I wanted to thank SapphireJKH. I was planning on stopping on 24 tonight but her comment just had me laughing way too hard. I was sitting reading a Hiei fanfic (I love that short, low tempered, fire demon currently, but watch in a month I'll like someone else. Lol) when I got an e-mail alerting me to her review. I read it on the iTouch and nearly dropped the laptop from laughing so damn hard. So I had to continue.
Also I realize that I forgot to do anything from Snake Eyes POV where I talk about him and the mission. Well soon you will get a whole chapter from him where she is not in sight. So there.
QueensGambit Thank you for the review. I appreciate it.
Alright enough, on with my story. *Does a prideful pose*.
That night when the two shared the bed Snake Eyes noticed that it seemed her side went down quite a bit when she laid on it. Maybe she had gained some weight. He remembered that before his last mission either Duke or Ripcord had complained about her being heavy. She might need to go on a diet. Oh well, he'd have to think more on this in the morning because he could feel the unwanted strings of unconsciousness tugging at his mind. As he fell asleep Avery laid there. She felt that he didn't want to sleep and envied him for that is what she wanted. Funny isn't it? The irony of it all. Fate worked in mysterious way, like making those that want to be awake sleep and those that sleep to be overly aware. Avery hated it. Was this Karma some how? What had she done? Avery tossed and turned for hours waiting to sleep.
While laying on her back near twelve o'clock she listened to the tick of the analog clock he had. Counting the seconds. 45 46 47...29 30 31 32. Over and over the numbers lapped. Once she had been told to count sheep and she would fall asleep, counting the seconds was close enough. Yet no sleep came. Huffing did naught to help. Snakes shifted on his side of the bed. How did she end up sharing a bed much less a room with the man? Her thoughts finally stopped when he shifted again. In his sleep he snaked an arm around her and drew her close. Somehow in his sleep he was able to drag the wight of her, all 340 pounds, over to him with no problem. Although she had heard of him breaking someone's femur...barehanded...550 pounds needed...to do... Sleep finally took her into its folds as she thought that last thought.
When Avery awoke he was still asleep. So as carefully as she could she got out of bed. It wasn't easy for her to do a handstand on a bed, least of all with a hand on either side of his hips, and being careful to not touch him for fear of waking the ninja ninja made it a tad harder than getting up as she had the past two weeks. As soon as her heavy feet silently touched the ground she realized, a new game. And if she failed the was no redo. It was like a gave over and not being able to restart from a save point. Looking around she saw the duffle bag she had long missed.
It took two weeks for the people that had done the laundry to find her misplaced bag. They had given it to the wrong person who had been gone on leave for the same two weeks that Snakes had been gone. Yet when all the laundry that was his clothes that she used was sent down, within the day it returned. Oh well, she'd do her own laundry from now on. Going through the bag she found a white wife beater and some undergarments, she'd had to steal a pair or two of Snakes boxers to survive the two weeks. Although he did have taste in boxers. One pair had been black and neon dark blue checker bored while the other was black and red plaid. She would have like to check out the rest of his but then when she had been about to she thought about what she would feel like if he went through her panties. She had slammed the drawer and stormed off to the bathroom pull the black and blue ones on.
But now she had her own stuff. And being the dinosaur she was, she couldn't help herself and took a pair of his sweats. Her shower was quick and when she was fully dressed she wet into the middle of the room. Doing the splits, not the Barbie way, she stretched all the way forward and held. After counting the tick of the clock for two minutes she sat up and leaned to her right and stretched her left arm as far as she could then held for two minutes and finally repeated on her left side. She did several other stretches too but she had lost her mind to thought and did those mechanically. Her thoughts traveled around wanting to talk to Snakes about him and her and them, and around the new lesson today. The oasis with Covergirl would take most of the day so she wouldn't be able to spend it with Snakes as she wanted but soon she would.
When her mind returned to reality pulled on her converse's and left the room, Snakes still sleeping. When in the wide space that Covergirl worked in Avery saw her friend halfway under a vehicle asleep. So she went and found the water canteens that would be used for the trek through the sand. Filling all of them took a while but when that was finished Avery went to the canteen that they ate in. Grabbing two apples she started to eat one on the way back to where Covergirl was. The other woman had moved a bit and that let Avery know she was awake. Setting the second apple on the stomach of Covergirl she went off to grab the wooden swords.
"You got up early, thought you'd spend the time with Snakes." Covergirl's mouth was filled with a bit of the apple as soon as the last word was out of her mouth. "I meam thap you'se nof feen eash ober in boo-" She swallowed. "Months."
Avery waited a moment turning each word over in her mind; meam, the second m was what was messed up. It was obvious she had meant mean. Thap, p was normally how a sharp t' sounded with food in Avery's mouth so she assumed it was that. You'se was not one that was a normal sounding, but Covergirl wasn't normal either. So taking into account how the food messed up the words and how Avery's friend spoke in the morning it was you and have pushed together. After a bit Avery shook her head in wonder. Only herself, Covergirl, and Cybergirl could butcher the english language so brutally. I mean you've not seen each other in two months. "I have no idea how I did it but I know what you said. Anyway he was asleep. So I came here."
"I-I've taught you too much." Avery looked at the other girl in wonder. "What I mean is that if you can silently get away from the ninja then you've far surpassed me. Come on we've got a desert to brave." Avery grinned and took a bite of her apple.
"I loth you ma bootieful bits." Avery said through her apple.
"I am neither beautiful, or a bitch." A bit of the apple and now Covergirl spoke in what seemed to be riddles. "You airbent sspaker."
Avery mumbeled to her self. "Not arrog-ok yeah i'm srrogent but not a slacker." Taking a bit of the apple she spoke louder. "cume be hubby?"
"No we go at my speed, no faster you slacker." And just as the hatch closed Snakes entered the room and saw neither of the girls he had heard. He really wanted to speak with Avery.