Dragon

"Yeah well your little pet is lucky it was just a flesh wound or I'd have killed everyone in there." @Morrigan

Kae glared at him, though he was already looking away. She started to stay against the wall out of habit - contain the mess - but then she considered that she was here against her will, not asking for a favor. So she pushed her self up to limp her way there without any further concern for where the blood dripped. With her arms still cuffed behind her back she staggered a few times before she made it there. "She's getting patched up in medical," Seth answered crossly, ignoring the girl. @Morrigan

"She might have caught a stray round," he shrugged, rather than admit that it'd been easier to shoot to cripple her than chase her down after she'd somehow squeezed her way out of the bust. @Morrigan

Seth went silent for several long moments before muttering, "Oh for fuck's sake." He glanced over to the girl who was leaning her shoulder against the wall, using it to keep the weight off a bleeding leg. "You know most people just adopt dogs. You should try that first, next time." @Morrigan

"God damn it Richie," despite the helmet masking most of his face, it was obvious Seth was scowling, "look I need you to fucking level with me. Because what this looks like is bad on every level. The only reason I'm not wiping the floor with you right now is that even as shit as it looks, it doesn't mesh with the b-guy I know," he stumbled briefly as he caught himself. The kid would have had to been an idiot not to already know they knew each other. She didn't need to know how. He shifted in place and folded his arms over his chest - his gear prevented his normal expressions of disconten

"The fuck we didn't. What did you do?" @Morrigan

"Now why would she go and do something stupid like that when we recovered the original?" @Morrigan

"I noticed the missing inventory was never returned. Still in your shop, is it?" @Morrigan

"How do you figure?" @Morrigan

"What do you think my point is?" the line of his mouth thinning into a frown, "Does ou-Vi know anything about this?" He was pretty sure the answer was no. Surely he'd have heard something from one of their parents, if only in passing. @Morrigan

"The same kid you had me tracking down for you," he said bluntly - he wasn't really asking, having already connected the dots. @Morrigan

In all honesty, Seth didn't care much about the kid. If she'd been heading anywhere else, he'd have put the scare tactics on her and turned her loose. He didn't start paying much attention to the young ones until they cropped up on his radar two or three times. So far this was the first he'd dealt with this one. "Oh I cleaned her up out of the den we busted," he answered, "but I think the more interesting question is why the hell is she staying here?" "This is not-" "Shut up," Seth cut her off sharply and shoved her inside so his brother could close the door. @Morrigan

Two weeks really wasn't enough time off for the injuries they sustained, but all the same Seth and Alice were back on the beat. Their first few days had been uneventful. Then they'd been called in on another narcotics bust. It didn't go as badly as the first had. Most of the perps left the scene in cuffs rather than body bags. But Alice's leg had been injured again. It made for the first close call since they'd gotten the news that their speculations about parenthood were going to be realities in just a few months. So a job that Seth usually wouldn't have thought twice about left h

"Pretty good now that the drugs are kicking back in," he said, briefly rolling away to pull the hot pad out of the bedside table and plug it in before handing it to her and pushing the cord back under the pillows. @Morrigan

"Probably better to hold off a few days," he smiled, "I can grab one of the heating pads for you, though." @Morrigan

Seth shifted as she joined him, rolling partially onto his side to wrap her in against him, "The warm water helps some doesn't it," he murmured as they settled into one another. @Morrigan

"Well yell if you need anything," he answered as he reached for the remote to find a movie to start their long day of lounging. @Morrigan

"Do you need any help in there?" Seth called out after a minute. @Morrigan

He headed back to their room, stripping out of his old clothes and discarding them in the corner. The new dose of painkillers was kicking in and Seth took his time as he stood under the water. Even though he'd cleaned up a little there was still enough on his skin to turn the water a dirty brown at first. When he finally emerged Seth moved to flop onto the bed with just the towel around his waist. @Morrigan

"I'm gonna go jump in the shower," he said as he finished off the last of his and stood, grabbing his plate to drop it into the dishwasher. @Morrigan

"Another huge pro in my book," he chuckled, "I'm looking forward to crawling into ours right now." @Morrigan

"Most mornings I'd rather eat cereal than clean up after breakfast so I wouldn't get much practice in anyway." @Morrigan

"For some reason I doubt that," he chuckled. @Morrigan

"I don't know how she makes them all so perfect. I usually screw half of them up." @Morrigan

"You probably just need to knock back some of those and some anti inflammatory meds." @Morrigan