#true facts about reheads

[curator-on-ao3]

Five sentence fic: Margo x Sergei

Regular People (Redhead)

“You don’t feel pain the way regular people do,” says the little boy in the airplane seat next to Margo’s, his tone superior in that way of intelligent children who have a fact to share.

And it’s as if the whiplash of that evening returns as she sits in her seat, seatbelt fastened, choking, she’s choking, Sergei was choking, shy touches turned hungry turned throat-closing fear, he could die, she couldn’t let him die, what could she do to keep him safe, no, no, no, no, no —

“I’m so sorry,” the boy’s mother leans over, an affectionate hand on the child’s knee, “my husband is a dentist and he told our son how redheads often need more anesthesia and smaller doses of painkillers. We don’t mean to bother you.”

“No bother,” Margo says, a bald-faced lie of false reassurance as, safe in her airplane seat, she feels pain, she feels pain, she feels pain.

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Research about redheads and pain: https://www.ucihealth.org/blog/2018/04/redheads-pain

Sorry about the angst. If sexy fluff is more your Margo x Sergei vibe, I’ve got that over here: https://www.tumblr.com/curator-on-ao3/775045884823158784/five-sentence-fic-margo-x-sergei