Everyone in Sabertooth stood infront of their guild master Jiemma who called for all of them with a sheet of paper in his hand.
"Which one of you took on the job of taking on a beast in a cave? AND MISERABLY FAILED"
Sting flinched, and looked down it was him who took it on and failed because he ran out of power in his fight.
"SO! WHO WAS IT!?"
Everyone flinched and stayed silent.
"It was me Master Jiemma"
Sting snapped his head and looked at who had spoken up, it was Rogue. Rogue knew Sting took the job and knew what happened once Sting returned to talk about it. Rogue took steps forward and looked up at the taller male. Sting was going to speak but Minerva held him back from doing so, she was also holding Frosch and made sure the exceed wouldn't say anything.
"The shadow dragon slayer, you failed at defeating a beast that is weaker than a dragon!? How pathetic."
"I know master and im s-"
Before Rogue could finish he felt a sharp pain in his stomach that made him fall to his knees, Jiemma had punched him in the stomach.
"I don't want your pathetic apologies Rogue! You are a disgrace to the Sabertooth guild"
"I know..."
Sting wanted to say something so bad but couldn't and everyone could see, he felt terrible that Rogue was getting punished cause he was the one to fuck up in a job, he couldn't bring himself to watch as Jiemma beat and insult his Rogue. Soon it stopped and Rogue was on the ground looking motionless for a second.
"Get. Up."
There was no response and Sting was very worried at this.
"Get the hell up Ryos."
Rogue twitched a bit and slowly tried to get up, everything in his body began to hurt as he was now on his knees, he kept his head facing the ground.
"If I have to tell you to get up again"
"Please get up Rogue"
Frosch pleaded and looked very scared, Rogue slowly turned his head to the exceed in Minervas arm and slowly continued to get up until he was on one knee.
"Come on Rogue you can do it"
Sting whispered to him and Rogue nodded and stood up, holding the side of his stomach.
"Get out of my sight you failure"
Rogue nodded and limped a bit which ended up in him tripping, Sting quickly ran over and caught him then held him tight.
"I got you Rogue come on"
Sting carried his partner out of the guild and to the home that they shared, Rogue leaned his head on Sting chest and listened to the heartbeat of the blonde and frowned at how fast it beated. Once they made it Sting set Rogue on the couch then shut the door.
"Stay awake for me"
He said and went to the bathroom and got their medkit from the cabinet then walked back into the living room and saw Rogue removing his shirt slow and hissing.
"Hey hey!"
Sting set the kit on a table and walked over to Rogue and helped him out of his shirt and stared at his bruised body that made Stings spine tingle.
"Sting..."
"I'm sorry"
"What?"
"Jiemma beat the shit out of you because of me, I couldn't stand and admit that I did it, I could have lost you and I feel so pathetic for being a coward I'm sorry"
"Sting shut up"
Sting fell silent but began to shake from trying to stop himself from crying so Rogue pulled him into a hug and slowly stroked his head.
"I did it to protect you even though I know exactly what Jiemma would do to me I didn't want to see you hurt Sting"
"I don't care what he does to me! It hurt just watching you nearly die from his wrath"
Sting trembled in Rogues arms and whimpered, as the ravenette tried to calm him down, once he let himself calm down, he grabbed the medkit and opened it getting cream and bandages out of it, hesitantly looking at the bruise that Rogue was covering up with his hand.
"Move your hand Rogue"
"Not until you can take looking at it"
"I can take it."
Rogue sighed and slowly moved it revealing the dark purple bruise that Jiemma hit repeatedly, Sting bit down on his lip and watched Rogue went to cover it back up but Sting grabbed his hand and set it down on the couch.
"I can handle it Rogue"
Sing stared at the bruise and knelt down and gave it a gentle kiss that made Rogue flinch a bit and let out a hiss.
"Sorry."
"It's okay Sting"
Rogue said smiling softly at him and ran his fingers through the blondes hair to calm him down which worked quickly and made him feel more relaxed and stared at the bruise once more before spreading cream on it and sighed doing the same to all the other bruises on Rogues body the two of them in complete silence the whole time until Sting was finished working on Rogue.
"Sting."
"Yeah?"
"Please don't use so much of your power you need to be ore careful"
"Yes Rogue"
Rogue tilted his head up and kissed the corner of his mouth.
"Where is my bumble bees smile?"
Sting tried not to smile but Rogue kept kissing his face and nuzzled his neck, ending up in him laughing and smiling at what Rogue was doing.
"Okay okay! here's your smile!"
"There you go bumble bee~!"
Rogue picked him up and set Sting on the couch and leaned into him leaving more kisses on the blonde making Sting laugh and making his face hurt. Soon Rogue stopped and laid his head on Stings chest, Sting smiled and kissed the top of Rogues head and rubbed his back.
"I'm going to kick Jiemmas ass one day"
"If you are don't let it be because of this, i'm fine"
"But-"
Sting was interrupted by Rogues lips crashing onto his, they shared a passionate kiss but couldn't go too far cause of how hurt Rogue was and that the door being opened which made them both pull away quickly.
"Rogue!"
Frosch cried and launched themselves at Rogue and hugged him, Rogue sat up and hugged the crying exceed to his chest. Lector flew over and patted Rogues arms and smiled up at him.
"Are you okay Rogue?"
"Yeah i'm fine, Sting fixed me up so i'm good thanks"
"Fro was worried that Rogue was going to go bye bye forever!"
"I'm never going to do that Frosch don't worry okay"
Rogue pet Frosch and waited for them to stop crying after a few minutes the exceed went to sleep in Rogues arms. Lector took Frosch from Rogue to put the exceed to bed, Sting smiled at how cute they were and Rogue smiled and pulled the blonde down and grinned.
"You should sleep too Sting so my bruises can heal and you can get your power up"
