Keep Going ~Jiara~

Healing #9

Kie pov

It felt amazing to be back in his arms even if the wounds did sting. I feel safer and not worried that what happened might happen again.

I am exhausted and start to slowly drift off to sleep. Before I fall asleep I hear little cute snores coming from JJ. I laugh at the sound and when his snoring stops, I fall asleep.

I wake up snuggled in JJ's chest and I can feel his breathing on my head. It feels so good to just lay here. Laying like this makes me stop thinking of what happened and the wounds don't hurt.

The second I moved all the wounds started to sting all over my body. I relaxed back on JJ and waited for him to wake up.

His head slowly starts to turn and his eyes flutter open. He looks at me and smiles saying "good morning, are the wounds hurting?"

"Not that bad especially when we lay like this" I lied. I was telling the truth about the part where laying on him made it better but when they did hurt it hurt a lot I just didn't want to worry him.

"Ok, that's good" he says smiling even more. We lay there for a good 40 minutes just talking and relaxing.

"Hey, I hate to do this but I have to take a look at the wounds and we have to clean them up" he says starting to get up.

"Ok that's fine" I say.

JJ POV

I carefully pick her up and carry her down the beach and she says "JJ, you know I can walk, right?"

"I know you can but I don't want you too" I say and carefully place her on the wet sand by the ocean so she doesn't lay on the hot sand.

I look at her legs first and it's a horrible sight. She has thick gashes by her knees and slices down her calf and up her thigh. My body aches at the sight of this pain she was in. "Is it that bad?" She asks biting her lip, probably seeing the pain in my eyes.

"No I don't think so, none of them on your legs look like they need stitches." I say with a sweet smile.

I ask if I can pull down her pants, or shorts now, just so I can see her hip and she nods giving me permission.

I gently pull them down and see swollen purple and black bruises on both of her hips. I place my hand on her hip out of reflex and she flinches. "I'm so sorry" I say as I quickly take my hand off. "No no it's fine it just hurts a little" she reminds giving me a warm smile.

I continue to look at her hips and then I take a look at her lower stomach right before her shirt and there are gashes all over and dried up blood too.

I point to her shirt and give her a look. She nods in assurance and let's me take her shirt off to look at the wounds.

I pull the shirt over her head and lay it under her head as a pillow. I look at her upper stomach right before her bra and their were more gashes and scrapes and even more dry blood.

"Some of these are pretty deep" I mumble to myself not realizing I said it aloud. "They are?" She asks looking at me.

"Yes, but not deep enough for stitches I don't think" I say as I kiss her on the forehead.

"Ok" she responds softly smiling and holding my hand with both of hers.

I move on examining her chest and there were more gashes and scratches which was nothing surprising but then I look at her neck and it was bruised.

It was red around her neck and it looks like someone was choking her. "Kie, did he....choke you?" I ask looking into her eyes with sorrow.

She looks down and starts to fidget with her hands while answering softly to where I can nearly hear her "um y-yes, but I'm fine now, I promise."

"Ok I'm glad." I answer while taking her hands into mine. She looks so vulnerable and so sad it hurts me to see her like this, all in pain.

"I need to clean these wounds so they don't get infected so I'm going to have to take you in the water. Do you mind getting your clothes wet or...." I start

"Can you just take my short's off for me please" she says. "Yes thats fine" I answer while carefully sliding her shorts down her legs. I hear her wince in pain and it shatters my heart.

I slide them off and gently pick her up bridal style holding her as I walk in the water with her in my arms.

"Sarah come here!" I yell trying to get her attention

She stands up and walks over to me and Kie "what do you need" she asks.

"Can you put a bunch of big palms together and try to make like a little sheet that she can lay on so the sand doesn't hurt her cuts?" I ask while still holding Kiara in the water.

"Of course" she responds walking back to the camp.

"How are you feeling"? I ask Kie as I sit in the shallow part of the water and hold her in my lap.

"Definitely better than I did, thanks to you" she says putting her head in the crook of my neck.

"I'm so glad to hear that" I say smiling at her.

I kiss her on the top of her head and we sit for a while just enjoying each other's company.

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Hi, sorry I published this so late I just have a lot on my plate right now
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