Author Note: Done as a challenge fic and in a style I don't usually use. It's also pretty short. Hit the review button on the way out and let me know what you thought!
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"Sit down there, let me take a look. Okay, it's pretty deep. I'll just clean it out – "
"Hey, you always use too much of that stuff! Let me do it!"
"You won't be able to, unless you grow eyes in the back of your head. I won't use too much."
"I think you use too much on purpose."
"No, but I'm feeling tempted right now."
"Hey!"
"Hold still!"
"Fine… yow! Not so much, it stings!"
"You want to get it infected?"
"Worrywart."
"Just cautious. It's gonna need a few stitches."
"Really?"
"Stop twisting around, you can't see it."
"I might be able to if you let me near a mirror."
"Can we just get this done? What hit you anyway?"
"Shuriken. Didn't go down, did I?"
"No, good thing too. Hold still."
"Don't pinch!"
"You get a cut like this without mentioning it and you're complaining about a little pinch?" A pause. "I think it's gonna leave a scar."
"Meh, doesn't matter."
A snort. "What, no complaints about your 'pretty face'?"
"Nope. Chicks dig scars. And besides… who wants to die without any?"
"…What do you mean?"
"Well…" Slightly defensive. "When you're born, or hatched, or mutated, you don't have any scars. Not most of the time anyway."
"Not when humans are born."
"Right. So when you die, if you don't have any scars at all, then you haven't done anything. I mean, I have scars from falling off my skateboard. So if you die without any, you're too little to have lived life, or else you just – haven't. If you're scared of getting hurt, then you might not get any scars but you're not gonna have any fun either."
"You know, that's quite philosophical coming from you. Stop waving your arms around."
"Fine."
"So getting this one was fun?"
"Not the wound, that hurts! But the ride bro, life. That's always fun."
A grin that his brother couldn't see. "I can't disagree with you there. Stitches are done."
"Another war wound. Something to tell the grandchildren about."
"Huh. Who says you'll have any?"
"Like I said before bro. Chicks dig scars!"