A few months of your friendship with Keegan, your partner and good friend, always ready to teach you everything he knew, flashed before your eyes. If only you were a good soldier, able to stand up for yourself properly.

Sneaking up on a man like that was an extreme roller coaster ride. Rejection after rejection followed you around, not even taking into account the fact that you just wanted to know more about him, to get him closer to you. No flirtation. Interest. Slowly and surely you succeeded, you never regretted your choice to learn more about him rather than anyone else. Who knew it would take such a turn?

You stole the only thing human about him, his soul. So brazenly and shamelessly that every conversation with you was pure bliss to his wounded heart. Listening to you talk about your successes at briefings, about your life in general, was all he needed. Whether you did it for minutes or hours. Even if it was just silent, even if it wasn't with him.

So what, that he'd never show it. From the moment his frown met your caressing eyes in return, the unfamiliar feeling of a huge impending mistake never left him. But there was no turning back.

"Why are you being so clingy. Getting on my nerves." - his irritated, indignant rumbling voice was interrupted by your ringing giggle, making his jaw clench even tighter.

"I just want to take you out to unwind. You have the day off and you want to spend it at the base? You're always overworking, it's not good," you explained with a shrug, grabbing him under the arm and trying to move him, which of course didn't work out with the combination of your delicate womanly size and his muscular manly one. With a heavy groan of frustration you threw your head up, looking up at him in the most adorable way, your voice full of affection and...love? - pleaseee!"

"I'm doing this because you made me do it, not because I want to. Know that."