When the accouncement came for all pilots to report in generally, Jake was about to leave the medical ward when Maria suddenly rose from her bed, her hand now on his.
"...Jake...take me with you", she suddenly said.
Needless to say, even Jake was a bit creeped out. And she wanted to go even in a hospital dress?
"...uh...Maria...you do know-"
"Yeah. I was listening to you butting in on Serah by the way", she suddenly said, cutting him off.
"...man...my percetiveness is getting rusty if all you did was nap and not dreaming", Jake said.
While the nurse didn't approve at first, she then relented. Though she quickly gave Maria a pair of white sweatpants she had on hand in the room. Quickly putting it on while still wearing her hospital gown, she then let Jake escort her out.
During the walk, she had noticed Elise and her new eye patch look. Maria had a sad look on her face when she saw it.
"...Elise...I'm sorry...even if was on infiltration, I should have gotten the job done sooner...", she had said along the way when she had pulled up in her wheelchair.
Honestly, Maria was still reeling from what Elora did. For a long time, letting "Seven" do most of the work gave her the mind set of simply being quiet and only coming out in certain social situations. Or not come out at all.
All that has changed now...but feeling guilt, depression, happiness and every other emotion that she tired to throw away now came back. And it was difficult re-embracing them after all her losses in her life and perhaps the more that were about to come.
Either way, she was keeping herself in check...that is, until they were led into the containment cell block and Maria got her first look at a Cruxi inside it's cell.
...the one she THOUGHT she killed. The one she was shown to have killed her mother.
And as if to rub salt on the wound, she then saw Elora in a similar cell.
Jake was the first to see it. Maira was clenching her fists.
"...uh...Captain Ritsu...heads up...", Jake suddenly said tilting his head towards Maria.
Maria then looked at Ritsu with a controlled expression on her face but the anger was clearly shown.
"...it's...bad enough...that..."thing" is still alive...but now your treating Elora the same way...tell me...with the combat system I use and now my perfect sync, will you throw me into containment as well?...I told you...bringing that Cruxi in isn't worth it...", Maria suddenly said in a low tone.
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