Winter couldn't have been more relieved when Avery shoved the stone away from her and lifted her up. She grit her teeth to cut off a whimper of pain that tried to escape as he lifted her. Gentle as he might be, she was too broken not to feel agony over every move of her body. However, she was also to old, too proud and too familiar with pain to be overwhelmed by it.
She was ready to be taken to the clinic for some much needed healing when her eyes spied another bystander who didn't notice the pipe falling from the sky in their direction.
"Wait!" she shouted to Avery and launched another shield just in time to prevent them from being skewered. Her eyes returned to the vampire who held her. "I can't leave, I..." it felt so silly for a woman like Winter to say she needed to help but it didn't feel any less true. She was powerful, capable, and it felt wrong for someone like her to be taken away when she could be assisting.
Avery winced as he lifted Winter, his current unbound state making his hearing good enough to hear her bones shift. It wasn't a pleasant sound at all. “Sorry. I'm trying to be gentle.” It was hard balancing trying to be gentle while still needing to get her to the clinic quickly.
At her yell, Avery skidded to a stop, turning slightly to shield Winter with his body in case debris came their way. “We need to get you help,” Avery said as he turned back around in time to see the shield she had put up. A growl rippled out of the fledgling, fear and anger mixing equally inside him.
“Damn it,” he shouted, a clear sign the usually polite vampire was feeling the strain. Looking around for a clear place to set her down, Avery gently leaned Winter against a piece of rubble. “You're not gonna make it out here without healing so,” Avery started, tearing one of his sleeves off and biting his own wrist. “You're gonna need to drink some of my blood. Thankfully I ate before everything went to shit.”
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