| [Aug. 23rd, 2014|04:02 am] |
Genma and Katsuko were still immobile under the covers, though Genma's blankets looked messier than they had been, and the medkit lay suspiciously open again at the foot of the platform bed. He'd gone for the painkillers after all, and probably strained his leg again doing it. Maybe they should try shackles next.
At least Katsuko was breathing easier, though. She propped herself up on her good elbow and demanded, "What'd he say? What was his face like?" She eyed Kakashi's bandage-mask and amended, "What was his eye like?"
"You're going to fix this," Kakashi informed her. "If you start something, you have to do it right."
"Pretty much like that," Ryouma said. "His head's lopsided and his feelings are hurt. Here, you can have him."
He helped ease Kakashi down onto the platform again. Katsuko scootched very carefully over, cradling her sling-bound elbow against her chest. She still had the tiny plastic baggie of rubber bands. "No take-backs," she told Kakashi. "Next time I'll give you braids."
"He'd have to grow it longer, first," Genma said, struggling stiffly up to help reinstall Kakashi between them. "Right now you'd only be able to make tufts."
"But they're going to be the cutest tufts in the world," Katsuko said serenely, and attacked Kakashi's hair with her good hand and her rubber bands. Kakashi lay still, curled a little on his side, breathing between his teeth.
Painkillers, right.
There were less than half a dozen morphine syrettes left in Genma's medkit. Ryouma hesitated over them. "Should we be rationing?"
"We'll have to," Genma said, quietly.
Ryouma looked up. Genma was still sitting up, braced against the packed dirt wall, plucking lint off the thick woolen blankets. He met Ryouma's eyes. "Priority is keeping Hatake and Ueno as comfortable as possible, since he's in the worst shape and she's closest to functional after you and taichou. Give him a 5 mg dose for now. It takes less drug to keep pain at a low level than to manage it if it gets high."
"Better to stay high than get high," Kakashi said, and laughed softly at himself.
"We're never taking you to Grass Country," Ryouma told him.
Genma huffed. Katsuko said soothingly, "Don't listen to Ryouma. You can go anywhere you want, as long as you keep your pigtails in." She tugged one, gently. Kakashi tipped his head back against her hand and closed his eye. |
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