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(Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the characters Joe Gardner, John Bald and Dave/David Hands. These are the property of Chris Ryan's 'Extreme Series' novels. The original story and characters of H.O.T.D also belongs to Daisuke Sato (R.I.P) and Shoji Sato. I myself however, and my fellow author 'FiremanJim' own our own respective characters and additional OC's.)
(Descriptive Sex Scene in this chapter, you've been warned!)
Last Alarm:
Okinawa Offensive
Chapter 2
Tokonosu Naval Base, formerly 'The Floating Island',
Three miles off the coast of Tokonosu City,
Two days later…
With a big yawn and sleep still clouding his mind, Andrew slowly began to come around from his extended downtime as he lay in bed in his 'apartment' in the lower levels of the old airport terminal facility. As his vision started to clear he blinked a few times and realised that not only was he alone but the lights were off, but a soft glow was coming in from beneath the door that separated him from the living area and he could hear soft voices coming from the other room.
Instead of getting up he allowed himself to stay in bed a little longer. He had earned it so he didn't see why he shouldn't have been allowed to rest some more.
For a few minutes, he lay staring at the ceiling before turning his gaze to the bottle of water that sat on the bedside table beside his Oakley sunglasses, C.R.K.T folding knife and G-Shock digital wristwatch. Reaching over for it and taking a sip before he sighed quietly. After two days of being in bed and catching up on his rest he was already itching to get back to work but his muscles ached and almost seemed to be begging him for more rest.
When he had arrived home two days ago as soon as he had arrived he had been ordered to head to medical for a check-up by the medics. He had no idea why he and his team had been ordered to but they hadn't questioned it and had headed straight there, leaving their weapons and packs in Rika's Humvee. She had said she take care of their equipment for them and she would give it all back to them the next time she saw them.
During their examination, they had been checked for bites or scratches, this was mandatory and there was no way out of it, and they were also subject to blood test, respiratory function and general health checks. When Joe had his check up the doctors were concerned about his fluid intake and when asked how he seemed to be dehydrated he just said he hadn't drunk much of his water when they had been on operations and the constant moving around for three days in the city without much rest, let alone the chance of sleep, he simply hadn't thought to take just a minute to eat and drink something.
Afterwards John, Joe and himself had been allowed to leave, the doctors had wanted to keep Joe in sick bay for the night just to make sure there was truly nothing to worry about and soon afterwards he had been taken away by a pair of female Navy corpsmen. The last they had seen of Green Troop's 2IC was when he had looked back at them with a big grin.
"Ten quid says he beds 'em both before the end of the day," David had said, earning chuckles from both of them. Joe was known to be a bit of a lady's man and pretty much 'shagged any fit bird that came his way' as the solider had put it.
"I bet twenty he gets slapped just for flirting," John countered and moments later they had both shaken hands, sealing the bet. All they had to do now was wait.
That was two days ago and since he hadn't heard from anyone on the team or Joe and their current status. He knew they wouldn't be operational again, not this soon after returning from a three-day operation, which he still had to debrief about with General Ihara, and also, he would bet good money on them being in their beds still for at least another day before they would be clawing at the walls for another assignment just the same as he would be.
"I'm just going to check on him quickly. See how he's doing and I'll be right back Rika-San," he heard a familiar feminine voice softly speak from the other side of the door and heard the doorknob rattle. Closing his eye and putting the bottle on the inside of his arm before calming his breathing as he heard the door quietly open and heard muffled footsteps entering before the door was quietly shut.
He remained still aside from his chest raising when he was breathing in and out, but otherwise he felt relaxed and it must have shown as he listened to the soft foot falls that got closer to the bed before he felt the bed dip beside him as the familiar scent wafted towards his nose and he almost wanted to smile but suppressed the urge.
"Andrew-San?" the soft, silky voice whispered gently against his ear, causing goose bumps to spread up and down his body and the hairs to raise on his arms. He groaned softly as he slowly opened his eye and smiled as his gaze met with his wife's, Shizuka Marikawa.
"Hey," he whispered in greeting as she smiled down at him and leaned in for a small peck on the lips.
"Good morning. How are you feeling today?" she asked quietly as she snuggled against him, her finger playfully running up and down his chest.
"Better, much better today. Not so tired anymore," he chuckled as he heard Shizuka hum in approval.
"Well I'm glad to hear that, my love. We have guests by the way," she then said and slowly began to sit up but he reached out and gently took hold of her arm, "Wait a moment. Just lie here with me a little longer. I haven't been with you properly for nearly five days. Just a few minutes," he almost pleaded trying for his best puppy dog impression…though knowing his luck he probably looked like a bull terrier.
Instead she smirked and tapped him on the nose, "Nope!" she popped the 'p', "Come on, you've been in this bed for two days. Time to get up and face to world!" she sing-songed.
He chuckled and then groaned as Shizuka slowly helped him sit up, "Okay-alright-alright, I'm up woman."
"Oh no you aren't, come on," and she again pulled on his arm and made him stand up where he wavered on his feet as he steadied himself, "Can I at least put on a change of clothes first?" he asked looking down at the sweat pants and sleeveless shirt he was wearing.
"Okay, but make it quick. Jimu-San and Rika-San don't have all day to hang around you know," she said quickly and started heading towards the door before she stopped, turned back to look at him and then took a few steps and stood in front of him before putting a hand on the back of his head and pulled him close for a much deeper kiss than the one they had shared just a minute ago.
After just a few seconds before tongues started twirling she pulled back causing him to gasp at how sudden she had initiated and ended the kiss, "There'll be more time for that later," she panted quietly before her eyes looked with his one good eye. Her hands drifted to his cheeks and she held him tenderly as his hands were on her hips before she placed her forehead against his, "We'll have time to be together tonight. For now, your children and you friends want to spend some time with you."
He smiled as she moved away as his own hands fell away from her hips and he watched her retreating form as she opened the door and left into the living room. He could hear her talking with others but thanks to the sound-proofing in the room it was hard to tell what was being said, anything above a murmur couldn't be heard. Guess it was a good thing the old airport had these rooms with built in sound proofing, hell it was a requirement for passengers who sued to stay on the island overnight for connecting flights and didn't want to have to stay in a hotel on the mainland before having to come all the way back to catch a plane.
Slowly he moved towards the wardrobe where his spare sets of fatigues were hanging along with a few sets of civvies he owned too. However, because there was a shortage of good clothing to go around for the islands inhabitants a few groups, scavengers, would sometimes go to the city and were 'contracted' to find supplies, medicine and even clothing, but only if the price was right. He knew a few of these people and sometimes shared drinks with them and one man from the groups had said to him "If the price isn't right we say 'fuck them'. We ain't dying out there for a pair of jeans".
Opening the closet and peering inside he found a black t-shirt and a clean pair of black jeans. Having a quick shower and changing he walked over to his bedside table, picking up the knife and walked over towards the safe that stood in the corner of the room. While he always kept a weapon of some sort on his person at all time he never carried anything or left anything out in the open when he was with his children.
Opening the safe that was sat in the corner of the room he checked the knife's blade before folding it up and placing it inside beside his and Shizuka's pistols. Most of what he had personally owned back in the Laidlaw facility back in Arizona had been flown to Tokonosu resided inside the safe. A majority of what he had owned was small trinkets and even then, it wasn't much.
One of the few things that had remained in his possession from before the outbreak were personal items; pictures, diaries, Sarah's pendant and Anastasia's birth certificate along with the small soft baby-blue teddy bear he had brought her when he had arrived at the hospital after her birth. There were numerous other items that were personal that only Jim, Rika and ofcourse Shizuka knew about but those remained secret to everybody else that he knew.
At first when he had these trinkets retrieved from his former 'home' back in Arizona at the Laidlaw compound out in the desert he had retrieved them along with all of his other possessions. These were private and personal ones, his laptop that he had left behind and photo albums of happier times with his wife and daughter. When Shizuka had seen these, she hadn't questioned anything about them or said anything negative about him having them in his possession. Instead she had held on to him the entire time he had been looking through the album when sitting on his bed.
His old laptop still worked and the batteries were fully charged whenever he wanted to take it out and work on it. He knew that the old girl would pack in on him one day but it hadn't failed on him yet.
The last of his possessions that he had brought back with him was a rifle. But not just any rifle. During his time with Laidlaw as a private security consultant and field contractor he never spent a lot of money on weapons, as whatever he needed for a specific role in a mission would be provided for him from the facility's armory. Aside from his old Sig-Sauer P226, M4A1 carbine and the Mossberg shotgun when he had first arrived in Tokonosu years earlier he only had one other rifle in his possession.
The LaRue Tactical OBR 762 rifle was a special purchase he had made when he had visited Texas with Blue team when a wealthy oil company was being targeted by environmentalists and had threatened to destroy the pumps that drug up the crude from below the surface and set the fields ablaze. During the downtime between his shifts and the others he had decided to visit a gun store nearby that he had heard of and the first thing that had jumped out at him was the OBR.
Of course though, with it being Texas said gun store had many other items that were jumping out at him, screaming for him to spend his hard earned cash. Hell, if he wanted to he could have brought half the stock in the store there and then but decided against it. Instead, he purchased the rifle under his name along with several Magpul magazines along with a Harris LM-S folding bipod and a Schmidt & Bender 20x scope.
Afterwards he put a lot of work into the rifle when they returned to Nevada after the situation with the environmentalists was handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigations after a bomb threat was made. He managed to get the paper work secured to mount a suppressor on the rifle along with removing the solid stock and mounting a Mapgul CTR stock instead along with various other attachments that normally only the military would have access to.
But to this day it had never seen service outside of the gun range.
Locking up the safe and leaving the key in the bedside table he made sure that he was presentable, making sure his eyepatch was in place and that his fly was pulled up, he opened the door and walked into the living area. His eye first went to the couple that was sat in the 'love seat' that was back against the far wall.
Rika was sat there, one leg crossed on the other, while her hand was clasped with Jim's as the couple were engaged in conversation with Shizuka. As the door closed their conversation ceased and all eyes fell on him.
"About damned time you woke up. Everybody thinks you're dead," Rika chuckled but she earned a stern glare from Shizuka and small smirk from Jim.
"Oh yeah," he began and put a finger to his chin, "And when was the last time you led a three-day patrol in an infested city with little chance to sleep, let alone rest?" he asked. He had her there, all the woman could do was huff and shake her head. He wasn't the type to rub something like that in her face, things like that never ended well in his opinion to he let the matter slide.
"How are you feeling Andy?" Jim finally spoke as he sat down beside Shizuka, but didn't reply until she pulled her legs up and then leaned into his side, making him put his arm around her shoulders as he watched Alice and Akane who were sat in the corner playing with Zeke by rolling a ball back and forth to each other as the small Jack Russel tries to intercept the ball for himself.
"Utterly-thoroughly-knackered mate," he said and chuckled at the same time, "But, I ain't down yet. Not by a long shot."
"You've been out of it for two days. I'd say that's pretty much 'down and out' buddy," the Texan smiles.
"I've had worse."
For a short time, the four adults talked about anything and everything. Most of which they wanted to know about his operation in the city and what it was all about. Since the mission hadn't been classified to begin with he explained to them what had they had been tasked to do.
For three days, they had scoured the city with two objectives in play. The first as the primary, to locate and establish safehouses in the city. They had found and marked several suitable locations and also cleared and secured them ready for other groups should they be required in the future. Ofcourse there was an issue with supplies at these locations needing to be placed so other teams could use them if they got caught in the city and needed to lay low for a few days.
The second was basic but also mandatory, find and locate survivors and if possible, assist with extracting them back to the island.
"I thought they already had Seal Team Three do something like that a few months ago. What happened about that?" Jim asked.
"They had but it was only two safehouses. Commands been a bit funny about these things lately. I think it's all happening now because of maintenance for the boats and helicopters."
"How do you think that, Andrew-San?" Rika inquired.
"Think about it. Fuels' not so much an issue because we have a steady stream of it coming from America but keeping the helicopters, jets and even those LCAC's operational, those are what's the problem. The mechanics can't get the parts anymore and all they can do is cannibalize parts from matching vehicles."
"I'm failing to see the problem," Shizuka said quietly. Andrew looked down at her and explained, "Well, if we had all the parts we needed we'd always be able to get home from the city if we needed to, even if it wasn't an emergency. Now though because of the shortage or spare parts for most vehicles…" he trailed off when Shizuka went "Ohh!" and then smiled.
He didn't care in the slightest if his wife was a little dipsy or slow on the uptake at times, it was one of her unique traits that he found cute about her and loved her even more for it.
"But…, could we make these parts ourselves?" she asked.
"We have been trying for a while Shizuka-San," Rika began, "The only problem is the high-quality grade metal needed for mass production and the equipment needed for producing them. We just simply don't have the stores of metal or the equipment to make them."
"We've been trying to get the gear we need from America for a while. Only problem is that everybody else has the same issues. If it's not the constant demand for new parts, fuel or anything else related to that it's everything else."
Andrew noticed how the conversation had taken a turn. He didn't want to discuss these things I front of Shizuka or the children. The last thing he wanted was for the two of them to become worried, upset or worse because of their growing number of concerns.
"Hey!" he said loudly and removed himself from Shizuka and moved down towards the girls, "How are my two other little princesses doing today then eh?" he asked as he crouched down beside them. Zeke stopped chasing the ball and looked at his and barked.
"BARK-BARK!"
"And their guardian on four legs. Aye, how are you little fella?" he chuckled as he scratched the mutt's scruff on the back of his neck.
The sudden distraction away from the conversation seemed to have worked. Alice was talking with an animatedly fashion while Akane smiled at him and huddled the Jack Russel close as the pup huffed of being handled like one of her cuddly bears.
He didn't mind talking about operations in the field with the others but when the children were around he didn't want them or even Shizuka to start stressing over resource issues. For now, food and water supplies were good, well in the 'green' as was fuel for the islands generators and even if they ran out of fuel they had solar panels on the terminal rooftop now and they were hooked up to several power banks and were fully charged and used if there was a power outage or the generators ran out of fuel and just needed topping up.
"We're fine papa," Alice smiled, "Akane-Chan was starting to get worried about you," and he looked to his two-year old daughter who smiled up at him lovingly.
"Ahh, my little princess worried about her daddy?" he cooed as he sat down beside her.
"Yah!" Akane replied and smiled, all her tiny teeth showing as she carefully put Zeke down on the ground, the pup seeming happy to be out of the hands of the child as he quickly scampered towards Shizuka and hopped up on the couch beside her, while Akane stood and quickly moved towards him and putting her arms around him.
"Ah bless her little heart," he heard Jim whisper and he couldn't help but smile himself. As he stood with Akane still wrapped in his arms he walked back to Shizuka and sat down just as Zeke hopped and curled up in Shizuka's lap.
"Oi! Taking some liberties there mate," he muttered towards the pup as the dog looked back at him and huffed again before snuggling down and closing his eyes.
"Little…git," he muttered, careful to watch his language, but earned a giggle from the girl sitting on his knee and smiles from the others before focusing on Jim.
"By the way lad, I meant to ask you. How have you been getting on with the team you are with now?"
It was no secret that the Texan had been moving up in the world over the last couple of months. During the first months after he had been released from the care of the corpsmen aboard the Navy medical ship he had been working on rebuilding his strength and getting back into shape, the same he had been after he had broken his leg.
After he had taken care of some personal 'business' in the city after tagging along with Red Troop to help extract some survivors who had been trapped in the city he had managed to secure himself a position as a Navy Corpsman, helping extraction teams that had still been finding survivors in the city and the surrounding countryside outside the city limits.
Soon after he had been approached by some team members of Seal Team Two. Ofcourse the man had questioned why they had approached him but had asked if he would be willing to assist them with an operation on the mainland and they needed a capable medic as theirs had been down with diarrhoea and would be out of action for several days. Still sceptical and a little apprehensive, he had accepted the position but just for that one mission.
However, after that one mission he found that while the objective wasn't all that he had expected, setting up a radio relay beckon several miles north of the city limits, he found that working with those men had been something that had awoken something deep inside of him. A feeling that he belonged there with those men. Upon returning to Tokonosu he had found his 'services' called into action several more times before they had asked him if he would be willing to be seconded to their unit on a…somewhat 'permanent basis' until they would be needed to return to the United States.
"It's going great man. The work isn't dangerous, well not much as long as you pay attention to everything that's going on all the while, but it's good. I'm helping others by putting my skills to good use and learning new things along the way."
"Aye, bet Rika's well chuffed with ya. Aren't cha Rika?"
Normally many people had misinterpreted his use of some words for sarcasm but after working and living beside each other for the better part of the last three years they had quickly learned there was nothing malicious behind it.
"I am very pleased with him, Andrew-San," she smiled as she turned and leaned into him.
"Daddy!" Alice suddenly speaks making him jump, "Yes sweetheart?"
"Can we have a movie on please?"
"I don't see why not. Pick one out and stick it on, but," he paused as Alice had begun to move towards where the small selection of DVD's were stashed but paused herself to look at him, "Not the lego movie again. Please, anything but that. I've got that damned song stuck in my head from the last time."
As he watches Alice roll her eyes, Shizuka leaned in close to him while he was playing patacake with Akane, she leaned towards his ear and whispered; "Everything is awesome."
'When I get you alone in the bedroom tonight there's gonna be some swift revenge' he thought as he turned and gave her a look mixed between a smirk and a playful glare.
"Hey Andy," he looked around to Jim who was starting to stand up from the couch, "Why don't we go and get some food for while we watch the movie. I think they've got barbecue on the menu today," he clapped his hands together excitedly.
"Yeah, two secs," he says and gently lifts Akane off his lap and sits her down beside Shizuka, "I'll be right back sweethearts," he says giving both of them a kiss on the head, "Anything you want inpartic?"
(Inpartic – Derbyshire slang for 'In particular')
"Just some noodles, vegetables and chicken for us," Shizuka replies as Akane smiles at the thought of getting some chicken, "What about you Alice-Chan?"
"I'll have the same please," she replies without looking back as she continues to search the cupboard for a suitable movie.
"Okay then, we shan't be long," they replied as they grab their I.D cards and head out towards the food court.
Later that evening after the two families had gathered together, eating meals and watching a couple of movies, mainly for Alice and Akane's pleasure, they had retired to their rooms for the night.
"Daddy…Daddy…Daddy…" Akane kept saying several times over as he was help Shizuka tuck the little girl into her bed before he finally stopped and came face to face with his youngest daughter.
"What's the matter sweetie?" he asked as she lay in bed and peering up at him.
"Not tired," she spoke clearly. For the last few months Akane's speech had been improving rather quickly and it surprised them the first time she had said nearly a full sentence. But now as he sat and looked down at the little girl who lay in her futon beside Alice, the older girl already nodding off, he was once again reminded of how quickly she had grown up from the tiny baby she was when she had been born to the little girl she was now.
"Really? Are you sure?" he asked quietly and smiled as the girl nodded and said "Yeah."
"Okay then. How's about me and mummy lie here with you for a little bit?" as he lay down on the matted ground as Shizuka lay on the other side of Alice, the girl now asleep and breathing lightly.
"Yeah," Akane said again as the little girl now snuggled into her futon, her nose just peeking over the rim as her little eyes kept moving back and forth between the two of them.
For a few minutes as they lay together he reached over the girls as Shizuka reached for him and gently took her soft, delicate hand in to his. For a few moments, the adults looked at each other and smiled lovingly before their attention turns back to Akane as the little girl suddenly yawns.
They look away in hopes their lack of attention to her would eventually make her fall asleep. As they instead looked at each other neither of them could help but continue to smile and purse their lips and 'passing' kisses back and forth. Normally if he had been around the rest of his team they would never get to see this side of him, he would be susceptible to their jibes and jokes for days afterwards. But right here and now, holding each other's hand as their children lay between them, in that moment he couldn't have cared less what anybody else thought.
Breaking their gaze for just a second he peered down and his lips twitched as he saw that Akane was now asleep as well, he breathing was calm as her sister's.
With a hand signal saying 'follow me' to Shizuka they both quietly and carefully stood from where they lay on both sides of the girls and crept out of the room and closed the door to their room as silently as they could.
Walking silently back into the living room he walked behind Shizuka and just before she reached the couch he slipped an arm around her waist and gently drew her back towards him. He heard her giggles as his fingers slipped beneath her shirt at the hem and lingered over her belly.
"Hmm, now what have you got planned eh, Andrew-San?" she whispered as she leaned back and whispered in his ear.
"Oh, I can think of many things," he replied huskily as he leaned into her and placed a kiss on her neck and then gently nibbled her earlobe, causing her to shiver at the unexpected bite.
"Ahh!" she gasped suddenly before glancing at him and saw the wicked grin he wore, "What was that for?" she whined.
"For the punishment that you put me through earlier," he replied as his hands now travelled further up her body beneath her white shirt towards her breasts.
Her breathing hitched as he got closer and closer towards her bra. He just started grazing the elastic material when he took a gamble slowly started to peek his fingers beneath the fabric and caresses her breasts before gently squeezing the mounds of flesh. She gasps and hisses, clenching her teeth together in an attempt to stop herself from moaning out loud.
There were numerous things he could have done and said in this moment. He could have teased her about how long it had been since they last made love and about how pent up she was. He could have stopped altogether, a little bit of revenge for allowing the girls to once again play that same bloody movie again and again.
But right now, he too was feeling the need and he wasn't about to stop unless she wanted to. Knowing that he had instigated this he wasn't about to pull out now. Not when he needed this too…
In an instant Shizuka had turned around, immediately cutting him off from fondling her, and saw her own wicked grin coming right back at him, "My turn," she chuckled as she dragged him towards their bedroom.
Pushing him down onto the bed she giggled as she pushed him down as he had gone to sit up and crawled over him.
"Hmm, so then. What wicked and dastardly things are you going to do to me?" he smiled as she was now hovering directly over him.
"Oh, my love," she paused as she leaned down and teased him by running her tongue along his jaw before nibbling on his earlobe causing him to gasp involuntarily, "The night is young, and we haven't had fun for a few weeks now. A woman has needs too you know," and ran her tongue across her teeth as she lowered herself down towards his neck
"Don't I know it," he groaned as she started teasing him, all the while his arms pinned above his head.
After a couple of minutes of intimate kisses and biting Shizuka decided now was the time to get 'closer'. She pulled back and was now standing before him, giving him a chance to catch his breath as she slowly started to unbutton her blouse, one button at a time.
It only took moment for him to pull his own shirt off before reaching forward and helped her undo the last few before pulling it off and letting the piece of fabric drop on the floor. Afterwards it took less than a minute before the couple were now naked and lying under the sheets together.
"Is it a safe day?" he asked her gently as he moved between her legs. Instead of speaking she smiled at him and gently moved herself down until he was at her entrance. That was all he needed to know. Gently pushing in Shizuka gasped at the feeling as he slowly filled her.
"Are you alright?" he asked with genuine concern as he saw she was beginning to tear up.
"No," she gasped as she held her arms out as though she was reaching up for him, "Please, hold me."
As he lay down on top of her, her arms wrapped around him and she whispered "It's just feels as though it's been so long since we last made love together." He smiled, he felt the same. With the constant back and forth for the last several weeks of taking care of their children and Shizuka working in the hospital and he constantly being deployed it made it almost impossible for them to have their little intimate moments of passion.
Before he was able to ask 'Do you want me to continue?' Shizuka started moving for him and hearing her mewl as she took him deep inside of him.
Surprised that she had taken the initiative, he slowly started moving with her so the thrusts became more and more intense before they were both comfortable and they began to pick up the pace.
The only thing he had to remember though was that Shizuka, well, she's a bit of a screamer. With each thrust came a moan of pleasure but every time the pitch grew louder and lounder.
"Oh god! Oh god! Oh god!" she gasped.
"Fuckin' hell baby," he chuckled between thrusts, "Am I really that good?" and growled as he leaned down and claimed her lips. Releasing her a moment later he saw the look of absolute bliss on her face as she then whined "Yes…yes…yes!".
At this point he wasn't sure if she was answering him or if she was getting close to cumming but from the look she was showing him she needed a release. Feeling himself coming to an end he held her close as she tightened around him.
"Bite me," he said calmly.
"Wha…What?" she gasped.
"Bite me, otherwise you'll scream," he now growled as he leaned down as Shizuka reached up and she almost looked apologetic before he felt her bite into his shoulder before she let out a muffled scream as he gritted hit teeth upon feeling their releases and gave a deep-rumbling growl like that of a wolf.
After several seconds of laboured breathing and panting her feels a release of pressure as Shizuka lets go of him and allows him to lean up slightly so both husband and wife are able to look each other in the eye. However, Shizuka's gaze falls on the spot where she bit him. Feeling where her teeth had sunk into his skin he couldn't feel any blood beneath his fingers but he could feel the indentations of where she had had hold of him.
"Oh…oh no," she mumbled as she reached up for the mark she had left on him but caught her hand before it reached him.
"It's alright," he whispered calmly before letting go of her hand and reaching for the mark again himself and laid his hand out over it, "What have I said that this represents before?" he asked.
Her saddened eyes remained on the mark, that was now beginning to bruise, before they met her husbands, "That…, you said that it's a symbol. That you belong to me."
"That we belong to each other," he corrected her as he reached down and gently cupped her cheek, "Are you okay?" he then asked, "I didn't hurt you, did I?"
All Shizuka could do was smile as she reached and gently pulled him down so they were now lying in bed, side by side, and smiling at each other like love-struck teenagers.
It wasn't until early morning that Andrew had felt the pressure in his groin that he groaned in frustration. The middle of the night, every night like fucking clockwork. Slowly, he managed to open his eye and look around the room. Shizuka was still asleep, now wearing one of his larger t-shirts before falling asleep hours earlier.
Slowly he began to sliver out of his bed, after gently untangling himself from Shizuka, and headed towards the small en suite bathroom where he quickly relieved himself and had immediately felt much better afterwards. As he washed his hands and then splashed some water on his face he heard a noise coming from behind him.
Standing up straight he turned and saw Shizuka, standing in the doorway. But most of her features were hidden by the darkness but he could see the outline of her slender figure. As he reached for the light switch, he froze. Looking at Shizuka now he could tell that there was something wrong with her.
How she stood…her limbs were at odd angles…the blood that he could see trailing down her legs and pooling around her feet…
Suddenly the light came on all by itself.
And there she was.
No…where all three of them stood.
Shizuka, Alice and Akane…all dead…undead.
Their eyes were blank, their skin pale and turning grey but he could also see the veins beneath the skin were black as infected blood coursed through them. He could do nothing, except fall to his knees and let the tears fall as the three most important girls in his life stood before him, hissing and growling, blood coating their lips before Akane took the first steps forward, pushing between her mother and older sister until the little girl was standing, face to face, in front of her kneeling father as the tears continued to fall.
"Oh…my little sweetheart," he heaved as he reached for her. The little girls unseeing eyes seeming to track the hand as it was placed against her cheek. She almost seemed to lean into the touch before Shizuka and Alice began moving forward and moments later descended upon him, Shizuka and Alice both attacking his arms while Akane tore into his chest, ripping out bloody chunks of skin and flesh as the blood poured from the open wounds they inflicted upon him.
"It's…it's okay…I deserve…this…"
Shizuka was awoken by the groaning that came from beside her. Earlier in the night she had fallen asleep in the arms of her loving husband, content and happy as they held each other close. However, at some point in the night they had separated and as she rose until she was sitting up her focus went to her husband's form as he twisted and turned on his side of the bed.
His forehead was slick with sweat, his fists were clenched and he thrashed around from side to side until he almost seemed to gasp as he remained curled up on his side. She started panicking, she was immediately up from beneath the covers and around the bed and crouched in front of her husband and managed to catch his flailing fists.
"It's…it's okay…I deserve…this…" the words were strained but she could also hear the acceptance in his voice as he continued to groan and cry.
"Hey! Wake-up! Andrew-san! Wake-up!" she had to grab a hold of him by the shoulders and shook him. She only had to do it once before his eye snapped open and he jumped back away from her when he saw how close she was.
"Fuckin' Christ," he groaned just remaining out of Shizuka's reach. Slowly, he began to come around properly. As he sat up she could see he was shaking like a leaf, sweat still pouring off his body as he ran both hands through his hair.
"Andrew-San?" she whispered gently, not wanting to spook or scare him and remained crouched behind the bed.
"I'm…I'm okay love, I'm okay," he sighed heavily and released a heavy pant before dropping his hands in his lap and peeked towards where she was. Slowly, he beckoned her to stand and to join him. Slowly, she stood and came around the bed and this time sat on the bed beside him.
She sat silently, giving her husband the time he needed but also offered him her hand, which he had taken and held between both of his, as he sat quietly and took a few minutes to allow himself to calm.
Suddenly he leaned forward and without having another thought Shizuka opened her arms and allowed her husband to fall into her arms and he silently wept.
"I'm right here my love. I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere," she cooed softly as he shook.
"I'm right here."
Author's Notes:
Well then, what did y'all think of that? I hope that you all reading this chapter enjoyed it as much as i have been enjoying writing them. I am trying my best to get better at writing than before but also i'm branching out to try new things. The 'lemon' in this chapter for example, i've never had the balls to write something like this before. My sister has when she has written his Fifty Shades of Grey stories but me, never that descriptive. The final scene of this chapter was harder to write too, not because of my writing skills but because a lot of what you reader are similar to dreams and nightmares that i have had before, not pleasant in the slightest and i wanted to bring a little bit of myself into my character to show some of the suffering my O.C is going through.
I will have the next chapter ready in a couple of weeks after i've finished up some work for a few other author's and their stories and with a bit more action and suspense in the next chapter so, be ready for that.
By the way, if any of you haven't seen it yet in the H.O.T.D stories look for the story called 'Ronin' by 'Jangocommando27', it's four chapters in so far and it's really good, you'll enjoy it!
Anyway you all take care of yourselves and i'll see you next time. Please follow, favorite and review as it's you guys that help me to find the confidence to continue writing.
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