"What happened to you?" Adora immediately began fretting over Catra's wounded shoulder and, even though her touch was gentle, she flinched in pain. "This looks bad. Your shoulder is in shreds and this piece here looks really deep."
Catra let out a hallow laugh that just made her hurt more. "What happened? Take a wild guess."
Adora frowned. She didn't need to guess. Shadow Weaver. She grit her teeth in anger, opened the door wider, and stepped aside. "Come inside. This will be easier if you have somewhere to lay down."
Catra peeked inside and looked around almost nervously before finally walking into the house. "Sure your new best friends won't mind?"
Adora pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed. "Not now Catra, please. Also, they're asleep and they aren't exactly ones for turning away someone who's hurt."
"Even if that someone is a Horde member?"
"They wouldn't turn away Hordak himself if he showed up bleeding on their doorstop."
Catra eyed her suspiciously, not believing what she said, but in Adora's blue eyes she only saw sincerity. She really believes these people are that good. Still as naive as ever. "Whatever," she grumbled. "Where do you want me?"
Adora motioned for her to follow and had her wait in the living room before disappearing down the hall and coming back with a large, black, towel and a first aid kit. She laid the towel across the couch and pointed at it. "Lay down."
Catra raised her brow at her. "I don't remember you being this demanding."
"Funny because I remember you being this difficult every time you came to me, bleeding," Adora crossed her arms over chest before jerking her head towards the couch. "Down. Now."
Catra smirked as she made her way to the couch. "I never said I didn't like it."
"Wait," Adora grabbed her wrist and when Catra looked back at her she found Adora looking a little embarrassed. "It will be easier to get at the wound if you remove your shirt first."
"If you wanted me to take off my clothes you just had to ask," Catra winked as she tried to pull her shirt over her head only find that she couldn't raise her arms high enough to do so without pain.
Adora huffed. "Now is not the time to be playing games with me Catra this is serious," she grabbed something off the table and there was a soft click as she flicked open a pocket knife.
Catra eyed the familiar blade as Adora cut the fabric of her shirt from her body. The blade was an iridescent blue color and the handle of it was gold inlaid with sapphires. Catra had gotten her that knife when they were kids, it was the first thing she had ever bought with her own money. The first gift she gave that she didn't have to steal.
"You kept it?" Catra touched the handle when the blade was two thirds down her shirt, the tip of the blade now resting at her navel.
"Of course I kept it," Adora's pause in removing the shirt was brief before she finished slicing through the rest of it, closed the knife, and set it back on the coffee table nearby. "You were so happy when you gave it to me. I could never get rid of it."
Catra shouldered out of her, now cut open, shirt like it was a jacket as carefully as possible and laid down on the towel that was placed over the cushions. "Still remember how to patch someone up?"
"With as many times as I had to fix you up it's second nature by now," Adora scoffed as she began carefully using tweezers to remove the smaller pieces of glass embedded in the shoulder.
"Yeah but it's been years since that," Catra hoped the constant conversation would keep her mind off the pain.
"I took volunteer EMT training a couple years ago after Bow joined the archery club. Glimmer and I were worried he'd end up hurting himself. And speaking of Glimmer, she has a tendency to get herself into more scraps than you'd think. I also double as the lacrosse team nurse."
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FanficAdora had everything she ever wanted. She got into the college of her dreams, is a sports superstar, has an amazing group of friends, and is incredibly popular to boot. But her life wasn't always this perfect, in fact it was quite the opposite. Year...