[For Jackson] Quite unbelievably I want someone to be sweet to me

[st_igmatized]

Life was terrible and everything was pain.

Okay, so that wasn't true, but it was true that Sunny felt like shit and despite being as gentle with herself as she could be, it wasn't getting better. Her head ached, but the cramping was worse. There were spells for this, but as her supplies were limited to what she'd brought with her, she wanted to save them for absolute emergencies. So after reluctantly dragging herself out of bed and getting dressed enough to be decent (basically putting on jeans with her sleep shirt), she sucked it up and went to the clinic.

Her hopes that Pike would be on duty so she wouldn't have to talk to a man about this were dashed, though, and even though her thin body was swimming in her t-shirt she still wished she'd bothered to put on a bra after all. She'd formed her impressions of the inn's medical staff largely from a distance so far, but that didn't change the fact that this was probably the last of them she wanted to talk to for any reason.

Let alone this reason.

But she scraped together her dignity and did her best to stand up straight. "Hi. Please tell me we have painkillers."