bruises are pretty imo

Day 4: Beaten

A boot connected with Alfie’s ribcage, and he barely suppressed a grunt. He didn’t bother to look up. His attacker’s face would just blend in with everyone else that had hurt him. His ribs would definitely bruise, and he could only hope that nothing was broken. This was how most of his encounters with people like this went. At least none of them had the thought to kill him. Everything faded for a moment, before coming back with painful intensity as another kick to his stomach made him flinch on the ground. He couldn’t last like this. 

Finally making an attempt to get up, Alfie pushed shaking arms under him. The harpy only made it a couple of inches forward before the man kicked him again, and he collapsed on the ground, coughing as a cloud of dust billowed around him. 

Day 2: Broken Bone

As he looked down at his leg, Elijah remembered something that he had read. “The ABC’s of First Aid: A Bone Coming out through the skin is not good.” Well, his bone certainly wasn’t poking through the skin, but it was definitely not where it was supposed to be. Huh, he thought as he lay next to a dumpster, it hurts less than I thought it would. Well, maybe that was because he was slowly falling unconscious. Either way, Elijah didn’t care. He tipped his head back, blond curls getting dirtier by the second, and tried not to move. Someone would probably find him later. He closed his eyes… and opened them again when a violent jolt of pain washed over him. Someone’s arm was on him, pulling him to the side, moving his legs. A cry of pain escaping him, he looked over to see who it was.

“What the- Oh, Maelynn. Guess I won’t die then. Huh,” He mumbled, still not fully conscious. 

“What the fuck happened? Can you walk?” His sister’s concerned face loomed over him, her urgent tone waking him up more than anything else. 

“No, don’t think so.” He tried to keep his tone light, as if he wasn’t actually severely injured, but it was hard thanks to the waves of fire that spread from the break. 

“Oh, ok. I’ll help you then.” Maelynn wrapped an arm around his shoulders and without warning, lifted him off of the ground. As Elijah’s legs instinctively moved under him, the pain in the break racketed up to an unbearable level, and he blacked out once again.