BUILT TO CRUMBLE FROM THE START , open!

Joshua was still clicking away on the Cube when he became aware that someone was in need of his assistance. Not one to shirk any sort of workload--especially not one that he had willingly taken on--Joshua set the half-solved Rubik's Cube on a nearby windowsill and went to see who was waiting. He knew that their injury would be burn marks and he privately wondered if they had been one of the idiots that had deserved what they'd gotten or if it had been a typical Fire student target. It turned out to be the latter when, to Joshua's mild surprise, he recognised the victim as someone that was very good friends with his girlfriend. The two of them didn't get along so well together but he always made an effort to be nicer to her than he normally would have been because of Nell. He'd only been friends with the Earth girl when he'd met Hannoly but not much had changed with the relationship status, only that he would perhaps be even more polite than usual. He could be civil if you gave him the chance.

"Hannoly," he said, both by way of greeting and to get her attention so that she knew that he was the one who was helping out today. "I see you've gone and gotten yourself injured again." He did not say this snidely, it was more matter of fact and even, surprisingly, almost amused. He had built up a sort of tolerance of the girl. She was really rather annoying at times but she was best friends with his girl so he was going to make do with whatever tolerance he had. Taking a look at the burn, he frowned slightly. It wasn't like her arm was falling off or anything, but it still wasn't a polite little scald. Of course not, Fire elementals were never in the business of being cordial. His brows pulled together. "This is quite a nasty piece of work," he commented. He was not impressed with whatever asshole had chosen to burn her because he knew Noly in all of her annoying glory and he knew that being a pain in the ass wasn't the best cause for attack. She probably didn't provoke it or anything.

Sighing slightly, he held out a hand with the intention of helping her to her feet if she wanted. "We should go in the back," he said, gesturing to the room from whence he'd came. "I'm a Fire elemental of course, so it's not like we really need much, but it's easier that way." He led the way into the room where the Rubik's Cube was still sitting abandoned on its sill. He washed his hands at the sink on the small counter and frowned at the selection of things to help a burn. His gray eyes settled on one that would ease the stinging pain and he resolved to keep that in mind. He could heal the burn but there would still be a discomfort for a few days. That would probably help. He'd deal with that later, however. "What did they do?" he asked, and it was in an almost conversational tone as he took her arm in his hands and inspected the burn. This was the sort of thing he enjoyed doing. Josh wanted to be a doctor, so why not have some elemental experience in the field as well? "I'll be able to heal it without any scarring," he added, a nonchalant sort of promise.

[I'm playing it like she irritates him but he's built up tolerance; I'ma shoot you up a PM after this with an idea xD]

He arched a brow at her comment but didn't say anything about it. He believed that this boy had probably just attacked her without warning but Josh wasn't the sort of person that would normally get involved with something like this. He didn't like to play the hero. He wouldn't ask for names and hunt the person down to give him a piece of his mind--even if she was Nell's friend, Josh and Noly just barely managed to handle one another's presences at the moment. It wasn't that he wanted her hurt, he just wasn't going to go out of his way to be protective. Plus, his element was keeping a close eye on his movements thanks to Nell and the aftermath of the war. If he went around attacking them on a daily basis, the forced truce that the leaders had called in would be called right off, and Josh would be fair game. The common rooms were only safe right now because the leaders wanted to keep the peace.

In the quiet of the room and given their close proximity to one another, it wasn't too hard to pick up the words. Joshua did not have super hearing or anything of the sort, he just paid attention to people and picked up on things. "Did you even try to fight back?" This was accompanied by a slight roll of his eyes. He knew from Nell that Hannoly was constantly getting herself into sticky situations but as far as he knew there was nothing about her being a fighter. Josh was, however, willing to believe that she might be able to fight. People could surprise you, and just because he didn't hear about it at school didn't mean it never happened. Hell, maybe she kicked ass and people were just too fixed on defending their honour to admit it. Or... well, maybe she really was just a pacifist. They existed in the Water element as well as the Earth, though they were less common there.

Her explanation puzzled him. He paused in his examination of her injury to glance at her with a small frown. "Your dormitory?" he said. "And how exactly did a Fire student manage to find their way in there?" His voice bore a hint of sarcasm that he was trying hard not to show. It was very hard for him to behave himself in conversation with people that he didn't like, though clearly as he hadn't started poking fun at her defeat it was indeed possible for the Fire graduate. Besides, he figured that the question was a sensible one. The elements were all heavily protective of their dormitories and seeing as they all branched off from their respective commons, you'd need to get inside of those to get to the dorms themselves. Considering this, he paused and said, "Unless you mean outside the dormitory as a whole?" Sometimes people just generalized the dormitories, and it was possible she hadn't been talking about her individual room.

Of course, that was not the main point of this. The main point was that Noly was injured and he was supposed to be curing her, so he cleared his throat slightly and then did his best to focus on the conversation at hand. "Anyway, I'll just..." As he tried to word exactly what he was planning to do, he was quite surprised to get a thanks from the normally quite irritating Water student. He blinked, then nodded slightly. "Of course. It's not as if you deserved the burn." He shrugged as if dismissing it, but internally he was still reeling over this change in demeanour. Pushing it aside in order to focus on more pressing matters, he cautioned, "There might be a little pain at first, so just... don't be surprised." Focusing his energy, he found himself with a flicker of doubt. What if his powers didn't answer to him and he was left feeling like an idiot? Thankfully, however, with a slight pulse of scarlet warmth the wounds started to fade and vanish under his touch. It was as if the burns were slowly reversing themselves, turning smaller and then healing over completely. The skin was red and irritated where they had been, but it looked more like sunburn than anything now.

He just nodded when she said that she didn't like to fight, figuring that it wasn't worth it to nag her about how she should stick up for herself or anything like that. Josh only did that sort of thing when he knew that it wasn't a lost cause. He didn't go around telling Nell that she should get a fighting spirit, after all, because he knew that his girlfriend was a pacifist and that she wouldn't fight anyone even if she had the chance to. Maybe Noly was the same way. He knew her only from what he'd heard and what he'd seen, which wasn't too much. When they hung around one another there was more time spent swapping glares and remarks than anything else, but right now he was here to heal and so he was keeping personal issues with the girl to a minimum. "He probably was," Joshua concluded shamelessly when she guessed that the Fire elemental had been lying in wait. He wouldn't put it past one of his kind to lurk outside of the Water dormitories and attack. "Maybe you, maybe just the next person to come along, but..." He trailed off and shrugged. He didn't know the details and so he wasn't going to say that the guy had definitely been intending to attack her. Joshua was not psychic and not every Fire student was the same, so it was impossible to predict one person based on the actions of the whole. Josh, for example, wouldn't really be caught creeping outside a dormitory to attack someone for no reason.

Oh, dear. Head injuries were never a good sign and something like alarm flashed through his gaze almost immediately. It was probably the fact that he wanted to be a doctor when he was all grown up and graduated that peaked this sort of automatic concern. Head injuries were never a good thing. You're here to worry about a burn, not a bump on the head, he reminded himself firmly. He shoved the thought from his mind and gave his full concentration to the healing of her injury, noticing with mild surprise that she was shaking. He glanced at her for a moment but said nothing about the clear nervousness she was feeling. It would have been a low blow to taunt her at a vulnerable time like this and besides, he understood phobias of medical things. Confront him with a needle and see if he laughs about it. "That should do it," he announced when he was finished, nodding to himself as if satisfied. Another nod to accept her thanks and then Joshua's mind wandered back to what she'd said earlier about the head injury.

He quickly checked to make sure that no one else was waiting for treatment and then came back, closing the door softly behind him. "I know I'm only supposed to treat the burn," started Joshua, as if bracing her for the fact that he was going to ask questions and that she should be ready for them, "but what's this about a head injury?" Josh didn't realise that Hannoly had already been preparing herself for this and so she probably already had an answer for him. Lingering uncertainly, he eventually decided to go over to one of the back counters and lean against it, though he had his head turned toward Noly and was giving her his full attention. He just didn't want to seem like he was fussing over her or anything. Josh didn't fuss, not unless you were a very close friend of his. Even then, he tended to deal with things in a calm and controlled manner, much like he was not. "Concussions can be really serious; do you think you might have one?" He frowned a little at her. "And don't lie."