“Oh my stars and garters…” Cal murmured softly, caught completely off guard by both seeing him out at this hour, and the apparent injury that her new friend had sustained. For once, the weird dreams that had left her awake and restless had been a blessing in disguise.
“That certainly doesn’t look like just a tiny thing to me.” She was getting ready to nag him, both for being out so late, and for trying to brush off such an injury…but, it seemed that he’d already suffered enough for one night. Scolding him could wait, and medical attention was needed now.
“Sit down and let me see the damage. I don’t have much healing expertise, but I can at least get it cleaned and patched for you.”
he attempted to move in a way where it was more convincing, hand not gripping his gut pressed against the wall in a casual sort of way to support him during the conversation && the one pressed to keep the pressure automatically flicking up to wave it away. the only problem was the hand was slick with blood, && when he acknowledge this he quickly shoved it back into the folds of his shirt. the action was swift, && he essentially whacked himself in the fresh wound.
“ oouguhgh! i meaaaaan, see? fine! fine! ” still, help would be appreciated, && while he knew how to tend to his own injuries having someone else who possibly could patch him up in a less sloppy fashion would be fine. plus, where could he go? back to his dorm? if he entered the room && his dormmates caught wind of him looking like this he’d have too many questions to answer. he was friends with cal, but not as close as he was to those two. both literally && emotionally, the former meaning he would be in a room with fitz && bud physically && he didn’t exactly have the ability to ignore them.
he sort of carefully supported himself against the wall as he dragged himself to the ground to sit. his hands slumped besides him, breaths hard && labored. he thought about how he sounded way worse than it was. dark eyes consider the face in front of him, but it was dark so he really could only see a worried pale face in front of his line of sight. he looked at her for a minute && then slurred.
“ any chance you gotta a little something... alcoholic on ya? to numb the pain? ”