Ice
"Unngg, my head hurts." Thomas complained quietly as he sat down on the couch.
"Well if you kept the ice on your head then maybe you would feel better."
Thomas cringed as Mordecai placed ice pack tightly between his horns. He hated getting his horns cold; it resembled the feeling of biting into an ice pop. The ice pack dripped, releasing freezing water droplets into his fur. Thomas squirmed uncomfortably at the chill that went through his body and if Mordecai wasn't watching he would have thrown the ice pack across the room.
"This wouldn't have happened if you'd been more careful."
"Yeah, sorry for falling off a building!"
The snark comment caught Mordecai of guard for a moment. The pain of the injury was making Thomas irritated, a very rare occurrence for the passive intern.
"Right, sorry about that dude." Mordecai knew it was a stupid thing to say but he said it anyways. After all, Thomas' injury was indirectly his fault.
"You shouldn't be sorry. It's those stuck up county club people that should be sorry. I didn't even know that there was a country club around here."
Thomas shifted the ice pack to the back of his head as he spoke. As much as he hated the cold it was helping a little bit. He was surprised that he hadn't cracked his skull on the hard concrete. Then again, every day he came back home alive from his job was a surprise. Every day was packed with evil villains, dangerous jobs, surreal happenings, and supernatural jumbo. The only reason he could give himself for why he'd lasted this long was the gamble of pure chance. Chance probably had a lot to do with it; like tonight for example. You can't just fall onto hard ground from four levels up and be left with just a headache without a little bit of luck.
"You know you didn't have to come."
And it was true. No one really forced Thomas to come. All Mordecai wanted was for him to keep quiet, which he did. He had come on his own accord.
"Of course I had to come."
"But why?"
Thomas leaned in close to Mordecai and gave him a long kiss on the side of his beak.
"Because you were in trouble."
