The entire world felt like it had been tilted sideways, flipped inside out, and then dropped onto her when Rei started to come back around. If she had to phrase it, she felt like total shit. Her head was pounding and her wrist was sore as was her upper left arm. Did she get rammed by her ship face first?

Slowly and carefully, she opened her eyes and looked up at the ceiling. Good news, it was her ship. Bad news, she was on her ship but she wasn't hearing the ocean. She raised her left hand up towards her ear to feel something in her hand. Slowly she raised it and had to focus to read it.

Don't Panic. You've got temporary hearing loss.

Will be back in a couple of days.

Balance will be off.

The writing was clearly Ami's and she let out a small sigh at that, trying to recall what in the name of Serenity had even happened. She was down at the port when some ass decided they a fight was necessary. She recalled the cut into her wrist and raised her arm to look at it and was surprised at what she saw. Around her arm, with the sleeve rolled up, was the yellow fabric Minako kept tied around her waist. It must have been Ami's choice to use it as the injury wasn't awful.

Despite this, the injury still had a burning sensation to it and she frowned. She didn't recall anything after shooting the guy in the face. It was concerning to be missing a chunk and not know how long you were unconscious or why.

Every so cautiously, she pulled herself into a sitting up position, only to be met with Minako at the end of the bed. She was leaned back against the wall of the ship and her head tilted forward as she slept. Her hair was down, which was unusual, and she noted the bandage across her face with the swelling. Someone at the port fight must have nicked her across the face.

For some reason, that thought and image made Rei's blood boil and she had no idea why. It wasn't a serious injury, obviously. Not only that, she never felt this way before when anyone else on her ship was injured.

Next, she addressed the rest of the room to see it was empty, but someone had clearly slept in the bed across the way as the sheets and blankets were thrown every which way. Then she looked back at Minako again. Why was she sleeping sitting up at the end of her bed?

It was then she realized something. Even in her sleep, Minako was incredibly tense, like she was constantly waiting for something to go horribly wrong. Initially she thought the stiffness was due to being on a ship with her crew, but seeing her asleep proved otherwise. Perhaps it was the constant stress of being a Navy Commander that caused her to be on edge, it was a possibility. At the same time, Rei had a fair number of run ins with other Navy crews and while they were serious, none were quite like this.

Her eyes trailed from Minako's hand up to her face again as she leaned forward to look at her. Her eyebrows were furrowed together, as if in a nightmare and it seemed like she was grinding or clenching her teeth together. That made Rei frown. It was a look that made Minako looks less attr-.

She immediately cut that thought off with a scowl. She was not about to say this girl was attractive, no way in hell. The only reason she was on her ship is that letting her go with her location known was a liability and given the current circumstances, would also probably get her killed. Instead, she reached forward to shake her shoulder.

"Wha—" Minako jolted awake and immediately grabbed the hand on her shoulder firmly, ready to break it or throw whoever it was off of her until she was met face to face with a pair of stunning amethyst eyes. "Rei?"

"Can't hear still." Rei wasn't sure if her volume was too quiet or too loud, but she tried to talk like she normally did. "How long have I been out?"

Minako went to talk and frowned a bit. How was she supposed to convey this without any pen or paper around her? Her next best guess was to hold fingers up for hours and held up nine of them.

"Nine hours!?" Rei watched Minako nod, mortified. She moved to get up in a rush and found herself unable to balance and slammed right into the support beam with a grunt, holding onto it. No wonder Ami was always concerned about being too close to the cannons and ear damages they could cause if this was the result.

She felt Minako's arm come around her and support her and had to clench her teeth hard. Rei hated to accept help, it made her weak. If she didn't accept this help, she was going to wind up dragging herself across the ship to the maps she had bought and somehow, that thought was more mortifying than a Navy Commander helping her walk.

"I need to get to Haruka and the maps." Getting a nod in response, they slowly moved their way across the ship.

Makoto was thankful to be up and moving, although her hand was still hurting. With nothing going on and unable to do any work on the ship, she found herself above the deck, just watching the ocean and cloudy skies. Sometimes it could be exhausting to see nothing but the same sighs of never ending water, but there were times it was the utmost relaxing thing. It didn't carry the loud noise that the cities did for sure.

Taking in a deep breath, she closed her eyes for a moment before opening and continuing to just watch the ocean, leaned against the railing with no thoughts in particular. It was when she felt a hand on her arm that she jumped and looked over.

"Ami?"

"…Are you okay, Makoto?"

Well that was concerning. Ami usually avoiding her full name when it was just them unless it was a pretty serious situation or they were in bed together.

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

"I was…I was steady calling your name and you didn't respond." She watched Ami frown. "Maybe I gave you too much of the medicine…"

"No, sorry I was just…thinking, that's all."

"About what?"

Makoto was silent for a moment. She had really had no thoughts on her mind at all, but she needed Ami not to worry any more than she already was. "My parents." That was still the wrong topic to choose, but the only one that would work in this situation.

"Mako…"

"I know. I can't do anything now." She smiled a little at Ami, thought her eyes didn't meet it. "Doesn't mean I don't think about them time to time."

Suddenly she found herself pulled into a hug and wanted to resist, but instead simply rested her forehead down onto Ami's shoulder. She really did miss her parents, had wondered what her life would be like if they were still around.

"Besides, if they were still here, I would have never met you." She felt Ami stiffen at that one. "That's a good thing, please don't take it the wrong way."

"I'm glad I met you too, but…I still wish it hadn't gone that way for you."

"And yet here I am. Called a pirate in this day and age when that's the thing that—" Her words were cut off by Ami putting her hand over her mouth.

"Makoto." Okay so maybe that was pushing a boundary she shouldn't cross that often lead her into a depressed state and Ami had seen it happen on more than one occasion. "You don't have to explain anything, I know. I understand." Ami's words softened on her last words as she pulled her hand away.

"I saw Rei earlier." A change in subject was critical. "She okay?"

"Yes. She said she still can't hear and Minako had to help her walk…." It was like Ami was suddenly far away, Makoto realized. She wasn't able to focus on whatever she was saying as she talked about Rei's condition and whatever else was going on.

"Makoto!"

"What!?" She jumped at the sudden yelling, only to see Ami looking even more concerned and leaning into her face, looking at her closely. "Is there something on my face?"

"Did..Did you hear anything I just said?"

"You said Rei was fine."

"What else?"

"Uh…." Well that was a question she couldn't answer.

"Are you sure it was just your hand you hurt? You didn't get hit across the head or anything?"

"Just my hand, that's it. I swear to you Ami, nothing else happened. No other nicks or cuts, not even a single scratch outside of my hand. What makes you ask that?"

"….Because your eyes were glazed over and you were nonresponsive." Something about the situation was making Ami uncomfortable. "Rei did the same thing, only she attacked Minako. Did you have any nightmares? Any hallucinations after waking up?"

"No, none of either. I woke up and came right up here to get some fresh air. And then you came up."

Boy if she thought Ami looked dumb founded before.

"You haven't moved from here since you came above the deck?"

"No. Woke up like twenty minutes ago and-"

"Makoto, love. You woke up two hours ago." Ami was most certainly concerned now. So was Makoto. She ran her hand over her face for a moment.

"Maybe I just need some more rest. With everything that happened, I might not be fully rested yet." It was plausible and she didn't want to think anything awful was going on. "Could be the medicine, maybe?" She had hoped.

"Do you want me to go lay down with you?"

"I'll be fine. Rei might need the extra hands with everything going on and since she's on maps, I can't help anyways since I can't write stuff down." She smiled a little. "Just come in and check on me and when it's bed time you can rest with me, okay?"

Ami was hesitant, she clearly didn't feel comfortable leaving Makoto alone given the situation.

"I'm just sleeping, Ami. I'll be fine." Leaning down, she gave her a quick kiss and walked around her and below the deck into their room, Ami watching her disappear the entire time, speaking only one soft word of concern.

"Mako…"