An Expanding Threat
Wow, a new chapter in less than a month. I'm surprised of myself.
There isn't anydirect action in this chapter, mostly dialoge and character interactions in this chapter so I hope you won't be too bored with this.
Please enjoy!
Chapter 2: Negative Aura
As the incoming witches heard Eila's screams and cry, they hastily picked up the pace to the battlefield. "Minna and Miyafuji, go down to Eila and Sanya to check the situation, the rest of us will have to deal with this." Mio said in a hurry as the rest of the team followed her lead and Minna and Yoshika hurried down to Eila who cried over Sanya's bloodstained body.
"Ahh, this is horrible!" Yoshika said in shock when she landed and jumped out of her striker unit and ran over to Sanya.
Eila looked at Yoshika with red eyes from all her crying. "Can you save her?" She then asked in a sad but wishful tone. Eila stood up and moved to let Yoshika use her healing magic.
"She's still alive so I should be able to save her." Yoshika replied.
"DON'T EVEN SAY IT AS IF SHE WILL DIE! JUST SAVE HER, OR ELSE I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!" Elia screamed in fear at Yoshika, as Yoshika jumped back in both surprise and in fright of Eila's outburst.
Minna cut in and against Eila's will she dragged her away from Yoshika. When they was about 15 meters away from Sanya and Yoshika, Eila got a hard and firm slap on the cheek, as tears ran from Minna's eyes as well. "Don't act like you're the only one that is worried about Sanya. We all know that you two are the closest in the team, but everyone in 501st is like family to all of us. And right now Miyafuji is over there and doing her best at saving her, and you dare to speak bad at her. If we wouldn't have Miyafuji here at all this could have ended up much worse." Minna said and saw that Eila started to slowly take in what Minna just told her.
Above them Erica and Trude made their way through the drones and went straight for the small odd shaped one. And with a final bulletstorm the core was visible for only a second until it was hit and the drones and the odd shaped one shattered.
Soon the whole squad had gathered around Yoshika who still did her best to heal Sanya, who very faintly was just able to breath. After a few minutes Yoshika was completely exhausted and still Sanya had a serious wound in her most left side stomach area, just above the pelvis.
"We can't have her lying out here. We have to carefully transport her back to base." Mio said to Minna but loud enough so all could hear them. "You, Perrine and Lynne should go ahead and contact a medical squad as fast as possible and also prepare a bed for Sanya."
"Roger! Lynne and Perrine, let's go!" Minna said to the other two witches and then the 3 of them all took off against the base.
"About moving her, I suggest that Barkhorn and Hartmann should carefully fly her back." Mio then continued.
"Roger, then let's get her up carefully, Hartmann." Trude then replied as she and Erica went up beside Sanya and gently picked her up. "Careful now." She said as they slowly started to fly with Sanya.
As the others took her belongings like the Fliegerfaust and her striker units, and then they all made their way back to the base.
As they arrived at the base, their first priority was to get Sanya to one of the beds in the infirmary. As Eila was following the others, she alone was stopped by Minna who stood in her way.
"Eila, I know you care about Sanya's harsh condition, but you're outburst at another member of the unit, which in this case is Miyafuji, is not alright under any circumstances. As punishment you're getting confined to your room for 3 days."
"B- but I…" Eila replied until she got cut off by Minna again.
"And I will not tolerate any objection from you. You should consider this a mild treatment. This also is an order by your superior so you better abide by it or do you want me to extend you punishment?" Minna said with a seriously scary expression.
"Roger!" Eila said in a sad voice and with a hanging head she turned around and slowly walked back to her room. When she arrived in her room she took Sanya's pillow and threw herself in her own bed and started to hug the pillow as she shed several tears and continued to lie there as she had no interest in anything else than Sanya's well-being.
By an hour later the medical crew arrived with a beautiful witch doctor in the lead and a few assistants. And by the report they got from Minna, they hurried to the infirmary where Lynne and Yoshika was checking up and cleaning Sanya's wound.
"Wow, that a pretty serious wound." The new witch doctor said in surprise as she arrived at Sanya's bed. "I guess you are the units medic, am I right?" She asked Yoshika.
"Y- Yes, that would be me." Yoshika replied.
"I guess you much knowledge in medical treatment, considering how you have treated the wound up until now?"
"Yes, my family have a clinic back in Fuso, so I have a fair amount of knowledge. It's my first time treating a wound this big but I have been told how to treat it." Yoshika replied.
"Good. This girl could call herself lucky if nothing else. If she wouldn't get the medical treatment or healing she got until now she wouldn't have made it, from the looks of it. But for now, get some rest and we will get on with her treatment. We must have you to restore your magic as much as possible until morning. We can hold out for a good while so get as must rest as you can." The other witch said as she walked up to Sanya and started healing with her magic.
"Roger!" Yoshika said as she started walking out of the infirmary where most of the unit stood and waited for answers.
Barkhorn took the initiative to start the conversation. "So how did it look? Can you tell if she's gonna be alright?" She said with a worried look.
"She is still breathing, even though it is faint, so if we just can hold her under treatment around the clock it will probably be alright. The beam damaged her liver a small bit so we have to hurry up and close it, but they should be able to close that soon as I fixed most of it. Although the other organs didn't sustain any considerable damage so they are healed already. If she wasn't a witch, things might have been much, much worse. Her arm on the other hand is not that much of a problem. It would probably be fine by the morning." Yoshika said trying to put up a reassuring smile.
"We trust that you can save her, Miyafuji. There aren't many witches that can heal as good as you so we believe in you." Shirley said with an optimistic tone which seemed to lighten the mood in the hall.
"Now I have to rest to go to sleep to restore as much of my magic as possible. I will have to take over a while for the other medic tomorrow." She then said walking away to her room. "Good night everyone!"
Mio arrived in the hangar just about sunrise. She jumped out of her striker unit and with a yawn and spotted one sleepy and snoring Lucchini up on one of the beams. She met one Minna in the hall to the way of the command room. "Now I remember how nice it is to have Sanya out there doing the night patrols. I have to go to sleep since I am pretty tired right now." Mio said with a sleepy laugh.
"I'm sorry that you had to go through this, Mio. But you probably won't have to do it next night. I contacted Karlslands 4th Flying Corps, and requested for Heidemarie W. Schnaufer to be sent here in the current absence of Sanya. Since she sees Sanya as a friend as she is a fellow nightwitch, she agreed to come here immediately." Minna reassured Mio.
"Good, I cannot adapt that quickly to fully cover for the night patrol. I sure hope that Heidemarie will come before dusk. But for now I will have some breakfast before I go to bed again." Mio replied as she wobbled to the kitchen.
Eila woke up still hugging Sanya's pillow, and she still wore her clothes from when last night. She was awake for a few minutes until she heard someone knock on her door. "Come in." She said in a faint voice.
"Sorry for intruding, Eila-san." Lynne said as she entered through the door with a tray with newly made breakfast.
"How's Sanya?" Eila said in a sad voice, looking down to the ground.
Lynne stayed silent for a few seconds. She opened her mouth but closed it again as she was hesitating to tell Eila, but she felt like she had to tell the one that loved Sanya the most. "I heard Yoshika-chan and the other doctor talk a while ago. And apparently the shock from the taking that wound and her exhaustion of her magic caused her to enter a coma like state."
She saw that tears started to run down her chins, and she fell backwards down into the bed and hugged the pillow tightly. Lynne could also hear Eila sob from the bed so she put the tray of breakfast on a table that was standing in the middle of the room, and ran over to Eila to comfort her.
"Don't worry, don't worry. She's going to be just fine. They will be working around the clock, doing their best so she will be just fine." Lynne said in a calming voice and sat beside Eila and patted her on her head for a while until Eila had calmed down.
"Eila-san, you should try to eat before the food gets cold. But try to cheer up, and Sanya-san will be alright. But a few of us are taking a small shopping trip to Rome for necessities. So is there anything you want us to buy?"
Eila shook her head and continued to stay still. "Sorry, I'm happy that you are trying to comfort me, but could I just be alone for a while?"
Lynne stood up from the bed. "Sure, just take the time you need. And don't forget the food on the table." Lynne said before leaving the room and closing the door.
Eila couldn't keep herself in control anymore. She was able hold in most of her sorrow in front of Lynne, but now the tears wouldn't stop. Trying to cheer up with happy memories and moments with Sanya was useless since it still only did result with remembering the scene of her shield shattering and the beam hitting her. "Sanya, please come back to me soon."
Yoshika entered the infirmary where the doctor and assistants was still in full go. "How is it going?" She asked when she stood next to the doctor.
"It's going a lot better than I thought it would do. The liver is all good now so it is just her damaged flesh right now that we should focus on for now." The doctor replied. "If we keep this up we should be able to close this wound in a matter of hours."
"Trude, do you really think that Sanya will be okay." Hartmann said in a sad and questioning voice while sitting by the dinner-table still eating their breakfast. "I overheard a conversation between Miyafuji and the doctor. And apparently Sanya has entered a kind of coma."
Trude froze to Erica's statement. "What? Really? Are you really sure? But one thing I can't understand is what made her exhaust her magic that quickly? It's not like her."
"I just hope that she can wake up soon and that she will be alright. If not for all of us, at least then for Eila. She haven't made a sound since got sent to her room." Erica continued. "I'm pretty worried about her."
"I'm not that great at comforting people so I don't think I could do anything. You probably would be able to."
"You shouldn't disturb her at all. She said that she wanted to be alone for now. I probably shouldn't have told her about Sanya's condition. She took it pretty hard." Lynne cut in.
"What? You told her? That is one of the things you shouldn't do. Why did you do that?" Trude said slightly irritated.
Lynne backed off a little. "S- She asked me about Sanya's condition. I felt like I could not tell her. I thought that the person that cares most about Sanya should know how the situation looks."
"Well, that's not wrong, I suppose." Trude said while considering that it sounded pretty logical. "But still, you're just breaking her down mentally like this. I still think that when it comes to talk about Sanya, Eila is the last person you should talk to when the situation looks like this. I guess now it's not much else we can do but to ride this out and hope Sanya will make it."
Lynne looked down to the ground as she felt bad being scolded by Trude. "I'm sorry."
"You shouldn't be so hard on her, Trude. It's not her fault." Erica cut in. "Cause if you think about it, if she would say that Sanya is fine and when Eila get out of her room and she find out about that she is in a coma, she would not only be mad at Lynne for lying and she would probably break down either way. Even if Lynne would avoid the topic I guess that Eila would figure out that something was wrong." She then continued. "I think it is better that she cries out now then later."
"Well… You're right, I suppose." Trude said as she looked down at the table and then looked at Lynne. "I'm sorry for scolding you."
"No, you're right as well. It's not necessary to apologize. B- but to change the topic, Hartmann-san, we are supposed to be away in five minutes so we should hurry up."
"Where are you going?" Trude asked.
"We are going for shop for necessities in Rome. And we are going to buy stuff for Sanya when she wakes up. Do you want anything, Trude?" Erica asked back.
"No, not really. I don't really need anything. I was just curious on where you were going. Who else is going beside you two?"
"I think it was Shirley, Lucchini and Perrine." Erica replied with a smile.
"I see. Well then, have a nice trip." Trude said with a smile and took both her and Erica's plate to clean them off.
A few minutes later the truck was ready to leave the base, and with Shirley at the steering wheel the truck took off with a considerable acceleration and speed so and after a short while they were out of sight.
At the infirmary Miyafuji and the doctor was still in full go in healing Sanya's wound and by judging by the speed they are going at, they would probably be done by the evening if they include a few pauses. Yoshika had left for the time being making dinner for the unit and for their guests.
Those who went shopping in Rome had returned and they brought the ingredients Yoshika needed for the meal. It was going to be soup again since it would be easier to make Sanya some easy-to-eat food.
The atmosphere by the dinner-table was not as positive as it usually was. The witches were pretty quiet and nobody didn't have it in them to break the ice, beside of Shirley, Minna and the doctor that gave compliments on Yoshika's food.
After the meal and Miyafuji went back to the infirmary and everyone else went to do their respective things. Trude was the one that had to bring food to Eila this time. When she got to Eila's room she slowly opened the door and saw that she still was lying in her bed, probably crying but she couldn't tell from that distance. She looked at the tray with the breakfast on from this morning and she hasn't as much as touched it. Trude put the tray of soup down beside the tray with breakfast and went up to the bed where Eila.
"Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen! I know you are sad about Sanya and we all are but you still have to remember that you have to take care of yourself. You have to eat properly." Trude said in a serious voice but tried to sound sincere.
"I'm not hungry, right now." Eila replied in a monotone disinterested tone with her head buried in the pillow.
"That's enough! You haven't eaten since last night before you went out on your shift. And that is nearly 20 hours ago. In worst case, if we are attacked by a neuroi and you will have to go out there too, where are you gonna get you strength from then?"
Eila didn't answer on that question.
Trude grabbed Eila's shoulder pulled her away from the pillow to look her in the eyes. "Look at yourself. Your eyes are all red from crying, your hair is a mess and you can still see the dried tears that you have cried. Just talk to Minna and she could probably let you leave your room for a short bath."
Eila pulled herself away from Trude's firm grip. "Leave me alone!"
Trude was close to losing it against Eila's attitude. "Why you…" Was all she got to say until Erica flung the doors open and held Trude from becoming violent.
"Trude! Calm down. Leave the room and I talk with her." Erica said and pushed Trude out of the room and closed the door behind her. "Eila, don't have any hard feelings against Trude now. She is just worried about your health. But I understand that you want to be alone but try to eat at least something." Erica said with a smile. "But don't worry. Sanya is strong. She will come out the coma in no time." She then said and gave Eila a reassuring caress before going for the door. "Just try to cheer up a bit."
Before she left she could hear a faint "Thank you!" and she could make out what looked like a smile, and the left with a chuckle.
Eila felt like she could calm down thanks to Erica's calm and cheerful approach. But still, the aching pain in her heart did not disappear that easily, and she could not wish for anything more than Sanya waking up anytime. And she could at least try to taste a little bit of the soup.
Outside Trude was waiting outside the room, still slightly agitated. "So? How did you manage to talk to her without getting upset? Her attitude could get anyone pissed off." She said to Erica.
"That's because your attitude of forcefully lecturing her is all wrong. When she is down like this she don't want to hear pressuring things. You should encourage her and give her a smile and let her take it in her own pace."
"Well… When you put it like that you make it sound like I'm the bad guy here." Trude said while backing off a few steppes.
"I'm not saying you are wrong, but in this case it's not the right way of approaching her. Although I also find it kind of annoying when you are lecturing me all the time." Erica replied with a mischievous smile.
"That's just because you don't behave like a Karlsland soldier. You don't have any discipline, you are lazy and you don't follow anything that we learned in the military." Trude continued with a still slightly irritated tone.
"That's because it's a pain. So I have always wondered why you have been so stuck up about this. You should try to live instead of following the rules so strict, otherwise I'm worried that you are going to die sore. And you are also the only one here that lives on these rules, and I don't think Mio or Minna would complain if you let up a little. Minna is our leader here and even she doesn't take as hardly on the rules like you do." Erica said to Trude and she looked quite serious this time. "I don't want you to burnout from stress by keeping up with yourself."
Trude looked quite surprised and taken by Erica's words. "You're that worried about that I will burn out? But I can't just throw away all of the principles that I learned from Karlsland."
"But you can at least maybe tone it down a little bit. I want you to smile more since it is so rare to see you do it. It is a really beautiful smile."
Trude blushed up a bit from that comment. "I- Idiot. How can you say something like that and not be embarrassed about it?"
Erica giggled a little. "I also want to see more of that too. You're so cute when you blush, and the fact that you don't know how to handle it." Erica then said and then flung her arms around Trude's neck as in a hug as they walked away down the hall.
Evening came to the Romagna base with the two healing witches entering the living room where most of the unit was at the moment, except for Eila, Perrine, Lucchini and Shirley.
"We are finally finished with healing Sanya and the wound is closed. Although we don't know when she might wake up from the coma, she is at least out of danger." The doctor confirmed with a smile and she looked pretty worn out and tired.
"Oh, thank god." Lynne and Erica said in symphony and let out a deep breath. ¨
"Now we just hope it doesn't take too long for her to wake up." Trude said but was then interrupted by the sound of an incoming plane, and she went to the window to look out and saw it going in for a landing outside the base. "Who is coming to visit us?" She then asked the group to see if anyone knew.
"It's Heidemarie W. Schnaufer who is coming as a replacement for Sanya for a couple days." Minna replied.
Erica shone up by the sound of the name of her friend from a while ago. "Really? I haven't seen her in quite a while." Was all she said before she was out of the couch in a flash and ran out the door.
"I guess we all can go and greet her so she can meet the most of us and make her feel welcome here." Minna continued and all rose from where they were sitting.
"Who is He… Heidemarie, was it?" Lynne asked Minna in the hall on their way out.
"Heidemarie W. Schnaufer is her name, and she is Karlsland strongest Nachthexe, as we call them in Karlsland but you know them as night witches. Her score recently passed by 100 shot-down units, all during nighttime combat. She agreed to come here and take over for Sanya, since they have apparently communicated from time to time through their magic antennas during the night and she sees Sanya as a close friend, which is no surprise since they're quite similar." Minna said and continued for a while on their way down to the hangar where they met her.
The plane has stopped the unit was all waiting and now Perrine and Shirley has joined in as well. When the door of the plane opened, a white-haired witch with a huge bust stepped out. Erica rushed forward and when Heidemarie took the final step of the stairs from the plane, Erica jumped into her with a hug.
"It's been so long since we last met. Are you doing well?" She asked as the white-haired looked quite uncomfortable and nervous.
"Y- Yeah, I'm doing quite well, I guess. But I am worried about Flying Officer Litvyak. How's she doing right now?" She asked Erica with a worried expression.
"She is healed but sadly enough she is still in coma. But it is still good to see you again." Erica replied and then Trude and Minna stepped forward.
"Good to see you again, Heidemarie." Trude greeted her. "It's been quite a while and it's nice that you wanted to come here for a visit."
"Thank you, Barkhorn. But I just want to visit Flying Off…" Was all she got to say until she felt someone's small hands grab hold of her breasts from behind.
"Ohh, they're big! They can almost compare with Shirley's. But Shirley still holds the lead." Lucchini happily said while continuing to fondle the breasts.
"Hehehe, of course she can't beat me. Did you seriously think that I would lose, Lucchini?" Shirley asked boastingly.
"Nah, but these are super soft."
"Pilot Officer Francesca Lucchini? What do you think you are doing to our guest?" Minna said in an unusually scary expression.
"Eeek! Nooooooo!" Lucchini screamed, left was she was doing and ran off into the hangar again.
Everyone looked as Lucchini ran away in fear. "Sorry about that. But she is a good girl." Minna said as in an apology.
Heidemarie looked kind of confused by the quick turn of events, but then regained her refined posture. "A- As I was trying to say was that I just would like to visit Flying Officer Litvyak before I take off for the night watch." Heidemarie then asked Minna.
"Well, normally we wouldn't let anyone in besides the doctors but since you have come all this way to take over for her I can let you see her. I can also show you to your temporary room." Minna replied.
"Thank you, commander Minna."
Minna took the lead and led her past most of the other witches who looked at the new witch that walked past them.
Minna opened the door to the infirmary and let herself and Heidemarie inside and then closed the door again. They went up to the bed where Sanya were lying and looked like as if she was in a deep sleep.
Heidemarie looked at her with a sad expression. "What really happened to her? You never gave me the details."
"She and Flying Officer Eila were out on night patrol, when they encountered a Neuroi. They became outnumbered and for some unknown reason Sanya's magic disappeared incredibly fast and she passed out from magic consumption and got hit by the Neuroi." Minna explained.
"Where is Flying Officer Eila now?" Heidemarie asked.
"I confined her to her room for three days for an outburst directed at our medic. Apparently she has been crying most of the time it seems. She is the one that care about Sanya the most and of course I feel kind of bad for her but I have to get her to realize what she can and cannot do."
"I see." Heidemarie said looking down to the floor. "I just hope that she will recover really fast."
"Yes, we can all hope. But now let's leave her alone for a while."
Minna and Heidemarie left the infirmary and went for their guest's room. "But now for you room will be beside Miyafuji and Lynne's room. We have only a bed and a table in that room since we rarely use it. But if it is something that you want for your room, just ask us so don't you worry about it. We will inform you when Sanya wakes up so you will meet her as soon as possible." Minna said as they were walking past Eila's and Sanya's room.
The conversation outside the room somewhat caught Eila's attention. "Who is Minna talking to right now? Do we have a guest? Anyway why did they talk about Sanya right now?" Eila thought to herself. "But speaking about Sanya, I hate to disobey orders but I have to visit the infirmary for Sanya for myself."
Determined she went to the door to listen to them as they apparently went into Heidemarie's room so she quietly opened the door, closed it and sneaked away to the infirmary. Gathering courage and taking a few breaths as well as checking if someone was near, she opened the door, went in and then closed the door.
Seeing as the sheets and covers was clean and white as snow it seemed like she wasn't hurt anymore, much to Eila's relief. But she went up beside the white-haired girl and gently stroke her cheek and sat down beside her and grabbed hold of her small and tender hand. "Sanya. I wish you were here with me right now. It's only nearly been one day and still this is the longest time I have been away from you since a long time ago."
Erica was passing by the infirmary as she was going to her own room to go to sleep, but was distracted as she heard a voice from the room that didn't come from Yoshika or the other doctor. Knowing it is bad to eavesdrop, she was slightly interested in what was said in the room so she put her ear towards the door.
Eila felt tears fall down her cheeks and landing on Sanya's hand. "I know I am the one to blame for leaving you alone and being the cause of your magic consumption, but I want to make it up to you in any way I can. I understand if you hate me but I just want to know that you are safe. And when I see what state you are in it makes my heart ache like crazy." Her voice cracked slightly as she felt more tears coming and she couldn't keep herself from lying down on Sanya's chest.
Erica looked down on the floor since she could kind of understand how it felt, to lose someone that close to her. She almost lost Trude once but Miyafuji managed to save her as well. But this case wasn't exactly like the one with Trude. Trude's injury was lethal but she didn't fall into a coma like Sanya. And she could feel the sorrow in Eila's voice in regards to that she see herself to be the cause of all this. Maybe she just took the weight all on herself but if Erica could see the bigger picture of it all, she might have seen it from a different point of view.
But suddenly she heard some voices coming from the stairs, and it sounded like Mio and Yoshika. She could also make out that they were talking about Sanya. She didn't have much time to act so she quickly and quietly opened the infirmary door went in and closed it just as quietly.
Eila noticed someone coming into the room and saw Erica running into the room through her tear-filled eyes. "W-What are you…?" She said surprised until Erica held up her finger to imply that she would be quiet.
Erica grabbed Eila's hand and whispered to her "Hide under that bed." Erica said, dragging Eila with her to the other bed in the room that no one was using. "Miyafuji is coming here with Mio. I think you will get punished for leaving your room and for visit the infirmary that we are not permitted to enter."
Though cramped under the bed both of them managed to get under the bed when Yoshika and Mio entered the room. Lucky for Erica and Eila the sheets from the bed were plenty wide so they nearly touched the floor so they were pretty hidden from sight.
From what Eila could see from under the bed, apparently they were just cleaning up a little and they booth saw and heard metal trays and tools being moved around in the room. After a few minutes Yoshika and Mio left the room and Erica and Eila crawled out from under the bed.
Eila turned to Erica who looked at her with a smile. T- Thanks, for informing me that they were coming. But how did you know I was in here?"
Erica looked away a little bit before looking back at Eila. "Please, try not to get mad at me but I know I can't stop you. I actually heard your voice from the infirmary, and since you were out of your room, I was wondering what you was doing in here. I know it is bad to eavesdrop but I was kind of interested in what happened."
Eila looked surprisingly calm, much to Erica's surprise. "I see. Well, I guess I can tell you. The main reason that Sanya exhausted her magic so quickly was because she let me lay on her stomach and carrying me for a good while. I was going to do the same to her, but it was about that time the neuroi attacked us."
Eila then told the rest to Erica who seemed to listen to every word with interest. "So that is how all this happened and that's why this is all my fault." Eila said looking down at the floor looking guilty.
"You shouldn't blame yourself so hard. From what I heard you tried to focus all the fire on you and finish it fast so she wouldn't run out magic before it was too late, right? So from what I gather from this I would say that this is just that the Neuroi didn't act like you thought it would. So don't blame yourself." Erica told Eila and gave her a firm and warm hug. Eila responded with returning the hug.
After a few seconds they separated and smiled to each other. "Thank you very much again. But why did you decide to help me, anyway? I didn't get to know that." Eila asked sincerely.
"I know how close you and Sanya are and I can see how much you are suffering and I think that this is the least I can do to help you." Erica replied and gave Eila a bright smile.
Eila gave her smile in return. "You sure know how to cheer people up."
"Yeah, I have Trude to deal with, so I had to learn." She said with a grin. "But anyway I think we should get out of here before more people come."
"That may be for the best." Eila said in agreement. "But just let me say good bye to Sanya first."
"Of course." Erica waited by the door and watched their temporary farewell.
Eila went up to the bed and just looked at Sanya for a short while. She then focused her eyes on Sanya's lips, and felt her cheeks heat up a little. She closed in a bit and she noticed Erica sneak up from the side to get a better look of what Eila was doing. But she didn't care about that for now, though she hesitated before deciding to give Sanya a farewell kiss.
"Is it really okay for me to take her first kiss when she isn't awake? She would probably get mad if she knew." Eila thought to herself but was still not sure whether to give that kiss or not.
"Are you thinking about taking her first kiss?" Erica asked in a curious tone. "I think it is alright. I wouldn't count it as her first since she isn't conscious. So I think it is alright."
"When you put it like that… It might be alright." Eila said giving in and closed the gap and engaged in a deep and passionate kiss against the soft and small lips of her love. If she only had to make a complaint about the kiss, was that Sanya was in no position of kissing back, if she ever would do it even if she was awake. She slowly then left Sanya's sweet lips and stood up again.
Erica looked like she witnessed a phenomenon. "Whoa, Eila with that passion in your kiss makes me want a kiss from you too." Erica said with what looked like fire in her eyes.
"I do not wish to sound like a stuck up bitch, but my kisses are reserved for Sanya only. I guess you have to give those kisses to Trude in that case."
"Good idea. I will have to try that later." Erica replied with enthusiasm. "But now we will have to get out, just wait a minute, I'll check and see if anyone passes by."
"Nope, it's clear, let's go." Erica said and Eila waved good bye to Sanya and then she left the infirmary after Erica.
Without any further obstacles Eila got back to her room and after thanking Erica for the help she went to sleep for the night. After all this talk she had with Erica this day had made her feeling much better. Of course she was still deeply saddened by Sanya's coma and she couldn't wish for anything more than her waking up. And after thinking a little while about that she fell asleep and had pretty decent dreams this night.
Chapter 2 End