After Jarid's asthma was reduced to a slight wheeze and cough, Jessi turns her attention to Auggie who is trembling and pale.
"Auggie, I'm going to need to re-bandage you."
"Oh please, that's just an excuse for you to get me to take off my shirt."
Jessi smiles and helps him remove his shirt as he hisses in pain.
She slowly changes the bandaging, not liking the fact that he's still bleeding.
The knife wound is deep, but not long luckily. The bleeding is what concerns her the most; there was a lot of blood on the floor, on both his and her hands, as well as all over his shirt.
Jessi is grateful she took the bus; if not, the man she's patching up might not have lived…
She notices his brown eyes closing as she wipes the wound with an antiseptic wipe.
After bandaging up the wound, Jessi gets up and grabs one of the button-up shirts from a rack in the store.
It's blue and not very bad looking for a gas station shirt anyway.
She helps him get it up over his arms carefully, and watches him button it with shaky fingers.
"Quit starin'," Auggie says, smirking.
"Oh, sorry," she says looking away, blushing, until a stabbing pain runs through her back. She groans.
Auggie immediately reacts, "What's the matter?" he says, looking at the wall concerned.
"Oh, just a stupid muscle," she says, trying to relax her muscles.
"Where?" Auggie says, waving his hands around her.
She grabs his hand and places it on her back where the muscle is tightened.
"Ouch, that has to hurt." Auggie says, feeling the hard muscle. He starts massaging it with two of his fingers.
Her muscles loosen beneath his fingers.
She sighs, and then looks at him, "Thanks."
"No problem. Your muscles must be overtaxed from walking… You should drink more water," he says, drinking his own water carefully.
Jessi obeys, taking a drink from her own bottle.
Annie walks in from the back.
"Phone lines have been cut. I think this store has been robbed and I saw blood," she says, looking nervous.
"We better pack up some stuff just in case they come back and-" Auggie is cut off by a car door slamming.
Annie grabs a backpack shoves as many waters as she can in it. Auggie and Jared grab tote bags and begin unloading shelves of food into them as Jessi scrambles with medical supplies.
They run to the bathroom bags in hand.
Annie opens the bathroom window over the toilet slowly, and helps Jessi out first, followed by Jared.
After that she turns to Auggie.
"No way are you going out after me," Auggie demands, handing a tote bag to Annie.
She nods, climbs out, and hits the ground with a careful thud.
Auggie takes a deep breath and then tumbles out the window himself, hitting the ground painfully.
