Finally Together

Xiao gave out a cry as she felt the knife pierce her left bosom. The next thing Xiao knew she was lying on the bed staining her shirt red. Da had dashed over, ripped the knife from her sister's grasp knocking Xiao over in the process. Tossing the small blade aside Da crawled over her sister and shock her. "Xiao, Xiao answer me!" Da said frantically. A whimper answered Da. "Are you okay?"

"Why, Da? Why won't you let me go to him?" Xiao said starting to cry.

"Who? Zhou Yu? He's here in his room. Sun Ce just came back with him…" Da said but Xiao had already bolted out the door and was headed for Zhou Yu's room not caring about anything.

Reaching his door Xiao stopped a moment to catch her breathe. Composing herself Xiao slowly and quietly stepped into his room.

Xiao closed the door and let out a squeak of surprise. She hadn't expected to enter a room filled with doctors. The noise she made caused the doctors to all turn and stare at the new comer. Xiao suddenly became aware that she was only in a large shirt that was slightly open exposing more cleavage then she cared to show. Xiao clutched the shirt shut and looked at the ground as she was too embarrassed to do anything else.

"Alright, everyone out. They have a lot to catch up on." A voice said from the mist of the throng. Several people started to protest about something or another but the voice yelled "OUT!" and the room emptied very quickly. As Sun Ce walked by Xiao managed to whisper "Thank you".

The door closed and the room was filled with silence. Still embarrassed Xiao kept her head down until she was sure she was no longer blushing. Xiao finally looked up and made her way over to Zhou Yu's bedside.

He lay there with his eyes closed in a peaceful slumber. Xiao gasped when she saw all the bandages on him. A patch covered his right cheek, bandages round his leg, shoulder, arm, and several more patches on various other parts of his body showed the extent of his wounds.

In shock Xiao just stood there unaware that Zhou Yu had opened his eyes.

"Hello angel." He said softly looking straight into her eyes.

"I'm no angel." Xiao said meekly as she sat down next to him on the bed. "How…are you?" Xiao knew the question sounded stupid but she couldn't think of anything else to say or do. Well, she knew what she wanted to do but Zhou Yu was in no condition to do very much.

"Not too bad," Zhou Yu said heartily. "Just a few small scratches. And you?" He finished saying as he slowly shifted himself to a sitting position.

"Fine." Xiao said turning her head so that her loose hair hid her blush. Mentally she told herself she was being silly; Zhou Yu was her husband but then she had never seen so much of him before.

"No you're not."

"What?"

"You're bleeding. Come here and let me see."

Xiao hesitated a moment. It wasn't that she didn't trust him; it was just the location of her cut. Slowly she walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge of the bed.

Now that Xiao was closer Zhou Yu could see the source of the bloodstain.

"Who did this to you?" Zhou Yu said indicating the bloodstained shirt.

Xiao looked down at the foot of the bed to avoid eye contact with him. She couldn't tell him that she had been trying to commit suicide. That would show that she had lost faith in him not once but twice. Desperately thinking of something to say Xiao didn't notice that Zhou Yu had gently exposed the wound.

"It's only a light cut." Zhou Yu said as he forced himself to his feet.

Xiao blushed cherry red. Now different thoughts shot through her mind and worried her just as much. 'What does he think of me now? Am I too small?' Still blushing she hastily recovered herself. Only then was she aware that Zhou Yu had gotten off the bed and was slowly limping his way over to a cabinet on the far side of the room.

"What… What are you doing up? You're hurt. You should be resting."

"I'm getting some medicine and bandages for you. You're the one who should be resting." Zhou Yu said calmly though his voice asked the dreaded question of "It was you wasn't it?"

The room screamed of silent as Zhou Yu made his way back to the bed with a slav and some bandages. He placed the things on the bed and sat down with a heave.

"Zhou Yu, please, it's nothing really. You should be the one resting. " Xiao said quietly as Zhou Yu reached for the top of her shirt.

Zhou Yu paused when his hand reached Xiao's hand that clutched her shirt shut. Her skin was so soft Zhou Yu noticed as he gently moved her hand away. Xiao didn't resist and only lowered her gaze so that some of her hair hid her blushing face. 'She's so beautiful when she is like this.' Zhou Yu thought as he slowly rubbed her naked breast applying the slav.

Xiao closed her eyes and unconsciously leaned into Zhou Yu's touch. It felt so wonderful to Xiao. Then a thought shot through her mind. 'I almost ended it all' thinking of the small cut that Zhou Yu was now massaging even though he didn't need to anymore.

Zhou Yu could see that Xiao that was enjoying the continued treatment until something changed her mood. Even with her eyes closed Zhou Yu could see the thought scatter Xiao's mood.

Xiao tried to stop the tears from rolling down her cheeks but the feeling of Zhou Yu pulling her into the comforting warmth of his embrace caused Xiao to break down in tears. Only now did she finally realize what she had almost given up twice. Xiao tried to say so but all she could manage was to shake harder as she cried harder.

"Shhh… Xiao, I know, I know. It's okay, you knew as well as I did my chances weren't good." Zhou Yu said into the top of Xiao's head. "Forget about the past, Xiao. I'm here, you're here, we're together and everything will be all right. This I promise you as your husband."

Xiao paused her crying for a moment to look up at Zhou Yu through the cascade of black hair that was in disarray obscuring her view of him. Zhou Yu brought his hand up and brushed the hair away from her face tucking it behind her ears. Slowly he brought his hand back to her face and gently cupped her cheeks in both hand as he leaned in and kissed her.

So there, dairy, you know the whole story now. But of course you know story from all the other things in here you know about as well but let's save that for later. Well let's see, I have to go now, my husband wants to me now. We got married again and now he wants to make a real honeymoon out of it. I'm not gonna stop him. Tell you about it later.

Xiao Qiao

Hello people. Forgive the long absence but extra courses really hurt. I think you can imagine the rest from here. I'm thinking of doing another fic soon in DW4 area. A continuation, perhaps... LockDown out…