Erocthmai shrugs. "Suit yourself."
"Huh. They do that a lot, you know. Flagging valuable people from the general public to help out with containing the SCPs or stuff like that. Most of their Site doctors, for instance, Dr. Bright, were trained specifically for jobs like. . . well, what I am. Others were recruited into the ranks, like physicists and nuclear chemists." she murmurs.
" i don't see while they test on beautiful things like you.."
Erocthmai stiffens slightly. "Beautiful? You literally just met me, and you're calling me beautiful, huh?"
" i dont need to know you to say that. you really are."
Erocthmai snorts. "I guess, but I dunno. It just feels. . . weird. Like. . ."
Her voice trails off, and she shrugs.
she sighed. " i need to her to work. if I don't come back they'll come looking for me."
Erocthmai snorts. "You should deal with the rest of me, too, if anything is to heal properly."
" what else is broke? i though i got most of it," sh said softy and went to get her gear
"My fingers. My left shin. A few toes." Erocthmai says.
she sighed, coming out of her room geared up. she used her last few minutes helping erocthmai instead of getting coffee or anything to eat.
Erocthmai chuckles, and as soon as she's fully bandaged up and the bones are all set, she gets up, wincing slightly. But she can move, and that's all that counts. "I can get you some food."
She's gone, not as fast as she'd like to go, nor as fast as she could go, but still fast enough to be barely visible. She has food and coffee when she returns. She hands it to Keava. "There you go. No, nothing bad happened."
" you need to be careful, you could hurt yourself." she said but looked down at the things and smiled warmly ' but thank you.." she took the things and sighed " see you after work, no going out no being loud, and no over exerting yourself. don't go in my room either."
Erocthmai shrugs. "I'm not loud."
She looks bemused. "No overexertion, huh? Yeah, no. I don't listen to orders. I'll be fine."
She shoos Keava out the door. "Now go."
neava sighed and went to work. she got reprimanded for not catching the girl.
While she's waiting, Erocthmai decides that while she's holed up in Keava's house she may as well be productive. She cleans the kitchen, vacuums, and cooks a meal for her.
"That should be good." she murmurs. Why was she hitting on me? And why am I doing this?
after a day's work, keava comes home dog tired. she comes slouching through the door and stripping her gear in the doorway. she has bags under her eyes and her cheeks are tear stained
Erocthmai goes into the living room, concerned and using a wheelchair she'd found to move around.
"You good?" she asks, wincing as she speaks.
" just exhausted " she said solemly
Erocthmai nods. "Exhaustion is a constant companion. Tell me, who did they put you on duty with today? The Plague Doctor? Shy Guy? The Peanut? Or did they stick you with 221-Calabassas, for the Scarlet King?"
" mister crow' she said softly
"Oh. Him. Raging bitch like usual?" Erocthmai asks.
"yup," she said and went to check ellys wraps "how's it holding?"
"Pretty well, actually. In pain, obviously, but it's not too bad." Erocthmai lies. In reality, the pain was so bad she could barely think, but she didn't want Keava wasting medicine on her. And anyways, she was a tough girl. She could handle pain.
keave looked in her eyes, checking her pulpal dilaton "lier"
Erocthmai shrugs. "So what if I am lying?"
" then im going to keep helping
Erocthmai sighs. "Fine."
She gets up, and gasps, but stays standing, swaying precariously. "I cleaned while you were gone. And I prepared some food. I know how fucked that place is."
keave quickly put her arms around the woman to brace her " you need to sit I cant strain that enough!"
Erocthmai gives Keave a pained grin. "I'm fine, seriously."
She walks into the kitchen and grabs their dinner out of the oven: just an ordered pizza from Toppers. She groans when she bends over to do so, her ribs and legs protesting loudly.
" ellly please, let me get it" she protested and grabbed the food. " go.sit.now."
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