Broken Elbow, Three Cracked Ribs

"...you're lucky you don't need a new patella," the Night Nurse said, as she carefully immobilized Sue Storm's elbow joint.

The sling for the Invisible Woman's left arm was a necessity for at least two weeks. It hurt to breathe a little, and the bruising was terrible, all along her arm and side. Yet it could have been a lot worse.

All because the Invisible Woman had let herself get distracted.

"We're activating She-Hulk as a reserve member, while you get some rest," Reed Richards had told her. Sue had smiled. The whole family had stepped up. Ben and Johnny took care of the meals. Reed made sure her bed was turned down every day, kept track of the laundry. Alicia offered to help comb her hair and dress her, but Sue Storm had politely declined.

"I still have my powers," Sue explained. "Even with one arm, I'm not useless."

Yet as she walked to her appointment with Dr. Stone, one arm in a tight blue sling, dressed otherwise in civilian clothes—long bell-bottomed blue jeans and a light blue blouse, no bra—the heroine was berating herself for her moment of failure, and what it had really cost her.

She couldn't dance like this.

Dr. Stone was dressed in a black business suit, no tie, top button opened to reveal a hint of cleavage. She smiled to see Sue, then frowned when she noted the sling.

"Fight with Blastaar," Sue explained in brief. "I got distracted. Caught a blast. Could have been a lot worse."

"But that's not what's bothering you, is it?" Dr. Stone said, in that way that psychiatrists sometimes had of being able to see what the patient wasn't saying.

Sue Storm sighed.

Then she told the doctor about Nissa. The dancing. The contest. The whole scene in the shower, her face in Nissa's pussy. The heroine's heart hammered in her chest, unable to tamp down the excitement as she relived that moment. Even knowing what it had cost her, Sue couldn't forget the emotional heat that even now stirred between her legs.

Dr. Stone nodded slowly.

"I have a suggestion," the psychiatrist said.