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I pace outside the commanders office and brush my fingers through my now short hair. I replay everything that aster said in my head over and over. I worked my whole life off to join the 141 and it all crumbled down because of some asshole.
"Dylan if you walk pace around my office one more time so help me god!" The commander yells from inside his office. I jump hearing his voice. "I'm sorry sir." I enter.
He looks up from his paper. "What is it?" He asks. "I can't do it sir." I state.
"Do what?"
"I'm not joining the 141." I continue.
"Ha ha." He coughs.
"I'm afraid I'm serious sir." I say.
"No you're not." He glares up at me as he speaks.
"Sir I simply cannot do it and I mean no disrespect when I say this but I would rather die a brutal death then join a squad with the man-." I try not stummer my words.
"What?" He cut me off. "You're a joke if you leave right now." He continues. His harsh words crush me, "I-"
"Dylan I've already called them the choices have been made they're coming here first thing after lunch." He states coldly. I look at him, "sir." I whisper.
"Go eat lunch and say goodbye to your friends." His eyes dart to the door, I lower my head, "Yes sir." I reply and leave.
"What he say?" I jump up as I hear asters voice pop outta no where. "Shit Aster you really got to stop doing that." I tell her. "By your expression he said no." She replies, I nod in response. "It's like he didn't hear a single word I said." I sigh.
"Maybe this is a good thing?" Aster says in a tone. "How exactly." I reply. "It's a good thing because.... I got nothing I'm sorry I was trying to make you feel better." She says. "Let's just go eat lunch it'll be my last one here anyways." I sigh.
"Yeah I'll just get the pizza and can I get that with ranch and uh add water please and thank you." Aster says, her eyes widened seeing my plate full of food, "You're acting like this is your last meal."
"It sorta is." I say after we find a table. "Im sorry and I wish I was as good as you cause then you would have had me." She reassures me. "I'm gonna miss you and it's really weird realizing that it's my last day here." I pick at my food. Aster watches me as she takes a bite from her pizza.
"You know-" she tries to lighten up my mood but we get interrupted by, "So Dylan." I look up at him. "Jason." I coldly state.
Jason, he'll always be second to me no matter what. It literally seemed like ever since I started here he wanted to beat me like he just wanted a worthy opponent. I didn't even acknowledge him and yet he started every rumor known to my name. Everyone knew he wanted this position and honestly considering all the new found information I would gladly give it to him.
He sits in front of me. "Please join us." I say in a tone and roll my eyes. "I must say.." he begins. "Don't." I try to stop him. "We all lost a bit of respect towards the commander when he choose you to be his second in command I mean if he wanted eye candy he could have chosen aster." He chuckles.
I hear as Aster grabs her fork and clinches it close to her palms.
I look up from my plate and directly at him. "Are you just jealous I finally got the position you've been trying so hard for?" I smile. "No because we all know how you got it." He smiles back. "And how's that?" I ask. "You fucked the commander that's how." He cockily replies.
I stand up swiftly, "Okay you know what Jason I'm tired of your bullshit." I yell at him. "Dylan calm down." Aster says. "If you want a fight you got it." I say. He smirks, "What you think I'm going to hit a girl?"
"What are you scared I'm going to beat you." I state. He cracks his knuckles, "I mean I wouldn't wanna ruin any inner beauty you have."
I extend my arms out push myself towards him causing him to loose his balance, he falls back. I stand up over him, "had enough?" I ask. Before I knew it though I felt a stinging pain in my nose, "Have you?" He replies. I don't realize that he hit me from where he was and kicked my nose. I begin to feel slightly faint. I shake my head ignoring the pain. He stands up swiftly already getting into another i do the same. Jumping on him quickly wrapping my arms around his neck and my legs on his torso. I hear him grasps for breath before I could tighten my grip I get yanked off him. I scoff kicking my legs trying to fight the person pulling me away.
"What the fuck is going on?" Commander yells, I couldn't see the person pulling me away, all I saw was Jason on the floor while everyone crowded to check on him. I try to process how I feel and taste the blood of my nose dripping down to my lips. I ick slightly.
I shove my arms off the person and get into attack position. "Easy now." A deep raspy voice replies, I look up at the man. I stayed in attack position considering that his looks weren't making me feel even the slightest bit safe.
He looked me up and down almost like he was judging how I looked, his blue eyes fixated on one part of my body and darted to the other. His face wasn't visible being covered by a black cloth, and a Skelton mask the only thing I could stare at were his eyes as they stood out from the rest of him being bright sky blue.
"Ghost!" I quickly turn to the commander saying the man's name. My eyes winded realizing who he was. "Hell of way to meet your new lieutenant Dylan." He walks towards us. The man looks away from me for the first time after us meeting and gives a confused look to the commander.
"I was under the impression Dylan was a man." His deep voice replies, I could also hear his British accent but it was like no other British accent I've heard before. "Nope this is our top cadets, top of her class and as you just saw hell of a fighter." He pats my shoulder, he then looks at me and cringes.
I smile at the commander, probably looking crazy since I felt cross eyed and their was probably blood on my teeth. "Derek I can't have a female in my Unit." He raspy deep voice barks. "And why's that?" The commander asks. "My team is all men, everything in base is for men, my whole team is all men how are they going to react to a female after not seeing one in months." the man continues.
I glare at him, not like they're going to fall in love with me and you could tell he also hadn't seen a as he said 'female' lately just by the one he looked at me.
"I promise you Dylan has worked for this and she's one of the best in this whole building." The commander tries to convince him, he shoves me slightly as in a way to say something but I just ignore it.
"Let's go to your office." The man says, the commander nods in response, "Get cleaned up Dylan and meet me us in my office in a few minutes." He says, I give him a thumbs up in response.
The man looked back at me twice before finally leaving my sight.
"So that's who your dad died for." Aster says standing next to me. I jump up once again not even hearing snuck up on me.
"Is it just me or is he hot?" She asks. I glare at her.
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Thunder | Simon "Ghost" Riley
Fanfic"All you know how to do is hurt the people who love you the most." 🚬 Dylan Sanders, she's been training to work as hard as her father. After his death she hated the kid her mother said he died fo...
