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The first time Ezra gets hurt during his watch; Johan went into panic. In spite of the fact that within the conclusion, it turned out to be just a minor graze which Ezra demanded that he'd tend to by himself rather than letting the family doctor and butler (and pretty much everything else) John fix him up.
Seeing as Johan had treated his own wounds numerous times as well, the thought of Ezra not tolerating any offers of assistance fair flies over his head. Johannes doesn't think much of it at that time.
After that Johannes tries extra hard to guarantee that Ezra doesn't get harmed frequently amid his watch. The little nipper manages to stow away a handful of minor wounds from time to time, but a single opposing see from John has Ezra mumbling promises not to do it once more. Not that he keeps his word since he still does it; now he just made sure to undertake additional efforts to secrete them from John which was pretty amusing since Johan knew that John knew and just wasn't saying anything.
Getting hurt is unavoidable, taking their place of inhabitancy into consideration, and it happens every now and then but Ezra still insists on tending to his wounds on his own.
A Gash along his thigh, he stipulates that he manage it himself, John reluctantly agrees seeing it didn't need stitches or any other major treatments. There were a lot of injuries Ezra claimed non-existent, but his older brother could tell from the wincing, limping and pained expressions he tries oh so hard to secrete.
Johan gives it a lot of thought before letting it go, taking Ezra's personality and way of thinking into consideration, pressuring him would probably lead to getting himself shut out, if not that, Ezra would put his walls up again, Johan had worked too hard to get Ezra to tear down his walls around him and he wasn't willing to let all that effort go to waste.
Thinking back, the only time Johan could think of when Ezra had let John tend to him was when he had sprained his ankle, fighting a bunch of thugs on his way back from the vet. Even then he seemed extremely strained the entire duration of John taking care of his sprain. He went straight to his room immediately after John was done, Johan wanted to tell him that being in pain was nothing to be ashamed of but decided that he'd do so when his younger brother didn't look like he would snap off anyone's head if they tried to approach him, but he ended up forgetting.
Johan had brushed it off thinking that it was because it was the first time Ezra had ever let anyone else tend to him and slightly because of the minute pain, not that Ezra would ever admit that; it would hurt his ego far too much.
Johannes spent a lot of time worrying about his little brother, but eventually assured himself that it was probably because the little devil wasn't used to people worrying about him due to the slightest injuries, whatever the matter there was no avoiding the fact that he was brought up by the wrong group of people, if you could even call them that considering how they deemed punishments and unreal expectations a healthy and efficient way to raise a mere child.
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