All Of You

Chapter 3 (1 of 2)

ELEINA WOKE UP feeling drained as if she just expended 90% of her energy trying to neutralize an impeding earthquake. Right. She did use 90% of her energy trying to stop an impeding earthquake.

"Fuck..." Umungol si Eleina at pilit minulat ang mga mata. She must have been out cold for at least six days. Did Ivan–

"Careful."

Napalingon siya sa pinanggalingan ng mababang boses.

Nakaupo si Ivan sa tabi ng kanyang kama, nakatiim bagang at matigas sa tensyon ang mga kalamnan habang nakatitig sa kanya. His eyes had a stark glint that made him look feral, and the hard line of his mouth could only be described as brutal.

"Still alive?" His low voice had a roughened edge.

"Apparently." Paos din ang kanyang boses.

Pinilit niyang bumangon at umupo, pero may pumigil sa kanyang kamay. Napalingon siya roon at nakitang mariing hawak ni Ivan ang kanan niyang kamay.

Ivan's dark gaze dropped to their joined hands, and with his jaw still clenched, he uncurled his strong fingers and let her hand go.

Bigla siyang nanghina at bumagsak ulit sa kama.

What the...

"Fuck." Hinagilap ulit ni Ivan ang kanyang kamay, at muling dumaloy ang enerhiya sa kanyang katawan.

Napasinghap siya at halos mahilo sa pagbugso ng lakas sa kanyang sistema. Habol ang hininga, napalipad ang tingin niya kay Ivan.

Ivan stared back at her with a granite expression on his chiseled face.

"You've been giving me your energy," bulalas niya.

"Apparently," he intoned as if he was just commenting about the weather. "Wasn't sure I was doing it right."

What the hell. "How did you do it?" pakli niya "How did you transfer your energy to me?"

Something harsh flickered in Ivan's gaze, and she felt his energy vibrating as if it wanted to lash out, but she felt him forcefully tamping it down.

Lalong namilog ang kanyang mga mata. Did wonder boy just manage to control the sudden spiking of his energy?

"How did you do it?" May bahid ng pang-akusa ang kanyang tinig. "How did you figure it out?"

Like all Isoff citizens, she was trained to receive energy from medics from a young age. Once her battered body received energy from an outside source, it started repairing her injuries. As a soldier, she also knew how to transfer energy to heal critical injuries. Ivan was neither a soldier nor a trained citizen of Isoff. Hindi ito dapat nagawa ng binata.

"Your pulse got weak," ang tangi nitong sagot.

"And?"

"And I held your fucking hand."

"And then what?"

"And then what?" he bit out.

Gusto niya itong yugyugin. "And then what else did you do? How the hell did you figure out how to transfer your energy to me?"

"How the fuck should I know?" He shot back just as irritably. "You talked about energy and healing before, so I grabbed your hand and forced my energy to you."

"And that's it?" hindi niya makapaniwalang bulalas. "You just forced your energy to me and it just worked out fine?"

"Yeah, Captain, that's it," sikmat ng kausap. "All I knew was you look half dead, and if I didn't do shit, you'd be a corpse in about a fucking minute."