[Mission] What could have been

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[Mission] What could have been
Topic Started: Jul 1 2009, 09:49 PM (118 Views)
Tada!	Jul 1 2009, 09:49 PM Post #1
Thoughts in Chaos Posts: 708 Group: Civilians Member #1,310 Joined: March 21, 2009 Blog: Please insert the title of your blog	Mission 3 It was the next chapter of her life now. A lot of things could be said about Jackie by a lot of people, but the number one thing that could be said about her was that she was tough. She never backed down from a mission, and that she always came back alive, even if it was half dead. It was still a pretty good service record if you considered all of the others who didn’t make it. That list was getting more names by the day. The truth was though…Jackie lived like she was going to be here the next day, because there was nothing else you could do about it. If you died you died, but if you survived at least you had somewhere to go still. At this point, Jackie only had SOLDIER. She had eliminated many of her own options at the bequest of her leaders. She was getting better now…colder. She was becoming more and more like a killer, and she was enjoying it. It scared her. It scared her so much as she pulled the trigger that she had a smile on her face. That man’s life had ended. He probably didn’t even expect it to end. It could have gone on… if not for her. The end. It was time for the next story Gentlemen. Jackie pulled up the blank pages written in her own book… Three days before she had been at the SOLDIER HQ. She had been staring out a window at one of the MAKO reactors. The green energy seeped from the Earth…it was almost like magic. Shin – ra power company never told anyone about anything. They could afford to so because they held a monopoly on power. They owned everything. They had enough power that they had their own military operations. SOLDIER was simply a branch of Shin – ra. She was waiting patiently for her orders. Ever since that ordeal with her father, her old commander had been removed and new Commander had been put in command over her. Even so, she still had a very hard time remembering the fellow’s name. Commander…Commander…Commander what? That was the most she could ever think up. Commander Whatshisface had called her here today, and she couldn’t even remember his name. Maybe she was getting old too? Now that was just Nonsense. “Whenever I seem to have free time at the SOLDIER HQ, it usually only takes a matter of minutes before the commander gets me a mission. It has happened like that every time thus far.” She figured she had time to spare then. Jackie headed back to the Rec. room. It currently hosted two guys playing cards. One was Daniel, and the other was a fellow she had seen, but couldn’t name. “There she is! There’s the whore who shot me!” Daniel said, almost as soon as Jackie had entered. “Whaddya here for then cunt?” Their relations had simply gotten worse over the days. The man claimed that she owed him a material…and a good ride. She wouldn’t have any of that garbage. “Awww…look at that. Who wants to get shot again I wonder?” Jackie held her gun up to Daniel. “I didn’t even get so much as a demerit for shooting you last time. Wanna see if I’m still lucky?” she asked him. “Don’t that just beat all? She’s got more balls than half the rapists in this place.” Jackie raised an eyebrow at his word choice. “Pffft. Well take a load of girly. You win this round. Best 3 out of four though.” He told her. To him this was some kind of game, but to Jackie it really sickened her that he always used those degrading terms reserved for women who were down on their luck. Jackie understood what it was like to be one of them. Most of those girls didn’t want to be there really. They were desperate. They were oppressed. She let her memories shift over John…he had made her day in the Rec. Room. She might have even learned to love that guy. He would always tease her, but she would tease back. This guy, Daniel, was not even a tease. He thought purely with the brain in his pants. You can’t imagine how many men Jackie met like that. In fact it was those men that the backroom prostitutes tried to take advantage of. She recalled how each woman was trained to…’test’ to see if the man or woman…it didn’t matter when you were desperate, wanted sex. Typically, you bend over and show them your bottom because you dropped something…then there were also other tests. One such would be where you would bring your massage really low. Tease his cock a little and then tell him that for an extra fee they could take care of him. What a terrible life to live. On occasion, there were nice guys that came to el Casa de Sol. You got lucky every so often when you got to service one. ’Prince Charming would never go to a whore house though. Never…When did I get obsessed with finding Mr. Charming? Ever since I met Kyosuke…I don’t even understand myself at times. How annoying. Well it looks like its getting about time for the messenger boy to show up and order me to report to the commander’s office.’ “What? That is totally Cheating!” Daniel was telling the other guy. They got into some kind of argument over the game they were playing. She shook her head. It was obnoxious. They were acting just like children. Big Children. She figured that she would just ignore them until her time came, but that became increasingly difficult. So much for relaxing in the Rec. room. She pulled out the polish and started to polish her gun. Stroking the weapon softly, the Sword XX195 really shined in the light. She smiled to herself at the beauty of such a killing machine. “3rd Class Jackie, report to the commander.” There it was. She put her polish kit away and got up immediately, glad to leave a room with two idiots arguing over a game. “On my Way.” She walked around the couches and out the door. The hallway was filled with the typical sights…you always saw the other 3rd class SOLDIERs walking around, but you also saw members of the TURKS on rare occasions. Each division of Shin – ra had their own missions and priorities. SOLDIER’s was brute force. That’s what they were good at; though If you thought about it, that made Jackie oddly misplaced. She was a tactical kind of field unit. She was a sniper. Her job was always to support the front lines with suppressive fire. To take out key people, or hit things that needed to be hit. Most often though she was assigned solo missions where she performed hits on some person or another. She walked into the commander’s Office and reported in. “3rd Class Jackie reporting for Duty SIR!” She bellowed. “At ease. Your new assignment: Pretty simple task, a hit has been placed on a monster terrorizing the Eastern Continent. What it is, and any ‘whys’ are classified. You understand? You take that thing out. No questions.” The commander pushed forward a picture of the creature that she was supposed to be hunting. It looked like a part man, part dragon creature. “Yes Sir.” She answered. She was staring straight ahead, no emotion on her face. This was the kind of mission she preferred, the kind that she didn’t have to think on. The kind she wouldn’t spend the rest of the night crying in her bed because she just killed someone she loved. Or cut some connection to her past that had been important to her. All her ties had been cut. Only SOLDIER was left. “The creature is code named: Brood. You’ll be assigned temporarily to the new Dorado group under command of Daniel.” Jackie flinched. ’Gawd…why do I have to take orders from that loser? Hope he doesn’t pull any of that garbage that he pulled last time I went out on a mission…then again…Last mission I went on, I went on solo and almost died…again. I figure the same thing is going to happen today as well.’ “You’ll meet up on the coordinates specified in this document, all information you need to know is in here.” He pushed forward a file. “You will all arrive at the rendezvous location separately at 0700 hours. Take them and go. Dismissed.” Jackie saluted again, collected the files that would be needed for the paper work after the mission was over. She then left to go study them at her bunk in the barracks. Here she was now though, three days later at the rendezvous point. Several of the Dorado group had already made their way here, including that other guy whom Daniel had been arguing with back at the HQ. Daniel climbed up over a hill and slid down towards the rest of the team. “Everyone get here without much trouble?” He asked, Jackie nodded as did the rest of the team. “Alright, here’s how our operation is going to go: The brood is in this area, our mission is to exterminate it. It is extremely tough. Rumors have it that a couple of bullets won’t be able to do the trick…and that this creature is smart enough to heal its wounds.” Daniel drew a little diagram in the dirt of the area they would attack it at. “Last report stated that it was headed towards this area here…Former sight of a Shinra laboratory. We’ll ambush it here.” “Copter~bait, we’re counting on you to cripple some of its limbs before we engage in combat, since the brood’s skull is extra hard we can’t count on a one shot one kill situation. Got it Copter ~ bait?” Jackie rolled her eyes and nodded to her orders. The other fellows looked on the diagram for a little bit longer before kicking the diagram out of existence. “Alright team, let’s move.” ’there is definitely something wrong with this mission. It’s too simple.’ Jackie thought from her position up in the hills. ’Why would Shinra send an entire group to take care of a single monster? This sounds like the job of one SOLDIER. If you’re gonna send an entire group, you might as well let one of the higher ranking members of SOLDIER clean this mess up. Assuming its that dangerous in reality.’ She gripped her Sword Double X one nine six securely, she let her trigger finger rest on the side of the trigger ring as she scanned the area without the aid of her scope. If she felt she needed it, she would look through her scope and double check a particular area, or thing she thought she saw. Everyone was in position. She could see everybody but…”Nice ass.” She heard Daniel say as he plopped down beside her. “Daniel, what are you doing out of position?” Jackie asked him in a flat tone. Daniel slapped her bottom before looking over the area with her. “Its just one monster…the boys can take care of it.” He said, putting his arm around her waste. She grabbed his wrist with a hand and removed it from her person. “Daniel, you’ve got to be kidding me. What was all of that about crippling the monster then?” “Its just one monster, and its not even a big one. We got seven good guys down there with sharp swords. I think they can handle things pretty well.” He put his arms around her and tried to kiss her. “I’m totally reporting you for Sexual harassment.” She told him, pushing him off of her. “Hey Copter face, I can get you in a hell of a lot of trouble just because I’m the commander of this operation.” Jackie wasn’t sure what to do after this, or even what to say. He pushed her onto the ground and got on top of her. He started to unbuckle his pants. “I’ve wanted…” He started to unzip his pants. “…to do this since the first time I saw you. Spread those legs.” He smiled to her, putting a knee in between her legs so that she couldn’t press them together. “If you’re a good girl, I might even get you promoted.” He laughed, he started to reach for her pants when a bloody hand erupted from her chest. Daniel was throw off of Jackie. She looked at his body as it writhed on the dirt before settling in a pool of blood. Jackie looked up at the owner of the hand…it was the very same Creature she had been ordered to kill. “Are you alright?” The creature asked her. She nodded slowly…her gun was just out of reach. If she was quick enough though she could grab it and maybe shoot this guy in the head. “Your eyes…” He said, brushing Jackie’s cheek with his other hand. “You’re with SOLDIER too are you? Hmph…I should have let him rape you, now I’ll have to worry about having you at my back.” Her gun…if she could just…”You have no clue what you’ve gotten yourself into have you?” the creature questioned her. “That’s alright then. I will tell you a story. I was like you once…a SOLDIER.” “You’re expendable you know? I don’t care what your rank is…you’re expendable. SHINRA doesn’t care. They don’t care.” The monster turned its head towards the MAKO reactor…if she wanted to…Jackie could grab her gun…and fire. It was the perfect chance. “I was…’volunteered’ for a special research project. Are you familiar with Sephiroth? SOLDIER First Class?” Jackie nodded. Everyone knew who he was. He was the most famous member of SOLDIER there had ever been. “What about him?” Jackie asked. “They’re trying to recreate him. Another Sephiroth? Can you imagine the power they would have if they could pull something off like that? Mass Produce warriors…Unimaginable…” The creature stared off into space for a moment. “I am a Failed Attempt to Recreate Sephiroth. I was injected with a highly concentrated dose of the same thing that you were injected with. Look at what it has done to me…” She winced as her blue green eyes studied the monster’s body. “They’ll do the same to you if you aren’t careful. In any case…I was promoted to SOLDIER first class…supposedly I was killed by Cancer. At least that’s what they told my wife.” “I might as well be dead to her. It’s not like I could ever confront her looking like this…” He shook his head. “Never…never…” It didn’t occur to Jackie her connection to this being as she asked him, “What was her name?” She questioned. “Kara.” He answered. That was…there was no doubt that this was her mother’s husband. The man she used to talk about. She had loved him, but apparently he had died before Jackie was born… Jackie knew very well how she was born. She suddenly felt very ashamed of herself…her mother got pregnant by one of her clients while she was working at the Whore house. Who Jackie’s real father was she would never know. “That’s…my mother’s name.” Jackie told the creature. “Your mother…? Is she from…Costa de Sol?” Jackie nodded. He gasped and then got knelt down to her and ran his fingers through her hair, and his hands across her face. ”You’re practically my daughter then…Please…did you mother marry a good man? Tell the truth.” How could she tell him that she had lost everything when he “died”. How could she tell him that after he died her mother become a whore. How could she? How could she. “I want the truth. Only the truth.” He repeated. “Yes…she did. She married a nice ~!” The creature put his clawed finger to her lip. ”Shh…I appreciate the thought, but please tell me the truth. I can smell if you are lying or not.” Jackie looked at the ground. “My mother is a whore. My father was one of her customers.” She told the creature. The being let out a sob as tears streamed down his face, “What have I done to her…the woman I love…Oh…my foolishness…” Jackie’s comrades made their way over towards her and pulled out their blades. “You MONSTER We’ll get you!” They charged the creature. Jackie wasn’t sure what to do. This guy was right. He was practically her father…but in truth…she felt little connection to him other than that. She grabbed her “SWORD” and aimed it at him. “I’m sorry. I have to kill you. SOLDIER is all I have.” She fired a bullet that was intended to hit the creature in the head. “…You’re wrong. You have me. I would protect you.” Jackie shook her head as her bullet was deflected by the sword of one of her Comrades. “I’m sorry you don’t understand.” She said again, pulling another bullet into the feed ramp of her gun. “No…you don’t understand. This isn’t just about you girl.” The creature sliced one of the SOLDIER’s Swords in half. “This is about all of us. What I’m about to do is for all of your Goods! All of them. Even yours!” The monster yelled stabbing his clawed hand through another SOLDIER’s chest. “IS it FOR Our good or just your vengeance?!” Another SOLDIER yelled back at the creature. Jackie cocked the rifle and aimed…fired…The bullet seared through the monster’s flesh. It ate at the creature’s bones… He toppled as his leg no longer supported him. “I really wish that you were my daughter…” He told Jackie as he raised his hand into the air, “…even so…I can’t let you stop me.” He bitch slapped Jackie so hard that she found that her eyes were rolling around in her head. She had become completely disoriented…She was trying to figure out where she was…but she just…couldn’t. Where was she? What is this? Grass? Where was she…? What were those sounds of fighting? What are those blurs? She tried so hard to gain her bearings, but in the end blackness consumed her. It was night when she opened her eyes. There were dead bodies all around here. There was only one person who had survived and that was the man that Daniel had been arguing with those few days ago. “Where is everybody?” she asked stupidly, she knew that they were dead…but for some reason…she didn’t. The fellow said nothing. “So…what’s your name….?” Jackie was testing the waters with this man. He just kept rocking back and forth in a nervous manner as he stared into the flames of a fire that he probably put together. She scooted closer to the flames and stared into them as well…What was he seeing in them? She saw that creature as he slaughtered her team maters…claiming that it was for their own good. What is it that could possibly be good for them? How can killing someone possibly be good? Death…everywhere…Jackie found that she was running out of things to exploit in her past. Every single connection she had…Every single one…They were being severed one by one…and Jackie was becoming tougher for it. At this point she didn’t even feel anything for the people whom had died. She didn’t feel anything for them. Not for them…or for anyone else she had killed. She didn’t care for her Father…or at least for the man whom had played father for her. She didn’t care about Markus Sword. She didn’t care about Daniel, she didn’t care about that blank face of a nameless SOLDIER that was staring right back at her. She didn’t care about any of it at all… Daniel’s body started ringing. Jackie walked over and picked up his phone…it was all bloody…she didn’t care. “Daniel? Why is your report late?” It was the commander’s voice. “Is the brood dead or not?” he was asking. Jackie was silent. “Daniel? Daniel?” She closed her eyes after a minute and took a deep breath. “This is 3rd class SOLDIER Jackie. Daniel was terminated. Along with Shepard, Ulgia, Cotan, and Dandy. Only myself and…” the young man staring into the fire filled in his name for Jackie, “Richard.” Jackie nodded to him. “Only Myself and Richard have survived our first encounter with the brood.” “What? Are you kidding? It’s just a monster, how could almost all of Dorado group get wiped out?” Jackie really didn’t feel like explaining things to the commander at the current moment. Then again…was the commander as misinformed as they were? This creature wasn’t even a Creature. It was a SOLDIER. Why did Shinra want it dead? What did it all mean? “Commander, the brood was far more intelligent than the reports said it was. It could talk.” “Could it? What did it say?” Jackie relayed its information to the Commander, the commander said nothing afterwards. There was a moment of utter quietness upon the phone line, then at last the Commander spoke up, “Where was the last location you had contact with it?” he questioned Jackie, she started poking at the fire with a stick with her free hand. “At the ambush point.” She told him. She hit a weak log and it burst into sparks as little flakes flew out of the flame. “At the Ambush point? What in the world happened there?” Jackie explained to him how the creature managed to ambush them…though…she didn’t mention a thing about Daniel trying to rape her. “How did you two survive.” Jackie shrugged “I don’t know sir, He…it…knocked me out.” The commander sounded annoyed, “What about Richard? Does he have anything to add?” Jackie was about to toss the phone to the fellow. “I’m not sure, here, I’ll put him on the line for you.” She tossed the phone to Richard…he let it fall to the ground as he made no real attempt to catch the object. After minutes of staring into the flame, he picked the phone up without looking and answered it. “Hello?” Meanwhile, Jackie felt the cheek where the brood had slapped her. It was bruised definitely. The spot was sore and very sensitive to the touch. “Ouch, ouch, ouch…” she whispered to herself as she tested her injury. “No sir…No sir…NO sir… NO SIR. NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR!” Richard started to yell into the phone. He threw it onto the ground, pulled out his sword and started hacking it into pieces all the while he continued to yell “NO SIR!“ Jackie looked on the event in horror. What else could she do? If she tried to stop him he would probably end up hurting her too. Then at long last he stopped and just slumped to the ground. Now seemed like a pretty safe time to ask: “Is something wrong?” “NO SIR! NO SIR….no…sir…” He began to tell Jackie. She shook her head to herself…looks like she really was the only survivor. She flipped her cell phone open and started to dial a number on it. “HQ? 3rd Class Jackie reporting in. I don’t believe Richard is in his right mind. Requesting pick up for Richard.” She waited for a moment while her request was processed. “Negative, Dorado group is scheduled to have a pick up once their mission is complete ~ and only after it is complete.” Jackie hung up on the guy…it seemed she really would have to go into the base and kill the Brood. She looked at Richard who nervously stared into the flames…well…it didn’t look like he was going any where. She picked up her rifle and began to head down towards an abandoned MAKO reactoer…at least that was what it had been claimed to be. When she entered the building, it certainly looked that way…It was dark and it put Jackie on edge because the shadows seemed to move. She walked down a hallway with her back pressed against a wall. “Gawd…” she said to herself nervously… She continued down the dark reactor’s halls until she saw a light coming from a staircase embedded in the floor. She checked her surroundings before walking down into the light. She was so on edge…she hated how the light made her shadow peer over the corners…She pressed on towards the first door and peeked inside. “Nothing…” Oh but there was something. Something indeed, it was some kind of laboratory. Jackie couldn’t possibly know what to say about this. The kind of tools they had in the room looked like they could have been used for torture. She winced at a bloody hook sitting on top of a stool. What could that have been used for? She flinched at the thought. Jackie pressed forward…Then there was the call behind her…”NO SIR!! NO SIR!! NO SIR!!!” Jackie shook her head. “Dammit Richard…What are you doing down here…?” she whispered to herself. By the sound of it Richard was still somewhere back down the tunnel, she wouldn’t have to worry about him yet, but something was clearly wrong with him. Jackie peered around a corner and saw the brood using some of the lab equipment that had been left over…he was mixing chemicals together and running them through a MAKO engine. “FREEZE!!!” Jackie yelled at him. The brood smiled. “So strong. I really wish I had been your father…I really do…But I already told you that you are not allowed to stop me. I will do whatever it takes to finish my work…even if it means killing you.” Jackie wasn’t sure if he would possibly make good on his threats…Especially since she was the one holding the gun. It was impossible for him to dodge it at this range…”Your leg healed?” she questioned, noticing that the wound was gone, “Of course…the MAKO infusion process is quite amazing really. That’s not why I’m here though…I’m here to destroy SHINRA. I plan on continuing their work! I will infuse myself with even more MAKO. I will transform myself into a weapon whose soul purpose is to Destroy SHINRA!!!” Jackie frowned…this whole scheme seemed a bit mad to her. “You can’t possibly destroy SHINRA. Its too powerful. Besides, I’m sworn to protect the company.” The brood shook his head. “Not for long. I’ve done something interesting here…I’ve fused the Cells from WEAPON with JENOVA…hehehehee…you probably don’t even know who or what JENOVA is do you?” Jackie had to admit that she did not. “You’ve got her cells in you.” The man lifted his hand and Jackie felt a sudden pull. It was as if all the cells in her body were going against her will on a microscopic scale. She turned her gun around and put the barrel in her own mouth. “I could kill you if I wanted too…but I don’t. I don’t care if you’re another man’s child…I love Kara enough to accept you as my own…when I’m finished…We can be Father and daughter. Yes…” The brood continued his work…Jackie could here Richard coming down the hall yelling. “NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR!!!” He walked into the room, and knocked Jackie over. The Gun fell out of her hands…she grabbed it and was about to put the barrel back into her mouth. Not that she wanted to, but her body was moving on its own. “See? SEE? I can disobey your WILL I CAN!!! ALL I HAVE TO DO IS SAY NO SIR!!!” Richard charged the Brood. His attack on the Brood ruined the creature’s concentration on Jackie’s body and allowed her to control herself again. She pulled the barrel out of her mouth and flipped the rifle around. She pulled back on the feed ramp and made sure there was a bullet inside. She fired; the bullet went straight through the brood’s heart. “My own…daughter…” he was crying as he fell over and died…Richard just sat there hacking the creature’s body. “NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR NO SIR!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!” Jackie shook her head at Richard and spat on the ground. Gun oil didn’t taste good. “This is 3rd Class Jackie…Mission complete. Requesting retrieval for Dorado Group.” She said into the speaker of her phone. “Roger that. Dorado group, what is your position?” Jackie fired off some coordinates and began to head back... There was a click sound...Jackie turned her eyes and saw something fall out of the Brood's hand. She walked over and picked it up...It was a small containing some sort of bullets... She pocketed the case of bullets after Richard's hacking splashed blood all over her face. She shook her head and started to head back towards the camp. ’They’ll be here in the morning.’ She thought to herself…Oddly enough Jackie felt no guilt. She broke this man’s heart, and felt no guilt…she wanted to laugh actually. It was funny to her for some reason. Her shooting him through his chest after he wanted so very badly for him and her to be father and daughter… ’Everybody is crazy around here…’ She thought to herself. ’SHINRA has a tendency to just drive people out of their minds its seems…’ ’How much longer will I be able to hold on I wonder? Well…I guess this is a first. The first time that I haven’t almost killed myself on a mission…For once…Though…this is the second time that Dorado group has been completely wiped out…’ Jackie waited for the helicopter to show up…she saw the grass ripple as the machine touched down. She was rushed onboard while several other guys hopped off the copter to grab the dead bodies and set them up with a secondary helicopter. Richard was forced onto the same helicopter that Jackie was on and strapped to a seat. He had two SOLDIERs on either side of him holding his arms and keeping him still. ’All that is left now is to report to the commander…At least that’s what it looks like…I’m afraid of myself…I’m scared that I’m becoming too heartless…I just killed a man that easily could have been my father if fate didn’t have to twist things. If the course had run correctly…he would have been my father…’ She shook her head. ’Yet…I don’t feel any remorse. I don’t feel any for Mr. Jalapeno…or Markus Sword…’ ’I am scared though…I don’t want to lose who I am…I don’t want to end up like SEPHIROTH, or DAZE. All of these psychos…couldn’t there be a person who was in their right mind for once? I guess not…I’m starting to fear for my own sanity so I suppose I understand completely how those guys feel.’ Jackie leaned against the window as she watched plains and oceans pass by below as they flew towards the SOLDIER HQ. ’Am I destined to be one of them?’ That was the question that filled her head as she suffered through the debriefing and through all the speeches about the glorious dead who died fighting a terrible creature. She was commended for her Service in SOLDIER, but she didn’t care about that… she was getting an award for killing someone. For Killing someone. The SOLDIERs counted kills, but she counted high profile kills. 'Next time I do a mission like this...I better make sure to have an ESCAPE PLAN...' ’Good job…Murderer.’ Jackie decided to Check up on Richard now that the mission was over...the only other survivor of the mission, and quite possibly the only one if he hadn't saved her life. She almost died again it seemed...even if she didn't get any physical injuries from the whole affair. She shook her head as she wrote her name on the guest list of the Hospital. 'Jackie, SOLDIER 3rd Class.' "Have a nice visit. :D" the nurse told her. She nodded, smiling...the smile felt so fake. She walked down the hallway, following the instructions from the nurse at the desk. '...and Daniel died too. I didn't care much for that bastard, but...still...he was trying to get into my pants...again. He died for it. That magnificent bastard died. I feel like laughing. Now I don't have to share the Rec. Room with that asshole anymore...I wonder how Richard will take it? He's already out of his mind, and I figured that he was friends with Daniel.' There was someone arguing in the hallway. Two doctors talking about someone's life or death...should they go through with the procedure? Or just let the fellow die because it costs so much money and the fellow would probably never be able to pay it off. The debt would fall to the hospital. It was a typical story...another person trapped in limbo for the time being it seemed. She made her way down into the psychiatric ward. The place where all the lunatics were put. She didn't think Richard was crazy...it was just that he was having a nervous break down right now, and he probably needed some support...then again...her face might trigger something. What though? For good or for ill, she entered the ward and pulled up a chair by his bed. She noted that he was strapped to the bed, he must have given them a hard time. She shook her head again and slipped the flowers she brought into a vase on his night stand. " Brought you some flowers...more importantly though...I brought you some..." She pulled out the chocolate bar she had snuck in. "You don't remember anything that happened during that attack do you?" Richard asked. He was staring straight into the ceiling. "No...he knocked me out cold." Richard shook his head. "You sure didn't look knocked out. Then again...we all were acting the same." "What do you mean?" Jackie questioned, opening the chocolate bar and eating it. She was a girl after all and girls had to have their chocolate. Even if the chocolate was meant for a hospitalized person. "He made us kill each other. I was about to kill you...I was about to kill you. You and I killed everybody, and i was about to kill you too." He shook his head, tears were coming down his face. "Instead...I got control somehow and managed to subdue you...We're lucky to be alive, you're lucky to be alive." 'So...this bruise on my face isn't from the the brood hitting me? IT was from Richard hitting me? This is...I can't imagine the pain he had. Maybe that's why the Brood knocked me out. So I wouldn't feel guilt when I woke up and everyone was dead.' She folded her arms and looked out at another person who was strapped up. "I figured out that if I just denied his orders...with all my being...that I could fight his control. Just by saying...no sir...no sir...that's right...denying his orders. No...SIR." He laughed to himself for a moment. "They locked me up here, not because I'm crazy, but because I can't control my body...His commands are still trying to force me to move, so I have to keep on it...I have to keep denying his orders...If I don't...then I can't control myself. I can't right now. Because I'm not saying No sir...NO SIR! No I'm not." He laid back on his pillow, the only thing he really could do at the moment. "I'm sorry you had to suffer." She said with as much sincerity as she could manage...she was finding that being...human was becoming harder for her. Her heart was becoming rock solid day...by day...If this kept up...She didn't think that SOLDIER was really somewhere she should be... It was the only place she could be though. They owned her. They patched her together so many times that she was in an insurmountable debt. They taught her all she knew...they made her body strong...what else? What else had they done for her? They helped her escape that hell hole in Costa de Sol. El Casa de Sol creciente. She mentally spat on that name. Even if she really did care for the man who owned that complex, and her mother who was tied to that place until she died...even if...Her heart was so hard now. She didn't care. She hated that place because of the moans that filled the night. It made her sick to the stomach...some of those moans had been hers. "Don't worry about it SOLDIER 3rd class...I just ask you to enjoy life for me. Because I'm not going to be able to now." He said with a bit of ...sorrow...in his throat. "I just wish they would end it. Prolonging my life is only increasing my pain." Jackie put a hand on his shoulder, "Don't worry...they'll fix you. They'll stop the brood from controlling you. Then you can experience everything for yourself. You will." "Those are kind words...just go. I was an ass to you before...I don't deserve sympathy." She smiled and patted him on the head. "Get well soon and...oh. sorry I ate the chocolate I brought you." He laughed and shook his head, "Don't worry, I'm allergic to chocolate, you might have just saved my life. In more than one way. I have hope now. Maybe I can beat this thing after all." Jackie nodded, "Maybe..." "I'll see you around Richard..." she stood up and began to leave...'Maybe there is still something soft in my heart...' Edited by Tada!, Jul 2 2009, 12:27 PM.



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