An Expanding Threat
Sorry for have been holding up on this chapter for a while. I've been pretty lazy, so I haven't had it in me to upload it.
Anyway, because of this wait I've had some time to work on the chapter 4, so it will be up in probably in an hour.
Enjoy!
Chapter 3: Wake Up Story
2 days has passed and Sanya was still stuck at the infirmary and showing no signs of waking up yet. Thanks to Erica, Eila has snuck into the infirmary without being seen. If it was possible, Eila looked more in pain than the first day after Sanya had been shot. The only thing that made her standing up was Erica's cheerful attitude. She also was visited by Shirley and Lucchini one time and that cheered her up a bit as well. She did also apologize to Yoshika for her behavior when she was saving Sanya at the battlefield, which cleared up most of Yoshika's doubt of Eila.
Eila slowly opened her far too tired eyes that have had too little sleep during the last couple days. She hasn't felt the joy of having Sanya surprisingly falling asleep next to Eila after her night watch in a couple of days.
After getting up in slow motion, she leaned on the wall to go forward. This was the day her room confinement was over, so she could go down to the kitchen to eat something. She got to the door and it slowly opened and she still leaned on the wall while walking down to the kitchen.
From behind Mio was walking out of her room with a light yawn. She caught up with Eila quite fast to greet her. "Good morning, Eila, did yo…" She stopped in the middle of the sentence. "Hey, you look terrible. Have you been getting any sleep at all?" She raised her voice a little.
"Technically no. About 1 hour yesterday and about as much this night." Eila said in a worn out voice.
"Why didn't you tell us? We have sleeping pills. For today just take one directly and go to bed." She gently dragged Eila to the kitchen where everyone was seated except for Shirley, but you could hear a striker engine roaring from the hangar so Eila could guess what she was doing.
"Just go and take a slice of bread or something to fill your stomach while I try to find the pills." Mio said.
Eila did as she was told and took a place beside Perrine by the table and reached for a slice of bread and a glass of milk. "Eila-san, those bags under your eyes…? Haven't you slept anything?" Yoshika asked from across the table.
"I wouldn't say I have. About 2 hours during the last 40 hours. Though I'm starting to feel pretty tired."
"No kidding." Barkhorn cut in. "Not many could say that they are perfectly fine with sleeping that little."
"Well, Mio is checking for sleeping pills right now." Eila replied with a blank expression while slowly chewing on her sandwich.
After a few minutes of rattle from kettles, knives and forks, it looked like Mio found the pills. "Finally, they were quite well hidden. Here, Eila, take one." She said and gave one of the pills to the other witch.
With the glass of milk she swallowed the pill and ate up the rest of the sandwich and then left for her room. "Good night again everyone." She said to everyone as she walked away like a corpse.
Everyone replied and Erica who was done with her breakfast decided to help her to her room. As it was easy to walk down the stairs, it wasn't just as easy to walk up the stairs when Eila felt like she could collapse at any step and she probably would, if Erica wouldn't have helped her up.
After the walk upwards they got to Eila's room. She got help up to her bed where Erica carefully let go of Eila and backed off slightly while Eila crawled back under the cover again. "Good night again. I hope you can get some sleep for now. I'll wake you up if anything would happen." Erica assured Eila with a smile as Eila closed her eyes.
Sneakily Erica left the room and closed the door just as quietly before going back down with the others in the kitchen.
As the day progressed the day was filled with some endurance training as the unit had to run several laps around the base. Mio who was supervising the training stood quietly and watched as Trude and Shirley was running furiously next to each other as to not lose against the other as they crossed the finish line at the same time. After a while the rest crossed the finish line and the last one to finish was a not so enthusiastic Erica who didn't care all too much.
And while the team was resting after the run the doctor came out into the open. "She has finally woken up. Sanya woke up just a little while ago." That was all she got to say as the expression on everyone's faces lightened up and the energy that they just lost a while ago didn't keep them from quickly get up on their legs and run in the direction on the infirmary.
Mio was leading the group after the doctor and asked everybody but Mio to stay put in the hallway for now. Although some of them were displeased they could understand the reasons. The doctor opened the door and Yoshika could catch a glimpse of a woken Sanya before the door closed.
In the infirmary Mio carefully approached Sanya who looked a little dizzy. Mio carefully then sat down on the bed where Sanya was lying in. "Sanya? Are you okay?" She asked with a gentle and kind voice.
Sanya nodded faintly. "Mm… I feel quite alright, but I also feel kind of dizzy. And my stomach feels quite weird. I just remember me and Eila was fighting a Neuroi and then everything turned black." Then it looked like she realized something. "Eila! Is Eila alright?"
Mio gave her a reassuring smile. "She is just fine. She has only had problems sleeping since you passed out. She has been depressed as well, but she is alright."
Sanya looked like she has been saved by some divine being. "I'm so happy that she is alright." She then turned her head to Mio again. "For how long have I been passed out?"
"For about 3 days now. But we are all happy that you are back with us."
"Could I see Eila please?" Sanya asked and looked at Mio with a questioning look.
"I think she is in deep sleep right now. As I said before, she has not been sleeping well and I gave her a sleeping pill before so she could get some at least. But I will notify her as soon as she wakes up. But you should also get some additional sleep. The others would like to say hello but let's wait with that until you gotten some more sleep." Mio replied and stood up.
"Major Sakamoto? I'm sorry I broke one of the strikers." Sanya then said a bit displeased.
"Hahaha! Why are you apologizing? It's no big deal. What really matters is that you are safe. You can buy new striker units and equipment, but you can't buy back a good friend." Mio said sincerely with a gentle smile.
"I come in and check you up this evening and see how you feel. Sleep well." She then said and with a smile and a nod from Sanya, Mio left the room with the doctor.
The rest of the unit was waiting outside for her Mio come out. "So? How was she doing?" Shirley asked first of them.
"She was doing pretty fine. She was just a little dizzy and tired so I told her to rest a little more before we pack her with questions." She replied. "Understood?" She then asked all of them.
"Yes, ma'am," They replied like as in a choir and walked down to the training ground again.
It was completely dark outside when Eila woke up. She rubbed her eyes and she felt a lot better than before. Out of curiosity, she wondered what time it was and since she didn't have a clock in the room she decided to go down to the kitchen, as she was starving as well.
She opened the door and started to go downstairs and heard some voices from the living room. She went in and found only Minna, Mio and Trude sitting there, each with a cup of tea.
"Oh, you're finally awake? You slept in longer than expected." Minna said in a cheerful tone.
"Really? What time is it?" She asked back.
"It nearly 23.30 now. You have been sleeping nearly 15 hours straight. We were about to go to sleep now. But right now I bet you are not tired at all."
"That's right, I was thinking about taking a bath."
"That's alright, but even though you have been sleeping all day, try to get some sleep tonight, since tomorrow you'll be joining the morning exercise again." Mio cut in.
"I'll do that then, I guess. Good night." Eila said and walked towards the kitchen to get something to eat. She just took some of what was left from the lunch they had earlier.
After filling up her stomach she went to the dressing room to remove her clothes before going in to the bath.
While she removed her clothes she couldn't wait to get into the nice bath. She hasn't had a bath ever since Sanya got injured so she felt kinda dirty.
Walking outside and seeing the star-filled sky and felt the nice slightly chilly breeze and the warm and humid air surround her, and even though she have been sleeping through the whole day she felt that this weather made her feel pretty sleepy.
Arriving at the bath she dropped the towel she was bringing with her at the sight which she didn't think she would see for a week at least. "Sanya…?"
Sanya turned around to see the one she wanted to see the most as well and her facial expression. "Eila?"
Eila stood just for a few seconds just looking at her and couldn't stop the tears from running down her cheeks. As she couldn't hold herself she ran into the water and right to Sanya as she wanted to embrace her after all this time but have been unable to, since she have been holding herself back as she didn't know if Sanya loved her in the same way Eila loved her.
As Eila reached her arms around the white-haired girl in a tight hug, Sanya could feel the great wave of affection from Eila. "Eila, it hurts. You're pressing too hard." Sanya said as she felt Eila's embrace tighten bit by bit.
"Ah, I'm sorry. B- But I am just so happy that I can't contain it anymore. You have been out for just about 3 days and that has been the longest I have been without you since we met in Brittania when we started as witches. I will never let you out of my reach again. I love you, Sanya. I really love you." Eila replied as she let up on her embrace and looked deep into Sanya's eyes, while her tears still came running down.
Sanya blushed as she felt the happiness that Eila was expressing from her voice. Sanya then gave in and responded back with an equally firm hug, which she felt that Eila wanted as her body became really relaxed. Eila then let of her grip of Sanya and rested her head against Sanya's neck. "I really love you as well, Eila. You always take care of me no matter what. And you are always by my side no matter what and I can always rely on you."
Sanya changed how she sat so Eila slide down between her cleavage. "Isn't this more comfortable?" Sanya then asked while putting her hand on Eila's head and gently stroke her fingers through Eila's hair.
Eila's felt her cheeks fiercely becoming hotter as she now was in Sanya's arms. And the stimulation she felt from Sanya stroking through her hair, she just gave in to Sanya.
Noticing how good Eila felt, Sanya pulled the beige-haired witch closer to her until they were cheek-to-cheek. "I just remembered a thing. Hartmann told me that you stole my first kiss while I was unconscious." She said with a mischievous look on her face as she looked at Eila.
"Ehh… well… I guess you could say heat of the moment… or something like that." She replied with a stiff expression with an equally stiff voice. "Damn you Hartmann, I thought you were going to keep quiet about this." She then thought to herself.
"But even so, I am sorry, but I want to choose myself who I give my first kiss to." Sanya said while blushing slightly and saw Eila looking down in disappointment.
"So you had someone else that you like? I guess so. You are a girl and I am a girl. Of course it wouldn't work." Eila said and with a displeased look she rose from Sanya's chest and prepared to leave from the bath until Sanya grabbed her arm and stood up herself.
And pulling Eila towards herself, she flung her arms around her and gave her a deep and intimate kiss, much to Eila's surprise. After the kiss ended Eila stood still and dumbfounded and looked at a really embarrassed Sanya. "B- But you said…"
"I said I wanted to give away my first kiss myself, but who said I didn't want to give it to you?" Sanya said with a giggle and dragged Eila down in the water again.
After a short while when they once again calmed down again after the water-fight, Sanya was leaning on Eila's chest. "Sanya? Are you getting tired?"
Sanya nodded slightly. "Mm, if we don't get out now I might fall asleep right now. I haven't recovered from being shot down yet. " Eila then helped her up and they held hands down to the changing room.
"You aren't at all mad at me from the battle?" Eila asked Sanya on the way.
"Huh? Why should I be?" Sanya replied and looked confused.
"Well, you know I kinda… left you alone while going for the core. I can't get over how bad I feel for having left you alone there or else it wouldn't have ended up this way. The problem is that you are so considerate that you haven't even said anything about it, but I won't be alright unless you scold me or anything like it." Eila continued as she looked at the ground.
Sanya just giggled and gave Eila a sweet kiss. "That's just ridiculous. You did it to end it really fast, didn't you? I just wasn't strong enough to shield it off for enough time. So why should I be angry at you. But if you want to be punished no matter what, I may punish you with enough cuddling so that you won't sleep for the entire night." Sanya then said with a genuine and warm smile that made Eila blush.
Eila blushed and smiled while she kissed Sanya back. "I- I guess I can accept that punishment."
After they got back to the room, Eila helped Sanya get out of her clothes, and then guided Sanya into Eila's own bed. After pulling the cover over them Sanya grabbed hold around Eila's stomach and pulled her closed and burrowed herself into Eila's chest again. "Naww…" Eila said and sounded pretty disappointed. "Now I can't see your sleeping face when you are like this."
"Just for tonight, please." Sanya asked with a gentle voice.
"Mmm… okay, but only because you are so cute." Eila replied to Sanya and started to stroke her soft, white hair. "But you can't fall asleep just yet. I still haven't got anything of my punishment."
"I'm too tired right now, so I would be unable to keep up for even a shorter time of the punishment. But if you let me sleep now I might give you a small portion of it in the morning."
"I would love to but major Sakamoto told me that I had to join them in on the morning exercise again." Eila said with a disappointed expression.
"Again? You didn't do it while I was unconscious?" Sanya then asked.
"I got confined to my room for yelling at Miyafuji when she healed you. I have apologized but I still think she is still a bit too aware of me now."
"What did you yell at her?
"I can't really remember but I only know I over-reacted when she checked on you right after you were shot. I regret it now since she is a little too reserved against me now. But I hope that she will loosen up a little again when you are around again."
"We can discuss more of this tomorrow. Good night Eila." Sanya said and kissed Eila's neck.
Eila responded with lift Sanya's head a little and gently kissed her on the nose and then on the forehead. "Good night Sanya."
And after a while Sanya fell asleep in the arms of Eila, who also fell asleep shortly after with Sanya's arms around her stomach and her warm breath against her chest.
Chapter 3 End
