A Fallen Soldier

TROUBLE

SCARLETS POV

As my eyes fall to Alisa I'm smirking like a little kid who just got away with something, I haven't even broken a sweat from our run but Daniel looks out of it and I almost take pity him, almost. Being this wild allows me the comfort of the freedom I possess which I only just realized how lucky I truly was to have it, he could have very well been me in another world but that isn't my fate, but it's also not his, I won't let it be.

"Oh, come on, Anderson!"

I put my right hand on my right hip staring down at him as he's bent down he's hands on his knees catching his breath I'm treating him like one of my soldiers but I know a few things about Anderson, he isn't a fighter and that isn't just me saying that to be a prick, I doubt he'd put up a fight if he's life was on the line, from what I can tell, he'd rather die than take anothers life, I could be wrong, but I rarely am about people, I don't want to make a statement to the public, not yet anyway.

I'm still in half shock and I don't wish to lie to them, I do enough of that in my life so you'd think that would be easy for me. Wrong. Everything about the word and it's meaning behind it disgusts me, even more now as a adult there's no much thing as a 'white lie' in my mind, a lie is not a good thing it. never is a good thing. Lying to others about things just shows your character and you as a person, then I must be one hell of a bad person then.

Anderson stands up fully and yells in a language I can't quite understand

"Versuchst du mich zu toten?!"

My eyebrow moves up, trying to understand what he's saying, and my smirk over takes my shock.

"What was that-"

"it means are you trying to kill me!"

I let out a little laugh, a laugh I didn't even know I was holding in and I smile gently, I can't remember the last time I smiled like this, I look at him and my gently face turns back into the mask that is my smirk. Alisa walks over to me and her hand mirrors mine only a moment ago by being placed on her hip and I notice Isabel is right next to her, Ford couldn't be bothered to get me himself so he had to get Issy to track me down but I smile at her.

"Issy, I take it your father sent you here?"

She looks down and nods, and I grin. My smirk or grin is like my shield, my armour, to hide my pain, the mask I bear.

"And why is that?"

She shakes her head and looks up fully to speak.

"He never said he never does,"

I pity her now, but I also understand his reasons, and I think I know why he wishes to see me.

"I guess I don't have a choice in this matter, I can't run away from this forever,"

I don't even bother to fight it, which I find odd for me, and the looks from Alisa and Anderson tell me that for sure. I walk through the halls some soldiers waving me and giving me light nods and I give them a small salute then flick it away and that earns me a smile from most of them I'd rather be their friend then their captain right now. I look at the office I know all too well, Ford on the golden label, and I walk in to see....

not the brown eyes, I know, nope, blue eyes that look like Alans but darker.
 

"Commander"

I say, shock filling my voice and eyes he looks at me, and then a charming smile forms in his face, a sick charming smile.

"Thomson"

He walks closer to me, my eyes follow him. It's in these moments I wonder why I sighed myself up for this in the first place.

"Yes?"

I say sharply  but my tone stays calm he walks until his right in front of me a glare is painted on his face, he looks so much like Alan, and it makes me sick.

"Thomson"

He said again.

"I know what your about to ask me"

I snap, and his face grows cold, that's the commander I know. 

"And I'm not going to do it"

The Commander scoffs, so much like Alan it almost makes he sick again, their to alike for my comfort and I can only make the assumption that Alan feels the same if not worse then I do. The Commanders voice snaps me back to the real world. 

"How can you be so selfish, you took an oath, an oath to protect your kingdom and to make its people feel safe, but you'd rather let them live in fear wouldn't you?"

"No"

I say through my teeth my fist clenched, keep your cool, keep your cool, I replay the words in my head and the Commander smirks, bloody smirks, I'm letting him win when I get like this.

"But I'm not about to lie to their face,"

I take a deep long breath before I speak again.

"Commander rather you like it or not we need to focus on the threat that Alexander poses, in case you forgot he is a very powerful man and someone who we need on our side, if we can...break him out of their control somehow, we can find out what happened that night, to make sure we don't repeat the same mistakes, but you focus on how the public thinks of us? why do I even have to do it"

"Simple"

He doesn't respond to my little speech but-.

"Are you two done "

An annoyed gruff voice with a Lunaris accent fills my ears, my head turns to see a man, in a silver uniform with darker brown hair then Alan and even darker blue eyes then Alan or the Commander.