Retribution

The next day Shadow Hunter went back to Firebolt but the room was empty. Terrified she rushed towards the nurses’ room. One of the nurses saw her coming and stopped her. “Calm down. We took him to another room.” The nurse comforted the mare. “We took him to the room at the end of that corridor on the left side.” she said while pointing her hoof at one of the corridors.
Firebolt wasn’t awake as she entered. She sat down on the chair besides the bed and grabbed his hoof. Slowly he opened his eyes. “Hey.” He said weakly.
“Hey.” she answered, “I brought you some flowers.”
“Fire flowers, my favourite.” He smiled as he saw the flowers.
“I heard you recovered amazing fast.”
“Yeah. In the morning when the nurses brought me here they said that I may leave the station in a week.” he yawned, “Damn I’m really tired although I slept two weeks long.”
“Hey, I’ll better let you sleep. I’ll visit you later again.” she said goodbye and left.

A week later Firebolt was allowed to leave the medical station. Just in that moment as he left the room, the mare came to visit him. “Hey.” she greeted friendly and hugged him. “Hey.” he answered smiling, “I was just on the way to my room. Do you want to attend me?”
“Sure. Should I support you” she asked sawing him limping.
“That would be nice.” He answered and put his foreleg around her neck. Together they trotted towards the sleeping rooms. After about twenty minutes they reached Firebolts room. Shadow helped him through the door and into his bed. “Want to stay overnight?” he asked as Shadow got ready to leave which caused her to blush.
“Uhm… That’s unexpected.” She answered confused. “But if you want. I’ll sleep on this chair.”
“I think you misunderstood me.” Firebolt said, nodding to the place besides him and smiled. The mare blushed again and lay besides the stallion.
She was almost asleep as she felt that Firebolt approached to her. She turned around and faced the stallion with a lovely smile on her face. “I love you.” she whispered and watched the sleeping stallion until she finally fell asleep.

In the next morning Night Hawk rushed into the room. “Shadow Hunter is missing.” He reported.
“W-What?” the mare yawned and looked confused to the door.
“What are you doing in Firebolts room?” the upset Pegasus asked.
“Well, it’s a long story.” She answered blushing.
“And where is Firebolt?” he asked now a bit confused.
“I don’t know. You just wake me up.”
Just at that moment Firebolt appeared besides the bed. He looked confused to Night Hawk as he recognized his presence. “What are you doing here?”
“I wanted to report you that Shadow was missing.” The Pegasus answered. “But where were you?”
“It seems that you found her.” Firebolt answered grinning. “I went outside the base to collect some ingredients for an ointment.”
“But you are still not allowed to leave the base alone!” the mare said worried.
“I wasn’t alone. I took one of my soldiers with me.” Firebolt answered.
“You could have just asked me to collect these ingredients.” Night Hawk said concerned.