Soro no yami ch. 2
A/N: I do not own sounds of the sky and any reviews will be a huge help
As she slowly came to from what felt like, to her at least as the sun down threw her off, a week and she walked out after finding her uniform had been dried and she walked out to visit the group. Stumbling out to the group as the cold from the day before had made her legs really hard to move. Stumbling out she fell on to the table and she rubbed her hair out of her eyes and said
"God damn it that hurts" and looking at the soup on the stove she asked Rio
"Do you have any more left as I see that you all had eaten while I was asleep so I will kill for a meal" and Rio laughed and as she ladled up the bowl, saying
"the meal is a new batch and I hope you enjoy it and the rest of the girls are working on the tank but I was thinking you and I could go into town for food and just a girls day" and pulled on her uniform and walked to the jeep with Rio and said with a subtle smirk, brushing her hair out of her eyes Liz asked
"What do you have in mind for the day out and I assume that it'll involve my moonshining" and with a grin, trying not to laugh said
"No wait I assume it will be my smuggling routes you need" only to be let down with a laugh. Reaching her hand over to Liz's knee she said in a very gentle tone almost like a big sister or a mom would
"No nothing like that because I know it is your birthday coming up and because you are new none of the others really know what you would want plus we should get the unit something nice, so my question is this what do you want for your birthday?" and Liz tried not to cry as the group had just saved her life and now wanted to buy her a gift for her birthday and she had just joined the unit, looking up before she answered she asked herself, what exactly she had done to deserve this.
Blushing, all be it ever so slightly but it was still visible none the less, she muttered
"I… I don't know I was thinking maybe a gift we could all share" and then she instantly looked down thinking to herself that her wish would make her appear weak but was shocked when Rio put her hand on her shoulder and chuckled saying
"That would be a thing someone caring would say and I'm glad you care about others because there is too much selfishness in this damned war" and she just fell in silence and as she woke up again they pulled into the town Elizabeth asked nervously brushing her hair, she looked at the glassworks and tugged on rio's shirt, which made her laugh because she had done it with her mom when she was growing up in Germany she begged, smiling at the glass dragon and the meaning it had she said
"I found a glass dragon I would really like and a blew glass owl statue please" and as Rio picked them up she saw, much to her shock as her friend was a happy go lucky type at least in looks, a sad look in her new friends eye she asked very carefully because she didn't know how sensitive of the issue she would be treading on was, she drew in two long slow breath, slowly steeling herself for the question she would ask and slowly looked at her new platoon-mate and friend asking
"What happened to you to make you so caring but have the eyes of a killer before you joined the military?" and all Elizabeth could do was turn away, trying to not show the shock that she had been found out so early, she muttered
"Long story but you will owe me a drink" as she wiped a tear away and said
"I was visiting my dad in town and… he, choking back tears she stomached it to put a brave face, she finished the memory lane trip saying "he was shot in the back by a drunk soldier or at least they claimed to be but turned out they were mafia and dad owed them supposedly so instead of trying to get the money they shot him down in the snow with 3 to the back, so I will make them pay" and she saw Rio's color slowly returning and she grabbed her new friends hand while stifling a cry herself, she mumbled quietly
"I'm sorry" and Liz saw the mood tense up and she said
"Don't worry about it lets just keep shopping and I'm buying lunch" as she held up her wallet, which contained the last 5 dollars she had to her name, and they went into a small restaurant Liz smiled for the first time since joining the military and looking at her commander she had a laugh seeing the uniform, which had the patches of an upperclassman, she said
"glad a upperclassman could be bothered to eat lunch with me and I must have to owe a major honor to that" and the response had her laughing as it was, brisk but very calming, as it was delivered with a smile
"yeah remember to us there are no ranks and Ill take a piece of your lunch" and stole a dumpling and that got Elizabeth, faking a sad face to return the favor, laughing as she stole a dumpling and then walked over and paid the bill before hearing that it was on the house and with that happy news she smiled and thanked the waitress before hopping into the Jeep and they slowly drove up the road as the sun went down and right before she went to bed Elizabeth smiled and said
"While I was out I picked up something for our group" and pulled out the painted glass owl and they all said
"thank you for the gift now I think we should call it a night" and they all decided to turn in leaving noel working on the tank until the sun rose over the icy mountain slopes.
