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[knowthyexits]

The annoying thing about an injury is that it doesn't immediately heal. She's not a machine (as much as she wants to be to fight off the predators) and so when she gets hurt like she did in that junkyard, she stays hurt for a long while. She's healed for the most part, but that also means she's gone from too many cleanings to just one a day and that one is right now.

She's just come from getting the rub and is in the clinic with it, shirt hoisted up and mirror showing her the jagged marks of the stitches as she rubs two fingers over the area, trying to make sure that if she does scar, it's not going to be as noticeable as her c-section marks.

Her whole body is a story of scars, at this point. She just thought that if she'd be adding to it, it would be for a cause and not just because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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[knowthyexits]

"Worse, like...?" she knows that she's prodding him, but she's limited in her information. Just once, once it would be nice to have the kind of win that secures a little safety.

[outoftheattic.livejournal.com]

"Worse, like anything that's worse than verbal barbs," he responds, only a little tetchy and, all in all, closer to his usual surly self. "And I think we've all been through at least a papercut."

[knowthyexits]

"If anyone hasn't, how lucky they are," she deadpans, with barely a flash of emotion on her face at all. "Well, I think you look like a big strong man," she notes evenly. "You can take care of yourself, or do you need help?"

[outoftheattic.livejournal.com]

"I'm a big boy, now," Dominic responds, tone equally flat. "I should be alright." (Underestimation had struck him down last time, it was true, but he didn't think the principle would hold, here.)

[knowthyexits]

She gives a slow nod, as if she isn't sure she needs to embroil herself in someone else's problems and because she's not sure if that would distract her from her own. "Did you want something to eat?" she asks, gesturing to the kitchen. "I was heading there next and I could do with the company."