By the way, just a strong language warning before you read this chapter. It's literally just one word but I feel the need to add this anyway.
Lena awoke to the low humming sound of Kore's chronal accelerator. His arm was wrapped around her neck and reached over her shoulder, as if he was trying to protect her. She arched her back and stretched her arms before freezing in place, realising that she might wake Kore.
"Kore?" she whispered. "You awake, love?". She sighed before relaxing her muscles and slumping back into his protective grip. Suddenly, a coarse voice spoke. "Actually-". He turned his head away from her and coughed. "Yes. Yes I am."
Lena had a guilty look plastered on her face, like a puppy jumped onto the couch without being told to. Kore softly chuckled. "It's okay. I was awake long before you. I was waiting on you to get up." He slowly moved in to plant a kiss on her forehead before resting a hand on her cheek and slowly guiding her head to rest on their pillow.
Lena said nothing and just watched him as he slowly removed his hand from her face. She had a one-sided smile across her lips. "Thank you." she said as she closed her eyes and adjusted her position on the makeshift bed. "I have to say, I have absolutely no idea what we should do today." Kore confessed.
Lena sat up and yawned. "I don't really care," she got up and slowly walked towards him and rested a hand on his chest, burying her head in his neck. "as long as I get to stay with you." she said in a tired tone.
Kore smiled. He liked the way that she ignored everything else just for him. It was silly, and unexplainably irresponsible. But it was cute. They had been out on their little getaway for a week or two now and Lena had been like this the whole time.
Kore's atrention turned to his bag when there was a low rumbling sound, as something inside the bag started to vibrate. He slowly reached inside. He fished around the bag then cautiously pulled out a communicator. On the screen there was a small symbol with writing underneath it.
The text read "Athena". Kore tapped on the screen a few times, seeing if it would respond to his touches. After a few seconds the communicator chimed as the Athena symbol slid off of the screen. There were several contacts listed on the main page, each showing the latest message sent. All of the messages were either unknown dates (possibly due to fuckery with the time stream) or at least a few years old.
There was one contact at the top that had recently sent a message. It said:
"Missed call from contact: Angie-
'Kore, please come back to the Watch Point. If you think running away will help you then you are sorely mistaken. And I know that you have me listed in your contacts as Angie or something similar. Please, my name is Angela and I am your mother so if you don't call me back I can assure you that we will come get you. Don't think I'm not afraid to embarrass you. I have raised you since you were a child and nothing has changed.
Please, please come back. 3 I love you.
Angela."
Kore had actually forgotten that Lena had been slumped over his shoulder, her hands wrapped around his stomach. Until she spoke up. "Sooo... that was Mercy? She seems concerned." Kore had a look on his face that Lena had never seen before. It was a look of hate and confusion. He didn't hate Lena or Angela. He knew that Soldier:76 had put her up to it.
"She has made a huge mistake." Kore muttered softly. Lena knew that it was none of her business but Mercy was her friend and Kore was basically her partner. "How so? She just wants to see you." Kore was surprised by how naive Lena could be. How innocent.
"I would bet my left nut that Soldier:76 is trying to trace our location right now. And I'll bet my right nut that he is going to try and do something very stupid." Lena was confused and wanted to get answers so she simply asked "What is he going to do?".
Kore suddenly had a sad expression on his face. He grabbed Lena and held her close to him. He moved his face closer to hers, until their foreheads were touching and whispered to her "If anything happens you are to run all thr way back to the Watch Point, ok?".
Lena was still very confused. "W-why? Is he... going to try and... hurt you?". Her voice cracked as tears formed in her eyes. Kore's shuddered breathing was more than enough to answer Lena's question.
She started to sob as he stroked her messy, yet beautiful, brown mane. He could only whisper to her "I don't know. Probably. Probably...". He sighed. "I love you".
"Through her crying, Kore could make out the words "I love you too" through her muffled sobs.
He was confused as to why Angela would do as Soldier commanded. He thought that they were on the same side. The same team, like they always had been. Them against the world. But that was a long time ago.
In a very different timeline.
A/N: ALL RIGHTY. I am so sorry for the lack of activity and uploads. If anyone has waited around for me then thank you so much. If you feel like thanking me for continuing, then don't. I will admit, I have just been a lazy asshole. I didn't feel like putting in the effort to continue and for a long time I felt like giving up on this story. If you want to thank anyone, thank Garriso for inspiring me to pick up my shit and get to work on this. That isn't the approach he took, but the outcome is the same. I ended up continuing this story and over the huge and unneccessary break I ended up coming up with some new ideas for this story and ended up planning ahead and extending this story by a mile, compared to before. Garriso told me that I just had to take a step back, look at what is happening with this story and look ahead. So that's what I've done so huge thanks to him, and I will try to update sooner rather than later. And anyway, thanks for reading.
