The white wolf (GxG)

Exhaustion hits (part 14)

Lilly's POV:

By the time I was fully coherent I was laying in a tub, partially naked. My first instinct was to panic but there in front of me was a girl with a mane of messy blue hair, twisting the knobs of my bathtub, confusion scribbled on her face. Willow was taking care of me? I dug through what fuzzy memories I had for today and almost groaned out loud when I remembered the whole ordeal of her trying to get me undressed. Without warning I felt freezing cold water lap against my leg and I jolted in surprise.

"Cold!"

Willow and I both stared at one another in shock. Did that really come out of me? Was that seriously the word that broke my silence in front of another person? My hand came up to cover my mouth in shock, Willow looked more shocked than I was, and I was the one that hadn't spoken in years!

"Did you just talk? Was that your voice?" I nodded slowly, trying not to disturb the bandages I could feel on my neck.

"Hurts." I gestured towards my neck and squeezed my eyes shut as a wave of pain crawled up my unused vocal cords.

"Your throat hurts? You got bit, remember? You've got puncture wounds." Willow mumbled, fiddling with the knobs some more even though the warmth was finally starting to reach me. I nodded at her answer, I couldn't remember what had fully happened, but I remembered Carter and the blood and how badly it hurt. My neck still felt like it was on fire, and the skin was just waiting to be touched so it could send licks of pain down my whole body.

When I moved to sit in a better position, my ribs ached faintly, small but harsh waves of pain. It hurt to breathe deeply, a short stabbing pain when I tried. Was something broken? "Hurts too, Willow." I gestured towards my chest with a frown.

"Carter did say you could have broken a rib. I'll have to look up how to like, brace it or something? Jason probably won't do anything."

If I didn't feel so horrible I'd think about hurting him. I knew she was right though, he definitely wouldn't waste money on me unless he absolutely had to. A dead body on his territory certainly wouldn't look good anyway. I nodded and tried to enjoy the hot water covering me. Jason had had some sort of mercy and gave me an extra deep tub which I used pretty often when my whole body ached from training. I moved as slowly as I could and pushed down so the water could engulf more of my freezing cold body.

"Ok, are we ready to do this?" I glanced up at Willow's voice and shrugged slightly at her question before I leaned back and attempted to relax. How long had I been so bunched up? It felt like I'd been training or hours without any breaks. I tried to move as slow as possible but I still jerked up when I tried to lay straight back before I finally managed to lay fully against the back of the tub.

"Alright well get ready ok? I'll start in a couple minutes." She pointed her finger in what I guessed was supposed to be a threatening way but instead just made her look... quite cute, actually. Before I could stop I scrunched up my face and stuck my tongue out at her. To my surprise she let out a loud laugh and dragged her hands down her face in fake exasperation. I couldn't help but laugh a little too, even though it scratched and cracked embarrassingly.

After letting the tub fill up with a little more water, Willow placed a towel down on the floor and kneeled down next to me. The feeling of water and my wet panties and damp bra was not a pleasant feeling, and my embarrassment only grew with her so close to me. It was different when she was at least standing up, but she was basically face to face with me now.

"Hey I'm going to take your bandaids off, ok? They were the result of me panicking and your wounds probably need some better cleaning out." I gave her a small thumbs up and she reached forward to grab the bandaids. She tugged and got them off, and I squeezed my eyes shut at the unpleasant feeling. "Sorry, did that hurt?"