Phoenix rolls her eyes and smacks him upside the back of the head.

"Completely full of yourself, aren't you?" The Irish girl kneels in front of Gokudera and cuts the bandages away from Gokudera's torso, whistling as she sees the shoddy stitching. "Wow, Reaper really sucks at this whole doctor thing." She cuts through the stitches and grabs the antiseptic, needle and thread off the table. "This might sting."

Phoenix sets to work cleaning the wounds. Gokudera watches with rapt attention as the girl worked on him.

"I'm not really. But what else am I supposed to do? Ask you how you've been so far?" He winces as Phoenix rinses out his wound with antiseptic and begins to stitch the skin close. "S-Shit. That hurts!"

Phoenix smiles slightly.

"Don't be such a baby." Phoenix starts to wrap clean bandages around Gokudera's torso. "Well you could try for a little humility ever so often." She shrugs at his half question and answers. "I've just been sitting her, slowly accumulating enough drugs to OD."

"You're such a retard, you know that?" Gokudera watches at Phoenix goes to his arm, unwraps the bandages and cuts through the stitching. "Come on, I'm humble! You know I'm an ugly ass motherfucker. I'd never expect someone to fuck me. Unless...you of course." He smirks at the slight blush on Phoenix's face. "Which I still don't even understand."

"I know I'm stupid for trying to kill myself over a guy but considering the other way I was going to die..." Phoenix shrugs and glances up at Gokudera before going back to his arm. "I told you why I like you...and you don't even believe that." She sighs and moves closer to Gokudera's arm, allowing him to feel the heat of her breath and forcing him to repress a shiver. "I think you got a bit of knife embedded in your arm." She goes back to the cabinet and comes back with a pair of tweezers. "This is going to suck for you."

Gokudera shrugs slightly, telling Phoenix to just get on with it.

"I just don't understand how any part of me could make someone like me. I mean it's not like I-FUCKING SHIT!"

Gokudera grabs on to Phoenix's shoulder and squeezes tightly as Phoenix works the tip of a knife from inside his arm. The girl laughs slightly as Gokudera releases her shoulder and places the piece of the knife on the table.

"You big baby." She pours the antiseptic over the wound and begins stitching his arm. Then she goes around to his back and sets to work on that. Gokudera has to regulate his breathing as he feels Phoenix lay a hand on his shoulder blade for balance. "How many times to I have to say it, you can't see the real you. It's hard to explain." She walks back around and smiles at him. "There, arm, back and side all fixed up. Now there's just the leg." Phoenix goes to the sink and washes Gokudera's blood off her hands before going back to the silver-haired teen and sitting on the floor in front of him. As she rolls up his pant leg, Phoenix whistles again. "Damn, this is bad. I really hope that he didn't cut the tendon.

"The tendon?" Gokudera lets out a short laugh "I doubt it. I mean, I can still move it." His ankle jerks up once and Gokudera winces in pain. "D-Damn, it hurts like a mofo. But I can still move it. Anyway what did you mean "the real me"? I'm pretty damn superficial if you haven't noticed."

"Oh I noticed, trust me." The girl lets out a laugh but then focuses on Gokudera's ankle once more. "Just because you can move it doesn't mean there isn't any tendon damage. So don't move it, you could snap the tendon. Okay, here comes more pain for you." Phoenix takes the tweezers and searches around in the wound, looking for bits of knife. When she doesn't find any, Phoenix places the tweezers to the side and places a single finger in to the opening. "Sorry about this. I know it probably hurts, but it's the only way to see if there's any tendon damage in our current situation."

Gokudera bites down on his lip hard enough to draw blood.

"Bullshit. You're just trying to fuck up my tendon so I can't run away from you when you rape me." The Italian teen chuckles through his pain so he doesn't see Phoenix's shoulders set for a second before relaxing as the girl laughs.

"Now you're just being ridiculous." Phoenix pulls her finger out of his leg and sits back on her heals, staring thoughtfully at Gokudera's ankle, biting the inside of her cheek. "I don't think there's any damage, but I'm not sure...Looks like you're gonna have to risk it." Phoenix cleans off the wound and begins stitching. "I really hope I'm right."

"Risk what? And how am I being ridiculous!"

Phoenix looks up at Gokudera and winks.

"I'm not a "on-the-first-date" kinda girl, Hayato."

Gokudera blushes profusely at Phoenix's wink,

"D-Damn, didn't think you would..." He shakes his head. "Nevermind."

"Learn to take a joke Hayato."

She goes back to wrapping the bandages around Gokudera's ankle.

"Well if I'm wrong and there is damage and you go walking around that could snap the tendon...which, in this environment, is near deadly. But I'm usually right about this kinda thing. Normally about 70% of the time.

"Sure I'd fuck up my tendon, but how do you think you're gonna stop me from walking around?"

The older teen rolls her eyes and mutters.

She sighs as she begins to clean up.

"I don't think I could stop you. That's why I'm warning you, take it easy for a while. You walk on a bad tendon before it's good you might never be able to fix it. Trust me on this." Phoenix stands up and deposits all the old bandages on the table. "You can put your shirt back on now."

There is a slight blush on her face as she looks away from Gokudera. A blush that Gokudera doesn't miss as he pulls his shirt on.

"So did ya like what you saw?"

The Italian teen smirks and Phoenix rolls her eyes, scoffing at Gokudera's cockiness.

"You're not as appealing as yo—-" Phoenix stumbles slightly and places a hand over her head, muttering. "Damn it. Not now. Give me another hour, please."

Gokudera grabs onto Phoenix's shoulder as she stumbles again, almost falling.

"Not now what? What happened"

He looks into Phoenix's eyes and sincere concern appears on his face as he see's pain reflected there. Gokudera quickly makes her sit down on the bed next to him.

"I've been clean for a year now and then I take enough morphine to tranquilize an elephant." She flinches and falls back on the bed. "Add in that morphine and I never really got along, the way Reaper gets people clean and Fa-" Her mouth snaps shut as she flinches again. "Don't worry, I've been through this before. I'll be fine."

Gokudera looks down at her in worry and places his hand on her forehead.

"Holy shit! You're burning up!"

Phoenix laughs.

"No I'm not, this is my normal temperature. I run a little hotter than most, don't worry I'm fine."

The smoker frowns and pulls his hand off her head.

"H-Hey, why are you getting all pink!"

Phoenix's patience finally snaps.

"I'm going through withdrawal you idiot!" She flinches and clenches her jaw. "I almost wish that I hadn't survived the OD...but then I wouldn't have gotten to see you again"

Phoenix gives a Gokudera smile and receives a light tap on the head in return.

"Don't say stuff like that, idiot! One of my best friends from my childhood OD'd...It was hard to deal with. So don't even fucking say that." He sighs at the small smile that Phoenix is still giving him, blushing slightly. "S-Shut up. I already told you, I'm nothing special. Wipe that stupid smile off your face. It's making me nauseous."

Phoenix's smile widens but then she flinches.

"Don't hit me. God I hate this! At least last time I had some no name bastard to take it out on. And Reaper would take all the morphine away..." She stands up and goes to the door, banging on it with her fists yelling. "YEAH BECAUSE MAKING ME GO THROUGH WITHDRAWAL AGAIN IS EXACTLY THE TYPE OF THING YOU WANT TO SEE YOU SICK BASTARDS!"

The girl breaths deeply and falls to the ground, causing Gokudera to sigh. He hops over on one foot and sits down next to her.