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Chapter 6A Night Together
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"Well, that came to no avail." He threw the papers he had been reading down on his desk.
"Eagle, you can't be so pessimistic." Sami's voice carried across the room. "We won, and we now know where the main headquarters is.
"But now we're in another fight. Ugh, will this ever end?"
"Yes, but your whining isn't helping." She laid her head back on the armrest of the couch she was laying on. "One last battle. You sure you can handle it?" Hints of sarcasm could be heard in her voice.
"Yes, I'm sure," he replied, bluntly. "But last time we all were sure that Sturm was dead. That proved wrong. I just want to be sure that son of a-" He stopped himself short. "That he gets what he deserves."
"He will, trust me. I'll make sure of that." She slid lower on the couch, her body almost completely parallel to the ground. She yawned, then turned her body on her side, facing Eagle. Her arms were crossed and she slowly closed her eyes as her head hit the pillow. She wasn't trying to fall asleep, she just wanted to take her last few moments of being awake to think.
Her mind went back to all the times she had been with him before. From the first to the last time. She felt different around him, ever since the time she had met him, but she couldn't quite figure it out. Neither the feeling nor the reason it was just around him. She had never felt this way around anyone before.
Eagle looked across the room at the marine that lay in front of him. He did know why, but even when she was angry at him, she was beautiful. Just looking at her could snap him of almost any mood he was in, but he didn't know why she had that effect on him. He looked down at his watch. 2122 hours. He looked back up at her, figuring she was asleep.
"She got the right idea," he mumbled quickly under his breath.
"What idea?" He was startled by her voice. Hadn't she been asleep?
"The idea of trying to get some rest."
"I'm not trying to go to sleep, in fact, I'm trying to stay awake, which is pretty easy, considering how uncomfortable this couch is." He looked straight at Sami while she talked. She never opened her eyes, but somehow that didn't diminish her capabilities. He could barely hear himself as he talked, but she had heard him perfectly from across the room. He sighed, she could do it all apparently.
"Y'know if I were going to get some sleep, I'd do it in my own quarters," she spoke again, with only her mouth moving as she spoke. "What time is it?"
"About 2130." He looked at her unmoving body. "You should go get some rest, we've got to start early tomorrow." She opened her eyes to look back at him. He finally got some movement out of her. She lifted herself up into a sitting position.
"I'll go get some rest if you promise to stop looking over those reports and get some too." Eagle nodded.
"I promise. Now go, no use having an excellent commander if she's just going to sleep the battle away." Sami made no reply at that moment, in words or body language, she just walked out. But as soon as she was out of his eyesight, a slight grin encompassed her face.
"Excellent commander, eh?"
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After he was sure she was gone, he sat down and grabbed the top report. He didn't feel right lying to her like that, but he needed to look over these reports. Eagle sighed. He got halfway through the second report before sleep began to overcome him. Normally he could keep himself awake, but he was having trouble doing that tonight.
"Consequences of lying to her I guess…" He set the report down on the desk and walked over to the small cot that lay in the corner of the room. He promptly threw himself on the bed and was asleep in no time.
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Sami lay on her side on her cot. She was trying hard to sleep but for some reason she couldn't. She kept thinking about him. If that would have been Andy or Max, she wouldn't have left that easily, but it was Eagle, and she couldn't fight him for some reason. She sighed. Tomorrow was going to be the biggest battle of the entire war, and as Eagle put it, they didn't need a tired commander. She groaned.
"What's the matter with me?!" She searched her mind for a reason why she couldn't sleep, and all she kept coming back to was him. She groaned again. Why couldn't she get him out of her mind? Nobody had ever troubled her this bad, but for some reason every time she thought of him, she was peaceful. She rubbed her eyes. "C'mon, Sam, just go to sleep." She continued to wrestle with her thoughts until she finally sleep overcame her.
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