Chapter 8

Back on your feet

"WHAT?" shouted Reese.

"Yeah i thought the same thing when Ruby left." Yang said.

"She is crazy to go find who is the guilty party for the attack on Beacon, and to go with the rest of team JNPR they are going to die out there." Reese said as he paces Ruby's bed.

"Yeah and it's my fault she left because i wasn't there for her, when i was depressed i ignored her most of the time." Yang said.

"Well it's not your fault entirely." Reese said as he took a seat on Ruby's bed .

"YEIP!" Something in the room cried out.

"What was that?" Reese asks.

Yang then got up and look under Ruby's bed covers and finds a dog.

"Oh thats our pet dog Zwei, so that's where he has been hiding." Yang says.

"You have a dog?" Reese said.

"Yep we like him alot he was my constant source of comfort when you weren't here." said Yang.

"Great i was replaced by a dog oh well." Reese thought.

"Well he seems to be a good dog." Reese says as he reaches to pet Zwei.

Then Zwei then took a bite from Reese, but Reese was ready for it and got his hand away in time.

"A little niper are you." Reese said to Zwei.

"Oh he just does that when he meets new people." Yang said.

"Noted." Reese said.

Reese and Yang then got ready for bed after Reese got done first he checked up on Tai and saw he was still out cold.

"Must have hit him harder than i thought." Reese said as he went back upstairs to the room.

When Reese entered Yang was in Ruby's bed with a grin on her face.

"Ok when we were in school that was fine, but your dad is here so he might kill me." Reese said to Yang.

"You won the duel so i don't think he'll object, if he does then we both beat him up." Yang said as she patted the pillow on her left side.

"Fine by me." Reese said as he climbed in with Yang.

Then they both drifted off to sleep together for the first time in months with smiles on both of their faces.

Next morning

Reese was the first to wake up, he always is the first but when he opened up his eyes the first thing he saw was Yang's face still holding a smile from last night.

But now is the first time Reese really got to take a good look at Yang specifically her right arm or what was left of it, from the looks of it the wrapings came off during the night.

From the look of it Reese could see the angry crisscross of scar tissue that was healing and it still looks like it was in progress, Reese could see some muscles that were visible and they looked like they were in good condition to be used.

Then Yang just woke up and saw that Reese was looking at her arm.

"Ugly isn't it?" Yang asked Reese.

"I've seen worse, have you looked into a solution?" Reese asked Yang.

Yang then sighs and walks over to her desk and grabs a new prosthetic arm, it was a shing silver like it was like it was new out of the box.

"Yang why aren't you wearing that?" asks Reese.

"Because it's not me, this is me." Yang said as she gestured toward her right arm.

"Do you think every time i put on the Predator armor i hate it Yang?" Reese asks Yang.

"Well no cuz you work with it very well." Yang replied back.

"Wrong i do hate it i can fight without it,but to keep me alive and moving i put it on i LET It become a part of me, and that new arm is made to be part of you,my point is even if you hate it work with it and let it serve you and you will live longer." Reese said.

"I'm going to make breakfast think it over Yang." Reese said as he left the room.

"Ok i'll give it some thought." Yang said.

Reese nodded and then entered the kitchen and began to make scrambled eggs and hashbrowns for all three of them, but then he got muzzled on the lower part of his left leg and then looked down to see Zwei nuging Reese.

"You made me jump there dog what do you want?" Reese asks Zwei.

Zwei then barked once then grabbed a loaf of bread from the bag and gave it to Reese.

"Oh i see your very intelligent for a dog of your size, the ones i trained with couldn't do anything for months when we trained them, they were just dumb." Reese said to Zwei.

"So your from the military Reese." Tai said in the doorway.

"Yeah i was but then when i was brought to Beacon to take it down, i questioned the orders i was given so i left made a deal and in return i was a student of Beacon Academy, then it fell and i was on the run." said Reese.

"From Yang." Tai asks.

"No from Atlas military if i was caught i would be killed simple as that." Reese says back Tai.

"So thats why your on the run but why did you come here you could lead the here and things will get worse." Tai said to Reese.

"Little did you know things did get worse before i got here, remember the night when you got tranqed?" Reese asks.

"Hardly it's still fuzzy but all i remember is that three guys in white uniforms knocked at my door and then i was out and, how did you know about that?" Tai asks.

"Because i intercepted communications from them in short they were using tactics to enslave and control Patch, that night i came here was the night i saved you and Yang from a very bad situation, Yang almost got the worst end of it, a captain of the squad that was there tried to rape her but i sent an arrow to meet him and his bud who was hiding on the other side of the wall." Reese said.

While they were talking Yang was standing at the stairwell listening to them and then decided to put a stop to it.

"Dad stop this at once, you will not question him anymore for your own use against him, i love Reese for what he did what he has done and for standing by my side at my worst times so STOP!" Yang shouted.

Tai at this point stopped questioning Reese but had one more question for Reese.

"What are you going to do while your here?" Tai asks.

"I'm here to help Yang and get her back on her feet that's all." Reese said back.

Tai then left the room leaving Yang alone with Reese.

"Hope he doesn't rat me out." said Reese.

"He won't dad is too smart for that." said Yang.

Then the toast then popped up then Zwei then grabbed it before Reese's hand got there.

"So that's who that was for." said Yang.

"Yep he is the smartest dog i now know." said Reese.

After some time the food was ready and everyone had their fill and the table was cleared, Reese went back up stairs and found the guest room, it was bigger than any other of the rooms of the house,but Reese cleared a space for him to use as a work out area, he then took off his shirt and started to stretch his body out.

Yang was going back to her room to think over what Reese asked her to do about her arm but she passed by the guest room and saw Reese's well toned body she was now starting to gawck at Reese then she noticed the scars that Reese has on him most of them were small like a gun wound or knife wound, but the one that grabbed her attention was three long rips across the back starting from the left shoulder and stopping at the bottom right of his lower back.

Yang then gasped and immediately Reese turned around and saw Yang standing there,caught red handed, Reese then walked forward and was face to face with her.

"Like what you see?" Reese asks.

"So that's why you wear the armor to cover up scars that you don't want to see." Yang replied.

"No i've learned the scars are apart of me now i hide them from those who are close to me so that i dont get more sympathy, i'm a kind individual so i don't expect that back, but instead i seem to have developed self conscience of my body so i'm afraid to show anyone what is under my shirt." said Reese.

"Where did you get the claw marks?" Yang asked.

"I got them from a grim attack from a long time ago, i killed it by ripping its head in two." was all Reese said.

Then they both stood there looking at each other in the eyes seeing each others pain,Yang then reached around and touched the longest scar on Reese, Reese then winced when her warm hand touched his cold back, as Yang ran her hand up and down his back she felt a deeper connection of what he was saying earlier this morning.

"I made my decision Reese." Yang said.

"And that is?" Reese asks.

"I'm going to get my arm back and my life and my dreams, and your going to train me." said Yang with a loud voice.

"Well ok then i'll be waiting for you." said Reese with a seductive voice.

"Only i can make that voice." Yang said with a seductive voice.

Reese then was shaking from excitement that Yang is now getting back on her feet.

Then after a few minutes Yang came back in her workout gear and her new arm attached to her.

"Ok then let's get started." Reese says.

End

Author's notes as for an apology for not working on Crysis for awhile here is another chapter for all to enjoy