Chapter 55

"The choice is yours"

Roy opened his eyes as he lay beneath the sheets with Sakuya. She breathed softly as the sun shined in through the windows. It unfortunately occurred to Roy that it was now noon and the other residents were most likely starting to wonder when breakfast and instructions would finally happen.

The door flung open just in time. Flandre ran in and pounced on the two completely unaware of what had happened the night before.

"Roy wake up lazy bones everyone's been asking for you all…" Flandre stopped as she saw Sakuya nuzzled up to Roy with nothing more than a sheet concealing her naked body.

"Uh…I think you should knock next time Flan." Roy sighed as Flandre's eyes darted back and forth between them. Sakuya didn't stir as she quietly snored.

"YOU HAD A SLEEPOVER!" Flandre said excitedly as a huge smile stretched across her face.

"No we…well…" Roy mumbled nervously.

Hong walked past the door and immediately walked away hiding her laugh.

"Shit." Roy whispered seeing Hong's reaction.

"Language Roy." Flandre grumbled as Sakuya began to open her eyes.

Flandre sat on the bed between them.

"Flandre…get out of here…it's impolite to barge in here unannounced." Sakuya said angrily. Flandre giggled.

"Were naked…please." Roy said quietly.

"ROY!" Sakuya said.

Flandre turned white as she looked down realizing what had happened. She clasped her hands over her eyes as she leaped off the bed and towards the door.

"COOTIES!" Flandre screamed as she slammed headfirst into the doorframe.

Roy winced at the loud bang against the solid frame but Flandre got right back up and quickly shut the door behind her.

"That looked like it hurt." Roy said as he stepped off the side of the bed.

Sakuya remained wrapped in the sheet as she watched Roy mutter to himself hysterically as he dug through his rucksack.

Sakuya looked into the bathroom to see her clothes completely soaked by the side of the tub.

"Oh." She groaned as she reached for her watch on the nightstand so she could travel to her room to get some fresh clothes.

She activated the watch and was alarmed to see Roy standing completely still as he pulled up his waistband with an incredibly stupid expression on his face.

Sakuya looked around nervously and finally she came to the realization of how Roy was immune to time manipulation. The small gold watch Roy wore on his wrist was lying on the nightstand to her side. Sakuya stared perplexed at its familiarity. The markings on it were seemingly identical to her pocket watch as she picked it up in her hand.

Dark thoughts clouded her mind as she realized how vulnerable he was to her now. She now new she could go back to the way things were. She could kill him as he stood there standing like an idiot.

Sakuya grabbed her knife from the floor and made her way towards him. She realized could end him and everything he started just by touching him but Sakuya knew she had gone too far. She had perceived every paradox that unfolded with each killing blow she placed into Roy. He would only know as it as a jolt running the length of his spine from a different timeline parting ways from the current reality.

Sakuya holstered the blade this time and went upstairs to retrieve her clothes. When she got back, she proceeded to clean up the bedroom. Making everything tidy and lemon scented as Roy remained frozen in his embarrassing position.

"I knew I had an extra pair." Roy said as time resumed.

"I took care to wash them." Sakuya said as she handed Roy his Fatigues. Roy stood bewildered at the realization that Sakuya had used her ability without his knowledge.

"Did you...How did you do that?" Roy asked confused as he looked into her smiling eyes.

"You might want to keep this on." Sakuya said handing Roy his watch.

"Alright…why?" Roy asked.

"Well, so you can help me." Sakuya said as she strapped it to his wrist.

"So that's why when you freeze time I'm able to move with you?" Roy asked.

"I never thought to see the day I would meet another person who had one." Sakuya said giving Roy a hug.

"Really now?" Roy asked as Sakuya kissed him on the cheek.

"So you guys uh…do it?" Rhodes asked with a faint smile as he cracked open the door.

"What do you think?" Roy asked.

"I can't believe you two." Sakuya said as Hong and Rhodes snickered upon entrance.

"Our extraction was postponed again." Rhodes said as Hong looked down at the floor.

"Are you kidding me?" Roy asked.

"No, Specter says there's been a change of command." Rhodes said gravely.

"What?" Roy said as Sakuya's eyes widened in fear.

"They keep telling us that they are doing the best they can but I don't know what's going on over there." Rhodes said as Roy packed up his equipment.

"Rhodes get me on the Radio ASAP I need to talk to Specter." Roy said as he stormed out of the room.

The sun glowed hot just as it did yesterday but a large cloud cover was approaching from afar. The Fairies were still trying to patch up the mansion as best as they could but the most they could do was fortify the busted rooms into lookouts and machine gun nests.

Flandre watched as Roy paced angrily in the command bunker as he argued on the phone with Specter and a few others who were backing the mission.

"Captain I swear to god…everything is going haywire here, the CIA's shitting themselves coming up with a plan, we got a bunch of sorry sacks of shit running the orders through, and we got all these new guys in the place messing things up." Specter said nervously as Roy looked at Rhodes in despair.

"Were going to die out here…I don't understand how they can postpone my mission twice in a row without offering me a clear reason of why they can't get their asses out here." Roy shouted into the talk piece.

Specter fell silent.