Rescue Dogs: Chapter Four
Valorous King isn’t insecure about his scars, why the fuck would you think he was?
Cecil Hobbes, an ex-PE teacher disgraced and looked down on in his hometown, has a new partner: Sir Valorous King, a knight of the realm, once a child of prophecy, and Cecil’s stalker.
A few months into their relationship, Cecil finally convinces Valorous to see a therapist, on the condition that Cecil attend one himself.
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Content warnings in this chapter include graphic injury, self-esteem issues, complicated relationships around child neglect and education, hospitals and IVs, reference to drugs.
The first thing Valorous was aware of when he woke up was the pain. He felt raw and overwrought and fucking tired in a way that made his throat feel dry and hoarse, and his muscles were all so sore and heavy that moving slightly in the bed he was in made his eyes tear up.
His lips were chapped, and he grunted as he moved in the bed. His vision was blurring, the world in front of him seeming very bright and strangely white, and when a blue blur came closer to him he flinched, but all it did was adjust something beside him — an IV? — and then touch him.
