flip as she was about to land.

"Wanna try?" Chell offered as she held the portal out to Ashe. She was the only person she could ever see her doing this for at this time. She probably still wouldn't if she did not want to observe what Ashe would do with it. A test of sorts if she wanted to allow her to use it whenever she wanted.

[Mari]

Ashe watched and her eyes were wide as she tried to grasp this concept. Chell was clearly walking through that portal. She could see her on the other side of that portal. And yet... another chell had appeared near her! It was Chell's footsteps that drew her attention to this fact. It was such a seamless transition too! To Ashe's further shock, Chell proceeded to create a perpetual motion machine right in front of her by jumping into a portal above another portal. Her eyes only grew wider as Chell's speed visibly increased with each pass. She almost didn't see Chell shoot off another portal, throwing her through the air as she came out and across Ashe's hospital room. What a wide room! What an amazing feat of science! Ashe couldn't help but kick her legs a little in excitement as she watched Chell work, impressed by the breaking of physics in front of her.

She was beginning to understand how this worked.

"Woah. That was incredible!" Ashe blurted out, her mind racing as she considered the possibilities. "Yes please~!" she would go on to reply as the other offered to give her a shot at using it. Ashe gingerly accepted the portal gun Chell offered, rotating it in her arms a bit and getting a feel for how it was meant to be held. After she had figured out the grip and trigger, she glanced around the room. "Hmm..."

Ashe would take careful aim at the ceiling above her, creating a portal there. She would then turn to a hospital counter nearby and carefully aim at it, placing a portal underneath a remote located there. The remote promptly fell through the portal, landing on her lap. Ashe nearly jumped a little, looking down at the remote in her lap. She would then pick it up and begin beaming at Chell with pride. She seemed to have a decent grip on how the concept worked in rather short order, which probably couldn't be said of many. Apparently she was a pretty smart girl. "This is pretty nifty! And it looks like you can do some really crazy stuff with some practice. How'd you get ahold of something like this?" Ashe wound up asking, very curious. One might surmise that she was considering the idea of getting a portal gun of her own, though the idea of getting Chell's DNA hadn't occurred to her yet. She still wasn't used to anyone offering, and so she rarely asked. She would remove her hand from the trigger and offer the portal gun back to Chell. "I've got to admit, that is one of the coolest things I've seen. You're pretty cool, too~" Ashe would go on, grinning light-heartedly at Chell.

[Coolshaymin]

Chell was pretty satisfied seeing Ashe get so hyped up for the Portal Gun. It was like bringing it to Show and Tell since she never had an opportunity to show it off to another person. She seemed to pick it up pretty quickly too which Chell was a bit surprised by. Sure, getting a remote was not the most effective of it's abilities but it was a first time try.

Chell kind of looked away however as Ashe asked where she got it. She really did not want to bring up Aperature Science in any form. That place was too much of a bad memory for her to want to talk about it, even to Ashe. She definitely did not want to give people ideas of trying the find the place... If it was even on this planet. She came through a portal she found in one of the labs. She could guess from that that the building itself was still back at her world.

She did lighten up though as Ashe complimented her again. Genuine compliments were so rare for her that two in one day was kind of shocking. "Thanks... You are too..." Chell replied as she thought to herself for a moment. She seemed distant for a moment as she did not return eye contact yet. "... I can't say where I got it... But that does not mean you can't use one," Chell answered. "All you need is my DNA, right?" Chell offered as she looked back to Ashe.

[Mari]

Ashe lolled her head slightly as Chell seemed to space out. She recognized that look. Something was bothering her and it was about the portal gun. Judging by the context clues from Chell's words, this was the only gun of it's kind. Ashe was left to assume that where it had been created had been destroyed. Perhaps Chell had had close friends there? She was a bit surprised when Chell offered her DNA though. Her mind had simply been elsewhere. "Oh! Yeah! I guess that would work too." she replied in a somewhat sheepish if not thankful tone. "That's awfully kind of you, Chell... I kind of wish I could do something for you back!" she replied, her cheeks turning a gentle shade of pink. "We could call each other DNA sisters~ ...If that makes sense. Does it?" Ashe continued to muse aloud, pondering the circumstances of sharing DNA, even if it was a one-way transfer, for a moment. "...It won't hurt or anything if you're sure. Ashe would finish after a moment, curiously watching the other.