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Lime as usual was crawling around in the vents. The reactor has been acting up again and not working properly. As Lime was just about to open the vent to the reactor, there was a loose sheet of metal sticking out. Lime typically avoids it but this time they forgot about it and had their hand scratched painfully. Lime winced in pain as they looked down at the gash. It was around an inch and a half long and was half an inch thick. Blood gushed out of it, they started to see some of their muscle show. They gagged at the sight of it and had to look away before sighing heavily. They used their left hand to rip a bit of their bandana off to bandage it.
“Fuck… of course this had to happen.. of course”
They mumbled to themself as they were wrapping up their right hand. The blood immediately soaked through the fabric and had a dark maroon stain over where the cut was.
“Whatever, good enough.”
They said to themself, they pulled themself out of the vent and looked up at the reactor. It was glowing a dim blue and was a greyish- purple color. The main problem was the fact it wasn’t a lot of energy as usual. Lime pulled out their reach and began to work on it.
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Blue was just finishing up Cyan’s checkup and taking their scan currently. As cyan rambled on about spirituality and auras. Blue didn’t really mind that much and actually found it quite interesting.
“Alright, your all done! By the way,could you send lime if you see them anytime soon?”
“Hehe! Sounds good doc!”
They skip away looking very happy while humming to themselves. Blue went over to the printer to print out the scan of Cyan. As they were working on some paperwork, they noticed how almost an hour has pasted by and there was still no sign of Lime. They decided to finish up this stack of paperwork and then go looking for them.
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Lime just finished up repairing the reactor and it was glowing a nice bright blue now. They took a step back and admired their work. That was all they had to do today so they have the rest of the day to themselves.
“Hmmm, maybe I should see blue about my hand..”
they mumbled to themselves,recently Blue has been on their mind all the time. When their sleeping, when their crawling around in the vents. Fuck even when their doing absolutely nothing. Lime felt their face get hot thinking about seeing blue.
“I can’t like blue, right?. No,no I like them as an acquaintance nothing more. Besides their way out my liege.”
They thought while walking over to the vent. They then just got a sharp stinging pain in their right hand.
“FUCK!”
They yelled in pain hoping no one heard. They got into the vent and crawled over to their little hideout/room as their hand ached in pain. Once they arrived they decided to get some new fabric to wrap it. They sat down and leaned against the wall sighing heavily. They grab one of their old bandannas and ripped off half of it. As they started to unwrap the blood soaked piece of fabric, the closer they got to the gash the more it hurt to unravel the fabric.
“fuck,fuck,fuck,fuck,fuck, this hurts like hell”
The gash looked nasty and very messy. It started to bruise around the edges and their skin started to peel leaving it completely open. Lime stared at it in disgust before wrapping it up quickly. Right as they finished, they heard blue yell something about looking a gremlin. Immediately Lime began to crawl over quickly to the medbat vent hoping to get to blue before they look it in the eye. You’ll fall in love with it and then it’ll steal all your organs and give it to the government! They bursted out of the vent.
“DONT DO IT! YOU’LL FALL IN LOVE”
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Blue was immediately surprised to see that Lime had came so quickly to their hall about looking a gremlin in the eye.
“I believe you scared it away… thank you Lime”
“Of course doc! Now I’ll be on my way”
Before Lime could get away Blue began to speak again.
“Wait! Before you go, can I do your checkup? MIRA needs all them done in 2 days.”
“NO! I know my rights and you can’t make me!”
Lime spat at them.(A/N:not literally,ok?) Blue sighed before trying to use their charm on them. Worth a shot anyways.
“Now I know the medical community has a lot to apologize for but I need you to this for the crew, for us. Ok?”
It took Lime a few seconds to reply, it looked like they were… blushing? That’s very out of character for them so they just thought they were seeing things.
“..fine but I want to get rid of the documents afterwards!”
Blue nodded in agreement. They let out their hand for Lime to grab onto from the vent before pulling them up.
“We can do it together, sounds good?.”
Lime nodded as Blue lead them over one of the beds. Lime sat down on it, looking towards the side while Blue grabbed their equipment and came back over with their chair. When they looked back up at Lime after organizing their equipment, they realized how..attractive they were? Blue has never really looked at Lime before since they don’t come in as much as the others. They realized that they Lime was talking to them about something to them.
“Doc? You gonna get started or what?”
“Ah,yes! Sorry must’ve zoned out.”
As Blue was doing the check up, they felt their face heat up a bit. As they were checking Lime’s reflexes, they noticed how one of their hands were wrapped in fabric. They decided to look at that next after they finish the check up. It could be something serious.
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Lime stared at Blue while they were listening to their heart. They relized how close they were to them. Lime felt their body heat up hoping Blue wouldn’t notice cause that would lead to some awkward questions for them. Blue put the stethoscope to the side and look up at Lime. They felt themselves blushing.
“Alright everything seems to be in order.”
“Good, can I go now?”l
“Not yet, do you mind if I take a look at your hand?”
“Yes! I would mind!”
If Blue were to see the gash, they’d get pissed at them for not coming in sooner and that’s not good. Just then, they felt a sharp stringing pain in their right hand.
“Ughh fuck..”
Lime grabs their hand and starts to rub it. They hoped that Blue didn’t hear them curse under their breath. As they were rubbing their hand Blue began to speak.
“Lime, I’m going to need see your hand. It looks to be in a lot of pain”
Blue said it sternly so Lime knew there was no point in fighting back about it. They reluctantly gave them their hand. As they began to unwrap the fabric closer to the gash it got more and more painful. Lime winced in pain as Blue removed the bloody cloth. The cut look the same as before but was still nasty to look at and was a bit more red. Blue sighed and got up to grab some stuff out of one of the drawers.
They came back with what look to be black string, some weird looking scissors, a couple of blades, some wipes and… a shot needle. Lime has always been afraid as shots and what people say online how it kills your organs doesn’t help. Blue put on some gloves, grab the shot and flicked it a couple of times. Lime pulled their hand away immediately when they saw the shot. Blue look up at them before starting to speak.
“Are you scared of getting a shot?”
Lime nodded very quickly.
“Your probably gonna take my blood and sell it to the government to make a clone to make an evil clone of me!”
Blue just stared at them for a couple of seconds before starting to speak again.
“I can assure you that I won’t be stealing your blood to sell to the government. This is just pain relief. It’ll make me putting in the stitches much less painful for you.”
“Well the government probably poisoned it so they can clone me or feed it to the gremlins! I always suspected that the gremlins and the government worked together…”
“Lime, there’s no way that the government poisoned this since I made it myself. MIRA’s to cheap to supply it for me so I have to make it myself. I don’t have to give it to you if you don’t want it but the process will be much more painful. Your decision”
Lime stays quiet for a couple of minutes before speaking up.
“fine,but if you sell my information I will be pissed.”
Blue nods and recommends I look away for the process. They give the shot very quickly but it still hurt. Blue goes over to their computer in the corner of the room.
“I have to ask you about how this happened since it’s required by MIRA to file every work related injury. Plus it’ll take some time for the pain relief to kick in.”
“Great, I get to this scumming ass corporate about my injured hand.”
Lime looks up to hear Blue laughing at their remark about it. It’s sweet,full of joy and beautiful just like them. Lime smiles seeing how happy they made Blue. Their laughter dies down and they start talking to them about the gash.
“So how did this happen exactly?”
“I was crawling to the reactor and cut it on some loose metal in the vents..”
Blue types it out quickly before asking another question.
“Did you work on the reactor while you had this injury?”
Lime stays quite for a bit speaking up quietly.
“..yeah.”
Blue typed it out and asks another fucking question.
“Final question, why didn’t you come straight to me after this happened”
“I.. don’t know”
Lime shrugs their shoulders as Blue typed that.
“Ok, you can just sit there while I fill out everything else.”
30 minutes later or so
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Blue finish typing everything up and send it to MIRA even though they doubt they’ll read it. Blue walks over to Lime and sees that fell asleep. Their laying their head in their shoulder with their visor close of course
“They look so cute like this. I don’t want to wake them up but they should know that I’m starting to give them their stitches.”
Blue gently nudges them while saying Lime’s name. Lime wakes up after up dazed and confused.
“Huh? Why am I here again?”
They say sleepy
“Didn’t want to wake you up it I thought you should know that I’m gonna start the stitches,ok?”
They blink a few times before fully waking up. The look to the side and said it was ok for blue to start the stitches.
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Lime looks off to a wall while they feel blue wiping off their hand with some alcoholic wipes. They sigh and look down at blue, trying not to look at the cut. Even from above their just as handsome. Wait, why was Lime thinking about Blue like this? They were just acquaintances and nothing more. Sure they thought it’d be nice to date them but whatever, that’s not happening. When they looked back down they saw that Blue finished stitching up their hand and was going to grab some bandages for it . It looked odd being close up after having it open for so long. Blue came back over with some gaze and some medical tape. As they were bandaging up the hand they started talking about how to take care of it afterwards.
“Try to avoid getting it wet and re-bandage it every day. You can come in so I can show you how if you want. I know you’re going to hate me for this but please stay out of the vents for a while.”
“Stay out of the vents?! Over my dead body!”
Blue sighs and begins to speak again.
“It’s for your own safety. You’re really likely to reopen it if you’re crawling around in the vents.”
“But how am I-“
“No buts, you either don’t use the vents or stay in here the entire healing process”
Staying in medbay with Blue doesn’t sound that bad but not using the vents pissed off Lime the most.
“ Fine, I won’t use the vents.”
“Good, I’m done with your hand. I just need to get your scan but then you’re free to go.”
Blue begins to clean up as Lime inspects their hand. It very nicely bandaged up with just a tiny red dot in the middle.
“Alright, if you could get on the scanner and stand completely still. I can begin the scan”
“ That thing is going to steal my information. No doubt about it”
Blue looks over to Lime standing right by it.
“Do you want me to it with you to prove it won’t?”
Lime’s face goes completely red at the thought of Blue being so close to them. They remain speechless for a couple of minutes speaking softly.
“Why do treat me like this?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean like I’m not completely crazy. The rest of the crew sees me as this crazy old person who hides in the vents.”
Lime says loader then they ment to. Blue walks over towards them, almost touching Lime’s visor. Lime blushes before looking Blue right in the visor.
“Everyone should feel like they matter in the world. Even if they’re viewed as crazy.”
Blue hugs Lime. Lime being surprised by this just stands there for a second not sure how to react. They hug Blue back not sure why they did that. Blue pulls back and it looks like they’re… blushing? They’re looking to the side as they speak.
“Lime, there’s something I want to tell you..”
“…”
“I like you, not just as a friend but as more. The way you look, your theory’s about the government and how much you care for your job. I know you probably won’t feel the same but I’ve been watching for a couple of weeks and need to get this off my chest.”
Blue leans in and kisses Lime. It’s soft and warm like they are. It lasts for a couple of minutes before they pull back, blushing heavily. They see that Blue also is.
“I’m sorry, I should have asked first”
“It’s..ok, I didn’t mind..”
“We can do the scan another day,I don’t think MIRA is gonna get that mad at me for not finishing all the scans today”