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[curiously_cora]

Her hair is wet, damp mostly and twisted and probably tangled at the back. Her feet were bare, dangling from the edge of the bed. Her bandage was covered by the baggy t-shirt but even then she looked worn, tired. There were pools of- it was horrible. She couldn't- she could still smell it. She wanted another shower, she wanted to go home, she wanted Percy.

Head hung low, she pressed her hands to the bed and pushed. And quit pushing. Wincing, she pressed her hand against her side and looked up.

"Hey," Coraline said softly. One of these days she might stop getting into trouble, today wasn't that day.

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[percy_jackson]

When I heard the people caught in the cave-in had been rescued, I didn't wait. I ran straight to the clinic. I'd been there recently, after the ITF girl had hauled me to the clinic after ineffectively beating at and trying to pull down the rocks of the cave-in. They'd bandaged my left hand which had, surprisingly, become quite bloody, and the ITF girl told me, quite plainly, that I was not go back to the caves without an escort and, no, she wasn't escorting me.

It just wasn't fair. To find love with Coraline, and have her taken away? It just--

So I ran, and I was out of breath when I reached the clinic. And, fortunately, the people let me inside. And then I saw her. She looked... She looked hurt. But she looked alive. The rush of emotions almost made me crash.

"H-hey," I said, my voice cracking a little. I came forward, tentatively, looking at her for permission, worried that I'd hurt her more, and reached out for a hug.