You don't listen

A shrill scream echoed in the silence of the night. 

Hellion's mischievous smirk turned into a satisfied one as he slowly turned around. Soon his expression changed again into a startled one when she jumped right on him. 

He didn't have much time to think or stabilize himself as her sudden jump caused him to lose balance. The crippling edge of the sand didn't help either, causing him to land on his back with Claudia on top of him. 

He was holding her wrists as he looked up at her in surprise. He wasn't expecting her to come to him with such force. She wasn't heavy but as her torso was pressed above his, he could feel the warmth of her body penetrating through his torn shirt. Suddenly he desired to flip their positions and the thought horrified him the next moment. 

Her hair was sprawled on both sides of his face hence making it dark for him to see what expressions she had but he felt a warm drop of liquid on his cheek. The 'fastest' Hellion Duxsoro was still comprehending what had happened when she got off him. 

He sat up as well and saw her pulling her feet in her lap. The golden locks had fallen on both sides of her face, hiding it from his sight. He saw her ankle turning purple as she was touching it with her trembling little hands. 

He had already seen the scorpio and told her to wear her shoes but she didn't listen. He thought she would get scared after seeing it but never expected her to actually get bitten. Clumsy butt, he commented in his head. 

"Let me see," He said, crawling near her and taking her foot in his hands. "I told you, you just don't listen." Suddenly he was both angry and guilty but he only showed the anger. 

Weirdly enough, she didn't resist. 

"It h-hurts," She said in a shaky voice. 

He knew it did. The sting of a scorpio is one the most painful experiences for humans. Desert scorpions were larger in size and more poisonous as compared to the regular ones. 

He ran his hand over her leg and gripped it hardly a little above from the spot in order to slow down the circulation and the spread of poison. He then brought her ankle to his mouth and bit the wound, sucking the poison out.

She put one hand on the ground behind her and muffled a scream with the other as her body was arched backwards due to her ankle raised to his mouth. 

The next sensible thing he knew was to spit the blood mixed poison out but instead he swallowed it because the bitter metallic taste was too tempting for his taste buds. He still acted spitting saliva on the side so that she doesn't get suspicious of his weird acts but deep down his heart was pounding hard.

There was a strange thirst that seemed to have ignited inside him, not for water but for the liquid that he had just tasted. The sensation was strong and there was an intoxicating aroma rising from her blood stained wound, luring him in for more. He looked up at her and both of their expressions matched to some extent, one baffled and the other perplexed. 

The sharp pain was still there and her skin was throbbing underneath his strong grip and the bitten wound. She was breathing heavily, trying not to cry again. Suddenly he let go of her leg as if it gave him an electric shock and stood up himself. 

"A portion of the poison is sucked out. It will get better fast." He said, looking away. 

As he was trying to distract himself from her suddenly tempting presence around him, his eyes spotted the large scorpio that had bitten her. It was lying upside down on the sand, lifeless. He remembered her telling him about her blood being bitter which he thought that she made up herself, at the moment. 

Throwing a resentful glance towards the dead creature, he turned back towards her. She was rubbing the spot on her leg where he had gripped it. Slowly she got up as well but the moment she shifted her weight on the wounded foot, it felt numb, setting itself free from the responsibility of bearing her existence. 

Before she could have fallen over, his arm snaked around her waist in time, holding her stable against his chest. "Careful," 

"I can't feel it." She told him honestly. 

She had gripped his shoulder as her support to keep her standing as she pressed her foot gently on the ground several times in an attempt to feel it. 

Without seeking approval, he bent a little and picked her up effortlessly. She showed her disapproval through her facial expressions but didn't say anything nevertheless. She was in no position to. 

"This will teach you to listen to me next time." And then Hellion being Hellion didn't let the chance go unused. 

"Try me and I will get bitten once again rather than listening to you." So Claudia being Claudia wasn't that easy to surrender as well.