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He grabbed at his chest, heaving air into his lungs as best he could while they flooded with blood. The large gash across Time’s front weeping crimson onto the ground startlingly quickly and painting the stones under him. His world was spinning faster than he could consider it, he wasn't aware of falling onto the sticky blood soaked stone beneath him as everything faded to black.
The soft caress of sheets against his skin and the less than gentle squeeze of bandages across his chest were the first things his mind registered when he awoke, the next being the badly hidden sniffling of a certain sailor by his side. Twisting his head to look at him was out of the question with the thick blankets tucked around him so he settled for breathing out small words of assurance to grab his attention, earning himself a swift tackle from the small hero and an immediate scolding for almost dying.
How lucky he was to have a family willing to go out of their way to save his sorry ass.