Liability [Simon Ghost Riley]

meeting

"What do you mean we've got a new medic on the base?" Ghost asks as Price slides her file across the desk. He picks it up and reads through it quickly, his eyes skimming the qualifications, more the lack thereof. "What the fuck is this Price"

"Miss James is a young woman whose been sent here by Laswell. She's good at her job, she'll do just fine here"

"Shes not military"

"No she's not"

"Then why is she here?" he questions once more

"Between you and I, Laswell sent her in because her sister is training for 141"

"Emma" Ghost realizes as he puts together their last names.

"In order to get Emma here, Laswell had to pull some strings. One of the requirements was the transfer of her younger sister"

"Its a waste of space!" he states, crossing his arms in annoyance "what good is a medic who has no military background or field experience? Sounds like a fucking liability to me"

"She's strictly on base, she won't be in the field"

"So I say again, what's the point of her then? We need medics for the field! She's only 26!"

"Ghost I don't make the rules, I just follow them. When Laswell gives me a transfer I deal with it, just like you're going to listen to me when I say that this girl is more than welcome here. If she's the price we pay for Emma then so be it" Price says, taking the file out of his hands. He nods to the door and Ghost shakes his head before exiting the office. He was livid, just one more mouth to feed. One more person he'd have to worry about. He didn't care if this girl was the best in the world, without military or field experience she was as good as useless to him. He fucking hated useless people.

He walks through the base angrily, searching for Soap and Gaz to inform them. He stops dead in his tracks at the sight of Emma with her arm wrapped around a much shorter woman's shoulders as she led her through the room. She was gorgeous, her long ginger hair fell down her back, she was wearing a pair of scrubs, with a long sleeve underneath it. She had large golden glasses sitting uptop her small nose, which had a septum piercing in the center. He watches as she spots him, she stops in her tracks and stares at him in confusion.

"Oh perfect timing, Phoebe I'd like to introduce you to our Lieutenant goes by Ghost" Emma says

"Nice to meet you Ghost, I'm Phoebe, I'm excited to be here" she says with a kind smile on her face, holding her hand out for him to shake.

"A medic with no combat experience, I've heard about you"

"Yeah, I'm on base only"

"Fucking useless" he grunts before walking away and leaving the women in shock.

"Excuse me?" she calls out to him, dropping her bag and walking over to him, he stares down at her, his dark eyes boring into her. If looks could kill, she'd be dead. "How dare you speak to me like that!"

Ghost is taken aback at her words, he hadn't expected her to react this way. Nobody ever talked back to him, this was quite new. "I'm your Lieutenant" he reminds her

"Okay got it, that gives you no right to be a dick!"

"Oh fuck Phoebe!" Emma calls out, hurrying over to her sister. "You can't talk to him like that"

"I'd listen to your sister" Ghost warns as they continue to glare at each other

"I'm so sorry Ghost, please ignore her, it's been a long day she just got off a 10-hour flight, and she's a little delirious" Emma rambles