The clock read 3:57, after reading any updates on the cyclops system and data that has been transferred over from the Aurora's computer that Caleb hooked up to earlier in the day. After checking the system making sure there was nothing wrong with it, I switched over to the cryosleep status and see over 40 new vitals on that page, mostly green and stable, a few orange with low power and some having a few injuries which were listed before the name and age of each person.
"It looks like all of the people we were transferring over got hooked up into the cryosleep chamber" I say, still looking down at my tablet.
"Look at how many people we will have saved on this trip out here" I hold up the tablet for Charlotte to see, unable to stop the smile forming on my face from the success we had just from the first day back at the Aurora.
Charlotte was looking right at me and not the tablet. Then she leaned in, the blanket starting to slip off her shoulders as she got closer to me.
"Wait what are you doing?" I ask moving back ever so slightly.
"Will you just hold still?" She grabs my jaw lightly and puts her other hand on my shoulder, placing her lips on mine. Her kiss is so light and sweet and I realized far too short as I felt her pull back, her eyes opening.
I drop my tablet to the side and close the space between our lips once again. I kiss her more passionately, now leaning over her. I have my left arm on the floor next to us holding me up above her and my other arm holding her close to me. She wraps her arms around my neck increasing the intensity instantly.
We broke apart both breathing hard, Charlotte loosens up her arms on my neck leaving them touching my shoulders and looking up at me smiling. She seemed to be glowing from happiness under me making me unable to do anything other than smile down at her and laughing.
I kiss her forehead letting my lips linger there for a bit before coming back to facing her. I use my right hand to brush her hair back before holding her face and placing another short and sweet kiss on her lips feeling her kiss me back with a smile on her face.
I rolled next to her and pulled her into my chest holding her tightly, I grabbed the blanket that was just around her and covered Charlotte and myself. Holding her tightly to my chest was all of the warmth I needed but the comfort of the blanket was always nice.
After a few moments of just holding each other and feeling each other breathe, I let out a small laugh. "What?" Charlotte asks, pulling away from me slightly to meet my eyes. "You have no idea how long i've been waiting to do that, how long I have dreamt of this exact moment" I meet her eyes with a smile plastered on my face.
"It all feels like a dream." I grab her hand.
"Cmon pinch me, wake me up from this wonderful dream" I say using her fingers to give me a slight pinch.
Charlotte's POV:
We are moving one of the last groups of people out of the Aurora. The batteries we were using started to get low so we all started to pick up the pace. I am in the back right behind Percy, I grab my tablet and look down at it as I feel a slight buzz on my watch. I see a line of orange on the screen then feel myself falling and pain in my ankle. I lost hold of my tablet as I fell into the cold ocean water that was below. I force my eyes open and see something fall into the water with me, I start pushing up and swimming towards the top when I see Percy swimming towards me. He grabs my arm and both of us swim to the top of the water catching our breath.
Percy keeps looking around when we get to the surface of the water, the water level keeps getting higher. Percy grabbed onto some bars from the ceiling slowing down his breathing so it was stable. He pulled me up holding me around my waist with his left arm. I grabbed onto the bars letting me control my breathing as well.
He let go of me and dove under the water swimming towards the bottom of the room. After a few seconds he comes back up holding onto the bars again catching his breath. He shoots back down under the water this time kicking off the top of the room to get more speed. I take in my last good breath of air before the room is completely full with water.
A green light turns on next to a hatch near the bars i was holding. I look down and see Percy kicking at a hatch. I put my legs on the roof and kick off just like Percy did just a few seconds ago. He starts to lose his strength as I swim towards him, his eyes starting to close as he lets go of the hatch below him.
I grab his face and place my lips on his forcefully breathing air into his lungs. I pull away and meet his eyes and point to the green light I saw before.
Not hesitating, he grabs my waist and shooting up towards the hatch. He pulls at the hatch making his air leave his mouth slowly and his muscles bulge at the struggle. The hatch opens, he grabs around me once more pulling both of us out of the water and out onto the ground above. I lay on top of him catching my breath still feeling his hold on my waist holding me close to him.
He brushes my hair out of my face and meets my eyes. His hair is all in his face and he is breathing hard but the only thing I can think of is the pressure I still feel on my lips from just moments before. I give him a small smile making him lay back down and brushing his hair back out of his face.
Percy's earbuds go off making him cringe a little bit then sit up, his hand still holding me close to him. He pulls out his tablet and types in a few things before he pushes it back onto his back and stands up offering me his hand.
He explained what was going on with the rest of the crew as we walked down the hallways of the Aurora. We opened the doors we could move as we walked, checking inside or anything helpful. We found a storage room after a little while of walking, with some effort Percy pushes it open. We get inside and close the door behind us. We go through the boxes, Percy finds a blanket and I open a small box on the side of the pile.
"Jackpot!" I say pulling out some clothes that should fit us and showing Percy.
After pulling out some of the clothes Percy takes some boxers and shorts that would fit him and after heading over to the other side of the room he tells me to let him know when I finish changing.
He stands on the other side of some boxes that cover up a little past his waist. He takes off his shirt revealing his toned back and arms making my face blush.
I turn towards the other wall and start taking off my wet clothes. I struggle to get my wet shirt off making me grunt pulling it off and then dropping it onto the ground and putting on the new large shirt i found in the box. I slip off my pants and underwear slipping on the new underwear that was found with the other clothes. I slip on the large shorts after but no matter how many times I rolled them up they kept falling back off my hips. I let them fall and picked them up along with the rest of my wet clothes. I lay my other clothes over some of the boxes and gave Percy the all clear.
I turned around right before he did, seeing him with no shirt and his abs being more toned then I remembered last seeing making me struggle to swallow and breathe. Feeling heat go to my ears as he stepped closer to me revealing his full chest. He sat down in the corner putting the blanket he found around his shoulders and holding up the side of it for me to slide under.
I walked over to him and sat down next to him, letting the blanket be placed over my shoulder not big enough to cover both of us well. He took the blanket off his shoulders and wrapped it fully around me giving me a small smile before he pulled out his tablet and started to check some things on it. He had such a concentrated face while swiping and typing some things onto the tablet. He started to swipe downwards and a small smile started to form on his face, and there I was unable to look anywhere else but his lips, my ears on fire as he turned with a wide smile and excited about the day's work.
Before realizing what I was even doing I started to lean closer to Percy.
"Wait what are you doing?" he asked while backing up slightly making me stop and meet his eyes.
"Will you just hold still?" I say grabbing his jaw with my right hand and locking lips with him once again feeling that pressure on my lips.
I close my eyes as I kiss him, it was a short kiss. I pull away opening my eyes again.
He dropped his tablet and kissed me back, slowly pushing us both to the ground, he tightened his hold on my waist once he was over me, holding me close to him one of his legs between mine and his arm holding him up right next to me. I wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him back passionately. We both separate gasping for air, I can't help but smile and meet his eyes. He lets out a little laugh as he smiles, he kisses my forehead lovingly before meeting my eyes again and brushing my hair out of my face. He lets his hand linger on my cheek and leans in kissing me gently, I couldn't stop my smile as I kiss him back, closing my eyes and sinking into the kiss.
He ends the kiss and rolls over pulling me into his arms holding me tightly against his chest. I can hear his heart beating super fast as I lay into his chest sure my heart was beating just as fast. He lets out a small laugh making me slide away just enough to meet his eyes and question him, and that is when I saw his face that was covered in a wide grin.
"You have no idea how long I've been waiting to do that… how long I have dreamt of this exact moment" He says, meeting my eyes and grabbing my hand.
"C'mon wake me up from this wonderful dream" He says glowing with a bright smile and using my fingers to pinch him.
I leaned up and kissed him once again, holding his face in my hands feeling his arms wrap around my waist and kissing me back.
"That works too" He says smiling once again, and pulling me into a hug. We lay together enjoying each other's warmth, not saying a word just laying in comfortable silence.
Percy's tablet buzzes receiving a sigh from him, he sat up letting me go and grabbing the tablet. He sits back against the boxes like before and grabs the edge of the blanket I am sitting on and starts to pull it to him. Smiling I get up and sit next to him, he pulls me into his lap and wraps his arms around me with the tablet now in front of both of us. The clock reads 5:25 and there was a message from Caleb checking in to see how we are doing.
Percy clicks onto the message, "How are we doing Charlotte?" He asks, leaning into my ear and kissing my neck. His hot breath giving me goosebumps down my back earning a smirk from him that I can feel on my neck.
He lays his chin over my shoulder and switches the message to the camera and takes a picture of him kissing my cheek. He attaches that to the message that reads
"We are doing just fine, should be finding our way back to the cyclops soon. Look at the picture for some great news :)." He waits after finishing the message and takes his hand off of the tablet, I glance back to see him looking at me waiting for my response.
I hit send on the message earning a hug from Percy.
"Does this mean you will be my girlfriend?" He asks quietly, snuggling into my neck.
"Of course!" I laugh reaching one arm back to run through his mostly dry hair and the other one holding tightly onto his arms around me.
"Good," he said, giving me another squeeze.
"We should start heading back up to the cyclops so we can make sure all of those people are okay, we are the doctors after all" I stand up walking backwards towards my wet clothes.
Sighing, Percy stands up as well and walks to his clothes putting on his wet shoes with a bit of a struggle. I slip on my wet pants that were a lot drier than they were a little while ago. I turn towards the wall and slip my bra back on under the dry shirt. I grab a bag that was hanging out of one of the boxes and store my wet shirt inside of it then face Percy who has slipped back on his shoes but held his shirt and pants in his hands and had his tablet on his shoulder.
I take the wet clothes from him and store them inside the bag before zipping it closed and slipping my shoes back on. Percy grabbed the bag from me and grabbed the blanket we used and stuffed it into a different pocket from the wet clothes before throwing the blanket over his shoulder and offering his hand out to me.
