[Near is very unaccustomed to being injured, and with painkillers in short supply, it's even less pleasant than it could be. He spends as much time as he can sleeping, frankly.
[But he's awake at the knock, and the alert on his phone. He just stares at it for a moment, then closes the phone and gets up, holding his right arm still and close to his body. And he doesn't move to collect Mello's jacket for him. He moves for the door.
[Removing the ward is fortunately a task that hardly requires much physically. It's no effort at all and always done with one hand anyway. Inwardly, he fights down the little twitch of lingering alarm in the back of his mind at what he's doing. It's instinctive. It's natural. And it's stupid. So he is trying not to give it credence.
[And he opens the door, again fighting down the worry behind a completely blank face when he sees Mello standing there. Near had never minded the scar anyway, but seeing it now is almost a relief.]
And you don't have to stay out. [Flat and disaffected as always, but that he says this is significant.]
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[But he's awake at the knock, and the alert on his phone. He just stares at it for a moment, then closes the phone and gets up, holding his right arm still and close to his body. And he doesn't move to collect Mello's jacket for him. He moves for the door.
[Removing the ward is fortunately a task that hardly requires much physically. It's no effort at all and always done with one hand anyway. Inwardly, he fights down the little twitch of lingering alarm in the back of his mind at what he's doing. It's instinctive. It's natural. And it's stupid. So he is trying not to give it credence.
[And he opens the door, again fighting down the worry behind a completely blank face when he sees Mello standing there. Near had never minded the scar anyway, but seeing it now is almost a relief.]
And you don't have to stay out. [Flat and disaffected as always, but that he says this is significant.]