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Three days ago. Between decks. One of the lieutenants was wobbling, so I grabbed him to stop it, and I fell.

And now I have several fractures in several bones.

Some of them might already have been there. I'll admit I don't understand how stress fractures actually happen.

[tombing]

i'm going to kill you

[ counter-productive? maybe ]

[whisted]

That sounds objectively worse than broken bones.

For the record.

[tombing]

you should've said something

[ so she could've started worrying earlier?? ]

[whisted]

You have enough to worry about.

[tombing]

you're my friend

[ no matter how she might deny that she cares, at times]

[whisted]

[Gosh, Lara, you can't just tell your friends that they're your friends. That's madness.]

And I'm going to be fine.

[tombing]

[ shut up :( ]

what bones did you break, then?

[whisted]

Left navicular, left calcaneus, right radius, clavicle, nasal.

And two bruised ribs.

Best injury he'd seen all month.

[tombing]

i already had a christmas present for you, but i'm going to return it and give you bubble wrap instead

you broke your nose, too?

[whisted]

Were we doing Christmas presents?

[Why are friends so hard??]

A bit. Not the rest of my skull, though.

[tombing]

[ damn it ]

no, we weren't

[ she was going to send his present anonymously.... ] i just said that because i want to give you bubble wrap

how do you break your nose "a bit"

[ she likes his nose. ]

[whisted]

[Luckily for her, that's a really good lie.

And/or Horatio is really not used to having friends.]

I'm not sure bubble wrap would have stopped the fractures, to be honest.

It's not gone that much more crooked than it already was?

[tombing]

[ they're both messes in their own right, aren't they... although lara is a well-functioning mess ]

it would have if you'd been wrapped to such an extent that you couldn't have moved

[whisted]

You'll be pleased to know I'm reassigned to desk jockeying while I convalesce. Very little risk of anything beyond staples.

[tombing]

next week you'll tell me you've accidentally ripped a hole into yourself with the stapler

[whisted]

And that will make you less inclined to kill me?

[tombing]

no, more

[whisted]

Is this meant to be encouraging me to share information with you?

[tombing]

it's meant to be encouraging you not to get hurt

[whisted]

This feels like the better result than someone else having broken their neck.

[tombing]

i guess

[whisted]

So is this where I'm meant to apologize?

[tombing]

i think this is where you promise to be more careful in the future

[whisted]

Would you believe me?

[tombing]

no

[whisted]

But I should still say it?

[tombing]

yeah
i'll pretend to believe it

[whisted]

I'll be more careful in the future.

And I'm sorry.

[tombing]

great
you do that
and you should be


do you need anything?

[whisted]

I will.
And I am.

Something to distract me from being bored out of my skull during desk duty?

[tombing]

how do you feel about translating hieroglyphs?

[whisted]

Like it will be significantly more difficult than translating Latin.

[plz let him, Lara]

[tombing]

i'll send over some scans

[whisted]

That'll keep me out of trouble.

[tombing]

i have a lot of stuff that needs translating

[whisted]

Thank goodness you're sending scans and not tablets, then.





[Wait for it.]

I am sorry I didn't tell you sooner.

Properly sorry.

[tombing]

[ there's a moment where she just looks at those words on her phone's screen and her stomach feels too tight with something that isn't actually anger. she wishes it was.

anger's easier than grief and he isn't dead, but her father is -
for real this time - and she's never getting him back. ]

yeah
just be careful okay

[whisted]

I promise.