everyone was sat round the campfire, everyone but the one and only Master Chief who sat a distance away near the cliffs edge trying to pick apart his own feeling but still at a loss. The arbiter invites his old friend to talk and hopefully ease johns racing thoughts. Set after halo 5 when chief, arby and the other sit round a campfire and talk its in the book bad blood and i wanted to expand on it. In my fanfic though chief sits further away worrying over cortana and stuff so arby invites him over they talk for awhile reminiscing before the conversation turns sour and thel comforts john, yyaayyy -midnight

The man who had been Johnny Topside breathed deep of the smoky air, and the taste of blood and misery he had wrought returned to him. Tears had begun to streak down his bloodied, necrotic face as he clung tight to the pictures in his mind, the images of his daughters. They skipped through the halls of Rapture, tiny and fragile, innocence made flesh. He ached for that simpler time, when all he needed worry of was their tiny hands tugging at his own, beaming smiles gazing up to him in adoration. Ignorance was bliss. This life was pain. Idly, a corner of his mind took note of his tears. How strange, he thought with bitter humor. Monsters shouldn't weep. A single shot rent the smoky air. And then there was silence. --- Merry Christmas!

This is set after halo 5 when chief and arbiter are looking for Cortana together and there's a little romance in the air (don't judge I'm bored and there isn't enough fluffy charbiter fanfics out there). sorry - by midnight Btw the picture doesn't belong to me. And I don't own halo, unfortunately.