After a while of struggling, Mary gave up. Lucius was so determined, not to let her walk on her own.
Mary's swollen ankle was in pain as well as her shoulder injury.
It's best to just stop or I'm afraid my injury will worsen.
"Hey, Lucius. Where are we going?"She said, now noticing they were back in the corridor." Shouldn't we continue going up?"
He looked at Mary and shook his head in disapproval.
"Then, where are we heading?"
He hissed and gave a smile. He continued to slither deeper into the corridor.
Suddenly, he stopped. He looked at the door and looked at Mary. Mary reached out her hand to open the door but she was stopped by Lucius's tail.
Lucius's tail was on the doorknob, he twisted his tail to open it but nothing happened.
Mary laughed at him."If you can't open the door you should ask. I'm just here anyway."
Lucius's face turned pink, embarrassed. Instead of asking Mary to help, he used his tail to hit the door down.
The door hit the floor with a loud bang. Mary closed her ears as the sound, echoed through the corridor.
It was a dark room. Mary couldn't see anything until Lucius switched on the lights.
Mary blinked, trying to get used to the sudden change of brightness. When her vision was fine.
She saw a broken medical bed in the middle of the room. It was broken in half.
She gazed at it and thought. Maybe some experiments fought and broke it.
As she was looking at the broken bed, Lucius carried her across the room, to a wooden chair and put her down on it.
She glanced back at him but he turned away and slithered to a cupboard. She looked down at her swollen ankle and rubbed on it.
It was painful but she didn't say anything about it. Suddenly, she saw a pair of hands, holding a bundle of bandages.
She followed the hands and her eyes landed on Lucius. He showed Mary an apologetic expression. He moved his hands closer to Mary.
"What do you think you're doing!?"Mary shouted."Didn't I tell you no psychical contact and we need a certain distance?"
He looked at Mary with his cute round cat eyes and looked away depressingly like Mary was the one at fault.
So cute! Mary thought.No.Wait, he is one of those experiments. Don't be deceived by those looks. But why do I feel so guilty when he looked away sadly?
Mary let out a sigh and Lucius turned to look at her, shocked.
Maybe this once.
Mary breathed in a deep breath and let it out.
"Hey! Lucius, you can bandage my ankle. But! Only this once!"Mary said, warningly.
His sad looks instantly changed into a smile. His ears were no longer down, it was standing up and the tip of his tail was wagging, cheerfully.
He zoomed and knelt in front of Mary. He took up her injured foot and gently wrapped her ankle with bandages.
Mary silently sat there, looking at him.
He's a gentle guy. Mary thought. But that doesn't mean I have to trust him completely. What if all of this was just a trick for me to trust him?
Suddenly, the pain of her ankle dragged her out of her thoughts.
She looked at him with a painful expression and he gave her a soft hissed like an apology. Mary saw him tying a knot on the bandages, around her ankle.
After he was done, he coiled up, sitting on his tail. He noticed Mary staring at her bandaged ankle. He stared at Mary's ankle too but he looked nervous.
Lucius kept looking at Mary's expression and looked back at her ankle. He flinched when she moved a little.
Mary glanced at him.
"You're a fast learner, aren't you? I remember I only bandaged my injury once in front of you. Or are you easy to get injuries?"Mary asked.
He shook his head and wrote on the floor with Mary's pen. I don't usually get injured but when I do have one. I just leave it there.
"Aren't you afraid of it getting infected?"
He sat on his tail, confused. He drew on the floor.???
"You! What!?...."Mary sighed and continued.
"Infection is a really bad thing. Like...if you don't treat your wounds properly. It can cause you to be sick or worst comes to worst you'll die!"
He flinched as he heard that and slithered towards Mary. He got close to her. He moved his head and landed it on her shoulder. His head rubbed against the wound on the shoulder.
Mary blushed and used her hand to push his cheek away from her.
"Hey! I told you to leave a distance or else I'm leaving you!"She shouted.
Lucius looked at Mary, his ears down.
Mary slapped her hand on her face.
Damn it! Why does he have to be so cute? She thought.
"I know you're worried but you don't have to. I already patch it up nicely so it won't get infected."
He smiled and nodded happily. He slithered back to his place and coiled up again, sitting on his tail.
Mary lay on the chair, relaxed. She could feel her eyes slowly closing down and there was darkness surrounding her sight.