12 yp 1/26/16

* GreenHoof flicks folded up paper at White in the medical tent out of boredom
* WhiteLight lets out a half-hearted  and sleepy "Ow--mnhm..." as the ball hits the back of her head and unceremoniously rolls down her back and to the ground. She starts stirring up a little as she laid on her belly over the cot, stretching her legs and rolling her head to rest her cheek over her pillow... Good eye half-covered by burnt hair as it peeks back to GreenHoof unamused and half-closed. "Hoof... Come on."
* WhiteLight reaches down under the cot with a very stiff foreleg fumbling with the ball until the catches it and lightly tosses it back...! Hitting the pone on his side, White giving Hoof a wry, pained but playful smile.
* GreenHoof tilts his head and stares at White for a moment, and seeing her unamused look, decides to fold his hooves in his lap and not disturb the poor mare anymore... Until he feels the ball of paper bounce off his side. He looks up and is relieved to see his friend smile, if still in pain. "S-sorry..."
WhiteLight
"Its fine... Was about to wake up anyhow..." the bandaged mare breathed, her smile softening. Moving a hoof under her chin just to prop it a bit higher and see the green pone better,swatting her hair away with the off hoof, "... Bored?"
* GreenHoof nodnods with a sigh, scratching at the collar of his fatigues. "Just can't stop being restless. I can't stand just sitting here and waiting while there's a literal holocaust descending upon us..." He says as he shifts in the chair across from White's bed. "I... sorry to burden you with it. y-you've been through so much as it is..."
* WhiteLight  quietly listened, the smile fading from her face in exchange for a more concerned frown... "Ehh..." her head rolled onto its cheek as she sighed through her nostrils, eye wandering off to gaze towards the rest of the medical tent and to the other sleeping injured soldiers, "You're telling me who's actually seen the holocaust showed into my face before it turned into this..." she whispered, slowly rolling her eye
* WhiteLight  back to him weakly beaming with her usual patient smile, "Oh don't worry about it, Hoof. I don't mind it... I've been through worse, you know."
WhiteLight
"Maybe not physically... But I'm sure i can take it."
* GreenHoof gets up from the chair he was sitting in and makes his way over to White's bed, laying his head down on the bedpost with a sigh through his nostrils. "I don't doubt it. I just don't want you and Rain to be hurt anymore... I should've come so much sooner. I had no idea..."
* WhiteLight followed the pony silently with her eye as he approached. Her smile widening to the closeness. After his statement, White weakly lifted almost mummified forehoof to boop Hoof's noise offering a broader smirk "Stop beating yourself up like that... You couldn't have known, at least we're here now... Right?"
WhiteLight
"I know that you don't want to see us hurt.. I-i... I'll make sure nothing happens to Rain if anything. Though i can't really turn down something like this, now with what's at stake..."
* GreenHoof scrunchies at the boop, causing him to snuffle a bit. "None of us have a choice..." Hoof says, remembering the Vanguard's effective draft the night before. He dashes the thought aside, looking to White with determination.   "But you're right. I'm here now, and I promise I'll be by you and Rain through the end of this."
GreenHoof
"That means you too, understand? you're gonna come out of this with the rest of us."
* WhiteLight 's gaze downcasts with a glint of sadness in her one visible eye even though she kept smiling to Hoof's strong words... Pausing for a second, her breath flatering for just a moment as a shudder crawled up her spine... "T-to be honest, I'd rather you tried to go home Hoof... I legit wouldn't forgive myself f something happened to you, or Rain... Or... Anyone... I know i can't save anyone, everyone here has someone
* WhiteLight  to go back to..." White's words got progressively sadder and sadder, having to bit her lower lip to stop them from quivering, "B.but you don't have to..."
* GreenHoof picks his head up from the post as the mare speaks, his relatively neutral expression sagging to a frown as she goes on. He unconsciously moves closer to her as her words become quieter and sadder, and by the end of her last sentence, embraces her in a gentle hug as he shakes his head, choking up. "N-no, don't say that, White..." Hoof says softly, "We're family, and we love you. We'll always have your back, no matter what. Because, really... at the end of the day, family is all you can really count on. Like it or not," Hoof says, looking down at White with a smirk, "you're stuck with us, fam."
GreenHoof
[did it cut?]
WhiteLight
[Cut at: No matter what. Beca...]
GreenHoof
Because, really... at the end of the day, family is all you can really count on. Like it or not," Hoof says, looking down at White with a smirk, "you're stuck with us, fam."
* WhiteLight widens her eyes slightly as he embraced her, glancing to keep eye contact briefly while he talked on, eyes still sporting an increasingly dejected look. By the end of his words she  Slowly swallowing her lips as her breath became uneven and quivery, all her fear and anguish surfacing... Unable to stop the tears from falling down her cheeks... Weakly moving a hoof around his neck in return, "G-god damn it... Man..
* WhiteLight . I'm supposed to be the re-*sob*-ckless one...!" She whispered.
WhiteLight
"Y-you asshole... N-now i can't stop crying...!"
* WhiteLight 's voice was completely clear of venom despite the insult, pulling him closer to her and pressing her face against his chest as she slowly but surely let the waters loose and cried shamlessly against her friend. Sobbing and sniveling away...
* GreenHoof continues to gently embrace his friend, softly holding her injured form against him as he soothingly strokes her mane, letting her wet his chest with her tears. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. "It's okay... it's okay to cry... " He says in a  deep, even tone.
* GreenHoof forces down his own anxieties and fears for the moment. For the moment, they melted away as he held his anguished friend. His ears twitch with each sob, sending a chill down his spine.
WhiteLight
"I-i hate this!!" the mare's cry coming muffled by how much she was showing her face into GreenHoof her snout scrunched like an accordion because of it, bawling briefly after another sob. She clinged onto Hoof's neck as another fit approached "I-i want to go home...! I-i don't want to die, i-i don't but i keep ALMOST dying...!!" she cried again, couthing and gasping a she leaned back to breathe "W-why do people do
 this...??"
GreenHoof
Hoof feels his heart sink into his stomach as the mare sobs for her life, and it was all he could do to hold onto her and not break down into tears himself. He shakes his head, bringing a hoof up to White's chin to look up to him. "You're not going to die.  I promise you, you're going to survive this, " Hoof says softly. As to her question, he merely shakes his head. "I don't know why. No matter where you go, folks just can't leave each other alone. But you have to believe you're going to make it..."
GreenHoof
"You can't give up, White. Keep fighting till the end. Always believe you will succeed, even when the odds are against you."
WhiteLight
"I-i-i..." She babbled into inchoerence... Whole body tensing everytime her body spasmed in tandem with the sobs having to stifle grunts of pain that only intensified her sobbing, though it again relents into sniveling when Hoof holds her chin, having left a stain over Hoof's chest, and tries to reassure her.  Leaving her gazing at Hoof with true pained despair in he eyes and slowly shaking her head... "I-i know...! i
kno-o..w..!... I-its just that.. Just.." She can barely speak, her voice quaking clenching her eyes shut in an attempt to ataunch the tidal wave of decade old tears, "I-i'm so sorry..."  A lot of others behind Hoof were watching this happen, some young among the injured glanced to them, distraught, while most others GIs, nurses and doctors simply kept stoic to themselves... This wasn't a rare occurance really, especially
 not where they were...
WhiteLight
"I-i want it to stop, Hoof... Its been so long... And i still get in these sortsof situations..."
"M-maybe i-if... If i become powerful enough I'll even be able to save others the trouble. But its never fucking enough..."
* GreenHoof warmly embraces White again, taking care not to disturb her wounds. He closes his eyes tight and clenches his teeth. He couldn't stand seeing her suffering so much... He could only imagine her terror, her frustration and depressed feelings of helplessness with the overwhelming odds against her. "Shhh... it's okay, my friend. Don't be sorry, please..." he chides softly, sighing. "White... you've already saved so many lives... I-it'll eat you alive if you think about the others..." Hoof says, though the last sentence had obvious uneasiness underlying it. "W-we just have to get through *this* one... and we can go home, White.
GreenHoof
[cut?]
WhiteLight
[So many lives... I-]
GreenHoof
so many lives... I-it'll eat you alive if you think about the others..." Hoof says, though the last sentence had obvious uneasiness underlying it. "W-we just have to get through *this* one... and we can go home, White. "
* WhiteLight inhales sharply and breathed deeply slowly nodding her head to him as she closed her eyes tightly, letting her head sink onto her pillow again letting go of Hoof to have a leg to wipe her face with. Cradling the side of her head after wiping and visibly gritting her teeth.... "I can't help it... I can't stop thinking about it. I-i..." Her voce wavers again, gulping as it slowly becomes more firm... "Hoof... I
* WhiteLight  couldn't even kill the knights trying to kill me..."
WhiteLight
"H-how futile is that..:!!"
* GreenHoof shakes his head, letting WhiteLight have space when she lets go. "It's not about how many of them you can kill... D-don't let yourself get caught up in what you should've done... We have to focus on the future," the stallion says in a meek voice. "The difference you've made is a-anything but futile... most ponies could never even survive what you've been through... you're a stronger pony than me."
GreenHoof
"It hurts when you talk about yourself like that... you've done so much good but have been made to suffer so much..."
* WhiteLight 's face relaxes as she rested on the bed like that... Her crying recending to sporadic sniffles and reddened eyes that gazed half-lidded up at Hoof, as tears  continued falling slowly to damp her cheek fur, the bandages, and the pillow...  "I-i never asked for any of this, man... I'm just doing what I'm asked..."
* WhiteLight sighed out deeply, inhaling another deep breath... "I know what you mean, you're right... I'm just being a cry baby..."
* GreenHoof tilts his head and raises an eyebrow as he looks down at White. "You're not a cry baby..." Hoof whispers before leaning down and giving her a nuzzle on the cheek. "you've actually been holding up really well, both mentally, and, according to the doctors, physically as well, considering the curcumstances."
* WhiteLight rests her chin on the pillow again and covers her face and mouth with her forehooves Uttering a last, stifled "I guess...". Falling silent... Safe for her sniffling.
* GreenHoof sighs and sits on his haunches next to White's bed, his ears falling against his head. He couldn't help but feel a sense of failure in helping White feel any better. He closes his eyes for a few moments, taking a deep breath and running his hooves through his mane. It was a blow to his own morale. At this point, everyone including the Equestrians were dependent on White's success, and the fact that her spirits remained so low didn't bode well for the future. "J-just... trust me, okay? I promise, I'll make sure you survive this."
GreenHoof
[cut off?]
WhiteLight
[remained so low d..]
GreenHoof
so low didn't bode well for the future. "J-just... trust me, okay? I promise, I'll make sure you survive this."
* WhiteLight , at least, began to slowly relax under Hoof's pettng of what remained of her previously long, puffy mane. Now missing a good 60% of its hair with several burnt strands here and there. Her reddened eye slowly opened just a little to glance back to GreenHoof when he spoke to her again, doing her best to bring up a tiny, twitchy but tangible smile for him... "I trust you, Hoof... I only trust one other pegasus more
* WhiteLight  than you." She breathed, finally with a stable and more composed tone... "... I just need a minute.... Not really to think, but to compose myself, again..."
* GreenHoof gives a single nod, giving his friend another brief hug and cheeknuzzle. "I understand. I'm gonna go check on Rain, okay? I'll be back soon, I promise."
* WhiteLight 's smile genuinely widened to the display of affection, wrapping a hoof around him to embrace him in return and nod her head in aknowledgement in response, "Alright... *Sniff*, thank you, Hoof..."