A/N: Well... it's longer than the last one :D" But i'm updating a lot lately...sooo... yeah. I might post the first chapter of my TMNT story up here soon... within the next few days... dont worry though, this story is my main priority! I pretty much just write my TMNT story when i'm stuck on this one... but i've got some ideas for this one so i'm going to update this one more. Anyways- ENJOY! ^^
PS: Thanks so much for the reviews! X3
UPDATE: Sangheili's name is now Gro 'Amalok Special thanks to mckeown for coming up with the awesome name :)
EDIT: Thank you Prvt. Caboose for my mistake. Instead of arse, it's arsch. Thank you ^^
We couldn't help but watch as the figure walked towards us; slowly, perhaps deadly to my new companion. I felt myself flinch before they came into the light, not wanting to see who it is, I snapped my eyes shut. A minute passed, no scream or shouts for help. I slowly peaked open an eye, and then relaxed. I turn to the tense alien beside me and motioned for him to stay back. We backed up against the wall when the figure came near, shadowed but I could never forget the human walking towards us.
The alien besides me was about to speak when I hurriedly shushed him. The human walked passed us, slowly, in a trance. I let go of his arm, letting him hang onto my shoulder more as I giggled softly behind my hand.
"That's Kyle," I said when I calmed down. "He acts all macho and yet…" I nodded at his feet as he walks passed. "I've never seen a macho man wear pink bunny slippers and toy airplane pajamas before. He's got to be the only person on this ship that sleep walks in the halls too." I fixed my grip on the alien before we got walking again, keeping a reasonable distance behind my "manly" friend.
"Does he… do this normally?" He wheezed.
"Every other night pretty much. Now save your strength, I don't want you passing out on me before we get to my room."
"Your room?" He looked at me out of the corner of his eye.
"Yeah, it's the only safe place for you right now. Unless if you want to hide in a storage room…" I shrugged and kept walking.
A moment later, we stopped at my door. Unlocking it with one hand and having it slide open, the door down the hall slid open right at that moment. Without thinking, I pushed the alien into my room to see the guy turn his head.
"Jay? Do you know what time it is? Why are you out of your room?"
I gave my brother a sheepish grin. "I thought I heard something, but it was only Kyle sleep walking again."
He nodded with a grunt. "Fine, just go to sleep." And with that, he disappeared into his own bedroom again.
Breathing a sigh of relief, the door opened and I was met with the sight of a glaring elite halfway standing up next to my dresser. I rushed over to him, door automatically locking again before I helped him up and over to my bed.
"Sorry." I muttered, helping him ease down into a sitting position on my bed before turning and digging through my footlocker at the end of the bed.
"Who… was that?" He wheezed.
"My brother, Jacob." I grabbed a box and turned on the light, regretting it when I saw his eyes change and pupils dialate, then him holding his forehead.
"Sorry." I apologized again and kneeled before the bedside, setting the box beside the alien and grabbed a water bottle off my nightstand. I whistled lowly.
"Shit… what have they done to you?" I asked myself, looking over the scarred abused reptile-like flesh. He didn't reply. I opened the water bottle and handed it to him before grabbing another one to soak the rag in my hand. He took it gratefully but sat there, wondering how he would drink it. I sighed, looked under my bed, and grabbed a wide rimmed bowl. It was clean, I mean- I'm not the cleanest person, but I've gotta keep crap clean for my own clean freak of a brother's sake.
I poured the water into there and offered it to the relieved alien. I took off my eyepiece and set it on top the footlocker.
"What is that?"
"It helps me to see in the dark." I said simply, he nodded.
As he drank, I took the wet washcloth and started with a leg. After looking at what was worse than the rest, I started to dab at the wound, wincing when the alien hissed under his breath. He didn't do anything else, so I continued.
This reminded me of Zeuk; my thoughts once again imagining what he could be doing right now, if he was in the same condition as this alien before me. Then I realized something.
"Hey… what's your name anyways? Mine's Jay Sulley." I glanced up at him with a small smile.
"Gro 'Amalok. Your human names are… so strange."
"Ha, right back at ya buddy. I probably couldn't pronounce your last name without some help. Amo... luck?"
"Ah-mah-lock" He corrected me with the smallest of smiles. How I know he's smiling? I'm guessing.
"'Amalok" I tried again, slowly. He nodded. "Cool." I turned back to my work, bandaging up his leg before going on to the next. I looked back up three minutes later when I felt him keep his eyes on me.
"Yes?" I look up at him, eyebrow raised.
"You don't seem… bothered."
"Eh? Oh! You mean that I haven't freaked out about ya?" He nodded after a moment of thinking of how I put his sentence.
"Yeah, well… I've ah… kinda… you know…" He stared at me, waiting patiently for me to finish giving my answer. "I've uh… done this… before."
"Helped a Sangheili?"
"Well, yeah." I said, resuming bandaging up his leg; this one less damaged than the other. I sat on the bed; he turned towards me, expecting me to tell more. I grabbed his arm and started to bathe the purple blood off of it, not caring if some gets on my bed. "There was this one Sangheili back on planet Helix IV when my squad and I were help guarding this facility when we got attacked out of nowhere; phantoms just started pouring in! I have no idea what they needed protecting there, but I didn't ask. After our last battle, when we were looking for a place to rest; but I wandered away from my squad and ended up getting lost. I wandered further into the dark halls, figuring that since I didn't just go straight into the halls, I'd just end up getting even more lost if I tried going back. Then, all of a sudden, I hear this whimpering. It was small and weak; I thought it was a child or something so I followed it. But then when I peaked around a corner, I couldn't believe my eyes! It was a Sangheili, much like yourself but a little shorter. He was lying half upright against the wall, a gash so deep you could see his entrails. So, creeping up on him, gun at the ready, I was so nervous I didn't think of just shooting him like so many other marines would do in that situation. As I got close, he noticed me and practically put a gun to my head after I pulled out my med kit. After a while, he let me patch him up and after that, we got on the whole "gun to head" deal again. He made me back up into the hall before voices started to call my name from the hall where I came from. When I turned back to the Sangheili, he was walking in the opposite direction. I yelled out my name in hopes that he'd understand, then he left after saying his name." He stared at me for another moment. I face-palmed. "I kinda rambled… didn't I?"
"No, that's fine… I'm just wondering what Sangheili in their right mind would trust a human so easily with something as dire as a life threatening wound?"
I stared at him for a minute, then deadpanned, "You trust me."
"…. Yes… well…" I laughed, then held a hand over my mouth to muffle it.
I started bandaging up the arm when he asked another question.
"What happened to your arm?" His voice was solemn, quiet.
I didn't have to look down at my arm to know what he was talking about.
"Same mission." I said, but had to continue after a minute of him staring expectedly at me. I sighed. "We finally managed to get out of the facility and tried making it towards the last pelican out -that's our drop ships by the way- when elites, brutes, all of you chased us across the beach. I managed to do a stupid thing and trip halfway there. Even though it saved me from a bad headshot, I managed to stay a good distance behind my squad, who was almost already at the pelican. Your comrades were gaining on me, when I was almost to the pelican, a plasma shot my shoulder." I unbandaged my left shoulder, revealing the still healing skin. "It burned through my bones, exposed my heart while taking a chunk out of a lung. The doctors had built me new bones using some kind of metal without my brother's permission. You see, they also saw me as an experiment. To see if an average human being could work with some metal reinforced bones. It works, but I don't tell them that." I shook my head, closing my eyes for a brief moment. "I don't want them doing this to others. Sure it helps me with my muscle training, and even my reflexes, but from time to time it hurts because it's a reminder." I stopped there, already saying too much.
"A reminder of what?" I've never heard of a Sangheili so interested in a human's history.
"I died that day. Twice actually. It was painful coming back to the realm of the living, let me tell you. Next time I die, I want to stay dead so I don't have to go through that again." I attempted to smirk, but it was half hearted. Silence hung over us after that. In that time I finished with his arms and was bandaging up his torso when he next spoke.
"Who was that Sangheili?" I glanced at him as I bandaged his back, him looking over his shoulder at me.
"His name was Zeuk. Why?"
"Zeuk…" He tested the name, turning forward again as he thought.
Ten minutes passed before he spoke again, this time I was washing his neck with the rag.
"Zeuk was under my command that day. After the last human aircraft departed, I finally noticed why he was lagging behind us on our way to our own ship. We got him to the medic bay, kept him there for a few days before he told us that a human managed to swipe a knife at him. After he killed the human, he stole their medical pack, saying he lost his supplies on the way in, and used what he could to save his life for the time being. Because we believed that after we got separated, his battle partner falling in battle, he fought off the rest of the human squad single handedly. Because of that, he was promoted to Special Ops, and now he is under my command still to this day. Or at least, he was. They probably believe I'm dead, or know I am now a prisoner on this accursed ship." He clenched a big hand, glowering. I put a hand on his shoulder, wounding the roll of gauze around his neck.
"Hey, hey. Don't worry, I'll get you back to your ship in no time and you can go back to commanding your squad."
"It is not that simple, human, I'd be tried as a heretic."
"Heretic? Why?" I paused in my movements again.
"Because, it is hard to believe that I would be able to escape a human ship without help and would most likely be believed that I had hidden myself like a coward."
I scoffed. "That's stupid."
"It is."
"It hasn't been too long since you've been captured… wait!" He looked at me as I beamed. "Your armor! You guys have transmitters in your armor, right?" He nodded. "I'll bet that it's still here and you can radio in for help!"
"That would be jeopardizing your own kind, human, it'd be suicide. But I agree. If they did find out I was taken as a live prisoner here, they'd send a ship to invade and retrieve me."
"Ah, there's a lot of assholes on this ship. And I'll bet they'd give you up just to save their own arsch."
"Arsch?"
"German for ass." I gave him a lazy smirk as I tied the ends of the bandages into a knot. I got off the bed and held his head in my hands as I looked over his head. I let go and got a band aid, sticking it onto the bridge of his… muzzle I want to say? He snorted and scrunched up his muzzle, getting used to the feeling of having something there.
He nodded as I stepped away and brushed off. "There ya go, all bandaged up. Now lie down and get some sleep."
"But-" He started to protest. Hell, already I am brushing off on him.
"No buts, your body needs to heal. Now sleep." I patted the pillow and he eased his body fully onto the bed.
"I'll get you some food in the morning, ok?" I said, laying the blanket onto his form. After a second, I put another blanket on him, seeing as the first was a little short. "I don't think it'd be good to eat anything but meat right now, and since I know for a fact that you guys eat meat, that's what you'll be getting. That okay with you?" I smirked. He gave me an alien smile. I petted his head before backing away. I spread a blanket on the floor and turned out the lights.
I yawned, using my arm as a pillow as I curled up into a ball. "Good night, Gro"
When my eyes closed, I was out almost instantly. I barely heard him speak.
"Good night… Jay."