A Fallen Soldier

TOP SOLDIER

ALAN'S POV

"If there's one thing I knew about Scarlet the first time I met her was, she could never stay still for one bloody second so when I heard she'd left her resting bed only two hours after she awoke after a night of hell, I wasn't surprised. That girl, my father-My Commander informed me of this and asked me to track her down, and I'm not even gonna try a wild card she is and has always been"

I relay this information to Xavier, a blonde hair blue eyed psychiatrist covered in all white and is a little shorter and younger than myself and who, I can take a guess had already red my mind before I even spoke but that sweet smile plays on his lips so I'm not even half mad.

"Well my dear friend"

He starts his voice is so soft.
I wish I saw him more often.
His face brightens a little and I smile before he continues.

"I've only interviewed Scarlet once, and that was to make sure she was fit to join us here but judging by that encounter I can predict this isn't the first time she's bended the rules to her liking.

You could say that again, ever since I first met her, I can still remember our first fight back then I was one of the youngest and the top soldier in the army until a random sixteen year old girl showed up to take my place, which I wasn't upset by to be honest, my father tried to pin us against each other but he found out quite quickly that backfired.

He looks from his note pad again, our blue eyes locking.

"You two seem quite close"

He said, but his voice was more quite I put my hand on my hip and give him a knowing look and a knowing smirk to add onto it.

"You just red my mind, didn't you, can't hide much from you, can we whitelock?"

I can see his face slowly turn reder when a young girl steps forward curly hair, brown eyes like someone I know she's shorter then me and Xavier she looks like she belongs in high school not in a base like this.

"Excuse me, have you seen"

"Thomson?"

I cut the girl off I know who this is and I know why she's here.

"Your the Captains daughter, right?"

She gives me a little nod, confirming what I already knew.

"And your looking for Scar because your father asked you to"

Another nod and this time it's her turn to speak.

"I'm also looking for Daniel, you know, the new medic"

Heard about him to from my father, a socially awkward eighteen year old who just joined up, the youngest full time member in this base, Scarlet is second and I am not quite sure where I rank, I'm twenty-two so I'm somewhere on the list, maybe fourth because Xaviers twenty.

We have to many damn prodigies in this kingdom I swear.

I nod leaving my thoughts for a second.

"Likely with Scar, kid this isn't the right place to look, and you can pass that on the Ford to"

My tone comes off more annoyed then I'd like I'm just stressed.

"What he means to say is, this isn't the place or the people you should me asking other soldiers or others who were on the mission, maybe like our father"

That soft female voices catches my attention I turn.

"Aliza"

"It's Alisa, Al, try not to forget"

She smiles sweetly, in her usual outfit of a black skirt with a white jacket and a yellow shirt shes standing next to Xavier, they look more like twins then me and her and we're actual twins. Her has blonde hair like our father while I have brown hair like our mother but we both have dark blues eyes, not navy colour but no exactly sky blue she wears lighter colours while I wear all black as a fuck you, to dear old dad.

"I'll help you look"

She says giving the captain's daughter that same cheerful smile and she nods.

"Lead the way"

The captains daughter gestures to my sister to follow and she obeys and I turn my head back to Xavier.

The news about...Alexander doesn't seem to wide spread let Xavier knows, I know, Scarlet, that medic, The captains daughter and my Commander.

As I feel Xavier about to cut into my thoughts The Captain walks over.

Just fucking great.

ISABELS POV

This nice lady her I just learned her name was Alisa held my back as we walked, like I was a child who needed help walking for the first time, it was gentle it was so odd compared to everyone I've met here so far ever, even who I'm guessing was her brother of something or was that blonde haired guy, couldn't tell you, she turns her head to face me giving me a small smile before speaking.

''you know, it's quite rare for a newbie to meet Scarlet so quickly''

why does she always get brought up, why does everyone have this weird care about her why does everyone know her and act like she's royalty around here, she's just a deputy and I wanna hit myself at just thinking those words but words spill out of my own mouth before I can stop them.

"why does everyone care and talk about Scarlet? I mean I get she's likeable but not even my own father doesn't stop speaking about her why?"

She doesn't look mad when I ask just chuckles her smile changing to a knowing one as we walk a little faster.

"Scarlet is someone everyone gets along with even my brother took a liking to her but I never knew why until I met her, she's cocky, but also really kind and skilled but she's also just a teenager just like you, she was eighteen when she became deputy and the soldiers here view her like a little sister even though she doesn't need protecting. Scarlet claimed the respect of her soldiers quite quickly and they see her more as a friend than a commanding officer a bearer your father and even...mine hasn't been able to break"

"and who's your father"

I asked to quickly but I was already adding up the dots in my head.

"Commander Katz"

she says it like she wants to move past the topic and I allow it.

"My point being"

She continues.

"Scarlet is the type of person who would take a bullet for you if you asked her to loyalty is what gained her respect around here, so everyone looks out for her as she will always do the same for us"

A few things make more sense to me now, if Scarlet been deputy for a year now she's nineteen, wow, bearly out of high school, did she go to high school I don't get the time to think that through when I see them, bingo and poor Daniel-

"aw poor Danny!"

Alisa said to quickly for me to process and my eyes fall to him again, he seems worn out, what the hell did Scarlet make him do?