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I got pulled back to my own body, something startled in the dark making a noise. My hand stilled in his hair as I looked around trying to figure out what it was,
"What's wrong Roza? Is Lissa okay?" he whispered, I stayed silent and looked around us. The sun was beginning to rise, a slight reddening of the sky gave us enough light to see outlines of shapes.
"She's okay. I thought I heard something" looking around us again a bush rustled "something moved" we sat in silence, both of us straining to hear what was going on, there was another noise and movement from our right. I gently lifted his head off my lap and stood up
"Roza?" he whispered worry colouring his voice
"I'll be right back Comrade" I leant down and pressed a light kiss to his forehead before turning and walking towards where the sound was. Reaching for the stake from my pocket I realised that I had dropped it when I found Dimitri and had left it behind, silently cursing I reached down and grabbed a large branch from the ground and held it like a bat.
I crept forward listening to the sound. Reaching forward I pushed the greenery back prepared to fight. I released the breath I had held in, and walked back to Dimitri and sat down putting his head back onto my lap "Just a deer" I told him, he nodded and winced. I began to run my fingers through his hair again
"We should start heading back soon Comrade, before it gets too hot"
"Ok, let's go" he said and tried to sit up. Helping him to sit I asked him if he was sure he was ready he just nodded and proceeded to try to stand.
We walked for hours in silence both of us concentrating on not collapsing, him from pain and me from the weight followed by pain of me practically carrying him.
"Comrade" I puffed "I… I need to stop"
"Yeah, me too" he replied, I eased him to the ground and flopped next to him both our breathing ragged.
"Roza, can I ask you a question?" Dimitri asked softly after our breathing had returned to normal
"Yeah" I replied, he was quiet for a while and as I was about to ask him what's wrong he spoke
"Are you ok?" his question shocked me I expected something harder
"Ahh, yeah I'm fine. Why? What are you thinking about?" he exhaled loudly
"It's just…" he paused, his eyes closed and a frown appeared
"Just?" I asked and sat up on my elbow to look at his face, he looked in pain and he was trying to sort something out
"Never mind" he said suddenly "Let's go I want to get out of here"
"Okay" I said slowly, and got up slowly lifting him too.
We began our awkward walk towards the school, my mind full of possibilities of what Dimitri was going to say. The sun was chasing us every step of the way, my legs burned from all the extra weight put on my joints, I stumbled on a branch. Biting my lip to try to smother my groan however Dimitri's yelp tore through me worse than the stumble.
"I'm sorry" I muttered, his breathing came out in ragged puffs "You are doing amazing Comrade, we're nearly there" I kissed his hand and watched my feet checking to make sure that I would not trip again.
"Roza" Dimitri whisper/groaned
"What is it?"
"Look"
At his words I looked ahead of us to see…
"Is that…" I whispered in awe
"Yes" he replied
"Our cabin" I murmured breathlessly.
Our feet pushed us faster to where we can get help. We were probably 7 feet from the cabin when the door flew open revealing Stan followed by Yuri both brandishing their stakes. We paused in our approach, all of us just staring at each other waiting for the other to make a move.
Dimitri drooped more against me, causing both of us to fall to the ground with Dimitri landing on me. He yelled in pain while I grunted, Yuri and Stan came running towards us, Stan talking rapidly into his radio calling for immediate assistance while Yuri was gently getting Dimitri off of me so I could sit up.
When I was sitting I moved by Dimitri's head putting it onto my lap and gently ran my fingers through his hair trying to relax him slightly as Yuri and Stan assessed his injuries. Soon we were surrounded by guardians and two were carrying a stretcher for Dimitri, they moved forwards with Dr Olendanski who quickly assessed him before nodding to the Guardians to put him onto the stretcher. Then she turned to me and did a quick check before telling me to go shower and sleep and disappeared, leaving me with Stan to escort me to my room to rest before going to see Kirova.
