[Closed] Accident Prone

[demonofiniquity]

Title: Accident Prone
Characters: Aiba Masaki, Sakurai Sho, Kuroki Meisa
Location: Central Park/New York Downtown Hospital ER
Week: Week 6, Wednesday, September 29, 12:23pm
Rating: PG
Warnings: Violent animals? If you're squeamish about medical stuff this might upset you? Idek

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[shomelove]

Sho, knowing that Aiba usually worked on Wednesdays, was thinking about visiting the shop just to get in some face time with his... you know, Aiba. But work had called him for the early shift and instead of sleeping in and then stopping by Come Again at lunch time, he was stuck watching a fifty year old woman yell about how she'd never truly loved the main character because she wasn't really her daughter.

Blegh. Soap plots.

Anyway, his phone had been turned off for the duration, and when they were done shooting and turning off the equipment until the next staff came in for the next scene, it was about half past twelve... and he had one missed call. Probably a solicitor or something.

When he listened to the voice mail, his heart started beating a bit fast. He shouldn't panic. Whatever way Aiba had injured himself, he'd at least been well enough to dial his phone. He'd just... hope he wasn't too late in getting the message.

He immediately dialed the man's number, biting his lip.

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Aiba didn't really have to wait very long for Sho to call back, but he did so patiently enough. He'd decided to himself that if Sho didn't call back by...1, then he'd call someone else. With possible re-evaluation of the plan if 1 came around and Sho hadn't called back.

But Sho called back exactly 7 minutes later and Aiba answered immediately, save the several long seconds it took him to fumble the phone open and get it up to his ear without moving his other arm.

"Sho-chan? You there? It's Aiba." He knows that. He called you.

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Sho was only somewhat thrown off by the way Aiba answered the phone, climbing into the backseat of a cab and directing the driver to Central Park. Much faster this way than trying to get there on foot or by subway.

"Masaki! I'm headed to get you, but you have to be more specific," Sho explained, trying to picture the layout of the park in his head, "It's too big of a place."

He still didn't know what was wrong with Aiba, but he wasn't sure he wanted to know before he got there. Then again, if he didn't know beforehand and walked up to a bloody mess of an Aiba, he might... cry or something. WHAT TO DO!?

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Aiba heard Sho talking to someone in the background, but he didn't immediately realize who until he realized Sho had said Central Park, and it occurred to him Sho had hailed a taxi. For him. He smiled into the phone.

"I'm at the entrance closest to the zoo. That's where I was, I was helping out today they're understaffed! 5th Avenue and 63rd! "

He was quiet a moment on the phone, smiling rather blindly at the traffic going by the park entrance. He barely even noticed the pain in the arm currently resting his lap. Barely. "Thanks for coming, Sho," he said after a moment.

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Sho made a noise of acknowledgment into the phone, then corrected his directions for the driver. Though knowing that Aiba had been helping the zoo made him that much more nervous about what kind of accident Aiba had been through. WHAT IF HE'D BEEN BITTEN BY A SNAKE!?

Sho hated snakes. But he hated the idea of Aiba dying by snake bite poison even more.

But weren't snakes sort of like... part of the whole devil thing? Wouldn't a snake know better than to bite a demon? Was he actually considering Aiba as someone from...

"You know I wouldn't leave you all alone," Sho answered, calming himself and smiling though Aiba couldn't see, "And maybe Satoshi or Nino could have come to get you, but they'd not be able to kiss it and make it better, would they?"

Almost there! Though of course they were hitting every red light possible.

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Aiba was pretty sure he looked pretty stupid smiling and blushing into his phone like that but that was okay. Sho wasn't going to leave him alone. Letting out a kind of relieved sigh, Aiba slouched down on the bench...

And winced, because the simple movement had dislodged his arm from it's resting spot. Ow. Ow-ow-ow. Ow. Aiba clenched his jaw hard to hold in any sounds but the faintest of whimpers slipped out anyway.

"I don't know if kissing will be enough to make this better," Aiba forced himself to laugh, and as the pain eased he managed to make it sound pretty convincing.

"But we can definitely still try until it works!" He was watching the street, but there were taxi's everywhere, and he didn't know how far away Sho had been when he called. At least they wouldn't have to walk all the way to the hospital. That was really thoughtful of Sho.

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Sho felt his heart clench when he heard Aiba whimper, mentally urging the taxi to go faster. He knew that whatever Aiba was dealing with... it must have been manageable to an extent. Otherwise he or someone else would have called an ambulance, right?

"Well if it's not, tell me what you need and I'll see what I can do," Sho told him with a nervous laugh of his own.

When the taxi driver finally pulled over, Sho begged him not to leave and promised him extra payment for taking him and Aiba to the hospital. He hopped out of the car, phone still in hand and scanned the area, seeing where Aiba was resting and... holding his arm.

"Masaki!" he called, slowly running up to him, but approached gently just in case.

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Aiba almost dropped the phone, which would have been bad because his instinct would have been to try and catch it with his other hand whether his arm was broken or not. It was just that Sho's words were really really nice to hear, to the point where the emotion behind them kind of surprised him.

He managed to catch the phone between his ear and shoulder. "You're doing pretty good already," Aiba said when he found his words again.

It turned out he had been looking in the completely wrong direction so when Sho finally echoed in both the phone and a few feet away, Aiba's head whipped around and he really did drop his phone. "S-Sho-chan! I-"

He scrambled to get up, and reach for the phone, but his bad arm really didn't like that. Enough he had to struggle not to outright cry out. So he straightened, and sort of pouted down at the phone on the ground, sending a pitiful look at Sho. "A kangaroo broke my arm."

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Sho closed his phone and shoved it back in his pocket, glancing down at Aiba's arm in concern. It was maybe not as bad as all the horrible things he'd been imagining and fearing, but it was still incredibly serious. He was sure it had to be painful.

"What the fuck," Sho exclaimed in anger, definitely overreacting... but then, he'd been expecting the worst and he had to release all that tension somehow, "Didn't it know you were trying to help it? Shouldn't it be grateful and not attacking you?"

He bent over to pick up Aiba's phone, deciding to close it and place it in his other pocket for safe keeping. Aiba shouldn't be dialing or talking to anyone at the moment really. He should keep his arm steady.

"C'mon, the taxi is waiting for us," he smiled, putting his hand on Aiba's lower back to give him support without hurting him further.

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On some level, Aiba was aware that Sho's anger on his behalf was not amusing, which was why the twitching smirk he offered the man was mostly completely affectionate. Plus...

"Kangaroos and I do not get along. I think they find me threatening." It was a real theory that Aiba had too, and not just something he'd made up on the spot

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Sho could not speak on the behalf of kangaroos. He'd never met with one, nor did he think or act like one (to his knowledge), but he could say that from his own human perspective, there was absolutely no reason to attack someone like Aiba. You just... didn't!

But if he called the animal a hellspawn, then it was kind of insulting to Aiba, wasn't it? Huh.

"You don't have to pay me back. I wanted to be here for you, so I did what it took," Sho shrugged his shoulders, smiling and lifting a hand to brush some of Aiba's hair out of his face.

Only Aiba would be able to call him up and tell him he'd been injured by a kangaroo. He wasn't sure what he'd gotten himself into, agreeing to date someone with a life that was so... interesting and amazing compared to his own, but he'd hold on. To the best of his abilities.

"You think you'll need a cast?"

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Aiba wanted to protest that making Sho pay for a cab all over the city to get Aiba...okay, so they were going to the hospital and that was serious but. Still. In any case, he didn't have the energy. Pain alone took a lot out of a person, and Aiba was also trying to pretend, and had been since it happened, that it didn't hurt nearly as badly as it actually did.

So he shut his eyes and shifted very carefully until he could rest his head on Sho's shoulder. "Dunno. It's pretty broken, I felt it snap." Okay, that wasn't the best way to reassure Sho. "It's okay though! It doesn't hurt so much. If I don't move it. We'll get it fixed, it'll be okay."

He was sort of torn. He had wanted Sho to be with him, and the closer they got the hospital the more nervous he got, the more grateful he was that Sho was there, but he also felt pretty bad about worrying the man.

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No one promised any taxi rides back from the hospital, right? Maybe Aiba could look at it that way to feel better about it. It was cheaper than round trip transportation would have been.

"That's not good," Sho frowned, but he was more concerned than scared for Aiba. So long as the man got a cast on it and didn't bang it into things, he'd be perfectly fine. Sho was relieved that it wasn't anything worse. Really, he didn't mind the worry so long as his fears were eased like this.

"You'll have to be more careful around marsupials," Sho warned playfully, kissing Aiba's forehead and sighing with relief when the hospital came into sight ahead of them.

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There were never any guarantees that Aiba would not bang his arm into things. Ideally though, he could have this healed in a week and a half. Ideally. "It's okay. I heal really fast. It'll be better in no time

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Sho didn't understand why Aiba hadn't called him to let him know he wouldn't be at the shop. Maybe he'd thought he'd be there before the kangaroo incident occurred, just as Sho knew he might be a bit later than usual for their lunch rendezvous. It wasn't really all that important, though Sho would have rather met with Aiba under different circumstances. He didn't like to see the man hurt.

He didn't know about immortal insurance and all these things that people with supernatural abilities had to go through at hospitals, though it made sense. Who didn't have to fill out massive amounts of paperwork wherever anything medical was concerned?

He was a huge fan of hospitals, but he wasn't the squeamish type either. He could remain the calm and collected no problem, and be there to support Aiba while he needed him.

"Hey," Sho spoke softly, placing his hand gently on Aiba's thigh, "It'll be okay. Broken bones can be an easy fix, right? But if you want, I'll turn my palm face up like this so if your free hand wants to grab it, go for it!"

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To be honest, Aiba had completely forgotten to call Sho and warn him he wouldn't be at the shop today. It was a complete mind disconnect. He knew he was going to see Sho that day, knew he was looking forward to it, and yet didn't stop to think that he wouldn't actually be where Sho thought he would be. Sho would have shown up and been faced with Miso-chan instead.

It seemed though, that the two of them just had terrible and yet at the same time, incredibly fortuitous luck.

At Sho's offer, which was honestly just incredibly sweet, Aiba did feel reassured, and flashed the man a very wide grin, and reached out immediately to grab Sho's hand and squeeze with his good hand. "Thanks, Sho."

[[Meisa time! :D]]