''Your boys scared the shit out of me with their stories!'' Stephanie glanced at Punk who raised his hands in defense. She's about to hug her husband but he cut her off.
''The injured?'' Roman and Dean exchanged gazes, sighing at how naive their commander could be sometimes.
''Two bad wounded; but they're in good hands, my girls are…''
''They better'' Hunter mumbled and the boys noticed her dissatisfaction. She was about to speak up but Seth could no longer prevent his yelping and they turn to pay him attention.
''Rollins what are you still doing here, didn't I tell you to hit the treatment?!'' no, no you didn't you asshole.
''Sorry boss, got caught up in the moment; on my way'' he said, making his way towards the white tent.
''Here'' Stephanie appeared in front of him and opened the tent to let him in. He smiled at her, even though he didn't want any help.
''Elena; shot!'' the girl spun her chair and faced them. It took some seconds, but then she seemed to remember him.
''There'' she nodded towards an empty bed before she returned to her patient, Zack, and ran a needle thru his neck. Seth noticed the stress in her body language while he made his way towards the given bed. Once in place, he started to observe his environment… no wonder she was so stressed?! The tent was bigger than it looked from the outside; twenty beds and seventeen were taken. Stephanie had said two injured, but it never accrued to him that by two she only meant the new arrived…
''Ouch'' by the pain, he came back to reality. Elena was in front of him and had apparently tried to take his uniform off.
''Jeez woman, where's your warning?'' he snapped.
''You said you were ready?'' she blinked at him, confused, and he now rememberd that he actually did; when he was lost in his thoughts.
''Sorry…'' he mumbled but she didn't seem to hear. He gave her a hand and the uniform slipped off.
''Looks bad'' she said and he frowned.
''Aren't you suppose to make me feel better?'' he didn't really mean to sound so rude.
''Where's your vest?'' she asked, ignoring his rudeness.
''Since we were so close to the camp, no one thought it was worth putting on, you know how much that thing weight? And let's not even get in to the heat…''
''You were lucky, five inches up and it would probably have hit your heart'' she cut him off, clearly didn't agree with his excuses.
''How did you get it?'' she continued as she pulled a spinning chair between her legs.
''We were running and Dean, that clumsy asshole, stumbled over god knows what. Obviously I turned to pick him up and your mind is everywhere when your enemies are you in tow… then I felt something, like a pinch, but the only thing I could think of was to get Dean up and not lose sight of Roman who was running ahead of us'' she looked at him for a while, then she gave away a slow nod. His gaze followed her as she turned to open a drawer underneath her desk.
''Elena Argent huh? I never really picked up your name'' he read her nametag while she gathered her tools.
''Yeah'' she replied, preparing a pain stilling syringe.
''Seth Rollins'' he continued and she turned her chair to face him again.
''Yeah, I know, I'm good with names; hold still'' the needle broke thru his skin and she emptied the liquid. He tensed and she noticed.
''Tell me Rollins, any woman at home?'' she turned her chair back to the desk and placed down the syringe before she picked up a cotton swab instead and drenched it in alcohol. He knew what that meant, she's about to clean his wound and is trying to distract him.
''No'' he answered dryly.
''Is that so? Nobody you desire?'' okay now she's just mocking him.
''No''
''Then tell me your ideals'' she turned to face his body; okay fine, he'll play along.
''Blond, booty, bobs,'' he said as he watched her hands reach his ribs,
''No offense'' she looked up and he smirked. She chuckled as she shook her head,
''None taken; I don't do relationships'' she continued to wipe his wound clean. It didn't even hurt?
''Why is that?'' he didn't really care, he just needed a distraction.
''Long story…hey girl, what's up?'' Elena turned to face Kelly who had came up during their conversation. You ask Seth's type? Kelly Kelly.
''Kane won't let me touch him, can you please help me out? I know you're super busy but…''
''Got it, I just need to…'' Elena turned and caught Seth staring at Kelly.
''You know what, if you could pull the bullet out of our guest here; I'll check on Kane''
''Tots'' Kelly hugged her with a smile. In their hug, Elena winked at him and he made a pleasing face expression, maybe she wasn't so bad after all.
Elena leaves and Kelly takes her place.
''Let's see now'' she picked up the bottle and was about to pour it over his wound when he grabbed her wrist in panic.
''Sweetie, I don't think you're supposed to do it like that'' he gave her a nod against the cotton balls and she widened her eyes.
''Oh sorry! I forgot'' she reached after a cotton ball and drenched it in alcohol before she grabbed a forceps. Okay, she may be smoking hot but he would lie if he said that he wasn't freaking out right now.
''Thank you doll'' Kane smiled at Elena as she throwed away the old bandage she just replaced.
''No problem big guy, now rest; I've got to go but I'll check on you later''
''Guardian angel'' he said and she giggled while making her way back to Seth.
''Later then?'' she heared Seth say and Kelly nodded.
''Kane is done'' she walked up to them; acting like she didn't hear their conversation.
''Thank you so much Elena, really my savior'' Kelly rose from her seat.
''Oh, my shift just ended'' she looked at the clock and turned to smile at Seth who still hadn't let his gaze drop from her.
''See you'' she winked before she walked to stamp out.
''What did she do?'' Elena frowned as she looked at the wound that had opened up even more. She looked up at him but he was still looking at Kelly who just hung up her white coat. With a smile she shook her head. Well, at least the bullet was out.
''You're welcome'' she said as she grabbed a towel to fix Kelly's doing. Kelly had now walked out of the tent and Seth turned his attention to Elena.
''I have my charm to thank'' he said, avoiding to tell her that it hurt when Kelly treated him.
''Uhu'' she didn't seem to listen; she was way focused swiping his wound.
''Okay, better wrap it up; can you sit?'' she picked up a bandage roll while he got up to seated position. When he seemed done, she jumped up on the bed beside him and was now sitting close. Okay?, he thought for himself while staring at her. He watched as she placed two patches between her lips and the rest of her tools between her legs.
''Arms up'' she startes of with the base, which makes him jerk. Not meaning to, he grabbed her wrist quite hard and she stopped to look him in the eyes. They just sit there for a while and stare at one another. The pain eventually faded away and he slowly began to let go of her wrist; not exchanging any words. She gave him some time to breathe before she picked up the bandage and placed it on his back, then she grabbed the patches from her mouth and pinning them on place. She stopped to see if he was hurting but he gave away a 'keep going'-nod and slowly she pulled the bandage at his skin as she received it from his other side, going around from one side to his opposite and repeated those movements. He just sat there; she smelled good tho.
''Hold here please'' she said when the final round came and he placed a finger on his given position. She pinned everything in place with a security needle.
''There you go Barbie'' she said while pulling her head away from him to observe the final result. Barbie was her new nick name on him. Not only because he was two toned with one side blond, but also because his ideals of girls were pretty much Barbie herself.
''Thank you… I guess'' he frowned; Barbie? While she observed his bandage, he noticed something around her neck.
''Whose is it?'' it's a military tag, or as they like to call it; a dog tag.
She followed his gaze and fished the necklace up from underneath her coat. Two tags.
''Long story'' she said, not seeming to have the intentions of telling it.
''See you Argent, I'm calling it for the night'' a voice echoed and Elena turned to face Karma.
''Night''
''When does your shift even end?'' she turned to see Seth watch the clock.
''It already has,'' she said, picking up a syringe.
''Five hours ago'' she snapped her fingers against the syringe and then placed her left hand on his chest. Her touch made him tense up, but he didn't know why.
''Still'' she didn't seem to notice.
''Why are you here then?'' the needle entered his body and she emptied its content before pulling it back out.
''Somebody's got to watch them during the night'' she nodded against the others and he frowned.
''You don't sleep?''
''Barely, I sleep here and then but awakes to check on them regularly…''
''That doesn't seem fare?'' he cut her off but she just shrugged.
''I don't mind, I see them as family; and family means everything to me... You're allowed to go now; just swing by tomorrow would you? I need to do a check up since I'm not really allowed to let you leave; first day rule'' she smiled at him and he tipped his head to the side.
''Then why am I allowed to walk?''
''Because you don't want to miss your date, right?'' she grinned and he now remembered Kelly that he was supposed to meet later. Wait, so she overheard them? He gave away a slow nod before placing both feet on the ground.
''I've been, out on the ocean. Sailing alone; traveling nowhere,'' a singing voice suddenly broke off and Seth turned to watch Dwayne. Elena however didn't seem to react at all?
''He likes to sing, he says it helps him with the pain since he doesn't want me to give him painkillers'' she had noticed his face expression and he gave away a nod before returning to his walk out of the tent.
''…with just you around, your heartbeats the only sound'' Dwayne stopped.
''And when it's time,'' by the new tone, Seth paused. He turned, now standing in the entrance, to watch Elena that seemed to continue on the lyrics. She closed her eyes.
''I'll leave the ocean behind''
There! I hope this chapter explains my previous one. I know, it's mainly about Seth and Elena but I felt like the question mark was on them. Don't worry tho; the brothers will be reunited in the next chap ;)