#cute...............................

edit: not 2 derail the post but hhrgh nanaki wink.. cute..

is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bandage my wound?

“ it’s not too bad, i promise. head wounds just bleed a lot. “

reyna attempts a smile, but with her eye starting to swell and a steady rush of blood still coming from the gash on her forehead, she doubts that it’s very convincing. she ( mistakenly ) removes her hand to assess the damage for herself and is met with a spray of red on her jeans. oh gods— must’ve nicked an artery. she only has time to register that her arm is indeed soaked with blood down to her elbow before she reflexively returns her hand to her forehead, applying pressure to the wound once more.

“ but the sooner we get this taken care of the better, i think. “ her laugh comes out sheepish and she tries not to wince as katie pulls her hand away to apply some herb-y syrup to her wound. it doesn’t smell unpleasant, but it has that distinct plant smell that is unmissable in most healing salves. it slows the bleeding almost immediately, leaving only a small stream of blood that starts to trickle into her eyebrow. katie wipes it away, careful of reyna’s bruising eye socket. demeter’s kids, reyna swears they have a plant for everything.

katie finishes bandaging the roman’s forehead and it takes all of reyna’s effort not to fidget with it. she’s never been a good patient, but she owes katie for being so gentle with her. the healers at camp jupiter had a reputation for being a little rough around the edges. it’s not something that reyna misses when she’s visiting camp half-blood. 

the daughter of demeter is helping rinse reyna off, warm washcloth down her neck and arms in an attempt to clean off the dried blood. reyna grabs her free hand, gives it a squeeze.