Chapter 11: general!

"things are happening too fast for me…" I said, sitting up as the nurse came in. she looked at me confused and then smiled.

"you don't understand why now you think you're attracted to him after being with him so long…right?" she asked, taking my temperature.

"no of course not! I do not!"

"okay ma'am. You're completely good. The general has requested a meeting with you in his quarters. Ma'am I wouldn't go if I were you…" she said, writing something down on a paper and laying it on the foot of my bed.

"I should. He will get angry and take it out on Sergeant Windrie I know it." I said, standing up. I grabbed my hat from Shin's outstretched hand and smiled at him. I put it on and fixed my collar. "thank you." I said to the nurse as I left.

"General?" I asked, knocking on his door.

"yes! Come in Colonel." He said from inside. I opened the door and walked in cautiously.

"you wanted to see me?"

"yes. I would like to know whether you'd like a replacement for Sergeant Windrie." Sonic asked, standing up from his chair.

"Sir? Windrie is remaining here."

"no. he has requested a re stationing and I have granted him. He will be leaving later tomorrow with me." Sonic informed me.

"um…okay. Yes sure it would be nice to have a replacement." I said. The general nodded, writing something down.

"okay then there will be a replacement in a few weeks. Well that's all I wanted to ask you." Sonic smiled. Yeah right: he wasn't done.

"okay sir. Well then I'll see you later." I said, turning to leave. He caught my arm and aturned me back around. "sir I order you to let go of me! That is harassment and I will not stand for it on my base!" I hissed.

"I'm your superior officer. I will not obey an order from you unless I want to." He said. Great! I should have listened to the nurse.

"Sir I don't want to hurt you so please let go of me now." I warned him.

"you won't hurt me. I can have you shipped to jail at the flick of my wrist." He said. He had huge leverage on me.

"uh…you…" I said, slightly growling. I just realized he could pin me easily against the bed. This was all horrible! I didn't really know what kind of things he would do if he did.

"you're even more beautiful when you're angry."

"let me go!"

"shut up." he ordered. I slowly shut my mouth and glared at him.

"you will not go any farther with this." I said between my teeth, growling slightly.

Great…I was now pinned against the bed thanks to my smart attitude.

"you were saying? Now if you don't shut up I'll go as far as I like." He said smoothly, his face inches from mine.

"let go-"

"uh-uh. I said no more talking." He said, inching closer. The moment I felt his lips touch mine the door burst open. I kicked my feet and tried to get out of his grasp. The general jerked up and let go of me. It was Windrie. I spat on the floor and wiped my mouth, standing up glaring at the general as I fixed my collar.

"what the hell…?" was all Windrie could say.

"the general was just getting on my nerves. Thank you, Windrie." I said, leaving the room.

"so you couldn't get her by charm so you forced her?" Windrie asked in disbelief as he followed me out. "hey!" he yelled. I stopped and turned around towards him.

"what were you doing in there! If you couldn't tell he was hitting on you then I have no clue what your problem is-huh?" he said, confused as I put my hat back on, tilting it over my eyes.

"I couldn't tell. I've never seen the signs for something like that. He just said he wanted to ask me something so I came alone…I was dumb yet again." I said slowly.

"well yeah you were dumb. It's okay though it's over." He assured me. I nodded, hugging myself.

"yes…I thought I would have been…" I shivered.

"why did he do that!" Windrie demanded disgusted.

"I don't know! He had tried to get close to me at the dinner but…I don't like him! Not at all like that! Sergeant I was so scared!" I admitted, he came over tilting my hat up. my eyes were probably red cause I could feel them swell up with tears.

"it's okay. It's a natural thing. Take it from me, I'm a doctor. I'll teach him a thing or two tomorrow when I go with him. You just hold on here." He said with a small smile. He wasn't used to being soft to me.

"yeah okay…hey why did you agree to go in the first place? I thought you loved working here." I teased.

"yeah I kinda do actually. But if everyone just sees me as 'another sergeant' than I don't want to be here."

"but we don't! Flam sees you as his partner in crime, Shin sees you as MR. Nutty and he told me once he wanted to be a doctor just like you someday." I said. "plus Freeze and Flood enjoy you and Bulb thinks you're a pain…but we don't need to talk about him. You're a one of a kind man and a hell of a good doctor and soldier." I assured him.

"True. But I'm still sergeant. That's all you'll see me as right? Just another dumb guy that loves to annoy you? That serves under you and will more than anything not take an order from you? Yeah that's all I am to you." He said, slightly icily. Was he trying not to be?

"Listen Windrie-"

"there ya go again. Windrie? I said a day or less ago for you to call me Hayate. My name. My name is not Windrie but that's all you see because the first thing you see is right here." He said, pointing to his rank patch.

"no Hayate…" I stopped. I had actually called an officer by their first name! Oh my gosh oh my gosh! I'm going to be de-promoted!

"see now that wasn't all that bad. Don't worry though there was no one around to know you called an officer by his real name." He said, pushing the brim of my hat back down playfully and walking off as I pulled it back up.

"Hayate…"