RIVEN | Simon 'ghost' Riley

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Waring: SA

"Happy?" He said looking at her. Letting go of her arm and stepping back some. "You tell no one."

"Now you don't say anything about my past and I won't about yours. DEAL?" She yelled out at him. Feeling the rage of hate and fear crash into her.

"Deal." Ghost said. Words steady had his thick accent was. She looked into his eyes and felt the tears prick in her eyes. 

"You tell a single soul about my life I ruin yours and Ghost I'm not a woman you want to mess with." She said with the pure intention of ruining his life if he was to tell anyone else about hers.

"You have my word." He said to her.

She walked away from him. Feeling now she could some what trust him, still not knowing if he would do something to ruin her life. Her past was something that followed her around like a baby. Ember compared it too in her head, really she hated kids and never wanted one. Always crying and screaming.

Yet something small inside of her wanted one. But she walked away and went into the room and didn't sleep for the rest of the night.

Next morning was a bitch.

Ember walked into the office of Alejandro's. She saw him reading over some paper work. "Someone said you need to speak too me." She said a deep cold tone of voice.

"Yes. Take a seat." He said point at the chair in front of him, his voice was soft and confidence. "What do you know on Major Hassan?" He said trying to keep her calm seeing how the lieutenant reacted the other night.

"Why do you need to know?" Ember said eyes turning cold and closed off as her voice was.

"Lieutenant Riven. Your reaction doesn't line up too the documents I was given." He sat back in his chair. "So I need to know your team and mine are safe."

Ember sat back in her hair closing her eyes. She wanted to walk out and not say another word. Knowing where he was coming from Ember didn't have any other choice but to tell him. They had gained a new type of trust in one another under a short period of time of knowing each other. "Four years ago and I was stationed out in Turkey is where I first encountered Hassan." She took a deep breath in.

He watched her.

"I was there when it was bombed. This is how I got my scar. For so long I remembered though I was left and found a few days later but I wasn't I was captured by him. For where he tortured and many more unspeakable things. " She said with a straight face.

His face didn't say anything. "May I please leave?" She asked him. Alejandro shook his head.

"Riven wait." He said as she was getting up and walking towards the door. Ember looked back at him. "We are glad you are apart of this team." He smiled.

"Thank you." She smiled for the first time since she had gotten here or really started this mission, she nodded her head and walked out feeling a little bit better about the choice she made coming back.

Later in the afternoon she was sitting in the nurses station getting a check up on her shoulder she had popped out of place. Waiting for the doctor to come in, and for Soaps worried ass, he insisted on coming alone. Ember believed he was just bored, since he had the attention span of a fly and didn't speak a lick of Spanish. So she sat on the table while he was looking around in the medical supplies.

He pulled out a pair of needles. "NO!" She pointed a finger at him with her good arm. "Riven I was just looking." He rolled his eyes.

"Yeah and one wrong move and you could be in the hospital and getting blood work done for two weeks to test if have something." She pointed to put it back. Soap put it back up just in time for the doctor to come in. "Ember Jones right?" He said looking at clip board in his hand. He was clean shaven with a gray hair and brown dusty eyes. Smiling up at her. "Yes sir. Just call me Riven." She said meeting his smile back to him. "Okay let's get you looked at." He said placing the clipboard down onto the countertop. His accent was deeply rich in the Spanish twang. Every word of English he spoke, was rolled with the R.