"Heal Me" (Drabble)
Heal: My character will tend to your character’s wounds, or be at their side when they’re sick
"Fuck. Shit. Fucking shit, fuck!"
Annie's needle pauses mid-air so she can level a look at him. If he what he saw in the mirror wasn't so fucking scary, he'd be quaking. Especially since this woman literally holds his life in her hands.
"Can't you control yourself for one moment?" Her eyebrow raises testily. Yea, okay. Kaine's not the best patient. Shit, he can barely sit still when he sees her coming with the suture kit and syringes. All of it brings back memories of Warren's lab, of being poked and prodded and having certain "unappealing" traits "bred out" of him. So yea, he squirms and he swears. But it's just because he can. As much as might want to knock him out, she's under orders to stitch him up.
At least so he doesn't die. Pain, on the other hand, she seems to enjoy inflicting.
"Well you could have used some sort of anesthetic or something."
"No time. You had already bled out quite heavily and were on your way to passing out when Maria dropped you here. You're lucky that I was working late."
"I don't feel lucky."
"I may not be a nurse, Mr. Parker, but I'm making sure you don't die."
Kaine huffs, knowing she's right and not really willing to further fight with the scientist with a needle. Who knows what she would do. Maybe sew his arm to his stomach. Or remove his web shooters. Or miss something on purpose. Or--Shit, he was fucking loopy from blood loss. They really needed to get a blood bag down here stat.
"Are you almost done?"
"Trust me, you'll know when I'm finished, Mr. Parker. I will be gone as quickly as you."
He got it, okay? Kaine knows that Annie Smith would rather cut him open and put a bomb in his stomach than stitch him back together. She's doing him a tremendous sort of favor. But it's like she's jabbing him harder than strictly necessary and pulling the thread a little too tight for him to say thank you.
Another stab into the soft flesh of his arm--(she hadn't even bothered to unroll his fucking suit top. Just cut off the sleeve. S. H.I.E.L.D. better be paying for the repairs and fabric because vigilantism did not pay. Maybe he could stop a bank robbery on the way back to his apartment.)--and then she's delicately cutting the thread.
"There. Now go away." Annie's wielding the damn needle like if he doesn't leave she's going to stab him in currently uninjured body parts.
Kaine pops up from the metal table gladly, though he does wobble a bit as he makes his way to the door. At the last minute he pauses, hand almost pushing the release valve.
"Hey," he calls without turning. "Thank you."
She doesn't answer, but it's like he can feel her small smile at his back.











