Chapter 208: Friends are meant to comfort each other
Rhys did his miracle work, and as soon as the man was done kissing Kellen, and had removed his fingers from him, the two of them were cleaned up. Fresh and smelled good too. Kellen should have been angry, but he wasn’t.
The one thing Rhys didn’t allow was Kellen moving out of his arms. Now that Kellen was pressed against him, Rhys wasn’t letting him go.
"Uh, people are-"
"It’s just Green, and you got shot today." Rhys said it without any room for negotiation. Kellen swallowed any complaint he had, since he had a feeling that if the situation was reversed, Kellen would not be as calm as Rhys was right now.
Nodding, but embarrassed, Kellen watched as Rhys unlocked the door. He tucked his head into the crook of the Captain’s neck, the Captain’s hands firmly on his ass under the thin hospital sheet.
"You can come in." Rhys called, and Green pushed the door open. Kellen wasn’t sure what he was expecting, but a part of him had expected the red ring around her eyes, and the anger in her expression.
"You’re a fucking idiot." She started, angrily whipping out the clipboard she was using to monitor him. "How the fuck does someone not realise they’ve been shot?" She growled, her words catching in her throat before she shook her head. Kellen sighed.
"I...I wasn’t focused on myself." Kellen muttered, and she glared at him.
"You couldn’t tell that you’d been shot? What? You can’t feel pain when you’re in that kind of situation?" She demanded, and Kellen winced in the face of her anger.
"Um, no?" He responded, and that didn’t seem to be the right answer.
"No? No?! Kellen Woods, do you even understand how close I came to losing both of-" She cut off, shaking her head as her eyes watered. She finished looking over what she needed to and shoved the clipboard back into the end of the bed. Standing there, she put her hands on her hips and stared at Kellen, ignoring the Captain entirely. "You are so, so fucking lucky I was around the Captain at the time." She whispered, her throat moving and Kellen knew what she wasn’t saying.