claire turns at the first words to be spoken, pulls hersecond glove on over her right hand and comes to a momentary stop at the sight of the other on the bed. he looks like shit. his face gives away signs of drug use, orjust lack of sleep. she would preferit to be the latter, presumes it to be the first. who doesn’t in hell’s kitchen? she’s having to help more and more addicts since her second strike. claire decides that nowprobably isn’t the best time to inform jessica of that.
once he’s on the bed, claire doesn’twaste any time. she needs to find the root of the injury; clean it out, stitch it back together and make surethere’s nothing in the way ofcomplications that can prove FATALor otherwise. she’s snagging things from her bag, pulling them out andresisting the urge to just DUMP themall on the bed. if she finds something worse,then she’ll just give in to the urge.
“do you know what happened to him?” her eyes flick uptowards the other for a moment, but she’s already peeling the shirt OFF his body. jessica’s right aboutsomething: he does look like shit. helooks awful. from more than just thewounds littering across his arms and the rest of his body. “that’s fine – likeyou said, my life is a permanent nightoff, right now.”
she doesn’t linger any more, needs to keep an eye on his breathing and the rest of his vitals. thebest she can with him on a damn bed and not in a hospital. claire iscovering the wounds; trying to STOPthe bleeding long enough to get a better look inside of it. “i wish – no. it’s pretty complicated. they value money over decency.”
‘ He was badly injured. Shit got real and he defended me. ’
SHE COULDN’T RISK TELLING CLAIRE THE TRUTH, after all only consequences would come if she did tell her about Kilgrave. Jessica knew NOTHING about Claire’s personal life, but one thing was for sure : she knew she couldn’t bring DANGER into Claire’s life. The nurse had been struggling with work and keeping up patients from dying or even - killing one another.
HE’LL BE OKAY –––––– BROWN HUES FOLLOWED HIS CHEST BEATING, he’s still breathing and that’s all that matters. If his heart stops, the anger and sadness would build up upon her own veins and she couldn’t risk that. Malcom may have been a drug addict, may have caused a shit ton of problems in their apartment with their neighbors, but she considered him AS A FRIEND. A friend where she never truly SHOWED KINDNESS unless it was needed.
‘ let me help you. Tell me what to do, I’ll do my best. –––––––––––––– that’s messed up, why would they value money over decency ? wait. Go ahead and rant about it later, let’s fix him up first. tell me what to do. ’