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It's a Relative World

"When did it happen?" Elizabeth demanded, watching Blaxton snuggle his face into her shoulder when Jack proceeded to cleansing the festering wound. "And how?" She frowned, finding it difficult to talk but knowing that it was the best way to distract Blaxton.

"It happened in Shipwreck Cove," Blaxton muttered with a pout.

Elizabeth's eyes grew wide. "A week ago?" she exclaimed incredulously, exchanging a look with Jack. She bit her lip when Blaxton gasped and grimaced, and kissed the top of his head, looking intently at Jack's hands.

Jack gave Blaxton a compassionate look before starting to treat the fairly deep and long gash that ran across his shin.

"I fell from a tree and there was that rock on the ground," Blaxton said with a twitch of his nose, squeezing his eyes shut when the needle went through his skin for the first time.

"Rocks are treacherous," Jack said, his eyebrows knitted.

Elizabeth swallowed, unable to look at the proceedings anymore. Blaxton, on the other hand, after wincing for just a second peered through half-lidded eyes at what Jack was doing with certain interest, curiosity winning over the pain.

"They are!" Blaxton agreed, his gaze fixed on his wound.

"Why didn't you tell us that it had happened?" Elizabeth asked in a low, quite desperate voice, looking away when Blaxton shuddered slightly in her arms, clenching his fists but keeping quiet.

"I thought it wasn't important," Blaxton replied, remembering not to shrug in order to remain as still as possible.

"Why would you think that?" Elizabeth asked in astonishment, tightening her embrace around him.

"When that broken mast hit Dad during the storm, his leg looked just like mine," Blaxton explained... or thought that he explained because Elizabeth seemed rather confused. She glanced at Jack and to her further confusion noticed that he was struggling to keep amusement out of his face.

"Well..." she started uncertainly but Blaxton helpfully offered a clarification:

"I thought it was just a scratch. When Dad hurt his leg you told him that it was just a scratch and that he should stop talking about it."

Jack, who was just finishing his work chuckled but Elizabeth was too startled by the announcement to even think about shooting him a glare.