#ignoring pain

[fantasyismyonlyrealescape]

Whumptober 2024: No. 6 - Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

Title: Time Lost

Characters: Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn (Zowens)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Word Count: 648

A/N: Another addition to Whumptober. Cheers!

Summary: Sami Zayn, not at 100%, insists he's fine and wrestles in a match, getting himself injured further. Kevin is there to make sure he actually seeks out medical this time, not that he has much of a choice with a concussion.

Cross posted on AO3 under user wrestlinginjeans.

Sami Zayn loved working through pain. Well, maybe that was too far of a stretch. He didn��t love it, but he never would turn down a match if given the choice. Wrestling was his life and it was everything that he had ever dreamed it would be. Laying down on the mat now, staring up into the far too bright and artificial lighting positioned above the ring as his whole body throbbed to the beat of his heart, he couldn’t help but question his mindset.

After an unknown amount of time, Sami was usually better at keeping track of time, he felt strong calloused hands on his arms then under his arms, helping him up and towards the ropes. Sami squeezes his eyes shut against the pain and the nausea, breathing in harshly through his nose. By the time he regained some degree of composure, and he opened his eyes, he found himself being assisted up the ramp and through the curtain, surprising himself at the amount of time he had just lost.

A persistent sound louder now was repeatedly nagging him from his left side. It took him far too long to recognize that it was a voice calling his name. He tried to turn his head in the direction of the sound, feeling distinctly like he knew the voice so intimately but couldn’t quite place it. The voice sounded far away now.

The next thing he knew, he was laid out on one of the trainer’s benches. How did he get here? He had no recollection of the walk from the curtain to where he presently was. He tried to place what the skips in his memory could mean, but he couldn’t quite make sense of it all.

A wet cloth is pressed to his head then, concentrated on the right side of his face where his hairline started. It felt cool and comfortable until the biting sensation of alcohol took over and overwhelmed his already overloaded mind. His uncoordinated hands tried to reach up and bat the cloth away only to have the same calloused hands as before grab ahold of his wrists and pin his arms down firmly. The rest of the ministrations were lost on him as he floated somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness, riding the waves of pain that seemed so at home in his body.

He awoke to a voice, a different one this time, speaking softly as he found himself back in the land of wakefulness.

“… three bruised ribs, numerous superficial bruises and cuts as well as a grade 2 concussion.” 

(What? Who were they talking about?)

He tried to move his arm to cover his eyes, to block out the light that filtered through his eyelids, only to take a sharp breath at the flare of pain which only got worse as the breath jostled his battered ribs.

“Sami!” he hears the voice from earlier call, the one that belonged to the calloused hands as he tries to curl into himself. He doesn’t remember much after that, until he wakes again this time in another location.

He comes to on what feels to be a bed and the first thing he notices is a warm hand resting on his chest, a hand that he would recognize anywhere.

“Kev…?” Sami asks, his voice nothing more than a croak as his throat burns from having not spoken in so long as the hand rises and falls in sync with Sami’s breathing. Kevin mumbles something incoherent, before opening his unfocused grey eyes and upon seeing Sami’s hazel orbs peeking out from underneath heavy lids, immediately sits bolt upright in the chair he was leaning forward towards the bed in.

“Sami!” and the smile that forms on Kevin’s face at seeing his friend awake is enough to make all the pain that Sami was experiencing go away if only for a moment.

[sonic-adventure-3]

it’s crazy that rouge straight up said this and people still see her as a mother figure lmaooo

[ro-bee]

this is me coping with bodily functions

[pain-is-too-tired]

I don't think we talk enough about one the last things Michael did before he died was third wheel percabeth.

[hatedbyiife]

"a little sidetracked"

sure buddy

[sthilarions]

Crystal snorts at Charles. “Yeah, well, you would say that, you’re a jock.”

Charles’s head tilts to the side. “Jock? Why - oh, ‘cause of the cricket bat? Nah, mate, that’s just a convenient blunt object. Never played a sport in my life, ‘cept a bit of pickup footie. I was a nerd,” he turns to grin at his partner, “like Edwin.”

Edwin raises an eyebrow. “I’ll have you know that at the time of my death, thanks to my skill at fencing I had earned the most athletic trophies of any individual at St. Hilarion’s.”

Crystal stares at them both and struggles to readjust her entire worldview.

[unhinged-as-hell]

There's a reason why Odysseus sounded so broken when he had to choose between him and his crew. Let's not forget that.

Relistening to the thunder saga and people LOVE memeing on Eurylochus for the "but we'll die" line. You think Odysseus would just forget that he led this crew into battle for 10 years? That Eurylochus is his brother in law?? because they mutinized??? if Eurylochus would've done the same, like Odysseus had said, then Odysseus would've done the same in Eurylochus position. Hell the entire point of their development is that they changed into each other. Of fucking course he sounds so broken, he fought with these men for 10 years. Newsflash, one mutiny isn't gonna change that he actually cared about them. He had their backs, patched them up, lifted their spirits when they were down, fought like all hell to make sure they were okay before the Underworld Saga. He. Cared. About. Them.

That's why the choice was so difficult!!

“What did he think was gonna happen???” Eurylochus thought his captain was still in there. He had no idea just how far gone Odysseus was. He had known him as someone who cared for his men. Even after Scylla its difficult to accept someone you thought you knew so well had changed so drastically.

[notwithoutafight]

max & daniel + eye contact

[saryasy]

I'm not supposed to be here.

9-1-1 | 7.09 Ashes, Ashes

[glitter-hound]

hannibal doing his. stupid. smile . don't fuckin g look at me

he's so happy . he's so happy to be sharing his favorite thing with his favorite person and feeling really truly seen and accepted by someone probably for the first time ever and he can't help smiling And the way he tries to push the smile down when he realizes he's doing it LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!! GO AWAY!!!!!

[thedoodlebuggo]

pirate au leo >:D and the prison dimension at a glance

had a lot of fun playing w the rendering n stuff here

separated vers

[inkyrainstorms]

Milestones

@aroace-get-out-of-my-face I sincerely and honestly wish you a very get exploded.

[fizzlewizard404]

lalalalalalala<3

[pecchbear]

chapter 7 of @cassentia teleneo fic.... they're in love your honor

(i forgot my stylus when I was packing for convention weekend so I had to do this with my FINGER 🫠)

[starrienights-returns]

shout out to disabled people who can't access aids

shout out to disabled people who have to fight to be believed

shout out to disabled people who can't get diagnosed for any reason

shout out to self-diagnosed disabled people

shout out to disabled people who have experienced medical neglect

shout out to disabled people with unsupportive/abusive family

shout out to disabled people who are forced to push themselves beyond their limits

i love you

[localicecreambiter]

its giving whimsy