Ziall - Fix you

Chapter 2 - Fourth Raid

Dear Niall,

Thankyou for the Malteasers, I missed them so much! Me and Maz had a good night scoffing on them and joking about, but I guess it could have been better. It would have been better to hear your laugh with ours.

I miss your laugh.

Anyway, I can’t write for long (see that my handwriting is rushed) because we’re going out on a raid tonight, and I need to get ready for it.

I’m not too worried though, I have a 50/50 feelings about this raid, and I can’t really say I’m used to it all yet, since it’s only my fourth one.

Another thankyou, for the picture; I smiled a lot looking at it, and it’s now pinned up on the ceiling above my bed, so when I go to bed, I can watch it until I drift off, it’s a nice feeling.

Look, I have to go, Maz is telling me to hurry up, I need to get changed. Sorry.

I love you, and yeah, it’s only nine more months, almost eight, it will fly by, trust me

Lots of love, thanks for all your love on the last letter!

Zayn x

I never got chance to send my letter, I’d just have to send it once I came back from the raid, hopefully it’s be a short one.

I pulled on my uniform, pushing my neat, floppy army hat under my covers, and replacing it with the hard one, that Niall had handed me only three months ago. I quickly tied my shoe laces and followed Maz out of the room, and we jogged from our room to the dining hall.

Everyone was waiting.

It was time for the raid.

-o-

I had a gun strap around my shoulders, its black body in my two hands. I was ducked down, leaning my back against the bins, carelessly strewn to where war was happening. Maz and sat next to me, both of us panting, breathless from the run we took to get away. All of the team had run. It wasn’t worth trying to fight, there was no point to it at that moment in time.

Both of us had guns.

But neither of us wanted to kill someone.

I hadn’t killed one person yet, and I was proud, and intended to keep it that way. I would just stand in the middle, helping out my team, saving people. It was hard to do without pulling that trigger, but I was determined to do it, and it worked so far.

Maz hit my arm lightly a few times, and we both stood, our rest was over, and we needed to get back to our team. We caught up with them, and the enemies seemed to have deceased.

To our, mine and Maz’s, surprise, that was it. The raid was over. It hardly took any time at all, probably the shortest by miles of the four they had been on.

We secretly high fived each other and got into single file, marching in time with the rest of our team. Maz was stood close behind me, and even without looking, I could tell his smiling. I just couldn’t wait to put this gun down. In fact, I couldn’t wait any longer. I slung it over onto my back, holding onto the strap to make sure I didn’t drop it, but at least I didn’t have to keep it in my hands.

-o-

‘We were lucky then, I think’ Maz said thoughtfully once we got back to our room, and begun to scrub at the dried mud on our faces.

‘That we were’ I replied, falling back onto my bed.

It had only been a short raid, but I still needed to get used to it, it definitely tired you out, no matter how long it took.

‘Don’t you need to send your letter to Niall?’ Maz reminded me, picking it up from my bedside table and wafting it in my face.

I sprung up into a sitting position and grabbed the letter from Maz’s hands quickly, and turning to my bottom bedside drawer and pulling out an envelope and stamp.

‘Woah, no need to snatch’ he said, but he still sounded cheery.

‘Sorry’ I laughed, and pushing the letter into its envelope, scrawled Niall’s address on the front, stuck the stamp down and licked the envelope shut. ‘Be right back’ I told Maz, before legging it from the room, and taking the letter down to Dan. I mean the general.

Hopefully Niall would get my letter soon, and I can write everyone else’s letters soon, I didn’t have time to squeeze them in before, and right now, I just needed a rest.

I turned to leave the office after giving my letter in, but the general stopped me, ‘Zayn, can you inform your roommate that we will be going on another raid in about one to two weeks? I will tell one person others’

‘Sure’

-o-

‘Mazzzzz!’ I whined as I came through the door, he looked up, giving me a puzzled look, ‘We have another raid sometime next week!’

He groaned, throwing his head back, ‘what, why?!’

I shrugged, ‘Dan told me to tell you, he’s telling everyone else. I guess it’s because the last one was so short’

‘I’d rather just do a hell load more training in the rain again,’ he moaned.

‘So would I’

He leaned back against the wall in exhaustion, ‘I think I might go to sleep soon’ he mumbled, ‘What time is it?’

‘Just gone nine’ I informed him, I had checked the clock in the corridor before coming into the room.

‘Yeah, I’m gonna get changed’ he said, closing his eyes slowly.

It had been about five minutes since he said he was getting changed, and he hadn’t moved, yet he obviously wasn’t asleep. I picked up his tight, white vest top which he usually wore under his uniform, but lately been taking to wearing them at night, and his baggy shorts from the floor, and chucked them at him, hitting him square in the chest.

‘Ow!’ he laughed, picking his clothes up and beginning to strip down, and pulling them on instead.

I grinned, and took my clothes, then snuggled down under my thin sheets. I sure did miss my old bed, for one, it had a duvet, and two, Niall was there to keep me warm. Here, you were lucky if you got an extra blanket in the winter, apparently.

Niall.

I missed having Niall to snuggle up to at night, feeling safe. More safe than I felt out here, for sure. I missed his contagious laugh, his sparkling blue eyes, perfect hair…

But I pushed the thoughts of Niall out of my head; it just made me homesick thinking of him. So I stared at the picture on my wall as Maz turned the lights out.

‘Night, Zayn’

‘Night Maz’