Steps One Shots (ish)

Glass Splinters

Inspired by the story about Faye getting the glass wall fall on her during the Better Best Forgotten shoot.
Warning! A majority of this is set in a hospital.

"H! For the last time put that camera down and get on set! There's not enough time for you to be messing around today." Becky called. She was already fed up of working with the fivesome, most of all H who was completely incapable of doing anything he was asked.
"Can you please H? I'm fed up of being dressed like this already." Claire moaned.
"Clara you look fine stop putting yourself down." Lisa retorted.
H bit his lip, for once knowing him laughing or making a comedic reply was going to end with the blonde throwing something at him. Despite his best efforts Claire still glared at him.
"I do look hideous don't I." Claire sighed when she recovered from her frustration at H.
"I didn't say that."
"Nay but your face did." Claire told him firmly.
H tried his best to come up with a good retort to that, or at least some attempt at apology, though he was distracted by Lisa snatching his camera off him. She smiled sweetly at Claire who then just glowered at her too.
"Alright Claire you look beautiful and I'll prove it. Smile at me." Lisa announced.
"Give my camera back first of all. Second - you know you won't find out what the picture looks like until I get it developed. You know that!" H told her.
"Agh I know damn it. Even still I can prove to Claire then how pretty she is in that top."
"Mirrors exist for a reason." H retorted.
For several minutes the argument batted back and forth between the two Welshies like it so often did. Their fights were almost always harmless, and when they did properly fall out it usually only lasted a day or two at most before they made up again. Generally the others let them bicker it out, often watching-but-not as their petty arguments were funny to the other three anyway. Today's likely would have carried on a lot longer, Claire giving up after a few minutes and heading to go check her reflection out again in a mirror with her new confirmation from Lisa, when they heard a loud curse from Lee quickly followed by a shriek. Lisa dropped her point immediately her eyes meeting Claire's and they both simultaneously yelled Faye's name. The girls scrambled down the hallway and onto the set to see shattered glass, Lee stood against the wall staring at the disaster and in the middle of it all was Faye. She was sat up on the bed she was meant to be filming her shots from and seemed to be fine from a distance as far as the others could tell.
"The hell happened?" Claire asked.
"Alright, I bet now even though I was fighting with Lisa and Claire and Becks were watching us I'll still get the blame." H moaned, up on tiptoe to look at the mess over the two girls' shoulders.
"H shut up." Claire replied.
"Don't call me Becks." Becky added.
Lisa being Lisa had other concerns, hers for her best friend. "Faye are you okay?"
"I... I think so, just... scared." She replied.
Lee had picked his way across the floor to Faye and used his blazer sleeve shaken down over his hand to brush any glass shards off the bed before sitting down next to Faye. Lisa quickly crossed the room, though a lot less carefully so it was lucky she was in platform trainers, and joined them.
"Fuf you should probably go see a doctor." Lee advised her.
"I'm fine honestly, just a little scared." She said, leaning up against him. Lisa smiled as Lee slipped his arm around her. He quickly moved it again as she whimpered in discomfort.
"I think you have little bits of glass in your shoulder." He said, leaning back to get a better view of her back. "Okay you need to go see a doctor."
"No! Let me finish my solo shots please." She begged.
Lee looked like he was going to respond until Lisa shot him a hard stare. "You know how stubborn Faye is."
He reluctantly sighed. "Alright, but only if you're sure."

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"Absolutely not. Faye you're going to the doctor." Tim quite firmly told her when he'd blamed H and then had the situation explained to him. Being fair, most of the time when an issue occurred H was involved somehow.
"I'm fine." She sulked.
"No. You're going, whether I take you or someone else does. Or you could take yourself."
"Yeah be a big girl and take yourself." Naturally H got sharply elbowed by Lisa for the comment, which almost immediately wiped the grin back off his face.
"Honestly I'll be fine."
Lee and Claire exchanged a look knowing Faye needed someone to go with her otherwise she'd never go. "Okay you get the choice; shall I take you or Claire?" Lee asked.
"What about me?" Lisa whined.
Claire rolled her eyes at the suggestion. "I know you two and it won't end at the doctors. Well it might, but for totally different reasons."
"Well if we're playing that game... don't take Claire she'll just get queasy at the sight of blood." Lisa retorted. Everyone knew Claire's ability to deal with blood that wasn't her own was bad, and H had a tendency to run up to her like a little child and show off his latest wounds just to annoy her. It was a surprise H hadn't already tried to encourage her to look at the cuts and glass splinters on Faye's back.
Claire stared at her indignantly even though they all knew it was true. "Won't."
"Alright. Look at Faye's back." The comment got Lisa a hard nudge from both Lee and H, enough to let her know it was too far (or in H's case that he wanted her to know she was now treading on thin ice with Claire's temper).
Faye rolled her eyes. "It's not that bad."
"Lisa stop bullying Claire." Lee told her firmly as Claire did her famous nose crinkle. Turning his attention back to Faye he asked her the question again.
Realising she wasn't going to get herself out of this trip Faye had to relent. "No offence Clara but I'd like Lele to take me."
Now, not having to be the supportive friend as a result of Faye's choice, Claire resorted to her 'mum head'. "That's fair enough. Lee be careful it's kinda icy out."
"I will don't worry." He assured her. "Do you wanna go find your top and stick it on over that... top would it be?... Fuf?"
"Yeah I've one of J's somewhere." She told him, before scampering off to go fetch it. Lee went off to use his moment to change out of some of the blue clothing.