Chapter 10: The nightmarish reality and blossoming love.
Irvine and Van had finally parted from their kiss and stared at each other for a split moment before they moved back to each other in another passionate kiss. After a minute Irvine's eye shot open and looked around the room looking for Rain. When he saw she wasn't there he went back to paying attention to Van. Van had stood up to stretch so Irvine stood up too. Van looked over at Irvine and just stared at his body in the moonlight. Irvine noticed him looking at him and smiled. Van walked up to him and took the towel off of his shoulders still smiling. Irvine couldn't hold back anymore and wrapped his arms around Van's waist and started to kiss his ear and traveled down his neck. He could feel Van shaking under his touch as he felt Van's hands rub across Irvine's back and down to his hips. His hands settled on Irvine's pants as he yanked them off. Irvine took this as his cue and pushed Van onto the bed placed a passionate kiss on his mouth while his hands ran across Van's chest. (ME writing Lemon. YIPPEE) Irvine started to kiss down Van's neck again and started nibble there a little bit. When he was satisfied at how Van was reacting he moved down and found Van's nipple.
He closed his mouth tightly around Van's nipple while rubbing and pinching the other one. He felt Van's back arch at the feel of this and took it a little farther. He reached his face back up to Van's face and started kissing him again. He moved his hands down his sides till he found his boxers. He yanked them off and threw them on the floor next to his jeans. His hands traveled down a little further and started to rub his inner thigh. He felt his and Van's breathing rapidly get faster and shorter. Van's hands traveled down Irvine's back till they came in front and started rubbing on Irvine's chest, they slowly moved down and grabbed Irvine's now complete erection and started to stroke furiously. Irvine let out a loud and long moan at this and decided to repay the favor, so he repeated Van's motions on Van himself. After a few minutes both boys started to orgasm. They stopped rubbing each other after they both climaxed. They looked over at the clock and noticed it was two in the morning.
Van got up and walked over to his boxers. "I have to go Irvine. If I get caught in your room with you at this time we'll both be under suspension. I'm sorry."
Irvine stood up and walked over to his pants and started to pull them on. He stopped when he noticed Van staring at him again. "What Van? What's wrong? Please tell me you don't regret this. I don't."
"Of course I don't regret it. And I never will. I was just thinking at how much I wanted to tell you earlier."
"Well we both know now. I think I should thank Rain tomorrow."
"We both should. Good night Irvine." Van walked up to him and kissed him again. They wrapped their arms around each other and let the kiss last for a minute or two before they broke it. Van walked over to the door and just about opened it until he stopped when he heard an ear-piercing scream from another room? "Fiona?"
"RAIN!" Irvine yelled as he swung the door open and shot for her room with Van in tow. When they got to her room they saw everyone outside her room pounding on the door trying to get in. "What's going on?" Irvine asked looking very worried.
"I saw a man enter her room that I didn't know." Fiona said turning to him, worry also laced in her eyes. " When I went to check who it was the door was locked. A minute later Rain said something to him than screamed. I'm worried Irvine."
"Guys! Shut up!" Karl screamed as he pressed an ear to the door. The heard something crash and Rain screaming at someone to leave her alone. Than suddenly it got really silent. "Rain? RAIN!"
Right then the door unlocked and Karl fell in the room. Everyone ran in and looked around ready to fight. Rain was no where in sight, and neither was this mysterious man Fiona saw. "Rain? Where are you?" Irvine asked hastily as he walked up to her bed. When she wasn't there he started to really worry. "Rain?"
"I'm here." They heard her little voice say from behind them.
They ran to the closet and swung the door open to find Rain curled up in the very back. Irvine walked in and picked her up. "What happened Rain?"
She looked away from his face as tears started to fall. "I don't know. One minute I was asleep, the next I was in a fight. I don't know what happened."
They got out in the hallway until Fiona screamed. Irvine lifted his hand up and saw that it was stained with blood. He looked down at her and noticed her eyes were shut. "Rain. Rain wake up." When she wouldn't he turned to Karl with a very worried look on his face. "Call the infirmary now! We'll be there in less than five!"
Irvine and the others ran down the hall heading for the infirmary while Karl hurried the call and ran to catch up. When they got to the infirmary the doctors put her on a stretcher and ran to the ER making everyone stay behind. They all went to the waiting room and sat down. Fiona was crying in MoonBay's lap while Irvine held his tears back, like any other guy would. They sat there for almost five hours until they saw a nurse walking down the hall. "Well?" Karl said walking up to her hastily. "Is she ok?"
"She'll be fine with some rest Colonel." She replied. "But the cut to her stomach was pretty bad. She isn't aloud to battle or pilot any zoids for at least two weeks. And that's the doctors order."
"When can we see her?" Irvine intervened. "When are we aloud to see her?"
"You can see her now sir. But she won't respond to you. She's still under the effects of anesthesia." The nurse replied getting him to let her go. He was so worried about Rain that he didn't notice he grabbed her arm. "She's two rooms down on the right." They all started to walk towards her room till the nurse intervened. "Only three at a time please."
They decided who would go in first. Which turned out to be Thomas, Irvine, and Van. "She doesn't look normal." Van finally said as they walked in the room and saw Rain lying on the bed asleep. "She looks sickly pale. I wonder what happened."
"We'll find out sooner or later." Irvine said calmly as he walked over and placed a hand on her head. "I want to know who the guys was. Fiona said she didn't get a good look at him, but she said he was really tall."
"She said that he was taller than Van." Thomas said shyly trying to refrain from any eye contact. "And that he was wearing a very long hooded coat. Do you think it was Raven?"
"I don't know Thomas." Van said quietly. "But if it was he's going to pay for what he did. Rain doesn't deserve this, she hasn't done anything wrong."
"Irvine. Do you think Raven would do something drastic?" Thomas asked as he pulled back the blanket to look at Rain's wound. "Look at this. If it scars that's going to be one bad scar."
The cut was from a little bit below her navel up to her ribcage. "Uuhhh. Damn you—Damn you Thomas. Don't touch me." Said a very weary voice. It was almost silent. "Let go-let go of me."
"Rain?" Irvine said with shock. "They said you wouldn't be responsive. You still supposed to be knocked out."
"I-I am?" She said a little clearer than last time. "When did this happen?"
"Ever since you got hurt." Van chimed in happily. "Or do you not remember?"
"Huh?" She asked trying to sit up, but not successful. "Are you talking about the man in my room?"
"Of course." Irvine implied. "Do you know who he was?"
"I-I couldn't see his face." She replied placidly. "And half of our fight was a blur."
"So you really don't remember anything?" Thomas said with surprise. "Only that you got in a fight with him?"
"That's about it Thomas." She said with a slight smile. "Damn you. Don't you know how to keep your hands off of someone Irvine." She said sarcastically trying to lighten the mood. "You and Van look like you had a very good night. He's still breathing hard."
"Well. It looks as though you still have your sense of humor Rain." Thomas said with a smile. "Come on guys. Let's filter everyone else through here so she can sleep."
Everyone passed through her room and said their merry sayings of happiness before Rain completely fell asleep. The next morning the doctor told Rain that she had to stay in bed for at least two days. But Rain wouldn't hear any of it. She was up and walking around right after he left. "Give me a break doc. I can jump for crying out loud." She said happily as she took a leap in the air and came back down. She grabbed her side and gave a silly little smirk. "Ok, maybe that wasn't the best of ideas. But at least I can walk." She looked up as she saw the shocked Fiona holding the door open with her mouth dropped. "Oh, hey Fiona, how yah doin'?
"Better than you are." She replied sarcastically with a smile. "I thought the doctor told you no walking for two days?"
"Ah come on. Look at me. I'm just fine. I can even jump." She said before she took another leap in the air and came back down. "Well, sorta."
Fiona giggled and handed her a coffee. "Plenty of salt."
"Salt?" She wearily took a sip and gave a weird look. She looked up at Fiona in surprise. "This is surprisingly good Fiona. Have you had the others try it?"
"They spit it out or swallow it in fear."
"Hey Fiona. Let's go for a walk. This room is starting to creep me out. It's all white."
"You no like white Rain?"
"Well duh. Come on. Let's go visit Irvine or someone. And I'm starved. What's to eat in this place? Or can we go out, or something?"
"Hold it right there little missy." Someone said from the door. "Get back in your bed right now."
"Ah come on doc." Rain said in complaint holding a perfect puppy dogface. "I'm fine. I can walk, run, sit, jump." She reared to do another jump until she caught Fiona's deathly glare and sat still. "Well, not right now, but I will tomorrow." She said sheepishly, getting a tint of pink to her cheeks.
"Get back to your bed." The doctor said sternly. "You're not tough as nails."
"But I spit nails. Now let me go Doc!" She said as she stalked past him out of the room.
"Hey, uh, come back her, umm, I uhh, please?" The doctor said in total bewilderment. "Uhh, I can't stop her can I?" He asked turning to Fiona.
"Sorry." She replied shrugging her shoulders trying to hide a smile. "She's thick headed and persistent."
"Well, than umm." The doctor said fumbling around in his packet. "Just make sure she takes these every morning and night. And see if you can get her to come back. Oh, and no piloting zoids for at least two weeks."
"I'll tell her. (Not like she'll listen I mind you)." Fiona giggled as she left the room to chase down Rain. "Hey Rain. Slow down."
"Come on Fiona. You're crawling. Any slower and you'd be walking backwards, now hurry." Rain yelled as she spotted Thomas, Irvine, and Van asleep in the waiting room. "Aw, how cute, little babies." She turned around and faced Fiona with a sly smirk. "I have a perfect idea."
"Oh really, what?" Fiona asked curiously as she spied the supposed sleeping beauties. "Does it have to do with them?"
"Just follow my example." Rain said walking up to them. "Now watch."