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[mylawn]

You take paperwork with you into the woods at 0500.

[He sounds a bit skeptical about that, not that he'd put it past her, really. Maybe she does do paperwork in the woods at 0500. He can't exactly judge. They all have weird habits.

Is she inviting him into the woods to do paperwork at 0500? If he picks up on that, he doesn't show it. Then again, it's hard to read much of anything when all anyone can really see is the tops of his eyebrows and the way they pinch together.]

[cadeuces]

Would you like a day in the life at the medbay? If I weren't leaving the base with my reports, they would never be touched. I don't often have a quiet five minutes. If it isn't one thing it'll be another, and people barrel through my doors all day and all night.

[ She's turning a Look on him. Fight her and tell her she's wrong, #1 Culprit. The way she leans into him and stays there is plenty to communicate that she doesn't mind. Better treated than untreated. Better alive than dead. ]

[mylawn]

I don't think I'd be so good at your job, Doc.

[Please don't invite him. He picks up what she's putting down with that Look, and almost pulls away.]

Not that bad a patient, am I?

[He likes to think he's pretty good, considering. Something that got instilled him in the military.]

take my clumsy phone tag you fiend

[cadeuces]

You would be rough, but maybe that's the sort of lesson people need to stop being so reckless. You should consider a few shifts.

[ Aren't you glad she's only teasing? To his follow-up, though, she only smiles sadly. ]

You're too good of a patient. I do wish you wouldn't be so reckless. Should I be rougher in my treatment to deter you?

B)

[mylawn]

[Is she only teasing? Is he actually considering lending her a hand? No. That would be terrible. He has so many other soldier things to do. If she outright asked him and he said yes, no one else would let him live it down. They can do without drawing additional attention to themselves, he thinks.]

Is that a threat?

[cadeuces]

Would it work?

[ You can bet your fine butt she's raising a brow at you, genuinely curious above that little smirk. She will never stop worrying about him and she'll always take care of him, so really, he has nothing to worry about. She wouldn't have it in her heart to be cruel. ]

[mylawn]

If your aim is to make me never seek medical attention again.

[Now he's joking, but he's so incredibly dry about it, it's perhaps a bit difficult to tell.]

[cadeuces]

[ She still knows. Her laugh is a throaty, soft thing, trying to fight the tiredness washing over her the longer she's in his presence, wrapped up in his coat and warm. Like the tide rushing in, each wave higher than the last. She has to make it to the sunrise. ]

Well, we can't have that. I suppose it's good then that I would never be able to bring myself to be so cruel to you.

[ Her eyes close for a moment and her lids are getting heavier each time, making it harder and harder to open them again. The sky's starting to lighten at the horizon. ]

[mylawn]

[76 can feel her fading, and sort of debates shaking her awake so that she doesn't miss the sun coming up, but he's starting to feel a little sleepy himself. It's not often he lets himself succumb to exhaustion, but her warm body next to his makes it easier.

In the moments before they fall asleep, he worms his arm around her shoulder, leaning into her comfortably and resting his chin on her head.

Next time, maybe.]

[cadeuces]

[ It's the arm around her shoulders and the feel of him leaning into her that decides everything, and she's out for the count, melting right against him as she goes limp and her breathing softens. She'd never felt safer than when she's by his side, and there's no place more comforting than within his arms. That has never changed.

Next time for sure. ]