Rowena Roman

Chapter 5 Noah: Part 5 (Edited)

The sound of running water jerked Noah awake. He hadn't the intention, or even the inclination to fall asleep, yet somehow he was able too.

Sitting up on the sofa he looked to see that the bedroom door was now left wide open, he looked inside the room and found no blood to be there, it had all been cleaned up. Even the room seemed like it had seen no signs of blood or violence.

"Oh you're awake," Conscious's voice drew him to the windowsill; his front paws were clasped around his back as if he were a gentlemen admiring the outside. "Sleep well?"

"Surprisingly yes," Noah said softly as he looked back to the bedroom. "When did you..."

"Clean up?" the mouse finished. "Only just a few minutes ago, Diana did most of the work and is now taking a shower after burning her uniform. Ether she or I will have to get another one later this evening."

"She's okay?"

"I said that she would."

"That's not what I meant..." Noah looked to the room again. "It must have hurt, opening herself like that. She didn't need to force herself to heal just to make sure I'd be alright."

"Diana has done this many times," Conscious said. "Don't blame yourself for the pain she lives with. Even though she does not enjoy interacting with people she isn't the type to abandon a person in need. If she had left you as you were, if she did not find your note or take whatever was left in the library before that man did, you would have died."

"If I did die, would it really bother her?"

"Yes, Diana can come back from the dead, but that doesn't make her any less human. If she can save one person from death then it is something she's willing to do. Though she hates parts of humanity she does not hate the individual people within this world that humanity has to offer. As I've said there are bad people but there are many good as well. Those good people she meet's, help and the like gives her a reason to live forward and continue onwards."

"And you?" Noah asked. "What's your reason for living?"

"To be with Diana," the mouse said plainly. "She meets people, but in time those people die, and Diana is left alone. I'm her friend and I will always be there for her when she needs me."

Noah smiled recalling his friends back at home from his old school and that of James. "Yeah I can imagine. I wouldn't know what I would do if I didn't have my friends."

The mouse seemed to smile at that, though it was hard for Noah to really tell.

"Looks like someone's up." Diana said as she stepped out of the bathroom, Noah went to respond but went beet red when he saw her. "What?"

"Diana, this is the 21st century, wear some clothes when you leave the bathroom after showering."

Diana stood in the room completely naked, not even at all phased at the fact that there was a teenage boy in the same place with her, if anything her stature gave the response of that she didn't really care. Even with nothing on she still had a towel resting on her shoulders as she dried her wet black hair. The fact that she did this gave Noah a slightly better idea as to what Diana might be really like, but then again for all he knew she might just be doing it to get some kind of rise out of him, though he couldn't be sure of that ether.

She shrugged at Conscious's words. "It's not like seeing a naked girl will change anything. Besides," she looked a Noah and gave a half grin. "You thought I was dead yesterday, what better way to make you see I'm alive then by doing this?"