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I woke, still floating but I hurt… boy did I hurt. I hadn’t been washed properly (at my own request) but some of the grime and blood had soaked off. I wasn’t screaming but if it were possible I’d be radiating pain. Chatty seemed to sense that.

When the doc came she made no move to take me from the water. Without a moments hesitation it seemed the doc stripped off and waded in. I focussed on her blearily and blinked… I still hadn’t had those pain meds.

-Whoa, she’s just a kid.- I thought. –Can’t be more’n 14 odd. Poor thing.-
I’d forgotten how tiring pain was. I had no energy but the pain was keeping me awake.

The girl flinched and winced away from me like my pain was hurting her.

“Heh, sorry,” I mouthed. “Asked for pain meds… didn’t get. Sorry.”

“It’s alright,” she told me, “I don’t know how much I can do though.”

“Doesn’t matter. Stop pain’ll do. Rest’ll… cure. Heh, they pounded me real good.” My eyes closed again but I felt the person supporting my head pass me to someone else. I relaxed as best I could.

I felt something touch my mind again and shrieked, agony rolling over me in waves. I didn’t pass out though. I would have loved too but I didn’t.

She snatched her hands away and there was a splash as my head was fumbled and someone else caught it lifting it from the water.

There was movement in the water and someone hunched down and whimpered.

-Sorry.- I thought – Sorry.-

“Don’t be. Please, please don’t be. It’s not you fault. I’m sorry. How can you bare it? You’re so broken up inside… there’s so much damage. Why was he so rough! He almost killed you!”

“’S okay. ‘S my bad. Resisted. No easy meat. Start with worst… Knee?”

“Al…Alright.” She sounded like she was sobbing. I felt other hands lift me to the surface of the water and hold me there and she put her hands on my knee. I whimpered but sensed strangely that she was having trouble focusing.

“Down…’n’ left a bit.” I mumbled, not aware that I’d spoken aloud.
Her hands shifted and touched the point of agony. This equaled gasp and shudder on my part. It was strange, in my mind; I thought I saw the pained effort twisting her face clearly. In response the shriek in my knee died to a whimper. My knee felt like it had been wrapped in warmth and that warmth was sinking in, smoothing out the pain. Muscles already forced to relax by the warm water relaxed further. My breathing deepened, I entered a rag-doll state and let her work her will on me.

-I hope that Ger guy isn’t feeling this.- I thought.

“Why?” I thought I heard someone ask.

-‘Cause I’d sure hate to inflicting this pain on anyone else.- I thought.