Unwanted
TJ: Finally, I'm actually getting back into my wonderful world of writing.
Lief: Wonderful now, is it? I could make it a living Hell.
TJ: Yeah, but you won't.
Lief:
*squeaks and nods*
TJ: Good boy.
CHAPTER VII
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Jasmine moved to go down and kneel with Lief and try to help him, but her own pain shot through her own chest from having inhaled so much water the night before. However, Jasmine ignored it and moved off her bed, kneeling beside Lief, using the cloth she had formerly had on her forehead to catch the blood and wipe it away from Lief's mouth once he stopped coughing it up.
"Lief, are you all right?" Jasmine asked, images of his large bruise came into her mind. "Do you know what's making you do this?"
"The bruise," Lief said, wincing when Jasmine put her hand on his back. Jasmine apologized.
"How did you get the bruise?"
"I… got bitten by something, or scratched myself on something," Lief said. Jasmine looked worried suddenly, more than she had been before.
"Lief, get up on the bed, and let me look at this bruise again," Jasmine said. "Where were you bitten or scraped?"
"On my ankle."
"Let me look at that too," Jasmine said, helping Lief to his feet gently, and helping him to sit on her bed. Lief took his shirt off, and Jasmine took it, and put it on the back of a chair nearby. Lief took one of his boots off as well. Jasmine looked at his ankle first, she nearly screamed.
Hanging off his right ankle was a huge, throbbing worm-like creature, with long legs and several claws. All the claws were digging into Lief's ankle, along with the entire head, which had been burrowed into Lief's ankle as well. The creature was swelling, but it did not seem to be drinking any blood. Lief's ankle appeared weaker than normal, and it seemed the muscle weakness was spreading up his leg.
The blood seemed to be gathering from that leg, up to Lief's chest and upper body, and was beginning to creep into his arms and other legs, forming the large bruise, which nearly covered Lief's entire body.
Lief nearly yelled in shock and disgust himself. "Ooh, how are we going to get it off without hurting you?" Jasmine asked nobody in particular, not even really Lief, although it was half aimed to him in case he had any suggestions.
Lief, clearly, was still shocked from what was hanging off his ankle.
He stuttered. "I don't care if it h-hurts me," he said. "J-just try and pry it off or something, I r-really don't want to be a big bruise." It was also clear it was making him sick to his stomach, and he didn't like that feeling one bit. Jasmine nodded, she would be acting totally freaked out in a situation like that as well.
Jasmine thought for a long moment, before pulling one of her daggers out.
Carefully, she sliced each one of the creature's clawed legs off, and then put her dagger between its head and Lief's skin. Lief gasped in pain, but nothing more, he remained as still as he could to make it easier for Jasmine.
Jasmine began to pry the creature's head out of Lief's ankle; it was hard, because she could barely see around the swelling body. She then beheaded it, the body falling to the floor, before she continued to pry the head out of Lief's ankle. Once she accomplished this, she did scream in shock, because the head was still biting at the air, rows and rows of sharp teeth, and a thrashing tongue.
"Jasmine, the legs!" Lief said through the pain of his ankle, the legs of the creature were still digging into his ankle. It was as if the creature had molded itself onto Lief's ankle.
Jasmine then worked on prying the legs out of Lief's ankle. As soon as that was done, the bruise began to fade, the blood that had made the bruise streamed out of the holes in his ankle. Jasmine snatched some bandages from her pack, and started to wrap up Lief's ankle, putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding.
Lief winced in pain, but let her, letting Jasmine gently put a hand on his bare chest and push him into a laying position.
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TJ: Heh, Lief, you're just a –
Lief: *puts a hand over TJ's mouth*
TJ: -_-
