"Only a Moment..."
Chapter 8
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"Emergence"
He slowly swung the door open to reveal Sally stretched out in front of him on the bed sound asleep. Her still messy air spread out over the pillow and the glow from the TV screen upon her, she didn't look real, more like some kind of unearthly being bathed in light. A smile played with the corner of his lips as he observed her.
"Sally." he said in a low voice. But she didn't move.
"Woman.." this time a little louder. But still nothing. He reached out a hand and touched her shoulder gently. He would had assumed her dead if it wasn't for the shallow breathing causing the light movement of her chest up and down.
Wufei moved to the other side of the bed and folded down the covers. Gently he lifted Sally and placed her on the newly exposed sheets. Removing her jacket, and shoes he tucked her in safely. Snatching the other pillow, and a extra blanket he settled himself on the small couch for the rest of the night.
Date AC 300 November 25.
Wufei entered the main door to the perventor head quoters as he brushed off the light dusting of snow he had received on his way from his car. The soft white flakes melted on his hand before running to the fingers and then dripping to the floor. The halls were bare and silent except for the echo of foot steps somewhere out of sight, and mumbling from Wufei.
"Dam cold weather. It's injustice for it to be this cold at this time of the year! First snow fall and now I won't be able to find my car till spring! Argh!" Stomping off his boots as he entered the empty elevator he punched the third floor button and waited. The steel doors slid shut and the elevator numbers started to flash. The doors opened to another empty hallway lined with doors. He removed his winter jacket as he exited. The second to last was the door he was searching for and found it like he had for the past four years. He entered and found Sally typing away at her computer. Wufei wondered if it was office work, or something else.
It had been about a month sense the mission that she had told him of her sort future, and he had spent every day after that thinking about it. He was amazed at how calm his female partner was over the situation at hand. Wufei sometimes wondered if the medication she was on was having a greater effect on her then he thought. He had been informed by Lady Une that her prescription had been changed and that as the nearest person around her; he should keep an eye out for any unusual behavior she might half. So far he had witnessed nothing out of the ordinary from her but decided to watch her progress from then on. However the problem being he could not exactly follow her home each night and watcher her until she fell asleep. He could only watch her during work hours.
Shaking his head in an attempt to get his mind clear he threw his jacket onto the hook, grabbed his coffee cup and went back out the door. Two doors down he found the Staff office. A pot of black coffee sat bubbling on the counter top. Pouring himself a cup of the black liquid he returned to the office. Sitting himself down in the hard wooden chair Wufei turned his attention to his work till he heard a tinging sound for the other side of the office. Sally sat there tapping on her cup with a spoon. A small smile on her lips.
"I believe that it is your turn today, an I right?" She raised the cup and an eye brow at him.
He glared at her blindly.` A dam, she's right.` Razing himself out of the chair with a grunt of protest he slowly made his way over to her desk. "Woman, you should have told me before I left the first time!"
"Man, you should have asked me before you left." Sally responded mockingly.
He took the cup from her hand, and went back to the staff office.
"Two sugar, no milk, Ok?" Sally called out the door after him. He grunted in response.
She smiled and turned back to her computer screen where her smile faded instantly. The momentary joy there was from seeing Wufei shattered as her eyes scanned over the title of the page. Reality crashed back to her, and Sally was once again sucked into the dark void she had become so good at hiding.
`How to Cope with Depression`.
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"Come on faster!!" Sally shouted. Drill day with new requites and it was Sally's group turn in the Gym. 50 suicide laps across the gum, and them two sets of 20 pushups with a thirty second break before each. It was about two in the afternoon but to Sally it felt much later. Her arms felt heavy, and her strength was fading fast. The cadets rushed back and forth in front of her. Leaning up agents the cold cement wall Sally tried to rest a bit.
Her depression had grown to the point where she just wanted to lie down and cry. With the new medication all the movement around her sometimes felt like a panic attack was happening. Everything moving, reaching out at her. Surrounding and entrapping with the intent of doing harm. She had to find escape somewhere, had to get away from the movement, and the noise. To much happening at once caused her to lose touch with reality for moments or so. She could see and hear everything around her but it was like watching tv. It looked real, but it didn't seam real. Like one big slow motion movie. But these would pass soon and she would be able to continue with what she had been doing.
A cadet approached her from the side. "Sir, done sir." he said. Sally just looked at him. The young man was surrounded in a light mist. Sally pushed herself off the wall to a standing position He faded a little more. She could feel her legs getting weak her knees began to shake, and her hands began to tremble. He faded out again.
"Sir are you alright?" he asked. She could hear the concern in his voice. Her mind told her not to get him worried or it will attract attention. The last thing she wanted now.
Sally tried to respond. "Yes, I'm fine..." her requet rushed toward her as she fell. He caught her before she hit the ground.
"Sir!!" the commotion attracted the attention of the rest who rushed over.
Sally fought to stay aware Everything faded in and out of blackness. Their voices were clear, but their faces were not. She shook so bad it was hard to control. Fear washed over her. ` Is this it? What is happening to me? Oh god, stop shaking. Stop! Dam it not again...` She curled herself up to stop the now violent shaking.`Please stop, please...` One of the cadets put a jacket over her, another used his as a pillow.
"Get the medic now!" one of them yelled. The two fastest took off out of sight into the hall.
"Sir, sir. Can you hear me sir?" Another of them asked to her right.. Or was it left?
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Wufei picked up the news paper off the table and scanned over the headlines. "If it wasn't for bad news we'd get no news at all.."
Taking a sip from his cold coffee mug he stepped out his office door. The hall way was quite and still, his foot steps thudded softly. He had taken no more then two steps when someone crashed into him sending the newspaper and cold coffee everywhere. The other person kept running, wile the one that hit Wufei helped him up.
"Sir! So sorry sir, I ..." he started before Wufei's temper expired.
"What are you doing you?! What is the meaning of this injustice! In all my years I have never seen such an unruly behavior from new requites! These actions will not do you any god except for getting promoted to potato peeler! Do you have any idea how immature running in the hall is? I thought that you were taught not to do that in preschool! How you got into this building acting like this I don't know, but when Lady Une hears about this you will regret you ever came here! I should punish you myself!.. "The former gundam polite was seething. His day had been bad enough already with Sally on his mind, and having to go get her coffee. He didn't want to be bothered with dealing with unruly minors.
"Commander Po!" The now terrified young requite said in an attempt to explain.
"What? What about her?" Wufei asked.
"In the Gym, she had a spell of some kind. We were getting the medic."
Flash back
Lady Une sat behind her desk as Wufei inter the room.
"You wanted to see me?" he asked.
She motioned for him to take a seat. He did. "Yes I did Wufei. It is concerning your partner Sally. Are you aware of her present state of health?"
"Yes she told me."
"When may I ask?"
"On our last mission. She told me she had cancer." He knew that she was only asking to make sure they were on the same wave length.
"Very well. I have ordered her doctor to inform me every time she is put on a new prescription, incase she does not. I received a call this morning informing me he is going to change her medison at her next appointment, which is tomorrow."
"So what does this have to do with me?" Wufei asked.
"The medication she is going to be on is very strong, and he is unsure what kind of side effects she might experience, and sense you work closely with her. I want you to watch for any side effects she might have..."
End Flash Back
Wufei feels his heart jump. "Oh, god, Sally! Get the medic NOW!" He races off down the hall towards the gym. ` Knew it! I knew this was going to happen! Oh god, I hope she is alright, naticku please let her be alright..` Doors flew by in slow motion, his shoes slipped on the floor as he turned the corner and almost lost his balance. The gym doors came in sight, they were propped open.
He entered the room. Everyone was at the back surrounding something, or someone. Wufei pushed his way through the mass of people to the center where he found Sally.
She lay on her back gasping for air. Sweat glistened on her forehead. Her head rested on the lap of another requite who was talking to her trying to keep her conches .Wufei knelt down beside her.
"Sally.."
Her eyes flickered open to see him and smiled, "I'm fine really.." she whispered. Which was all she could do. Reaching out a hand Wufei brushed a strand of hair out of her eyes. People moved around them but everything blurred into a slow dream-like state. Nothing seamed real.
She coughed, and something shimmered on her lips. Wufei moved his hand and ran his middle finger over her soft bottom lip. Sally's eyes open at the touch, and was astonished to find it being his finger. She coughed again into his hand. He slowly pulled his hand away from her face not daring to see what was in his palm. `Please no..` Turning over his hand he saw what he feared; his hand was lightly covered in blood.
Sally tried to say something, but he silenced her. "Quite, don't talk. This is going to be alright."Her eyes burned deep into his. He could tell she knew something was wrong.
Closing her eyes again she pushed him to the back on her mind and tried to focus the task of breathing, that had suddenly become quite hard. `In, out. In, out. In, out. Come on, why can't I get any air? My chest hurts so bad.. Is it the medication?? I don't know, everything is so hard to concentrate on. Air, I have to get more air..`
Sally felt herself being picked up by someone. Voices drifted around like ghosts; faces morphed and bulged out. Flashing lights and she was hit with cold air. Water dropped on her cheek. ` Am I outside? They must be putting me in the ambulance now. Yes the lights, and the cold. That is where I am. But the water? Where did that come from? I wonder if it was snow, it was snowing earlier I think. Yes, the first snow fall of the year today. It was so beautiful this morning when I got up. . .`
The ambulance flew off down the street. It bumped and cut corners sharp on its way to the hospital. She could feel as they put the IV into her arm, and a oxygen mask on. Voices cleared up a bit, but the hard breathing did not. Then she became aware of someone holding her hand. The grip was strong, but not hurting. Did it just tremble? `I wonder who that is? Must be one of the requites coming along to see how I am. Maybe it's Wufei? Na couldn't be. He wouldn't tremble like that, and his grip would probably break my hand`
The ambulance jerked to a stop. Sally was hit by another blast of cold air as she was taken into the hospital.
"Get doctor Froide! Code Blue! Surgeons get the operating room ready for emergency surgery on this pasent! Her lungs a filling up! .." `My lungs are filling up! I'm drowning! That's what is happening to me. Doctor said my lungs will go, didn't think it would be quite like this. So this is it, isn't it? So this is how I'm going to die.`
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Wufei sat in the waiting room looking off into oblivion. The ceiling lights hummed softly the only sound in the room. He was alone there. Noone else had come in sense he got arrived in the ambulance with Sally. They had taken her into the emergency section of the hospital and sent him to the waiting room. He had followed there instructions without a second thought. The sight of his partner in such a state had shook him to his core.
Like a container had cracked inside of him and whatever it held erupted. Never had he felt so strongly to protec someone then he had then, and did now. He glanced at his watch for the third time that hour. `Four hours. . . She has been in there for four hours. . I've been sitting here doing nothing for four dam hours, and I don't feel like doing anything either, well I would like to see how that onna is doing. Sally, are you dead yet? Will you live, for how much longer? A month or two maybe?.. I hate to see you suffer. I watched too many suffer during the war, I don't want to see it anymore. Women you have no idea how this feels...`
"Excuse me.." came a soft voice from the door. Wufei razed his head and saw it was a nurse from the surgery ward.
Wufei felt a lump in his throat grow, cutting off his breath. He got up and moved towards her, "She's dead isn't she?" he stared rather then asked. He could feel his heart breaking as he walked by her and down that hall. She had slipped through his fingers for good this time. He had let her die without telling her what she meant to him.. What she did to him.. Now another lifetime regret waded in his shoulder.
"No, she is alive. If you want you can go see her."Came the reply. Wufei froze in stride.`She's alive?` He turned and followed the nurse to her.
She led him down a few long hall ways which were ghostly silent. Stealing glances in the open doors as he walked bye, he saw the people in their beds watching him. Their eyes sometimes peaking over the edge of the sheet covers before disappearing again. Others held his gaze with anger and fear until it was broken by the passing door frame. Foot steps down the hall stopped as they drew closer and then resumed after they had passed. All this gave Wufei an uneasy feeling.
"Where are we going?" he asked bending down to her ear afraid to speak any louder fearing that of the silence of the hall was broken it would mean tragedy. The nurse smiled and tilted her head to his ear.
"This hospital is under some reconstruction on the north wing. There expanding to add another 200 beds, and a better medical center there. It should be done in about two more weeks. Most of these people are mental patents from there. This was the only place we could put them." They continued down the hall to the end. She pointed to the door and gestured for him to go in.
He entered a soft green room with blue curtains. At the back of the room there she lay on the bed asleep. IV, heart monitors, and a variety of other devices were attached. She was the only person in the room. The nurse left after he had taken a seat on the chair across from the bed. The light was now gone from the sky, so the only light in the room came from the equipment and the door. The room was illuminated in a unearthly light that washed over her. Soft white sheets wrapped around her body like silk, before hanging off the edge of the bed like broken wings.
Wufei sat in the shadows watching her sleep. The lump in his throat choking him threatening to make him cough. There lay the person he cared most about in the whole world dying in front of his face. She was only reason he stayed here, if it wasn't for her he would probably be out roaming the street or something like that now that the war was over.
The clock on the wall clicked to six pm. Then seven, another hour went by with no change in the room. People walked by outside the door unaware of the visitor that had stayed way past visiting hours. Finally he couldn't take the uncomfortably seat any longer and stud up to stretch. His body aked from sitting so long. His back snapped and cracked as he reached with his fingers for something just out of reach. He stepped over to the side of Sally's bed and gazed down at her. She lay there so peacefully it seamed unreal.
He reached out a hand and touched her face. His fingers traced her forehead, over her temples and down the side of her cheek to her chin where he ran his thumb over her bottom lip. So soft, so close. Before he realized what he was doing, his face was mear inches from her's. Once again the sent from her hair filled his senses taming his logical mind. Thoughts raced through his head, `I want to do this. I want to kiss her just once, if I do it now she won't know and it won't hurt her. All I need is one kiss, just to feel her lips once would make my life worth living.`
His lips barely brushed against her's. Like a feather dancing with the wind on the surface of a pond. Spinning freely in the in-brace before being sweep up into the night sky and taken to the stares to live out the moment for eternity. The world for a moment spun around them. A man confessing his feelings to the one of his hearts choosing. Unknown to him, he has made a promises of protection, conformity and relinquish. Vowing his heart and soul to this one person for as long as his body can draw breath form the air. What she did to him, astonished him to no end. The way she looked at him, the way she laughed at him. He hair , her moves, her voice, he touch, her very existence aroused his every piratical of his being. A fallen angle, sent to him from god above to save his soul. She couldn't have been more heavenly in his eyes.
The kiss was hardly a touch scarcely even felt, but enough to satisfy him for now. He did not want to run the risk of waking her from her sleep. He loved the way she looked resting peacefully. He breathed in her breath, sweet sent intoxicating, enchanting. No matter where she was Sally always smelled sweet to him. `Clean. . . She smells so clean and fresh.`
Lifting his head from her, his eyes moved over the back wall. A shadow caught his attention. Its form like a statue, silent, and unmoving. He suddenly realized he was not alone in the room, and froze. Did that person see what he did? Turning around to the door he saw the owner of the shadow. The person was surrounded in a hallow of light from the hall, Wufei could only make out the silhouette. A female, but who? Lady Une, no hair is too short. Relena, no too tall. Maybe one of the mental patents? Finally his eyes came into fo course on the face. One of the last people he would have imagined formed from the shadowy head.
Noin.
TBC...
Chapter 8
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"Emergence"
He slowly swung the door open to reveal Sally stretched out in front of him on the bed sound asleep. Her still messy air spread out over the pillow and the glow from the TV screen upon her, she didn't look real, more like some kind of unearthly being bathed in light. A smile played with the corner of his lips as he observed her.
"Sally." he said in a low voice. But she didn't move.
"Woman.." this time a little louder. But still nothing. He reached out a hand and touched her shoulder gently. He would had assumed her dead if it wasn't for the shallow breathing causing the light movement of her chest up and down.
Wufei moved to the other side of the bed and folded down the covers. Gently he lifted Sally and placed her on the newly exposed sheets. Removing her jacket, and shoes he tucked her in safely. Snatching the other pillow, and a extra blanket he settled himself on the small couch for the rest of the night.
Date AC 300 November 25.
Wufei entered the main door to the perventor head quoters as he brushed off the light dusting of snow he had received on his way from his car. The soft white flakes melted on his hand before running to the fingers and then dripping to the floor. The halls were bare and silent except for the echo of foot steps somewhere out of sight, and mumbling from Wufei.
"Dam cold weather. It's injustice for it to be this cold at this time of the year! First snow fall and now I won't be able to find my car till spring! Argh!" Stomping off his boots as he entered the empty elevator he punched the third floor button and waited. The steel doors slid shut and the elevator numbers started to flash. The doors opened to another empty hallway lined with doors. He removed his winter jacket as he exited. The second to last was the door he was searching for and found it like he had for the past four years. He entered and found Sally typing away at her computer. Wufei wondered if it was office work, or something else.
It had been about a month sense the mission that she had told him of her sort future, and he had spent every day after that thinking about it. He was amazed at how calm his female partner was over the situation at hand. Wufei sometimes wondered if the medication she was on was having a greater effect on her then he thought. He had been informed by Lady Une that her prescription had been changed and that as the nearest person around her; he should keep an eye out for any unusual behavior she might half. So far he had witnessed nothing out of the ordinary from her but decided to watch her progress from then on. However the problem being he could not exactly follow her home each night and watcher her until she fell asleep. He could only watch her during work hours.
Shaking his head in an attempt to get his mind clear he threw his jacket onto the hook, grabbed his coffee cup and went back out the door. Two doors down he found the Staff office. A pot of black coffee sat bubbling on the counter top. Pouring himself a cup of the black liquid he returned to the office. Sitting himself down in the hard wooden chair Wufei turned his attention to his work till he heard a tinging sound for the other side of the office. Sally sat there tapping on her cup with a spoon. A small smile on her lips.
"I believe that it is your turn today, an I right?" She raised the cup and an eye brow at him.
He glared at her blindly.` A dam, she's right.` Razing himself out of the chair with a grunt of protest he slowly made his way over to her desk. "Woman, you should have told me before I left the first time!"
"Man, you should have asked me before you left." Sally responded mockingly.
He took the cup from her hand, and went back to the staff office.
"Two sugar, no milk, Ok?" Sally called out the door after him. He grunted in response.
She smiled and turned back to her computer screen where her smile faded instantly. The momentary joy there was from seeing Wufei shattered as her eyes scanned over the title of the page. Reality crashed back to her, and Sally was once again sucked into the dark void she had become so good at hiding.
`How to Cope with Depression`.
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"Come on faster!!" Sally shouted. Drill day with new requites and it was Sally's group turn in the Gym. 50 suicide laps across the gum, and them two sets of 20 pushups with a thirty second break before each. It was about two in the afternoon but to Sally it felt much later. Her arms felt heavy, and her strength was fading fast. The cadets rushed back and forth in front of her. Leaning up agents the cold cement wall Sally tried to rest a bit.
Her depression had grown to the point where she just wanted to lie down and cry. With the new medication all the movement around her sometimes felt like a panic attack was happening. Everything moving, reaching out at her. Surrounding and entrapping with the intent of doing harm. She had to find escape somewhere, had to get away from the movement, and the noise. To much happening at once caused her to lose touch with reality for moments or so. She could see and hear everything around her but it was like watching tv. It looked real, but it didn't seam real. Like one big slow motion movie. But these would pass soon and she would be able to continue with what she had been doing.
A cadet approached her from the side. "Sir, done sir." he said. Sally just looked at him. The young man was surrounded in a light mist. Sally pushed herself off the wall to a standing position He faded a little more. She could feel her legs getting weak her knees began to shake, and her hands began to tremble. He faded out again.
"Sir are you alright?" he asked. She could hear the concern in his voice. Her mind told her not to get him worried or it will attract attention. The last thing she wanted now.
Sally tried to respond. "Yes, I'm fine..." her requet rushed toward her as she fell. He caught her before she hit the ground.
"Sir!!" the commotion attracted the attention of the rest who rushed over.
Sally fought to stay aware Everything faded in and out of blackness. Their voices were clear, but their faces were not. She shook so bad it was hard to control. Fear washed over her. ` Is this it? What is happening to me? Oh god, stop shaking. Stop! Dam it not again...` She curled herself up to stop the now violent shaking.`Please stop, please...` One of the cadets put a jacket over her, another used his as a pillow.
"Get the medic now!" one of them yelled. The two fastest took off out of sight into the hall.
"Sir, sir. Can you hear me sir?" Another of them asked to her right.. Or was it left?
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Wufei picked up the news paper off the table and scanned over the headlines. "If it wasn't for bad news we'd get no news at all.."
Taking a sip from his cold coffee mug he stepped out his office door. The hall way was quite and still, his foot steps thudded softly. He had taken no more then two steps when someone crashed into him sending the newspaper and cold coffee everywhere. The other person kept running, wile the one that hit Wufei helped him up.
"Sir! So sorry sir, I ..." he started before Wufei's temper expired.
"What are you doing you?! What is the meaning of this injustice! In all my years I have never seen such an unruly behavior from new requites! These actions will not do you any god except for getting promoted to potato peeler! Do you have any idea how immature running in the hall is? I thought that you were taught not to do that in preschool! How you got into this building acting like this I don't know, but when Lady Une hears about this you will regret you ever came here! I should punish you myself!.. "The former gundam polite was seething. His day had been bad enough already with Sally on his mind, and having to go get her coffee. He didn't want to be bothered with dealing with unruly minors.
"Commander Po!" The now terrified young requite said in an attempt to explain.
"What? What about her?" Wufei asked.
"In the Gym, she had a spell of some kind. We were getting the medic."
Flash back
Lady Une sat behind her desk as Wufei inter the room.
"You wanted to see me?" he asked.
She motioned for him to take a seat. He did. "Yes I did Wufei. It is concerning your partner Sally. Are you aware of her present state of health?"
"Yes she told me."
"When may I ask?"
"On our last mission. She told me she had cancer." He knew that she was only asking to make sure they were on the same wave length.
"Very well. I have ordered her doctor to inform me every time she is put on a new prescription, incase she does not. I received a call this morning informing me he is going to change her medison at her next appointment, which is tomorrow."
"So what does this have to do with me?" Wufei asked.
"The medication she is going to be on is very strong, and he is unsure what kind of side effects she might experience, and sense you work closely with her. I want you to watch for any side effects she might have..."
End Flash Back
Wufei feels his heart jump. "Oh, god, Sally! Get the medic NOW!" He races off down the hall towards the gym. ` Knew it! I knew this was going to happen! Oh god, I hope she is alright, naticku please let her be alright..` Doors flew by in slow motion, his shoes slipped on the floor as he turned the corner and almost lost his balance. The gym doors came in sight, they were propped open.
He entered the room. Everyone was at the back surrounding something, or someone. Wufei pushed his way through the mass of people to the center where he found Sally.
She lay on her back gasping for air. Sweat glistened on her forehead. Her head rested on the lap of another requite who was talking to her trying to keep her conches .Wufei knelt down beside her.
"Sally.."
Her eyes flickered open to see him and smiled, "I'm fine really.." she whispered. Which was all she could do. Reaching out a hand Wufei brushed a strand of hair out of her eyes. People moved around them but everything blurred into a slow dream-like state. Nothing seamed real.
She coughed, and something shimmered on her lips. Wufei moved his hand and ran his middle finger over her soft bottom lip. Sally's eyes open at the touch, and was astonished to find it being his finger. She coughed again into his hand. He slowly pulled his hand away from her face not daring to see what was in his palm. `Please no..` Turning over his hand he saw what he feared; his hand was lightly covered in blood.
Sally tried to say something, but he silenced her. "Quite, don't talk. This is going to be alright."Her eyes burned deep into his. He could tell she knew something was wrong.
Closing her eyes again she pushed him to the back on her mind and tried to focus the task of breathing, that had suddenly become quite hard. `In, out. In, out. In, out. Come on, why can't I get any air? My chest hurts so bad.. Is it the medication?? I don't know, everything is so hard to concentrate on. Air, I have to get more air..`
Sally felt herself being picked up by someone. Voices drifted around like ghosts; faces morphed and bulged out. Flashing lights and she was hit with cold air. Water dropped on her cheek. ` Am I outside? They must be putting me in the ambulance now. Yes the lights, and the cold. That is where I am. But the water? Where did that come from? I wonder if it was snow, it was snowing earlier I think. Yes, the first snow fall of the year today. It was so beautiful this morning when I got up. . .`
The ambulance flew off down the street. It bumped and cut corners sharp on its way to the hospital. She could feel as they put the IV into her arm, and a oxygen mask on. Voices cleared up a bit, but the hard breathing did not. Then she became aware of someone holding her hand. The grip was strong, but not hurting. Did it just tremble? `I wonder who that is? Must be one of the requites coming along to see how I am. Maybe it's Wufei? Na couldn't be. He wouldn't tremble like that, and his grip would probably break my hand`
The ambulance jerked to a stop. Sally was hit by another blast of cold air as she was taken into the hospital.
"Get doctor Froide! Code Blue! Surgeons get the operating room ready for emergency surgery on this pasent! Her lungs a filling up! .." `My lungs are filling up! I'm drowning! That's what is happening to me. Doctor said my lungs will go, didn't think it would be quite like this. So this is it, isn't it? So this is how I'm going to die.`
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Wufei sat in the waiting room looking off into oblivion. The ceiling lights hummed softly the only sound in the room. He was alone there. Noone else had come in sense he got arrived in the ambulance with Sally. They had taken her into the emergency section of the hospital and sent him to the waiting room. He had followed there instructions without a second thought. The sight of his partner in such a state had shook him to his core.
Like a container had cracked inside of him and whatever it held erupted. Never had he felt so strongly to protec someone then he had then, and did now. He glanced at his watch for the third time that hour. `Four hours. . . She has been in there for four hours. . I've been sitting here doing nothing for four dam hours, and I don't feel like doing anything either, well I would like to see how that onna is doing. Sally, are you dead yet? Will you live, for how much longer? A month or two maybe?.. I hate to see you suffer. I watched too many suffer during the war, I don't want to see it anymore. Women you have no idea how this feels...`
"Excuse me.." came a soft voice from the door. Wufei razed his head and saw it was a nurse from the surgery ward.
Wufei felt a lump in his throat grow, cutting off his breath. He got up and moved towards her, "She's dead isn't she?" he stared rather then asked. He could feel his heart breaking as he walked by her and down that hall. She had slipped through his fingers for good this time. He had let her die without telling her what she meant to him.. What she did to him.. Now another lifetime regret waded in his shoulder.
"No, she is alive. If you want you can go see her."Came the reply. Wufei froze in stride.`She's alive?` He turned and followed the nurse to her.
She led him down a few long hall ways which were ghostly silent. Stealing glances in the open doors as he walked bye, he saw the people in their beds watching him. Their eyes sometimes peaking over the edge of the sheet covers before disappearing again. Others held his gaze with anger and fear until it was broken by the passing door frame. Foot steps down the hall stopped as they drew closer and then resumed after they had passed. All this gave Wufei an uneasy feeling.
"Where are we going?" he asked bending down to her ear afraid to speak any louder fearing that of the silence of the hall was broken it would mean tragedy. The nurse smiled and tilted her head to his ear.
"This hospital is under some reconstruction on the north wing. There expanding to add another 200 beds, and a better medical center there. It should be done in about two more weeks. Most of these people are mental patents from there. This was the only place we could put them." They continued down the hall to the end. She pointed to the door and gestured for him to go in.
He entered a soft green room with blue curtains. At the back of the room there she lay on the bed asleep. IV, heart monitors, and a variety of other devices were attached. She was the only person in the room. The nurse left after he had taken a seat on the chair across from the bed. The light was now gone from the sky, so the only light in the room came from the equipment and the door. The room was illuminated in a unearthly light that washed over her. Soft white sheets wrapped around her body like silk, before hanging off the edge of the bed like broken wings.
Wufei sat in the shadows watching her sleep. The lump in his throat choking him threatening to make him cough. There lay the person he cared most about in the whole world dying in front of his face. She was only reason he stayed here, if it wasn't for her he would probably be out roaming the street or something like that now that the war was over.
The clock on the wall clicked to six pm. Then seven, another hour went by with no change in the room. People walked by outside the door unaware of the visitor that had stayed way past visiting hours. Finally he couldn't take the uncomfortably seat any longer and stud up to stretch. His body aked from sitting so long. His back snapped and cracked as he reached with his fingers for something just out of reach. He stepped over to the side of Sally's bed and gazed down at her. She lay there so peacefully it seamed unreal.
He reached out a hand and touched her face. His fingers traced her forehead, over her temples and down the side of her cheek to her chin where he ran his thumb over her bottom lip. So soft, so close. Before he realized what he was doing, his face was mear inches from her's. Once again the sent from her hair filled his senses taming his logical mind. Thoughts raced through his head, `I want to do this. I want to kiss her just once, if I do it now she won't know and it won't hurt her. All I need is one kiss, just to feel her lips once would make my life worth living.`
His lips barely brushed against her's. Like a feather dancing with the wind on the surface of a pond. Spinning freely in the in-brace before being sweep up into the night sky and taken to the stares to live out the moment for eternity. The world for a moment spun around them. A man confessing his feelings to the one of his hearts choosing. Unknown to him, he has made a promises of protection, conformity and relinquish. Vowing his heart and soul to this one person for as long as his body can draw breath form the air. What she did to him, astonished him to no end. The way she looked at him, the way she laughed at him. He hair , her moves, her voice, he touch, her very existence aroused his every piratical of his being. A fallen angle, sent to him from god above to save his soul. She couldn't have been more heavenly in his eyes.
The kiss was hardly a touch scarcely even felt, but enough to satisfy him for now. He did not want to run the risk of waking her from her sleep. He loved the way she looked resting peacefully. He breathed in her breath, sweet sent intoxicating, enchanting. No matter where she was Sally always smelled sweet to him. `Clean. . . She smells so clean and fresh.`
Lifting his head from her, his eyes moved over the back wall. A shadow caught his attention. Its form like a statue, silent, and unmoving. He suddenly realized he was not alone in the room, and froze. Did that person see what he did? Turning around to the door he saw the owner of the shadow. The person was surrounded in a hallow of light from the hall, Wufei could only make out the silhouette. A female, but who? Lady Une, no hair is too short. Relena, no too tall. Maybe one of the mental patents? Finally his eyes came into fo course on the face. One of the last people he would have imagined formed from the shadowy head.
Noin.
TBC...