Madoka injected the vaccine into the unconscious girl's bloodstream. She kept muttering to herself repeatedly, "She's going to be okay… she's going to be okay… she's going to be okay." Homura's body was still unresponsive, sadly, she just lied motionless on Madoka's lap. Her face was a bit paler than usual, and her skin felt a little too cold.

"C'mon… open your eyes, Homura-chan." One, two, three. She shook her lightly, and repeated the same process again. One, two, three shakes. Nothing. The raven didn't move, she didn't even twitch in the slightest. A small sniffle escaped Madoka's lips, she wasn't even trying to wake Homura up anymore. Her arms simply wrapped gently around Homura's waist. She rested her forehead on Homura's cold one.

"Why won't you open your eyes..?" she whimpered. Tears were slowly running down her cheeks, causing a couple of drops to sprinkle onto Homura's pale and still face. At this point, Madoka was already sobbing heavily, and she wasn't going to quiet down any time sooner. She just embraced Homura tighter and tighter, burying her face in the raven's hair. It was strange though, how she was showing so much emotion for someone she had barely just met. They had only met for a couple of hours, yet here she was, pouring her poor soul onto the unconscious girl. This was one of Madoka's flaws, she grows attached too quickly to people. And Homura, whom she only just met recently, was already gone and it hurt. This really hurt Madoka so much, that knot on her throat was too much to handle, she simply kept clinging to the raven, tears flowing nonstop.


It had been an hour now, and all the crying Madoka had done, had worn her out completely and led her to fall asleep right then and there. It was quiet there, yes, but these two were out in the open, unguarded. Anything could attack them there, but since Madoka had fallen asleep, there was no one there to warn her of potential dangers. She wasn't even wearing the gas mask Homura had put on her.

Her napping was cut short due to something poking at her forehead. At first she simply scrunched her eyebrows and turned her face the other way. Again, the figure poked at Madoka's forehead. The sleeping girl aimlessly swatted at the hand that was bothering her. Sighing, the figure hovered over the girl, placed a firm grip on the pinkette's shoulders, and shook her awake. Startled by the rude awakening, Madoka jolted forwards, her head, charging at full speed, clashed with something.

"Ouch! Ow… my forehead." she whimpered, rubbing at the aching spot on her forehead.

"Remind me not to ever do that again…" the ebony spoke, clutching at her nose. Apparently when Madoka had jolted upwards and clashed against something hard, it was Homura's nose that she had hit. Luckily she didn't manage to break it with that headbutt of hers. The short girl was sitting there, wide eyes and mouth opened, she looked like she had seen a ghost. "Homura…chan.." was all that she managed to say.

"What is it?" Homura was still rubbing at her nose, trying to ease the pain away. The smaller girl, without another word, threw her arms around the taller girl, hugging her tighter than ever. Afraid that she might be dreaming, Madoka ran her hands up and down the raven's back. "H-hey, what are you do-" Homura tensed up, her cheeks feeling slightly heated due to the back rubbing she was experiencing. Madoka pressed her forehead onto Homura's, and kept her gaze on the girl's violet eyes. "You're not cold anymore."

"Huh?"

Finally pulling away from her, Madoka gave off a sigh of relief. Then she fixed her eyes on Homura again. "You collapsed earlier, don't you remember?" She began, "I panicked and searched the kit like crazy. I was so scared, I thought you died…" Narrowing her eyes, Homura simply shook her head. "The toxins," she spoke, "the toxins in this air are much stronger than what I had anticipated." Gathering her belongings, Homura slipped the backpack back on and turned towards the pinkette. "I would've been dead if it weren't for your quick thinking, so thank you." Even though Homura was thanking Madoka, it didn't really seem like she had meant it, perhaps because she didn't smile or seem happy. Her face was still stoic like, and so it was hard to tell whether she meant it or not. Either way, Madoka was just happy to have been able to save the ebony's life.

"You don't need to thank me, I'm just glad you're okay now Hom- ah um…" she clasped at her mouth, afraid she was being too friendly, considering Homura hadn't given her permission to address her by her first name. Timidly twiddling with her fingers, Madoka shakily began, "I-is it alright if I call you by your first name?" Homura simply shrugged at the smaller girl's question. "Do what you want." she replied, "I don't really care what you address me as." Leaning closer towards Madoka, the raven pointed at the gas mask hanging from Madoka's neck, "Put it on now, I don't want you falling ill to these toxins." Without being told twice, the smaller girl did as she was told. Once she had adjusted her mask properly, the pinkette took a hold of Homura's hand and looked at her. "Where are we going?" she asked. Homura didn't respond due to the focus she was giving to their hands holding onto one another. Looking back at the girl, the raven's expression gave off an annoyed confused one. "Why are you holding onto my hand, Kaname-san?" Madoka simply smiled and explained happily, "So that I don't get separated from you." Sighing, Homura simply lightly tighten her grip on the small hand that was clinging to hers. "You sure are weird." she muttered, walking with her side by side.


"So, Homura-chan, do you know why everything is the way it is today?" Madoka asked, curious as to just what the heck happened that made everything turn to shit. "Well…" the raven began, "It's a long story, but basically some stupid idiot scientists thought it would be a great idea to revive the dead and create an invincible militaristic army, and save lives that way." The pinkette, listening, nodded away to reassure Homura that she was listening to her. "And now here we are," the ebony simply sighed, "An irreversible mistake is what they created."


Both girls were getting closer and closer to the headquarters in which Homura and the rest of the crew reside in. Their place was hidden behind a semi large forest. No one would really go past the forest considering it was believed to be a zombie mob zone. "Are we almost there?" Madoka asked, trying to get a conversation to begin. Homura nodded, "Yes. We'll be there in a few minutes." Glancing around the area, Madoka awed at the small sights she saw. There wasn't much, but there was a small lake and some deer in the area. "Hehee, this place is pretty." she gleed. "Does Homura-chan spend time out here to relax when she has time?" "I'm not really the type of person to enjoy sitting around for too long," the ebony replied, "I like exploring places that have technical stuff in it."

Happy at the progress she made to get Homura to talk, Madoka simply smiled brightly, "I see! So you must be really great with machinery and stuff then, right?" Taken aback by the compliment, Homura couldn't help but to smile faintly and blush, "I'm not really that great…" she responded shyly. Seeing a bashful Homura made the pinkette smile even wider, she was getting passed the ebony's cold layers.

Before she could say anything else though, Homura halted and glanced at her, "We're here, Kaname-san." she spoke. Glancing around various times, Madoka finally looked back at Homura and tilted her head, "Um… I don't see your place anywhere…" Finally releasing the pinkette's hand, the stoic girl felt through some bushes before a clicking sound was heard, and a robotic voice spoke through a speaker. "Please place your hand print in order to verify entrance to the headquarters." Doing as she was told, Homura pressed her hand against the scanner and opened the gateway entrance.

They both stepped in and before Madoka could proceed any further, Homura turned towards her. "Listen Kaname-san, I'm going to need you to stay as close to me as possible. Whatever happens, just let me do the talking. And don't mention the incident that happened to me earlier." Wanting to ask why, Madoka opened her mouth to ask, but was cut off by Homura, "Don't ask why you shouldn't, just please, don't mention anything." Understanding, the pinkette nodded, "Okay, I'll let you do all the talking Homura-chan. And I won't mention it either."

This was it, Madoka was in. She was with Homura, so her chances of being killed off accidentally would reduce to zero. All she needed was approval and she'd be set to go. But that wasn't what she had in mind, she was thinking about why Homura didn't want her to mention anything about her near death experience.

"Maybe it's because of that strict policy she mentioned to me earlier…" she thought. Or maybe, just maybe, if someone was that close to intoxication, they'd be a threat to everyone else's safety. Whatever it was, Madoka was curious as to why Homura wanted nothing of that to be mentioned. Just what exactly were the consequences for that?


A/N: Welp, here's this other chapter and it is crap I think. The next one will be better though, I hope! Leave a review if you would, those are always nice to read because I like to hear what people think haha;; sooo yeah, thanks for reading! Have a good day/night/afternoon ^_^