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MidReal Story
Eternal Bonds: Love Amidst War
Anonymous
May 12
Scenario:Love
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Sarah Jennings
bun, slim, scrubs, blue, piercing blue eyes
James Bennett
crew cut, tall, muscular, camo military uniform
Emily Carter
petite, nurse uniform, white
The war had been raging for three years, and I was still here.
I was still alive.
I was still fighting.
I was still nursing.
I was still waiting.
Waiting for the day when the war would be over, and I could go home.
Home to my family, my friends, my life.
But until then, I was stuck here in this makeshift hospital, tending to the wounded soldiers who were brought in every day.
Some of them were so young, so innocent, so scared.
They didn’t deserve to be here, fighting in a war that wasn’t theirs to fight.
But they were here anyway, and it was my job to take care of them.
To clean their wounds, change their bandages, give them medicine and food and water.
To hold their hands and wipe their brows and whisper soothing words in their ears.
To let them know that they weren’t alone, that someone was there for them, that someone cared about them.
“Emily, I need more gauze over here!”
I turned my head at the sound of my name, torn from my reverie by Sarah’s urgent call.
“Coming!”
I hurried to her side, grabbing a handful of gauze from the nearby table and walking over to the soldier she was trying to save.
His leg was a mess, the bone shattered and the flesh torn to shreds.
He was bleeding profusely, the blood pooling around him on the floor.
I quickly wrapped the gauze around his leg, trying to stop the bleeding as best as I could.
But it was no use.
The wound was too severe, too deep, too infected.
He was going to die.
Sarah knew it, I knew it, and he knew it too.
But still we tried.
We tried to save him, to keep him alive, to give him a fighting chance.
Because that was our job.
That was what we had signed up for.
And we would do it until our dying breath.
Sarah sighed and shook her head, the tears streaming down her cheeks.
She reached out and took his hand in hers, squeezing it gently as he took his last breath.
“Sleep well,” she whispered before dropping his hand and turning away from him.
She didn’t have time to mourn him, to grieve for him, to think about him.
There were more soldiers coming, more lives to save, more deaths to mourn.
The war had no end in sight, and neither did we.
The hospital was chaos.
The wards were overcrowded with wounded soldiers lying on cots and mattresses on the floor.
The halls were filled with nurses running back and forth, trying to help as many patients as they could at once.
The air was thick with the smell of blood and sweat and death.
And outside, the ever-present sounds of battle raged on in the distance.
I sat down on a nearby cot and took a deep breath, trying to calm my racing heart and my trembling hands.
It wasn’t easy, not with everything that was going on around me.
But I had to try.
I had to be strong for my patients, for my friends, for myself.
I closed my eyes and lowered my head, letting out a long sigh before opening them again and looking out at the ward in front of me.
That’s when I saw him watching me, his eyes dark and intense as they bore into mine.
I held his gaze for a moment before turning away, a blush rising on my cheeks as I tried to ignore the way my heart was pounding in my chest.
I didn’t know what it was about him that made me feel this way, that made me want him so much.
Maybe it was his rugged good looks, his tall frame, his broad shoulders.
Or maybe it was something else entirely, something deeper, something more meaningful.
I quickly looked away and jumped to my feet, hurrying to his side.
“Is there anything you need?”
I asked, giving him a bright smile.
He didn’t say anything, just continued to stare at me with those dark, intense eyes of his.
I bit my lip and looked down, blushing even more as I felt his gaze on me.
I knew it was wrong to want him this way, to be this attracted to him.
But I couldn’t help it.
He was just so handsome, so charming, so.
He reached out and gently touched my hand, his fingers brushing against mine as he gave me a small, sad smile.
I could see the pain in his eyes, the hurt, the sorrow.
He was just like all the others.
Just another soldier who had been through hell and back, just another man who needed someone to take care of him, to comfort him, to love him.
I squeezed his hand and gave him another smile, this one a little more genuine than before.
“You’re going to be okay,” I whispered, leaning in closer to him so that our faces were only inches apart.
“We’re going to take good care of you.We’re going to make you better.And then you can go home.”
I watched as he closed his eyes and let out a long breath.
He didn’t say anything, but I could see the relief in his face, the gratitude.
He knew that he was going to be okay.
Because he was here with us.
And we would take care of him.
We would make him better.
We would send him home.
Just like we did with all the others.
The days turned into weeks, and the weeks turned into months.
The war raged on, and we continued to fight it.
We continued to nurse the wounded soldiers who were brought to us every day.
Some of them lived.
Some of them died.
But most of them were somewhere in between.
Somewhere in the middle.
Somewhere where they were neither dead nor alive.
Somewhere where they were neither here nor there.
Somewhere where they were lost and alone.
Just like us.
I walked through the hospital, offering a smile here and a kind word there as I made my way from one ward to the next.
It was early morning, and most of the other nurses were still asleep, exhausted from yet another long night of work.
But I wasn’t tired.
Not yet, anyway.
I kept walking until I reached the last ward, the one near the back of the hospital that was reserved for the most severely wounded soldiers.
The ones who were closest to death.
The ones who needed us the most.
I walked up and down the rows of cots, checking on each patient and making sure that they were comfortable before moving on to the next.
Most of them were asleep, their faces pale and their chests rising and falling with each breath.
But there were a few who were awake, staring blankly at the ceiling or at the wall or at nothing at all.
I stopped in front of one of these soldiers and knelt down beside him, placing a gentle hand on his arm and giving him a small smile.
“How are you feeling?”
I asked softly as he turned his head and looked at me with those big, dark eyes of his.
“I’m okay,” he said after a moment, his voice barely more than a whisper.
“You’re doing great.
“Just try to get some rest, okay?”
He nodded, and I squeezed his hand before moving on to the next patient.
As I continued my rounds, I couldn’t help but think about all the soldiers who were fighting this war without guns or knives or any of the other weapons of war.
They were fighting this war with their bodies.
With their spirits.
With their souls.
And it was a war that they would never win.
But that didn’t mean that they weren’t going to try.
And it was my job to help them.
It was my job to take care of them as best as I could, even when there wasn’t much I could do.
Even when there wasn’t much that anyone could do.
Because that’s what we did.
We took care of each other.
No matter what.
The sound of gunfire echoed in the distance as I made my way back to the front of the hospital, and I paused for a moment to listen.
The front lines were only a few miles away, and we could hear the sounds of battle every day, even when we couldn’t see them.
The fighting never stopped.
Not for anything.
Not for anyone.
But even when it seemed like there was no hope left, there was always something that reminded us why we were here.
There was always something that made it all worth it.
There was always James Bennett.
He was my best friend, and he was also one of the bravest men I knew.
He had been fighting this war since it began, and he had seen more than his fair share of death and destruction.
But he never let it get him down.
He never lost hope that things would get better.
He never stopped believing that there was still some good left in the world.
And because of him, neither did I.
I found him at the front of the hospital a few minutes later, his tall figure standing out among the other soldiers and nurses who were coming and going.
He was talking to Sarah, one of the other nurses who worked at the hospital with me, and they both looked up and smiled when they saw me.
“Hey, Em,” James called out as I walked over to join them.
“How are you doing?”
I’m fine,” I replied with a smile.
“How about you?”
he asked as he reached out and squeezed my shoulder.
I nodded and gave him a small smile.
“I’m okay,” I said.
“It’s been a long day, but I’m hanging in there.”
“You’re doing great.”
Thank you,” I replied with another smile.
It meant a lot to me to hear him say that.
It meant a lot to have his support.
Just like it meant a lot to have his friendship.
He was the reason I was here.
The reason I was still alive.
The reason I was still fighting.
