Chapter 2

Hunk

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Hunk stood monitoring the vitals of the small broken boy who laid in the sheets of the bed below him. It had been 72 hours sene the… incident. Daniel had only woken up a few timed enough for him to drink something a turned so they change his bandages and then he would fall back into unconsciousness.

"That was risky and brave," he started to talk to the unconscious cadet. "You scared all of us, don't ever do that again young mister." He smiled down at the boy.

"Sorry," a weak voice spoke up. I looked down in shock, he hadn't talked yet.

"Daniel are you awake?" I sat on the side of the bed. They moved him to one of the guest rooms so Vince wouldn't have to sleep over his best friend. The room was dark so he could tell if the voice really came from Daniel or if the guest started hearing me.

He had almost convinced himself so when he heard it again. "I didn't mean to make you guys worry." The voice sounded so vulnerable he thought that it hadn't belonged to Daniel.

"Daniel?" he asked again just to make sure.

"Yeah." He smiled to himself.

"How are you feeling?" He waited for a response which was slow coming.

"Is everyone ok." His voice was raspy. Hunk was in amazement. A boy that was laying broken and beaten in a bad, was asking if other people were alright.

"Yeah, thanks to you." He saw a small smile spread on the cadets face. "Why did you do it? Larmenia told us that you took the punishment for all of us." There was a moment of silence.

"Better you guys than me, I mean I'm guest some punk kid that got lucky. You guys are heroes." His sentence ended with a small coupling spit. The words he said shocked Hunk.

"you're a hero too, to everyone Arus and in the Universe. Hell everyone in this castle holds you as a hero." He tried to laugh but only ended up grunting in pain. Hunk wasn't sure what to do.

"Thanks but, your guest saying that to make me feel better." He curled up in the blankets like he was guest trying to hide. I grabbed the boy in my arms, making sure not to hold him.

"Your right, you did just get lucky, we weren't expecting on getting you too. But every day I'm reminded how damn lucky we are that we did get you. And I could never imagine not having you as a part of this team." I felt and heard the boy start to cry. Wanting to make Hunk cry to. "Never think your not a hero, because you have always been and always will be."

I stayed with the boy until he was sound asleep again. Then I walked out of the room and into the corridor. I stood there for a couple moments think about the conversation I had just had. Remembering how Daniel thought he was nothing. Though he wasn't the hero he was.

I was pulled from my thoughts. "Hunk, you ok?" It was Vince, I looked to the concern Cadet.

"Yeah, I'm good." I lied. He wasn't having it.

"Are you sure, is Daniel ok?" I looked to the closed door like he could see through it. Could he?

"He woke up for a little bit and started talking, he's asleep again now." That was the truth, guest not all of it.

"He started talking that's great… Is he ok, like, mentally." I really wanted to tell the pilots what he had said before we told Vince and Larmenia.

"Not sure hard to tell." He seemed pleased with the answer. "Are you ok?" I looked surprised.

"Yeah I didn't get hurt during a-" I cut him off.

"I don't mean physically, you were really mad and we used a lot of energy, and afterward you didn't talk a lot. So, are you ok?" He looked down at his shoes.

"Yeah, I guest scared my self, I thought my energy could only effect machinery. I never imagined that I could do that to a person."

I squeezed his shoulder. "You'll figure it out, you always do." I smiled at him and started walking towards the control room. I had to tell the other pilots what Daniel and Vince had said.