Breathe

Chapter 30: Crashes and Marks

Chapter 30: Crashes and Marks

After a few more rounds Aelwyne and Addison fell asleep naked in a tangle of limbs only to be woken up a few hours later by a page. Aelwyne groaned at the sound and buried her head back on Addison's neck while Addison reached for the pagers.

"We have to go in." Addison said her voice was raspy and low from sleep.

"Can you remind me why I decided to save lives? I wanna stay here with you." Aelwyne whined sleepily.

"Alright child, up we go." Addison chuckled as she shook her and began to get up.

"What kind of page? You get paged too? I thought it was just mine. Is that really the time? 4 a.m.?" Aelwyne rubbed her eyes.

"Yes, and it's a 9-1-1. All hands on deck." Addison called as she went to leave the room, wrapped in a blanket. At that Aelwyne became more awake and alert.

"Ok. Ten minute shower and then we can go." She said as she rummaged through her drawers and closet for clothes.

"Care if I join?" Addison asked.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Aelwyne chuckled.

"Relax, Neirhem. I'm not going to jump you in the shower." Addison teased playfully.

"Pity." Aelwyne giggled as she ran to the bathroom.

As hard as it was for the both of them they managed to just shower and leave. Addison grabbed them both an apple as they ran out the door and now they were happily munching on them.

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"I'm going to need to find an on-call room after we get people situated." Addison before she took another bite.

"Already thinking ahead? I like it." Aelwyne smirked, making Addison choke a bit.

"That's not what I meant." She replied after calming down.

"What I meant was that we didn't get much sleep so a nap might be good. What did you not mean?" Aelwyne asked with an amused grin.

"You know where you were going with that. You tease." Addison gave her a knowing look matching her grin.

"No idea what you are on about, Addie." Aelwyne shrugged playfully.

"So, are you going to call me anything other than Addie now?" Addison asked after a few minutes.

"You want me to give you a pet name?" Aelwyne asked back.

"I'm not a pet." Addison whined playfully.

"Oh I know. But I am definitely your pet." Aelwyne joked.

"Aelwyne." Addison scolded with a laugh.

"What's this about Addie?" Aelwyne asked a bit more seriously.

"I don't know. It's just my friends can call me Addie and yours can call you Ael, so..." Addison began but stopped letting out a sigh.

"So you want a name only I will use for you." Aelwyne finished for her. "I guess I can manage that. It won't be Red though."

"God, no." Addison replied quickly. "Yours won't have sweetness anywhere near it." She added, making Aelwyne laugh.

"Are you sure? Sweetness is so cute though." She continued to chuckle.

"No. No sweet anything." Addison huffed. "Anyway, what will you call me?" She looked at her expectantly.

"Princess." Aelwyne threw her a look and laughed when she saw the frown on Addison's face.