iiregularhunter:

“I’m fine.”

A blatant lie.

His knee wasn’t the only injury that Zero had received from Velvet. Three slashes ran down the side of his face, barely missing his eyes and curving along his chin, stain dark with coolant and exposed wires. The same had happened to his abdomen and his right arm, not to mention the impact craters left from where she had kicked him.

“I’m fine. Everything’s going to be fine.”

A lie. A lie. But he had to keep on repeating it, if only because he needed Rebecca to believe it.

He didn’t know what else to say – and allowed himself to fall into silence as he carried her to the repairbay.

Half of her wanted to squint at him at that, seeing what his face and body looked like, but the other half was protesting at the idea. She didn’t want him to get angry at her for calling him out about that…

Then again, she was too exhausted to try anyway. Maybe she could tell X later. She made a mental note of it.

“Okay… You get looked over after me though, just in case please…?”

Oh, they were almost at the med bay. Sapphire eyes looked over at the door and seemed to mentally calculate something before she bent her knees a bit more, bending her back a bit to bring her head in, so none of her would whack the door frame.

The tips of her toes would probably still clip it, but that she didn’t mind as opposed to the entirety of her feet and ankles. It was a much better option at the very least.