Of love and bullets
A Gunslinger Girl Fan-fic
The dormitories were silent in the early hours of morning. Every one was sound asleep, not a sound was heard anywhere in the dorms. The air even was very still, adding to the haunting feeling.
The tall figure of Jose came on to the floor, moving through the darkness of the hallways. He was grim faced as he went, his eyes never once searching the gloom around him as he made his way, passing door upon door on his way.
He finally stopped at a door about half the way down the long hall. Reaching out, he turned the nob, opening the portal silently. He entered the room with a silent trod. He knew to be perfectly stealthy around here.
He looked at two figures that slept in the beds, they were unaware of him even being there. Rico slept in her bed, her face rolled towards the wall. He turned to the other bed in the room, his charge's sleeping place.
Henrietta was in her bed, curled up under the blankets, her soft breathing noting that she was sound asleep right then. He watched the brown haired girl sleep for a moment, a small smile flowed over his face almost in a loving way.
He knelt down on his haunches and touched a hand to the young ones arm, careful of any unnecessary movements, thinking she might be sleeping with her pistol under the pillow. With Fratellos, that was always a possibility he had to remind himself of every time.
" Henrietta." He whispered in a very soothing tone.
The young girl opened her eyes at the sound of his voice. She saw it was Jose who was softly awakening her.
" Oh!" She said sleepily, snapping up to be sitting.
The girl swung herself out of the bed and up to her feet, going to a standing attention posture immediately. Jose blushed at what he was seeing. The young girl had only a pink pyjama top on, her lower half was exposed and she worn not even a pair of panties.
" I did not know you slept like that." He said with a start, not really knowing what to say.
The girl blushed and put her hands in front of her girlhood, obviously having forgotten that she had gone to bed like that. She kept blushing, but did not move a muscle to try and cover up any more than what she was.
" It was hot when I went to bed last night." Was her only answer, as she stammered with awkwardness.
" It was rather hot last night..." Said Jose, nodding.
He nodded, and just passed the incident off, as he understood the young girl was feeling rather embarrassed over it all.
" We have a mission to do, Henrietta." He said, a little more authoritative. " I need to ready yourself... we leave with Hilshire and Triela after breakfast."
" Yes!" Said the girl, nodding her head. " Where do you want me to meet you, Jose-san?"
" Meet me in the dining room in a half a hour." He said, moving to the door. " We eat, talk about the mission and then load up."
" Yes!" said the young girl again as she kept her hands down in covering herself.
Jose stopped for a moment, and looked at his charge one more time. He smiled warmly at the small girl, before opening the door and exiting the room as silently as he had entered it minutes ago.
Henrietta hurried to dress, knowing her work was now upon her. She picked her usual outfit from her meager clothes and began to dress herself, still blushing a little from her little embarrassment.
Rico had woken up and was looking over at the girl, squinting through the darkness through half closed eyes.
" Is it ... time to get up?" She asked.
" No..." Henrietta said, still dressing. " Jose had came in and said there was a mission to go on."
" Just you and him?" She asked, seemingly very interested.
The brown haired girl turned and shook her head at her roommate.
" Hilshire and Triela are with us." She replied, a happy tone in her voice. " I think we need backup."
" Do you know the details?" The girl in the bed asked.
" No, I don't... just that we are being sent somewhere." Henrietta said. " I meet Jose-san soon."
Rico just turned over in her bed, facing herself to the wall once again and pulling the blankets up to her ears.
" I am going back to sleep then." She said, adding through a long yawn. " I wish Jean-san and I were on this one."
Henrietta just turned to look at her fellow girl.
" Maybe you will get your own mission today from Jean-san." Said the girl, finishing dressing and getting her violin case that housed her Fn-P90 from under the bed.
" If we don't... guess I can always do my laundry." Rico said, through a small yawn.
" Yeah." Nodded the brown haired girl, turning back to her weapons.
Henrietta gathered up her other weapon from her storage place and headed to the door. She could hear Rico's soft snoring as she left. She giggled a little, as her friend had fallen fast asleep in a matter of moments.
She closed the door as quietly as she could have and hurried to meet up with Jose.