“Yeah, nice to see you too,”

Gabriel gave him a small smile and then carefully inspected the injury. It looked no worse than before but still, it was bad. He knew it must be painful, otherwise his patient wouldn’t come in. Jack, he knew, was a stubborn man. He was an auror too. Gabriel had treated enough aurors to know just how much more stubborn they were then a normal person. Some weren’t entirely bad patients though. While some thought they were invincible, others were more compliant to a healers request. Gabriel was just grateful to see that Jack had decided to get help instead of just deal with the pain and possibly damage the leg further.

“I’d say a two,” Gabriel gave him a pointed look. Right. A two. If it were a two, Jack wouldn’t be seeing him right now. Most people could handle up to a six on the pain scale. Gabriel felt it safer if they just came in no matter what. Pain, no matter how small, was never a good thing. Unless it was a healing pain. Then that was alright.

Maybe an eight…or a seven.”

At this, Gabriel nodded. “Which means on a normal person,” he gave the auror a small smile, “It’s probably a nine.” He gave his assistant the information he needed and waited for her to return. While he waited, he did his best to clean away the fluids that were coming from the gash. “Do you know how it re-opened?” he asked as he tried to clean the gash as gently as he could. “Been active on the leg a lot?…Ah, thank you.” He took the potions from his assistant and set them in the order he would use them on the counter top.

The first was a small blue bottle. Gabriel measured the thick and sour tasting posting into a small cup and handed it to Jack. “Should help with the pain,” he said. He then scooped up a thicker solution of a similar potions and started to gently rub it along the edges of the reddening gash. It was starting to swell slightly which wasn’t good. But the solution would help numb the area for when he used his wand later to pull the wound closed.

“Let me know when the potions start to take affect,” Gabriel said as he started to measure the other potions of healing out. The anesthesia wouldn’t completely numb the leg, but it would make the next part of the healing process feel like a five instead of an eight.


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