Anon of course I will do this. From the Whump Fic bingo post!
Collapsing or Falling Asleep and Looking Far Younger
Warnings: Canon typical violence
The worst thing about moments like this was the fact that when she was unconscious, Nott looked far more like a human child than she did a goblin teenager. (That wasn’t true: the worst thing about moments like this was that it reminded him of them. The worst thing about moments like this was how sharply and unforgivingly they reminded him that he could do nothing, that he had never been able to do anything, that what little power lay in his hands was useless when he needed it.)
Caleb really needs to not be thinking about things like that, though, because right now they’re fighting a wild owlbear and they’re losing and Nott is unconscious on the forest floor. Her hair is spread across her face (like a child’s in sleep, like a child he knew) and there’s a little blood at the corner of her mouth. (He’s seen that before, too.) Her fingers, usually curled and clutched tightly around something, whether it’s her weapon or her flask or her trinkets, are loose and unfurled against the dirt, like the hand of a little girl on her pillow.
Caleb doesn’t think about his fear, or the beast looming up onto its hind legs in front of him, standing tall enough to block out his view of the moon. He ducks and he runs forward and his heart gets left somewhere behind him in his panic. He slips his hands under Nott’s too-slender back and her skinny legs and he lifts her and she’s almost weightless, and he holds her close and he keeps running, diving back into the tree line.
Collapsing or falling asleep and looking far younger for Nott??? Pretty please???
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