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“AHH!!!” Newt yelled.
“What?! What’s happened?” Hermann called out through the sheets of rain. Newt was holding his hand. “Are you hurt?”
“No I’m fine,” Newt winced. “Duh! Yes I’m hurt!”
“Well?”
“One of those friggen idiots smashed my hand between the transport carrier door and the new tank.”
“Come on, let’s get you inside,” Hermann said, looking a little concerned. But when they got up to the main doors on the dock, they had just slammed shut. In vain, they tried to open them but the system was obviously broken or jammed.
“Let’s get over here!” Hermann shouted, pointing to one of the small spaces on either side of the door, directing Newt into it. Under one of the giant door gears, they were at least partly sheltered from the torrents of rain. The latter leaned heavily into it the metal structure. He held onto his injured hand.
“Does it hurt?”
“Yeah that’s why I’m holding onto it!”
“Let me look at it.”
“No.”
“Come on, let me see it. Don’t make such a fuss.”
“It feels like it’s broken.”
“Wouldn’t you know? You’re a doctor,” Hermann said in an annoyed voice.
“I work on aliens, dude…ok it’s probably not broken.”
“See,” Hermann said, gently coaxing Newt’s fingers open.
“Ow ow..” Newt said as he gingerly opened and closed his fingers. It was red and was surely to bruise badly, but it wasn’t broken.
“There, we’ll go and put some ice on it,”Hermann said, observing Newton’s hand and he held it. “If we can ever get back in again.”
“It still hurts,” Newt said looking at Hermann. The taller man brought the biologist’s injured hand up to his face and kissed it, pressing his lips very tenderly against the bruised flesh for longer than was necessary, closing his eyes.
“There.”
“Ah-HA! You do care!”
“I was merely trying to stop you from complaining.”
“Is that why you made out with my hand?” Newt teased. Hermann’s cheeks reddened.
“I did no such thing!” Hermann said, puffing out his chest and letting go of Newton’s hand. But Newt reached for his hand again and smirked. Hermann blushed harder.
“When we get back inside, how’s about us getting to first base?”