Captain Holmes (COMPLETE)

Chapter 1

Chapter One

Ruby groaned leaning back in her seat as the chopper flew back to base with Lennox's team in the other. Her team and the American's was teamed up a lot and so their higher ups thought it would be good for both teams to do training exercises together to get them to perform more as one unit than two separate squads.

"Hey Cap, what are your plans when your tour is up? You've got a month left right?" her Lieutenant Tenzi Benson asked from where she and the other females of the team were quietly talking as opposed to the guys whom were as usual being goofballs. Ruby glanced at her, deducing her with a single blink of an eye but not saying her deductions aloud. None of her squad members knew of that little quirk of hers, they just thought she was just extremely intelligent and she would like it to stay that way.

"I'll probably reenlist like I have the past 6 tours."

"What, why?" Doctor Tammi Dawson, in charge of patching up the two squads for the time being demanded, the others turning their attention onto her as well.

Ruby shrugged. "What else am I going to do at home? It would be too boring unless I wanted to work for or with one of my brothers and that's never going to happen. I would probably kill them by the end of the week." She huffed, mock shuddering at the mere thought of working for Mycroft or with Sherlock. Her team laughed at her response. She had given them vague details about her brothers and the antics that all of them had gotten up to when she was younger and they enjoyed them immensely, even though they were much doctored tales.

"I have got to meet one of your brothers when I go home, if they are anything like you, Cap, I'm sure they would be a blast!" Tammi Dawson's occasional assistant Medic Duncan Chase chimed in.

"Trust me, I'm considered the normal one of the family. What do you think that means in regards to my brothers?"

"Oh, she's just playing you, bro. There is no way that her brothers are actually that scary," Sergeant Lionel Chase, Duncan's twin brother, scoffed.

Ruby felt her eyes narrow on the trouble maker of her squad. Out of all of the two squads, Lionel gave her the most trouble.

"Don't you think that the one that grew up with them would know them best? I mean, I think I've heard of one of her brothers, Sherlock, and he can certainly be placed in the very eccentric column," Sergeant Lucy Shay muttered. She was the other that caused her trouble. Ruby knew why Lucy and Lionel felt the need to cause trouble, of course, but since they followed her orders on the battlefield, she let it go. She had no reason to confront them about it but she would soon if they didn't stop getting on her nerves.

"Sherlock is actually a high-functioning sociopath with the ability to deduce nearly everything relevant about you in the first few seconds of meeting him. He is actually the world's only Consulting detective which means that when the police are out of their depth – which is nearly always – they call him... next time don't describe my brother with one of the most boring descriptive words in the English dictionary." Ruby growled, her steel blue eyes piercing pretty much right into Lucy's soul. Almost immediately, Lucy ducked her head and muttered an apology.

There was silence among them before the last one of their squad decided to pipe up.

"Damn, Lucy, Cap sure told you. Maybe this time you'll learn to keep your opinions of another's family to yourself," Gunnery Sergeant James Ortega quipped. Ruby hid a smirk as she turned her head to face the back of the chopper. Ortega was definitely her favorite one of the bunch. He never failed to make her smile.

The six soldiers then fell back to talking in their respective groups, their attempts to talk to Ruby once again falling into chaos as usual. Over the past two years that she has been in charge of this squad, they have tried several times to get her to open up but one thing that she will never budge on, is that a Holmes never gives up information about themselves freely. She had been apart of four total squads in her military career and this is the second group that she has been put in charge of.

Ruby felt the helicopter begin to descend. "Good job out there today. Get some rest, you never know when or where they'll send us next. They like to use us much as possible before our tours are up." The six squad members nodded in acknowledgment but didn't respond verbally as they began to disembark with their weapons and packs dragging along behind them. Ruby was the last one out as always, besides the pilots, and as she emerged the hot sun hit her eyes, causing her to put on her sun glasses and a baseball cap that she had taken from Ramses before she left home that had the word Cambridge faded from wear and tear.

"Hey yo, Holmes!" Ruby heard and turning she couldn't help but grin at Epps and Lennox, two of the men that she had started out with when she first became a soldier. That was the real reason the two teams worked so well together. The three of them had fought beside each other through blood, sweat, and tears and had a mutual respect for each other and their abilities on and off the battlefield.

"Hey!" she said, coming over and joining them in walking back to their tents/barracks. "I have not seen you guys in what, two hours?" She asked jokingly, ducking out of the way when Epps reached out to grab her. "Gotta be faster than that, old man!"

Ruby ducked into her barracks and placed her stuff on her bed before reemerging to join the other two, or other one as Epps had apparently wandered off to get shower off the sweat, blood, and dust from his body. She didn't blame him, however, the women's shower was on the other side of camp and so she could endure for a while longer to accompany Lennox to go talk to his wife over the web-chat.

"So, how's the wife and baby?" Ruby asked.

"H-How'd you know that was what I was thinking about?" Lennox stammered out. Epps and Lennox, when they first met and before she got used to being around others that weren't her brothers, were the first and last victims to her deductions that she verbalized. But she theorized that since it's been so long, both had forgotten her skills since she had never truly displayed them since.

"Easy, you've been talking nonstop about Sarah and your new daughter for weeks now. And now, the first time of true down time that we've gotten, we are on our way to the telecommunications tent where you are most likely going to video chat with them."

Silence.

"That was incredible. I've never seen anyone be able to interpret the littlest clues into such an accurate result."

See? He clearly doesn't remember the first five minutes of meeting her... although... "That's not what most people say about my little quirk."

"What do most people say?"

"Stop being a stalker, piss off, the usual spooked responses."

Lennox looped a heavy arm around her neck. "Well, don't you worry, dear Ruby, I think that it is incredible."

"And your opinion is the only one that matters right?"

"Well it definitely counts more than Shay's or Chase's."

"That is true."

They had finally arrived at the telecommunications tent. "Well, I'll leave you to go about your business, my friend. I'm in desperate need of a shower. Laterz!"

Ruby walked off deeper into the base camp to hunt down her clean clothes she had paid a cadet to wash for her while she was gone and then onto the showers.