The Start Of Something Great

Christmas Time

Carvers POV: 0600 Dec. 25
(6 days after last chapter)

I woke up to Ray hitting me with a elf hat. "Wake up Carver it's Christmas." She shouted in my ear. "For fucks sake Ray. I'm up." I said sitting up and grabbing the elf hat from Ray giving her a death glare. "What time is it?" I asked as I looked around the barrack seeing Buck and Heavy up and around with smiles on their faces as they walked around the room that was decorated by them last night. Looking to the middle of the room I saw a small Christmas tree about 3-4 ft in hight nothing compared to my towns Christmas tree. It had presents under it already. I heard the door open as Jean walked into the barrack her signature helmet still on. She was carrying a bag of presents she walked over to the tree and set it down a pulled out a present for each member of Inferno Sqaud. "Hey Jean." I said catching her attention making her turn around and that's when I saw her ugly sweater over her jumpsuit. It had an Atlas Titan carrying a Christmas tree. "Yeah Carver?" She asked tilting her head to the left a bit. "First, thanks for bringing presents. Second, what the fuck are you wearing?" I finished saying while laughing. "First, your welcome. Second, go fuck yourself." She said with a Chuckle while walking out of the barrack." Come on Carver. Red made us all breakfast." Ray said as she grabbed my arm pulling me out of bed. As Ray dragged me out of the barrack I put on the elf hat she gave me. When we reached the cafeteria I saw Red and Jean putting food out on the tables for all of the ODST to eat not just Inferno Sqaud. I smiled as I walked over and looked at the food that Red had made. I saw this weird looking dish I couldn't quite figure out what it was. Jean walked over and saw me eyeballing it and said "That's called Monkey Bread. It's a sweet treat from earth." I looked up at her and smiled. "Thanks Jean." I grabbed the Money Bread and brought it over to the table and set it down. Looking up I saw Red set the last meal item down just in time for the rest of the ODST to enter and see all the food. I saw a bunch of smiles appear on the majority of their faces some just looked super hungry. I heard the doors open and watched as Kaleb walked in. "What are y'all waiting around for let's eat." Kaleb said as he walked over to his table and started eating with his team. Buck and Heavy walk into the room and walked over to our table and sat down. We all were eating and laughing. Jean was sharing a story about how her and Atlas were attacking an IMC base where her and her commander at the time were fighting an ogre Titan. "Then the IMC pilot kicked in my commanders Titans leg in and punched him in the optic. So I did what I could with how Atlas was missing one if her arms and I grabbed the ogre's 40mm rail gun and smacked him with it. Surprisingly the Ogre lost its footing and fell down the crevice behind I'm." She said while mimicking the movements causing all of us to laugh. "Then when I asked my commander if he was ok his response was."I'm Super."" Ray and Jean started laughing while I let out a small Chuckle. Once out Sqaud was finished eating and took care of out dishes we went back to our barrack and started opening the presents we got each other. Jean had gotten everyone there favorite Titan models. Buck got everyone new knifes. Heavy made everyone Christmas cards. Red had baked everyone cookies. Ray got everyone a Christmas themed poster. And I had gotten everyone ugly sweaters. "Come on mom I don't want to wear it." Buck said looking right at me. "Well your going to." I said matter of factly going alone with his joke. This made everyone laugh. We all wished each other a merry Christmas and went off to do our own thing. I was wandering the halls when Jean pulled me aside and gave me another present. "Sorry I had one extra for you." I looked at her and smiled opening the gift and seeing it was a Atlas Titan patch that had the words. "К концу" (To the end). "Thanks Jean." I said looking up at her. "No problem Carver." She said as she walked away. I smiled and put the patch in my pocket as I started walking back to the barrack. I was walking along when Ray ran up behind me with a huge smile on her face. "Carver here I forgot this present earlier." Said giving me a neatly rapped present. I ripped it open and saw it was a black box. Opening it I saw my IMC helmet with a Phoenix painted on it with the word "Gunner" just below it. "Thanks Ray I really like it." I said as I held it in my hands looking it over. "I'm glad me and Buck had a hard time figuring out what would be a good nick name for you but we went with Gunner." She said while rubbing the back of her neck. " Well I really like it thanks Ray." I said as we reached the barrack. I opened the door and let her through as I walked in and saw Buck, Heavy and Red sitting at a table with some cards playing poker. "We are in so much trouble if we get caught by Kaleb." I said lookig at Buck. He shrugged his shoulder as Ray and I sat down and joined their game.