•Peace•

•Chapter Twenty-Three•

He went to the nearest bathroom and pulled out the medical kit in a metal box, and brought it back to Percy, setting it on the table beside her.

Once he took out the stick. (Because at this point, it's kinda a stick.)

She might start to bleed everywhere. And it needed to be treated as a stab wound.

He prepared gauze and other dressing materials and got to work.

"This might hurt." He murmured as he carefully extracted the shard of wood, which went through her hoodie into her skin.

A yelp leapt from Percy's mouth as the wood finally came out, he threw it aside, and pulled up the hoodie to inspect the wound.

He carefully removed extra pieces of splinters with tweezers, and then started disinfecting the wound as it bled.

Jason pressed a cloth to the wound to stop it from bleeding once he was satisfied she didn't have anything else to disrupt healing.

He dressed the wound carefully and when he was done, he turned her over. "Percy?" He said softly.

She blinked, Seemingly still in shock.

"Hey, it's okay. Percy, can you hear me?" He lifted her to a sitting position on the table and held her up so he could look her in the eyes.

She nodded, her eyes finally focusing on his.

"Say something." Jason demanded.

"..hi?" She said hoarsely.

Jason sighed, relieved. All his tension melting away as he lowered his head until his forehead was against her shoulder. "Don't scare me like that." He mumbled.

"Sorry." She apologized.

After a long pause, he stepped back. "Can you walk?" Then he shook his head. "Never mind."

Jason scooped Percy up in his arms and brought her over to where May was.

May seemed relieved to see Percy.

"Oh thank goodness.." she exclaimed.

Jason sat beside May on the couch, still holding Percy. "Put me down." Percy hissed.

Jason ignored her.

Percy pushed away from Jason herself and turned to May. "May! Are you okay?" She asked anxiously.

May nodded. "Thanks to you, dear. I don't think I could've handled all that on my own. Are you alright?" May asked back.

Percy nodded. "Yeah. I'm fine. It was just books."

Jason raised an eyebrow.

And a shelf or two, but that's okay. We can skip that part.

"Thank you Jason for getting us out. You're a great young man." May said gratefully.

"It's no problem, May. I only wish I got here faster.." Jason sighed. He pressed a gloved hand to his face.

Percy took his hand away from his face and held it in hers. "Seriously, Jason. Thank you. May could've been hurt if we were under there much longer."

Jason looked at his hand in hers, and saw the cuts on her palms. He sighed again. "You're hurt too, Percy. Stop being selfless for once."

"I'm fine." She glared. Don't worry May. She seemed to say.

I glared back. She's a full grown adult, she can handle it.

She raised an eyebrow. She's elderly! What if she has a heart attack and dies!!?

Jason rolled his eyes.

"You worry too much." He whispers to her.

"We gotta clean up." Percy said, standing suddenly, before wobbling slightly and sitting back down. "Maybe in a minute."

"Let's wait until we have windows again and then start cleanup." Jason insisted.

"How long will that take." She groaned.

"Not long.. especially if I order them." Jason grinned.

"Let me guess.. rich parent alert." Percy rolled her eyes.

Jason nodded. "I'm especially mad at him right now. So I'll cover that cost."

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Hi all!

Here's another update lols

Hope you enjoyed.

There was never a good stopping place so I kept writing so
Longer ish chapter today yay.
Don't mind me switching to third person. Some days I can't stand that I started writing this in first person lol.

Anyways, have a *phonetastic* day!

Toodles!

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