a's

have been out

was sitting in my chest solid and immovable, but

hile Dr. Angel was occupied

ounds, into the abandoned part of the territory where the tre

where I f

hand pressed to his side, and even in the dark

o looked dangerous even collapsed and bleeding. His dark hair

e clearly was, something about him radiated

ot an ordi

it now, undern

beside hi

id. "Can yo

s snapp

-

uld pull back, his grip startlingly strong for someone w

uch me,"

ing to h

't kno

now you either, but you're bleeding out on my pack'

pite the pain clouding them,

ight still be close," he

st lost...." I stopped myself. "I don't have the

dn't

" he said, his voice r

is currently what you're doing. So either let me look at thi

e, something almost like reluctant

one who found a strang

or someone who

ask for

here bleeding, which was a genuinely terr

osened, jus

is you think you're doing. But if

ot

the middle of everything, the way hi

aware I suddenly felt of my own hands, my

it was just

-

touched the wound at

ing through him, passing through his bloodstream i

is

ld feel it fighting against his wo

ade," I said quietly.

ightened.

know wit

carefully. "You can tell

aren

ormal thing to

to drop a man like you," I said. "So let's

, quickly swallowed by

wouldn't touch something like this. Whatever it was, it wo

do, and it was something I had

g to feel str

are yo

't m

st his side and let my he

-

ack imme

g into him, and I felt it climb up through my own hands

ole body w

trained. "Whatever you're do

lmost

arely conscious, poisoned, bleeding

gh gritted teeth, "you can at least do

insuff

re we

l beneath my hands

werful and furious, and between the two of us we forced

p just short

it settled deep, dormant, buried too far fo

d not kill

breathing hard, my visio

was seeing something h

t saved

make it

are

was something in his face that I fo

ay his eyes held mine like he wasn't

in that it was ju

you?" I c

st slightly. "That's

said. "I don't know you. You don'

me to just a

ful I didn't leave you to

ng in his voice shifted, quieter now.

sn't my prob

e him deciding something behind his eyes, filin

ady beneath me, but his hand sho

somethin

nderstood it... it f

could

p, and I hated how aware I was of ev

ip tig

me like he'd never seen anything like