trans_9 | Recovery

Katara ahd already been working on it. Although she was barred from the city due to the contamination, there were still other ways for Katara to get water, and after getting the okay she'd brought it to the bus. The naked part she had let Arika handle for obvious reasons, but she had done the healing. Arika had moved the bus, as Katara was still a little shaky about moving vehicles.

She'd briefly looked over the newly pod popped, but worry for Matt had stopeed her from introducing herself. The new crowd would get acclumated without her, and she was sure the Doctor would look in on Jamie. Nanoha, she figured, would not want her to be seen like this, so she'd left her in the bay. With all of those contained, she knew full well no one could attend to Matt yet, so she;d stayed, watching over him.

As she entered, she heard him ask for water. She rushed over, opening his mouth gently and pouring the liquid in slowly.

"How are you feeling?"

Matt drank the water and sighed when his thirst was sated. "I ache all over," he said honestly. "Did you heal me? I'm pretty sure that I had broken a few bones and got some internal injuries in that fight."

She looked so worried and Matt wondered how long he had been out.

"You ought to be," Katara said, shaking a finger at him in an attempt to look playful, though her eyes looked far from it. "And yeah, I did, but Arika bandaged you up first. You definitely owe her some thanks. She also kept me under control. I have to admit I lost my head a little. It's a good thing you have people looking after you!"

She brought her hand over her hair anxiously. "What happened to you?"

"Asuna..." said Matt. "She wasn't well. She was... strange, irrational. She got extremely violent on me when I tried to get her help. I barely survived that but she snapped out of it for just a moment. Told her... princesses shouldn't cry..."

He swallowed, his throat dry. "I hope she made it to contagion. I don't blame her though."

Katara calmed the slow anger rising in her. She knew Asuna by Negi's recollections: she was a bit of a violent girl, and had a tendency to lose her temper violently toward people. She had learned to calm her temper a long time ago, and Asuna was probably under that virus, so she had to forgive it.

She just couldn't think of that when she saw Matt like that.

"There's a virus going around the City," Katara said. "It's started making people angry, more aggressive, and its had to be quarrantined along with other people. That was probably why she acted like that."

Which she was saying more for herself than for matt, whens he was honest.

"What was that about her being a princess?"

"A virus... of course. It had to be something. She's a bit violent but also straight forward and gentle when she needs to be..." Matt smiled and closed his eyes briefly, exhaling softly to clear his mind.

"It just came to me," said Matt honestly. "Something about her screams "little princess" and not in the snobbish kind of way. A genuine princess to be all honest. I can't seem to put it down but I told her not to cry when she nearly broke down..."

He chuckled. "We have gargoyles, robots, vampires... why not princesses?"

"Yeah, I figured. I know her from Negi's memories. Even though I want to beat up whoever did this to you, I figured that it might have been because of what was going around in the City, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Maybe I'll talk to her later or something."

Katara snickered. "No one. Haven't you met Nanashi? She generally has people refer to her as 'your majesty.' Negi never told me about that though: maybe he didn't know? But I wonder what's going on with her."

She looked at him. "Anyway, you SHOULD be worrying about yourself! You know darn well you could have not gotten hurt by Asuna, but you wanted to help her! I think its great and wonder and really really sweet..."

And then she wacked him hard in the back of the head, holding back a tear.

"...But you're going to seriously get yourself hurt some day!"

"Ow," grunted Matt but he was smiling just a little. "Better I get hurt than someone who can't handle it you know."

Of course that was the wrong thing to say but Matt was still worried about her. Instead however, he turned his attention to the other subjects to try and get Katara from being too upset. "You know, she doesn't quite count. I heard she's a queen or something."

He sighed however, and rubbed his head. "I was pretty dumb for just letting her beat on me, huh?"

This earns another sharp jab from Katara. "I don't want you getting hurt either, and neither does anyone else who cares about you! It isn't easy for anyone to see you that way!"

She sighed, shaking her head. "She counts, trust me. When you're being trained by her you can see that queen part of her come out."

See Katara with her hands on her hips, impatiently clucking her tongue?

"What do you think Matt?"

"Points taken," replied Matt, rubbing his head and noting the bandages across the arms. "I should stop being so "it's all on me" huh."

Relaxing back into his bed, Matt sighed. "I promise I won't recklessly not-defend myself next time something happens." He looked over at Katara, brown eyes locking with blue. "I'm good on those, trust me."

He flashed a weak grin, despite the pain of moving his face.

"Yeah," she said, playfully giving him a punch on the shoulder. "It's bad enough when Negi does it, but you're not a kid, you know better Matt. I know you have powers of your own, but you can get hurt just like anyone. Be careful, huh?"

She nodded, unwrapping the bandages and putting on fresh ones. She is slightly blushing a little here, considering his lack of clothing so she decides to look at him instead.

Locking eyes with him, however, creates a different reaction she hadn't expected: she blinks, looking at him a moment, looking genuinely happy he was okay. Then he has that smile, which brings about a warm, strange sensation she hadn't expected. She put a hand to his forehead a moment to distract herself.

"At least you aren't warm," she said, a little quieter than expected. "We don't need you to have a fever too."

She takes her hand off slowly. "Anywhere else hurts? I want to make sure I mended everything."

Edited 2010-10-07 02:44 (UTC)

"Heart's racing, but that's normal," said Matt, damning his honesty. Lately Katara had been giving him odd sensations when he looked at her. There was a void there, something was missing. He knew it, and with GlaDoS taking people for a reason, he was beginning to suspect that he had someone IMPORTANT in her clutches.

But for her to care for him, even in his state of undress was admirable, and he smiled softly at her touch on the bandages. "Everything's okay though. Though I have to wonder, how many days was I out?"

He too was distracting himself from the sensations he was beginning to slowly identify.

"Yeah, it should be, you've been through a lot," Katara said, checking him (above the chest thank you) thoroughly. "Matt, is it just me, or do you feel like someone's...missing? Like, I feel that whenever I see you, there's someone that was with us, that's not here anymore. Does that sound weird?"

Katara was glad for her BG training: feelings she had for Matt getting hurt had overshadowed anything at that moment, and she was glad he was on the mend. She wanted to make sure that even though the med bay was full, she could help him here. For now, she wanted to fixate on it.

"At least two," she said. "I'm glad you finally woke up. I totally missed podpop because I wanted to make sure you were okay. Arika needs more time with Negi anyway."

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