Note: Kickboxing class is kicking my butt with all the new stuff but here's the newest chapter! I can't find season 3 ANYWHERE and I was trying to think of what happened in order, where who was where with who and it just isn't coming back to me at all... Bare with me, people. -mutters to self- Tom and Pope grabbed Cochise and I want to say Ben wasn't to terribly far away before... Huh... -rambles on while looking for typos- I might write this over later. Still short, too...
The explosion forced a loud ringing in Trisha's ears and everything seemed to move in slow motion. Cochise had grabbed her around her waist and pulled her back against his chest, another Volm jumping over him in an attempt to shield them both.
Once most of her senses came back Trisha was laying face down, her head was bleeding but she couldn't feel anything other pain at the moment. The stream of blood from her head had reached her mouth filling it with the unpleasant iron taste. She rolled over as best she could and put her hands on Cochise face as gently as possible, "Cochise..?" She trailed off feeling a wave of pain in her head.
"Trish..."
"Cochise..."
"Are you hurt?" He brought up a weak and shaking hand to rub the blood away from her head, "How bad... Is it?"
"Cochise, hang on! I'll get help!" The human moved out from under the Volm and saw the scene around them, stunned at the sudden change of events.
"Trisha, do not worry. Everything will be alright. Have faith."
Without thinking she started screaming at the top of her lungs, a scream for help.
"Trisha?!"
"Tom! I need help!" She screamed, holding the alien's hand with both of her own. Figures started forming through the flames and her cries grew even louder.
"What the hell happened?!"
"I don't know! Tom, please help me get him to the hospital!"
Tom and Pope gathered around and helped the Volm leader and Ben had to force Trisha to let his hand go, "Trish, you're wounded. You need medical attention too."
Ben picked the woman up, surprised by how light she was and ran to find the closest nurse or doctor. Lourdes ran up to them after helping with Cochise, "She's lost a lot of blood, considering head wounds tend to bleed a lot."
Trisha had allowed her body to go limp in Ben's arms, the head wound starting to throb in pain. Though she wasn't quite sure how much time passed until she was able to stand up without feeling dizzy, once she was able she went straight to Cochise's side. He was unconcious but still alive.
"Cochise, thank God! I thought I had lost you..." She went to touch him but was terrified of causing more damage. Very carefully she held his hand. She refused to leave his side even when another explosion was heard, using herself as a shield over him to protect him from anything that could have possibly came from the loud sound.
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Katana came running up to Trish after a few hours and wrapped her arms around her best friend, "I came as fast as I could when I heard but I was kind of trapped for a while. Tom caught the mole, Lourdes."
"Lourdes? But I just saw her not to terribly long ago..."
"He said you had fallen asleep and he caught her trying to kill either one or both of you. Not to mention she gave herself away."
"But..." Trish looked down and shook her head then looked back up at Katana, "I need to talk to you about something."
She sat in a chair next to the bed and spoke quietly to her friend who ended up grabbing her free hand with hers, "You're okay, right? I mean with the seizures and now the head injury..."
"I'm fine."
The two were quiet for another moment and Katana broke the silence, "Remembered how things were before all of this?"
"Voice and art lessons at the college we were finally accepted into, being roommates and eating take out food every night from the Japanese resturaunt we loved so much?"
"Zombie movies and Xbox games on weekends and free nights." Katana smiled, "We haven't actually sang together in a long while since this happened. I miss it."
"Me too."
"And sushi..."
"Oh, yes..."
Katana moved her gaze to Cochise and sighed, "A few years ago if someone would have told me you'd end up with an alien I probably wouldn't have believed it. Now a zombie I would have believed!"
"Katana, ew."
"Kidding, kidding. I'm glad you are finally loved, Trish."
Katana gave her friend a kiss on her forehead and walked away. Trisha just sat at Cochise's hospital bed and held his hand. Eventually she fell asleep laying her head not far from his.
At one point she woke up and jerked off the bandages that were wrapped around her head. After she fixed her hair and made sure the wound was closed and healing she noticed Cochise had tightened his fingers around her hand that had been holding his.
"You are a very beautiful being, indeed." He smiled up at her.
"Cochise!" Trisha touched her fingers against his head, "I told you not to scare me, remember?"
Her voice was quiet and gentle and a smile graced her face, it was a wonderful thing to see after waking up, "Forgive me."
"You're forgiven."
Question of the day: Should Trish be with Cochise, Weaver and Tom when they all meet dear ol' dad or should she wait? I have both ways planned out but figured I'd ask some opinions. Either way is dramatic. I don't think he'd be very accepting of his son's mate at first.
