Erol: I count the hours till I can see you again, have a good day x
She smiled when she read the message and could not believe that everyone thought Erol was a man just filled with hate. Yes he did have a bit of a temper but what Commander doesn't.
Serena herself was a victim of loosing her temper at her troops, why just last week she lost her temper at Warrens who had managed to misplace his pistol, that man ran laps until his feet bled and he remembered where his pistol was.
She decided to message rrol back.
Serena: Be safe out their today I don't wanna have to take your job x
She pocketed her communicator and decided some range practise was needed and decided to visit Tess over at the ports and see if she had any new gadgets.
Serena and Tess got on like peas in a pod the tall blonde loved her weapons and was constantly tinkering away on one project or another. If you didn't know her personally you would think she was just another dizzy big boobed blonde. "Oooo Serena I have not seen you in a long time, are you here for some target practice?" Tess asked in her super excited voice, almost jumping for joy, she ran up to Serena and gave her a hug. "Nice to see you too Tess." Serena untangled herself from Tess' hug. "Well I have a new yellow eco MOD for your blaster I'd love for you to try, increased accuracy, long range projectiles with enough punch to knock through a metal head, you keen? "
"Ahhhhh are we in the middle of a war?Of course I'm keen, who wouldn't be? " Serena almost loved nothing more than playing with new gears. She attached the yellow eco canister and MOD to her blaster and went out onto the gun range.
Tess' voice came over the comms speaker, " now Serena this is a new course I designed, the dummies will pop up and move along sliders, good luck! "
Serena heard the bell go off and took aim. The first target popped up, it was shaped like a metal head, she quickly disposed of it and made quick work of the ones that took two shots to knock down. As she progressed the targets were coming in hot and heavy, she was impressed at the rate of fire, the easy light trigger pull with little travel and the small amount of recoil to the rifle.
"I'm impressed Tess." Serena shouted over the next shot.
She continued down the lanes making it look like a walk in the park hitting the metal head boards and missing the civilian shaped ones. She finally made it to the end and the buzzer went off and the door opened out from the range. "How'd I do Tess?" Serena asked feeling the adrenaline pumping through her. "Amazing and I'm really impressed with how that bad boy handled, keep the MOD you earned it by smashing the course record on your first attempt. " She was taking notes on her tablet as she was walking.
"Thanks Tess that's really kind of you" Serena was smiling from ear to ear, "Do you mind if I give it a couple more goes? " She asked Tess hopefully. "Go for it babe, I want to tweak a few things on some gun mods I'm doing, have fun. " Tess went into the back room and Serena reentered the course.
After a few more rounds she thanked Tess and went home to relax for the evening and hope that sleep would come easy. For once Serena had something to look forward to. Erol would be back tomorrow and she couldn't wait to go see him, he was becoming her personal addiction. She still couldn't work him out, she had seen him multiple times have it out at someone for the slightest mistake, he didn't tolerate shit, even she had felt his wrath over the years. Serena decided a shower, a good meal, and bed were the only suggestions to her over thinking brain and cuddled up with her muse and dreamt of Errol.
The following afternoon Serena headed down to the barracks to wait for the troops to come back in from their mission. It was half three so she decided to have a quick session in the gym whilst she was waiting. She did a routine of yoga to stretch out the tension and relax some muscles and then waited at the main office, went over some paperwork and checked her watch it was four fifteen. Erol said to meet him at four and Serena was beginning to worry. She went down to the transporter hanger and spoke with the unit on patrol.
"Briggs, where's the unit that was meant to have come back from the wasteland?" Serena asked looking at the screens. "Comms came in about half an hour ago Commander Acheron, they should be here in the next twenty. " Briggs replied. "Comms didn't sound too good mam, sounds like there are some heavy casualties, the med teams are going to meet the transporter as it lands and med vac anyone who needs it. "
"Good work Briggs, do you know if they recovered the artifact as well? "
"Yes they have mame."
"Good organise the transport team of the artifact and also organise a mop up crew that transporter will need to be operational by tomorrow morning." Serena said, trying to keep her mind preoccupied so it didn't worry and think the worst, what better way than to throw herself into work, directing and giving commands to the ground crews.
She paced up and down the hanger, she looked up and could see the transporter coming in on the horizon. She waited patiently and as it came closer she organized the teams into position to extract the injured quickly and get the transporter online again.
The large red craft flew in, changed the thrusters to hover and landed and cut the engines. The back door opened with a hiss and commander rrol walked out and started organising the men who were injured to be stretchered to the med wing and then directed the artifact to be extracted and stored. The large precursor metal object was taken on a hover dolly and transported to be inspected.
Serena just stood waiting patiently whilst everything went with smooth precision accuracy. She watched Erol, he looked tired from his mission, she walked over cautiously not wanting to cop any of his angry outbursts he'd been having for the last fifteen minutes.
She walked up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder, he turned and his face changed from being angry and assertive to a moment of relief.
"Serena you came, I was beginning to think you wouldn't show."
"Of course I'd show who else would have had all these troops organized?"
Serena gave him a smile. "Come you need to get tidied up," the hanger was empty so she grabbed his hand and he pulled her back into a hug, his chin resting atop her head.
She wrapped her arms around his middle and he flinched and hissed a little. Serena drew back her right hand and it was covered in red.
"Errol your hurt." She whispered. "It's fine." he said weakly wobbling on shaky knees. "Erol it's not fine. " The worry was plain on her face.
Erol suddenly dropped to his knees unable to stand.
"Briggs get over here and help me get Commander Erol to the med bay!" Serena yelled to him. He ran over and each of them put one of his arms over their shoulders and carried him to the med bay in a private room, putting him on an empty bed. "Thanks Briggs I can take it from here."
"I could of walked myself," Erol snapped. " I'm sure you would still be crawling here Erol." She poked her head around the door looking for med staff, but everyone was busy. "Looks like I'm going to be patching you up everyone's busy. " Serena popped back in the room, she knew what she was doing she had patched up enough men out in the field. She grabbed some gloves and put them on, wheeled over the trolley next to her and sat on the edge of the bed. "Fine just get on with it!" He snapped, probably more from the pain then at her. She got him to lift his arm and could see the slash down his right side. It was a good thirty centimeters along his ribs. She took off his armour panels and grabbed the shears off the trolley and began to cut down the seems of his top.
He chuckled. " You could of at least brought me a drink first before you begin undressing me." He smiled at her as she managed to get his shirt off. " Haha Erol, now sit still or this is going to hurt more than it needs too."
Her brow knitted together in concentration as she cleaned the wound whilst Errol put on a brave face, she could tell he was in agony but wouldn't let it show.
"This is going to need a few stitches there is only so much green eco can heal. " She stated "I'll inject some locals along your side to numb some of the pain.
She grabbed a local anesthetic and injected it along the sides to numb it she gentle prodded a few areas with her gloves and asked if he could feel it. He shook his head so she began suturing it, pulling the needle in and out though the wounds to make a nice clean line down his side and tied it off. She took off her soiled gloves and took his ruined shirt and put it in the bin next to the bed. She put on a fresh pair of gloves and cleaned the wound again. She grabbed a handheld mirror. "Check it out, not bad if I don't say so myself." She smiled looking proudly at her handy work. "Not bad you would of made one hell of a field medic. "
" I was trained as one but got sick of hearing the screams of men as I had to field amputate limbs for med vacs." She shivered. " Let me just patch it over and put a water tight cover over it and you can get the rest of yourself cleaned up. "
She applied a green eco patch to the wound and put the water tight bandage on.
"With the eco the stitches should desolve and leave a nice scar to add to the rest by tomorrow, nice tattoo by the way." She indicated to his back, where an intricate design of metal heads and krimzon guards fought one another teeth and claws, armour and weapons, the details were intense and it almost appeared as though they were real. Serena found herself reaching out and running her hand over it, she could feel the lines of the scarred skin from the needl. She felt Errol tense for a brief moment and then relax under her touch. "I got it after securing my position as commander." He murmured to her.
He got up off the bed and grabbed a towel, leaving her sitting on the bed, her hand dropped.
"I'm going to clean this off," he gestured to himself, "unless your coming to join me? " He queried with a cheeky smirk on his face, Serena blushed.
" Nice try Erol, go get cleaned up I'll get some clothes for you."
" Your loss." He laughed and entered the shower room attached to the private room.
Serena busied herself getting a change of clothes for Erol. She gave the charts she had written up for Erol to the doctors and got them to administer some pain meds.
By the time she got back Erol was sitting on the bed in a towel waiting for her.
"I wondered where you went too." Be said to her as she dumped the pile of clothes on the bed. "Well I thought a change of clothes would be needed and a few pain meds," as she shook the cup with the pills in. Erol got changed while Serena busied herself on the opposite side of the room in the sink getting some water for him to take his pills. He came up behind her quietly and snaked his arms around her waist, Serena was very aware of Erol's presence and he grabbed the glass of water from her hand. "Thanks. " He said and took his pills.
He tried to grab the heavy armour plates and found he could barely lift them. " Let me take that unless you want to pop all your stitches and make me undress you again? We will put these back in your locker then, I'm taking you home as your in no way suited to be in control of a zoomer." She grabbed the plates of armour and slung them over her arm. They walked to the lockers and she placed Erol's armour in and headed to her zoomer.
She got out the keys and jumped on.
"Nice ride." Erol admired the zoomer .
"Thanks I've been working and saving for it for years. "
Erol climbed in behind Serena she put her driving goggles on and started the zoomer up. She could feel his thighs against hers and his hard chest pressed into her back as his arms came in behind and under her arms to hold on around her waist. She tensed a bit and relaxed after she hit the throttle and they were off. The zipped in and out of the traffic Serena laughing as she went as fast as possible, Erol closed his eyes at a few close calls but was enjoying it. She could feel his laughing against her back, he lent near her ear, " I just had a narrow escape I don't think we both need to end back up in the infirmary." She just laughed and took them faster.
They both arrived at Erol's apartment and walked up the stairs.
Serena was nervous but blurted it out as she got to the door. " Do you want me to help with dinner? You have been through a bit this weekend"
She quickly put her hands over her mouth and could kick her own arse for letting that slip. " Shit that was so rude," she exclaimed and blushed. "It's fine Acheron, I could do with the company and a hand, I really don't want to pop these stitches."
He unlocked the door and it slid open.
"Come in, I don't bite." He paused, "unless you want me too. " He said flirtasously.