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Four crept past and kept quiet as Ty said his goodbyes to the evil batman.
"This is where I leave you." Four watched Ty hold out his hand, in a gesture of politeness even after batman had punished him for no conceivable reason.
Four could maybe forgive batman if he was polite back to Ty… maybe he just had a bad day?
Instead, batman backed away one step, then another. Four turned around to calm themselves, they weren't really sure what the problem was. Ty was barely hurt, Ben knew about this. If Ben knew he was going to take care of it. Four took another calming breath. Four shut their eyes, they've seen worse than a bruise, but for some reason four felt vaguely ill their head hurt.
“Miss Four” she wasn't sure how much time had passed Four’s head shook. “Miss Four, please what is wrong?” Their eyes opened, they saw Ty kneeling on the ground in front of where she had apparently curled up.
“Ty?”
Ty gave what looked like a relieved smile, “Mx. Four will you please tell me what's upsetting you?”
Four sprang into Tys arms, they weren't worried about him not catching her Ty always did. He put his arms immediately around them in a protective embrace cradling fours head and gently dropping a quick kiss onto it.
“I think we should head up to my office ok?”
Four gave a nod burying their head in Tys suit collar. Four took another breath, Ty smelled like himself and a little bit like Ben. Four sighed contentedly. They really were not sure what was upsetting them right now. As Ty kept walking, four gradually looked up, and Ty had made progress; they were almost to the elevators to go upstairs.
“Ty?”
Ty looked down at him and four could see a little bit of the pinched expression ease on his face.
“yes , Mx. Four?”
Four hesitated, Ty was so close to halfway to the office to pick up the journal Four didn't want to make another stop, but in feeling bad for themselves, four forgot that Ty was legitimately injured. He was still carrying them without complaint, four felt guilty at this revelation.
“Stop! Put me down!”
Ty did without complaint he also looked confused, four grabbed his hand and started making their way with determination to the medbay. Dr. A would know what to do, he can help and four would make sure that's ALL he did not like stupid batman.
“Mx. Meliodias, where are we going?”
Taking a look back, Ty looked stressed out but he didn't stop moving with Four. Ty seemed to be more worried about the journal than himself which is WHY four had to get him to medbay right the fuck now!
“MEDBAY, your hurt Ty.”
Ty maneuvered so he was still holdings four’s hand and gently got down on one knee to block any more progress forward.
“Im fine, I got an ice pack after this happened, there's not much anyone can do for a bruise it just takes time to heal, besides we should go get your journal right?”
Four was staring, clearly the punch affected Tys brain. Staring was rude so they dropped their gaze away from Ty. Dr. A always had SOMETHING he could do to help. Four didnt want to be mean right now but they would if Ty tried to convince them that he doesn't need medical attention.
“NO medbay”
Four smiled when Ty scooped them back up and started heading in the right direction.
“Mx. Four, will you share what's wrong please.”
Four thought about that, could four even share if they didn't know what was wrong? Ben always said its better to solve the problem together than go on a solo mission into your own head. Taking a breath four nodded at Ty, and was rewarded by a small upturn of his lips and a decrease in the worried look on his face.
“I dont know…. The punishment is stressing me out ok? I think Ren may have freaked me out too? OH! REN WAS LOOKING FOR YOU!!! I was supposed to tell you and uh give you a kiss.. From Ren.” at this Four imitated the gesture that Ren had done in the office earlier.
“did miss Reynolds say why she wanted me?” Ty looked pensive the worry lines showed back up and four griped his shirt and looked beyond his shoulder to watch the people moving.
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, colors uh oh wedding color for the wedding.”
To say four was glad when Ty reached medbay was an understatement. Practically leaping out of Tys arms they hit the ground with a loud cry of ALEXANDER! Looking around didn't do much better to help calm nerves. Four had just decided to drag ty into the office that was off to the side of Alex’s office, when someone else approached ty.
“Oh my stars what happened to you, it looks like you got stuck in a line during black friday!”
Four inwardly tenses and growled, it was that OTHER doctor that was in charge of the health of Ben's side projects. Four quickly walked over in front of Ty.
“Nothing quite that serious Dr. McNally, I assure you, one of my meetings got a little heated is all. A concerned parent worried over the state their children are in.”
Four took a step forcing this man back, he hadn't done anything yet but four did NOT want this guy to even look at ty for some reason.
“Oh I guess you can't fault good worried parents, if only all the children here had that.” idiot doctor dude had a very sad expression on his face and he stepped closer towards ty.
“ALEXANDER, ALEXANDER!”
Four called out again, the doctor that was standing way to close to Ty, knelt down so he was eye level with four. If it wasn't for Bens stupid stupid rules this man could have been dead 3 times over by now. Four reached back but instead of finding knives, four found themselves holding tys hand. Four appreciated that no matter what Ty still tries to keep them outta trouble, well as much trouble as hes allowed to keep them outta.
“Hello Mx., forgive me um meliodias is it?” four looked up and they saw Ty give an affirmative head nod to the traitor.
“We've met briefly before, I’m a doctor and I'd be more than happy to take a look at Mr. Chimel’s injury.” Four blinked, then blinked again.
“Who is Chimel?” Four definitely does not know someone with that name. Maybe the idiot doctor dude mixed up what he was going to ask. The room was quiet for a moment, four looked up at Ty, squeezing his hand she decided to ask again.
“Ty? Who is Chimel?”
Ty cleared his throat, he looked hesitant for some reason.
“Mx. f-Meliodias, that's my last name.”
Four shook their head, they vaguely remember something about that.
“Whyd you call Ty that tho? His names Ty.”
Ty passed the hand that wasn't holding fours hand over his face. Four looked between Ty and the doctor waiting for an answer. It shouldn't be too hard to give one right? Right? Ty is just Ty, four couldn't think of a reason in particular WHY he'd be ‘chimel’ instead of Ty. It didn't make sense to them?
“Mx. Meliodias, i believe Dr. McNally was trying to be polite as it were.” the doctor in front of four nodded. Four squeezed Tys hand again and was a little relieved when they received two squeezes back in return. Four nodded, thinking about this helped.