Dangerous Trenches

Chapter 3

Picture of Aunt Fernandez

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Opening my eyes slowly, I groan painfully, holding my side trying to figure out what happened. I glance around seeing I'm in the infirmity again, "You're finally awake." I smile recognizing it's the nurse from a few days ago: When I fell on my back.

Looking to my right I see her beautiful gray eyes shine with a small witty smile as she rests a hand on my cheek, "My favorite nurse, how are you doing?" I grin cheekily grabbing her hand and giving it a peck.

The nurse laughs pulling back her brown share behind her ear giving my hand a gentle squeeze, "A young soldier was able to put pressure on your wounds-" She points to my leg then the left side; seeing stitches on my left stomach, "-It seems when you fell, there were some splinters and one got lodged to the side." Listening to her words I can remember feel an uncomfortable pinch, but thinking nothing of it just a figment of my imagination.

Getting up halfway, I eye my leg seeing the cleanness of my light brown skin reflecting off little spots of dry blood. "You're leg will heal in a week or two, but you need to rest before we can send you back in." I nod at her words giving her a small grin and watching her walk away to another patient. 

Laying back down, I groan in the pain my leg is enduring; even wiggling my toes gave me an aching feel. Closing my eyes I tried to think back who saved my life, if I meet him I would thank him deeply for saving my life.

After a few hours I woke up again to the pain also droplets of sweat sprinting down my face and clenching my eyes as I gripped my pants tightly, "Rual, I just wante-" Opening my eyes I see Sebastian Agar; the man that has saved my ass for the second time.

Sebastian stood with during the horrid pain suggesting, that imaging your back homes helps immensely. Averting my eyes to the left while he was sitting down and his leaning back against the wall I ask, "Thanks for helping me, I have been having the shittiest luck." I snicker lowly at the thought; sitting up slightly to see Sebastian giving me a thumps up.

I couldn't stop seeing the flashes in my head when I saw the half burnt man on the dirt wrench ground covered in nothing but his own flesh skin and what's left of his clothing.

Snapping my eyes I sit up gasping heavily taking a glaring look around; only to see the pitch black of nothing, but patients on beds either dead or fighting for their life, "Your okay." I look to my right seeing the nurse and giving her a weak grin then glancing down as I shook my head.

Hearing the nurse sigh, she comes over hugging me soothingly then giving her a hug back, "When I first saw you, I thought you were beautiful." I can feel her radiating smile as she pulls away and kisses my cheek softly then gently stoking my cheek, "You're a sweet man Guerrero, but this war isn't for you. I wish you could go home, but you're stubborn just like my son." I give her a questioning expression because she didn't have the mother vibe.

She chuckles patting my shoulder lightly then giving me a kiss on the cheek, "Another story for a much appropriate time." I snicker nodding as I watch the Nurse going back to her room where the other nurses rest. Resting my head back on the pillow I can still hear the distant terrors of bullets echoing and over shouting screams colliding with on top one another.

Before looking to my left I see Sebastian asleep on the chair with arms crossed loosely and his head tilted towards his chest, I grin sheepishly knowing I'm in debt with him for saving my life twice; one for helping me and second for dragging me to the infirmary.