One Week Later...
Dena continued to walk on the treadmill device as they called it while Johann who was back in his Spartan Armor watched. Over the past week she was able to walk again and now she was busy trying to regain strength back in her bones.
"Alright Ms. Dena we're going to increase the speed only a little. I want to see you do just a little jogging. If it starts to hurt extremely let me know and stop." Johann warns her up front.
She nods and lets him increase the speed of the device. She continued to walk fast despite her leg was hurting her. After walking fast for a small while she started jogging a little but quickly found that it was getting too much to bear.
"Is it too much for you Ms. Dena? I can stop for you." He asks.
She nods her head in agreement. Johann nods back and turns the device off. Slowly the machine slowed down and so did Dena. When the two came to a complete stop, Dena felt her leg and chest hurting while breathing hard.
"Here Ms. Dena. Have some water." Johann says as he gives her a glass of water with a straw in it. She sips into it and feels a little bit refreshed.
Johann helps her sit down on a nearby bench to catch her breath. "How do you feel? Are you in any pain?"
"It hurts when I breath sometimes and my leg always acts up every time I try to either jog or run or when I walk for too long." She answers while trying to calm her body down.
"I see, yes that's just your bones trying not to re break themselves they're not yet as strong as they used to be." he answered.
"I understand. I just need more rest is all."
Johann brings up a holographic sketch board and writes a little stuff down.
"Three hours, twenty five minutes, and fifty seconds. I think we're done for today. Alright when you feel ready I want to carefully try walking back to your room and then get some rest for the day." Johann tells her as he finishes writing down Dena's progress for the day.
"Very well and thank you again doctor. For everything."
"No need to thank me Fraulein, I just do what I can on whatever I am assigned to do." Johann answers as he stands up and starts walking off while singing some song in German. "Meine kleinen Krankenschwester, willst du mit mir gehen."
Dena titled her head a little confusion as she watched him walk off singing a song in German.
"What is that you are humming to?" Dena asks curiously.
Johann didn't hear her as he was out of the room before he could hear the question. She sighs and continues thinking over with the dream she had with the Spartan. She can't help it if it was Lex all this time.
"Maybe I should go get some rest as Johann requested." she said to herself as she carefully got up and started walking out the room. She was glad to at least walk a little in one week but still was concerned if she was going to have enough time before they arrive.
Since the therapy room was only a couple of feets close to the medbay, it didn't take her long to return back to her room and lay down on her bed. She laid there tired out with her muscles burning and her bones aching. It was better then them being broken however. As she stared at the ceiling above her she still thought about the Spartan from Reach in her dreams.
"Is it really him? After all this time." She asks herself and getting a bit flashback moments with the Spartan. "If it is him then why I do have these strange feelings for him?" She asks herself again.
She decided to turn around and lay on her right side as she continued thinking about Lex and the possibility of him being the Spartan she fought back on Reach. She grabs her bed sheet and squeezes it tightly over thinking on her memories with Lex but tries to calm down a bit. She tried thinking of something else in an attempt to not let her memories of Reach bother her. To her surprise she suddenly started thinking about that moment when Lex had to help her get a Urine sample for Johann.
"I felt something touched me in my heart from him. It's like that human tale Romeo & Juliet. Is this what it feels like?" She thought to herself and blushes a bit.
She tried shaking the thought out of her head and just rest. The moment she tried she again started thinking back at that moment with Lex holding her while she was butt naked in front of him and urinating in a cup. Remembering how he held her in such a strange and perverted moment, his gently touch on her despite him wearing his Spartan armor at the time.
"I can't help myself. Why are these thoughts in my head?" She thought to herself and realizing that her hand was down near her womanhood and it was wet.
Her face blushed a deep purple color and tried moving away. However she found that her body was now desiring that touch she had just a moment ago and was not going to leave her alone just yet.
"Oh dammit why did this have to happen now of all the bad times. And why is it happening just because I'm trying to figure out if Lex is that Spartan I fought on Reach or not." she asked herself quietly as she struggled to resist her body's burning urges.
She couldn't resist the urge any longer as she began rubbing her womanhood lips gently while moaning quietly. She tries to moan quietly so the guards or Johann won't hear her as she feel her fingers were getting wetter.
She started breathing heavily as she gently rubbed her pussy lips quietly. Her face blushing more and her body feeling more hot. She traced a line across her slit and pulled her clitoris every now and then. Finally she couldn't take it no more. She rolled on her back, placed her full hand inside her pants and continued rubbing in there. She used her other hand to reach under her shirt to massage one of her boobs.
She growls softly under her breath huffing and puffing. She moans softly and speaks in her Sangheili language as she rubs herself deeper into her slit.
"What is happening to me? Why am I doing this?" she moaned softly in her Sangheili language.
She was beginning to grow increasingly hot as the pleasure was increasing. The more she rubbed her slit and played with her boobs the more she just wanted more. With a soft and quiet growl, she quickly took her shirt, pants, bra, and panties off. Tossing them to the floor to lay butt naked on her bed as she increased her actions tenfold. Inserting her finger inside her womanhood to finger fuck herself like crazy while her thumb rubbed her butt hole slightly. She squeezed and fondled her breasts and nipples roughly as she moaned even more pleasure.
"Why must I feel like this? My body is burning with a rage for Lex. Why?" She thought to herself in Sangheili while moaning under her breath.
She arched her back and finger fucked herself furiously as she squeezed both her large breasts in one hand and her nipples in her fingers. She sees an object next to her shaped as what the humans called a pen of some sort. She takes it and slowly rubs it around her pussy lips as she moans more from it and lastly slides it into her womanhood while growling in pleasure.
In the heat of the moment she soon found herself thinking back at that moment with Lex and the urine sample. However in her imagination after she peed in the cup, Lex slowly started rubbing his spartan armored fingers in her pussy. The imagination made her softly moan as she increased her efforts to slide the pen in her breeding hole much more faster.
"Yes Lex. Be my mate." She moans softly while speaking in Sangheili as she images another dream. She uses the moment back when she encountered Lex on Reach but fantasizes it.
Instead of being close to death she sees him kissing her on the mandibles. But of them were out of armor as she sees a large bulge in his underwear. He takes it off and wastes no time to thrust inside her without giving her a chance to see it.
She moans and growls more but a bit louder. She still tries not to yell out to get attention but she couldn't bare the thought feeling of Lex inside of her. She thrusts with incredible stamina as she soon found herself getting ready to blow. She tries holding it in for two maybe three more minutes. However all good things had to come to an end. Tossing the pen aside she finished herself with her fingers. Within at least another minute, she came with a geyser of translucent blue liquid squirting out of her.
She moans out loudly while squirting out her own liquid out of pleasure as it gets on the bed. She calms down and collapses on the bed clearly out of breath and exhausted from all her actions. Her face still blushing a deep purple with a satisfied smile on her face.
"Oh Lex. From that day on Reach. I hope we can be more than allies." She spoke to herself softly and quietly in her Sangheili language.
She quietly covered herself in her bedsheet and went to sleep, dreaming more of her Spartan, Lex.
Meanwhile, Alex was briefing Oracle Team in a briefing room with Johann and Joseph in the room.
"So Doc how is our patient?" Alex asked.
Johann sighs. "She has recovered the ability to walk but unfortunately recovery is slow." Johann answers.
Alex just sits down and rubs his face helmet.
"So that's it Doc?" Alex asks.
"I'm afraid so."
Alex thinks for a moment.
"She just needs time to recover that's all." Lex states.
"Yeah I know. Which is why we can't afford to wait. Once we arrive Oracle will have to proceed without her until she does." Alex states bluntly.
"As if we have a choice." Hogan comments.
"Now by the time we get there it is possible she will at least regained most of her abilities but still will need to retrain herself which will take weeks." Johann says.
"So you're telling us, that she won't be able to help us for weeks even when we get there?" Lex asks.
"Korrekt."
"Uh… what?" Hogan misunderstood.
Johann sighs annoyingly.
"Like I'm telling everyone in this room. She can't serve Oracle until she's retrained and suited for the field which could take weeks once we're there. And no there is no way else to speed up the process and if there was I sure as hell will not risk because of the chance of permanently breaking her."
"We understand that doctor." Lex answers.
"Will she be okay for Cyro Sleep?" Alex asks next.
"Well we do have technology to keep her muscles moving while she will be asleep. But still even with that she will still need to relearn how to be useful on the field." Johann crosses his arms behind his back.
"Is that your final word doctor?" Alex asks.
Johann nods.
"Alright guys you heard the Doc. Ms. Dena won't be on the team for another few weeks even after we get there. So you guys are gonna have to play it the usual way until she does." Alex answers.
"I think we can handle that sir." Hogan answers.
"Good, team dismissed and I want everyone prepared for Cyro sleep in two hours." Alex states as he dismisses the team.
"Yes sir." Lex salutes as the team walk off into the cryo room.
"So what are we gonna do without Ms. Elite with us?" Jared asked.
"The same thing we always do. Just because she won't be joining us doesn't mean it's the end of the world. We can manage without her for a few or more weeks." Hogan answers.
"Hogan is right. We'll let her rest for the time being as we are to do the same." White contributes.
Lex didn't say anything.
"Hey Lex still with us?" White asks.
Lex was still deep thought about that day on Reach with the female Elite General and comparing to Dena. He remembers the feeling of her slim curvy body when he fought her on Reach and when he was helping her with the urine sample.
"Lex!" White shouted at him.
Lex snaps out of it. "Huh? Oh sorry I'm just in a deep thought. What were you saying, White?"
White, Hogan, and jared look at each other for a moment before looking back at Lex.
"What?" Lex asks.
"Are you okay, Lex?" Jared asks curiously.
"Yeah I'm fine just deep at thought on what to expect when we find the Covenant and that Forerunner Promethean lady or whatever the hell she is." Lex answered.
"Oh okay then." Hogan answers.
"So you're not upset that the Elite is not going to be joining us for a few weeks or more?" Jared asked.
"Well a little because I don't want this to be all for nothing you know." Lex answers.
"Sir don't forget we're going there to top the Covenant at all costs." Hogan reminds him.
"I know, Hogan. I know."
"Well I guess all there's left now is to get prepared for Cyro sleep, better go check on your friend and help her get ready." White states as she, Jared, and Hogan walk off.
Lex watches them walk off as he goes off to the medbay to check on Dena. As he makes his way to the med bay he still was plagued by memories of the events of Reach. Most noticeably the one where he encountered the female elite general and was forced to watch and let two of his closes Spartan Teammates die.
Almost shortly after that battle him and White fought in Reach. Only she and Lex were able to make it out of that area alive. He remembered it rained that night as they hid inside an abandoned and ruined building. They had their helmets off for different reasons that night. Lex forgot why he took his off but he remembered White had taken her's off to ball her eyes out.
Lex just sat there in complete silenced as he listened to White ball her eyes out for their two dead brothers in arms they had served with for almost ten years. Lex was just as if not more devastated for their loss then she was. After all, it was he who made the choice to let one die and unable to save the other.
He checked the time and sees that they needed to move. Getting up he carefully walked over to White only for her to turn around and punch him in the face as hard as she could.
"You bastard! How could you just leave them to die like that!" she yelled and punched Lex hard again in the face. "They were our brothers God Damn it! I mean God Damn it Lex how fucking could you!" she yelled at him.
When White tried punching him again, he gently blocked her attack, grabbed her and pulled her into a deep hug. She punched him hard in the ribs for a moment before stopping and began breaking down crying her eyes out on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, White. It's either one or none at all." Lex speaks low with a breaking voice.
She couldn't say any words due to how upset she was. He hugs her tighter but gentle like as Lex begins to tear up a bit.
"It's not fair...it's not fair...they didn't even have the chance to even known what it's like outside this life." she cried.
Hearing that made the tears in Lex's eyes form even bigger as he tried his hardest to not cry himself.
"I know, sister. I know."
"Don't say that. Don't you fucking dare say that. Not right now please…" she cried a little harder on his shoulder as she held him tightly. "They were our family. The only family we ever knew…"
Lex continues holding her closely as UNSC reinforcement came to pick them up.
"We can't leave them like that. Not with unmarked graves…" she whimpered.
"Who says we were leaving them?" Lex asks.
White simply lets him go, puts her helmet on and walks off slowly to be picked up by the UNSC aircraft. Lex and the soldiers followed into the aircraft as Lex looks back while the door shuts and the aircraft takes off.
Lex continued to walk down the hallway towards the med bay as he continued to remember the horrible events that day on Reach. Before he knew it, he found himself already at Dena's room and not realizing it until he noticed her sleeping form underneath the blankets of her bed.
He sits down in a chair besides her and watches her sleep for a small moment before softly patting her on the shoulder. She slowly woke up and yawned to stretch her mandibles wide.
"Hey there." Lex said.
(Gasps) "Spartan Lex." She grabs her sheet covering herself remembering what she did earlier. "I didn't expect you."
"Sorry to bug you. The whole ship will be entering cyro sleep soon for the rest of the trip. Just wanted to give you a heads up." Lex says softly.
"Really? What will happen to me then?" Dena asks curiously.
"You'll be joining us and everybody on board this ship in Cyro sleep. There's supposed to be some special devices installed in yours that's suppose to help and exercise your muscles to try and help you recover even while you're in cyro sleep." Lex answered.
"So this will help me heal faster and while besides you?" She asks.
"It will help but not as much and I don't know if you'll be beside me or not they may put you in Cyro sleep in the medbay for that procedure." Lex answered.
"Because if I am to be frozen… I want to be… by your side." She says hesitantly with a deep purple blush.
Lex rubs his face a little. "Sorry, they got to keep you where they need you and me where they need me. But on the way back home, I promise." he smiled and patted her hand gently.
"I understand, Spartan. You do what's necessary." Dena says with a disappointed look.
"If it's okay with you, call me just Lex please." Lex requested.
"Very well then, Lex." She says with a lightened smile.
Lex smiles and just stares down at the ground.
"Why must you stare at the ground, Lex?" She asks curiously with a tilted head.
"Sorry just, old bad memories hurt." Lex answered.
"I know. I've been having bad nostalgic memories as well." Dena contributes.
"Stuff you did in the War?' Lex asked looking back at her.
"Yes but this one particular memory I have. Something that keeps reminding me of a Spartan I fought before on Reach. I just wished I knew that Spartan and why as well."
Lex chuckled a little.
"Bet that Spartan was one tough son of a bitch huh?" he asked.
"Yes he was. The feeling he had on me felt similar… to you but what do I know."
"Similar to me?" Lex asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes the feeling of his hands against me from that on Reach and when from the certain thing you helped with. The feeling felt the same and felt odd to me." She answers.
Lex remained silent for a moment before getting up. "Well I need to go get ready. They should be able to come and escort you to yours in just a moment. So I'll see you in six or whatever the heck amount of weeks we got left." Lex states as he begins to head out the door.
"Very well then. I'll shall see you soon, Spar… Lex."
Lex looks back and smiles at Dena before walking off. Once he exited her room and started making his way to the Cyro chamber his mind was now focused on a different set of thoughts. Dena was that female Elite General he fought back on Reach. He knew there had to be a connection due to the strong resemblance but now he wasn't sure what to think. Was it fate by chance that they met or was it just coincidence he wondered. Either way he wasn't sure what to think anymore. At this point hopefully she'll get the chance of redemption on this mission. However in the back of his mind, he hoped and prayed that they'll all be able to survive and come out of this okay. Because for another reason he didn't know why, he had a strong bad feeling about this mission. One that strongly reminded him of the bad feeling he had before Reach was attack. These thoughts stayed and bothered him even when he entered Cyro sleep and froze himself like everyone else.