"Where are you?" Noah called, Firebrand was around here somewhere in the house. When he didn't get a answer he paused for a moment longer and heard the shower going. Noah sighed and walked to the kitchen, Firebrand would use all the hot water again no doubt.
The kitchen was a bit closer to the washroom and now Noah could hear another sound under the water. A whimper not quickly enough repressed and Noah was jogging to the bathroom.
"Are you okay in there?" He asked knocking gently. Another small whimper from the other side of the door. "I'm coming in."
"Don't I'm trying to shower." Firebrand objected but there was a hitch to his voice that Noah recognized from his own cries.
"Nothing I haven't seen before." Noah said and walked into the bathroom. Firebrand was sitting on the ground next to the shower in his underwear and Noah had been right he was crying. Noah winced slightly when he saw the burns of Firebrands body as he always did. Firebrand gave another wet sob and covered his face with his hands.
"Go away." He said thickly. "I don't want you to look at me and you don't want to look at me either I know it. I'm disgusting." Firebrand said curling up a little tighter.
"What? No!" Noah objected walking over to Firebrand.
"Don't lie." Firebrand snapped. "You flinch every time you look at me."
"No, no." Noah soothed sitting down next to Firebrand. "Not for the reason you think."
"Then why?" Firebrand snapped without uncovering his face. Noah leaned over and kissed on of the worse burn scars on Firebrands shoulder, then a smaller one on his neck.
"Because they look so painful." Noah said wrapping on arm around Firebrands shoulders and kissing the back of one hand that was still covering Firebrands face. "And I don't like thinking about you being in pain." Firebrand leaned against Noah and Noah kissed his forehead, then when he uncovered his face his ruined lips, which never quite covered his teeth anymore.
"You're the good looking one." Firebrand sighed. "I've been ruined."
"No you haven't god damn it!" Noah objected. "I swear to god I will kiss every burn on your body if I have to, to convince you you're not."
"That'll take a while." Firebrand chuckled and sniffed. "I have a lot of burns, I have more burns then skin."
"I know but I will sit here and fucking do it if I have to." Noah threatened and Firebrand laughed finally.
"Why don't you just shower with me so I can look at you instead of having to look at myself?" Firebrand said smiling thinly, starting to get back to his old self.
"Okay I can do that." Noah agreed pulling his shirt over his head. "Now lets get in before you let all the hot water run out without getting clean."