When she realized

Chapter 30: Bonding during hard times

In the morning, Annalise wakes up with her head on Bernadette's shoulder. Bernadette is sitting awake.
"Hey.." Annalise smiles.
"Mornin' bunny" Bernadette says with a small smile as she watches the sun rise fully into the sky.
"Do you just not sleep?" Annalise chuckles.
"I guess I'm a little bit of an insomniac" Bernadette shrugs.
"Anyway I gotta wake up the gremlins" Bernadette sighs and opens the drivers side door. Annalise nods, she giggles to herself when Bernadette shuts the car door. Bernadette, of course, heard her.
"Hey! Get up squad!" Bernadette shakes everyone awake expect for Daisy. Benjamin groans.
"How come you didn't wake the kid up?" He asks.
"She's a kid, she'll sleep as long as she wants, you baby" Bernadette smirks.
"What's got you in such a good mood?" Jesse asks.
"Uh..nothing?" Bernadette says and shakes her head. Annalise gets out the car and rubs her eyes, she then looks at Bernadette and Bernadette stares back at her. Archie and Benjamin look at Annalise, then at Bernadette, then back at Annalise. They look between the girls a few times, then look at each other before squealing and pointing at them both.
"You're gay!" Benjamin says. Jesse looks at him.
"Bruh, it's Bernadette so like no shit Sherlock but Annalise isn't-" Jesse connects the dots.
"Oh..oh! Ugh" she rolls her eyes.
"I love you Bernadette and I'm happy for you both but if you guys are all lovey-dovey in front of me then I'm going to barf and it'll be all your fault" Jesse says and lays back down.
"TELL. ME. EVERYTHING." Benjamin says.
"Do not tell him everything, you'll never hear the end of it" Archie says and covers Benjamin's mouth. Bernadette starts talking.
"Well-" Annalise stops her.
"Did you not hear Archie?" She says.
Bernadette moves Annalise's hand.
"Oh so is this how it's gunna be now huh? You're gunna tell me what to do?" Bernadette asks. Annalise nods smugly.
"Yeah I don't think so" Bernadette chuckles and super-speed runs into the woods to collect wood to make a fire. Annalise smirks and leans against the truck, then she whispers to Archie and Benjamin.
"Watch this" she whispers. Benjamin and Archie tilt their heads slightly and watch her.
"Hey baby can you come here?" Annalise says.

Bernadette's ears perk up when her super hearing allowed her to hear Annalise's words. She super-speeds back through the woods and sits halfway up a tree at the edge of the woods and looks down at everyone.
"What did you just call me?" Bernadette asks.
"And I'm barfing" Jesse rolls her eyes. Archie laughs as Bernadette looks down at Annalise. Annalise giggles and looks up at Bernadette.
"Weren't you in the middle of a task? Why'd you drop everything just to come here as soon as I wanted your attention?" Annalise asks teasingly.
"Because-" Bernadette stops.
"Oh I see what you did there. You think you're funny? Screw you" Bernadette laughs forcefully.
"That's not fair, you pet name baited me" She says, pretending to be offended.
"Sure did baby" Annalise laughs.
"Shut up short-ass" Bernadette rolls her eyes with a smirk.
"I'm going back to what I was doing, and you aren't gunna call me that" Bernadette super speeds away again.
"Bro she could literally slit my throat faster then I could count to five but you can call her baby and tease her and get away with it?!" Benjamin scoffs.
"Impressive" he adds.
"Babe...killing you before you could count to five wouldn't be that hard.." Archie says. Benjamin's jaw drops.
"Rude" He folds his arms.
"Can you guys be quiet? My lord" Daisy says.
Everyone looks at Daisy, shocked.
"Ok she didn't utter a word when she shot your dad with a flaming arrow to burn his corpse but chose to speak just to tell us to shut the fuck up. That says something" Archie says.
Annalise has her eyebrows raised and then she laughs.
"I'm back" Bernadette appears directly behind Annalise with a pile of firewood at her side.
"Agh!" Annalise jumps.
"Damn bunny chill" Bernadette start building a fire to cook breakfast.

After they all eat breakfast. They hit the road again.
"Shouldn't be long now" Archie says, driving the car. Jesse is in the passenger seat and Bernadette, Daisy, Benjamin and Annalise are all in the back of the car.
"Damn I'm excited to get out of here. I miss sleeping In a bed" Benjamin says.
"I miss sleeping" Bernadette says. Daisy has a pile of Dandelions in her lap.
"Hey Whatcha doing Daisy?" Annalise smiles.
Daisy holds up a flower crown.
"you made yourself a flower crown? How sweet!" Annalise says. Daisy shakes her head and points in Jesse's direction.
"For Jesse?? Woah who knew Jesse was good with kids?" Benjamin says.
"She's not. She was watching my uncles 4 year old son while my uncle went to the bathroom and by the time he came back, the child had pulled the tv PlayStation off of the table and was using it as a drum" Bernadette says.
"And what did Jesse do about it?" Annalise asks.
"She was recording" Bernadette says. Benjamin sniggers and then Laughs.
"That's fucking hilarious" he says through his laugh and falls onto his back.