Love is a battlefield - Chapter 7
King burst into the hospital room to see Roxanne holding a doctor by the collar "Roxanne stand down" Roxanne's face softened as she heard King's voice and she let the doctor down as she turned to him, a look of both pain and relief in her eyes "K-King, you're alive?" King looked her in the eyes and put his hands on her shoulders "yes, alive and well, as well as a few others" he gestures to the door as he heard the heavy footsteps and Nightflash walks through the door "hey Roxanne hope your feeling well" Roxanne's look changed to one of slight anger and relief at the same time "David I see you survived the attack" Nightflash sat down on a chair in the room as the rest of his squad walked in and Roxanne got a little more comfortable when Whisper walked in, with the knowledge of another female spartan being there, then Nightflash answered "yes I did Roxanne, but Mythic wasn't so lucky" Roxanne now felt a lot of pain from the news of the loss of her teammate "well two out three is better than none at all" she looks at Nightflash's squad in turn mostly at Swift and Brass who she recognized from the academy "but still I just hope we weren't the only spartans from the academy to make it out" Swift sighs as he thinks of anyone in the academy that lost their lives till Whisper grabs his hand and he turns is head to face her and all he sees is a worried expression on her face, something which in his mind actually made her look kinda cute. What they didn't realize is that Roxanne saw all of this so what she said next made Swift and Whisper freeze "so Nightflash did you realize two of your squadmates are in love" King looked to Nightflash actually surprised not necessarily at him but at whichever two it was because he actually didn't notice Swift and Whisper's exchange, Nightflash sighs a little before answering "actually yes Roxanne I did" King is now surprised at Nightflash because he actually knew that two of his soldiers were romantically involved "but I think they were gonna tell everyone at some point" everyone follows his gaze as he looks towards Swift and Whisper and as soon as everyone pieced it together there was a few different reactions, there was a friendly smile from Roxanne, something which Whisper returned glad for there to be someone who'd be fine with that, there was a loud groan from both King and Ocelot which to Swift and Whisper was expected from them but all of these reactions was overshadowed by Brass shouting "get in there" which earned a slap to the face from Whisper and a punch to the stomach from Swift and he just groaned out "worth it" as Whisper groaned in slight disgust but expected it from him, but as all eyes was on Swift and Whisper, she felt something that she never had before, fear, not fear born of danger but fear born of being judged and to her this feeling was alien and she didn't like it, everyone expected her to say something but she just ran past Ocelot and out of the room much to the dismay of Swift "Maria, come back" Swift ran out after her leaving Nightflash to now sigh and realize that he just made a mistake.
