Home is where the heart is (Berena)

Chapter Two

Both Bernie and Serena was asleep in their separate beds , Bernie was now tossing and turning a little trying to get comfy where on the otherhand Serena well she was sound asleep still clinching onto the pillow that smelt of Bernie. Bernie had started sweat as she started to have a panic attack while having an nightmare about when she was in the army.

Bernie quickly woke up with tears falling down her face and gasped for air, as she felt like the air was being cut off. After a few minutes of her trying get her surroundings back she started to breath deeply to get her breathing back under control. She looked around the room slowly recognising that she as home but it never felt like it was , it felt like something was missing, this feeling was new to her as she wasn't the type so show any emotion well, this time as wanted to belong somewhere and finally knew that she would always be  safe  in Serena's arms.

Bernie decided that she couldn't sleep anymore so she went back to her suitcases and moved them into the kitchen, she wanted to get as much of her things unpacked before she had to go in for her shift, she unzipped the suitcase and took out her clothes put them into piles before turning the washing machine on and put her pile of whites inside it and set the temperature of the machine before pressing the start button.

She got out and turned on the kettle and waited for it to boil, she hadn't had a decent cup of tea in months, she her cup ready adding the tea bag and two sugars, she put the milk out on the side by her cup and started to think about Serena , as she had been on her mind throughout her Ukraine visit and started to feel bad that she didn't contact her but she knew she needed space to get over the things that had happened to her.

Once the kettle had boiled she poured the water into the cup and added the milk giving it a quick stir and took out the teabag and took a sip as she walked over to the table where she sat down thinking on what she wanted.

Now it was the next morning, it was 5:30am , Serena woke up to the sound of her phone ringing , she slowly sat up and rubbed her head after crying herself to sleep like she did every night since that day Bernie had left. She reached for her phone pulling it off charge and put the phone to her ear not looking who was calling as she hoped that it was Bernie but it was the AAU who needed her help as there had been an emergency, Serena sighed and spoke "ill be right there" she said in her tired morning voice , the voice that Made Bernie fall more in love with her.

Serena put her phone down on the bed before getting out of it and dragged herself to the bathroom and locked the door turning the shower on and gave out a little stretch before stripping off and stepped into the shower where the water ran down her body before applying the shampoo then the conditioner and washed her body before turning it off and stepped out of the bath and wrapped the towel around her and started to dry off.

She headed into the bedroom and went over to her wardrobe, letting out her underwear and a vest before looking at her shirts while deciding on what one she wanted to wear. She picked out a shirt and a pair of trousers that she thought that matched. Serena got dressed and made her way down the stairs grabbing her things like her coat and bag, she looked at the time and sighed while she picked up the car keys, she knew that she wouldn't have time to make a coffee so she would have to buy one.

An hour later Serena arrived onto the AAU and was met by Fletch and Jasmine, who was telling her that a patient was on their way that had a spinal injury , she nodded making her think back to when Bernie arrived with a spinal injury.

It was now four hours into Serena's shift, she was down in theatre operating on the young boy who had been rushed in with the spinal injury, the operation was going well but there was one thing on her mind which she was trying to shake of, The though of Bernie, of course Serena had no-idea that she was going to see her again that morning .