The general's girl

get him don't let him escape, series of voices were heard as they chased after Damien, he was on a mission to gather information about their enemies by the military, he had gotten the information successfully on a USB, only to have been found out while trying to escape their base, they came after him with ferocity, while he ran trying to avoid as many of them down while trying to escape. it was raining badly too, which was hindering his sight , coupled with how his glasses had fallen off half way into the chase, he was trying to divide them up as possible, but with the number of them after him, it was being a bit difficult to do so, a bullet grazed through his stomach as in hissed in pain, it seemed like it was no regular bullet , as it seemed like it was coated in some kind of drug , amplifying the pain he felt. his senses also began to dull, and he slapped himself trying to stay awake as much as possible, after finally coming out of the road, even though people weren't passing by, as it was already pitch dark , he cussed out , as he tried looking for somewhere to hide, finding a corner he sat there, pressing his hands on his stomach, it wasn't deep but it stung so badly , as it looked like whatever the bullet was coated in was started to become more effective. covering himself with the green grasses, he watched his chasers run towards the other direction of the road, after waiting for sometime, he dragged himself up while staying barely awake, but fainted half way while trying to get to somewhere safe. Ella was already having a bad day , she had just been robbed on her way back from the set, she was just a small artist , who went to try out for a role only to be rejected again, as her cousin had once more stolen her role, she was already frustrated and tired, she had to trek alone towards her house, her short legs moved faster as she didn't want to run into of those boys, as it was already so late. she heard a noise, and momentarily stopped, fear sending chills down her body, help me !, she heard from a voice completely drowned with pain, she looked around to find a man holding onto his stomach, reaching his hands towards her, at first she wanted to run, these days one couldn't trust or act blindly especially with the recent kinds of news these days. she looked around finding a stick she picked it up as she walked towards to man, just in case he tried anything funny, only to see his face which was drenched in sweat, and wounds on one side of his face, with the blood that had soaked on his stomach, she dropped the stick and held him up, hey what happened to you, help me!, was all Damien said while pleading painfully with his eyes, till he lost consciousness, hey wake up , ella said holding him up while shaking his body. ella was already sweating thinking he was dead, her hand shakingly went under his nose, to feel the warmth breathe on her skin, and she unknowingly breathed out, the nearest hospital was thirty minutes away, but she didn't have to means to take him there, moreover how was she going to explain how she found him, and also the kind of state he was in. she knew a little about nursing, as she had studied abit before dropping out, she tried dragging him up , the man was heavy despite his lean looking figure . after finally managing to keep him on her back , she dragged him with his feet's rolling along on the road , due to their height difference, she arrived at her house, thank God it was already late, as no one saw her drag him up to her apartment. placing him on her couch , she removed his top looking at his defined abs, she was a bit shy, but knowing it wasn't really important as she still needed to save his life . she first of all disinfected his wounds, stitched it up to close the bleeding before bandaging him up, same went to the injured area on his face, she looked around her room, which looked messy , as she had been really busy for days, I will deal with it later she said before leaving to take a shower. Damien was still unconscious but his body was alert , he could feel the snearing pain subside , as his ragged breathing returned to normal. ella came out after bathing, I can't seriously believe I brought a stranger home, what if he's a theif, a killer or worse , she soloquized while sitting tiredly on her bed, another failed audition, her bills were already pilling up, her landlord would soon be on her neck a few weeks from now, plus her mother was still in coma, good she missed her family, everything was quite fair till her mother got in an accident and almost all of her savings went on treatment. she finally fell asleep with her mind all over the place, she woke up to her alarm, and looked at the time 8:00am, she dragged her self up , at first she was frightened to see the person lying on the couch , only to remember she had brought someone home last night, she moved closer to him, he was running a slight fever, his body burning hot, looking for medicine, she desolved it in water feeding it to him, and used cold water to wipe down his chest , before covering him with a blanket. making scrambled eggs and bread and a porridge rice, she ate her share, and tried feeding him the porridge, should I leave him here?, ella asked herself looking at the man while stuck between going out or staying at least before he wakes up deciding to clean up her room and do some laundry since it was already weekend , she left him as she cleaned up her room, placing things in order .