Far From Comfort

19. Wounds

~Juvia's PoV~

My whole body ached. Specially my left leg. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain on my leg.

I winced slightly and slowly opened my eyes. I saw I was laying on a bed, but apart from that nothing seemed familiar. Where was I?

I felt the sharp pain on my leg again, and slightly sat up to see where the pain was coming from.

I saw Gray sitting on a chair by the bed, slowly healing a wound right underneath my guild emblem.

He quickly looked up at me as soon as he felt me move. "You're awake! Are you okay? You should lay back down again you need to rest."

I moved my hand up to my forehead. "Gray? Where am I?"

"I rented a room in an Inn for the night."

I looked to my right and saw the darkness of the night through the window. "How long was I out for?"

"About an hour." He placed a wet towel on my wound, which made me wince in pain again. "I know it hurts, but if I don't do this it'll get infected."

My vision was still kind of blurry, and the memories of what happened were kind of foggy. What happened... What happened...

Wait a second... "What are you doing here?!"

He looked up at me. "So no 'Thank you Gray'?"

I frowned and he sighed. "I had a bad feeling and so I came to check up on you. When I saw you were injured I came in and helped."

"I didn't need any help." I frowned.

"That's not how it looked back there. That guy was about to beat you."

"I was about to land an attack on him and you interrupted! I had him in the bag! Besides I'm not even that injured."

He looked at me with no expression and poked my wound. I moved my leg away from him and groaned.

"Not even that injured huh?" He raised an eyebrow at me and pulled my leg back closer to him.

"Hey so quick question how come I'm only in my underwear?" I asked as I realized I had only my underwear on.

"That's not true, you've got a shirt on." He said slightly pouting and looking away.

I looked down and saw I was wearing his shirt. "Okay let me rephrase the question. How come I'm only wearing underwear from the waist down?"

"Well I needed better access to your wound." He explained with flustered cheeks.

"Pervert." I muttered loud enough that he could hear me.

He touched my wound again and I moved my injured leg as far away from his as possible. "Stop doing that it hurts!"

"I'm trying to help but you're too stubborn to let me!" He said as he reached over the bed to bring my leg back.

"I don't need your help. I can manage by myself just fine."

He managed to grab my leg and I tried pushing his hand off. "Just let me help you for Mavis' sake!"

"I can do it myself I'm not a child that needs to be taken care of!" I raised my tone a bit.

"Then why did you look so helpless while fighting that guy back there?!" He yelled at me.

"Just because you don't trust me doesn't mean I can't take care of myself!"

"Just because I helped you doesn't mean I don't trust you!"