I take one step to get in between them and get a death glare from the pair of them. Okay. I'm just gonna walk myself back to the trucks, shall I? Let them deal with each other.
I know I should probably stop them, but it's not my battle. "Catch you …
My face flames with embarrassment and I'm glad when Sapphire starts uncovering her stuff.
A... twofer? Like two jingle? Or killing two people... I don't think I wanna know. "Nice." I say
I snort and it dissolves into laughter.
"She's not kidding." I say to Sapphire. "She hangs with Rinso, who is plenty nice to look at."
What? I'm not saying anything anybody doesn't already know...
"Lizzy Borden lived on Earth way back when- killed her parents by stabbing them repeatedly with an axe. There's a rhyme..." Right, Stitch, because murder is HIGH-larious. I stop myself. The nickname was funny at the time.
"Nah, yours weren't too bad. I remember this one guy when I was in med school... stabbed that poor guy ten times before I could get it in. The other students called me Lizzy B. for the longest time!"
"Yeah." I answer Kiddo, nodding. "She's gonna pay me. We'll be right back."
As for safe... If someone paid her enough she'd go after anyone, I know that, but safe enough, I guess.
I grin when she takes my pinky, a tiny part of my heart I thought was gone melting.
I follow Sapphire. "I.. uh. I sort of took a swing at Ivory." I admit sheepishly.
"Yeah." I say, following Sapphire. "A couple minutes." I shout up to Svenja. When Sapphire says pinky swear, I break out in a huge grin and hold my pinky out to her, daring her to shake it.
"Ok, but I'm only gonna take one." I tell her. I frakked h…
"Yes." I answer her. "A little ways outside of Trench."
I want to tell her that I brought her out her so the guards wouldn't get her, but it doesn't matter- she's going to believe what she wants. I take my hands off her and give her space, trying t…
In the landscape of our minds, I kneel down on the ground, waiting for tag-a-long Sapphire to come to me- when she's ready. If she's willing, I cradle her in my arms.
"I'm so sorry." I whisper to her. "This place is stone hard with sharp edges- but…
"No, but she was covered in blood and holding a knife, so I put two and two together." I reply. "I healed her a bit, and then she asked for help."
I'm not in the business of judgement. If this girl killed someone she's going to need to answer for t…
"She's gonna be out of it for a few days." I tell Kiddo. "We can put her in a truck- she shouldn't walk for a while. I'm not sure she's gonna like it if we take her with us, but I can't see any other options. Can't leave her here."
Some of it flashes before my eyes. "Yeah. Like last time. Except I didn't fix it this time." I say. I hang my head a bit.
I hesitate, not sure how much I should share. "I saw Hump, when he was younger. Her mom and dad. I saw... she killed a man la…
Yeah, I dosed Sapphire. I knew she'd bolt the moment she woke up and probably end up killing herself in the process.
"Outside Chedd's tent, near the wall. She fell." I explain. "Do you know her?"
"It's ok." I'm nearly panting. "You did good. I... I got lost in there. Thank you."
I have to stop myself from trying to work on Saphire again. I want to fix it, to sooth her wounds- physical and mental. But she needs rest and I'm too drained to do…
I didn't leave her there because she's a kid. Because she was bleeding. Because of that weak cry of pain she let out. Because when I was pregnant, it was going to be a girl.
The last few weeks with Ethan were great, actually. I didn't tell him I'd …
I nod at Sapphire and shoot Svenja a look- this is what freaks her out?!? I'd have thought it was like... well, nothing really. She wasn't super excited about the needle they jammed in her before they put us in the iso-cubes, but she just frowned an…
"I'm gonna call you cat, how many lives have you gone through?" I joke with her as I examine the wound. I dab a bit of gel around the wound to dull the pain, but me poking and prodding isn't gonna be pleasant for her. Who is this girl? So young.
"I…
"This is my friend. She's here to make sure you don't kill me when I'm done cleaning you up- I hope you understand." I tell Sapphire. No sense sugarcoating it, right?
I put my medkit on the bed and start taking things out. "Lie down, let me look at…
"Yeah. She says they'll kill her." I answer her.
I stop before we get back into my little room. "She's trained. I don't think she's a threat to us, but she stirred something up and I don't want helping her to come back and bite me in the ass, yeah…