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[gotacigarette]

Eden's had enough of the clinic. She's not going to the bloody clinic. She's got a bandage made from a torn t-shirt wrapped around her calf where the kid stuck her with his spear. She can bear her weight on it well enough, so she's at least pretty sure he didn't take out any tendons, just tore flesh. It hurts, but not badly enough to keep her

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[dumbassbastards]

Rollie's just barely within shouting range, and his first thought when he hears his name is that something's happened to Karen. He's practically sprinting when he gets back to the huts, medical bag in hand, and is relieved to find out his patient is someone else. Well, a little relieved, anyway. As relieved as a guy can be when he finds the wounded on his doorstep.

"What happened?" he says, since Eden's obviously lucid and managed to get to him under her own power.

[gotacigarette]

"I was attacked by a bloody rabid child," says Eden, favouring her injured leg, and turning her face so that Rollie can see the redness that'll surely bruise.

"I just need you to patch me up."

[dumbassbastards]

"A child did that?" says Rollie, checking out the bruising and then the leg. "Well, I guess there are a lot of them running wild around this place. You're gonna want me to stitch that I think, or it's gonna leave a hell of a scar."

[gotacigarette]

"About fourteen. I'm lucky it's not worse," says Eden, letting him look at her. Her eye's still in her pocket, and she has to turn her head to keep him in her eye-line.

"You can do whatever you want as long as I can bear my weight on it."

[dumbassbastards]

"Well, it won't be fun, but if you're going to be running around on it - and I know you will - then I'm going to need to hold it together. Come on back to my hut, you can sit down while I sew you up. If you want anaesthetic, though, we'll have to head up to the clinic."

[gotacigarette]

"I'm going to be running around on it," says Eden, but Rollie's worked that out on his own. When he leads, she limps after him.

"I can live without anaesthetic."

[dumbassbastards]

"So can just about everyone, they just choose not to," says Rollie, pushing through the door and gesturing at a chair and footstool. "Sit yourself there; I've got a suture kit in my bag. You want a drink before I get started cleaning you up?"

[gotacigarette]

"Thankyou."

Eden sits down, lifting her leg up onto the footstool and bending her head to examine the wound.

"What a bloody mess."

[dumbassbastards]

"Literally," he says, getting some of his fresh water to get the crusted blood out of the way, careful not to get it going again. "Don't poke at it, you don't want it getting infected. And put your eye in, would you?"

[gotacigarette]

"Yessir."

Eden fishes her eyeball out of her pocket and tilts her head back, glancing at Rollie before she tugs her patch down around her neck and presses her eye back into place with practiced ease.

"And I wasn't touching it."

[dumbassbastards]

"Yeah, but you were thinking about it," says Rollie, taking it slow and easy as he cleans the wound, a little more comfortable meeting her eyes now. "Things get infected as easy as breathing around places like this. It's a wonder we don't have more problems with it."

[gotacigarette]

"Don't tempt fate," says Eden, looking up at him. "Fate's a bastard. Might decide to give you what you ask for."

[dumbassbastards]

"This island does what it will whether we open our mouths or not," says Rollie. Just over a year's taught him that much, at least. "This the only place the kid got you?"

[gotacigarette]

Eden turns her face so that he can see the blooming sore spot on her jaw that's going to make a hell of a bruise.

"He clipped me, but that's the only place that I'm bleeding."

[dumbassbastards]

"Hm," he says, touching it with gentle, probing fingers. "Well, at least that's not going to get infected. You need a minute before I start stitching, or are you good?"

[gotacigarette]

"Fix me up, Rollie," she says, turning her face to the side and looking out of the door. "I need to be able to walk on it by tomorrow."