“It’s hard not to.” Viper admits, she can’t stop the persistent concern that she’s going to make Abel so upset he’s going to break down. But she nods, and lets him work. Luckily, she’s not exactly embarrassed or ashamed about having to show more skin than was normal. They were engaged, after all! If that helped Abel feel less bad!
“…Yeah, not on purpose.” She added the latter part quickly as an afterthought. “We were fighting over the tape, and… yeah. I’d put it in my coat, and he just happened to punch it.” She winces with each movement of shards coming free, “He said he was gonna try and use it for blackmail or something, and I was like, ‘NO WAY’ because, like, that’s messed up?”
Man, if this had been past Viper… perhaps she wouldn’t have been so quick to call it messed up.
A particularly large shard comes out, and despite being smeared with blood, the name ‘VINZENT’ is still legibly written across it. Viper doesn’t notice- she’s more worried about hissing through her teeth at how much that shard hurt.
