Piggeh walks in and touches the pale yellow teens shoulder, Stephano slowly turns his head obviously weak and in a bit of pain.
"Piggeh," There is disappointment in his voice. "I thought you were Ludwig." He says using General Bro's real name.
"Ya not happy ta see meh?" He says with a fake pout, Stephano weakly smiles.
"You know I am."
"Yeah..." Piggeh rubs the back of his neck as he pulls up a brown chair and plops down into it. "How ya feelin'?" Stephano looks down at his bandaged chest, a little bit of blood is seeping through the gauze.
"It hasn't stopped bleeding yet." He says trying to change the subject. "They'll have to change my gauze again, this will be the third since I woke up."
"I'll do it." Piggeh careful unwraps the bandage by slowly unraveling it from Stephano's chest. "General Bro said you aren't eating."
"Not hungry." Stephano says simply, Piggeh give him a worried look.
"Ta get betta ya need ta eat, at least a little, man, it'd be totally uncool for ya ta live through being shot only ta die of starvation."
He tosses the old bandage into the trash and peels off the blood soaked gauze, then tosses that in the trash as well. The wound isn't swollen it's a deep small hole in Stephano's chest, blood is oozing out of the hole, Piggeh can't help but grimace at the gruesome sight.
"H-how do I clean this?"
"Clean?" Stephano thinks for a moment, he had assumed that Piggeh was simply going to change the gauze and give him a fresh bandage but seeing how bad it is, it would be best to disinfect it. "Clean away the blood with a cloth wet with warm water, put a very small amount of disinfectant on a cotton swab, and only clean around the edges of the wound."
"What about a health potion? I'm sure there's one or two hangin' around."
"No." As Stephano says this blood splatters out of his mouth which he casually wipes away with his thumb. "Relax," He says seeing Piggeh start to panic. "Private Cole said that there will be a bit of blood in my lungs for a little while. Anyways..." He says trying to get back on topic. "A health potion with this bad of a wound could kill me, we're lucky that the half one healed my lung."
Piggeh nods before searching for supplies, he starts searching in the cabinets. In the first cabinet he finds a black bucket, in the next cabinet he finds disinfectant and gauze along with several other chemicals that Stephano tells him not to touch. He tosses the two items into the bucket before moving to the next cabinet where he finds several boxes of condoms, he quickly slams it shut causing Stephano to give him an odd look.
"We've got hundreds of people here, you know, got to have some in stock. Can't have pregnant women fighting."
Piggeh nods with a heavy red blush before moving onto another cabinet. He finds the cotton swabs, he walks over to Stephano and lays the items on the bed, he then walks over to the sink and fills the black bucket with warm water. Piggeh grabs a cloth from the top of the corner that's holding cloths and needles, he dunks it into the water and rings it out before lightly rubbing the blood off of the teens chest.
"The General is really worried about ya, he even broke character the moment he saw ya, I saw his emotions and everything, dude."
"Really?" Stephano's voice is heavy with worry. "That's not like Ludwig, I've been hurt before..." Piggeh flips to the dryer side of the rag and lightly pats the water off.
"Not like this, man, if we didn't have that health potion you'd be dead for sure, hell da only reason dat uptight German isn't here 'cause he had way too much work ta do." Piggeh drips a bit of disinfectant on a cotton swab and pats all around the edges of the wound, Stephano flinches as the chemical burns and bubbles trying to clean the wound. "Damn, ya did have an infection."
"Wh-when the bubbling stops you must clean away the chemical or it'll eat away at my skin. D-do me a favor, when you go back to your cabin could you get Ludwig?"
"No prob, bro."
Piggeh says wiping away the disinfectant, when he's finished he uses the medical tape to hold the gauze over the wound. He then wraps a fresh bandage around the upper half of Stephano's body, his breath hitches every time Piggeh touches the wound while wrapping. Proud of his handy work Piggeh pats Stephano's chest making him yelp in pain and glare at the pink haired teen. He gives a nervous laugh before apologizing, Stephano sighs and nods in forgiveness. Piggeh is about to leave when Stephano calls his attention, he stops, his hand holding the entrance half open.
"Do you happen to know where my sword is? I'll need it to teach Pewdie how to fight."
Piggh stiffens hearing about Stephano's golden blade, a sword that Stphano would train with more than seven hours a day and spend the rest of the day shining or sharpening it. Stephano went to hell and back for that sword, when he was around ten he would spend days in the mines near their castle with a pick ax mining for gold to make a sword that would match his golden skin. He'd go days without eating while he looked for the element that he needed, at times Jennifer would have to go get the young boy after he had collapsed from exhaustion. Jennifer would sit in the mines smiling at how excited he would get when finding even the smallest piece of gold or she'd listen to him ramble for hours about how he would grow up to protect Pewdie. When he finally found enough gold the stone gray teen helped him melt down the gold and shape it like a sword, he would then spend days sharpening the blade until it was sharp enough to slice through a cinder block. By the time he was twelve he had the perfect sword that he had forged with his older sister, he cherished that sword more than his own life, remembering all this Piggeh frowns, he walks back over to the bed and sits in his chair right next to it.
"I'm sorry... we panicked when ya were shot..." Stephano has a slightly surprised look.
"So... what y-you left it?"
"I'm sorry!" Piggeh shots up from his chair making Stephano jump slightly. "I'm so sorry! I'll go back back! I'll get it! I'll-"
"No." Stephano interrupts his voice as well as his eyes full of sadness. "It's too dangerous, there's no need for you to risk your life. Odds are that the Barrel that shot me took it for a trophy." He was right Jennifer did take his trophy she took it to remember the fact that, in her mind, she had killed her little brother.
"Ya," Piggeh's jaw drops. "ya didn't see who hit ya?"