Lykca went over to Nudek and took her paw, re-assuring her that she would be alright. He was watching as the healers did thier thing, and was jealous. He had always wished that he could use magic. However in most cases didnt need to. But it would have helped alot in the jungle. <span style='color:red'>You feeling any better now Nudek?</span> He asked, running his paw over her forhead, getting a few strandsof her smooth dark hair out of her face. He turned around and looked himself over, for anything that may require healing. Although his head hurt a little bit, he looked perfectly fine, except for the scratch that the giant dragon left on him. He turned back to Nudek, and grabbed a chair so he could sit by her and keep her company. <span style='color:red'>You know Nudek, we are lucky to be alive right now...Both of us...I mean. we make a pretty good team. It's a shame that.....I...didn....</span> Before Lykca could finish what he was saying, his head completely clouded over and he passed out.
Nudek coulnd't exactly move. the healing made her entire body a bit numb. She felt Lykca pass out.. how she didn't know.. but she knew even without opening her eyes. she sat up wierdly and opened her eyes. she called the healers and bent over the side of the bed. She vomited all over the floor. Not that it was much considering her stomach really didn't have much in the way of nurishment in it... it was mostly blood and water.. it had a bit of a glow in it for healers magic. she moaned as the healers took Lykca to another bed and draped a cold cloth over his broiling head.
Lykca awoke with a jump...He had no clue what happened to him, only when he moved, the cuts from the dragons claw started to burn like an open flame. He grabbed at it, trying to kill the pain, and fell backwards into the laying down position, still holding the cuts. <span style='color:red'>Ugh...What..is this...Why is it hurting so bad? I was fine before....</span> He asked himself out loud, barely able to speak. But it was true, he thought, he was perfectly fine before, able to talk, and walk, and even carry Nudek all the way from the end of the jungle to here without stopping. So why had the pain started now? He wondered.
Teh healers came over and shook thier heads. <span style='color:purple'>You and the girl... whatever you got these wounds from must have been poisoned... it doesnt take effect right away... its like a time bomb..</span> She lifted him up into a sitting position and made him down a potion... ~~~ Nudek hadn't needed it.. they had healed her before it had acted... <span style='color:orange'>It seems it acted apon you... Dont worry though... its only deadly after about a couple days... and the potion will kill it..</span> The male said to him.
<span style='color:red'>...Thank you both...</span> Lykca said to the healers after drinking the potion. <span style='color:red'>Nudek! Are you all right?</span> Lykca said trying to go to her, then noticing that the pain was still there for now and sitting back down. <span style='color:red'>Guess i should take it ease for a little bit...</span> He said aloud, with a grin on his face. <span style='color:red'>But Nudek, you're alright? Aren't you? </span> He asked, looking into her eyes.
She was still hanging slightly over the bed with a cloth in her hand. She was breathing heavily... trying to keep what was LEFT of her stomach down... She nodded and let her head hang off the side of the bed. <span style='color:darkred'>Yeah... I'll be fine...</span> She lifted her head and wiped off her muzzle with the rag. She layed back down and closed her eyes. <span style='color:darked'>Sorry about the mess...</span> She said to the healers. The female shook her head and went to get something to wipe it off with. She came back with a wet bloth and a bucket to put beside the bed for Nudek... incase it happened again.
Lykca suddenly felt completely useless. He could do nothing at all, not even move. <span style='color:red'>~How am I supposed to find a mate and be able to protect her if i cant even handle this, just a little bit of poison?~</span>He thought to himself, with an unhappy and angrey look on his face. <span style='color:red'>I can't believe this has gotten me so down to the point where i can barely move...I should be stronger than this...I usually am. But something is different this time. I don't know that...</span> He said out loud and then cringed from the pain of talking. Just mere talking had hurt him even more...He then realized how much pain Nudek would be in and shut right up about complaining. He forced himself to speak again, regardless of the pain. <span style='color:red'>Nudek...get yourself some rest...so we...so we can go back...and watch the snow fall...from where we were...under the tree. We...said we would go...back there...we have to...go...back....</span>
Nudek nodded, her eyes plastered shut from the fell of getting sick again. <span style='color:darkred'>Don't worry... we will go back there. Now shush and get some rest...</span> He needed as mush rest as she did... considering he had been poisoned. She sighed and turned over on her side. Her body was completly numb from the healing done on her earlier. She fell asleep almost instantly.
Lykca agreed, and layed back, still in pain. He tried for a while to sleep, but couldnt, so he rolled into his side, and tried again. It got him nowhere. He was restless, and didnt want to just lay there. Lykca slowly sat up after a few hours, and tried to get off of the bed. His legs were wobbly at first, but most of the pain was gone. He took a step, then a few more, and started slowly wandering around, looking at all the potions and things in the healers home, careful to be quiet, so not to wake up Nudek. He caught a glimpse of her sleeping on the bed, and he wanted to go over to her, but didnt because he would probably have woken her up. Lykca thought about everything that was happening, and everything that had happened...He had been doing that lately, which was suprising to him because he usually didnt think things through. He sighed. <span style='color:red'>If only...If only i could say something...To explain...</span> He began in a whisper to himself and trailed off into thought.
Nudek had been awake. she awoke to him moving about the room, even his suttle movements could be caught by her ears. She sat up, with her elbows supporting her. <span style='color:darkred'>Explain what...?</span> She said smirking at him. To think he thought her could get away with her not hearing... She chuckled smiled at him. <span style='color:darkred'>Even your quite movement can be heard... you just have to have good enough hearing...</span> She sat up and watched him... waiting for an answer.
Lykca's eyes widened in suprise, and he quickly turned away from her. <span style='color:red'>Uhm...oh...Nudek...I thought you were asleep...I'm sorry to wake you up...I didnt mean to...i mean...I thought i was being quiet enough for you...</span> He said with his back still turned, kinda loooking over his shoulder a little bit. <span style='color:red'>Uhm...are you feeling any better than before?</span> He asked, trying to change the subject.
She shook her head and smirked at him once more. <span style='color:darkred'>Yes i am feeling better... Don't change the subject! What is it...?</span> She said looking up at him. She removed to covers from her as she sat up. Her holed shirt barely holding on. Her baggy jean like pants tattered at the knees, and ripped in various places from the fight earlier. Her blood red eyes looked at him... searching for an answer.
Lykca felt Nudeks eyes on him, as he slowly turned around. He was unsure of what to do...Should he say it? Or just let it go? If Nudek would even let him let it go without telling her. <span style='color:red'>Uhm...right...i don't know what to say..I...uhm...well...grrrr...and I'm supposed to be strong...How am I strong if i can't even say it....</span> He stopped for a second, and took a deep breath, trying to relax a little bit. <span style='color:red'>Well, Nudek, I Uhm...over the past little while that we've spent together, uhm...I don't know where I'm going with this....Oh whatever. Nudek, I think I "like" you.</span> He stopped for a second, to breathe. <span style='color:red'>There I said it. Now you know. What it meant.</span> He quickly said and once again turned around, but this time to hide his embarrassment.
Nudek was taken aback. Shw wasn't expecting that! <span style='color:darkred'>M...Me?</span> She looked at him surprised. <span style='color:darkred'>You really... mean that?</span> She smiled sweetly. A picture moved itself to the from of her mind. she gasped and remembered. <span style='color:darkred'>-Oh no... Subaria... what am i gunna do?</span> she thought. She bit her lip and tryed to think through the scrambled mess, that was her brain...
<span style='color:red'>Well yeah, Nudek, i do really mean that. I wouldnt lie about something like that...But that doesnt mean anything major... I mean...well...I honestly don't know what i mean. But yeah...I actually feel a bit better with that off my chest...</span> <span style='color:red'>~Oh man what did i do...theres no way that a girl like her could like me! Im so dumb!~</span> Lykca thought to himself while talking to Nudek. He was unsure of her reaction as well...She seemed shocked, that he liked her...it was strange that she would act that way...or was it? Lykca was completely confused out of his mind. Yet he didn't show any of it. He always had a thing for keeping calm while the pressures on.
She didn't know what to say! she needed to tell him... She was usualy stron with things.. but these kind of things were a completly different storie... <span style='color:darkred'>Lykca...</span> Her mouth clamped shut. She mentaly grasped for courage. <span style='color:darkred'>...I...</span> She sighed. She couldn't bring herself to say it... if he didn't already guess what she had to say... or at least grasp part of it... she was going to have a hard time...
<span style='color:red'>*sigh* Let me guess, you don't feel the same? I pretty much figured. It's okay though...I understand.</span> Lykca said, kinda feeling down, but he had expected it from the start But he was hurt inside...He wouldn't let it show though....He didnt want to let Nudek to see him hurt any more than she already had. He turned and walked a few steps, then turned around again. Pacing for a reason unknown to him.
Nudek wanted to shoot herself. She felt so bad. She stood up and walked over to him. She shook her head. <span style='color:darkred'>No.. It's not that i don't feel that same...It's just that... I've... got someone already... </span> She explained. She knew he was hurt by her reaction... <span style='color:darkred'>I feel like such a cheater...</span> She really did... For she did "like" Lykca. she wasn't sure if it was more than "like" but she knew if she let herself think that... she'd feel horrible for the rest of her life... and never forgive herself...
Lykca listened to what Nudek had to say, without saying a word, and remained silent for a little bit afterwards as well...In turn, he did not know what to say. He was hurt of course, but there was not much he could do about it. Finally after a long strange silence, he spoke. <span style='color:red'>Nudek I... I'm sorry. I didnt realize that you had a mate. I didn't want to put you in this kind of sitchuation. I'm really sorry...</span> Lykca was getting kind of irritated and mad at himself for not thinking about this and realizing it sooner...Of course she was already with a mate...A dragon like her deserved to be with someone great.
Nudek shook her head and put a paw on his shoulder. <span style='color:darkred'>Don;t be sorry... You didn't know...</span> Her instinks took ahold as she read his mind. She always wanted to make sure they werent calling themselves stupid, or dumb to not think of it. <span style='color:darkred'>Don't think that... Anyone would be happy to have you...</span> She smiled at him, cutting of his thought. <span style='color:darkred'>I'm sorry... I didn't mean to read your mind... It's a habbit when something like this happens... i don't like when people blame themsevles... heh</span> She lifted her hand from his shoulder and tryed to hide an embarased smile.
