Time to Heal
"NNOOOOOO!" Mia screamed as she watched the bloody phone booth.
She did her best to get over there as soon as possible with tears pouring down her face and she was sobbing heavily. He leg was giving her some serious problems walking so she had to crawl over there dragging half her body and at the moment her automail never seemed heavier.
When she reached it she ripped his shirt so she could see the wound better and at the first sight she though she would vomit. It was still bleeding heavily and the bullet seemed to have gone all the way through to the other side.
"No…" She whispered as she started at him. "Oh, no… no, no, no, NO!" Her crying became so bad she started to have trouble breathing. She folded her arms across his body and laid her head down on them as she continued to cry.
Roy still had the phone in his had but was not listening to anything anymore. "Come on!" He yelled to some of the people that were there. "Tell Central Headquarters to look for Hughes in the outside phone booths! And get me a ticket to Central NOW!"
"Colonel! What's going on?" Hawkeye cried as she caught up with him in the halls.
"I don't know." He said. "But I know it's nothing good."
The two of them were accompanied by Feury, Havoc and Breda on there way outside to the cars. Hawkeye informed them on the very little information she knew. And they went on there way to Central right away.
Mia arms and legs were now covered in blood, and when she started to hear cars coming she lifted her head up face stained with tears. She saw military officials start to come in the area and cars speed to a stop outside the booth.
"Over here!" She heard one of they yell and the one ran over and stopped as soon as he saw the sight and gasped. "Oh my."
"H – he, he's d – dead…." Mia tried to choke out between her sobs.
"Come on…" he said to her as more officials came all of them having the same reaction as the first.
A female official about two ranks lower then Mia walked over and calmly picked Mia up out of the blood and helped her over to one of the closer benches. She took Mia's blood soaked coat off and threw it into one of the cars, and wrapped a blanket around her.
"Now, can you tell me what happened?" She asked in a soothing voice. "It's okay."
"I – I c – came here t – to check on him. Gracia said sh – she was getting worried… T – then I couldn't find him anywhere… S – so I - looked outside and I – I saw Ross… But it... it wasn't her it was – s – some imitation and then s – she changed into Gracia and and s – sh – she shot him!" Mia got out through choked sobs. "I tried t – to stop her b – but I – I couldn't…"
The officer sighed heavily obviously trying not to cry but a tear escaped her eye anyway, the story was insane, but there was no doubt about the dead man laying only a few feet away.
"HE'S ALIVE!" One of the men shouted that were carrying the stretched over to the ambulance, shokcing both of them.
"What….?" Mia whispered as she looked up. "He's alive….?"
"Yes, it seems he is." She said smiling. "Looks like you did save him after all."
"Oh thank god."
"Now I have to call Gracia, do you think you'll be alright?" She asked Mia.
"Yeah… yeah I will be…" Mia said not crying from sadness anymore but from pure joy.
The woman walked over to a phone booth a ways away not wanted to be interrupted and called the Hughes home.
"Oh, that must be Mia." Glacier said to herself as she walked over to the phone. Laura walked into the room with Elycia on her hip looking just as worried as she felt.
"Hello?" Glacier said.
"Hello, Mrs. Hughes?" She said.
"Yes, who is this?" She said getting slightly worried; Laura put Elycia down and told her to go play in the other room while Laura walked over to the phone looking a little worried about the look on Gracia's face.
"This is Sergeant Smith I'm afraid I have some bad news concerning your husband."
Glacier gasped now looking terrified. "What about Maes?" She asked quietly.
"I'm afraid he's been shot, by an unknown assassin… he has been badly injured but we do not yet know of his condition… of how serious it is."
"Oh god no…. I'll get down there as soon as I can." Glacier said and then hung up the phone.
"What's going on?" Laura asked in a concerned voice.
"It's Maes… He's been hurt…" Glacier said between uneven breaths. "I – I have to go to Headquarters immediately." She decided running over to grab her purse and coat.
"I want to come to." Laura said.
"No, someone has to stay and look after Elycia… And please don't tell her anything." She pleaded stopping the young woman.
"I won't, I promise but please call and tell me how he is the first chance you get." Laura said placing her hand on Gracia's shoulder.
"I will don't worry." She said before sushing out the door.
Laura looked out at the door for several more seconds until she heard a noise behind her.
"Aunt Laura?" Elycia said as she walked in the room and tugging on her pant leg. "Where did Mommy go? Where's Daddy?"
"Daddy will be staying late today and Mommy will be... she'll be back soon, I promise you can see them both later, okay?" She said trying to stay calm for the little girl.
"Okay, do you wanna come and play with me?" She asked excitedly.
"Sure." Laura quietly trying to put on a happier face.
Back at the Central HQ hospital Mia was lying in one of the hospital beds unconscious with about five people around her trying to get the bullet out of her leg. She also insisted on sharing a room with Maes even though they thought it best they didn't and that they had plenty of rooms but he had said she wanted to be there. But Maes was in a different room at the moment he was in surgery when Gracia arrived and since she could not see either of them at the moment she had to wait outside in the waiting room.
"Excuse me." She said to a passing nurse. "But do you know if my husband Maes Hughes will be out of surgery yet?"
"He will be out shortly maybe in a hour or two they just need to stitch it up and then he needs a bit of rest before he gets any visitors, but Ms. Loup is out of surgery if you would like to see her in the mean time." He said, apperently knowing that the two victim were connected.
"Yes I would." She said as she made her way toward Mia's room. When she opened the door she saw her lying on the bed staring at the ceiling. "Hello…" She said timidly.
"Oh hi Gracia, how ya doin?" She asked smiling ever so slightly.
Glacier let herself smile for a split second before frowning again. "How are you?" She asked.
"Just fine, it's nothing but a scratch."
"Oh don't be like that…. I'm sorry." She said.
"For what?" Mia asked.
"For sending you to check on Maes, I should have done that myself."
"It's not your fault I volunteered to go besides I think it was better that I went, wouldn't want to be in my position right now, you have to look after Elycia and Maes…." Mia said.
"God I hope he's okay… if it weren't for you he would probably be dead."
"Oh no, I just helped he would have gotten out of it. No one can kill Maes Hughes he has to many pictures he hasn't showed us all yet." Mia said smirking.
"I hope not, after this is all over I'll never let him out of the house again."
"Neither will I… Wonder what was so important he couldn't wait to tell anybody, or why he didn't use the inside phones."
"We'll know when he wakes up." Glacier said.
"Yeah…."
The two of them talked for a bit longer until one of the doctors came in and called for Glacier to come into Maes's room because he woke up and they were done with the surgery. By now it was well past one o'clock in the morning and Mia promised Glacier that she would go to sleep and get some rest until morning.
"Maes?" Glacier asked as she walked into the room.
He lifted his head slightly and smiled a little. "Hey, honey…." He said weakly.
"Oh please don't try to talk too much."
"I'm… fine just a little weak…. at the moment I'll be back to my old self… in no time." He said breathing heavily.
"I know you will be… I was so worried about you, don't know what I would do if you died." Glacier said as a tear ran down her face.
"You'll never have… to worry about that…. I'll never leave you… and god forbid I should have to leave… you'll never be alone you'll always have Mia and Roy to help." Maes said wiping the tear off her face.
"But it wouldn't be the same, I love you Maes."
"I love you to, Glacier."
The two of them sat I silence a little longer until Glraciawas told that she had to leave because it was getting too late. She said her goodbyes and then went home to Laura and Elycia.
When she got there she found Laura sitting on the couch reading a book quietly and she looked up when Glacier walked in.
"How are they?" Laura asked as she got up.
"Both are fine, Mia will be out of bed in no time but knowing her she'll probably beg to get out even when she can't walk yet. And Maes… will be okay he can't talk well right now and he won't be out of bed for another week. He's lost a lot of blood, all we can to do is pray."
"He'll be alright he's the almighty Maes Hughes he can live through anything. And I can promise you Mia will be up and walking tomorrow."
Glacier nodded. "Did you put Elycia in bed?"
"Yes, she kept asking for you and Maes."
"What did you tell her?"
"That she would see the both of you very soon."
"Thank you Laura, don't know what I would have done without you here." Glracia said smiling. "Now, why don't you go to bed I think I'm gonna stay up a bit later."
"Are you sure?" Laura asked as she walked toward the stairs.
"Yes… I'll be up in a bit."
AN: Well happy now, he did not die and I repeat did NOT die. This chappie is not the best out of all the chapters I've written, I'm not very happy with it. But at the moment I feel lazy and do not feel like making it any better, sorry. But yay people should just be happy with the fact that he lives don't be picky. Thanks to LunarDog, Strgazer and Day Dreamerz Rule. Okay well people review and I shall see you all in the next chappie.