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Music fills the hangar; Overwatch agents are gathered togheter after a victory against null sector, the walls are embellished with old decorations recicled every time the organization have somenthing to celebrate and at the room sides there are long tables full of food and beverages.
Lucio mixes the music with mastery and a few people are already dancing under the soft lights.
Brigitte sips her beer next to the buffet table, looks at Reinhardt and Ana dancing togheter and a smile forms on her lips. She approaches the table where several sweet foods are placed, take an aboundant piece ofapple pie and takes a bite.
"Brig!" Hana runs towards her with a smile, she moves her feet in an uncordinated way and almost risk to fall.
Hearing the girl's voice, the engigneer straightens her back and cleans her lips from the pie crumbles.
"Are you tired of dacing?" The mechanic smiles, admires the red dress that her friend wears, the skirt touches the pilot's knees and flies a little every step the young woman takes, the square neckline caresses her chest under the collarbones and the straps cover her shoulders with grace. On her feet Hana wears red shoes with a low heel, her hair are tied on the back of her head with a decorated stick and a pair of silver bunny shaped earrings shine on her ears, while her face is adorned with a thin layer of make-up.
"Even D.va needs a break every now and then" the pilot winks at her colleague.
"You are gorgeus tonight" the engigneer blushes lightly.
Hana smiles, takes a paper cup and fills it with white wine and drinks it with big sips.
"Only tonight?"
Brigitte giggles.
"You know what I mean".
"Yeah" Hana fills her glass again and continues drinking.
"Shouldn't you slow down?" The mechanic raises an eyebrow and looks at her.
"Yeah, yeah mom, relax, I took part in undreds of parties like this".
The engigneer shakes her head.
"If you say so".
Hana takes sips of the wine and remain silent observing her colleague. She admires the flannel shirt left with the first two buttons open and the consumed jeans tight at the engigneer's waist with a leather belt. She looks at her taking another bite of the pie between her hands and gets closer.
"Apple pie?"
"Yeah, do you wanna try it?"
"I would take happily anything you want to give me".
"I'm sorry what?" Brigitte's cheeks take a crimson shade and she stares at the girl in front of her without moving.
Hana brushed a tuft of hair behind her hear and takes a bite of the pie between her friend hands.
"Nice, even if the one your mother makes is better" the pilot smiles.
The engigneer blinks a couple of times and takes a long breath.
"Lindholm recipe is a secret for a reason after all" the mechanic extends an hand and cleans Hana's lips from the pie crumbs.
The two girls stay still for a few instants with their glaze on each other's faces.
Brigitte takes a long breath and lowers her hand.
"Be carefull, or you will ruin that pretty make-up, eating like that".
The pilot rolls her eyes.
"Like you aren't even messier when you eat and also…" Hana closes the distance between them, making their shoulders touch, "the one that I wanted to impress already gave me compliments so I don't care if I ruin my make-up".
Brigitte sighs, but a wide smile soon appears on her face.
"You're drunk".
"Maybe, but you are the one that is still here talking with me".
"I need to admit that is very funny looking at D.va speaking under the effect of alcohol".
The pilot giggles.
"Do you know what's actually funny?"
"Hm?" The engigneer raises an eyebrow and continues drinking her beer.
"Dancing!" Hana takes her wrist and starts dragging her. Brigitte have only the time to leave her beer on the table togheter with what it remains of the pie before she finds herself in the centre of the dance floor.
Hana starts moving with the music, her steps are clumsy but there is a wide smile on her face.
Brigitte looks at her and stays still.
"C'mon piece of wood, it's time to go wild!"
"I can't dance and you know it".
"And who cares? Everyone drunk too much anyway to notice how you dance, or is that just an excuse to continue staring at me?"
The mechanic smiles and focuses her glaze on her friend's soft features.
"I could, not even the party lights can outshine you tonight".
The pilot's face takes a deeper shade of vermillion under the soft lights that illuminate the room.
"How many beers you had for a compliment like that?"
"Only five or six and you are no better than me".
"Than relax more! You can't leave me without dancing after we risked our life togheter on the battlefield!" Hana holds her colleague hands and invites her to move togheter.
Brigitte rolls her eyes, soon after she tries to dance but the only result she gets is making some clumsy steps on the dance floor.
"You know I was joking when I called you piece of wood right?" The pilot laugh.
"And you are completely drunk".
"Drunk but irresistible".
The two girls looks into each other eyes for a moment, but the mechanic looks away soon after and tighten her lips.
The two continue dancing togheter to several songs, until the room is filled with a slow ballad.
"Maybe is better if we come back to the buffet" Brigitte caresses the back of her head and she catches her breath.
Hana wraps her arms around her friend neck and blocks her.
"Don't you dare to escape now" the pilot frowns and stares at the other girl.
The mechanic takes a long breath and reciprocate the gaze.
"Our dance isn't finished yet".
The engineer hints a smile and holds Hana by her hips.
"I can't back down now if it's you asking" she whispers so only the pilot can hear her.
Hana stops breathing for a few instants and lays down her head against Brigitte's chest.
The two start moving with the music once again, slowly while holding each other.
"You know, I spent months dreaming about somenthing like this" starts the younger.
"Mh? You mean dancing?"
"Dancing with you".
"I don't think to be such a good dancer to deserve D.va dreaming about that" the mechanic giggles, but the pilot sighs.
"Stop it".
"Uh?"
"Stop calling me D.va, it's the last name I want to hear from you".
Brigitte notices how her friend's expression hardens; the engigneer takes a long breath and caresses the girl's cheek.
"I'm sorry… Hana" she blushes a little saying that name.
The pilot feels her heart getting faster and her alredy cloudy mind becomes even more confused.
"It's sounds nice from you".
Brigitte smiles and shakes slowly her head.
"It sounds nice because it's a beautifull name".
The two remain silent for several seconds, leaving the music filling the comfortable void.
"Brig I…" Hana raises her glaze and notices the other's disorienthed expression.
"Hm?"
"I… I…" Hana chaotically moves her eyes on every detail of Brigitte's figure, her long hair tied in the same old pony tail she always had, her hazelnut eyes shines under the party's pink lights, the freakles on the nose and cheeks, the flannel shirt caressing her torso and most of all, the lips that appear to her like the softest thing she can lay her eyes on.
"Hana? Are you oka-"
The pilot grabs her friend's face, gets on her tiptoes and kisses her lips.
Than darkness.
Hana wakes up hours later, a strong headache pierces her skull from side to side, darkness sorrounds her, she gropes around searching for her phone and soon she founds it, unlocks it, looks what time it is and notices it is barely 3 am.
She massages her forehead, tries to remember what happened the night before, but her memories ends with the kiss she gave to Brigitte.
She stops breathing for an instant, shakes her head and takes a deep breath.
"Everything's fine, as soon as I see her I will say sorry and everything will be okay" she whispers to herself.
The phone's light illuminate her sleeve, she notices she is wearing the same shirt that the mechanic was wearing the night before; she blinks, lifts the blanket and notices that she wears just that shirt and her panties. She turns on her phone flashlight and looks around, she shivers noticing the walls of a familiar room, completely covered in armor blueprints; machinery components are scattered all around the desk and some oil stains have permanently marked the floor; on the floor there are the dress she was wearing the night before and a pajamas that she recognize belongs to the engigneer.
She would recognize Brigitte's room among thousands.
She hears a groan next to her, swallows, turns and see the engigneer sleeping peacefully, hugging a cat plushie wearing only her sport bra.
Seeing that the phone falls from her hands, fast she takes it back, deactivates the flashlight and covers her mouth.
"Did we really…?" She goes pale thinking that, "dumb, dumb, dumb! You really needed to waste yourself in front of her? She was drinking too I… I am orrible!" Her thoughts starts spinning inside her brain, she holds tight her phone and, maybe to truly realize everything is really happening, she takes a picture of herself. She turns and looks at her friend sleeping pacefully; Brigitte's face is relaxed and her breathing calm. The pilot admires the other's messy hair and the chiseled traits of her face, without almost realizing it she takes a picture of her.
"What am I doing?" Hana carefully gets up, doing the less noise she can. She turns on the flashlight once again, takes her dress from the floor, her shoes and the earrings that are placed with care on the desk, opens the door, grants herself a last glaze to Brigitte and runs down the dark alley.
She arrives to her room, trembling types the code to open the door still heavily breathing, she gets it wrong a couple of time before being able to enter and than she let's herself fall on the floor and tears come flowing on her cheeks.
"I ruined everything" she whispers with a broken voice, she brings her knees against her chest and hides her face.
She cries until the first light of the morning comes from the window.
"What time is it?" Hana takes her phone and sees it's 4 AM, takes a long breath and gets up.
"Brig wakes up every day at 5 AM, goes to the gym and showers" she position herself in front of the mirror and looks at her own chaotic mass of hair, her red eyes, the deep dark circles under her eyes now completely visible without the make-up covering them.
"I look like shit" her eyes burns because of the tears that still are pressing to come out.
"I am D.va, people trust me, I can't let something like this defeating me! I… I…" Some tears escape her control, she walks fast towards her desk, takes a nano cola can, opens it and drinks all of it in just a few seconds.
"Between the hanghover and crying I am completely dehydrated" she tries to chuckle but soon fails, she lowers her eyes while she drums a finger on the can.
"What I even do now?" Hana finishes her drink and throw the can in the bin under the desk, she limply goes to the wardrobe and takes fresh clothes, takes everything she needs to clean herself and exits from her room to go to the showers.
The hallways are even more empty at that hour, Hana walks fast, enters the changing room, leave her clothes in one of the lockers, enters in one of the shower stalls, undresses and opens the cold water that soon stings her skin.
She stays still for several minutes, with her head lowered, feeling the shivers running throught her spine.
The situation becomes clearer in her head every second that pass, if before she could treat it like it was just a nightmare, now the freezing water clears her mind, making negating impossible.
"Did I really ruined my first time like that? What Brig will think? She always been too nice to me, but last night I've gone too far…" Hana's thoughts overlaps without giving her enough time to process them, "what would I do if she didn't want to speak to me anymore? If I treated her badly without meaning it? What if I did the biggest mistake of my life? No, no, I couldn't bear it!" She leans her head against the wall and clenches her jaw.
"And what about consent? If we were both drunk does it mean there is no problem or does it mean there is double? If I really hurt her then… Then… I could never forgive myself!" Hana hides her face with her hands and feels her heart tighten in her chest.
After the shower she dresses fast, dries her hair and looks at the time on her phone, it's 5 AM, fastly she walks in the hallway in the direction of Vivian's office, carefull about staying as far away from the gym as possible.
"Vivian can I have the authorization to doing some fly tests with Tokki today?" She asks entering the room.
Capitain Chase raises her glaze from a few papers and fixes the glasses on her nose.
"I see you still didn't learn to knock, agent Song".
The pilot rolls her eyes.
"It doesn't suit me".
Vivian raises an eyebrow and notices both the younger agent's dark eyebags and her red eyes.
"It's rare seeing you this early".
Hana shrugs.
"I thought that sooner I check on Tokki, sooner we'll be ready if the Null Sector or Talon attack again".
The capitain takes a deep breath and takes off her glasses.
"What happened Song? Do you want me to call doctor Ziegler?"
"No! I'm fine, really, and I will be even better after those fly tests".
Vivian stays silent for a few seconds and then takes her tablet.
"I will inform the governament that you will be in the airspace, remain connected on the main line in case you encounter any issue".
"Yeah, yeah, as always, thanks Vivian" Hana waves, goes out and starts to walk towards the hangar.
"Asking Angela for help is the last thing I want, I already know she would kill me, bring me back to life and kill me again" she shivers.
A few days before it was exactly to the doctor that she went to ask for help, in private, in a rare moment where the infirmary was empty.
"So, you want to know how me and Fareeha started dating?"
Hana nodded slowly with her cheeks becoming more red by the seconds. Angela smiled with sweetness in her eyes looking at her.
"I just thought to ask to a woman that likes other women, but Lena would have told me something like 'follow your guts', while Fareeha doesn't even know how she impressed you enough to convince you dating her, Mei and Juno are too busy you know, saving an entire Mars colony and Zarya isn't the type to talk about things like this, you were the most logical choice" Hana starts cracking her knucles one by one.
"Is Brigitte your first love?"
The blood rushed on the pilot's cheeks.
"I never said who she was".
"Sorry to tell you, but everyone in the base knows you like her a lot".
Hana hid her face between her hands.
"Can we not talk about how everyone knows it? I want to say it to her and… It's not the first time I like someone, it's just… I never had much time for love between my career as a streamer in the e-sports and the army, but Brig is always in the workshop and we often work togheter so…" She took a long breath, "I guess it was easy falling more every day for her, maybe I still am".
"Aw, you're very cute you know?"
Hana fixed her gaze on the wall and frowned.
"Can we focus on the problem?"
The doctor giggled.
"Sure, but if you want my opinion, all you need to do is tell her".
Hana sighed.
"It can't be so easy".
"It is, how do you think me and Fareeha got togher?"
"I don't know, a majestic date, flowers and a serenade?"
Angela stroked her head.
"I just asked her out".
The pilot crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"But if you want to do somenthing nice, you could use the party we planned for our victory, maybe you could tell Lucio to put on a romantic song, ask her to dance and voilà, perfect occasion to tell her how you feel".
Hana remained silent for a couple of minutes and caressed her neck.
"The party uh?" The pilot got up and started walking back and forth in the room "it's just in a couple of days, I need to prepare, a nice dress, earrings, I saw a make-up tutorial that would be perfect, I need to prepare somenthing to say, no problem, I memorized entire scripts in less!" The younger girl talked fast almost like she wasn't breathing between words.
Angela looked at her and sighed.
"Take a deep breath with me".
Hana stopped, turned towards the older woman and togheter they took a long breath.
"It will be fine, it's two years you and Brig flirt in an unsufferable way".
"Do you really think she could like me?" The pilot lowered her gaze and started once again to cracking her fingers.
"She is head over heels for you, sure I can't be 100% sure, but I can say I would be really surprised if that wasn't the case".
"I don't know, she is always so nice with everyone, I don't understand if she treats me in a special way or not".
"Oh she does, do you think that she learns to cook everyone's favourite dish? That she started studing korean casually? That she watched hours of Mecha Guardian V lore without the reason being to be able to comprehend everything everytime you rant about that game? That-"
"Okay, okay, understood" the girl face became a bright red color, "you may be right, just maybe!"
Angela sighed and caressed her temple.
"You two are so annoying and adorable at the same time".
"It's just… Brig is older, has more experience, maybe she does't want a relationship with someone that never even kissed someone that wasn't in a movie".
The doctor raised an eyebrow.
"Are you really sure about that? Or it's your insecurity talking?"
Hana clenched her jaw.
"I…"
Angela got up from her desk, got closer to the girl and sweetly caressed her shoulder.
"It's okay Hana, everyone was without experience at some point, you don't lose value for that and Brig knows it, if you can't trust yourself, trust her instead".
The pilot took a long breath and nodded.
"Thanks Angela".
"Anytime, just try to speak seriusly with her please, don't do anything crazy".
"I will do my best!" After that Hana got away from the infirmary full of a new energy.
"If she knew I wasted myself like that she would scold me all day!"
Once she arrives to the hangar she wears her pilot body suit, checks rapidly Tokki's systems and flyies out.
Flying always have been essential for her since she enlisted in the army.
Wind has the capacity to clear her mind and in the middle of the clouds the problems she have on the grounds are far away.
There is nothing in the ski, just her, Tokki and birds.
Even the stars don't look impossible to reach with the nuclear engine's buzzing taking her company.
She flyies like that for a few hours, until the sun is high in the sky.
She gets near one of the rooftops, an old warehouse dated back to the first omnic crisis, now unused; she lands with precision on a space carved in the cliff's rocks, it's possible noticing it only from a very specific point and she goes there every time she needs her thoughts to calm down.
She cames out of the mech, sits down, brings her knees to her chest, hugs them and fix her glaze to the sea; rocks over her cast their long shadow, protecting her and Tokki from the sun.
The thoughts that accompany her since she wake up come back in her mind, but the soothing sound of sea waves help her dealing with them with more calm.
She doesn't know for how much time she stays motionless, she only knows that slowly the light change, until it arrives illuminating her feet.
A sudden noise makes her jump, she turns and notices Lucio sliding on the rock wall.
"Here you are finally! Do you have any idea how much time I spent searching for you?" The guy sighs and sits next to her.
"There was no need" Hana comes back looking at the sea.
"Vivian thought there was, she tried contacting you more than once and said you didn't look fine, so she sent me to look for you and I can say she was right".
The pilot shakes her head.
"Well, you saw I am still alive, just go report it to her".
Lucio raises an eyebrow.
"What happened? I am here if you need".
The girl clenches her fists and frowns.
"Talking about it won't solve the situation anyway".
"You can try, I have a lot of tricks up my sleeve you know".
"But you can't come back in time".
The dj takes a long breath and his glaze becomes sweet.
"You should ask Lena about that".
The girl rolls her eyes.
"It's about Brig right?" Asks the young man.
Hana lowers her head hiding her face against her knees.
"I ruined everything Lucio".
"I doubt it, she adores you".
"This time I crossed the line" she sighs, "do you remember what happened yesterday night?"
"You mean when you and Brig danced togheter looking at each other with heart eyes all the time?"
Hana's cheeks take a faint pink shade.
"Yeah, well, I don't remember anything after that".
"I am not surprised, you were struggling with walking at some point, luckily Brig proposed to accompany you to your room".
The pilot starts cracking her fingers one after another.
"I… Never come back to my room, I woke up in her's at 3 AM and we were both half naked".
Lucio frowns and caresses his beard.
"Are you impling that you two may had sex in the time you don't remember anything?"
Hana nods.
"My dress was on the floor, we were togheter in bed and we had almost nothing to cover us! What other explanation could it be?"
"Maybe alcohol made both of you feeling too hot".
"We are not in some trashy book Lucio" Hana tighten the hold on her knees, until all her muscles are tense.
"I feel like I took advantage of how gentle she is, after she drunk all night, I am sure she hates me now".
Lucio caresses sweetly his friend's back.
"You both drunk that night, you were so wasted to not remember anything, and also, only her can say if she hates you or not, even if I think it's almost impossible she really does".
"It's just… I wish it didn't happened like this, I wish I could at least remember it, but I ruined everything" a few tears come back crossing her cheeks, but she rapidly dries them with an hand.
"Hana you didn't ruin anything, cooming here I met Brig and she was worried for you, she wouldn't be if she really hated you".
"She is too nice, she could empatize even with Talon's boss, but I am the worst, I don't even know how all of you could tolerate me".
The guy takes a deep breath.
"You are amazing! I mean, the hero of Korea, there are milions of people that admires D.va's achievements".
The pilot leaps up.
"D.va, D.va, D.va! She is always the one that is perfect! The idol! If D.va was there last night she wouldn't have made this mess! Maybe I should just stop trying being me, it never brings anything good!"
The girl clenches her fists and jaw, her breath gets faster while fury appears on her face.
Lucio looks at her and blinks a couple of times.
"Hana, you need to take a deep breath".
The pilot's heartbeat accelerates, she walks toward the mech, stays still for a few seconds and punches the metal of the machine with all her strenght.
Lucio gets closer and sees her sobbing with her eyes full of tears.
"Hana breath with me okay? I am here".
The girl punches again the mech, with enough force to damage the glove she wears.
"You will break your hand if you continue like this".
"Does it matter?" Hana says and punches the machine again.
"Could you please not hit her for a couple of minutes? I promise I will come back with something better".
Hana looks to her friend but quickly lowers her eyes.
"I start counting".
The guy hints a smile and skates away; as promised he comes back after just a couple of minutes with a couple of training boxing gloves to throw punches at.
"Hit this! If you break your hand who will help me defeating Elden Ring 5 bosses?"
Hana turns toward her friend and notice him wearing the training gloves.
"You really can't do anything without me uh?" She says with a bittersweet tone.
"Exactly, so what are you waiting for? Let me hear your fighting spirit!"
Hana hints a smile and position herself with her knees slightly bended.
"Roar!" She screams and starts throwing punches.
"Yeah! That's what I am talking about!"
The pilot throws punches until her face doesn't become totally red and she lays down breathing heavily.
"For today… You… You get away with it" sweat runs on the girl's forehead.
The dj takes off the training gloves and sits next to her.
"You are taking your meds right?"
"Yeah, yeah, If I only think of stopping taking my mood stabilizers Angela would kill me".
"I don't think so, maybe you could get away with just a suspension from doing missions".
"I would rather kill myself at that point".
The two remain silent until the pilot's breathing takes a normal rythm again.
"Thanks Lucio, I… Appreciate a lot what you did".
"We need to cover each other's celeb ass right?"
"Yeah," Hana giggles, "you're right".
The dj takes a long breath.
"Brig was really worried for you".
The pilot nods.
"Usually even if I disappear for a while I always tell her where I am".
"And not at me? I guess nothing can beat the love a lesbian feel for her one true love".
"I am still in time to punch you for real".
Lucio giggles.
"You need to talk to her, or you will never know what really happened".
"I just need a bit of time".
The dj hints a smile and gets up.
"Let's come back to the hangar at least".
Hana nods and goes back to Tokki.
"You should ask a doctor to check your hand thought".
The girl rolls her eyes.
"Yeah, yeah," she takes a long breath, "just promise me you won't tell anything to Brig".
Lucio puts an hand on his chest.
"I swear on my last album, I don't want to get involved into your lesbian dramas to be honest".
The pilot sighs, caresses her hurting hand and goes inside Tokki.
The two come back to the hangar; once out of her mech Hana notices the bruises on the paint were she threw punches.
"I am sorry" she whispers caressing the metal.
"Hana!"
Brigitte's voice makes the pilot jump, she turns and sees the mechanic walking to her with a little smile.
"Why weren't you answering? Somenthing happened?"
The girl's heart suddenly accelerates and before she could even make a rational thought in her mind, she runs away at the maximum velocity her legs are capable of.
Brigitte stares at her and the smile disappears from her face.
"I was right…" she starts with malincoly in her voice and lowers her eyes.
"Brig…" Lucio comes closer to her.
"Did I do somenthing wrong? Did I hurt her? I… Don't understand".
The dj caresses her shoulder.
"How can I repair the situation?"
"You just need to give her a bit of time, I can assure you she wants to talk, but she isn't ready yet".
The engigneer sighs.
"I hope so, thanks Lucio".
"I didn't do much".
Brigitte hints a smile.
"I meant for being there for her and for bringing her back".
The dj rolls his eyes.
"Just try to make the situation clear for when you'll talk to her".
The mechanic caresses her neck and blushes a little.
"I'll try".
Hana stops only when she is sure that she isn't being followed, she leans against a wall and takes one deep breath after another while her heart beats fast.
The adrenaline slowly disappears and the pain on her hand comes back.
The pilot takes off her glove and notices her knuckles bleeding.
"I bet Lucio will make fun of me forever if I don't go to a doctor right now" she massages her head, takes her phone, looks at the infirmary hours and reads Baptiste's name for that day.
"I am safe" she takes a breath of relief and goes to the infirmary; once there she notices the doctor checking some medical documents while he hums a song.
"Hi Hana, what our mvp needs today?" The man smiles at her.
The pilot sighs and gets closer.
"I hurt my hand".
"Sit down on the bed, I will take a look".
Hana nods, sits down to the bed next to the infirmary's right wall and swing her legs.
The doctor comes close and sits in front of her; the girl extend her hand and lets the man taking a look at it.
"You know you can go to the gym instead of punching a wall right?"
The girl frowns.
"Sometimes metal is more charming that a banal boxe sac".
Baptiste giggles.
"Makes sense, do your fingers hurt if you move them?"
"Just a little".
The medic moves lightly the girl's finger and notices how she jumps and groans, so he raises an eyebrow.
"First let me putting a bandage on your knucles".
Baptiste takes all the necessary, clean with care the bruises on the girl's hand and cover them with a couple of patches.
"Let's go doing some x-rays, at least there is no much work today".
The doctor takes Hana's medical record and goes to the adjacent room where the x-ray machine is. The pilot follows him and closes the door behind her.
"Okay, now I need to ask a few background question, let's see…" The man starts playing with the pen he holds.
"Do you think you could be pregnant by any chance?"
Hana tries to hold a laugh but she fails.
The medic looks at her and blinks a couple of times.
"Wow, I must be really funny asking totally normal routine questions I guess".
"Baptiste…" The pilot starts to speak when she stops laughing, "I am trans, even if I wanted to, I don't have the equipment".
The man nods and looks at Hana's medical records.
"It was written so much time ago that I didn't noticed it".
"What can I say? I always have been very sure of myself".
"I get it, I too started hrt as soon as I could".
Hana's eyes starts shining.
"Are you…?
Baptiste nods with a little smile.
"Oh my god, we totally need to do a selfie togheter!"
The pilot takes her phone and poses next to the man.
"Okay, say cheese!"
The doctor shakes a little his head and poses as well.
"Can I post it on my socials? I will tag you of course".
"Hana, Talon is still trying to find me".
"Can I post only for friends than?"
Baptiste sighs and massages his forehead.
"Okay, but only as a temporary story".
The pilot smiles.
"You are the best Bap!"
"Bap?"
"Yeah, your name is too long anyway" Hana taps rapidly on her phone, "new trans companion found… And… Post! Thank you a lot Bap!"
The man hints a smile.
"Let's do these x-rays now".
Hana follows Baptiste's instructions and in just a few minutes the x-rays are done and the result are on the Athena database.
"Your middle finger is broken, we need to splint it and you can't go on missions for one month".
The pilot frowns.
"One month?! It can't be that bad!"
"It isn't, but if you don't let it heal properly you could lose part of your hand mobility, and I think that is essential for you".
Hana grumbles and crosses her arms in front of her chest.
"Okay, okay, come on, splint it or do whatever thing you need to do".
The two come back to the infirmary; the pilot sits down once again on the bed; Baptiste splints her hand and fix everything with several bandages.
"Done, try to not punch metal for random reasons next time".
"Yeah, yeah" the girl looks at her hand and takes a long breath.
The infirmary door opens.
"Ehi Baptiste, is Hana still here? I saw her stor- ah!" Brigitte enters and immidiately notices her friend.
The pilot gets up fast, runs toward the window and jumps outside, falling with a thud on the ground.
"Hana I swear to god that if you break also your other hand I won't fix it for you!" Baptiste shouts out from the window while the girl runs away.
The doctor massages his temple, takes a deep breath and turns to the mechanic.
"Did you two fought or somenthing?"
"I…" Brigitte remain motionless looking at the window; the wind that enters in the room moves her hair and caresses her cheeks, "I don't know".
The ingegneer sits down on a chair and lowers her gaze.
"Sorry, it's okay if I stay here for a few minutes?"
Baptiste sits to the infirmary desk and comes bak to look at the documents scattered on it.
"Stay here all the time you need, it's always nice having some company".
Brigitte hints a melancholy smile to the man and returns to look at the floor, where she noticed Hana glove, she lowers, takes it and caresses the thin layer of armor, now ruined.
A week pass by, Hana is wrapped in the blankets of her bed, in the darkness, like she has been for the last three days, without going outside her room or even just turning on a light that isn't the pc one.
Someone knocks at the door.
"Hana, it's Lucio, I brought you dinner, I am opening the door" the guy types the code and sees the door opening in front of him.
The pilot squeezes herself in the blanket in the moment the light from the hallway reaches her.
The dj comes closer, notices on the desk the tray he left there around launch hour still half full of food and takes a long breath.
"I went to that little korean restaurant we found togheter and I bought you kimchi-bokkeumbap and I tried to prepare tea like you teached me, sure it's not good like yours, but I hope it's decent at least" Lucio forces a smile that disappears when he sees how his friend doesn't react.
"I'll leave it on your desk okay? It's okay if you don't finish it, just try to eat somenthing, I will keep my phone near so if you need anything text me okay?" The dj leave the tray full of food on the girl's desk, takes the old one and looks at her for a few seconds, "love you Hana".
After saying that he exits from the room and closes the door.
Hana takes her phone and stares at a picture of her and Brigitte that she uses ar her lock screen, the two took it during a pajamas party they organized to celebrate their first succesfull mission togheter.
"I want to talk to her, but I can't even go out my bed…" Her eyes starts to burn and in little time her vision starts to blur.
"I am really pathethic" she unlocks the device, opens the gallery and starts looking at all the pictures she took with Brigitte in those two years.
Soon the tears run freely on her cheeks.
"I miss her".
One after another she arrives until the last two pictures, the ones she took the fateful night of the party, when she woke up next to her.
"Maybe if…"
Hana swallows, opens tiktok with her hand trembling and goes to the screen to post a new video, clics to add the two pictures and writes over them 'when you have an office party and wake up next to your fave coworker'.
She stares at the screen for several seconds, takes a long breath, clics 'post' and leave the phone on the mattress.
Brigitte sits in front a workbench in the workshop where the armors in needing of repairing are kept, she spins around a screwdriver between her fingers and stares at Reinhardt armor's engine.
"Why?" A few tears appears in the corners of her eyes.
"Brig!" Lucio lays against the workbench where she is working, he still carries the tray he took from the pilot's room.
The mechanic jumps a little, fastly she dries her tears and smiles to the young man.
"Lucio! Do you need somenthing?"
The dj stares at the engigneer's red eyes and takes a long breath.
"I just come to see how you feel, I brought dinner to Hana and took what is left of her launch".
"Thanks for taking care of her".
"No problem, I love her too you know, even if in a different way".
Brigitte hints a smile and looks at the rice and the peach half eaten that remain in the plate on the tray.
"I can finish it, it's a waste throw away food".
"Are you sure? I don't think it's still tastefull after all these hours".
The engigneer nods.
"Hana always gave to me the food she couldn't finish and… I miss it".
Lucio hints a smile and leave the tray in front of her.
"Enjoy your meal than".
Brigitte takes the chopsticks that are left near the plate and tries to eat the rice, but soon it falls back in the plate. The mechanic hints a melancholy giggle.
"I still can't use them properly, Hana would make fun of me saying somenthing like 'how can you work to precision mechanics if you can't even use chopsticks?!" Brigitte stops giggling; tears soon running trought her face reaching her chin in silence.
"I just wish to know what I did wrong" a few tears fall on the tray.
Lucio caresses her back.
"She doesn't even want to see me! Every time I try to speak to her she runs away! I thought to give her space but the situation is just getting worse! She feels terrible and knowing I can't do anything to help her, persecute me to the point I feel my heart ripping apart" Brigitte eats but the sobbing makes it difficult.
"Brig…" The eyes of the dj fill with sorrow.
The young man's phone buzzes, he unlocks the device and notices the story Hana posted, blinks a few time and shakes the mechanic's shoulder.
"Brig! You need to see this" Lucio show her his phone; the engigneer takes the device, dries her tears with the back of her hand, frowns reading the text on Hana's post and rapidly her face takes a bright red color.
"What the hell is this?! Did she…?!" Brigitte gets up abruptly and leave the phone on the workbench.
"Why didn't she ask me?!" The young woman massages her nose bridge, "I need to go, thanks Lucio".
"Anythime, I hope you two will solve this".
"Yeah, me too" the mechanic starts walking wast in the direction of Hana's room, once she gets in front of the pilot's door she takes a long breath and knocks.
"Hana, I know you're there, I am cooming, we need to talk" she types the code and the door opens.
The light from the hallway is the only light illuminating the room and reaches the bed where Hana wraps herself tight in the blankets.
The engigneer's figure casts a long shadow that arrives to the girl's bed.
Brigitte closes the door behind her shoulders, goes to the desk and turns on the lamp, illuminating the room with a soft warm light.
Hana covers her head with the blanket ad remains with her body oriented towards the wall.
The mechanic sits next to her, extends an hand in the direction of her friend's shoulder, but esitates and retracts it before she could even touch her slightly.
"Do you posted that story so I would come to talk to you?"
The pilot jumps lightly and squeezes herself in the blankets even more.
Brigitte takes a long breath.
"Hana," she starts again with a bitter-sweet tone, "please, we need to talk, can you at least look at me?"
The pilot stays still for a few seconds, but then she turns, keeping the blanket to cover her face.
The engigneer looks at her and takes a long breath.
"Do you think whe had sex the party night?"
Hana nods slowly and Brigitte massages the bridge of her nose.
"We didn't do anything of sort that night, I just brought you to my room and put you to bed because you were drunk".
The pilot takes off the blanket from her face and finally looks at her.
"Really? The only thing I remember is kissing you, then I woke up with you half naked next to me!"
"Hana, I would never have sex with someone that is drunk".
"You were drunk too! I just thought things like that may happen".
Brigitte giggles.
"My favourite drink is beer and sometimes I have breakfast with beer porridge, I didn't drink enough to be seriusly drunk".
"Now you are just making fun of me for being light weight".
"I know you are, that was the reason why I wasn't trying to get drunk! Who would have carried you back otherwise?"
Hana frowns and her cheeks take a crimson shade.
"Just tell me what happen that night".
"Sure".
Brigitte smiles and starts narrating.
Kissing Hana was like being between the clouds, disorienting, but at the same time Brigitte felt light weight like she could have started to fly at any moment and she felt her heart so full that she percieved her affection overflow from inside of it. Hana's strawberry lipgloss was sweet and her lips soft.
But in the instant the stinging alcohol smell coming from the pilot reached her nose, she stopped and moved the girl away.
"I am sorry, I can't, you are not lucid".
"Oh trust, I've never been so sure about somenthing".
The mechanic took a deep breath.
"I believe you but… You're drunk, I can't kiss you like this".
"You are too, what is the problem?"
Brigitte sighed.
"I'll bring you some water" she said and walked away, she found her way in the midst of the crowd, arrived to one of the buffet tables, looked around until she found water, filled a paper cup and came back to look for Hana, only for noticing she lost her.
She needed a few minutes to find the pilot again, she was next the alcohol table, with a cup filled with wine in her hands. The mechanic messaged her nose bridge and went to her.
"Why are you still drinking?"
"You can't understand" Hana mumbled, "you didn't hear the person you liked for two years rejecting you".
"I didn't rejected you! I just think we should talk about this tomorrow".
"Same thing" Hana finished the drink in her cup and took the vine bottle clumsily; Brigitte took it away from her and gave her the cup filled with water.
"Please, drink this".
The pilot drunk the water in just a few seconds.
"Done, can I have my wine now?" She tried to reach the bottle, but the engigneer raised it out of her reach. Soon Hana lost her balance, but Brigitte got her before she could fall.
"I'll bring you to your room, you are too drunk".
"These are just excuses, you just want to get rid of me".
"It's not true" Brigitte left the bottle on the table, extended an hand, caressed the pilot's cheek, but touching her skin she felt the humidity of tears.
"Prove it, stay with me".
The mechanic dried the girl's tears with her thumb.
"I promise, but now let's go okay?"
The pilot nodded; the engigneer took her phone and texted Lucio and Angela that she and Hana were going away.
The two begin to walk, but soon the pilot started to stumble on her own feet and hit wathever object was on their way; Brigitte lowered in front of her.
"Get in, I will carry you".
"No".
"Uh?"
"If I am behind you, you won't see my dress, I bought it only to impress you, it doesn't make sense if you don't look at it" the girl mumbled.
The engigneer smiled, got up and turned in the pilot's direction.
"Can I pick you up in my arms than? So I can admire you".
Hana nodded; Brigitte picked her and started walking again. Silence enveloped them, interrupted only by the noise of the engigneer's steps.
The pilot layed down her head against her colleague's chest and enveloped her arms around her neck. Brigitte blushed and lowered her gaze to look at the girl.
"Do you like the dress?"
The mechanic smiled and kissed Hana's forehead.
"Yes, you look gorgeous with it".
"You better, I spent the entire weekend choosing it with Lucio".
"Why?"
Hana sighed and frowned.
"You are so smart and so dumb at the same time you know? I wanted you to look at me and none else".
The engigner's heart accelerated.
"I already do it, every day, every moment, even if I wanted to admire anyone else my thoughts would just come back to you".
Brigitte noticed the already red cheeks of the pilot taking an even deeper shade while she hid her face against the older girl chest.
"Good".
The two reached Hana's room, at the door is attached a tablet with the girl's name written on it togheter with several pink hearts and a bunny.
"We arrived".
The pilot looked at the door and shaked her head.
"I want to go to your room".
"Uh? Why?"
"It's my favourite place, it's full of you"
Brigitte felt her ears becoming warmer, looked away and sighed.
"It will be impossible convincing you right?"
Hana held thighter to her friend's body.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go".
The engigneer shaked her head and started walking again until they reached the last room in the hallway, the one that was closer to the generator room, where it came from a light buzzing from every hour of the day; every person in the base found that annoying but Brigitte, she was used to fall asleep with that noise like it was a lullaby. Hana started appreciating it with al the time she spent with the mechanic.
Brigitte laid down her colleague and opened the door typing the code.
The two entered and the door closed behind them.
The engigneer yawned and streached, but she got interrupted by Hana's dress colliding with her head. Confused, the mechanic took it and removed it, noticing the pilot lying on her bed wearing only her panties.
Brigitte stopped breathing for a few seconds and walked towards the girl.
"H-Hana! You can't stay like this! I have a few clothes you left here last time, I take them".
The pilot looked at her and frowned, turning in a way that made visible her naked chest. The mechanic looked away and put an hand in front of her own face to avoid seeing anything.
"No".
"No?!"
The pilot raised her body, extended an arm and grabbed her sleeve.
"I want this".
"Okay, okay, just cover please" Brigitte took off her shirt and gave it to her.
Hana wore it with a bright smile, she tried to button it up, but she was missing the coordination to do it.
"Have you done?" The engigneer asked still looking away.
"I hate anyone who thought buttons were a good idea!"
Brigitte turned to her, saw her struggling, took a deep breath, knelt down in front of Hana and started buttoning up the shirt for her, trying to not indulge her glaze to the girl's body. The engigneer expression was focused and her face had a deep vermillion shade from the tip of her ears to the base of her neck.
"Did I gave you gay panic?" The pilot asked with a smirk.
Brigitte finished to buttoning up the shirt, took a deep breath and caressed her neck.
"Yes".
Hana smirk became wider and she threw herself on the bed shaking her arms and legs in the air.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
The mechanic hinted a smile, she noticed how her shirt was so large on Hana that it covered her knees, while the sleeves covered in their entirety the girl's hands; a sweet feeling filled her heart.
"Come, I will help you taking off your make up".
The pilot came closer and left her friend cleaning her face with a few cleansing wipes that the mechanic started to always have in her room since they knew each other.
Done that, the engigneer took off Hana's earrings with care and left them on the desk.
"I put on the pijama and we go to sleep okay?"
"Whatever" the pilot yawn and her eyelids started feeling heavy.
Brigitte changed, took a sleeping bag, put it on the floor and went to turn off the lights.
"You can take the bed, I'll sleep on the floor".
"Uh?"
The engigneer shouted off the lights and slipped inside the sleeping bag, but soon she could feel her friend laying next to her.
"Hana you can't sleep on the floor, you will feel worse".
"I'll sleep where you sleep".
In the darkness Brigitte massaged her nose bridge, turned on her phone light and turned to Hana.
"If I come to sleep in the bed, will you come too?"
The pilot nodded slowly with her eyes half closed.
The engigneer got up, put the sleeping bag back in her wardrobe, she sat on the bed and invited the other girl to follow her. Hana layed down next to her and glazed to the mechanic.
"Promise me you will stay with me all night?"
Brigitte smiled and caressed the pilot's hair.
"You can count on it".
Hana giggled.
"My knight in shiny armor".
The mechanic hinted a faint laugh, she stroked her neck and blushed lightly in the dim light.
"Sleep Hana, tomorrow we'll need to talk about a lot of things".
"Okay".
Brigitte turned off the phone light and layed down, but soon, between the alcohol and Hana's presence next to her, she started feeling an intense warmt.
"What do I do? I don't think it's appropriate taking off my pajamas, but I am suffocating" she took a long breath "it wouldn't be the first time I sleep only with my sport bra and boxers with her, but we never have been in the same bed and most important, she was sober!" The mechanic caressed her forehead, "it's hotter than inside a sauna, okay, I take it off and I will explain everything to her tomorrow morning" she nodded to herself.
Brigitte turned towards the pilot, she could hear the faint breath rythm of someone that is already in the dreams realm. Slowly she took off her pijama, always checking if Hana was still sleeping. Once she was done she throw the clothes on the floor and layed down again looking at the barely visible shape of the other girl.
Not much time passed before she could feel Hana pressing herself against her during her sleep; soon Brigitte felt her heart accelerating.
"Is really okay if we sleep like this?" She shook her head, "she's drunk, better not doing that" with care she moved away the pilot from herself and tried to sleep once again, but Hana came back trying to hugging her just a few minutes later.
Brigitte once again distanced her and gave her the cat peluche that the engigneer always keeps on the bed. Hana hugged the peluche and didn't try anymore to get close. The mechanic finally was able to find rest.
Hana hides her face between her hands.
"I am an idiot".
"It's understandable you misunderstood, you didn't remembered anything".
The pilot takes a deep breath and look at the other.
"You were so nice and I avoided you for a week, I am so sorry Brig, I…" Hana's hands are trembling.
"You weren't ready to talk, I can wait, but please next time at least say to me something instead of running away and don't try ever again to attract my attention with a tiktok post" Brigitte sighs and crosses her arms in front of her chest.
Hana blushes and starts cracking the fingers of her good hand one after another.
"I am sorry, I didn't know what to do".
"Can't hide I was mad about it, but I also was really worried about you, so please, always remember I am here to talk things out okay? Any problem you have I will listen to you" Brigitte sweetly caresses Hana's cheek; the pilot indulge in the touch and slighlty presses her face against the engigneer's hand.
"I promise I won't use posting to attract your attantion again".
"I appreciate that".
A few seconds of silence pass; Hana sits and loosen the hold on the blanket, revealing what she was wearing.
"Is that my shirt?"
Hana blushes and lowers her gaze.
"Yes, I… I don't know, I missed you okay?"
A sweet smile appeared on the mechanic's lips.
"I missed you too".
Hana caresses her arm and turns her gaze to Brigitte.
"Did I really said all those things?"
"Do you mean when you said the girl you like rejected you, how you explained me you choose that dress to impress me or how you wanted to go to my room because it is, your words 'full of me'?"
The pilot blushes from the base of her neck to the tip of her hears.
"Remember me to never drink with you again".
Brigitte laughs.
"You were really cute to be honest, but why you wasted yourself like that?"
Hana takes a long breath; her hair messily caresses her shoulders and sorrounds her face with grace.
"I… Since I was in the meka squad, there were entire weeks were I couldn't sleep because of nightmares, I mean, there still are weeks like that" she giggles with melancoly, "I am not proud of it, but the only way I found to sleep during those nights was driking until I passed out, at least my brain stopped being so loud like that and… I guess I didn't want to hear my thoughts that time" Hana's voice is just a trembling whisper at that point.
Brigitte stares at her listening with attention to each word, she bends and embrace the girl in her arms.
The pilot hugs her back, pressing her head against the mechanic's shoulder and a few tears run silent on her cheeks.
"I am here".
Brigitte softly caresses Hana's hair until the girl stops crying.
The pilot raises her head; the engigneer dries her tears with her thumb and looks at her with sweetness in her eyes.
"I will stay with you every night so you will never need to do that anymore".
"Uh? Why?"
Brigitte takes Hana hand between her own and kisses her knucles.
"Isn't normal doing it for my girlfriend?"
The pilot's face becomes crimson all at once.
"G-Girlfriend?"
"Oh right, we didn't talk about it sorry, do you prefer just dating for now?"
Hana blinks a few times and feels her heart accelerating quikly in her chest.
"D-Do you like me?!" The girl grabs the other's arm and squeezes it with both hands.
Brigitte laughs.
"Didn't you got it when I accepted dancing with you?"
Hana pushes her and turns away pouting.
The engigneer smiles, hugs her from behind and lays her chin on the girl's shoulder.
"Yes, I like you, would you do me the honor to become my girlfriend?"
The pilot's face takes a even deeper shade of red, she lowers her gaze.
"I don't know if I want a girlfriend that make fun of me like this".
Brigitte holds her tighter.
"I am sorry, I won't make fun of how cute you are anymore, can I still be your girlfriend?"
Hana turns enough to see the sweet expression the engigneer has on her face and nods lightly. The smile on the mechanic's face becomes brighter and she immideately leaves a kiss on the pilot's cheek.
Hana grabs Brigitte's head and takes a long breath.
"Can I have another type of kiss? I want to be able to fully remember it this time".
A soft look appears in the engigneer's eyes.
"You can have all the kisses you want".
Hana swallows, esitates for a few instants, slowly she gets closer and finally makes their lips meet.
The kiss is slow and imbued with a tenderness that makes both their hearts warm up.
Hana warps her arms around her partner's neck and Brigitte caresses her cheek, cleaning her face from the last traces of tears.
Their theeth collide; the pilot moves away a little and lowers her glaze while her face takes a deep vermillion shade.
"S-sorry! I still need to get used to-"
With a soft touch Brigitte forces her to look at her and starts to kiss her once again.
Hana jumps, but soon she lets herself enjoy the kiss and kisses back while her heart beats fast in her chest.
Both of them smile when they separate, still holding tight to each other.
"Oh right! I have somenthing for you".
"Uh?"
The mechanic takes from her pocket the glove Hana left in the infirmary, now with the thin armor part repaired.
The pilot smiles, takes it and looks at it.
"Thanks, I thought I lost it".
"No problem, I made the armor stronger, it shouldn't break anymore, what did you do to break your hand anyway?"
Hana takes a long breath and caresses her neck.
"I got angry thinking you may have hated me and… Well, I punched Tokki a bit too hard".
Brigitte looks the bendages on her partner hand and malincoly appears in her eyes.
"Even if I wanted to, I don't think it's possible for me hating you, I will remind you that every time you need okay?"
Hana nods with her head low.
"I am sorry, I know I am not exactly the more stable girl to have a relationship with but… I really like you and I want to make this work, with all my heart".
The engigneer smiles sweetly.
"Oh Hana," she starts speaking and once again caresses her partner's cheek, "it's okay, I know you are doing your best and I am proud of you, trust me when I say I couldn't ask anything better than being with you".
A couple of tears cross the pilot's cheeks, but soon the mechanic dries them with a soft touch.
"Okay, okay, stop being cheesy, I need to eat what Lucio brought me, he… Came every day bringing me food and I want to at least finish today's dinner".
The mechanic nods.
"I can make you company, right?"
"I would have being offended if you went away after all of this".
Brigitte hints a laugh.
Hana geets up, sits down at her desk and slowly she eats the food that her friend brought. She feel her stomach close, but takes a bite after another, minute after minute, until not even a grain of rice remains in the plate, she lays her back against the chair seatback and takes a long breath; Brigitte claps and smiles at her.
"Okay, I really need to shower now".
"I'll accompany you".
Hana takes everything necessary to wash herself, her bathrobe, a change of clothes and than the two of them goes to the showers.
"Let me bring your stuff for you" the mechanic extends her hand towards the other girl when they go out the room.
The pilot smiles and gives to her all the things she has in her hands, after that they start moving to reach the showers.
While they walk Hana looks the busy hands of Brigitte and then her own empty ones.
"Hana Song!"
The pilot shivers hearing doctor Ziegler's voice from the end of the hallway and fastly she hides behind her new girlfriend.
"Hi Angela" Brigitte smiles.
"Hi Brig," the medic caresses her temples and fix the glasses on her face, "Hana I know you are there, I saw you while I was walking".
The pilot swallows, takes a deep breath and comes out her hiding spot.
"E-Ehi Angela, how are you?" She waves with a trembling voice without being able to look in the eyes the medic.
"What the fuck were you thinking?!"
"I…"
"Wasting yourself like that, breaking your finger punching Tokki and posting something like that for everyone to see?! How many times we spoke about how much communication is important in relationships and how to avoid impulsive action like those?!" The woman's anger is perfectly perceivable from her tone.
"Yeah, Yeah, you're right, I should have manage better the situation, it's just… I really didn't know what to do…" Hana starts cracking the knucles of her good hand.
The doctor sighs.
"Come here" the doctor hugs the girl and soon the younger agent hugs her back.
"This doesn't change you will help me in the infirmary until your finger isn't completely healed".
"Angela please! You know I hate it!"
"You could do normal missions if you just didn't broke your finger my dear".
Hana frowns and crosses her arms in front of her.
The doctor takes a long breath and a sweet light appears in her eyes.
"I am happy you feel better, and Brig is here so I deduce you two made up".
Hana and Brigitte look at each other.
"The honor is yours" the mechanic whispers to her girlfriend.
The pilot blushes lightly and turns towards the medic.
"Yeah, I mean… We're a couple now".
Angela blinks a couple of times and breathes like if an heavy weight is finally lifted from her chest.
"Thank god! I thought I would have died before I would be able to see this day!"
Hana blushes and frowns.
"What do you mean?"
"You two were so painfull to watch for two years flirting shamelessly withouth one of you making the first move".
Both Brigitte and Hana look away with a deep crimson shade on their cheeks.
"But I am happy for both, even if I would have prefered that you, my dear, used my suggestions in a more calm way" Angela slaps Hana's forehead with a finger and the pilot immideately caresses her skin were she was hit.
"Okay, okay, I got it! I'm sorry".
The doctor strokes the girl's head.
"I really hope you two may be happy togheter" the medic looks the engigneer for a few instants and than comes back looking at the pilot.
"We'll meet tomorrow morning in the infirmary, have fun with her for today okay?"
Hana nods with a bright smile.
"Thanks Angie!"
The doctor smiles back, waves at the two and continues walking to the hallway, leaving the girls behind.
"Fareeha owns me dinner" she whispers to herself and smiles.
Hana and Brigitte start walking again.
"I forgot how much scary Angela could be when she's mad" comments the mechanic.
"I mean, you don't have many occasions to see her like that miss 'agent of the month' for five consecutive months".
The engigneer giggles.
The two of them arrive at the locker room next to the showers.
Hana leaves her clothes inside one of the locker and her glaze once again falls on her partner's hands.
Brigitte smiles and extends her hands to her.
Hana blushes lightly and intertwine their fingers togheter; the two girls remain silent for long seconds surrounded by the locker room's silence.
"Will you wait for me?"
Brigitte smiles.
"The answer to that question will always be yes"
Hana's heart warms up and her mind finds peace.