Chapter 13- Heal Me, Entertain Me.
Did anyone else notice that Loke was not included in last chapter...I only noticed that yesterday.
"NATSU!" Lucy screamed as she saw him holding his hand to his bleeding head, looking rather out of it.
"L-Lucy?" He mumbled, his vision beginning to go blurry as black dots danced across the room.
"I can't believe Jellal was right! How is someone so stupid that they'll hit their head on a metal bedside table when trying to pick up something!?" Lucy stressed and knelt in front of Natsu, looking through the things she grabbed.
"Hey! I- Wait, what!?"
"Just shut up and stay still" She said then suddenly froze, realizing that she wasn't a nurse, she never took classes for this, and she has absolutely no clue on what she's doing. "Uhhh," She mumbled absently, trying to think of what to do next. "Natsu, just stay there."
"Where else am I going to go?"
"Good point." She said then quickly picked up his iPhone. "What's your password!?"
"Why!?"
"Because you're bleeding and I'm not good with blood and I really need Google and I AM JUST A MAID I'M NOT CUT OUT FOR THIS."
"IT' 4, STOP YELLING AT ME, I'M INJURED."
Meanwhile, with Gajeel and Jellal.
"PFFT! YOU DANCE LIKE A GIRL!" Gajeel laughed at Jellal as they danced battled.
"Where. have. you. two. BEEN!?" Loke yelled from the front door. The two boys froze and looked at Loke while he carried a semi-conscious Gray. Shrinking from fear of the red-heads mighty glare, they stuttered repeatedly whilst trying to think of an excuse.
"We- we were just, ah, um-
"I saw him out my window, practically dying, while you two were DANCING!?" Loke yelled, cutting Gajeel off.
Jellal and Gajeel dropped their heads in shame, how could they forget about their poor friend when they knew Lucy was after him? They should've known better.
"Do you…" Jellal trailed off, "…wanna join us?"
Loke's fierce look suddenly disappeared and a smile blessed his impossibly gorgeous face as he dropped Gray. "Though you'd never ask."
"We should do Crucified, I haven't done that yet and it looks fun," Jellal said.
Loke pouted and whined, "But we need one more person…"
Gray jumped off and brushed invisible dirt from his shoulder, all his previous injuries forgotten. "I'm in."
Instructions
1
Encourage the injured person to lie down and relax. Make them as comfortable as possible as you treat their wound.
2
Remove any hats or items that are near the wound. Take a close look to ensure the wound is superficial and doesn't require immediate medical attention.
3
Place firm but gentle pressure on the head wound using sterile gauze. If sterile gauze isn't available, use a clean cloth or towel.
4
Keep pressure on the wound for a straight 15 minutes. Do not lift the gauze to check on the status of the wound. Keep the pressure steady, adding more gauze if blood begins to soak through. The full 15 minutes ensures the blood time to clot. If you lift the gauze sooner, the clotting process is disrupted and the wound bleeds even more.
5
Contact a medical professional if the bleeding has not stopped or subsided after a full 15 minutes. Lift the head slightly higher than the heart as you wait for instructions on what to do next.
6
Watch the injured person carefully after treating the head wound to be sure that there is no lasting injury, concussion or shock.
"Ok! Natsu! Lie down on your stomach while I get a towel!" Lucy ordered as she ran into the bathroom, quickly coming back out with a small wash cloth in hand, a uneasy yet confident expression written on her face.
"Lucy, this is uncomfortable, can I get up?" Natsu asked, his voice slightly muffled because of the pillow.
"No!" She barked, her eyebrows scrunching up together. Natsu would never admit it, but she looked cute when she was concentrating, you know, from the quarter of the blonde that he could actually see. "This might hurt a bit..." Lucy said as she pressed the wash cloth against the wound.
"...How long do I have to stay like this?" Natsu asked after a few seconds of silence.
"15 minutes" Lucy replied, hearing a groan in response, "Toughen up and deal with it" Lucy scoffed, her worry now gone. After about a minute had passed, she quickly grew bored. "Do you know where Lily is?"
"Nope"
"Damn cat better not have broken my phone..."
3 minutes later
"...Can I get up yet?" Natsu asked, more like whined.
"No Natsu, I'll tell you when you can get up, so shut up"
12 minutes later
"Ok, you can get up now, but please, don't do anything dangerous again. And don't hit your head, again..." Lucy mumbled mainly the last part as she lifted the wash cloth off of his head.
"YOSH!" Natsu shouted and jumped up, almost knocking over Lucy.
Lucy steadied herself and looked over to Natsu, seeing him do one of the stupidest and weirdest dances she's ever seen, yet it was undeniably adorable, she had to stop herself from cooing. She sighed and shook her head. "I'm going to-AH!" Lucy was cut mid-sentence as she fell once she tried to walk, remembering about her own injury.
"Lucy!" Natsu shouted and caught her with incredible reflexes. "You okay?"
Lucy laughed softly and looked down to her bruised ankle. "I think I twisted it when I fell down the hill," Lucy mumbled with a smile, finding it quite funny.
"You fell down a hill? When? Why?" Natsu asked as he also noticed that her clothes were a bit dirty and wet. "There's a hill near here?"
"I was chasing Gray and-"
"-Gray!? He did this!? I'm gonna kill that bastard!" Natsu shouted
"Ok, you go do that, I've gotta go and fix my ankle" Lucy said, only to squeak once she felt the ground beneath her feat disappear.
"What are you doing Natsu!?" She screamed, trying to get out of his hold.
"I'm going to heal you" Natsu said with a grin as he placed her on the bed.
"How would you know how to fix a twisted ankle?" Lucy raised an eyebrow, finding it unbelievable that he would know something like this when he could barely tie his own shoelace.
"Rice"
"DON'T THINK ABOUT EATING AT A TIME LIKE THIS!"
"No, Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation. Rice."
"Oh…"
"Okay, you stay here, and I'll go and get some ice" Natsu said as he began to walk out.
"No actually, I think I might climb out the window then skinny dip in the lake" She said sarcastically.
"Well if you do, don't forget to bring me along."
Natsu ran down the stairs and passed Gray, Loke, Jellal and Gajeel who had moved on to Sing Star.
"Where's the ice?" Natsu mumbled to himself aloud.
"FREEZER IDIOT!" Gray called out.
"Pffffft! I knew that!"
"Why do you need ice?" Jellal asked.
"Lucy sprained her ankle"
"How'd she do that!?"
"She was trying to get Gray and tripped then sprained her ankle" Natsu said then left, leaving Gray alone with the death glares he was getting from the four, yes four, Loke and Gajeel had put down the microphones to give him the evil eye.
"Why aren't you the one helping her!?" Loke was the first one to speak.
"I didn't know her ankle was sprained! Natsu didn't know until now! AND WHERE WAS MY HELP WHEN I WAS HALD DEAD!? I HAD A FUCKING FISH IN MY UNDERWEAR! THAT FISH WENT PLACES I AM NOT PROUD OF!"
Natsu walked into his room to find Lucy flicking through his iPhone. "Why is it that whenever I try to take some nice pictures of myself I manage to look like a dinosaur, but when you take one you look like a model?" When he left Lucy got bored again, so she saw his iPhone and the first thing she thought of was use it for entertainment. She knew his password, who wouldn't take advantage of it?
"Don't look through my phone!" Natsu shouted and ran to get it, but Lucy moved her arm.
"But Natsu~" She whined, "You look so funny and cute in these photo's~! I mean come on," Lucy said and turned the phone around with a pout so he could see the screen, "You look so adorable in a bow tie and suspenders~"
"Damn it Lucy! Give me my phone!" Natsu tried to get the phone away from her, while he could easily hear her commenting on his photos.
"Oh Natsu!" She gasped, "I never thought you were the type to take a shirtless pic in the bathroom mirror"
"Lucy!"
"Fine then, take away my fun" Lucy huffed and Natsu gladly took away the phone, somewhere along the way he had ended up climbing above her to get his phone.
"Now, if you would, continue on with your little 'rice' treatment" Lucy said with a giggle.
The pinkette grabbed the ice that was on the bench and wrapped it in a cloth that he had taken from the kitchen then gently placed it on her ankle. "Now we wait" He said and walked around the bed then laid next to her. He closed his eyes and let out a deep breath. "H-hey, would you stop that?" He said when Lucy flicked his cheek.
"But I'm bored!"
It slow but its Nalu!