Getting Stronger with Her

Magee woke up earlier and she prepared for his breakfast. Its sauteed red beans and boiled cassava.

"You really followed Albrecht's menu board." He commented.

"I have no choice, he tied all the stocks and exposed only the food due in a day's meal."

"By the way, thank you for peering and for taking good care of me last night. It was such an adventure."

" Its nothing. Here, have a sip of this soup, its not on his menu board so better go dip immediately your spoon, otherwise he might catch us stealing his assets in the kitchen. Luckily, I found these three pieces of quail eggs on his winnow. To make the taste more dramatic so I put a small amount of water, ginger, onion, a little garlic and lemon grass. Try it!"

"Haha, you're really humorous. Sure, let me taste it. Wow! it tastes better, you get some and let's eat together."

There was a balloon of silence and they just see each other like there was never any war happening.

" How's your wound?" She asked.

" I'm getting stronger with you as my nurse. But seriously its getting healed. He naughtily smiled at her.

" So what's gonna happen today, ha."

"I'll teach you some physical works, hmm, self-defense, do you like it?"

" Wow! is that final? She sounded excitingly.

" Yes, of course."

She quickly fixed the utensils used for meal and promptly took a bath. When she's done she stood up outside his place and looked at him locating for the kit. Then later.

"Oh! for a while, I'm dressing my wound."

"I'll do it. Come, we'll clean it at the triage area."

" Triage? you're a whole lot knowledgeable even in our medical terms and in so many things. But wait, why should I go that far when I'm already here?" He pouted.

"Okay, you clean your wound." Then she proceeded to her place."

" Haha! I surrender, let's go to the long table; at the triage area." He seriously agreed.

At the long table she carefully checked the wound.

" Whoah! Its almost healed. Good boy!" She glanced at him and smiled.

" Hmm...I suddenly looked like a boy now, haha! Ah! ah! why you pressed my wound?" He gently asked.

" Its because you're very noisy. Shh...keep quiet, don't move - just stay still." Then she ran to the kitchen and boil a water.

" What's that?"

" You sterilized the dagger?"

" Magee!"

" Hey, keep quiet, there's a bigger pus I need to remove and afterwards let's have it with hot-compressed. I don't know the logic but its how Ina Lolita was doing when my siblings have burns and wounds. Lolo Sibal taught him a lot. Hmm, you want me to nurse a nurse, so here I am, happy to have served you." She smiled.

" But its not the proper tool. It must be scalpel to cut the part you want to open, not that dagger, I feel like a chicken."

" I won't cut any part. I'll just press the swollen part in order for the pus to come out. Enough. I'm a volunteer around and you need help, so just hang on."

" O...okay. Just be careful." He can't do anything at all.

" Here we go and close your eyes."

Suddenly there was a voice echoing. It was Amado.

" Hide!" He whispered then she ran going back to her place and hide under her bed.

It took for Amado almost thirty minutes of finally cleaning it thoroughly. Then after it, he reported the message from Albrecht and Baldur.

" Sir, they left the couple who betrayed us. Albrecht and Edmund have successfully ferried all our soldiers and guerillas from station three and they're all inside Kabang right now. The thanksgiving was moved tonight, so Albrecht said you may go if you want."

" I'll try my best to attend. Anyway, thank you for helping me with my wound and I'm seeing you'll become a great Doctor someday. George smiled at him

" Hopefully after the war, Sir."

When Amado got out from the cave George slowly went to her place.

" Stay there, don't get in!" She warned.

" Ah, haha! I'm just checking. Come out there.

" George, I've heard that the thanksgiving was moved tonight. We'll go, I'll just stay at the secret entrance cave and wait for you there. It was reserved for me, right. Your men needs you inside and the people you saved. Just relax now, take a deeper sleep, so that you'll have a lot of energy for them tonight. How is it."

" Is that alright for you? I might be drunk. There's a self-generating coconut wine industry inside Kabang, I think you know it, they called it 'tuba'. He smiled.

" Its not a problem, just leave me inside the cave and I'll just relax while waiting for you. I just wanted you to enjoy and be visible to your men.

" Thanks Mag. It seems I'm really now with my wife, so this is the feeling."

" Haha, I don't know, hey...your feet, its already opening my door, careful. Our social distancing agreement."

" Ah! really, oh dear! heavens! yes, I got it." Then he backed off and returned to his place and slept."

It was already midday when he opened his eyes. She was staring at him from the door then he flipped his body sideward and faced to her and sweetly smiled.

" I'm very much energized, I can go and drink a lot of 'tuba' in Kabang."

" I know. So what are you waiting for, let's have lunch together then you go back to sleep again."

" What? no, not anymore." He recoiled the number of hours he had been sleeping.

" No, you will sleep." She insisted.

" Aha, okay. Fine, after lunch, I'll get back to sleep." He looked at her sheepishly.

They have their meal together and he cracked jokes that made her laughed because they weren't funny, as they laughed on their childlishness. At exactly 1 o'clock, he got back to sleep and she was still on the doorway, looking at him.

" Oh, c'mon, you sleep there in your place too."

" Who stabbed you?"

" You!"

" That's why I'm paying. Close your eyes now, you must be healthy again.

" Ah! haha! If that makes you happy, by just looking at me while sleeping then cool!" He smiled.