Virtual Reality .V2.0
My personal ranting site. Unsuitable for any readers under twelve lest they suffer from brain damage after reading my colourful language and everything that goes along with it. - I refuse to take any responsibility for any minds that were tainted by me.
Breathless
Teaser
"Stay here," he had told her before turning back to the battlefield. She watched as he disappeared into the chaos- poisoned fumes and carnage and people fighting desperately for survival.
Yet where was she? Her lips pursed as she answered her own question, bitter.
In the safe house, cowering in the shadows, useless and utterly helpless.
She frowned, fists clenched and body stiff. She should be out there with them, fighting to end the bloody war. Her friends were dying, bleeding, and all she could do was watch and obey orders.
His orders.
She snorted, tossing her hair back in an arrogant manner as she recalled his specific words.
"You are not to go out there, no matter the circumstance. Stay here and keep the civilians calm."
Keep the civilains calm? Who was he trying to kid?
The only way to do so was for them to take the battle elsewhere. The battle cries would disappear, and so would the stench of blood permeating the room.
She knew exactly why he placed her here in this safehouse.
Not many people possessed the kind of courage needed to face the carnage. Or maybe that was something to do with being used to it. In any case, she was rather ignorant regarding that particular issue.
Not that she was hard-pressed to find out.
However, she enlisted to contribute something of worth, not to be told to sit here and wait out the battle. She admitted, albeit reluctantly, that her fighting skills were not up to par...and she probably wouldn't be able to stomach the sight of the battlefield. It still irked though, to be ordered into the safehouse, instead of being out there.
Her friends needed her, or so she would like to think.
She tried to convince herself that perhaps she wasn't as helpless as he perceived her to be. The attempt left her frustrated and angry, knowing that the Captain was right all along.
The safehouse shook in the force of the explosions outside. A child burst into frightened tears.
It fed her fury and irritation and she had the urge to run up to the child and tell him to shut up. She didn't.
It would have been inappropriate.
Inappropriate? People were dying outside and all she could about was the code of conduct. What was wrong with her? Did she really believe that the superiors had the luxury of time to reprimand her for telling a child to shut it?
No.
Yet somehow, she found herself wanting to obey his order. Stay here and keep the civilians calm. The voice in her head was mocking and she shook it away.
Forcefully unclenching her fingers, she made her way towards the irritating child. A smile that didn't reach her chocolate-brown eyes plastered itself on her face.
Crouching before him, she regarded him silently. He felt her presence, and as he looked up, she saw the still damp tear tracks running down his cheeks.
She took a breath, and tried to speak, only to hesitate. Children didn't like her. Avoiding her like the plague seemed like a more accurate description. She never cared for the likes of them, and they seemed to understand and stayed away.
Perhaps she exuded an aura. Back off!
If so, then this child was missing something. Or maybe he was just too distressed to care.
She finally settled on a simple question. "Why do you cry?"
A hiccough was her answer.
Their eyes met, chocolate and puffy red sapphire, and she continued, eyes never leaving his.
"There is nothing to cry about."
He stiffened visibly, blood draining from his face, leaving nothing but a sheen of sweat on pale skin. Slowly, tears started to leak out of his eyes again.
"I'm...i'm scared." He confessed. Her eyes widened in surprise.
"So am I," her mind confessed traitorously.
She sat down next to him, hugging her knees loosely as she stretched them a little. Her eyes were glassy and she felt the tell-tale tingle of incoming tears.
"My friends are outside fighting," she said conversationally. From the corner of her eyes, she saw him jerk to face her in surprise. "The blood i taste in the air might just be theirs."
His head bowed and he too, stared at some unknown that only he could see.
"Why aren't you out there?" He finally asked, breaching the unspoken silence between them.
The smile that graced her lips was sad and resigned.
She had protested when she heard his order, demanding instead to join the rest. Adamantly, he refused, gripping her shoulders so tight she knew they were going to bruise.
"No! I will never allow you out there." His eyes, beautiful amethyst eyes, were piercing into her with an intensity she never knew existed. And it shocked her into submission.
"My orders were to stay here," was her only reply.
"Liar."
His words cut deep into her and she whipped around to face him. Her eyes narrowed.
"What did you just say?" she growled at him, hands clenching.
He continued to stare ahead. "You're a liar."
Those harshly spoken words brought forth something she never did want to admit. Yet, in face of his words, so blatantly spoken, she could not help but...confront it.
He would not let her out there...
She was weak - that was a firmly established fact. Yet, there were weaker soldiers out on the battlefield.
A cynical smile graced her thin parched lips. She was his weakness. And therefore was not allowed on the battlefield. There was something twisted about her entire situation, yet she couldn't pinpoint it exactly.
Instead, she focused on her reply. "I am a weakness. Therefore, those are my orders."
He fixed her with an unreadable stare, before finally breaking away to stare once again at something only he could see.
Lowering her eyes to the cemented ground, she thought of the soft brush of his lips against hers, the crushing embrace that left her feeling empty as she watched him head towards the battlefield, and about intense amethyst eyes speaking everything he could not say and she would not admit.
Outside, the battle raged on.
(c) blade 2006
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