Perplexed, Heero was pacing in front of Selene's room, arguing with himself about why he was so worried about the unconscious girl lying beyond the door. He had never felt like this about anything before "What am I doing here? I'm not meant to care. My purpose is to fight…but I can't stop thinking about her, there's something about her that…ah! What on earth is wrong with me! I am the perfect soldier and I should be working out how to get back to my dimension."
Kellion is waiting downstairs in front of the gundam accommodation. It is the day after the attack by Lorienta, and the two healers are meeting to visit Selene and check how she's going. Kellion is pacing up and down the pathway playing with his perfect blonde spikes and checking his watch frequently.
Hotaru is running late, she had been unable to decide which sweater was most flattering on her, in the end she borrowed one of Mina's sweaters to go with her black hip-huggers.
Trying not to appear late, due to her tardiness, Hotaru walked briskly to the gundam accommodation.
Hotaru rushes up to the house, adjusting the sweater so that it fits her perfectly and playing with her hair. She rushes up to the pacing Kellion, just as he is turning around, and the pair crash into each other.
"Oh, I'm sorry, are you ok? I didn't see you…"
"I didn't realize you were about to turn around!" cuts off Hotaru.
Both Kellion and Hotaru blush, they're both a little flustered. Hotaru knocks a leaf off that is now sitting on Kellion's shoulder and cheekily asks "Have you been gardening?" before giggling and flicking her now dishevelled hair from around her face.
He grins and plucks a rose from a nearby bush "Yes…here's one I prepared earlier." handing Hotaru a short stemmed rose.
Hotaru blushes, she has been pulling her hair back into a bun. Kellion gently moves her hands away from her hair "Allow me." finishing the bun and placing the rose in the middle.
"Should we go up now?" Hotaru asks linking her arms in Kellion's.
Once they got to the top of the stairs, they are shocked to find Heero pacing the corridor, looking confused and concerned.
"Heero! What are you doing here?" Kellion asks.
Heero looks up, shocked at the presence of the two healers.
"Hn" Heero grunts and heads down the hallway, obviously not wanting to talk right now.
Hotaru and Kellion look at each other confused and quietly head into Selene's room.
Hotaru is the first to walk over to Selene's bed.
"Selene" Hotaru whispers to the sleeping form on the bed.
Selene wakes with a start, but immediately looks calm seeing the white light Kellion and Hotaru.
"Kellion? Hotaru? How long was I out for? Is Heero ok?" Selene fires off a string of questions.
"Shh, you will tire yourself. You've been asleep since shortly after lunchtime yesterday, Heero is fine. You also will be fine, but you need your rest." says Kellion, his hand resting on Selene's forehead.
"Hotaru is turning out to be quite a fine young healer, she helped me heal you, I couldn't have done it without her. But you must rest a little longer."
"How much longer? I cannot rest." Selene tries to get out of bed "We must prepare, we must make ourselves stronger. We were not prepared for Lorienta's attack and it almost killed us. I'm so tired." Selene has just discovered that she is having a bit of trouble getting off the bed.
"You will be tired for a couple of days, but you are right, we do need to prepare. Let me help you get up" says Hotaru offering her arm to Selene "Lets go downstairs and get you something to eat."
As the three awkwardly make there way down the stairs, gundam pilots begin emerging from bedrooms, impressed to see Selene who was so badly hurt just the day before, up and moving around – still a little shaky on her feet.
When they got downstairs, Heero was already in the kitchen, making himself breakfast. Heero blushes when they walk into the kitchen.
"I didn't know if I was going to see you again, I'm glad you're ok" Selene says softly to Heero "Now how about making me a coffee."
Hotaru and Kellion quietly grab a piece of toast and head outside onto the patio to enjoy the sunshine.
"Let's call it a one time favour, but I suppose I do owe you. Milk? Sugar?" Heero says awkwardly, preparing a cup of coffee.
"Aren't I sweet enough for you? I'll say yes to the milk though."
Heero brings over the coffee and a bowl of cereal that he had made for himself.
"I was going to eat this, but I guess you should eat something, you haven't eaten since breakfast yesterday and you need to keep up your strength…" Heero blushed by his kindness.
Selene reaches for the bowl smiling, but not realizing how weak she still is, she drops the bowl to the floor, where it smashes, ceramics and cereal going everywhere.
"Oh god!" I'm such a clutz." flustered Selene kneels on the floor and begins sweeping the broken bowl towards herself, Heero grabs the wastebasket and a cloth.
"Selene, I'll clean it up!" kneeling next to Selene, both start putting pieces of the broken bowl into the wastebasket.
Selene leans over to Heero and looks up. Before he can stop himself, Heero finds himself kissing Selene. Lightly at first but then deeply as both Heero and Selene reached up, Heero running his hands through Selene's mousy brown hair that was still mussed up from her fitful night. Selene ran her hands up Heero's back – letting them rest on his broad shoulders.
It was at this moment that Hotaru wondered in from the patio "Would you like sugar and milk?" Hotaru yells over her shoulder.
Heero and Selene quickly break apart and continue cleaning, trying to pretend nothing had happened.
