Prompt: Doctor Visits
Fandom: Free!
Pairings: Rin/Sousuke
Rating: T
Word Count: ~490
Warnings: N/A
Day 26: Doctor Visits
Rin gave Sousuke a small smile and gave him the thumbs up from where he sat. Sousuke nodded before following the nurse, his one arm clutching his shoulder. Rin let out a shaky breath as soon as he left his sight, running hands over his face. He reassured himself that Sousuke was fine, his arm was fine.
It was probably just dislocated, pulled from its socket, nothing forever damaging. Still, a deep seeded fear from their childhood darkened Rin's heart. Why was that arm always getting hurt, why couldn't it just catch a break?
He took a deep breath before leaning back into his chair and observed the other people in the room with him. There were a few others there by themselves, and a couple that wasn't quite elderly but well on their way. He closed his eyes when he finished looking over the room and rolled his shoulders, trying to release some of the tension in them.
The room was quiet save for the murmurs of the other patients and the humming of the TV propped up in one corner of the room. Seconds ticked by one by one, and Rin felt every single one of them. He tried to entertain himself, scrolling through his phone and flipping through some of the magazines there. He looked up as soon as he heard the door click open, but saw no Sousuke.
The nurse called out a name and the older couple stood up, the two of them going in together. He heard the nurse's quiet small talk, talking about how nice it was that her husband came to join her that day. He didn't hear much else of their conversation as they left through the big brown door.
Rin wasn't sure what about that kept his attention. Was it the way the woman was clinging onto her husband, limping across the floor as her husband helped her to the other side? Was it how supportive her husband was? Maybe it was just the fact that they could enter behind that daunting door together. That they were married and so had the right to.
The door clicked open again and Sousuke came out with the nurse, his arm in a sling. He walked up to Rin with a frown and shrugged one shoulder. Rin threw the magazine in his hands back down on the table and stood up.
"Dislocated," Sousuke informed him and Rin nodded, figuring that was the case. "Have to be resting it and all of that, no 'extraneous activity of any kind.'"
Rin cracked a smile at the tone of his voice, knowing exactly what the idiot was thinking. He pressed his fist against his good arm, giving it a little nudge. Sousuke grinned back at him as he adjusted his shirt collar, pulling it up more so the strap of the sling wasn't digging into his neck.
"Are we all done here then?"
"Yeah, let's go home."