#ah yes her second favorite past-time and potential foreplay: disagreeing with him

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To think he had been so ready, so confident he wanted it, about three seconds before, and now he was escaping from her, even if clearly putting an effort into making sure she wouldn't feel pain. It was infuriating and endearing, and Lucy felt like she wanted to kiss him for more than simple physical satisfaction.

"Geez Louise, let's not be dramatic," she protested because really, really, worrying about radiation effects on her wounds. "And we weren't going to go that far!" So yes, maybe she had forgotten they couldn't go that far when so busy thinking about it, but she would have been forced to stop anyway. By the pain. She could see his point except she refused to agree.

Staring at the stimpack that she had just said she didn't want, her mouth fell open as he basically put a veto on kissing. Like an odd way to blackmail her into healing herself. "They are not that bad!" she insisted, knowing darn well they were, "Are you serious? Cooper, it's just pain, I don't want to waste an entire stimpack... Which doesn't mean we can't kiss, we just have to postpone sex for a little. I have to postpone it, you don't even have to, I can... you know, do you. But we can kiss, you are blowing this out of proportion." There was a part of her that knew she may not win this fight, but that arguing with Cooper, as bad as it may sound, was a source of entertainment in itself. They often clashed and could keep on bickering for hours.

"Look, I can get up and walk," she slid her legs off the bed to put her feet on the ground, and it already hurt, but getting up felt like being stabbed again in several spots, and she held her breath, color leaving her face. "See," she stated, completely choked up from the effort to stay upright, "I'm practically healthy."

There is a touch of amusement at her outburst. It was the only thing left of him that was human, normal, so it made sense that she would point them out specifically. He didn't have the eyes of someone who stared directly into a nuclear blast, with cataracts and a glassy stare. He could still see just fine. "All the better to watch you come undone, sweetheart."

Or... not. His attention turned away from pleasure, and toward was was bringing her pain. He wanted to see where she had been hurt, figure out why it was still hurting so much. The stimpack should have helped. "If you think movin' like that hurt, wait until the ride starts. I just wanna look-"

The suit was still in place at her shoulders when she grabbed his hand, clasping his between both of hers. He stopped, staring up at her from her place in his lap, watching her for just a moment. There was something she hadn't been telling him, something she didn't want to tell him until he absolutely had to know. Anger was starting to bubble under the surface, and he tried to temper his reaction, to wait for her to say her piece.

"Oh, for fuck sake." He shifted, trying to move out from under her without jostling her too much, gently lifting a leg so he could swing his out from under her. He fixed the hat properly on his head before standing up from the bed where they'd been sitting comfortably. "And what part about what we was gettin' up to sounded like something that wouldn't end up causing you a world of hurt? Radiation, on top of bein' fuckin' awful itself, ain't really something that speeds up the healin' process." He crouched beside the bed, pulling out his bag and rifling through it for something he knew he had in there.

He slammed a stimpack on the mattress, still crouched when he looked up at her. She might not want to take it, but he did have something in his arsenal that might change her mind. "I ain't gonna be the reason you're in more hurt than you ought to be." He stood, brushing her vault suit off her shoulder to take a peek at- oh, she's fucking got to be joking. "And 'cause I don't wanna cause you hurt... I ain't kissin' you again until those hurt much less. Ten minutes, or judging by the look of 'em... five, seven days maybe? That's all up to you now, darlin'. What's it gonna be?"