Well then, I suppose you'll all be wanting to … murder me or some such. Distributes small axes to all Enjoy! . Offers herself up to be murdered
Coming Together
Chapter 8
The door of the apartment opened none too quietly and bounced rudely back in Alexis's face. Growling she slammed it open once more, but held it savagely back against the wall, making room for Hailey to negotiate herself in. Seeing as the small, still unconscious, Heather was nestled in the silver haired girl's arms, this wasn't as easy as it would seem.
Turning sideways, Hailey slipped slowly past Lexi and made her way to the couch. Luckily for her Nagi had flipped the light switch, saving her from bruised shins. Kneeling slowly she lowered Heather onto the couch and cradled her head down into the pillow that everyone knew had not been there when they had left. Obviously Brad had seen that it would be needed, along with the metal medical supply box that sat on the coffee table.
"Lovely choice of decoration, don't you think?" Lexi joked futilely as she opened the box and rummaged around. "Nothing more homely than a metal box full of… A sandwich… Ah! Nasty!!"
A disgusted look on her face Alexis transported a rather furry looking sandwich to the kitchen garbage can.
"Don't trust anything you find in there! It's all contaminated!!!"
Nagi simply rolled his eyes and muttered Schuldig's name under his breath. Then he turned to Hailey. "What all do you need?"
"Ummm…. Just some gauze to wrap her head in… and maybe… Awww fuck! She needs stitches. The wire tore her right arm all to hell. Sanitize it first…"
"I know that much!" Nagi hissed as he began sterilizing a needle with peroxide. Then he handed it over and opened a package of sterile… stuff you do stitches with. He couldn't quite remember what it was called right now. While all that went on Hailey used another bottle of peroxide and some gauze to clean and flush out the wounds.
With quickness and precision Hailey threaded the needle and began to pull the skin of her teammates arm back into place and stabalizing it with neat stitches. Heather mumbled softly and tugged to free her arm. Then she fell silent and still once again. Checking carefully to ensure she had closed all of the lacerations, Hailey wrapped the needle up in some gauze and then slipped the entire bloody mess into a small plastic bag to be thrown out. Then she carefully turned Heather's head to inspect the place she had impacted the rock. Vaguely she debated obliterating said rock… or possibly Balinese. Then she uses a gauze pad, dampened with peroxide to clean the area, ridding the small scratches of dirt, blood and bacteria. Finally she covers over the impact site with an antibiotic smeared gauze pad and uses wraps of gauze to hold it securely in place.
Alexis grabbed up the bag of bloody gauze so that it may join the sandwich in the trash. "Is anyone else injured?"
"No"
"No"
"Well then… Now what?"
Hailey answered as she drew a small cover over Heather, "Now, you and Nagi go to bed and I'll watch sleeping beauty." She knew that asking what to do was Alexis's way of asking permission to leave. Missions had always given the girl a high that needed to be worked off somehow. Usually by shopping or a spar with Nat.
Annoyed at being denied an outing Alexis flounced off to her room. Then she whined and came back out. "Schu and Brad are sleeping together! It's weird! Make 'em stooop!!"
Groaning Nagi just got up and slunk off to his vacant room. He wasn't seen again and soon a mental sweep told both Hailey and Alexis he was asleep.
"I can't make them stop Lexi. Just…. Ah…" for a moment Hailey hung her head and buried her face in her hands to think…. "Just go sleep in Heather's bed… or Brad's. No, not his. Go sleep in Heather's bed, hun."
Seeing her leader's state Lexi nodded and grabbed her hand. Walking backwards she effectively pulled Hailey, unwillingly, to her feet. "You go to bed too. Heather will be fine, she doesn't need baby sat."
Frowning, Hailey nodded and blew a kiss to the injured girl before padding off to her room. Lexi nodded and slipped off to claim Heather's bed. Without turning on the light Hailey swept a quick look around the room and saw that Farf was sitting on her bed, Natalia curled up sleeping beside him. One amber eye burned from the darkness, showing that he was still awake. Smiling a bit she padded over and sat gingerly on the edge of the bed. Her hand roamed to trail fingers lightly over the sleeping red-heads face. Then she looked up at Farfarello and sighed. "Everything go okay?" He voice was no more than a ghostly whisper.
"Shouldn't I be asking? You look like hell… it's a good look on you" A sadistic grin spread over his face and Hailey felt slightly uneasy.
"Things went fine. Heather took a nasty hit, but she'll be fine. Perhaps you should go to bed now." Her face remaining calm Hailey searched vainly to find some other wakeful member of the household. She was unsuccessful.
Much to Hailey's relief Farf nodded and slid off the bed. Moments later she heard the click as his door closed. Quickly she dashed and threw the lock on the outside of the madman's door into a locked position. Then she slowly made her way back to her room and climbed into bed next to Nat. Within moments her eyes were shut and the small red-head was cradled against her chest. Sleep, however, refused to come.
The silver haired woman lay awake for many long hours, fighting the feelings that seeped into her mind. Angry flares of guilt tore her to shreds as slowly, bit by bit, she convinced herself that the entire fiasco had been her fault. Finally as the sun peered over the horizon and small shafts of light filtered through the window pane, sleep came. Saving the woman from herself and throwing her into oblivion brought on by exhaustion and stress.
End Chapter 8
Okay, so it is short, but it's something!!! But Ima type some more before I go to bed, so no fear. I'll post more soon. Promise!
And Thanks to all the reviewers. It means sooo much to hear someone other than my mom say this doesn't suck.