(Anonymous request).

It was only after the incident that you began to realize why the SAS was rather big on gas masks.

In short: The Keres Legion was meeting with Nighthaven, Nighthaven trying to sell off whatever gas they had acquired (seeing as how the stock they procured from the White Masks remnants had been sabotaged by Rainbow earlier), and who better to sell it to than Deimos? They had arranged the meeting in order to consult the deal in Russia, specifically at Kafe Dostoyevsky, one of the more lavish hotels in the region. Of course, Rainbow caught wind of this, and decided to send in some of their top operators in teams. Pairing you and Smoke specifically. You two worked well together, and that was basically it. But while preparing your loadout for the mission, you decided that you didn't need a gas mask. 'Eh, they won't detonate the gas inside the hotel', You had figured.

Guess what? They did.

So after nearly coughing your lungs out, you saw Smoke racing towards you, spare gas mask in tow, hastily putting it on you. Once you started to breath, he knelt down, and looked you dead in the eyes.

James: "...You twit."