Mono + Six Afterstory || Little Nightmares II

Seven

     After the raft returned to the other side of the shore, Mono had gotten his bleeding to finally stop by applying pressure. Six was still worried about him, but he didn't show anymore weakness.
     He walked with her up the sandy shore back to the hunter's shed and had her help getting up since he didn't want to make the bleeding start again. Then, he pulled her up in return. They hopped down from the window together and then cautiously approached the broken door, peeking outside to see that the hunter was still laying there lifelessly.

     "Thank goodness... For some reason I thought he would be gone." Six sighed in relief and pushed through the jagged planks in the door. Her rage got the best of her when she stood next to the motionless man, the one who made her live in fear of the outside world. She knew he couldn't do anymore damage, but her urge to kick his dead body to extinguish her flame was too strong, so she did it.

     The longer she smacked her skinny legs against him, the harder the impact became. Eventually, Mono had to restrain her and pull her away because of how disturbing her vengeful grunting was. "He's not going to hurt you anymore." He reassured her urgently, frowning at how worked up she had gotten. "Come on, let's go get your music box. That's what you want, isn't it?"

     Six seemed to calm down relatively quickly when Mono mentioned their goal, stopping her struggling almost immediately. After a moment, he let go of her and she turned toward him with soft eyes, even putting her hood down to show how comfortable she was with him around. "I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me." He didn't know for sure, but he thought this emotion she was showing was reminiscent of shame. He was proud of her for apologizing.

"I get it, you're angry. I would be too if someone held me captive." He replied in an understanding tone, but he realized after speaking that she had been captured not one time, not two, but three times. At least, that's all he knew about; knowing her recklessness, it could be more. "Um...you know, maybe we shouldn't talk about it."

"Yeah, you're right." Six agreed quickly, her expression painted with annoyance and her lips pursed in a pout. She held her hand out and felt remarkably better when Mono grabbed it, and even more when they finally walked away from the hunter.

They walked through the woods together, back through all of the traps, trials and tribulations they'd already faced together. Some were more dangerous than others. By the time they made it back to the hunter's house, the sun was already down because of how late into the year it was.
     Mono was pretty weak, and he went to sit in the one room in the house that wasn't extremely creepy, which just so happened to be a room upstairs that he'd found a hat in yesterday. To his surprise, Six parted ways with him only to return with bandages. a fleece blanket and her trademark devilish little smile. "Hey, Six. You look happy." He greeted her calmly, mirroring her welcomed glee since it more or less rubbed off on him.

     The girl took a seat next to him and placed the blanket and bandages down, then tugging her raincoat off so she was more comfortable. "I got these for your tummy." She introduced the bandages and started unwrapping them, tearing off a piece that would go around his torso several times. "Take your shirt off so I can do the thing." She demanded, waiting impatiently as he obliged.

     Once he had his coat and shirt off, he sat up straight and held his arms away from his body. "Thanks for looking out for me. The pain mostly went away, but this will help me to not get an infection." Mono tried to brace himself as Six wrapped the bandages around his wound, but the pressure did make it hurt more. Hew knew this would be good long-term, but it was a burning kind of pain that he couldn't just ignore.

When Six was done, she looked into his teary eyes and cupped his cheeks. He was confused why she was so close, and why she wasn't moving, and honestly thought she was going to kiss him or something, until she brushed her thumb over a scratch on his face. "Tiny scars always hurt the most." She remarked quietly and then pulled away slightly, noticing Mono's flustered expression.