Oh, the time when John first joined the military he remembers like it was yesterday. The training, the first missions, the first time he was late for debarkation... and his first military love.

He remembers it all. He remembers admiring you, senior captain. You were older than him, you were always cold and stern, in your eyes you could see fortitude and bravery, you had a lot of experience and you had been through a lot, and you always gave no one a hard time. He fell in love with you immediately, and started acting like a lovesick teenager.

Unintentionally, John would accidentally mess up, like when he was running a race and stumbled because he was looking at you, or he would forget something because he was thinking about you, or he would let things slip through his fingers and listen only to you and your voice that he adored so much.

But John never dared to make a move because he was afraid he'd be too young for you. So he gritted his teeth and wished you were his, and he climbed up the ladder.

So he became a lieutenant, then a captain, and finally formed a unit without you.

He missed you all those years. Of course, he didn't have time for a relationship while he was in the service, but he tried to find someone other than you, but he couldn't.

Toward evening, when everyone on the base was finishing up their business, and some were going on or returning from missions. Laswell stopped by John's office to tell him that people from another base were coming in today for an upcoming mission, and asked him to come over to greet them.

So finished with the paperwork in the office, John went outside and walked to the designated spot. He saw Laswell and a couple people from his base who were talking to the other soldiers who had arrived. But when he saw your silhouette, he froze.

God, you were beautiful. You were still as beautiful as ever, though the couple gray hairs on your head spoke of age, but John didn't care. He felt the butterflies in his stomach and the blush on his cheeks again, like he was back in his youth.

And ignoring everyone and even Laswell's words he headed straight for you. He was only interested in his captain and now his senior commander

“Commander?...”