Tharntype fic- Compounding factors

Chapter 12: I'm trying! (Tharn's PoV)

December 8th

The alarm goes off and I hear Type fumbling around for his phone, trying to silence it without waking me up. He never turns it off in time though, in fact, he's lucky if he even hears it go off the first few times. Before the accident I would have to give him a gentle kick under the covers to speed him up, otherwise he could happily spend the whole morning snoozing the alarm (and cuddling with me). But now mornings are different. That car changed everything.

Now, Type rolls away from me when he thinks I have fallen asleep. And in the mornings he races out of bed to turn off his alarm. He always tries to sneak out of the room to tidy the apartment and make us breakfast before I even wake up. He must not trust me in the kitchen anymore, he must think that I am so useless with my left hand that I'll set myself on fire, or re-break my arm or something.

He finally makes it out of the room, after stubbing his toe on both the dresser and the door on the way out. And I can finally open my eyes and stop pretending to be asleep, at least until he comes back.

Type doesn't know, but I've been awake for hours. I watched him as he slept but that didn't distract me from my constant pain. As beautiful as he is, watching him sleep gets boring after a couple of hours, plus it's hard not to hate him a little bit for being able to sleep so deeply and so easily. My arm had been screaming so, basically, I spent half of the night clenching my jaw, trying not to whimper and wake Type up. I'm counting the minutes until I can take the painkillers again, not that the medicine will help me for more than a few hours, but it's better than nothing. At least, it helps me to pretend that I feel better than I really feel.

I hear footsteps in the halfway so I close my eyes again, relax my expresion and try to slow my breathing. The door opens and a few seconds later I feel gentle lips on my forehead and hear Type's soft voice trying to coax me awake.

"Thaaaaarn"

"Yeeah?" My voice is gravely and garbled, I may not have slept, but at least I don't have to fake my grogginess. That comes naturally.

"Good morning! How are you feeling?"

"Oh, I'm..." I pause to evaluate and then say "I'm fine. Fine enough to make my own breakfast!"

Type waves his arm dismissively, "But I like to make us breakfast!" he says, but I can tell that he is lying. If none of this had happened, then he would be lying down on the bed and I would be the one making breakfast for both of us (or at least buying it from a cafe!)

"Ok" I say pretending to be in a good mood. I can't really remember the last time I was in a good mood "so lets have that breakfast you made for both of us before it gets cold"

I remove the blankets and I stand up. Out of the corner of my eye I catch Type watching me as I stand. Forget not being trusted with open flame, apparently he doesn't even trust me to get out of bed without incident! That hurts my pride a little more. Whatever. If he doesn't trust me to get up, I might as well take advantage of Type's hovering. I stagger and pretend to lose my balance. Sure enough Type doesn't miss a beat before he catches me and holds me up. I look up at his face while I'm in his arms. This is the closest we have been in days! He is warm and comfy, and he smells like home. It feels so damn good to be this close to him again. I can't enjoy it for long though.

"Tharn! What happened? Do you feel dizzy? Should I call the doctor?"

"No" I smirk, "But now that I've got you in my arms...we could go back to bed and..." I make my voice as flirty and suggestive as humanly possible.

Type groans and pulls his arms away, "Oh my god, Tharn! I can't believe you! You can't just fake things like that! I thought something was really wrong!" Of course he all but pushes me away from him. His face looks disgusted and I'm worried that that might be because he isn't attracted to me anymore. I reach out my hand to caress Type's arm but before I can make my move he points at me and then towards the kitchen, "Breakfast! Now!"