Lonely Hope.

She waited, nothing was seemingly happening, then a barely noticable thump she felt. She knew he wasn't ready to breath just yet seeing his heartrate was so low it was barely noticable. She continued her breathing and massaging of his chest near his heart trying to coax the heart to beat stronger. She realized that propping him against something might be a good idea to help with the breathing since when laying down his lungs had to fight gravity.

His waking nearly made Fia stop breathing for him, she didn't know if he could handle breathing just yet seeing his heart was still weakly pumping. She wasn't a medical specialist, she noticed the rock she had used for a basin had a rock that was not too high but high enough to make the gravity not pull against his lungs and yet not too upright to make his wounds hurt more. She stopped breathing for him and brought him closer to the rock propping him up on it which would make breathing a lot easier without making him bleed more. She then put the coat on his chest again, sitting down beside him exhausted.

She watched him ready to breath for him again if another attack occured. She wasn't thinking about embarassment from looking like a girl at the moment. She didn't even think about the possiblity someone else could even think of her as pretty or anything like that. She right now was doing her duty to keep him alive with all her might. She panted lightly, her lungs had been used for two people for the time she breathed for him. They were tired from forcing the air into him, she knew if he had another attack she'd only be able to handle one more attack if it happened close to the first one. She watched her patient and hoped he'd make it. She decided she couldn't go hunting until he had stabilized, she decided she'd only make some water from snow once he was more stable than before.

Fia noticed his chills, she noticed he was doing better so starting a fire wouldn't be a bad idea. Considering now she was freezing in just a tank top in the cold cave. She looked at the man knowing the cold wasn't good for him, she didn't want to leave the cave for wood and snow until he was steady. But she knew he couldn't be steady if she didn't warm him up. She sighed looking at him, "I'm going to be right back okay? I'll get some more wood for the fire, if something happens try to yell or something. I'll stay as close to the cave as I can so that I'll hear you. Okay?" She said to him concern in her eyes, she didn't want him to die.

She looked at him, then at the cave she left the cave slowly. The cold air sending chills through her body, she knew there wasn't any wood in the cave. Her clothes still wet from his blood, she closed her eyes for a second trying to adjust to the extreme cold. Her arms had goosebumps all over them from the cold. She looked at the snow covered ground deciding to see if there was anything savagable for clothing where he was attacked. She ran trying to keep her body from getting froozen, she suddenly stepped on a weak part of the ground near where she found him. She slipped falling into the cold snow falling almost to the cliff, she managed to catch herself just in time.

She pulled herself up slowly being careful to not slip in the snow. She saw something in the snow near the now pink blood, she touched the submerged object pulling it out of the snow to reveal a knife. She wondered how the man couldn't defend himself against a vampire with it. She herself found vampires rather blood lusting insane little creatures. She picked it up and looked around trying to spot some kind of wood, she managed to spot some down in a ravine. But it was so deep into it, she sighed looking around again near the cave.

Her body slowly adjusting to the cold, her skin turning red from the frozen air. Her skin burned, she knew that if he didn't get fire he might die or get sick. It was starting to turn to night already, she wasn't gone from the cave for but about 10 minutes. She sighed trying to think of things to burn, all she saw was snow and rocks. The previous fire to sterilize had gone out leaving her woodless. She couldn't find any wood at all, she knew this would be bad if she didn't find anything to burn. The idea of frozen grass would've worked if it was dry and she had sticks to start the fire but she didn't.

Suddenly her eyes met with that of a small bear cub, she wasn't into killing animals. She refused to kill a bear to make a coat, her skin now turning bluish. She had been gone about 20 minutes now, she didn't know what to do. But she saw the bear running towards something, she had no other lead. She ran after it trudging in the snow, falling down. She was so cold, she soon saw a very small grove of trees, all of them small. She quickly broke off as many branches as she could handle, she was freezing cold. But the swordsman refused to baby herself, she filled up her arms to the fullest and headed back to the cave moving as quick as she could.

She was gone a total of 30 minutes, she hoped he was okay. She wouldn't have gone if it wasn't necessary to boil down the water and warm him up. But it was, she trudged back moving at full speed her body growing numb. She soon saw the outline of the cave, she felt weak, she wanted to sleep but she forced herself into the cave dropping the wood on the cold earth. She collasped it wasn't more than 30 seconds till she was up again rushing to his side checking for vital signs.

She fell to his side, finding he was alright she then realized he might be asleep. She shook his arm lightly, but enough to wake him. "Wake up?" She said panic growing in her voice, "Wake up!" She shivered, her lips a bluish color from the over exposure to the cold. She waited for him to wake, she didn't know if he would.

She shivered her clothes having frozen blood on them, she moved the fire wood, making a fire near him next to the basin like rock. She rubbed the sticks together till a spark formed. She shivered, she knew she needed to get fluids for the man, she exited the cave for a mere minute and appeared again with her arms filled with clean white snow. She put it in the basin-like rock near the fire, she shivered as her numb skin started to burn yet again.

She was so cold, she felt weak, her breathing slowed, her tiredness taking over as it grew pitch black outside of the cave. The firelight lighting the cave, Fia moved near the man watching him trying to force her body to stay awake. But all her energy had gone when she went outside in the cold air, her body had burned all she had for energy and her body was doing what it could to keep her alive. She checked his pulse just as her body decided to try and conserve energy, she fell to the floor beside him. Falling into immediate sleep, her breathing slowed, her heartrate slowing down into slumber. She slept beside him, her hand still on his wrist from checking his pulse. Her hand was cold like ice, as much as she tried she couldn't fight her body's tiredness as she slept.

She layed beside him deep in sleep, her body slowly unthawing from the cold. She was exhausted, her body didn't budge from her spot next to him. She slept soundly until she heard a soft moan, she jumped back to reality. She had nothing to use as a cup besides her hands, she looked at him knowing he must've been dehydrated. She put some more wood in the fire ignoring the pain which she felt and the cold. She looked at him filling her hands with the luke warm water, she moved over to him. "Here it's some water." She said to him trying her best to be a good help even though she herself now wasn't at the pitch of health.

She herself had burning skin and several black and blues from falling and her ribs which then didn't hurt now ached as if she had been hit twenty times by a young vampire, from hitting the ground near the edge of the cliff. She took in a quick breath at the pain in her ribs, she waited for him to drink the water from her hands. Her own lips were dry and a bluish color, her body pale as she still wore only a tanktop and her other clothes which had finally been turned to dried blood. She looked a mess, her bandanna still in her hair but some long strands of white hair lay loose of the bandanna's hold.

She came over to him putting a finger to his lips, "Shh... It's okay, take it easy your not better yet. You don't want all that you went through to be for nothing do you?" She said kindness showing once from the tired worn nurse. She looked like she was ready to collaspe even though she had gotten some sleep, she was still a mere human with only martail arts and blade abilities. Her body was a mere human, she was still cold because of the air which had absorbed in her. She could've been better had she had a big fluffy warm blanket and a warm house. But there was nothing she could do about that.

She put her hand to his forehead checking for a tempature or signs of infection though she had done her best to prevent it from happening. She first needed to make sure he was okay before dealing with her own needs such as a drink seeing she could furfill her other needs because of the his need for the coat. She figured she should let him keep it, the fire didn't keep all the cold away and he was more important than her.

She watched him, her body would've been happy with 24 hours of sleep and peace. But she couldn't do that until he was all better, moving him would only reopen his wounds so she had to wait. She wondered how long they'd be stuck with eachother.

She put her hand on his, "Don't try smiling, it makes you look scary." She said jokingly trying to cheer the poor fellow up. She looked at him knowing he'd be in need of fresh bandages and a few other minor things. She shivered lightly, she forced herself to her feet. She walked to the door of the cave and gathering clean snow she brought it to the basin-like rock again to provide a sterilizing system again.

She looked at him, her eyes studying his. "Your concussion seems to be gone, that's good. You can sleep now without worrying, you'll need a lot of rest." She looked at her torn shirt trying to see if there was enough of her shirt to make new bandages. She didn't want to touch her tanktop seeing that if she were to take off any further of her clothing she would die from the cold and feel naked.

She never once thought of herself as his savior, she thought of herself as someone who was doing her best to save a human's life. She looked at him waiting for the water to sterilize so she could clean and rebandage his wounds.

She smiled, "You don't have to try to comunicate with me, you went through something terrible that no one should go through. And at least I saw you before it was too late." She said to him trying to make him take it easy, if he could just stablize and remain stable she'd be happy. She didn't want him to end up dying after all she did to keep him alive.

She looked at him knowing what was wrong, but vomiting would reopen the wounds and Fia knew this. "I'm sorry, you can't vomit or else I'd have to redo the stich work on your wounds which aren't healed. You need to endure it for your own sake and for mine seeing I really don't feel well enough to carry you elsewhere or even try restiching you. So please try to endure." She said a pleading look in her eyes. She was so exhausted she didn't know if she could have a encore preformance of last night.

"Is there anything I can do?" She asked trying to figure out how to help him not be tortured so much. She wasn't superman or woman for that matter. She was only a girl trying to save a human's life.