Welcome Back (Nimue)

She was reading, she did not have much time for that in a normal week but now that she was stuck in the hospital and trying to get her energy back and the like, she had time enough to sit still in her bed and read. The pillows nicely puffy, flowers around her bed thanks to Giovanni and just the nice care of the doctors. It was stupid what happened and she still had not talked too much about it as she was considering a lot of things, but it would go on. Things would keep up or change and the like and Nimue would see how it goes. The thing that had scared her the most and made her embarrassed the most was the fact that Giovanni saved her, that scared her, what did he do to get the information but also what made her embarrassed was not the rescue, it was that she had not trusted him. Thought they drugged her or used a quirk or something to make her think he was there. However, in the end things cleared up. It was good now, she was home or well at least in a hospital with people she trusted and people she knew that would come visit her. She did look too much on her phone and that's why she tried to not do that and just read.

Finally, it was visiting hour or so Nimue thought as she heard the knock on the door and looked up expectantly to see Giovanni. She took the flowers from his open arms before she let him kiss her, albeit he did so on her cheek and she would sit up a little better when he came to sit on her bedside. She held the flowers in her hand and smelled them and just looked at their pretty colours, it definitely made this little room a brighter place. "I am just a little tired, but I am so glad to see you." It was like the best part of the day when it happened. She looked up from the flowers when he said he had some news and she frowned cuz what would have good and bad news. She took a deep breath and nodded, oh thank god she was discharged she wanted to go home so badly. Did someone take care of Kuro? She looked a little surprise by his change in speech as he spoke about the bad news. "Aibo, that's not bad news. But is Kuro okay?" She said when he finished kissing her and she kissed him back. That meant she should get her stuff and she put the flowers on the end of the bed to try and get up, albeit slowly. She had a lot of bruises that still made her muscles ache a lot and that's why she had to drink a lot of water to get rid of that pain. She knew, she just forgot, worried about other things now with the lists out. She just grabbed her bag from underneath the bed to get her clothes in and looked at the flowers. "Hm." But she shouldn't stand too long yet, not without support and the like. "We are leaving immediately right? I can't wait."

Kuro was important, he trusted her so Nimue should do everything to keep that, but it was good that he was fine and she would just get up, but Giovanni quickly showed up at her side to support her. Holding her by her hips to make sure that she would remain upright and standing and in case she would lose the power in her legs, he got her. But she didn't, she asked if they would leave immediately and that was indeed the preferable option. So he would help her get dressed, she would sit on the bed again and he would just have to help her with her jeans, so she could pull them over her knees well and she quickly switched her shirt and so on. With her pyjamas dropped in the bag that Giovanni brought to her on her first arrival, she was now ready again to leave. So when ready to leave, he would hold her hand and slowly but steady they walked out of the wing where she stayed and towards the entrance, followed by the parking lot and Giovanni's parking spot with the car. He had quickly opened the door for her and she would sit down with a quick breath because she was relieved she made it and just could sit again. Surely this would go faster if she stopped being so damn afraid for any pain, she knew that it was still in her head. She would get to that eventually.

Nimue waited for Giovanni to drive and just look outside. She had not seen much outside the past few days and it made her teary-eyed and indecisive. But she blinked that away and did not want to show Giovanni, she was glad she was saved, that she had excellent care and so on, it did not do well to dwell on what was now in the past. She looked back at him and made a soft laughing sound as he said what he had to say. "It's just in my head, I am so afraid it would hurt so badly again but I am okay. I just still need to focus on drinking a lot and moving from time to time to fight the sore feeling away, it's mostly my legs and shoulders." Laying on a stone floor with either of your shoulders was not the most comfortable way. She nodded, the doctors were very nice to her, she could not have wished for more, they would come to her every whim and just allowed everything.

Nimue looked mostly outside through the front window. Sitting eerie still and quiet, not doing anything, not saying anything. She was just herself, but maybe a little lost, maybe wondering on words to say as if she had so much to say, do and so on. Where to start, what to do? She had no idea. She couldn't think about it, think about nothing, focus on nothing. She felt so tired. She looked up when not much later Giovanni turned to his lane, driving up it and she looked through the window at the pretty white little mansion he had. She smiled at him as he helped her out of the car and walk towards the door, "Yea, we are home." How strange that the last thing she remembered was being here, from her normal life. This is where it started and this is where she returned and to be honest, she couldn't be happier. As they stood in the hallway, he kissed her cheek, her neck and she smiled and closed her eyes, giving him space and giving herself the right headspace. "I would like to do something, just maybe we could do it while sitting down." She still had to thank him and apologize to him and just so much, but she did not know where to start. She liked how he held her hands, how his thumbs rub over her skin and she looked at him.

He shortly brought her to the couch in the living room and she just sat down and looked around. She would wait for him to change and she nodded in approval when he returned. "Giovanni?" She asked now that he was back, "I am really sorry." She did remember, the first few moments, his nightmare of a few days previous, and then she suddenly disappeared for days. She still could not believe it was a whole week, time had flown differently in a room with always light. She did not ever want to go through that again.

She would not yet know what to do, at this point in time everything felt stupid before she had said the words she should have said before. She had not wanted to say them at the hospital, or where anyone could hear them speaking, so she did it now. She should have waited but he came back to her and she looked at her hands when she apologized. "It is, I should have been more careful. How did they find me? I still don't get how they know and what will they do next, will they pick me up again from the corner of the street? I brought us in danger, I should do better, I am a pro-hero it's my job but I can't even keep myself safe." But she had heard him, she wasn't relaxed even if he kissed her forehead and said he would protect her, no it was her job. It literally was, not something feminist like simply because she was independent and so on. She had a powerful quirk, she had a job that included protecting people, civilians and all, so why could she not protect herself. She remembered he had a nightmare, how horrible would that day have been for him. She just sat there, watching him leave to change and she would just remain seated, looking at her lap as no words would come. She did not want to quit, she did not want to give in and just walk away from it. She was going to continue her research on Marine and so on, but she did not want to be taken again, she wasn't sure what she should do, or if they would give up because she was saved so easily. She wasn't sure if it had gone easy on the other heroes, but maybe she should still ask what he did to get that location, she was sure Tobias didn't tell him. Giovanni was in that case, just a civilian.

She looked up at him, after fumbling with the couch and peeling on the fabric of it and just met her boyfriend's eyes. "But-but isn't that my job? I should protect them, I thought I just could protect myself. But I can't, how can I protect you, I could have lost you there. It was a very dangerous move to come." She should ask Tobias indeed why they thought to bring Giovanni or wait... wait no they didn't say that they even came at separate moments. Her mind was just confused on the moment, she looked away again, she brought them in danger, Giovanni most of all. She let him hold her chin up, let him kiss her and she just nodded, she would do better, she would worry though and well she wasn't sure about working together from now on but it was an idea. She just remained sitting there, looking at her hands, sighing and not looking happy at all. She did not want to give up, she had thought about that so many times but now it wasn't even on her mind. She wanted to stop it, wanted to make sure that Plutocracy wouldn't bring any harm to anyone else.

She let him pull her against him. Forgetting or not even noticing that he had gone and was already back. She let him again lift up her chin and kiss her, listening to her what she called a few weeks ago, her favourite word. She gave a small smile and nodded, "You are right, thank you for picking me up. For coming, for all the flowers." That were still in the car but would come later. She snuggled close, telling herself that the feeling of her muscles as she curled up her legs were just sore and lying. "Tell me, what you want to do?"

Though his answer was hot damn romantic, it made her scared and she watched him with a very deep frown on her face and a sad look in her eyes. She watched him kiss her hand and just make a small trail up to her lips. She was just so worried, that was scared, she did not want him to die? Did he not hear that the first time when she cried about why she did not tell him? Their first real fight? It still scared her, this scared her and she thought and prayed to her father. She should think about other things, that much was clear when Giovanni got back and pulled her closer to him, so she thanked him for every positive thing and that he came to pick her up and maybe indirectly she thanked him that he came to her rescue. She just did not want him to do it ever again, which meant that she had to get better, better at her surroundings, at her own protection and into his and others and that would mean, she had to drop some of her jobs. Be less tired, be less dense and airy when she had to focus. Plutocracy knew her face, she had been so focused on protecting it, but who knew how much more people knew. She could do what Mia did... she might even ask her for advice, she would just fight off everything and everyone for the sake of safety. With less work from the hospital and less time to go to the voluntary spots, she would have time to train and make herself better, she could do that.

So she asked what he wanted to do after his gentle kiss and she nodded therapeutic something, and a smile broke free on her lips. "I like drawing." She had not done so in a while, it was a start, she needed to focus on relaxing, she needed to work on that as well. "I left some in the sunroom of my sketchbooks I am sure." But she did not immediately get up. She finally got up, it seemed like Giovanni was lost in thoughts for a second and she tried to get out of the room very slowly but steady enough to get her pencils and sketchbook from the sunroom. "Will you draw too?" She asked while standing in the doorway.

She had gotten up, she had to walk, they told her that. It would be stupid to tell her to sit down all the time, she knew that as well. It helped to be a medic yourself but sometimes she felt like she wasn't listening to her body. She quickly got held by Giovanni and it made her laugh a little, "I am fine." But she liked this anyway, she liked it. The contrast between this week and last week was amazing and she did not want it to stop. She looked up at him when he suggested drawing each other, "Sure?" She smiled, he did not try her before and her hasty sketch at Christmas could definitely be done better if she put more work into it and she would hold his hand and walk to the sunroom so she could get the stuff that she had left there. The sunroom was definitely her favourite room to use for drawing, especially because she liked to draw nature things, flowers and so on, but she later had worked on faces and more sketches, her draw book was full of it but she was going to sketch Giovanni again, wow Christmas was already so long ago, was it that time she sketched for the last time, not really but well it was the first and last time she drew him. She still had unopened paint that she got from her father, maybe one day, maybe when she would think and honour him. She hated how his birthday had passed, but there was nothing to do about it.

"Something?" She said with a teasing tone towards Giovanni as she looked up and noticed him blushing and she smirked at the idea. She would climb on one of the chairs in the room, folding her legs underneath her and would sit upright. "Yea, something." She wanted to draw him and she had the idea he wanted that too, sometimes she was teasing him a little bit too much, he looked so cute when he felt embarrassed and she would just sit there and put the sketchbook on her lap and took one of the grey pencils and started to work on the basic lines that she could dream about. Wondering about everything together, she hesitated for a second because as she thought literally about that she could dream his face, she remembered that dream and she looked up at Giovanni but said nothing.