✧・゚ open | mutuals & non-mutuals | location: train wreck site ( post canon bullet t.rain ) | muse: tangerine ( dhampir ) ・゚✧
It takes time for things to mend. Not just bones and sinew, but with nerves and tendons as well. A broken extremity was simply seen as an nuisance but took little time to heal. A blown out organ, on the other hand, took much longer — not to mention it hurt a hell lot more. Such as the cataclysmic damage accumulated post nicked neck. Mangled limbs, blown out innards, distended and/or missing proportions — yeah, he’s landed himself in the golden throne of royal agony.
The immense blood loss proved to be a race against time, but he managed to hang onto a thread of life. Just long enough so he could cram his horrendously grated body into some dark nook in all the rubble, at least. Ideally, he’d be alone when his vitality returned. That way he wouldn’t have to deal with the headache of explaining away a witness. That’s the last thought he had before a wave of darkness overtook him.
When all consciousness slipped away, Tangerine might as well have been proclaimed dead. And, technically, he was for a long moment.
All until dull eyes pry themselves open as his other senses groggily resurfaces. Clear vision or not, the distinct feeling of company sliced through like a heated blade.
“The fuck.. you lookin’ at?”
The devestation was like nothing before it. Ground shaking so hard that the first thought had been earthquake. Standing gripped with confusion, one plate white knuckled in a pale freckled hand and spud heavy sponge strangled in the other, stood a tiny auburn headed woman with hazel hues focused wide and hard through the window above the sink. Though several hundred yards away from the disaster, her window gave a perfectly framed view of the devastation as train car after train car jumped the rails into a sickening rendition of an accordion. Beyond it all, it was the flamed that exploded forth from one car that really stole the breath from her lungs as it the red orange light was first blinding, receding into a red orange glow that lit the entire inside of her kitchen.
Dishes forgotten as her senses finally realized what was happening, she burst through from the back door off her kitchen, staring out at the utter chaos along the tracks that had so long ago faded into the background despite the daily shaking of her entire house only steps away from them. In fact, there was some luck to be had that the train had derailed when it had, for less than a football field further along and it’d have taken her little house.
Hours later, officials had pulled the crew from the wreckage and sped them off in ambulances, the rest had been cordoned off to wait for investigators, Charlie stood with her cardigan hugged closed around her, still drinking in the awe of what had occurred on her little tiny plot of land. It had been there, in the shifting of the light as dawn threatened it’s approach, that she’d noticed white amongst a pile of rubble. An hour after that she’d managed to haul him out onto a sheet though help from her arriving farm hand, young though the teenager was, had been needed to get him into the house and onto one of the overstuffed old sofas that rested on one wall of the tiny farm house.
Looking over from where she sat peeling potatoes for dinner, a soft gasp of surprise and relief was the first response to his words, before gently bemused words followed as she stepped into where he could see her.
“For a moment there I was sure you were a goner... so let’s just say I’m looking at a rather pleasant surprise.”