‘Verse: Resistance Story: Chewtoy AU, co-author @whump-sprite Timeline: Connor and Ariadne in Canada, they're settled in but haven't been there long
She means to get up before Connor gets back. She hates being this useless and she hates him seeing it.
He's always saying she doesn't have to be productive. That she should focus on recovery.
Vegetating on the floor isn't gonna get her any closer to getting better, either.
She means to get up, but she has plenty of time. And then plenty of time narrows to at least an hour, to half an hour, to quarter of an hour, ten minutes, five, to okay lazybones you have to get up right this instant or he's gonna open that door…
And she still doesn't.
He does open the door, and he finds her still laying there, face down in the middle of the lounge, arms curled defensively round her head.