Angela took her hands back, the dragon scared her at first. She knew it was Genji's dragon, his spirit animal, that he could summon whenever he needed it, but that was about all of what she knew. She looked at the dragon. The beast stared back at her, looked quickly and worried at it's master, before staring Mercy down again. She took a deep breath and began to speak: "Let me help him. I won't harm him, but you need to let me help him now." The dragon growled once more, then looked at Genji and moved back, to let Mercy do her work.
Strangely enough the dragon stayed, it didn't disappear like before, but instead overlooked every move Mercy made. She looked at the wound at first, then grabbed her staff and healed him a bit, before she went to grab her largest bag. In the bag she had brought at lot of her surgical equiment. She prepped the equipment and Genji. She performed a quick surgery and removed to bullet, then focused on stabilizing Genji.
Only when she was done she sat down and felt her legs and hands starting to shake, she even sobbed, before she realized that a few tears were running down her cheeks. The dragon was still close to Genji and had laid it's head onto him. Only when it heared Mercy's sobbing it moved towards her and wrapped around her body. Angela was more than just surprised. "What are you ...? Why?", she asked. The dragon laid it's head onto hers, before jumping back to it's master and wrapping around him. She walked over to Genji and checked on him. He opened his eyes, slowly and the dragon disappeared.
"Angela ...", he said softly. She took his hand. "I'm so glad I have all of my equipment here ... Who were those people? Why did you ... protect me like that again ...?", she asked, it was like her feelings where overwhelming her at that point, as well as all the questions stuck in her mind.
Genji looked at her, trying to get everything she just said, after he had just woken up. His wound hurt a lot, he shut his eyes and groaned. Mercy got up, he heared her walk a few quick steps, then come back and inject a cool liquid into his arm. "How could I forget the painkillers ...?", she asked herself, confused and with blame in her voice. He looked at her and began once more: "Angela ..." She looked at him. He weakly pulled her closer to him, so he could hug her with one arm. "Thank you.", he whispered. Carefully she hugged him back and placed a kiss on his cheek. "You didn't have to protect me like that ... again ...", she said softly. "These guys ... were Yakuza. They were after us ... I had to -", he replied, but stopped himself as he noticed Mercy's slight sobbing. He hugged her tighter. "I'm sorry.", he said.
"I ... I don't sant to lose you. I can't ...", she sobbed quietly. "Angela ... Look at me.", he said. She lifted her head from his shoulder, where she had hidden her face as she started crying. He brushed her tears away. "I won't die. I promise you.", he started. "You saw my dragon. She was with you, right?", he asked in addition. Angela nodded and asked back: "She?" A small smile tugged at Genji's lips. "Yes, she. My dragon is female. And she may not seem like it, but she's still a wild beast. She-", he began explaing but got cut off. "Oh, I saw her being a beast. She threatened me, didn't let me heal your shot wound at first ... ", Angela replied, "But she tried to comfort me afterwards."
Genji took a deep breath, like what he was going to say needed some convincing to get the words out of his throat. "My dragon keeps me alive when it's needed. The first time you saved my life ... That night I wanted to die, make an end to all the pain. Shredded to bits, I was ready to die. But she wouldn't let me. She anchored me here. She gave it her all to keep me alive that night, until I was found and saved. She would have shown herself that night, if she didn't use that much of her might. She heals and protects me ... And I am so, so glad she didn't let me die on that night.", he said, each word a heavy burden on him, except the last sentence. He closed his eyes.
He felt Mercy's soft hands lay on his cheeks. "Then I must be thanking your dragon, as she fought for you. And there is nothing wrong with the decision you had made on that night. Your wounds back then were terrible, if I would have been in your position, I too would have wanted to die. But you are alive, thanks to your guardian.", she said in a soft and calming voice. Genji opened his eyes again and looked at her, before she kissed him. "You should rest.", she gave him a smile. Almost automatically his eyes closed and he gave a "mhmm" as an answer, drifting off to sleep. The painkillers had finally reached their full effect and let Genji sleep, painfree.
Mercy watched him, took care of him, held his hand. She saw a green light shimmer around the hand she held and hers.
Genji was sleeping for two whole days before he woke up again. In that time, Mercy had made sure there were no dead bodies or any remains. She had cleaned up and was standing next to a window and watching the streets below. Genji shifted a little and noticed he laid in the bed, she must have moved him, while he had been asleep. He tried to sit, but pain shot through his system, radiating from the shot wound. Groaning in pain, he laid back down and squeezed his eyes shut. He laid his hand onto the bandages covering the wound.
Genji felt a soft hand laying on top of his, a few seconds after he had moved. He opened his eyes and looked at Mercy. She looked worried. "Should not have tried to sit up ...", he said. "You should be more careful.", she replied and grabbed her staff. She healed him, so his pain would stop and then went on to check the wound. The wound looked like it was healing, but it would still need quite some time to fully heal. She bandaged it again.
While she checked the wound, carefully and softly touched it and bandaged it again, Genji whinced every now and then. She laid her hand against his cheek and said: "I'm sorry. I know you're afraid of the pain, but I had to check. I'll make sure this heals up quickly." He closed his eyes and leaned into her touch. "I know. It's okay if it's you. I know you won't hurt me and you don't want to.", he replied. She remained silent. "Because of me, we are stuck here now ...", Genji said, still keeping his eyes closed. "Just being stuck here isn't bad, I like it here. What's actually scaring me the most is the guys in black suits ... Why were they here? What was their goal?", she replied. "Your info said Shimada Clan wad taken over by another, more powerful Clan ... I suppose they knew who I was and feared the Shimada's Dragons.", he answered and slowly sat up, groaning a bit. "Be careful. Don't strain yourself.", Mercy said quickly and wanted to push hin down again. He grabbed her hand and replied: "It's fine. The wound will heal. I just can't lie down all day." He softly squeezed her hand. His dragon appeared beside him, tiny in size amd climbed onto his shoulder. "Usually she doesn't protect me by showing herself or runs around like this. She only showed herself to me and sometimes to Hanzo. She must trust you.", Genji said and looked at his dragon. The small green creature climbed down from it's masters shoulder and curled up in his lap. He pet her and the dragon gave a sound similar to a cat purring. "Does she have a name?", Mercy asked. Genji hoped she'd never ask. "Yes ... but keep in mind I named her when I was still only a kid. I named her Soba.", he replied, avoiding to look at Mercy. "You named your dragon ... noodle?", she asked, clearly trying to suppress a giggle. "I was a young little kid and she seemed to love stealing my noodles, in this tiny form.", Genji replied, his face grew red from embarassment. Angela gave a slight chuckled and whispered a quiet "cute". The dragon got up and climbed onto Mercy's head. "Soba. Do not!", he ordered. The green dragon bit Angela's ponytail and stole the hairtie holding it in place. "Soba! Behave, you little ..!", Genji growled. The dragon ran through the room with it's stolen treasure.
Mercy began laughing. Genji hid his face. "Just like a cat.", Angela laughed, loud. Her hair was a mess now, but this was really funny for her. Genji said something in japanese to his dragon, his voice sounded angry. Soba ran back to him, let go of Mercy's hairtie and disappeared. He handed her the hairtie. "What did you say to her?", she asked confused. "I told her to listen to her master and not behave like this ...", he replied and got up. Slowly he walked a few steps to the window, at first his legs didn't want to carry his weight, then it worked. He looked out of the window. The tiny shape of his dragon appeared on his shoulder and gave him a poke with her snout onto his left cheek. He lifted his hand up and the dragon pressed her head against it. "Soba doesn't like being here. Too many bad memories ...", he said and in return she gave a small roar. Again he said something in japanese and the dragon vanished. Genji placed his hand on the windowsill and tried to hold his balance, his legs were giving up on supporting his weight.
Mercy placed a chair behind him. "Sit down. Don't force yourself to stand when your body isn't cooperating yet.", she said in a worried tone. Genji gladly sat on the chair. He let out a small sigh. "This wound is wearing me down a lot ... Maybe I should sleep more.", he was interrupted by his growling stomach, "... or maybe I should eat first.", he said. "We have some leftovers ... I could cook something with that, or I could go and buy something real quick. We just don't have much left, you were sleeping for two days.", Mercy replied. Genji looked at her, or rather stared. "Two days?", he asked in disbelief. She nodded. "That would explain why I feel so weak ... We could go to that restaurant, but I'll be walking slowly ...", he suggested. "I know you don't want me to go alone, but think about your wound. You already needed to sit down ...", she began trying to convince him otherwise. He got up again and walked over to his armor, starting to put it on. "We'll go eat at that restaurant. The wound isn't that bad, I can manage walking a bit around the city, plus some fresh air won't hurt any of us.", he added and smiled at her. "Fine ... Let's go eat.", she replied with a defeated sigh.
They left the hotel and walked quite a while through the city. Genji was slowed down a lot, Mercy stayed close beside him. Their way lead just past Shimada Castle and to one of the main streets. There was an old sign on a very old restaurant. Genji walked to the door and held it open for Mercy to enter.