Ella cried out in pain--not in a bad way--as Terrence moved to press her against the wall. Her entire bought burned and ached in the aftermath of the attack. She probably should have seen a Healer, but she was stubborn as shite and Terrence hadn't been able to flip a coin to make her go.
Even amidst the pain, though--especially amidst the pain--this felt even better than usual because it meant that they had survived again. They put themselves into extreme danger on a daily basis, but they usually had the fighting advantage. They hadn't this time. With Alek involved, they'd both had the disadvantage. But they'd still survived and fuck if she wasn't going to take advantage of that fact, even if she made herself physically worse in the process.
She kiss him back hard, pushing his leather jacket back off of him before clawing at the hospital gown. If this didn't make her feel alive, nothing in the world could. Her heart pounded loudly in her ears and she raked her teeth over his chin before kissing him again. Somewhere in the midst of that, she managed to get her own shirt over her head and off and discarded on the floor beside them, forgotten. The gashes across her torso and nasty bruises he hadn't created were bared now. She much preferred the physical damage he could do to her with his hands and teeth.