Prompt: "Emile is bird/find bird Emile injured and they nurse him back to health"

This was a heavily requested prompt, so I hope you're ready.
Emile is not the type of bird you think he'll be.
Bwahaha
Also
There is blood and injuries in this
Just a warning
Anyway
Here you go!

Patton woke up to cawing and rapid pecking on his window in the early morning.

He groaned softly as he sat up rubbing his eyes as he turned to look at the window.

"Remy?" He mumbled softly as he slipped out of bed and walked over to the window, pulling it open.

There stood Remy, who was stomping his feet impatiently.

Now Patton assumed that Remy would have gone to virgil, but since Virgil was out of the kingdom and was only returning today he guess that the bird decided to come to him instead.

"Remy what's wrong? Do you want to come in?" Patton asked as he moved to allow Remy inside.

Remy cawed at him before turning so that he was looking outside, before looking back at Patton and cawing again.

"...you want me to go outside?" Patton asked slowly.

Remy cawed and bobbed his head before stomping his feet again.

"Okay? Give me one second" Patton said, before moving to his closet.

Since it was now early September it was getting a bit chillier in the mornings, so he decided to grab a cloak since the sun was barely up and he was not ready for the chill morning air outside.

He debated on going out the window or going out through the actual castle. He might slip and fall in one option, or the guards might stop him in the other option.

He decided to try his luck with going through the castle.

Luck was on his side apparently, since no guards stopped him as he walked through the halls and out of the castle.

Remy was waiting for him right outside the door, and cawed at him once before flying a short ways away before stopping again.

Patton quickly caught on and began to quickly follow Remy, wondering what was wrong.

Remy quickly lead him to a small area of bushes along the edge of the gardens, before stopping and stomping his feet a little.

"What is it?" Patton asked as he crouched down next to Remy.

Remy cawed at him before ducking under the bushes, only his tail feathers poking out.

Patton carefully lifted a few of the branches up and looked underneath, only to gasp softly and frown.

Laying in the dirt under the bushes was a small bird. It had a box-ish shaped head with large eyes and a small sharp looking beak. It's feathers where a mixture of warm brown around its chest and back, fading into a light tan color around its legs, its wings were dark grey, and it had grey, white, and black markings on its head, along with black markings throughout the rest of its feathers. It had long scaly yellow feet with large black talons that looked very sharp.

Its chest was fluttering rapidly from where it lay collapsed on its side. It took Patton a second to see the problem, but he quickly noticed that one of the birds legs was baffle mangled and tangled up in a sharp looking wire, blood seeping out of the cuts the wire made and pooling in the dirt. The wound looked fresh, but also extremely painful and in really bed shape.

It looked up when it heard movement, and let out a chittering if small shrieks, its chest rising and falling faster as some of the feathers on its neck frilled up.

"Shhh shhh," Patton said softly, trying to calm down the injured bird. "It's okay, it's okay." He muttered softly, although it didn't seem to do much for the bird.

Remy cautiously hoped over, and let out a low rumble as it hunkered down next to the injured bird.

It seemed to help a little, the bird stopping its little shrieks, but it's breathing was still very rapid.

Patton quickly took his cloak off and folded it a few times.

He knew he wasn't prepared to help a bird of prey, especially an injured one, and he knew that a bite or scratch would be very painful due to its sharp beak and talons, but he couldn't just leave it there.

He put his hands under the folded cloak and slowly moved forwards. The bird quickly noticed and began to make small choppy shrieks again, but Patton just bit his lip and continued moving on.

When he was a few inches away he quickly wrapped the bird up in the cloak, holding its wings against the birds body while it shrieked and flailed for almost a minute. During that time it managed to cast Patton's arm with its good leg, making a long scratch down Patton's forearm that quickly began to gush blood. Patton hissed in pain as he bit his lip, not letting the bird go as it continued to flail, before slowly calming down and becoming still, still chittering.

Patton slowly shifted his hold on the bird so it was more secure before standing up, murmuring softly to the bird as he quickly made his way back to the castle, Remy quickly perching in his shoulder.

He quickly stumbled upon a pair of guards, and asked if they could help, explaining to them about the bird and how he wanted to help it.

One of the guards carefully to the bird, still wrapped in the cloak, and said he was going to go to their bird handler and see what she could do, while the other guard quickly lead Patton to the infirmary, his arm still bleeding quite a bit.

A doctor quickly cleaned his arm and added a salve it help keep any foe of infection away before wrapping it, telling him he was lucky he didn't need stitches, before also giving Patton some pain medicine.

When the doctor said he was good to go Patton quickly went and found the guard who had taken the bird.

He quickly asked if it was okay, and was relieved when the guard, James, told him that the bird would be fine and that their hunting bird handler would be able to help.

James agreed to take Patton there when he asked, but warned him that it would probably be a while before Patton would be able to see the bird.

He lead him upstairs and to a section of the castle he hadn't really been to, revealing a small aviary, filled with mostly pigeons, but there was another section that had a few hawks in it.

"She's taking care of the bird in that room over there," James said as he pointed to a closed door. "But you can wait out here until she's done." He added.

Patton nodded and thanked him before saying goodbye, since James needed to return to his duties.

He waited there for a long time, and had almost fallen asleep when the door finally opened, revealing a women who looked to be in her forties or fifties. She stood tall and strong, with skin the color of dark honey and short blonde hair that was slightly spiked up. She also had a scar going across one eye, which Patton quickly noticed appeared to be blind.

She looked at Patton as she stepped out of the room.

"So," she began, her voice sounding stern, "you the one that found the bird?" She asked, crossing her arms.

Patton gave a sharp nod. "Yes I am," He said as he stood up from his seat. "Is it okay?" He asked worriedly.

"Well," the woman began, "he's seen better days, that's for sure." She said. "The leg was too damaged, and would have done more harm to leave it on, so it needed to be amputated." She said.

Patton paled a considerable about, but she continued before he could say anything.

"He should be fine in a few weeks," she continued, "he might have trouble hunting now though." She added.

"Is there anyway I can help?" Patton asked.

She looked at him with a calculating gaze, eyeing him up and down before looking away.

"Only if you're willing to work to help." She said.

"Anything," Patton said, "I really want to help." He added.

She paused. "Well, if that's the case then we'll need to get you started." She said. "If you want to help then I'll need to show you how to handle birds of prey." She said.

Patton nodded, "Okay," he said, "thank you..." he trailed off, not knowing her name.

"Molly," she said, "Molly Mott, I'm in charge of all of our messenger and hunting birds here at the castle." She said.

"I'm Patton," patton said.

"Well Patton, lets get you started." She said.

-

Patton was quickly swept up in his new lessons. Of course he explained everything to Roman and Logan later that day, and then explained it to Virgil that evening, quickly reassuring them that he was fine and the the bird was fine as well.

Every day Patton would go to Molly and she would train him how to handle birds of prey, giving him a pair of thick leather gloves and a few other tools to help him so that he didn't get hurt.

She brought out two of her oldest birds to teach him, a red tailed hawk named Alastair, and a sharp-shinned hawk named Arrow. She had him train with Arrow, since he was similar in size to the bird Patton had rescued, which was a Kestrel.

He leaned how to safely handle the birds of prey, and also took special training to show him how he could help the kestrel he'd saved in particular since he was missing a leg now.

It wasn't until almost a month of lessons that he was finally able to work with the kestrel.

Obviously it needed to be trained, which Molly helped him with, but the bird seemed to quickly warm up to Patton, and also seemed to be a quick learner, picking up everything Patton and Molly taught it much faster than either of them were expecting.

Molly eventually told him he'd need to name the bird so that it could learn to respond to its name, along with the other signals she and Patton had taught the bird.

Patton thought about it long and hard, and even went to his boyfriends for suggestions, but eventually decided on Emile, having come across the name in a book he'd read with Logan not that long ago.

Emile and Patton quickly became attached to one another, going almost everywhere together. Patton had gotten into the habit of wearing his long leather gloves and carrying small dried cricket and grasshopper treats for Emile with him on the daily bases.

Of course Remy and Emile also became close friends, and would spend plenty of time together as well, even though Remy had to be careful not to bump Émile if they got to excited, or else he might knock him over with his weakened balance.

Emile eventually warmed up to Roman, Logan and Virgil as well, and was soon permitted to travel throughout the castle as long as he was with Patton. This rule was quickly extended to Virgil as well, allowing him to bring Remy inside as long as he didn't leave him alone.

Patton and Emile where almost never seen apart at this point, the two of them doing everything together when they could, which his boyfriends found rather adorable for the most part.

Of corse there were still plenty of bumps along the way, for both patton and Emile, with Patton still getting used to the bird of prey, and Emile still getting used to both Patton and to missing a leg.

But they had each other now, and despite the bumps they were both determined to take on any challenges that arose.

So this took a turn I wasn't really intending.

But yeah, I almost made Emile a dove or a sparrow or something, but thought it'd be cool to make him a bird of prey instead. Of course, a kestrel isn't the biggest I could have made him, I almost made him a red tailed hawk, but decided against it.

Hopefully yalls like this chapter, the next one is already done and will be out soon!

Bye!