Navy Love

12 Dead

A year latter. 

"Maylishka, they are sending me on mission." Ivan tells me as he takes off his boots getting into bed. "Where are you going?" I ask him worried. "I can't tell you."  "Ivan I'm your wife, you can tell me anything."  "It's a mission. I can't tell you. I'll tell you when I get back." "Ivan, I don't want you going."  "I don't have a choice." He tells me. I climb ontop of him holding him close. "When do you leave?" I whisper.  "Tomorrow, I won't be back until next week."  "That is if you make it back." I kiss his neck. This might be our last chance together. I find his sweet spot then kiss and bite it. "Mmm baby."  "Before you go, please?" I beg him. "Okay." He flips us over getting on top of me. 

Ivan is leaving today. I have a bad feeling about this. I don't want him to go. He's my everything. If I lose him I don't know what I'll do. I sit up and look at Ivan. "I'm leaving today." Ivan sighs as he puts his shirt on. "I'm going to miss you. Please be safe love. I want you to comeback back home with me. Think of Mayk, he needs you." I hug him. He wraps his arms around me holding me to his warm body. "I will try my best love. I don't want you and Mayk to Be alone." He whispers. "I love you Ivan." I tell him from the bottom of my heart. I get on my toes and kiss his sweet lips. I will never forget his taste. He pulls me closer to him holding me tight. "I'm sorry for upsetting you all those times. You're the greatest woman I have ever met. If something does happen to me I will watch over you and Mayk. That's my promise."  "Okay." I nod my head. We finish getting dressed then go out to the mess hall. "Geez you two were so loud last night." Cody smiles nudging Ivan. "I have a right to love my wife before I leave." Ivan gets defensive. "I'm only joking man. If I was you I would have done the same thing." Cody says. 

I watch as Ivan's gets in a boat heading away. I'm going to miss him. I want him to stay with me. I wave to him as he disappeared into the distance. 

**A week later**

Ivan should be home tonight. I get into bed waiting for him to come back. I slowly drift to sleep. 

I heard three knocks on the door. I race up and answer it. "Ivan?" I say as I look behind the door. I look at Zak to see tears in his eyes. "Harley, Ivan's dying. He's been shot." I felt my heart drop breaking into tiny pieces as the breath was knocked out of me. "He's in the hospital now." I push past Zak running into my hospital room. I race in I see him laying on a bed. "Ivan!" I run over to him. "Maylishka." He says weakly. His face was pale as blood stained his bandage wrapped body. They were giving him blood. "Ivan." I run over and put my hand on my face. "Baby." Ivan breaths painfully.  "Stay with me Ivan please stay with me." I beg him as tears run down my face. "I'm trying." He mumbles then looks at me with tears in his eyes. "Please we need you. Please don't leave me." I beg him. "I'm trying." He breaths.  "Zak take care of my family. Protect them when I can't." Ivan tells him weakly. "No no don't you DARE give up. Your going to make it." I cry hopelessly. "No matter what happens I still love you." He tells me. "I love you Ivan." I cry heartbroken. "Zak take care of my family please." Ivan says then goes limp. "IVAN!!" I scream as I start doing CPR. He's not going to leave me. He can't. I love him. I love him. He's my husband. He's the father of my child. I do CPR in what seems like forever. "Harley, Harley sweetheart he's gone." Zak tells me. I stop and hug Ivan. "My husband." I weep. I place on last kiss on his lips. "He's gone." I cry holding his hand. I felt Zak put his hand on my back. "He's dead." I sob as my heart runs down my cheeks. My Ivan is dead. "Please come back to me." I beg Ivan. I need my man to come back. I need him. It's hard for me to breath my heart hurts to much. "He's watching over us now." Zak tells me. "I want him back. I want him home." I continue to sob. "He's still here watching over you. Just like you did when you died." Zak rubs my back. "I want him alive. He doesn't deserve to die. He has a son. My Mayk." I weep in pain. 

**Zak's pov**

It's been five months since Ivan died. Harley is taking it pretty hard. She cries every night in her room. She doesn't talk to anyone anymore. She's not the same person she use to be. She's completely numb. We had to tell Ivan's family he's not going home. Mayk on the other hand says daddy is home with him. He says Ivan tucks him into bed every night and plays toy cars with him. I think he can communicate with spirits. Harley doesn't believe him. She's to crushed. I wish she was happy again. Everyone wishes she was happy. The whole ship brought her flowers. I better go check on her. I walk in to see she was in the hospital room starring at a knife she picks it up then looks at it. "Don't you DARE." I tell her. She's going to kill herself. She dropped the knife shocked I caught her. "Do you want Mayk to have no parents? Do you really want to kill yourself and leave him alone? He needs you Harley."  I try to talk her out of it. "I'm in pain every day Zachary."  "It will get better. The wound is still fresh. I want you to come to me when you are having those thoughts. When your hurting come to me. I'll be there for you sweetheart." I take the knife away from her. She looks at the floor saddened. "Harley, please don't kill yourself. For me please, for Mayk." I try to pull at her heart stings. "Okay, for my boys." She nods her head. "Come here love." I hold my arms out and she takes my hug immediately. "I miss him." She cries into my chest.  "We all do." I hold her close.  "It will be okay Harley." I try to comfort her. "I want to see my son. He makes me happy."  "We will see him soon. I'm coming home with you." I tell her.  "Will you?" She looks up at me with tears in her eyes. "Yes." I tell her softly. She is a wreck with Ivan gone. I'm going to keep my promise to him and myself, I'm going to take care of her and Mayk. 

We get off the ship and board the plane. We sit down in our seats. We were about to take off when Harley grabbed my hand. I look at her to see her eyes closed. She was scared. I never knew she's scared to fly. I intertwined our fingers. "Don't worry it will be okay." I tell her softly. She gives a small smile then holds my hand tighter as we lift off. 

We finally pull up to her house. Ivan's mom was watching mayk. We go in and hug him. "Hey buddy." Harley holds him close. He's all she has left of Ivan. "Mama, papa says he loves you." Mayk says. "I love him too." Harley tries to Be strong for Mayk.  "He says stays he's always with us." Mayk says. "Mayk can you hear your papa talking to you?" I ask him.  "Yes and I can see him. He's hugging mama right now." I look at Harley to see her eyes wide. "Can you feel him?" I ask Harley. "Yes. His hands are so cold." She tells me.  "I told you he's still here." I smile at her. "Daddy Zak, papa wants to enter you. Can he?"  "Of course, he can when ever he wants." I then felt someone inside of me. "Thanks Zak." Ivan thinks to me.  I look at Harley to see her looking at me. I felt him take her hand and smile then talk in Russian. "Maylishkia, I love you so much. Stay strong for Mayk. He needs his mom. Zak is going to love and protect you as I did for you. He's a good man." Ivan tells her using my mouth. It felt so weird talking in Russian. I actually know what was said. "Maylishka please." Ivan takes her hand. He then pulls her close to us. I watch as he brushed a piece of hair behind her ear then leaned in. I felt her soft lips on mine. Mmm. She wrapped her arms around our neck kissing us passionately. She drives me crazy. I'm kissing her! We pull back and look into her eyes. "I love you."  "I love you too." She smiles at us. "Zak don't tell her you love her yet. Shes not ready to handle that. Wait a while longer. I give you permission to date and marry my wife, but when you both die she's mine again understand?" Ivan thinks to me. "I understand."  Ivan then gets out of me. I sit on the floor completely drained. "Ivan?" Harley asks me.  "No, Zak." I tell her.  "You okay?"  "I'm so drained." I sigh laying down.  "Daddy Zak you okay?" Mayk comes over to me. "Yeah, daddy Zak is just tired." I smile at him. I kissed Harley. "Zak lay on the couch." Harley tell she me. "I cant move I'm to tired."  I tell her kindly. She grabs me a blanket and pillow. She puts it under my head then puts the blanket on me. "Get some rest." She tells me. I then fall asleep on her floor. 

I wake up in a nice warm bed. Wait I'm in a bed? I sit up and look around the room. Did she move me. I see it was morning. I was out for a long time. I go to the bathroom and get a shower. I finish up then go out to the kitchen. I see Harley was cooking breakfast. "Your finally up. Thought you went into a coma." Harley tells me.  "I was tired." I sit down at the counter. "What's for breakfast love?" I smile at her.  "Pancakes and eggs." She smiles back.  "What can I do?" I get up and look around the kitchen. "Go wake up Mayk."  "Will do." I smile. I go into his room and open it to see he was playing cars. "I'm going to get you papa." He giggles. He's playing with Ivan. Mayk looks up at me with a smile on his face. "Daddy Zak!" He runs over to me.  "Hey buddy." I smile and hug him. "Are you going to marry mommy? Papa say you are."  "I don't know buddy." I tell him softly.  "Do you want to?"  "More than anything." I tell him. "Don't tell mommy. Papa said it's a secret." He shushes me. "I won't I promise." I then carry him out to the kitchen. We eat breakfast then clean up. "Daddy Zak, you wanna play cars with me and papa?" He smiles.  "Sure buddy." I put the dishes away. "Mayk when you papa does he look like me and mommy?" I ask him curiously. "Yes."  "Can you feel him like us?"  "Yes, he has cold hands and makes me have goosebumps." He says in his small squeaky voice.  "Are you going to play cars with me and papa?"  "In a minute, daddy Zak needs to talk to mommy alone." I tell him softly. He then runs into his room. Harley looked at me scared. "What happened last night?" I ask her softly.  "Ivan possessed you." She tells me leaving out details. "And?" I press further trying to see if she'll tell me the truth. "He possessed you and we talked then he kissed me."  "I remember that, what happened after I passed out on the floor?"  "I tried dragging you to bed but I couldnt so Ivan possessed you and walked you to bed. We stayed up and talked for hours then...." she trails off.  "What?"  "We made out and almost made love but I stopped him."  "I see." I nod my head. "I'm glad you stopped him. I respect that. I'd like to know what I'm doing."  "I understand. I'm sorry we took advantage of you." "It's fine I did promise Ivan he could use me when he wants." I sigh.  "You better go play with Mayk before he gets upset." She tells me. "I will, where did you sleep last night?" I ask her kindly. "My bedroom."  "Oh that's right."  I nod my head. I then go and play with Mayk and Ivan. We play for a while then go out to the living room. I could get use to living like this. Spending everyday with the people I love. I just hope Harley accepts me as more than a friend.