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_{[After a moment or so, it becomes... pretty obvious what's going on. Heather's brows lift in realization... and then a crooked smile quirks up one side of her mouth.]

[Which she covers with one hand for a couple seconds, debating whether to say anything or not.]}

... You've never used any of this shit in your life before, have you?

[OH NO, CAUGHT]

I have!

[...]

At least I've had other people use it on me. It can't be that hard.

[He's just scowling at the kit now as he keeps digging in it, in that way that just means he's embarrassed and not wanting to show it. Ugh he's been here for four and a half years he should have this human thing down by now.]

I never needed to before, I healed instantly.

_{[She's chuckling-- she just can't help it.]

[Reaching out with a bruised hand, she tries to take the box.]}

Don't worry about it.

I've patched myself up more times than I can count, in places way less comfortable than a bathroom in a nice house.

[HUFF.]

[Normally, he'd let her take it. But he's still got that question to ask her, and he's got to have an excuse to stay in here. So he hangs onto the kit.]

Nah, I can still try. You could talk me through it.

[He throws in a sheepish, still embarrassed laugh.]

I mean, I've got to learn sometime, right?

All right, if you insist.

_{[Still wearing that amused smile, she points into the box.]}

See those band-aids? The ones with the wide ends but the super thin middles? Those're called butterfly bandages. They're for cuts that are pretty small but go deep. The sticky bits hold the cut closed so that it'll heal faster.

_{[She pulls aside the shaggy mess that is her bangs, prodding at a bloody spot on her forehead.]}

Dude clocked me here pretty good and I think he had like, a ring on or something. Can you get a look and tell me if it needs one of those?

[Scooting over to get a closer look at the spot, Envy frowns a little at it, muttering:]

Hope you broke his face.

[While he's not very versed in fixing injuries, Envy sure knows all about what they look like. So he nods.]

Yeah, it looks like it does.

...do I do something else to it before I put the bandage on?

[Wash the blood off, put medicine on it? He knows other things happen first, at least.]

Well, I think I broke his nose, anyway... not the whole face, but it's right in the middle so it should count, right?

_{[She shoots Envy another bloody grin as she reaches out to wet her fingers again.]}

N'yeah, we oughta clean it off before putting it on... headwounds bleed like bitches.

Is there any Eonsporin in there? Should be in a little tube with an Eevee logo... that'll help keep it from getting infected.

Close enough.

[He grins right back at her, and goes digging in the kit for this Eonsporin stuff, since she looks like she's going to get the blood cleaned off herself. It's not long before he pulls out the tube, holding it up for her to see.]

This, right? How much do I put on?

[And he almost feels bad for bringing it up now, but...well, when else is he going to? No time like the present.]

And...hey, while we're up here. I've got something I've been meaning to ask you for a few days.

_{[She dabs at her face to clear the blood off, then rips off some toilet paper to wipe her forehead dry before the bandage goes on.]}

Just a little bit-- like a little blob--

And oh, yeah?

Sure, shoot.

_{[SHE HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING.]}

[He goes ahead and blobs that eonsporin on there and carefully sticks the bandage on before he goes for it.]

So...I've noticed you've been acting kinda weird around Lust lately.

Something going on, there?

[He kind of can't help the little bit of amused smirk showing through, because Heather I'm sorry but you've made friends with a smug bastard.]

_{[Okay, whatever question she'd been expecting?]

[It hadn't been that.]

[Her eyes pop wide open, and she wastes NO TIME in launching into babbling explanations.]}

Wh-- what? Weird? What're you talking about? Nothin's going on. What would be going on?

I'm cool with Lust. We're friends. What would be weird?

[Envy just RAISES AN EYEBROW at her.]

Sooo when we were all at that castle and you were falling all over yourself talking to her, that wasn't weird at all?

...if it makes you feel any better, I'm pretty sure she didn't notice.

_{[A high-pitched, breathless laugh makes its way into Heather's voice, because her first impulse is to try and make like what Envy's claiming is RIDICULOUS. ABSOLUTE POPPYCOCK! HA HA. HAHAHAHA. HA...]}

Falling all over myself? Whaaat?

When did THAT happen?

We were just talking! C'mon, can't a girl talk to... you know, another girl? Without it being weird? I wasn't being weird!

So you're saying you don't have a crush on my sister?

[Although from the look on his face, he's not buying it at all. The babbling denials are really only convincing him more. THE JIG IS UP, HEATHER.]

No, I-- I mean, YES! Yes, that's what I'm saying! _{[She waves a wad of bloody tissue that she'd been mopping at her nose with around like it helps make her point.]} I'm not even gay, of course I don't have a crush on Lust! I like dudes! I'm not into girls, even ones who-- I mean, I'm not saying she's not pretty, she's GORGEOUS, I'm just-- you know...! Right? C'mon!

_{[And then she trails off, looking at him earnestly. PLS BELIEVE ME ENVY, OLD PAL.]}

[ENVY OLD PAL DOESN'T BELIEVE HER IN THE SLIGHTEST.]

Uh-huh.

You know, you could be into both. I am, it's no big deal.

And c'mon, you dropped your toast on the floor when she walked in the kitchen the other day.

_{[The face she makes at him when he fails to be moved by her powerful argument is downright sad-- especially since she still kind of looks like someone ran her over with a bike.]}

Well-- I mean, I-- I just woke up then, I was being clumsy, that's all-- I--

_{[And then she groans, dropping her face into her hands. Okay. Fine. She gives up. What's the point.]}

She's so fucking hot.

What the fuck is happening to me.

[HEATHER...]

[Envy's torn between being smug that he was totally right, amused because Heather you're hilarious, and friend r u okay? He gives her what he hopes is a reassuring pat on the shoulder.]

Heather, I'm pretty sure most people think she's hot.

Well, yeah, but like...!

I could always TELL she was hot, I'm not BLIND, but like-- ... I dunno! It got different!

[OH NO WAIT DON'T GET UPSET--]

[Envy is only slightly more qualified to talk about crushes than he was to administer first aid.]

[But speaking of which, she does still look like she lost a fight with a lawnmower.]

Hey, don't worry, it's...emotions are weird. Trust me, I know.

You wanna tell me about it while I keep trying to fix your war wounds?

_{[For someone who isn't human, he sure nailed it on the head with 'emotions are weird'.]

[She heaves a sigh and holds out her arm, where there's various scrapes in need of band-aids.]}

Okay, so like...

I guess it started on New Year's?

Since we were sharing a room, and there were two beds and obviously she and Scar weren't gonna share one...

Nothing happened, I just-- started noticing stuff...!

[Envy pulls out that Eonsporin tube again to start getting that on the scrapes, cleaning them with water first when they need it. And he at least knows how to use regular band-aids. Even if the way he fumbles with the peel-offs betray how unused to them he is.]

[He figures she'll tell him if he's doing something wrong.]

Stuff like feelings, or stuff like just attraction?

_{[He's got the right idea, so she'll let him go on.]

[She's too busy bemoaning the fact that her sex drive randomly decided to pop back up again after being more or less dormant for years on end.]

[In fact, she looks a little confused for a moment, brows deeply furrowed.]}

... I... I didn't really... realize there was a difference.

_{[It's both a confession and a total realization-- she's had crushes aplenty, friends who she would readily admit that she loved in a way that went beyond friendship-- but she never was aware of their bodies like this.]}

The... latter, I guess? I-- I mean... I don't know her that well, you know? As a person. I like her and everything! But-- yeah, I mean-- it wasn't till-- I mean, she kinda like... _{[Her voice drops to a mumble, as though Lust might be pressed to the door listening or something. God, Heather hopes she's not home.]}

... Snuggled up in her sleep...

[He nods to the first part; that at least he knows the answer to.]

Well yeah, I mean...they can happen together obviously, but not every time. I started out just being attracted to France, all the mushy feelings and shit came later.

[...wait that might not be at all reassuring shit]

Not that--it's not for sure that it'd turn out like that for YOU, but--

[He just stops talking before he digs the pit further and focuses on the bandaids for a moment. He hopes for Heather's sake that it STAYS at just attraction, because Lust is definitely taken and Envy's pretty sure she hasn't even remotely considered the idea of dating a woman.]

...you've been dealing with it for that long, though?

_{[Yeah, Heather is... not even remotely entertaining the idea that she has a chance with Lust. Even if she wasn't taken, Heather's pretty sure the lady's straight as an arrow.]}

Well, if dealing with it is the right word to use...

I've just kinda been trying to ignore it.

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