Post by Rolf Jäger on Feb 23, 2012 0:14:23 GMT
Location: A hospital in France
Current Time: Summer of 1943, 2PM in the afternoon.
Weather Conditions: A warm day, but with a few slivers of white clouds in the sky to block out the glare of the sun.
Rolf hated hospitals. He hated their white-washed walls, their coldly echoing corridors, the hideous smell of death that was covered only by the stinging stench of hydroxyethan, the cruel gleam of metal that reflected off the instruments that were most likely designed only to emphasize a person's agony, and then, the doctors and nurses with their tired expressions that only showed just how very deeply they must have hated their work. The worst thing about hospitals - at least for Rolf personally - was enduring the confinement within those forlorn walls and not being able to leave, not being able to do as he wished and to breathe fresh air simply because a person with a white coat and a bloated self of self-importance was telling him so.
The Luftwaffe officer was sat upon the edge of one of the two beds in the small hospital room, his grey eyes of sharpened still now carrying a curiously feverish gleam to them as he stared into nothingness. There was a dull, warm glow to his left arm and he knew it was not a very healthy feeling to have, yet he would have endured it rather than visiting the hospital, had it not been for his superior's command to seek medical aid. The Hauptmann's appearance was neat and orderly, with the blue Luftwaffe uniform clean and unwrinkled and the black riding boots shining with freshly polished perfection, yet the meticulously tended image was marred by his countenance paled by the fever and the slight stubble that covered his jaw. His peaked cap was resting upon the side table next to the bed and he fully intended to leave as soon as a doctor or a nurse had checked upon him and prescribed him something to fight the infection and fever with.
An Allied bullet had torn through the canopy of Rolf's fighter and caught him in the arm, the projectile only scraping along the skin and leaving a profusely bleeding wound in its wake. It had been a very lucky escape from a situation that could have turned quite deadly, but Rolf could no longer even find the mind to fully appreciate the fact, for the oppressing confines of the hospital were quickly draining him of any such positive thoughts. A field medic had bandaged the injury upon the Hauptmann's growling command and he had never quite considered the damage significant until the fever had struck him and Rolf realized that having left the wound so carelessly untended had brought him worse trouble than if he had made sure to get it properly seen to in the first place. He knew what Friederike would have said and his mind for a moment mused in the sharpness of her voice, just to feel its exhilarating sting, but then Rolf had made quite sure that she was not to find out about this latest predicament and that not even his wingman, Kronberg, could be the one blurting out something that should have been left unsaid. Still, it hardly changed the fact that he was there, endlessly waiting for someone from the busy hospital staff to enter the room and tell them that they had their hands full with much more severe cases to pay much mind to the Hauptmann's fever.
Looking as if he was awaiting for the judgment day itself, Rolf sat rigidly upon the edge of the neatly made bed, his hand holding on to the bandaged wound on the arm through the cloth of his uniform to stop the injury from pulsating with the beats of his heart, and his eyes settled into a blank stare aimed somewhere at the line of the floor and the white-washed wall of the lone hospital room without really seeing anything.
Current Time: Summer of 1943, 2PM in the afternoon.
Weather Conditions: A warm day, but with a few slivers of white clouds in the sky to block out the glare of the sun.
Rolf hated hospitals. He hated their white-washed walls, their coldly echoing corridors, the hideous smell of death that was covered only by the stinging stench of hydroxyethan, the cruel gleam of metal that reflected off the instruments that were most likely designed only to emphasize a person's agony, and then, the doctors and nurses with their tired expressions that only showed just how very deeply they must have hated their work. The worst thing about hospitals - at least for Rolf personally - was enduring the confinement within those forlorn walls and not being able to leave, not being able to do as he wished and to breathe fresh air simply because a person with a white coat and a bloated self of self-importance was telling him so.
The Luftwaffe officer was sat upon the edge of one of the two beds in the small hospital room, his grey eyes of sharpened still now carrying a curiously feverish gleam to them as he stared into nothingness. There was a dull, warm glow to his left arm and he knew it was not a very healthy feeling to have, yet he would have endured it rather than visiting the hospital, had it not been for his superior's command to seek medical aid. The Hauptmann's appearance was neat and orderly, with the blue Luftwaffe uniform clean and unwrinkled and the black riding boots shining with freshly polished perfection, yet the meticulously tended image was marred by his countenance paled by the fever and the slight stubble that covered his jaw. His peaked cap was resting upon the side table next to the bed and he fully intended to leave as soon as a doctor or a nurse had checked upon him and prescribed him something to fight the infection and fever with.
An Allied bullet had torn through the canopy of Rolf's fighter and caught him in the arm, the projectile only scraping along the skin and leaving a profusely bleeding wound in its wake. It had been a very lucky escape from a situation that could have turned quite deadly, but Rolf could no longer even find the mind to fully appreciate the fact, for the oppressing confines of the hospital were quickly draining him of any such positive thoughts. A field medic had bandaged the injury upon the Hauptmann's growling command and he had never quite considered the damage significant until the fever had struck him and Rolf realized that having left the wound so carelessly untended had brought him worse trouble than if he had made sure to get it properly seen to in the first place. He knew what Friederike would have said and his mind for a moment mused in the sharpness of her voice, just to feel its exhilarating sting, but then Rolf had made quite sure that she was not to find out about this latest predicament and that not even his wingman, Kronberg, could be the one blurting out something that should have been left unsaid. Still, it hardly changed the fact that he was there, endlessly waiting for someone from the busy hospital staff to enter the room and tell them that they had their hands full with much more severe cases to pay much mind to the Hauptmann's fever.
Looking as if he was awaiting for the judgment day itself, Rolf sat rigidly upon the edge of the neatly made bed, his hand holding on to the bandaged wound on the arm through the cloth of his uniform to stop the injury from pulsating with the beats of his heart, and his eyes settled into a blank stare aimed somewhere at the line of the floor and the white-washed wall of the lone hospital room without really seeing anything.