Blizzard

Chapter 2

Noah awoke with slightly blurry vision, staring at what he assumed was a... deer's head? He looked around his surroundings and saw a few different kinds of animal heads. He saw that the walls and floor were all wood up until (what he assumed) was the kitchen where the floors looked like they were tile. The couch was tawny with an auburn carpet so that the couch wouldn't slide or scrape the floor. There were no lights on, but there was a fire burning in the fireplace right beside him. He noticed that there was a thick blanket over him yet even with these two facts he was still freezing. "Ugh..." he groaned as he tried to sit up.

Rex, hearing his friend stir from the kitchen rushed to his side to his to help. "Easy. Easy" he said trying to ease Noah into a sitting position. "Take it slow. The morphine should be out of your system by now, but you may feel dizzy and you might have a headache. Do you feel nauseous at all?" he asked whilst thoroughly inspecting his friend.

Noah just looked at him and tried to process what the Hispanic Evo had said before answering, "I feel kinda nauseous and I do have a slight head-... Wait what?" Noah asked turning to look at the Evo with surprise. "Wh... what morphine?"

Rex, not being able to look his friend in the eye, looked at the crackling fire burning. "Well I kinda gave you a shot of morphine to knock you out." he said slowly while rubbing the back of his neck.

Noah looked at Rex wide eyed and disbelieving trying to remember what happened on the battlefield. He remember being thrown by the Evo into Rex and then a sharp pain in his left ankle. He remembered another sharp pain in his upper right thigh and telling Rex that he hated him. "Rex why the hell did you inject me with morphine?" Noah asked now outraged.

Rex tightly shut his eyes at his friend's tone and whispered, "Because I didn't want you to get hurt during the fight."

"I am a providence agent now! I am going to get injured all the time, and they will be way more intense than this sprained ankle! You and I knew this when I went for the job! Plus you never said anything before, why do you care so much now?" Noah asked with same amount of emotion, forcing Rex to look at him.

"Because up until now I have never seen you get hurt!" Rex yelled matching Noah's tone.

"I twisted my ankle Rex! I promise that will not kill me! I might be in pain for a few days, but I still would have been able to fight!"

"No Noah. You might not have realized this because of the adrenaline in your system, but you where cut by the Evo and it apparently had some kind of poison or bacteria in its claws. You were lucky I knocked you out because you would have started hallucinating, lashing out, eventually might have hurt not only the people around you but also yourself, and throughout that whole ordeal you would have been in excruciating pain." Rex said looking Noah directly in the eye.

Noah was speechless and could only stare at the Evo with a mixed of anger and surprise as he continued. "After I fought and lost the Evo I found you on the ground screaming in pain. I radioed Holiday and she told me what to do. I took a sample of the Evo's venom from your back and sent it to her so that she could make you and anyone else in the village that might have been infected a cure. Plus your leg isn't sprained it's fractured." As Rex said this he got up and walked over to the window in the back of the room.

The two boys just stayed in total silence as they both went over what Rex had just said. Finally Noah got up and limped over to Rex and put a hand on his shoulder. "Thank you for saving my life and I'm sorry." he said staring at the Evo with regretful eyes.

"No, I'm sorry." Rex replied while turning to face his boyfriend. "I shouldn't have been so overprotective of you. I just don't want to see you hurt and in pain." he looked down, not being able to look Noah in the eyes again.