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He was exhausted and in pain. He couldn't quite get it through his thick skull that he was not a slayer. So taking punches meant for slayers while nice in theory, only made a wound that would take a few hours to heal for a slayer into a wound that would take a few weeks to heal. Even Faiza with her very limited English seemed to disapprove of what he did for her and she said.
"Bad." he guessed he should take that to mean they cared about him and didn't want him to hurt himself. He winced as he shifted slightly in bed again, yet he didn't regret it. It may take him 3 weeks to heal from this bruise but he was still glad he spared Faiza the hit. There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." he yelled not able to get up at the moment to answer it. Faiza came in with her translator who looked slightly peeved and having to be up at this time at night, since they usually went to bed right after they left to go patrolling. Lucky guys. Faiza herself looked anxious and kept looking between himself and her translator.
"Faiza wants me to tell you, that she appreciates you a lot, and she doesn't like to see you hurt, and she wants to know how your doing?"
"I'm fine." he lied. There was a bruise the size of a pancake of his arm. He heard him relay the message to Faiza who keep looking at him worried.
"I'm fine." he said again hoping to sooth her. She came forward and Xander thought maybe he should have lied as she hugged him tightly. He did he best to not let any moan or huffs out and when Faize broke apart and looked at him he said.
"I'm fine." she smiled even before the translator translated his words to her.
"Now you've got to go back to bed." he waited as the translator related it back to her in a slightly more upbeat tone then the rest of the conversation obviously looking forward to going back to bed. Faiza nodded and left the room followed by her translator who closed his door. He smiled, yeah he was hurt, but he was still do it again.
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