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“How?”
Nico keeps his head down, not looking up, not looking into his boyfriend’s worried and confused eyes. He sees him running around, taking out bandages and a cooling pack and other medical supplies that are not really needed. Hold on… Is that a scalpel?
“Like… How? I don’t get it. How did this happen?”
“I told you. I tripped.”
“Tripped.” Levi doesn’t sound convinced.
“Yeah. Like… really hard.”
“Tripped hard.” Levi pauses. “More like hardly tripped.”
Nico’s head is suddenly yanked into place, forcing him to acknowledge Levi’s presence now.
“Hold still.”
Levi’s face comes closer, examining the cut on his boyfriend’s forehead.
“Hm…”
“What?”
“This looks… weird.”
“How so?”
Levi takes a step back.
“It looks more like… you ran into a pretty sharp door.”
“I did not!”
Levi suppresses a laugh.
“Whatever you say, handsome.”
“I told you! I tripped! I was running into the ER, and there was blood, and I slipped, and maybe I hit my head or something.”
“Hey, it’s your story, not mine. I’m just here to make it all better.”
Levi moves in again to treat the cut and decides to tease his patient a little bit more. This is just too much fun. He cleans up the blood around the wound and the cut itself with a gauze. And then he gently blows on it.
“Hey!”
“What?”
“I don’t think that’s the right protocol for treating a cut!”
Levi smiles, leans in and shuts up Nico by kissing him gently but firmly on the lips. Before Nico can realize what’s happening, Levi stops the kiss.
“So… you’re gonna sue me?”
Nico gulps but before he can answer the curtain has been pulled aside and Alex appears.
“You done here, Schmitt?”
“Almost, sir. It’s just a small cut.”
“Thought so. I still don’t get how you managed to hit yourself with that kitchen drawer, Kim.”
“A drawer?”, Levi asks once their boss has left.
He doesn’t get an answer though. Nico pulls him closer and covers his face and lips with kisses.
“Let’s not talk about that anymore.”, Nico breathes out between kisses. “I’d rather you break protocol again.”