pull this plug, let me breathe

Levent Kartal · 09-08-2012, 12:47 PM

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Feel free to pp them walking to
the house, for the sake of keeping this going. xD

Levent no longer whimpered at the burning flare of his ravaged shoulder, but he knew that the pain would come again and present itself in manifold ways—the sharp stab of a wrenching movement, the throbbing ache of scarred muscle after exertion, the agony of a memory turned nightmare. He needed to conserve his strength to deal with that, and so he ceased wincing when the woman gripped the wound in a last-ditch effort to stop the bleeding, accepting his apology in two short words that suggested that was the least important thing to linger over while he was still hurting.

The injured man turned his attention from her to the cat rubbing alongside him, trying to smile and pass his fingers over the white fur. He was rewarded with larger purring, and he focused on the vibrating sound as Hotaru wrapped the bandages around him, shifting only slightly to make her job easier. His vision swam occasionally, and one point he nodded off into unconsciousness for a single instant before Wilson’s sharp meow brought him back. Now that he wasn’t bleeding, it was easier to keep himself awake, and he nodded uncertainly at the woman’s question. It would be good to go inside; he could only imagine what the neighbors might think otherwise.

“You’ll—need to help,” Levent warned, and grabbed for her as leverage as he pushed himself to his feet. He swayed instantly, not wanting to bring the grey woman down with him but needing her desperately as a pillar. Wilson restrained himself from winding fluidly around his ankles, instead standing with ears pricked and body alert. Trying to sling an arm around the woman, his fingers curling in her coat, desiring her even closer, the man nodded to indicate that they could make the arduous journey back to the house.

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