Dialogue that hurts and comforts

I love seeing dialogue that can be used in different ways. It’s so cool when it’s repeated, now with new meaning. As a reader, I feel a bit smart.

LIST

‘Get away from me’

• A yells, trying desperately to kick their attacker off of them.
• A cries, chest heaving as sobs wrack their bound body. 'I’m dangerous’

'Watch your step’

• B yanks A back by the arm, their foot about to cross into a place of danger
• Villain smirks as Hero stands on the other side of the room, traps separating them.

'Careful’

• As a threat. 'Watch your words or I’ll nail your tongue to the door’
• As concern. 'You’re still injured. If you must go then use me as a crutch’

'Get up’

• Villain challenges Hero who is gasping for air on the ground. 'I want a real fight’
• Caretaker crying over whumpee’s unresponsive form. 'Please get up’

'Can you hear me?’

• Communications crackle as Hero tries to radio into HQ
• Whumpee is fading and can hear Caretaker’s voice as if it is in the distance. Despite Caretaker shaking them, their eyes close and their body becomes limp.

'Here, let me’

• A is struggling to complete a task. Impatiently, B takes over.
• Whumpee tries to stitch up a wound themselves but their hands shake in fear and pain. Caretaker gently takes the needle and thread from their hands and hands them a bottle of alcohol instead.

'I can’t’

• Hero drops the dagger, shaking. 'I can’t. I can’t kill you’. Villain, tied up, huffs and retorts 'So what are you good for?’
• Tears run down caretaker’s face. 'I can’t leave you’. Whumpee smiles despite the pain and reaches up to cup Caretaker’s face, wiping their tears gently with their thumb.

'Where have you been hiding?’

• Whumper’s sinister call echoes as they search the woods near their property. With those wounds, whumpee couldn’t have gone far.
• A strokes hair out of B’s face as they lay beside each other. 'Where have you been hiding my whole life?’ they say softly.

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Fantasy prompt on Immortals - Whump, H/C are always a given :)

Characters A and B are a couple that used to love to travel. One day, they’re deep in the forest and come across a cave. Inside, sleeps a minor God who is chained there as punishment for mischief. The couple accidentally wake them. The God is bitter for being woken and reminded of their imprisonment. They lash out on the two humans giving them immortality and no mortal weakness except one.

Each other.

If any other person tries to harm them, weapons will just pass through. No blade can cut them. No poison can kill them. But the catch is, as soon as they are near each other, they are more susceptible to injury. Normal blades can’t cut them but an enchanted one might. And not to leave out the most important part but any weapon or means of killing will work if done directly by the other person. They are completely at each other’s mercy.

The couple feel the ground shake as soon as the curse is given. The cave begins to collapse around them. They just manage to make it out. Adrenaline fading, they look at each other. Both are sceptical but something innate tells them it’s true. They decide to call truce, no longer able to stomach the fact that the other person is how they will die, and separate for centuries.

Until..

A walks out of their house into the crisp morning air. It’s a humble abode they’ve built for themselves in seclusion. The morning is silent save for the crunch of their footsteps.. and the explosive sound of a gun. It’s hits them in the thigh and pain explodes in their leg. They fall, blood immediately pooling on the ground.

Panic sets through A.

‘No, there’s no way.. Impossible,’ they mutter.

It cannot be B, they have always kept tabs on each other’s whereabouts and made sure it was always at least the diameter of the Earth away.

'B!’ A calls. Silence resumes.

Overwhelmed by pain which they have not felt for centuries, A maneuvers themself back inside. They haphazardly stitch themselves up and bandage their thigh. They couldn’t find a bullet so they figure it was a graze. Unable to get up, they lay there. Feeling cold and faint, they stay unmoving and pass out.

A wakes hours later to banging at their door. Grimacing, they pull themselves up using nearby furniture. They move from object to object, limping heavily until they reach the door. Delirious, they open it. Their half lidded eyes open wide in shock. It’s B.

A lunges for them. 'You bastard, you..’ A slurs curse words ancient and new. B grabs them by the shoulders, fingers digging in.

'I should be the one saying that..’ But their words falter when they see the state of A, feverish and bathed in their own blood. B lets them fall into their arms.

'Oof’ B groans at the sudden weight, hand reaching for their side.

When they look down at A, the latter is barely awake. Their face is drained of blood, their body is only held upright by B’s arm.

'Let me go’ A says coldly.

And honestly, B would love to. Holding A’s weight to their abdomen presses on their wound. Yet, they hold A up, helping them limp to a seat before collapsing into one themselves. Unbuttoning their shirt, B bares the bandages that bind an injury to their side. Blood has bloomed through. Face set in a wince, A stares at B’s wound.

'I didn’t..’ They start.

'You give me no reason to doubt that’

'How did you get here so fast?’

'It took me a whole day. That’s not fast.. When did you get hurt?’

'A couple hours ago, I don’t know, this morning’

'No I wasn’t close enough. It couldn’t be someone using the loophole’

'Then who?’

B’s fingers pinch the space between their eyes. They groan.

'The God’

'The God? But..’

'A, we were both shot but there is no bullet. Nothing’

Looking at their wound now, its placement on A’s thigh, they realise it couldn’t have been a graze. There should be a bullet in their thigh. But there wasn’t.

'So what now? We go hunting for a GOD?’ A’s voice is raspy. They’re fading and exhausted.

B nods and stands slowly, hissing in pain. They place a blanket over A’s bloody form as they watch as A’s eyes close.

'But the truce holds, darling. Now that we’re together, I cannot let you out of my sight’

Gorgeous

An indestructible hero falls to their knees in pain. Blood pours from a wound inflicted by villain. Hero’s confused face turns to helplessness. Villain’s eyes widen in shock that they were actually able to injure Hero.

‘What is happening? How.. Argh,’ Hero groans as they clutch their wound, the edges of their vision is growing dark.

Villain watches Hero’s face. The way their nostrils flare and their lips curl. Perfect teeth grinding against each other. 'Does it hurt Hero? Do you want me to kiss it better?’