What now?
".....I'm sorry.....what...." Bride was beyond shocked at what Nina just said.....she was happy.....but very confused....
"I guess.....being brought back from the dead gives you new perspective.....uh, sorry, I didn't mean to shock you.....maybe I'm just rushing too fast.....maybe assuming too much....ooooohhh, I wanna hide in the water....." Nina whined as she became nervous and hid under her medical blanket......which didn't really hide her entirely, which made the Bride laugh herself. She then took back her seat and waited till Nina ultimately figure out she couldn't hide forever......so she peaked over the edge of her sheet, a heavy, dark blue blush on her face.
"Let me get this straight.....you love me?" Nina couldn't talk because of her shyness and nervousness, so she just nodded, "As a big sister-figure?" Nina shook her head, "A mother-figure?" Again, Nina shook her head, "A best friend?" Head shaking......"You....actually love me.....like that?" ......Nina nodded her head, the Bride did find it cute, but she wanted to hear it.
"Use your fucking words!" Bride.....didn't mean to sound so harsh....shit, she was terrible at this.
"I......always had a.....you could say crush on you.....when we were put on the same team....." Bride had a down crested look.....so, just a school girl crush, not like Bride expected anything else.....but Nina continued, "then when we arrived at Polikastan, I got to know you better......and see just how amazing you are......then we finished and went back, and......I can't remember their names......the ones who tried to take my lunch....."
"Conrilla and Nosferatu, the big ape whose jaw I broke and left his......I'm guessing fuck buddy, to me their relationship was being fuck-buddies." Though what Bride said was incredibly crude, it made Nina giggle.....
"No one ever stood up for me before.....then that pep talk you gave me when we tried to......assassinate the princess.....which I screwed up...."
"Stop saying that! You didn't screw up, I screwed up! I sent someone who was inexperienced in fighting, let alone killing.....and it got you killed.....if it makes you feel better, I shot the bitch between the eyes in your name.....sure as fuck didn't make me feel any better....." Bride's sad look made Nina lower her sheets from her half-hidden face and cup The Bride's face.
"I don't blame you for what happened.....I could never....." Her words made Bride happy.....but sadness took her once again as she gently took Nina's hands and held them......they were still cold, just like hers.
"You have no idea how happy it makes me that someone could love a monster like me.......but I don't want to risk your life......Erik can't die and he won't stop till I'm his.....no matter how many friends and loved ones of mine he kills......" Nina's happy and cheerful face showed irration at Bride's many excuses.
"I don't care." Her words shocked Bride.
"But....Nina...."
"No buts, you always went ahead and did what you wanted, well guess what.....that's what I'm deciding to do!" Nina's determination made Bride cry harder, "I love you, not some schoolgirl crush, not some fling til if by some miracle, someone releases us from this prison, I know what I feel for you is real and I don't even care if you don't love me back! I love you and that's that!"
Bride stared at Nina, weak, shy, and timid Nina being impulsive and stubborn......it made her happy.
"I'm a bad influence on you." Bride finally said, which made Nina realize she said all she said out loud and blushed her deep blue blush.
Bride decided to actually follow her example and did something that surprised the fish girl.....and gave a small peck on the lips. It was short, barely romantic, but Nina was sitting straight up and eyes wide. For awhile, Nina sat absolutely still, almost worrying the Bride she'd died again.
"Nina?"
"Y-you feel the same....." Nina asked, making the Bride have a relieved smile.
".....Of course I do, and how couldn't I? You're......unlike anyone else I've met in the last 200 years." The Bride meant all of it, "You are the kindest, purest, most beautiful soul to ever exist.....and losing you the way we did, practically broke me......I do love you, Nina......I actually wondered if we lived, how far we could such a relationship."
Nina listened to every word, every detail, making her smile and teary eyed. She immediately hugged Bride.
"This won't be a textbook romance. We're still in prison, still going on dangerous, suicidal missions. I wish I could promise things like a trip to Paris, a walk across the Sarah......which you'd probably hate, or even a picnic in the Black Forest of Germany. " Bride confessed
*chuckles* "You have a strange ideas for romance......but that's okay, as long as I'm with you...." Nina retorted.
The two said nothing more, they simply sat in their blissful happiness with eachother. Not even as Bride knew fully how her teammates, mostly Phophserus, were eavesdropping.....much to the irritation of Flagg.
"Guys," Flagg whispered, "when I signal for us to give them privacy, I didn't mean be outside the door!"
"Hey, I care about their happiness as much as you do." Phophserus whispered back.
"Your just happy I owe you that fifty bucks, aren't you?"
"That as well." Phophserus admitted.