Scars of Conquest; Germany x Reader

Chapter 6 - What Was Gained

READER

You throw the ice pack as hard as you can into the foliage. The rain had started up, your dress shoes slipping and sliding as you tried to hide further and further in the woods. You had brought your coat over your head, but it was already soaked and was dripping on you instead of keeping you dry.

Your bruise seems to have stopped swelling, a mixture of thanks going to both Ludwig and the cold weather.

You keep trudging on.

You slide down a few muddy slopes as you sight a large tree in the distance. Its branches should be good enough to find cover from the storm. Your numb fingers scrape at the bark and you are hit by the memories of eating the inner bark of pine trees and soaking pine needles in water.

Your shoes scratch and scrape as you try to get yourself high enough on the young pine so you could make a leap for the lower limbs of the towering one beside you.

It wasn't very hard...if you ignored the fact you were walking through a forest wearing a suit and was currently going through all the steps of destroying it.

You swing yourself onto the branch, eyes drinking in the view of towering giants being battered on by the rain. You try to wring your coat out before allowing it to drape itself on your shoulders. The storm had broken for a while, but now it was back.

It was slightly amusing how often your most memorable moments always took place in the rain.

You almost kicked the door down. "Alice, I thought I told you not to abuse my doorbell!"

"But it sounds so pretty," the redhead sneered back. You barred your teeth at her but she just shrugged it off. "I need to get this girl out of the rain."

Your eyes dropped to the shivering figure pressed into Alice's side. The flimsy cotton dress that hung on the girl's skeleton frame was already soaked through. Alice's sweater wasn't helping much.

You moved quickly out of the doorway. "Put her in the kitchen. I was planning on going to town to congratulate Viv and Leon on their pregnancy, so there should be stew on the stove."

"Look who's being nice," Alice chimed.

You manage a smile. "Get used to it. I have an entire two weeks on break."

"Hell yeah!" Alice cheered, giving you a high five. "I could use some help at the clinic."

You shoot her a glare. "No."

"Girls night then. We can use your awesome car to go to the city."

"Depends," you replied carefully.

Alice only grinned as she helped herself to the blankets you kept in a chest in the living room. She pushed the shivering girl towards the fire. You headed into the kitchen, scooping the warm stew from your crockpot when the little girl screamed.

You run back into the living room.

"No!" the child cried out, h/c hair flying all over her face as she shook her head. "Don't touch me!"