Title: Interesting Instances of an Invalid
Characters: DG/Cain, Mentions of everyone else
Timeline: Post eclipse
Genre: Comedy/UST (Unsatisfied Sexual Tension) lol
Rating: R for language, violence, and…well…you know, given the genre ;)
Disclaimer: I don't own Tin Man
Summary: Unfortunately for Cain, he seems to get injured a lot around a certain Princess. Fortunately for a certain Princess, she is good at taking care of him…whether he wants her to or not.
A/N: I appear to be suffering from Writer's Road Block (Different, from generic Writer's Block). It's where one has a million story ideas and actual time to write them, but they are in no way related to the story that everyone else is waiting on. Sorry about that.
Chapter 1 – Shot in the Shoulder
The first time DG took care of an injury of his was just after the Eclipse.
After her family and her friends had been reunited, everyone set about their next respective order of business.
Azkadellia and her Mother and Father went to show and explain to everyone that it was over. Glitch and Raw went to follow. Cain was anxious to join them and see what happened to Jeb, but he was delayed by DG.
"What happened to your arm?"
She was motioning to his bloody sleeve. Her friends hesitated by the door and Glitch finally answered her.
"It's just a flesh wound…" he said cheerfully. Then continued after a pause, "It's just a flesh wound…"
"Oh, ok!" DG said quickly, sounding informed, hoping to cut him off before he began again.
Cain nodded to Raw, "Raw patched me up for the most part. It's nothing, really…"
Raw smiled timidly.
"Raw not heal completely…"
DG looked at him upset, about to interrogate the poor viewer but Cain cut in to explain.
"I told him to save his strength for people who really need it."
She seemed to deflate for the most part, but her eyes still wandered to the now drying blood on his coat.
"How high can you lift it?"
He hesitated.
"I'm fine…"
She looked to Glitch and Raw, fighting to roll her eyes.
"We'll catch up with you guys," she told them.
They soon left and Cain found himself being helped out of his coat.
Her soft breath was whispering across the back of his neck and her fingers ghosted along his collar as she guided it off of his shoulders. He hissed as his arm twisted in just the wrong way as he moved as he normally would to shirk his coat off.
DG winced behind him, "Sorry…sorry…I got it, you don't have to move."
Raw may have stopped the bleeding, but his muscles still hurt like a son of a –
"There…" DG murmured, setting the coat aside. She looked at the blood on his shirt and on the outside of his shoulder through the hole in the fabric and then searched the room for something. "Hang on…"
She shrugged off her own coat and then took off across the room to a glass of water sitting on the table. She brought it, and after a double take at a curtain, ripped it down and dragged it over to him. She glanced at his face briefly.
"Is it tender?"
He considered her for a moment. He was pretty sure the look on his face was similar to one he would make if she had asked him if he found her attractive.
He was not about to admit it, but…well.
He made a non-committal noise.
"May I?" she motioned to his arm with probing fingers. He gave her a half nod.
She lifted his arm in different ways until he winced, and squeezed here and there. When she was done examining him she looked to the curtain. She tore a few strips off of the bottom and used them to clean his skin and around the holes in his shirt. It had been a through and through, to the outside of his bones thankfully, and so she cleaned first the back and then the front.
As she went about her methodical work, her gaze focused solely on his arm, he found his own gaze wandering. It went from her busy hands, to her slender wrists and to her thin arms, up to her narrow shoulders and finally to her concerned face.
Her mouth was -
She must have felt the weight of his stare because she looked back at him suddenly. His eyes met hers briefly before he averted his gaze and looked back to his torn shirt. Looking back to her, as if it was just a coincidence their eyes had met earlier, he could only blink at her and hope the tense moment would pass.
She finally tore her gaze from him and exhaled shakily, turning away to start tearing more fabric for a sling. He could almost see the blood rush up her neck to her cheeks.
Whoops…
She turned back and slung the fabric around his neck and under his injured arm, studiously avoiding his gaze. She measured how long the strip needed to be and quickly looped her arm over his head, taking the fabric off so she could tear it. She turned back to him he ducked down slightly so she could drape the fabric over him again.
He dared to look at her face in the few scarce inches between them, but she was studiously tying a knot in the fabric, her blush getting deeper by the second. She helped adjust his arm and went to readjust where the knot lied, only to find his other hand there, shifting it slightly.
Both of their hands hesitated for a moment as they brushed against one another, before hers took over, and helped move the sling more easily than he could. She helped him put his coat back on, good arm first, draping the other side over his arm in the sling.
He was about to thank her when her arms went to either side of his neck and he faltered. He felt his collar being tugged into the right position and being adjusted around the knot of the sling. Her hands absentmindedly rubbed down his lapels as she let her hands fall to her sides.
She sighed tiredly. "There you go…"
He swallowed the lump in his throat.
"Thanks," he murmured.
She shrugged on her coat and only looked at him when she finally realized her hands had nothing else to do. She studied him, her wide eyed stare not betraying her thoughts for once.
He really hoped she didn't make a big deal out of him being thankful…it's not like he actually needed help, he just needed to see Jeb was okay, and then he…
"Let's go find Jeb…" she finally replies.
… then he…
He stared at her, dumbfounded.
…Huh…
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A/N: XOXOXO from the self-proclaimed Alliteration Queen. Surprisingly enough I didn't plan the chapter names. They just sort of happened. The Story name though…*points to crown* lol
