Assigned by Station Chief Kate Laswell, Case Officer Kiera Dutton is assigned to track and locate the missing American missiles as well as the threat of Quds Force Major Hassan Zyani. Befriending Ghost during her missions was not indeed part of her...
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"What about these, Simon?" Kiera asked him, holding up a button-up shirt that was Baler's size as they took a trip into town to go Christmas shopping for the boy, toting Price, Alice, and Soap along with them as Kiera felt Simon needed time with his closest comrades. As for Gaz, Rudy, Alejandro, and Teeter, they were excited to stay behind and gather cattle with Bud, gladly taking Baler along to teach him what they learned.
"I don't think he's very picky with clothes, love."
"Well, he might want to wear something nice for when everything is official." She smiled, watching him mirror her expression before reaching towards the maroon-colored shirt on the rack behind her.
"I think he'd like this color. The blue is nice, but I see him wearing a lot of darker colors like this."
"I think so, too," She nodded, taking the shirt and ensuring it was Baler's size before removing the hanger from it and tossing it into the bin. "Alright, this is the last of the new shirts and pants I've gotten for him. He has plenty of shoes and a good pair of work boots," She began to babble, reaching into her purse to check her list. "Jacob and Evie's gifts are supposed to be delivered tomorrow... Oh! I need to get him a card. I'm going to put his new clothes into the same box. Don't you think he'd want a new video game or something?"
Simon shook his head and shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe, but with those two games he bought last month, he's been working more than he's been playing them."
"Well, what do you think? I think he should have some time to himself. He's still a kid."
"I agree, love," He sighed. "How about this? You know that extra bedroom at the house?"
"Yes?..."
"And how it doesn't have anything in it to be a room?"
"...Yes?"
He smirked, his hand coming down to grasp the side of the grocery cart, "How about we turn it into a bedroom? For him. So that he's not sleeping on the couch anymore. He can make it his own and have somewhere to be himself and enjoy his video games or whatever he wants."
She smiled at Simon's change of heart. Knowing he wouldn't admit it; she knew that Baler had grown onto him as well as Simon taking pride in how he and Kiera managed to keep him on a promising path of life. Better than how my life was, he thought. I owe it all to her, though. She doesn't know it yet, but she can change anyone for the better...because we want to be better - for her. "I think that's a great idea, babe. So now, I need to go and find him stuff for his new bedroom." She giggled, taking her pen and scribbling down the basics: a bed frame, mattress, sheets, and possibly a nightstand if she couldn't wrangle anything her mom kept from Kiera's childhood.
"Don't think too hard on that, love. I've got most of that covered."
"What do you mean?"
"I talked to your mum about it first," He shrugged. "Not because I didn't want to talk to you about it first, but I kind of asked her for advice about it after what we decided to do for him. She said there's a guest bedroom in the lodge that she's been begging your father to clean out for decades. She said we could have all of that stuff in there because she wants to turn it into some hobby room."
