Summary: The princess of glimmer grove is not exactly known for having good self-care habits….
Gods her head hurt.
It was like an aching, thumping pain on the sides of her head, the nausea didn’t help
What had she been doing? Oh right, monster hunting, gods that reminded her she hadn’t been sleeping, she felt so tired, she felt so bad
She knew she should’ve taken a nap or slept tonight but she couldn’t she needed to fight these stupid creatures what good was she if she didn’t!?
And its not like her duties during the day left much time for sleep, especially not with Joey bothering her, and THAT didn’t help either what with how she always had to return his stuff or make him return it
She took a few labored breaths and why was she breathing so heavily again? She was usually fine after monster hunting
…then again her usual monster hunting didn’t involve 2 creepers and 3 zombies all ganging up on her, and a giant spider dropping from above as the cherry on top. At least shed killed all of them
She blinked open her eyes only to be met with blurry scenery, it was dark, no surprise there, what was surprising was the fact the tree was…waving- no, she was seeing double of it
She went to look around and squeezed her eyes closed at the spike of pain it caused in her head, she moved to lean against the tree and rubs between her eyes in an attempt to massage some of the pain out
Opening her eyes slower this time everything was still fuzzy but she could see for the most part, as long as she didn’t moved her head, and there weren’t any monsters around
She breathed a sigh of relief and put her head against the tree. Jerking away at the pain, she reached back to her head and gently tapped, wincing slightly at the wet feeling
She didn’t even need to bring her hand up close to know that it was bloody
“fuck” she muttered, her eyes had adjusted to the lighting, she was in the evermore, how she traveled form glimmer grove to the swamp was a mystery for her, then again she always wondered closer to Shelbys boarder if she could
Now that she thought about it her feet were killing her
And Now that she was thinking of Shelby that reminded her that she must be close to the witches house and…..well looking around at the thick forage, trying to get to Shelbys house instead of out of the forest certainly seemed like the better option
If only she could stop her head from spinning, the ache had dulled slightly but she knew that once she started to move it’d be hell on earth
But not like she had many other options….well, aside from passing out right here and now
So she stumbles its….not pretty and she really wishes her body would cooperate better, but it doesn’t, so she stumbles and walks and has to do pit stops at trees when the dizziness gets too much, being mindful of her head wound which maybe she should bandage now that she’s thinking of it
For whatever reason there’s no monsters around, which is odd considering how dark it is here in the forest, but just incase there are she has her axe in hand, how she’s able to carry it in this condition she doesn’t know, probably pure adrenaline
She doesn’t even remember making it to Shelbys house
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Katherine groans awake, her head was killing her, she raises her hand and feels bandages, blinking she realizes she staring up at a rather familiar ceiling
The realization motivates her to try and push herself up only for a small, frantic, yelp to stop her
“Katherine! Lay back down you’re going to make it worse!” Shelby hisses, pushing her down, Katherine giggles and Shelby pauses, “whats so funny?”
“nothing just…..you have no idea what night I had, gods I am….SO tired” she sighs
“well- yeah, I can guess that! Do you know how scary it was to look out my window because the crickets woke me up and see you passed out and bleeding near the tree lines!?” Shelby exclaimed, spreading her arms out
“okay in my defense it wasn’t on purpose” Katherine mumbled
“yeah I know just…..I swear I nearly thought you got mugged before I remember what you do for a ‘hobby’” Shelby says in a lower tone, crossing her arms
“well, its more like a second…..” she pauses, “third, job then a hobby”
Shelby rolls her eyes and grabs a healing potion, giving it to here, “here drink this, don’t ush yourself up to far, you got…..really hurt yesterday and….it worried me so I may or may not have stress boiled like, 4 batches of these”
Katheirne hummed, drinking the potion half way, “don’t these come in batches of 12?” she asked before downing the other half
“….yeah, I mayyyy be out of some potion ingredients” Shelby drawls out, letting out a soft huff to herself, rubbing the back of her neck
“mmm, how bad was my head?” Katherine asked
“well, thankfully it looked worse then it was, it was just a small cut, I don’t know what you were fighting-“
“2 creepers, 3 zombies and a spider”
“….all at-“
“no not all at once…..or…..okay the spider dropped down later everything else was at once”
“Katherine!” Shelby hisses
“its not my fault I didn’t see it coming!” Katherine defends
Shelby sighs, “then you probably got hit back by the blast, I don’t know I’m no healer or doctor, anyways I cleaned the area and bandaged it up, the healing potions should be able to do their job now”
“and uh, I cleaned your axe, er….not very good, I…cant lift it, but I tried….I also had to take you r armor off and…” Shelby trailed off, cheeks flushing
Katherine raised an eyebrow before it clicked that she wasn’t wearing the clothes she’d put on last night
Her own cheeks flushed, “oh…” she said quietly
“uh….an- anyways” Shelby turns around to grab a bag, “I uh, want you to take these potions, not that I mind seeing you just…” She paused
“I…don’t want to see you that hurt again…” she says, placing it down beside Katherine, who attempts to look at it only to wince at the sharp pain coming back
“you should sleep though, it’ll help the potions do their job better” Shelby points out as Katherine gently lowers herself back onto the pillow
“yeah, just….my duties and stuff-“ Katherine said, voice starting to get a nervous edge to it”
“Kath, where are you at right now?” Shelby asked
“uh….the Evermore?”
“yeah, not your kingdom, you’re in my house under my rules” Shelby states almost proudly, making Katherine smile fondly, “and I say that you should sleep” she says more gently, sitting on her knees beside the couch, beside Katherine
“plus you took care of me when I was sick so, now its my turn, and you can head back to Glimmer Grove in the morning”
Katherine hummed, “yeah, okay, fine, I’ll sleep and rest here and go back in the morning”
“great! Ill go make lunch! Mushroom stew is okay right?” she asked, hopping up nd going to walk to the kitchen
Katherine hummed, eyes closed, “I don’t know I’ve never had it before”
She could hear Shelby pause, “You’ve never- oh we are definitely having that for lunch now” she said determinedly, Katherine giggled before letting her mind rest for once
Notes;
Made this cause a saw a couple prompts on whumptober and got inspired, anyways this one focuses on Katherine
Technically you don't have to read ch1 for this one but it's refrenced so I made this chapter 2 instead dof a diffrent book
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