You were a new recruit in tf141, the first thing your lieutenant Ghost Simon Riley wrote to you. Over the next few months you couldn't help but write to him for every little thing, curiosity tempted you, but he always reacted with a sharp and distant tone. There came a breaking point when you stopped writing to him, he couldn't understand where you were and your stupid questions. He had to write to Captain John Price, who told him about your first mission. The captain also put you as his partner without his consent. After the death of his previous partner, he was always alone.

Meanwhile Simon's thoughts raged. 'Why is she missing, while I feel inferior? How could she have had such an impact on me, in such a short time? So sincere and too pure for this line of work. Her stupidity drives me mad. She's unbearable. A reckless creature of Hell itself.

John, I'm gonna kill you someday. I don't need a recruit for a partner. Yes, she's been surprisingly good in training, but it's not because of that, I'm sure.

I don't know what I feel. Definitely not love, no. The feeling of inner emptiness without her attention is so strong. I've gotten so used to her surroundings these past few months. It's probably the fact that no one has ever paid so much interest in me before that makes me flounder. I HAVE to see her.'

Then came your message about coming back and he couldn't help but write that he had to see you. Not without your quip about him missing you. Hell, yeah.

"Cafeteria in 20 minutes." That's what his last text said.