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"Well, it failed" she sighed and laid back down. He huffed and stood up, leaving her. She brought her hands in front of her face but winced as she was about to set them down over her eyes.
"Does it hurt now?" Posy asked running into view.
"Sort of" The blonde mumbled, trying to describe the painful throbbing of blood. Posy leaned forward looking at the bandage.
"It's a little bloody"
"Oh no" Mrs. Everdeen called from the fire and came over, ripping the bandage off. Madge cried out, her eyes freeing the tears. The back of her throat filled with bile, most of the stitches stayed intact, as Madge could still feel the pull of each and every one of them. "We might need to add a stitch. Here" she said but Madge couldn't see where she was pointing.
"Can I see?" she asked, whispering.
"Better not" Gale's voice said from out of vision.
"I'm not weak and feeble" she snapped at him
"Give her the mirror" Gale sighed and moved the ferns behind her as he was planning to sit. Madge took her mirror from Mrs. Everdeen, studying the stitches.
"I should have listened to you" she sighed, talking to Gale over her shoulder.
"They're not that bad" Madge groaned
"They're worse than bad"
"Don't move" Mrs. Everdeen said sternly and Madge froze up, closing her eyes, shut. She felt Gale shift behind her.
"Wait" he called out. Madge let out a strangled breath,
"I told you, that I don't want the morphling" Her head was lifted slowly and his fingers soothed through her hair, bringing over his leg. He moved slowly under her and ran a finger under the scar. She sighed.
"Okay" he said to Ms. Everdeen. Madge tensed up again but Gale's fingers in her hair and along her neck was making her dizzy. The pain was worse this time and she almost wanted to pull away and hide from the needle.
"This is my new fear" she growled
"What stitches or needles?" he asked, casting a shadow over her closed eyes, as he looked over her.
"Both" she smiled slightly, but she cringed when it hurt.
"Don't move" Mrs. Everdeen reminded her.
"Isitgoingtobeoversoon?" she garbled
"Yes, Madge" Gale whispered, "focus on this" he moved his fingers along her chin and the tenseness in her neck and collarbone. She tried but Mrs. Everdeen's fingers were really sinking into her skin.
"Gale" she tried to tell him but by the time the words slinked out of her mouth it was all over. Gauze pulled against the black ends of each tie-off. "No" she said turning her head away from it. "I don't want my face to look like a beehive"
"It's for the best, Madge" Gale said from the corner of his mouth. She finally looked at him. His eyes were tailed on her face, the stitches.
"Don't look at them" she murmured
"Look at her" Bristel said looking over at Thom
"What am I looking at?" Thom asked, looking directly at the open-aired stitches.
"Just the way she's with Gale" She said extending a shaking hand towards the two. Thom had hardly noticed Gale there.
"Uh…" he said cleverly.
"Isn't it sick?" she hissed, pushing back her bangs, "the way she's clinging to him?"
"Bri… she's getting stitches. They suck" Thom said, his eyebrows knitting together, "she held onto me the same way"
"She's totally using him" Bri said completely ignoring Thom's reasoning.
"You should confront her with these accusations" Thom said loudly, "get to know her. I mean she's not going anywhere"
"Maybe I'll leave" Thom snorted,
"Yeah, you want to leave this? Be on your own?"
"I could do it" He rolled his eyes
"Sure for two days then come running back"
"I'll take Madge with me" Bristel said seriously
"That's smart." Thom smirked, imagining, Bristel and Madge alone in the wilderness.
"I'm going to call it a girl's excursion" Bristel hoisted herself off the log and made her way over to Madge and Gale.
"Don't look at them" Madge whispered
"I'm not" Gale whispered back.
"I'm looking at them. They don't look that bad" Bristel said forcing herself into the conversation.
"They don't?" Bristel wanted to remark that her eyes were too big for her face, but she refrained.
"Not at all" she continued, "and you could always hide the scar with your hair or with a tan"
"That's true…" Madge murmured, unfortunately Bristel made eye contact with Gale. He did not look convinced or amused by this conversation.
"I have this idea…"
"About my scar?" Madge cut in and Bristel held back a snarl for being interrupted
"Err… no… completely different"
"Oh are you talking to me or Gale?" Bristel could barely stand the arm that entailed around Madge's skinny waist when the blonde said his name.
"You actually" Bristel tried again, "so I was thinking about having a camp out away from the camp out" Madge just stared, "you know like roughing it without the boys to show them we can do it ourselves"
"Can we do it ourselves?" Madge asked, her eyebrows raising and her mouth twisting up in question.
"That's the thing. I think we can, but if we can't the boys can feel more superior than they already are" Now Gale had on his signature smirk, and brooding thinking grey eyes. Madge looked up at him.
"What do you think?" she asked him.
"Do you think you should go out there with those new stitches?" he asked, looking slightly worried.
"He's trying to talk you out of it! Don't take the bait" Bristel dearly wanted to cross her fingers behind her back.
"I really want to out shine the boys" Madge smirked, "then everyone can stop looking down on me"
"No one looks down on you, Madge" Gale grumbled but dared Bri to say otherwise
"No they don't" Bristel agreed
"Should I be cleared by Mrs. E?" Madge asked the two of them
"She's just going to say no running, jumping, climbing trees, or swimming" Gale said
"So we're doing this?" Bristel demanded excitedly
"Yeah we're doing this" Madge scrambled up to find her nurse. That left Gale, Bri, and a eavesdropping Thom.
"I hope you know what you're getting yourself into" Thom laughed
"I hope you're not leading her to her death" Gale snapped
"Chill out guys" Bristel said leaning back, on her pack. "Let nature take its course"
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You think Bri is gonna like kill Madge? Or... the other way around O.o FOOD FOR THOUGHT. lol
Erin