His soldier Her salvation

Rendezvous

The rendezvous point is an old abandoned house a few blocks from where my family lives. I walked those few blocks and come up on the house i see the peeling paint and the weeds that have grown up over the front yard and it looks as if it could have been empty for years. I walk in to greet the crew we start harassing Marcos, he’s always the one who stays behind to help Bryan with all the tech and equipment we use to monitor whoever is out on the field. We have always been like this even when we were at school all of us except Hector he’s always been the one to keep us in line. I guess that is why he is our captain and I his first lieutenant. After all the equipment was set up and we were ready to start our mission I got ready for first patrol. As of right now we are just gearing up for the mission so today we will be just setting up the house and checking the perimeter around the house. Outside of the house we are making it look as if we are a construction crew and working on restoring the house to it former glory. The owners agreed that we would work on the house as we work our mission there. He is also from a part of our unit but does all the coordinating for our mission bases. As I set up the perimeter and secure it I hear movement in the distance. Even though this house is in a neighborhood this house has a lot of land it is on it gives us the space to do our job and not be seen from the street. I stop again hearing footsteps to my left so I go to check it out. I find my brother Jackson hiding behind a bush

“What are you doing here?” I scold him, “You should be at home!”

“You never said goodbye” he says, You just left again without saying goodbye.”

I’m sorry i just has to be this way.” I apologize.

He looks around and asks “what is all of this?”

I reply “Stuff for work, you really need to get going mom and drake will be worried about you plus I can’t have you here. You need to leave.”

He turns to leave and as he walks away i feel sad i wish he could stay he would be a great asset to the team since he knows the game we are working on better than we do he plays it all the time online at home and the version we are using which is completely mobile. Hector walks up to me and asks “Who was that”

I tell him he is my younger brother Jackson he just turned 17 and wanted to say goodbye. I ask him about the plans to start the mission and how we would go about tracking down these terrorists this time since we all are using a user name. And so will they. He explains that we would bait them into talking to us getting one of us to join and then track their I.P. Address and go from there. Hector has always been like an older very protective brother to me ever since my first day in school. He was the one to show me around campus and help me to my classes even though he was two years older than me. He also tutored me through my classes I was failing in when I got there. Soon I was passing and able to get ahead in my main courses. I eventually met the rest of his group and we all instantly clicked like one big family. We haven’t been parted since. We always went on practice missions together and after graduation we went out on the field together.

Hector

I get through setting up the construction sight and I see rose talking to someone so I walk up to her and ask her who it is. She tells me that it was her 17 year old brother who just wanted to say goodbye. I don’t like that he followed her here it could mean our location is compromised. Even though we dress as civilians it could be bad for us if anyone found out her true identity they could use her family against her. She asks me about the plans of the mission and how we are going to go about it. I explained to her that one of us was going to be bait posing as if we were going to join their organization, and then track down their hideout. At 23 years old I have led my team on countless missions I am ready to settle down. I grew up in the military my dad being the headmaster of the Branson Academy Of Military Arts. My brother Marcos and I attended of course. We both chose the technical field to work in as well as on ground missions not many who come here choose to stay in the military or even join a lot of them are teens who are chosen because of their school history or needing structure and guidance most of them are truly troubled teens and then there is Rose. Every time I saw her in the halls she was quiet and kept to herself she never caused any trouble or messed with anyone for the first month or two my dad had me showing her around campus and tutoring her. The day she arrived he pulled me into the office my junior year and told me that she wasn’t the typical troubled teen that we usually get here he said that he feared she had been abused in more ways than one. He put the responsibility of me taking her under my wing and helping her and she hasn’t left my sight since. My first encounter with her must have scared her me being six foot two and 200lbs of pure muscle to her barely five foot tall and probably didn’t even weigh more than 90lbs instantly I saw what my dad was talking about, and felt like I needed to protect her. She was the only student that stayed in the headmasters cabin other than my brother and I the rest stayed in the dorms at night I would wake up to hear her screaming because of the nightmares she would have. I would go in wake her up and calm her down. Now looking at her and seeing how much she has grown and how smart and beautiful she is I can’t help but feel nothing but love for her. It doesn’t help that she has all the right curves in all the right places and her uniform doesn’t help but amplify how she makes me feel. She’s the only reason I still go on these missions because I still have the need to protect her. I don’t know if I would ever be able to tell her how I feel. She only sees me as a brother. I watch her work and finish setting up the perimeter and set up to take first watch. I want to go and tell her she doesn’t have to but she is so headstrong and won’t back down from a commitment. I sigh and go inside to set up my bunk for the night tomorrow comes early and so does the start of the mission.

Rose

I know hector was watching me again he’s been doing it a lot I also catch him staring at me when he thinks I’m not looking. I wonder to myself what his deal is why does he keep acting different around and why I get this feeling that there is something he isn’t telling me. Since I’ve known him I have never seen him date or talk to anyone in that way. At first I thought he was gay, and not interested in women granted I’ve seen many women and girls throw themselves at him and beg for his attention. Not that i blame them he is very sexy and those muscles he barely has to flex for you to see them I see the envy of every guy that meets him just roll off of them. Hector is tall and very toned his kind green eyes are what drew me into him when we first met his dad had him show me around campus when I first arrived to the academy. Even though he didn’t have to he stuck with me. He kept quiet about my nightmares at night and didn’t tell a soul. I began to fall in love with him then even when I felt the most alone he was always there whether in person or in my thoughts he is what got me through the toughest days. I would never be able to tell him, he is my commanding officer I can’t be in love with him. I get back to work and start my patrol walking the perimeter checking the equipment until midnight when Brian comes out to take over because tonight is our first night and he has to test the surveillance equipment at night anyway.

“It’s been a quiet night so far.” I tell him before i walk inside “I will be up for a while if you need anything.”

“Writing those sappy love poems again?” He teases.

“You’ve gone through my journal again haven’t you? They’re songs not poems!” I retort back, I still dream of becoming a writer maybe this will be my last mission I only did this so I could save and get out of Sgt. Maccaby’s house finally. I have lived there since he brought me to the school. His wife Amelia wouldn’t allow me to live in the dorms after she met me. She was an angel in disguise. Little did any of them know i was being bullied by classmates when hector Jose Brian or Marcos wasn’t around. They would steal my journal and read it aloud and It had all my personal writings in it. That’s how Brian found out about the songs I wrote also how he found out the crush I had on hector back then. Brian has been the best friend a girl can have. He’s the only one that knows I write and the only one that knows about my feeling for hector, since that day in school he’s kept my secret and I know he’ll take it to the grave. I go inside sit on my cot and take out my Journal and start to write

Shattered

I shattered my soul for so long

The pieces I carry the darkness I’ve drawn

One by one they fell down

One by one into the ground

They shine bright like the dawn

Tiny fractals of light, they end my plight.

I no longer wish to fight.

I’ve been walking alone

In this darkness unknown

As I’m writing i start to fall asleep so i close my book tuck it back into my bag, and lay down so i can get some rest for tomorrow because tomorrow is the start of our mission.

Hector

I woke up before everyone else its about four o’clock in the morning. I look over at Rose to see her sleeping soundly. I go outside to see who is on watch and check the perimeter myself to find Jose asleep at his post. I wake him up and give him a lecture about how important it is to stay on watch or if he can’t stay up go and trade shifts with someone. I take last watch before the mission is about to start today we go to get the supplies to work on the house which is our cover story for why we are there at that house. I go back inside after finishing up with the perimeter check and checking all the hidden surveillance cameras to grab the keys to the truck. As I walk in I am hit with the smell of fresh coffee and bacon I know Rose is up, just from the aromas wafting out of the kitchen the inside of the house is in pretty good condition the owner supplied the food refrigerator and stove and the coffee pot as well as the water, electric, and other necessities so we could hold our operation. He also has a few trustworthy employees he will be sending over to help with the renovation of the house. I go into the kitchen where Rose is cooking breakfast and ask her if she would like to go with me for supplies. She says yes she would it would help if she got out and felt like she could contribute to the team off the field as well as on the field. On the field she is one of our best strategists and also faster than the rest of us and can almost get into anything unnoticed, because of her size. We take about three hours to get all the supplies we need ordered and picked up as well as other thing we need such as personal supplies for the house.

I try to talk to her and she how she is really doing I know her past still haunts her, and our line of work doesn’t always help matters for her. We’ve seen some dark stuff. We arrive back at the house and start unloading the supplies she begins to tell me about her watch shift last night and everything went smoothly. I asked her about the book that she was writing in last night I noticed shes always had one on her since we were teens. She shrugged it off and said she likes to write it helps her process thing that shes going through I let the subject drop and finish unloading the truck. And start to get ready for the mission. We go inside and we hand Brian our phones so he can upload the new updates to the tracking software and load our fake accounts to the game. So we can start our mission without any beginner setbacks. We have a team meeting and set a time for all of us to be back and do a status report. We all head out on foot in different directions after agreeing to meet downtown for lunch.