Chapter 21: Alicia Accepting Reality?
Listening to Maria's resolute voice, May felt she had not seen anything wrong and said it in her cold voice without any emotion on her face. "Okay, good. Now go back to the squad leader and tell them what I told them. I have some important business to attend to. I will be going now."
Seeing Maria leave, she boarded the military helicopter and ordered the medical team to prepare to depart in a big military helicopter with her sister's body, with two officers controlling the helicopter and four officers in the medical team.
After less than half an hour of travel, they reached the hospital and landed in an open area outside the hospital. She ordered the officer to inform the hospital about the transfer of the patient, as she didn't need anyone's permission to take her nephew, and she was going to meet her niece in the room where Aiden was currently admitted.
Seeing the military helicopter arrive, the people outside the hospital had already begun to gather due to the commotion caused by its arrival but didn't dare go too close. Seeing the six military officers following a tall, beautiful, cold-faced woman, they could already guess the woman was the leader as they began to make a way not to get in her way.
Entering the hospital, May split up with them and began to walk toward the room where Aiden was to meet up with her niece. Walking for a few seconds from a distance, she could see the two officers guarding the room, reaching the outside door. They greeted her and opened the door for her to walk inside the room, seeing that Alicia was currently holding Aiden's hand and talking to herself.
Alicia heard the sound of the gate opening and looked in the direction of the gate to see who was coming, as the doctor had already checked his condition that morning. She heard the same thing again: his wounds would heal in months. As for waking up from the coma, they couldn't tell when he would be awake. With his stable condition, he should be conscious now, as they had not seen a case like his.
Seeing Aunt May enter from the door with her usual cold, emotionless face, she quickly stood up from her seat and walked in her direction to hug her. May, seeing her niece coming in her direction, opened both arms, her eyes showing a little softness in her usual cold eyes, to accept her hug.
Alicia, seeing her open arms, quickly hugged her and got comfort in the hug for a few seconds. She let go of the hug and said to her, "Aunt May, are the preparations ready? Are we ready to go?" She took a deep breath to calm herself down and continued, "Is Mom's body also there?" knowing that it would still ask her, being anxious.
May, listening to her talk, answered her question and said, "Yes, all the preparations are ready, and your mother is also there, and you have to face her now." May moved her hand to caress her cheeks and continued, "Don't worry, little Alicia, your aunt will always be there for you, and Aiden will also be there for you when he wakes up."
Seeing her cold, emotionless aunt trying to comfort her, Alicia felt a little calmer than before, and she said in a firm voice, "Okay, Aunt, I am ready to go home."
They both sat on a couch, having some chat about their well-being, waiting for the medical team to come and safely transfer Aiden to the military helicopter.
A few minutes later, the medical team arrived at the door, and the guard outside the room informed May about their arrival as they started the transfer under the careful observation of both May and Alicia.
Arriving outside the building, they began to go toward the military helicopter while Aiden was on a stretcher with different medical equipment with them. The pilot of the helicopter opened the back of the helicopter as the medical team entered with Aiden and began to set up the proper medical equipment for the journey.
May and Alicia were standing outside the helicopter while the medical team was working inside the helicopter.
Alicia, standing outside the helicopter, was quite nervous, even when she had imagined seeing her mom's body in her mind. Standing in front of the helicopter, she was not calm at all, and her heart was beating quite fast.
May, standing next to her and noticing her niece's nervousness, could tell her niece was very nervous; she sometimes acted mature, but she was still a kid, not mature enough to face her mother calmly. The idea of confronting her mother's dead body was pretty hard for her.
She reached out her hand to hold her niece's hand tightly, comforting her and once again reminding her she was not alone. Alicia began to calm down but was still very scared of facing her mother. She calmed her beating heart by taking deep breaths and thinking in her mind, 'I had to accept reality and face my mother, and if her mother was here, she would not have liked her acting like that.'
As she, while holding her aunt's hand, began to walk inside the helicopter, May saw her gathering her courage and starting to walk beside her. Entering the cabin, Alicia didn't focus on the four officers on the medical team and looked at the two small beds in one of them. She saw her brother lying peacefully as if sleeping and would wake at any moment.
The military helicopter had already started to fly, and inside the cabin, it was pretty stable, as the pilots were very skilled, and they were specially instructed not to do any sudden maneuvers unless absolutely necessary.
The medical team had four members, of whom two were female and two were male, as the female officer had already cleaned Alice's body and covered it with a new cloth.
Alicia focused on the other bed beside her brother, where a person was covered in white cloth. Just from the silhouette of the person, she could tell it was her mother. As she walked towards the bed, May was also following closely behind her. Standing in front of the bed, she moved her hand to remove the cloth from her face. Seeing her mom's beautiful face, her eyes closed, and her pale appearance, she felt very sad, still not fully accepting reality. She could also see some injuries on her head, but there was no blood as it had been cleaned up.
She moved her shaking hand to caress her face as she touched her cold face and checked her breathing. Seeing that she was not breathing and that her body was very cold, she finally accepted the reality and began to break down. She started to shake a little, and tears began to leak out of her beautiful black eyes. She started sobbing and began muttering under her breath. May, seeing her breakdown, gently hugged her and started caressing her back. Seeing her niece cry, she also felt very sad and felt very painful in her heart. She swore once again to protect her family from any harm, with swirls in her deep red eyes.
"Mom, Mom, you really left me all alone in this world," she continued muttering while thinking about her living brother with a look of madness on her face while being hugged with swirling in her deep black eyes.
"Yes, yes, brother, my little brother is here."
"He wouldn't leave me alone. He will wake up."
"When he wakes, I would never let him go outside alone."
"Only allow him to do what I want him to do to keep him safe."
May, listening to her crazy words, didn't find it weird at all and thought it was a pretty good idea to keep her family safe, but she felt sad knowing that she would not always be there for them being in the military. But it is also good to have power because, even if she is a natural fighter, she cannot handle 100 people at the same time, especially with weapons, and she wants to have control over people to protect her family from any misfortune, and the military is the best option for her, thinking this is not a fantasy; it is real life, and her niece and nephew might also want to avoid her being so overprotective. She absolutely doesn't want her family to dislike her, but she is not very worried, as she knows that her niece is a very strong and capable woman, and about her nephew, she knows for sure that he is an absolute genius, and she hates to admit it, but he is even more capable than her sister.
She can even imagine, in the future, her nephew being the one who is protecting her niece. Noticing her niece calming down, she cupped her face with both hands, looked directly into her eyes, and spoke with her usual cold voice with some gentleness in her eyes. "Are you okay now, little Alicia?"
Alicia, feeling her aunt holding her face and her looking into her eyes with her face covered in tears and calling her little Alicia while asking if she was okay, felt very embarrassed and quickly hugged her tightly and buried her face in her soft breasts.
May, seeing her acting shy, didn't say anything and stood there quietly while gently stroking her long black hair, feeling the gentle caress in her hair reminding her of the time when her mother was alive. She didn't move from there and stood there quietly, enjoying the caress.
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