I run as fast as I can to where I left Yoshika, she's still unconscious and laying on the ground but thankfully her breathing has become normal again. Relief and hope hat she'll survive and that I've saved her floods me and for the first time in a well I feel glad and proud of my actions, I saved not only Yoshika but all of the witches. I saved them, well Trude technically did by shooting him in the back but the most important thing i that everyone is safe and apart from me and Yoshika everyone else is unarmed. I bend down and pick Yoshika up, she needs to see a doctor just to be sure she's ok. I carry her into the building and in-between Minna and Sakamoto who are in no doubt on their way to speak to me, both of them stop though and let me pass when hey see Yoshika in my arms.

2 Years Ago

I wake up and find myself lying on the ground covered in dust and chips of concert that broke off of the ceiling above me, pain shoots through me as I get to my feet most strongly in my back. I look around the room keeping my teeth clenched to deal with the pain looking for Sabin who's nowhere to be seen. I look in every possible place I can think of and some impossible places like a tiny hole in the wall clearly to small or someone to fit through. Worry it clouds your mind and makes it so that you can't think straight, I know that Sabin can't fit in that hole but I'm filled with worry and can't think straight.

"Sabin! Sabin are you in there?" I shout into the hole but get only silence in return. "Sabin answer me!"

Nothing just a cold silence answers my call, thankfully I got enough control to realize my mistake and that Sabin couldn't fit in there and move on. I wasted time and energy checking that hole but I guess worry can make you do stupid things. I walk on further into tunnel calling out Sabin's name as I go and looking for any sign that he's alive and well. Finally I spot something, a light at the end of the tunnel and I feel a breeze gently brushes my body sending a chill down my spin that causes me to shiver.

I run into the light and find a scene of destruction, camp 4 is in ruins. Every building is a pile of rubble on fire filling the air with chocking, thick black smoke and there are bodies everywhere some also on fire and others just simply blown to pieces. Sabin is somewhere here he has to be as there are no sign's of him in the tunnel so he has to be here, he has to be.

Present Day

Minna, Sakamoto and Trude enter the medical ward not long after I handed Yoshika over to the doctors and explained to them what happened to her, Trude looks concerned while as Minna and Sakamoto looks angry but I can hardly blame them because I guess I'll be mad at the person who hurt a friend of mine. Everyone in the 501st and on this base loved Yoshika and seeing her hurt must anger and worry everyone here so its safe to say that I'm in for an earful.

"What happened this time John?" Minna asks and the anger is hard to miss in her voice.

"A Warlock attacked me a put a curse on Yoshika but I think I managed to lift the curse" I tell them, I was going to say more but Minna stops me with a hard slap across the face. Her palm print is left on my check and stings like hell. I've been slapped before by a woman but never this hard or powerful, ever so hard that their palm leaves a red hand print behind.

"Erica's getting an reward tomorrow and after that I'm going to fill paper and have you transferred out of my squad" Minna says as she looks over to Yoshika.

"Minna you..." Gertrud began to complain but one stare from Minna was enough to cut her off and make her look down at the ground.

"I warned you about what would happen if you engendered us and now you nearly got us all killed" Minna says turning back to me. "You should pack your things as I believe that you'll be leaving us in two or three days time"

2 Hours Later

Gertrud Barkhorn "Trude" P.O.V

I'm lead on my bed looking up at the ceiling thinking, what will happen to John if those men attack him again? He only survived the last fight because I saved him. If he leave's then I can't protect him, I can't be there to aid him in battle and I won't be able to be with him. I never thought I would fall in live with someone this soon, I always thought I would go home victorious to Chris and move back to Karlsland, meet someone back home and fall in love with them. Now that won't happen as I've fallen head over heels for John and now he's being taken away from me probably forever.

"What am I going to do without you?" I quietly says to herself as the though of never seeing John again circles around in my mind.

"Who are you going to do without Trude?" A equally quiet voice asks but one that does not belong to me. I roll over to face the source of the voice and find Shirley stood beside my bed so close that I can smell the salmon we had for dinner on her breath. "Sounds to me like you miss you sister or are going to miss John when he goes tomorrow"

"No its not like that" I quickly tell her as I sit up. "I was just worried that those people might attack John again when he leaves"

"Oh so you don't just worry about your sister so that means" Shirley replies as she leans in closer to my face and stares deeply into my eyes searching for my secretes. "You are in love with him right?"

"No... No its not like that" I answer back feeling my cheeks warm and turn red. "I'm just worried because the last time John was attacked he only survived because of me"

"Whatever you say" Shirley says as she leans back with a smirk on her face. "But the truth in the matter is written all over your face"

She leaves the room after making that comment and I don't even need to look into a mirror to know that what she says is true because I already can feel my cheeks burning hot and I know that means they are bright red. I do love John I know I do but I don't know if he likes me back. I did kiss him but that kiss was sudden and forced onto him, I think I may have freaked him out with that sudden kiss but I'll ever know as that old shadow man attacked us before I found out how he reacted to it. Know he's going to leave before I find out if he likes me or not, I have to know, I have to talk to him and I have to do it now.

John Goldie P.O.V

I'm sat on the edge of the runway watching a small fleet of fishing boats sail into a nearby port being swarmed by seagulls thinking about the time I've spent her among the witches, they saved my life, pulled me from a watery grave and gave me food and shelter even though they didn't know me. I don't think there are many people around who will do that, I don't think I'll ever be able to thank them for what they've done but I'll probably not get a chance to make it up to them since they've ha enough of me and are finally kicking me out.

I wonder where I'll be sent, will it be as nice as this place or some muddy hole on the front line. What will the people there be like? Will they be kind or mean? Strict, pushy or will they dislike and come to hate me too. Then there's Trude. I don't know how I feel about her, when I'm around her I feel safe and I know she got my back and then that kiss, that kiss felt like heaven, her soft warm lips pressed against mine leaving my lips tingling through the night. I'm going to have to say something to her, I can't leave things as they are and I need to find out if it's love I feel for her.