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Third Person Point of View
Seven winced as Rex walked her to her room. She clutched the area around her ribs, remembering how hard Six had elbowed her during the fight. In the end, he had agreed to train her along with Rex. Seven winced again and stopped walking. Rex turned around, concerned.
"Hey, Seven, are you okay?"
"Yeah…" she replied. She leaned against the wall, still clutching that spot.
"Holiday said it probably caused some internal bleeding. It just… hurts."
Rex still looked concerned.
"Well, here's your room. Room 7486."
They both walked into the stark white room. There was a bed built into a cut-out part of one of the walls. There was also a dresser with a mirror, some shelves, a closet and a desk.
"Wow." Said Rex. "Guess they give agents like you and Six the good stuff."
"If this is good then I don't want to know what standard looks like." Seven said, shaking her head. She sat down on her bed. Seven looked at Rex.
"You wanna help me unpack?"
"Sure. I have nothing else to do. That's basically providence for you."
"Let me just unpack my clothes first."
After Rex turned around, Seven unpacked all her clothes and put them in the drawers. Then all that was left in her suitcase was a couple of books, a black case, canvases, and some decorations from her apartment.
Rex picked up a decoration in each hand. They were small statues of peacocks. One was golden with purple accents, on a golden dish, with the tail of the peacock spread out. The one in his other hand was a silver one on a silver dish with blue accents, and the wings folded around the body of the peacock, creating a flowing robe of silver.
"Guess you're really into peacocks huh?" He held one of the statues at arm's length, as if looking at it differently made a difference.
"Yeah… I love peacocks. The silver one can go on the shelf. The gold one that holds incense goes on my desk."
He put them where she wanted while Seven was putting the books on the shelf.
"What's this?" Rex asked as he eyed the black case.
"Oh. It's my art stuff. I'm big on art."
Seven took the case and opened it on the dresser. Inside held paints, paintbrushes, small plastic palettes, shading pencils, and other art supplies.
"I can see that." Said Rex as he set the canvases down on the same place.
"Actually can you put the canvases in that drawer in my desk?"
"Sure."
While he did that Seven unpacked the last thing. But Seven didn't get up. She sat there, with a cracked faded photo in her hand. Rex sat down next to Seven and looked at the photo. Then he spoke softly.
"Is that your mom and sister?"
"Yeah… I've been looking for them for 5 years before Providence recruited me. I never found a trace of them. All I know is that they went Evo and disappeared."
Rex put an arm around her shoulder, not flirtatiously but comfortingly.
"I can't remember my family. I have a brother that showed up a while ago. He's a scientist here. His name is Cesar. But I know that you'll find them. "
Seven sighed and wrapped her arms around his chest spontaneously.
"Thanks Rex."
"Oh, well, uh… It's alright." He blushed and grinned sheepishly.
Seven got up and placed the photo on the dresser, lingering slightly.
The photo was faded and the glass was cracked but it was the one thing she had left keeping her on track. She ran a hand on the dresser and suddenly keeled over and coughed up blood.
"Rex! Get Holiday!"
And that was the last thing Seven remembered.
Rex got up quickly, calling Holiday on the intercom.
"Holiday!"
The comlink buzzed and her voice came in.
"What Rex?"
"You were right about the internal bleeding thing! Right now she's on the floor and she just coughed up blood!"
"She should be okay. Just bring her over."
Rex listened to the doctor and carried Seven over to Holiday's lab. He set her down on a spare gurney Holiday set up. Six was talking to Holiday about Seven's damage.
"Is she okay?" asked Six. He had no idea how one elbow to the gut could cause this much damage.
"No, she's not." Holiday said, still mad with Six.
Six mentally sighed.
"It was an accident!"
She looked at him calmly. She would draw this out as long as she could.
"It was."
"So?"
"So what?"
This is when Six realized that two could NOT play this game. He sighed. He would make it up to her. Somehow.
He walked over to the currently unconscious girl laying on the gurney. He really did truly honestly feel bad. He just hoped Seven didn't put up as much of a guilty fight as Holiday.
Rex was currently beside Seven. He was deeply concerned for the girl. He'd only known this girl for a couple of hours and he felt that he'd known her for years. He didn't like her romantically. And Seven didn't like him like that either. But they had both lost something in common and they felt for each other like a brother and sister.
Seven stirred and Rex held her hand. It was just like sibling love. And in Rex's mind, it probably wouldn't become more. He was a little saddened by that fact but he was 4 years older than her and he had Circe… Oh wait, she's with sqywddie. He really needed to get serious about his harem of girls.
Seven sat up after about an hour. Six was looking somewhat concerned and Rex was in a chair beside her, holding her hand. She first blushed but then thought that he couldn't possibly have meant it romantically. I mean, he had only known her for a couple of hours. He just looked glad to see her.
Six went back to being his incredibly stoic self.
"Are you ok? I … didn't mean to cause you that much pain."
She shrugged.
"It's alright. I'll only be like this for a little more. Not much harm done."
Rex eventually dropped her hand and gave her a warm smile.
"I'm glad you're alright."
"Thanks."
She smiled at him but put a hand to her head and swayed. Rex steadied her, putting his hands on her arms.
"I feel… light-headed."
Holiday came up behind Six and Rex with a clipboard.
"She's just lost a lot of blood. I'll give you some pills to stimulate your red blood cells and I want you to rest, ok?"
"You got it Doc."
Seven looked at Rex sleepily and held out her arms.
"Carry me back to my room bro?"
Rex noticed that she had emphasized "Bro."
"Sure." He said with a smile.
He picked her up and walked out the door.
Six turned around to leave when he ran into Holiday.
Oh no.
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