The Causer of Pain meets the Other Causer of Pain [Coon]

Rose cleared her head, and nodded. "M'fine.." She reassured him. She wouldn't pass out, she was just a little tired, from her gift being activated when she didn't want it to be. It was just because she was so scared. She was still scared of the tall boy in front of her. She bent down to pick up her book that was probably damaged a bit now that she had dropped it twice. Jeez.. She needed to take better care of her books. "Don't worry bout me.."

He didn't really believe the girl. Her speech sounded slightly slurred. "I'm not going to ask this time. I think we need to get your eye checked out. And then you should get some rest." he said in a firm, but quiet voice. He didn't really want this girl to try and run away again. He was tired of people being wary or scared of him. He just wanted to be normal, or at least, the Beata equivelent of normal.

Oh. He wasn't going to give up this idea that she wasn't fine. She was okay, well she would be when she would be able to find some place to take care of the cuts and stuff, but it didn't seem he was going to let her get away. She looked away her brown eyes looking to the forest floor. "Fine.." She said, agreeing to it. She was going to give him some back talk, but that would surely end up badly for her. It was just better to submit for now, and when she had the chance she would get away.

Edward nodded. Finally, she was going to go along with him. "Alright, I'll lead the way, since you probably don't want to be picked up and carried there." he said. He was surprised by the amount of concern he felt for the girl confused him. He had just met her. Hell, he didn't even know her name. Maybe it was because she looked so innocent and helpless. He shrugged it off and started walking, motioning for the girl to follow.

He was right. She hated being carried, she hated any invasion of personal space, even if it was someone she knew well. And Ed was perfectly fine, he just happened to run into the worst person to make him feel normal. Rose was basically scared of anyone, more so guys than girls, but she was still scared none the less. Her book returned to being held close against her chest as she followed silently behind Ed to wherever they were going.

Time skip to the rescue! Edward led the girl to her dorm and turned to her. "Alright, here's your dorm. Sorry for being kind of a jerk at first." he said.

Well the walk back was awkward to say the least. She didn't really know what to say to the taller boy. They hadn't even introduce themselves yet! Jeez.. She was taught to be nice, and she was failing that.. Well there was the fact that she was scared out of her mind.. She reached up and tucked her hair behind her on of her ears.. So he wasn't trying to be mean? It might just be a ploy to get her to trust him.. or something of the sort.. but she felt like that wasn't true. "Rose.." She stated. "My name is Rose.." She was introducing herself. "Would you like to come inside?" She asked softly. He seemed concerned about her so maybe if he saw that she could fix her cuts then he would relax?

He realized that he still hadn't introduced himself to Rose. "Mine's Edward." he said. "And yeah, I'll come inside." he wanted to make sure the girl was going to be alright on her own and not do something she shouldn't be, being as tired as she was.

The girl quickly fished her key out of the pocket she had. She fumbled with the key, and the lock for a moment because of nervousness, and then finally unlocked the door. She quickly pushed her way inside and book her car book with the other magazines, and books she had. She quickly moved to the kitchen area, and grabbed a paper towel, and wet it down. She rubbed the cold cloth across her cuts, trying to clean them decently. She was still scared about having Ed in her dorm, and the general nervousness caused her hand to shake slightly.

Edward watched as she cleaned her injuries. Her hand was shaking. He could tell she was still scared of him. "Do you need any help? I know injuries pretty well." he said.

She paused in what she was doing. Should she let him? She has done this numerous times before because.. no don't go there too painful to remember.. She lowered the wet cloth, and held her hands together. "Uh..." She looked at something else as she thought, her hands nervously messing with each other and the wet paper towel. She turned away from the sink, and looked at him for the first time in a while. "S-sure.." She stuttered out, cursing at herself for doing so after she did it.

Edward walked over to the girl, carefully taking the wet cloth from her. He began dabbing at the wounds, careful not to directly touch the girl. "Yeah.. we're gonna need to put some alcohol on this to sterilize the wound. And then we're gonna bandage it." he quickly sped through a bathroom and grabbed rubbing alcohol and bandages. "Are you ready for this? It's gonna sting a bit." he said to her, dabbing the alcohol on a fresh cloth.

She stood there not saying a word. As he got closer her eyes went away from him, she just couldn't look at him for some reason. God why did her past have to teach her dumb things that resulted in the mess that she now? She didn't say a word as he finished with the paper towel. She didn't respond when he told her it was going to sting. She was used to this. She just simply nodded.

Ed gently placed the alcohol soaked cloth on her wounds, careful to make sure nothing gets near her eye. Once he had gotten done, he set the cloth aside and got out the bandages. He gently placed them on the wounds and he stood back. "There. All done. That wasn't so bad, now was it?"

She flinched at the first dabbed on the wounds, but other than that she gave no reaction nor showed any other emotion aside from nervousness. She couldn't remember how many times she had to take care of wounds. She just knew it was a lot to know rubbing alcohol barely gave her a reaction anymore. Once the bandages were on she blinked a few times the bandaged above her eye feeling weird against the movement of her facial muscles. She finally looked up at him, making eye contact with him for probably the first time. She had looked at him before but it wasn't quite eye contact. "Thanks.. Sorry about the pain earlier.." She said, finally remembering that she had given him some pain.