Naruto :: 50 Sentences :: PG-13 :: Sasuke/Sakura
Title: 50 Sentences
Fandom: Naruto
Pairings: Sasuke/Sakura
Rating: PG-13 (violence, suggestive themes)
Genre: Various prompts, various genres. |D General; romance; fluff; angst; some AU; crack.
Word count: 2,459
Spoilers: Only if you don't know about Sasuke's post-time skip abilities.
Summary: My Sasuke/Sakura/snakes claim for 3sentence.
Notes: #9 is... yeah. Dorkness to the extreme. Just as a warning. And NO, those are not Resident Evil and Devil May Cry references! Also, thanks to tao_empress for inspiring me when it came to the more difficult prompts, and dedicated to stereotype_vamp for putting up with Sasuke-muse's snake obsession. I'm convinced your tolerance led up to this. ♥
#01 - Witch
"Medical ninjutsu isn't magic, or witchcraft, or even perfect," Sakura explained distractedly, and Sasuke chose not to argue that she wasn't answering his question; as curious as he was about the familiar fang mark on her shoulder, it wasn't enough to make him press.
#02 - Hunt
The snake was fast, but so was Sakura, and a second later she'd caught it behind the head and lifted it from the grass, ignoring its squirming and hissing and spitting, to turn it around and meet its yellow eye with a demanding, "Where is he?"
#03 - Trial
Sakura stared at the copper-colored liquid in the vial, but Sasuke only explained tonelessly, "Trust me; it's the only time I'll ask you to."
#04 - Judge
"I know you weren't the assassin because the toxin in the body didn't match any of your summons' breeds - so why are you letting them assume you're guilty?"
#05 - Jury
"-And wear long sleeves, or gloves," Sakura added over her shoulder as she worked, "because I doubt there's a council member alive who won't have second thoughts if you walk into your trial with that tattoo showing."
#06 - Victory
Sasuke's head struck brick and his vision flickered like his consciousness, growing darker still when Sakura's fingers tightened again to hold him up against the wall; he caught a blur of movement as the summoned snake suddenly reared up behind her, but Sakura reacted and at a brush of her fist its enormous head was batted aside like nothing.
#07 - March
Spending a cold, rainy, and muddy night huddled beneath an enormous snake was a far cry from Sakura's idea of the best way to spend her birthday, but Sasuke's presence and the first kiss that followed made it just that.
#08 - Madness
He heard her gasp as she hit the wall, but her hands and her kisses only grew more frenzied, her breathing more erratic, and he slid a hand along one of the legs around his waist as two snakes shot down his arms, one spiraling up her skirt to curl around her thigh and the other diving under her top and hugging her warm middle, gathering her heat and getting where he couldn't.
#09 - Comic
"You okay?" Sakura asked worriedly, but Sasuke used the motion of shoving his camera into his bag to hide the fang marks in his hand, adjusting his glasses with a quick "Yeah."
#10 - Book
Cradling her bloody arm in her lap, Sakura slammed the encyclopedia open with the other and snapped, "If you want to be useful, go get on Google or something - and stop blaming me because you're the idiot who claims to be the snake expert but doesn't even know if that one was venomous or not!"
#11 - Humor
Sasuke was used to the wary looks and whispers that tended to fly when he passed, the disrespect and dislike from some villagers even after being back for five years, but it never got to him until the day someone with a sick sense of humor nailed a dead snake to Sakura's apartment door beneath a crude message about her taste in men.
#12 - Tragedy
He smiles slightly, grimly, and it kills her, but not as much as the words his mouth forms - Thank you - and she wants to scream at him, to demand what he's thanking her for when all she can do is watch helplessly through the glass wall dividing their cells and not even be with him when it happens - but then the snake bites into his wrist, deep and instant, and Sasuke's pupils contract as the neurotoxin immediately invades his system.
#13 - Romance
"It's fine when it happens, but we're trying to get pregnant, Sasuke, and - and I want this to be romantic, and when our child asks where she came from one day, I want to think back and remember this for being passionate, about you and me, and our family - I don't want to think of it as just her dad and a couple snakes taking a go at me one night."
#14 - Fantasy
The glimpse of the snakelike symbol covering his forearm should have been evidence enough, but Sakura hesitated, her weapon still in its holster; as blank and cold as the stranger's eyes were, they looked - they felt human, and there was no real sense of the demonic emanating from him as there should have been.
#15 - Horror
Having watched Sasuke anxiously ever since the encounter with that Orochimaru person hours before, Sakura couldn't overlook that slight, almost imperceptible twitch of his hand towards his kunai holster each time he spotted a snake in the bush.
#16 - Torture
He watched her convert a sound of pain into a low hiss as the fangs pierced her shoulder, her bruised skin paling under the pressure.
#17 - Porn
"Then lock your door, dumbass, because the last thing I ever wanna see again is you and her and all those snakes looking like some sort of bad por-" is all Naruto manages before Sasuke forces his face into the table as everyone in the library looks over.
#18 - Pleasure
Sasuke had probably grown too accustomed to her touch to react as he used to - but when Sakura shifted motions by wrapping her fingers around his serpent's thin neck and running her hand down the body and back up again, and then repeating, she smirked as his shoulders subtly but visibly tensed.
#19 - Pain
The snap of its thin spine breaking could be heard across the room, but Sakura was too preoccupied with pulling the limp body from her shoulders to notice Sasuke's shadow of a wince.
#20 - Hurt
Her heart dropped when she found him: slumped against the slashed coils of the giant serpent at his back, Sasuke was as equally bloodied and unresponsive as the snake that had fallen defending him.
#21 - Comfort
As irate as the snakes' appearances made her at first, they were still a comfort that she wouldn't have traded; their presence meant he was alive, he was keeping his promise, and until he came back, that was all Sakura could literally hold on to.
#22 - Kiss
She pushed Sasuke onto his back and moved her feverish kisses down his neck, his shoulder, his chest, hardly aware of when her lips passed from skin to scales and back to skin because either one was him and it wasn't like he cared which she put her mouth on, anyway.
#23 - Caress
Reaching over, Sakura ran a gentle two fingers down the serpent's slick back, following its body's twists and turns down to its tail; beside her, Sasuke shifted, moved closer, and passed an unconscious hand over her hip.
#24 - Sensual
His kiss glided along her shoulder to the back of her neck, slow and soft, his fingers down her side, and beneath his chest the snake settled along the curve of her spine, its feather-light tongue grazing the small of her back.
#25 - Blindfold
He pinned Sakura's arms against the wall before she could fully react, his chest against her back to add weight and his legs spread to stay out of kicking range; as Sasuke demanded tonelessly what she was doing there, something cool and smooth looped itself around her head to cover her eyes and blind her to what little she could see.
#26 - Chocolate
The scales were deep and rich, an earthy brown, a chocolate brown, almost black, and lying across Sakura's shoulder, the snake's color seemed to emphasize how light and soft her skin was beneath its own; observing this, Sasuke nearly started when she caught him staring.
#27 - Covered
She ran her fingertips over the jet-black ink in light touches as he watched, simply feeling along the soft skin of his wrist and the tattoo that wound about it, that he always kept covered and hidden except for instants at a time - and then reaching the end of it, his pulse, Sakura kept going and slipped her hand into his to hold it, gentle, and after a moment she felt him squeeze back.
#28 - Strawberry
Its tongue darted out, retreated, and then darted again, lingering this time as it tasted the night air, and in seconds Sasuke detected the scent-taste that it had: the sweet, familiar smell of her hair, her faded shampoo, still fresh and probably under twenty minutes old.
#29 - Tea
Fed up, Sakura abruptly caught the snake under her palm and pressed its underside against the boiling tea kettle - it writhed, Sasuke jerked back and away from her to pull the serpent with him, and it was difficult to tell which of the two the spitting hiss came from.
#30 - Coffee
The day she had to leave before him, Sakura left a cup of coffee on the bedside table; the several times he left first, she awoke to a snake curled up in his spot or draped over her side, its scales still warm with his body heat.
#31 - Bite
Pausing in the doorway just long enough to pull on his arm guard, Sasuke told the rattler without turning and loud enough for Sakura to hear, "If she tries to follow me, bite her."
#32 - Lick
Sakura tried to remain impassive, but the flickering touch of its cool tongue on her cheek - just a fraction closer to her mouth than before - reminded her that he had to be nearby, watching and feeling everything through his stupid pet, and she involuntarily shuddered in the creature's hold before her half-conscious mind could think to deny him the satisfaction.
#33 - Tousle
Of the summoning snakes Sakura came to know, there was only one she knew to be female and it was coincidentally the only one she disliked - she was certain it had an unnatural fondness of Sasuke that was as human-natured as any of his other fans' crushes, and if that wasn't evident enough in the way the serpent clung to his shoulders more often than not, it was all but proven in Sakura's mind the time the stupid thing bit her when she came a little too close to him.
#34 - Tickle
She drew a line down the middle of his back with her fingertip and the serpent slowly followed, tracing the path in its steady crawl; she dragged her leading touch along Sasuke's side, and then smiled when he twitched and recoiled slightly.
#35 - Monster
Sasuke remained at ease as the pink-haired field medic drew her gun and leveled it with his chest, her voice betraying less fear than her eyes as she ordered, "You - call that monster off, now!"
#36 - Sex
Sakura gripped his hair and arched further up against him as the python's constrictions grew tighter around them both, its coils squeezing and releasing in time with each of Sasuke's movements.
#37 - Video
"There will be cameras watching," Sasuke told her, holding his arm out as a thinner-than-usual, flat-headed snake emerged from his sleeve, "so keep this somewhere you can feel it and follow my signals."
#38 - Games
Sakura had joked about getting him back, but Sasuke never expected to wake up to a cat-sized slug on her side of the bed one morning, its thick secretions coating the underbelly of the snake that had been lying over her hours before.
#39 - Carnival
She rolled her eyes and bopped Sasuke lightly with the stuffed snake, making him frown ever so vaguely when the static cling messed up his hair, and sighed, "Naruto was sweet enough to win it for me when my own boyfriend wouldn't."
#40 - Clown
"If it hurts that much, just make a sling out of a snake," Sakura snapped sarcastically, glancing at his arm, "since you use them for everything else."
#41 - Broken
"Do you love him?" Sasuke asked, so abruptly and flatly that it was more of a demand, and Sakura looked at him, startled, her heart giving a painful throb; even for him, his face was exceptionally blank, a sadly emotionless expression that reminded her of his snakes - and what hurt more was that she knew it was forced.
#42 - Heart
It was a background thought, maybe as groundless as it was fleeting, but as he watched Sakura gently ease the pieces of eggshell aside, her hands at the ready as the tiny snake continued its struggle, it suddenly occurred to Sasuke that she could well be the mother she was so often and jokingly accused of being.
#43 - Fixed
Sakura watched the pinpoint fang wounds quickly fade beneath her healing glow, her jaw clenching tighter in proportion to the dwindling effects of the sedative in her system.
#44 - Mantle
She caught Sasuke staring at the serpentine skeleton hanging above the Raikage's fireplace; meeting her gaze, he only glanced blankly aside.
#45 - Piece
The jagged glass had sliced straight through the serpent's hide and gone on to puncture Sasuke's chest and left lung; unable to remove it without killing both of them, Sakura could only leave them momentarily impaled against each other as she began healing.
#46 - Wind
A giant snake's body curled around them instantly, protecting them from the scorching wave of heat that slammed into it a second later.
#47 - Rain
Sasuke pressed a hand to her neck, her chest, his fingers nearly numb in the cold rain and unable to find some semblance of a heartbeat - but then there was the snake, his snake, clutching Sakura's wrist, and when Sasuke paused long enough to concentrate, he finally detected a faint flutter of life beneath its soft belly.
#48 - Mud
Sasuke had to send some chakra to his feet as the snake beneath him wriggled and thrashed, but Naruto's jutsu had it firmly trapped in the lake of mud and its movements only made it worse; watching Naruto's figure in the distance, Sasuke almost missed the shadow in the corner of his eye, but then quickly dove to the side and a second later Sakura landed, her fist driving into the serpent's head hard enough to make it shudder and spit in agony.
#49 - Lightning
He dropped in front of Sakura and unleashed an outstretched burst of Chidori Nagashi - unable to stop in time, the giant snake slammed into the wall of electricity barely a foot from Sasuke's face, pushing him back, and immediately recoiled as the attack coursed through it.
#50 - Sore
When the snake turned and lunged at him barely a second after appearing, Sasuke couldn't say he was surprised - he just blocked the attack and took the prickling bite to his arm, only telling Sakura that it was angry at him from the past and leaving out that it was the same snake he'd put through the discomfort of venom extraction months ago to make her the serum she'd needed then.
Fandom: Naruto
Pairings: Sasuke/Sakura
Rating: PG-13 (violence, suggestive themes)
Genre: Various prompts, various genres. |D General; romance; fluff; angst; some AU; crack.
Word count: 2,459
Spoilers: Only if you don't know about Sasuke's post-time skip abilities.
Summary: My Sasuke/Sakura/snakes claim for 3sentence.
Notes: #9 is... yeah. Dorkness to the extreme. Just as a warning. And NO, those are not Resident Evil and Devil May Cry references! Also, thanks to tao_empress for inspiring me when it came to the more difficult prompts, and dedicated to stereotype_vamp for putting up with Sasuke-muse's snake obsession. I'm convinced your tolerance led up to this. ♥
#01 - Witch
"Medical ninjutsu isn't magic, or witchcraft, or even perfect," Sakura explained distractedly, and Sasuke chose not to argue that she wasn't answering his question; as curious as he was about the familiar fang mark on her shoulder, it wasn't enough to make him press.
#02 - Hunt
The snake was fast, but so was Sakura, and a second later she'd caught it behind the head and lifted it from the grass, ignoring its squirming and hissing and spitting, to turn it around and meet its yellow eye with a demanding, "Where is he?"
#03 - Trial
Sakura stared at the copper-colored liquid in the vial, but Sasuke only explained tonelessly, "Trust me; it's the only time I'll ask you to."
#04 - Judge
"I know you weren't the assassin because the toxin in the body didn't match any of your summons' breeds - so why are you letting them assume you're guilty?"
#05 - Jury
"-And wear long sleeves, or gloves," Sakura added over her shoulder as she worked, "because I doubt there's a council member alive who won't have second thoughts if you walk into your trial with that tattoo showing."
#06 - Victory
Sasuke's head struck brick and his vision flickered like his consciousness, growing darker still when Sakura's fingers tightened again to hold him up against the wall; he caught a blur of movement as the summoned snake suddenly reared up behind her, but Sakura reacted and at a brush of her fist its enormous head was batted aside like nothing.
#07 - March
Spending a cold, rainy, and muddy night huddled beneath an enormous snake was a far cry from Sakura's idea of the best way to spend her birthday, but Sasuke's presence and the first kiss that followed made it just that.
#08 - Madness
He heard her gasp as she hit the wall, but her hands and her kisses only grew more frenzied, her breathing more erratic, and he slid a hand along one of the legs around his waist as two snakes shot down his arms, one spiraling up her skirt to curl around her thigh and the other diving under her top and hugging her warm middle, gathering her heat and getting where he couldn't.
#09 - Comic
"You okay?" Sakura asked worriedly, but Sasuke used the motion of shoving his camera into his bag to hide the fang marks in his hand, adjusting his glasses with a quick "Yeah."
#10 - Book
Cradling her bloody arm in her lap, Sakura slammed the encyclopedia open with the other and snapped, "If you want to be useful, go get on Google or something - and stop blaming me because you're the idiot who claims to be the snake expert but doesn't even know if that one was venomous or not!"
#11 - Humor
Sasuke was used to the wary looks and whispers that tended to fly when he passed, the disrespect and dislike from some villagers even after being back for five years, but it never got to him until the day someone with a sick sense of humor nailed a dead snake to Sakura's apartment door beneath a crude message about her taste in men.
#12 - Tragedy
He smiles slightly, grimly, and it kills her, but not as much as the words his mouth forms - Thank you - and she wants to scream at him, to demand what he's thanking her for when all she can do is watch helplessly through the glass wall dividing their cells and not even be with him when it happens - but then the snake bites into his wrist, deep and instant, and Sasuke's pupils contract as the neurotoxin immediately invades his system.
#13 - Romance
"It's fine when it happens, but we're trying to get pregnant, Sasuke, and - and I want this to be romantic, and when our child asks where she came from one day, I want to think back and remember this for being passionate, about you and me, and our family - I don't want to think of it as just her dad and a couple snakes taking a go at me one night."
#14 - Fantasy
The glimpse of the snakelike symbol covering his forearm should have been evidence enough, but Sakura hesitated, her weapon still in its holster; as blank and cold as the stranger's eyes were, they looked - they felt human, and there was no real sense of the demonic emanating from him as there should have been.
#15 - Horror
Having watched Sasuke anxiously ever since the encounter with that Orochimaru person hours before, Sakura couldn't overlook that slight, almost imperceptible twitch of his hand towards his kunai holster each time he spotted a snake in the bush.
#16 - Torture
He watched her convert a sound of pain into a low hiss as the fangs pierced her shoulder, her bruised skin paling under the pressure.
#17 - Porn
"Then lock your door, dumbass, because the last thing I ever wanna see again is you and her and all those snakes looking like some sort of bad por-" is all Naruto manages before Sasuke forces his face into the table as everyone in the library looks over.
#18 - Pleasure
Sasuke had probably grown too accustomed to her touch to react as he used to - but when Sakura shifted motions by wrapping her fingers around his serpent's thin neck and running her hand down the body and back up again, and then repeating, she smirked as his shoulders subtly but visibly tensed.
#19 - Pain
The snap of its thin spine breaking could be heard across the room, but Sakura was too preoccupied with pulling the limp body from her shoulders to notice Sasuke's shadow of a wince.
#20 - Hurt
Her heart dropped when she found him: slumped against the slashed coils of the giant serpent at his back, Sasuke was as equally bloodied and unresponsive as the snake that had fallen defending him.
#21 - Comfort
As irate as the snakes' appearances made her at first, they were still a comfort that she wouldn't have traded; their presence meant he was alive, he was keeping his promise, and until he came back, that was all Sakura could literally hold on to.
#22 - Kiss
She pushed Sasuke onto his back and moved her feverish kisses down his neck, his shoulder, his chest, hardly aware of when her lips passed from skin to scales and back to skin because either one was him and it wasn't like he cared which she put her mouth on, anyway.
#23 - Caress
Reaching over, Sakura ran a gentle two fingers down the serpent's slick back, following its body's twists and turns down to its tail; beside her, Sasuke shifted, moved closer, and passed an unconscious hand over her hip.
#24 - Sensual
His kiss glided along her shoulder to the back of her neck, slow and soft, his fingers down her side, and beneath his chest the snake settled along the curve of her spine, its feather-light tongue grazing the small of her back.
#25 - Blindfold
He pinned Sakura's arms against the wall before she could fully react, his chest against her back to add weight and his legs spread to stay out of kicking range; as Sasuke demanded tonelessly what she was doing there, something cool and smooth looped itself around her head to cover her eyes and blind her to what little she could see.
#26 - Chocolate
The scales were deep and rich, an earthy brown, a chocolate brown, almost black, and lying across Sakura's shoulder, the snake's color seemed to emphasize how light and soft her skin was beneath its own; observing this, Sasuke nearly started when she caught him staring.
#27 - Covered
She ran her fingertips over the jet-black ink in light touches as he watched, simply feeling along the soft skin of his wrist and the tattoo that wound about it, that he always kept covered and hidden except for instants at a time - and then reaching the end of it, his pulse, Sakura kept going and slipped her hand into his to hold it, gentle, and after a moment she felt him squeeze back.
#28 - Strawberry
Its tongue darted out, retreated, and then darted again, lingering this time as it tasted the night air, and in seconds Sasuke detected the scent-taste that it had: the sweet, familiar smell of her hair, her faded shampoo, still fresh and probably under twenty minutes old.
#29 - Tea
Fed up, Sakura abruptly caught the snake under her palm and pressed its underside against the boiling tea kettle - it writhed, Sasuke jerked back and away from her to pull the serpent with him, and it was difficult to tell which of the two the spitting hiss came from.
#30 - Coffee
The day she had to leave before him, Sakura left a cup of coffee on the bedside table; the several times he left first, she awoke to a snake curled up in his spot or draped over her side, its scales still warm with his body heat.
#31 - Bite
Pausing in the doorway just long enough to pull on his arm guard, Sasuke told the rattler without turning and loud enough for Sakura to hear, "If she tries to follow me, bite her."
#32 - Lick
Sakura tried to remain impassive, but the flickering touch of its cool tongue on her cheek - just a fraction closer to her mouth than before - reminded her that he had to be nearby, watching and feeling everything through his stupid pet, and she involuntarily shuddered in the creature's hold before her half-conscious mind could think to deny him the satisfaction.
#33 - Tousle
Of the summoning snakes Sakura came to know, there was only one she knew to be female and it was coincidentally the only one she disliked - she was certain it had an unnatural fondness of Sasuke that was as human-natured as any of his other fans' crushes, and if that wasn't evident enough in the way the serpent clung to his shoulders more often than not, it was all but proven in Sakura's mind the time the stupid thing bit her when she came a little too close to him.
#34 - Tickle
She drew a line down the middle of his back with her fingertip and the serpent slowly followed, tracing the path in its steady crawl; she dragged her leading touch along Sasuke's side, and then smiled when he twitched and recoiled slightly.
#35 - Monster
Sasuke remained at ease as the pink-haired field medic drew her gun and leveled it with his chest, her voice betraying less fear than her eyes as she ordered, "You - call that monster off, now!"
#36 - Sex
Sakura gripped his hair and arched further up against him as the python's constrictions grew tighter around them both, its coils squeezing and releasing in time with each of Sasuke's movements.
#37 - Video
"There will be cameras watching," Sasuke told her, holding his arm out as a thinner-than-usual, flat-headed snake emerged from his sleeve, "so keep this somewhere you can feel it and follow my signals."
#38 - Games
Sakura had joked about getting him back, but Sasuke never expected to wake up to a cat-sized slug on her side of the bed one morning, its thick secretions coating the underbelly of the snake that had been lying over her hours before.
#39 - Carnival
She rolled her eyes and bopped Sasuke lightly with the stuffed snake, making him frown ever so vaguely when the static cling messed up his hair, and sighed, "Naruto was sweet enough to win it for me when my own boyfriend wouldn't."
#40 - Clown
"If it hurts that much, just make a sling out of a snake," Sakura snapped sarcastically, glancing at his arm, "since you use them for everything else."
#41 - Broken
"Do you love him?" Sasuke asked, so abruptly and flatly that it was more of a demand, and Sakura looked at him, startled, her heart giving a painful throb; even for him, his face was exceptionally blank, a sadly emotionless expression that reminded her of his snakes - and what hurt more was that she knew it was forced.
#42 - Heart
It was a background thought, maybe as groundless as it was fleeting, but as he watched Sakura gently ease the pieces of eggshell aside, her hands at the ready as the tiny snake continued its struggle, it suddenly occurred to Sasuke that she could well be the mother she was so often and jokingly accused of being.
#43 - Fixed
Sakura watched the pinpoint fang wounds quickly fade beneath her healing glow, her jaw clenching tighter in proportion to the dwindling effects of the sedative in her system.
#44 - Mantle
She caught Sasuke staring at the serpentine skeleton hanging above the Raikage's fireplace; meeting her gaze, he only glanced blankly aside.
#45 - Piece
The jagged glass had sliced straight through the serpent's hide and gone on to puncture Sasuke's chest and left lung; unable to remove it without killing both of them, Sakura could only leave them momentarily impaled against each other as she began healing.
#46 - Wind
A giant snake's body curled around them instantly, protecting them from the scorching wave of heat that slammed into it a second later.
#47 - Rain
Sasuke pressed a hand to her neck, her chest, his fingers nearly numb in the cold rain and unable to find some semblance of a heartbeat - but then there was the snake, his snake, clutching Sakura's wrist, and when Sasuke paused long enough to concentrate, he finally detected a faint flutter of life beneath its soft belly.
#48 - Mud
Sasuke had to send some chakra to his feet as the snake beneath him wriggled and thrashed, but Naruto's jutsu had it firmly trapped in the lake of mud and its movements only made it worse; watching Naruto's figure in the distance, Sasuke almost missed the shadow in the corner of his eye, but then quickly dove to the side and a second later Sakura landed, her fist driving into the serpent's head hard enough to make it shudder and spit in agony.
#49 - Lightning
He dropped in front of Sakura and unleashed an outstretched burst of Chidori Nagashi - unable to stop in time, the giant snake slammed into the wall of electricity barely a foot from Sasuke's face, pushing him back, and immediately recoiled as the attack coursed through it.
#50 - Sore
When the snake turned and lunged at him barely a second after appearing, Sasuke couldn't say he was surprised - he just blocked the attack and took the prickling bite to his arm, only telling Sakura that it was angry at him from the past and leaving out that it was the same snake he'd put through the discomfort of venom extraction months ago to make her the serum she'd needed then.