How did this all happened? Seriously... In the span of a week you almost died, TWICE you got held hostage by the 1-4-1 before being thrown in a prison while they were sent on a suicide mission... Ho and now all of you ended up in the abandoned castle of Saint Petersburg, all fugitives searched for by the US army and Makarov's men divided in groups of two in each rooms... You ended up with Ghost (wonderful...) You were hurt... Your collarbone was still bleeding, your groin where you got stabbed few days ago was still looking red, angry and painful... Probably an infection...but who cared?... As for your throat... It was less bad than last time someone tried to cut it...

He was sitting against the bed watching the fire, he didn't say anything, didn't look like he will sleep soon... You were observing him, laying across the bed's width, your head on your arm, close enough to observe him but not enough for awkward proximity... Your body was begging to be able to collapse into deep sleep, or death maybe... And in that moment nothing felt so hostile...