Toothache
By Fatal Melody
A/N: Hello again! Writing this directly after I wrote the last chapter! No time for reviews! GOTTA WRITE! So, absolutely astounding results with this one. Just 1 hour and I already have 1 person favorite and 2 following! AND OVER 50 VIEWS! IN 1 HOUR! HOLY CRAAAAAAAAAAAP!Sorry, I got a bit carried away there. Anyway, allow me to tell you how things are going with MY surgery. Just last Wednesday, I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled. The top two were impacted, and the bottom two had emerged to the surface. Somehow, I received nerve damage and now I can't feel part of my bottom lip, but that should clear within the next few days. Tomorrow is my 7-day checkup with the surgeon to make sure everything is healing the way it should. Nothing has gone wrong so far, so there's almost no concern for a dry socket. Yay! ENJOY THE CHAPTER!
Disclaimer: RoosterTeeth owns this shit!
Toothache
Chapter 2: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
"WEEEIIISS!" Ruby yelled, still not quite out of the sedated state of the anesthetics. "FUUUCK!"
"Ruby, don't talk. You have to keep that gauze in your mouth," Weiss said gently, as to not upset her partner.
The surgery had gone off without any problems, and now a rather high Ruby was being led back to her room by Weiss.
"But Weiss, what about the damn butterflies? There's so many fucking butterflies!" Ruby slurred while hallucinating. Weiss sighed and grinned.
"Ruby, I know you're still a bit out of it, but try not to swear, okay?" Weiss asked calmly.
"No problem, princess!" Ruby saluted.
The two made it back to the room, and Ruby immediately went for the fridge on wobbly, unsteady legs. She pulled out a can of soda and was about to open it when Weiss stopped her.
"Ruby, you can't drink those. Not for the next week, anyway," the Heiress said. Ruby didn't move to put down the can.
"I don't care what the fuck the doctor says," Ruby slurred. "It's his fault that I can't fucking have it anyway!"
"Ruby," Weiss said calmly.
"What?"
"Do you know how it feels to have a carbonated beverage poured into an open wound?"
Silence.
"I thought so," Weiss concluded as Ruby reluctantly put the can back into the fridge.
Ruby had finally come off the anesthetics, and she was in a world of hurt.
"Weiss, it hurts," the girl moaned in pain, curling up in Weiss' bed as a tear rolled down onto the already slightly damp pillow. She had wanted to get into her own bed, but she couldn't climb up to it.
Weiss felt bad for her partner. She hated seeing Ruby hurt, whether it be from fighting, falling, or anything else.
"I know, Ruby, but I can't give you more medicine for another hour," Weiss replied in a gentle voice, rubbing her partner's back in an attempt to comfort the young girl. A small timer went off on the bed.
"Alright, this is your last change of gauze," Weiss said, rolling up the last two squares of absorbent material. She gently pulled the bloodied ones from Ruby's mouth, taking extra care not to cause the girl any discomfort. With the last rolls of gauze in place, Ruby closed her mouth and laid her head back down on the pillows.
"Weiss, I'm really tired," Ruby said softly.
"Then try to sleep, dolt," Weiss replied, throwing out the used bandaging. As Ruby drifted off to sleep, she could've sworn she heard Weiss singing a lullaby.
An hour later, Weiss gently woke the sleeping girl from her quick nap.
"Okay Ruby, I can give you more painkillers now," Weiss said as she handed the girl a glass of water and a white pill. After removing the last set of gauze, Ruby quickly downed the pill, wanting the pain to stop as soon as it could.
Yang and Blake slowly and quietly entered the room, silently closing the door behind them.
"Hey Weiss, how's she doing?" Yang asked quietly, desperate to know how her little sister was faring.
"Well, she's doing better than I was when I had this surgery, that's for sure," Weiss responded, remembering just how miserable she had been. The anesthetics didn't quite sit well with Weiss' system, so she got the side effect of nausea.
"That's good to hear," Yang said, relieved. "Weiss," she started, catching the Heiress' attention, "thank you, for taking care of her."
"Hey, I'm her partner. SOMEONE has to make sure that dolt is okay," Weiss replied, crossing her arms with a smirk.
A while later, the young black-and-red headded huntress felt her stomach rumble.
"Weiss, I'm hungry," Ruby said, her voice gaining back some of its strength.
"Well, what do you want first? We have yogurt, ice cream, or pudding," Weiss responded, reading out the options to her partner.
"Pudding sounds pretty good about now," Ruby answered. Weiss soon brought over a bowl of vanilla pudding with a spoon to her partner.
"Here. Vanilla's one of your favorites, right?" Weiss asked with a smile. Ruby simply nodded as she took the bowl and spoon from Weiss.
The two sat in silence as Ruby ate. Yang and Blake had gone out to get some milk and other foodstuffs from the store.
When Ruby finished, she felt more energized than before, and had sat up in the bed.
"Weiss, what do you wanna watch on TV?" the girl asked as Weiss washed the bowl out.
"What's on?" the Heiress said back.
"Well, we have Vale's Funniest Home Videos, Impractical Tricksters, and a big stack of movies we could watch," Ruby suggested.
"I'd go with VFV, personally, but you're the one in recovery so you get to pick," Weiss responded, walking back into the room and sitting on her bed next to Ruby.
"Nah, you get to choose. You've been taking care of me all day!" Ruby said back, smiling at her partner. She flipped through the channels until they reached XYZ, the channel that broadcasted VFV.
An hour of laughing and sympathetic pain passed, and neither of the two had realized that their other teammates had come back.
"So," Yang began, breaking the silence. "You guys wanna watch a movie?" she asked her team.
Everyone looked at Yang as she pulled out a brand-new copy of Eric Fueller's Day Off.
As the end credits began to roll, Weiss noticed that her shoulder felt unnaturally heavy. She looked down and saw that Ruby had fallen asleep, using her partner as a human pillow.
"Awww," Yang whispered at the adorable scene before her.
Weiss gave the blonde a cautionary glare as she set her partner on the bed properly. When she went to get herself something to drink, however, her partner let out a pitiful whimper. She sat back down next to Ruby and smiled warmly at her.
'Rest up, you adorable little dolt,' Weiss thought to herself.
The rest of the afternoon went on as it normally would, with the small exception of Ruby not noisily destroying her dinner.
When it was time that the team decided to go to sleep, Weiss came across a problem. Since Ruby was still too uncoordinated to climb into her own bed, Weiss' own bed was still being used by her partner. Weiss weighed her options. She could either use Ruby's bed, or share one with Ruby for the night.
The choice was obvious.
"Ruby, could you move over?" She asked her partner.
"Why don't you sleep in my bed?" Ruby asked.
"I told you on day one. That thing is a disaster waiting to happen!"
As if on cue, the suspended bed groaned slightly under its own weight.
"Oh alright, fine," Ruby said, sliding over in the bed to make room.
Weiss slid under the covers, finding herself face to face with bright, silver eyes.
"Goodnight, Weiss," Ruby said, smiling at her partner.
"Goodnight, you dolt," Weiss responded with a gentle smile, flipping over to face away from Ruby.
Sleep came quickly for the both of them.
