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He felt bad when she hissed in pain. He'd been trying but it was impossible to do this with no pain. He could give her some morphine via IV, but, then she'd probably go out. He'd ask her if she wanted another dose.

The clatter of something on the table he froze for a second, worry bubbling up. That was no what he'd been expecting. "I see." He was doing with the dabbing, taking odd his gloves, washing his hands putting a new set on, then pulling out the fresh bandages from their case. No cross contamination.

"I'm going to put the new bandage on, so this will hurt to." He gave her a few second before putting it to her back.

"We can talk later if you like. About..that."

Scared. She was- He inhaled, letting it go slowly. She was scared, and it wasn't hard to see why. A useless hunter was a dead hunter. Liabilities were disposed of. If you had a mark- You had one chance, if anything. Ami was probably on her last chance. The broken weapon... he doubted it was missed by the tech team or medics. "Ami, if I may let you on my own secret.." It was a gamble. A high gamble.
"I ******** up Ami. I got a man killed because I made poor decisions, and ended up making a very large mistake. You don't make deals with demons Ami." As much a blatant hint as he was going to give her. "They won't get ride of you. As far as I know, you'll probably be assigned runics for the field. I don't know about broken weapons, but so long as you make yourself useful, they won't want to be rid of you."

Yet anyway.

A snort. "Ami, the time I ******** up was on the promotion. I've been in charge of moon trainees and had to deal with them being insubordinate, dumb as ******** little shits. I've been tasked with defense and have been suggested to the sun division, more than once. Everyone had a bad track record Ami, some are just better at hiding it than others."

He was bad at it.

"I'm fine for now, but I am very much aware of my position and what has been taken from me and denied to me. Miss Carr gave me more leeway than was needed, and I think she only did it out of rational that we need moon hunters. There are only a handful of us left, and if she can use me, she will. From what I've seen of her, that's the type of woman she is." A shrug as he got down to eye level with her. "You're loyal Ami, dedicated to your work to an unhealthy way. Being disposable is a part of being a hunter. That's why we push ourselves. To be valuable enough to not be disposed of. Right now, if you weren't valuable, H wouldn't have kept you around."

Being drugged was a wonderful thing in Marcus’s opinion. He was half betting Ami wasn’t going to remember half the things he was telling her, and with her rather passive self, she wasn’t one to hunt him down to demand answers. A win on all accounts. Marcus might be talkative, but he had his limits.

A pillow to the face, the moon hunter snorted. Childish from someone older than him. Yet the resident ‘child’ was more mature than his own division assistant. “You don’t hate me. If you did, you wouldn’t talk to me or listen to me half as much as you do.” He sighed, looking at the morphine drip. “I’ll replace this, let you get some rest and ignore the pain.” He tucked the pillow from his face to her side. “And if they get rid of me in moon just think, they might shove me into life for medical.”

He chuckled, “And when I reach out and scream save me, will you whisper no? I think if I was forced to transfer, it wouldn’t be big news. Maybe for a few days, but everyone has bigger problems on their hands than thinking and who got promoted or demoted. But if I got a transfer, I’d be a senior again, how fun.” He knew it wouldn’t be. Because they both knew what he’d end up doing. Needling her to go to her dorms and sleep more often than he already was.

Setting up the morphine drip, Marcus went over the clip board, making a few notes. “I’ll check on the others. Get some sleep Ami. If you want me to bring you anything, you’ve got my number.” He hesitated as he moved away. “You’ll make it past this Ami. You faced the end of the world once already, and what happened… isn’t going to be the end for you.” So he hoped.