It hurt to move. Rin kept suppressing winces as she mopped the floor. It was the night after she had helped the silver haired man and her father had caught her in those moments she went home after school and he had kicked her ass so bad that she was surprised she could move at all.
She was sure that her ankle was sprained and she wouldn't be able to talk even if she wanted to since her father had tried to strangle her again. There were nicely colored bruises on her throat in the shapes of finger marks and her throat was raw from the pressure that had been exerted on it.
Underneath her clothes were many cuts, a few gashes from her father going dagger happy, and numerous bruises. All in all she felt like hell but a promise was a promise and she had promised she would do this. Every move hurt and all she wanted to do was go collapse somewhere.
She didn't know when the last time she had eaten anything was but at the moment, her physical wounds blocked out hunger pains. She mopped the floor with an automatic swipe and determined that the mop was the only thing holding her up. She came to room 314 and remembered the gorgeous man from the night before.
Gold eyes had haunted her normally pain filled sleep and she had wondered about a man for the first time in her young life. It wouldn't hurt to slip in to make sure that he hadn't caught his arm in the rail again.
She leaned the mop against the wall and braced herself against it to make sure she wasn't going to fall, 'cause if she fell she wasn't going to get up again and that was going to cause some questions she wasn't going to want to answer. She slipped silently into his room and saw he was sleeping again.
His arm was fine and bound up in some sorts of sling. She saw a chair and dropped gratefully into it. Only for a moment, she was only going to rest for a single moment before she left. She leaned her head against the wall and closed her eyes.
Unbeknownst to her, her hair had slipped back from her neck where she had it clipped to reveal the black bruises along the slender column. Sesshomaru had been awake since he had heard her at the other end of the hall.
He had pretended to sleep hoping the young woman would come in to check on him. She had and he had watched from a slit in his eyes. He was surprised when he saw the utter exhaustion in her silver orbs along with a lingering fear, no scratch that, terror.
He had been questioning that fear he had saw when she had slipped into the chair to rest and leaned her head back so he could see the bruises. His eyes flashed red briefly before he could control it but he had the instant and baffling rage under control in a blink of an eye, "why do you still work when you are so tired?"
A silver eye slit open for a moment and Rin suppressed a groan. All she had wanted was a few minutes of loving rest for her battered body but no, fate had decided she didn't need rest like the rest of humanity.
She might be a demon but damn it she still needed rest. Making her body rise she stood and intertwined two fingers in the direction of the demon. That symbol was as old as time meaning a promise.
The man shook his head as she headed towards the door, "please don't go back to work on my account. I would like the company, please." Sesshomaru never asked for anything so asking was new to him but this battered girl drew him as no other had.
She looked warily at him for a moment as if judging whether he was being sincere or just wanted to leer and decided he was being sincere. She dropped back into the chair with a not quite able to disguise it sigh of relief.
Sesshomaru looked at the girl and asked, "so are you really mute or do you just not talk?" Her body was resting so she again indicated two fingers meaning both. Sesshomaru nodded, acknowledging the sign, "so you started by not talking and eventually you just couldn't talk anymore?"
Rin nodded her head and then cocked her head at him in silent question. Sesshomaru nodded, "This was caused by my stupid half brother when he got sword happy. My name is Sesshomaru by the way." Rin nodded and then glanced at her watch. She had to finish the floor in an hour if she was to have time to do her homework.
She stood indicating the time and Sesshomaru, whom was becoming sleepy, nodded, "please can you tell me your name?" But before she could shake her head he drifted off to sleep. A small smile cracked on Rin's lips before she quickly scrawled on a piece of paper at his side table and then placed it under his hand, Rin.
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