Looks like I'm continuing with this one…short but I'm happy with it.
I am working on GoaS, promise!
When Dom found her again, after she had woken up, he helped her to her stand and kept an arm wrapped tightly around her waist. He took her glaive in his other arm as she mirrored his action with her right arm, slipping it round his waist. The other came round his front and gripped onto the material of his shirt.
He told himself that it was merely to support her while another part of his brain countered that he just liked to hold her. That, when he held her, she wasn't in any danger and he wouldn't let anything harm her.
"I'm not going to fall over Dom" Kel said as she tried to escape from his hold.
He turned his head and looked at her, giving her a look that quite clearly said he didn't believe her, before lifting his arm from her body and stepping away, only to quickly step back and replace his hold on her when she swayed on the spot.
"Yeah, you're fine," he said sarcastically "If you were any more fine, I'd be carrying you across this courtyard"
"You wouldn't dare" she groaned out, laying her head against his shoulder and letting her eyes close shut, finally submitting to the tiredness she'd been experiencing since Neal had worked his magic on her.
She felt his chest move as he let out a low rumbling laugh.
"Try me" he whispered into her ear before dropping a kiss on to the top of her head.
She kept her eyes closed as they moved, and let him lead her back over to where Neal sat, trusting that he would guide her safely. She heard the murmurs of others as they walked and felt, rather than heard, Dom give them short answers, not once stopping till they had reached the area slightly to the left of the makeshift infirmary.
"Sit" Dom said when they reached where Neal sat slumped on an abandoned pallet. Reluctantly he removed his arm from her waist and placed it on her shoulder. He pushed down and although she felt weak, she resisted the need to sit.
"Dom, I have work to do. I'll rest later" she said tilting her head slightly to look up at him. She snaked one of her arms round his, the one that held on to her shoulder, using it, though she wouldn't admit it, to steady herself.
"You," he said firmly, setting her glaive against the wall at their backs, and placing that hand on her other shoulder and standing so that he faced her "Have to rest, doesn't see Neal?" he said looking down at the Knight at his feet and giving him is full attention for a moment.
Neal sat with his head between his legs, trying to get his blood flowing again, to get rid of the dizziness that was affecting him. He, however, nodded his head in agreement with Dom before groaning loudly and falling onto his side, resting his head on his arms like a pillow and began snoring. His breathing was slow and deep while his pulse could clearly be seen, fluttering wildly at the pulse point on his neck.
Dom raised an eyebrow and looked round at Kel, who also brought her gaze back up from the prone figure of her friend, who lay on a pallet on the ground.
"Now how can you argue with that?" he asked, showing his teeth in a smile that didn't rid his eyes of his worry for his younger cousin.
"Dom" Kel moaned, letting her head drop so that her chin rested on her chest.
"Everything," he said "Is being taken care of" and he pushed again on her shoulders and was rewarded when she relented, sinking to the ground with a sigh.
"Rest" he said as he knelt down beside her, pushing her hair out of her face and tucking it behind her ears before standing and ambling off to make sure that everything was fine and people where getting the rest that they needed to be ready to go.
"I saw that" came a mumbled voice and Kel, who had been gazing after Dom, turned to the rumpled heap that was Neal. His green eyes peaked out from under his arms as he looked wearily at her.
"Saw what?"
"Exactly" Neal said as he drifted off to sleep once more, leaving Kel shaking her head and chuckling quietly to herself.