26: Bandages
"Oh my God." Lucy bit her bottom lip, surveying Jellal over. The man's leg was up in a sturdy cast, and although Fairy Tail's uniform covered most areas of skin, Lucy could see the flash of white bandages at his wrists, the veins of his hands pale and blue from where he was gripping his crutches. "You shouldn't be moving around. Or at work. When was this? Usually they don't discharge you this early especially since you look like-"she gestured at him, and his pained, twitching winces. "You'll going to fall over."
"That's exactly what I told him." Erza swept through the doors, her book bag over her shoulder and, much to the chagrin of Lucy's fraying rapidly nerves, also bandaged. White wrapped around her forehead, down to the side where her right eye was. Her ankles were taped and her hair swished in a spill of deep red down her back. If it was any consolation, Erza still looked a lot better than Jellal. "You should go to bed for the next week and stay there."
Personally, Lucy thought that Jellal needed a lot more than a week.
"Wait. Did you two get in the same car accident?"
Date first published: April 14 2016