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BIIIG HUG!!

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Come here! I need to give you so much love!

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Adult Val going through paperwork. Suddenly when he looks up, the twins are there.

Val, concerned: Did — did we schedule anything? Uh…?

Olivia, smiling: No, you need to come with us.

Val, raises a brow: What?

Leo: You better be quick, soon they will come for you (sighs) and we will have to get messy.

Val, grunts: Damn, not the cartel again… (picks paperwork and follows them)

Olivia: Yeah, yeah, horrible. I know *sighs* I already spoke with uncle Rudy, he prepared a safe spot for you

Val: Thanks, my parents...?

Leo: We already took them somewhere safe *humms* by the way, remember our bet?

Val: Seems like I owe you dinner again

Olivia/Leo: Let's get out alive of here first

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Val sneaking away to be where Camila is and causing Rareș to have a mental breakdown when he doesn’t find him home 💀

Ohhh, poor Rares ;-;

Meanwhile Camila scolding Val while they walk to Rares' house, and when they enter, she finds him half way panicked. She sighs and goes to stop him from walking back and forth.

"Easy, dear, he's with me." She says, smiling softly while Val runs to hug him.

I can imagine Rares will keep Val by his side all the time, at least for a while, for his own sake and to avoid a heart attack in the meantime. And Camila makes Val promise that first he calls her if he wants to coma AND tell Rares where he's going.

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A Haunting Past (Part 16)

Here we go with another chapter! As usual, shout out and a thousand thanks to @islandtarochips for being my beta reader 💖💖

Enjoy the chapter!

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Tw: Panic attack

Days passed and Alicia just waited for Wraith to figure out who the number belonged to. It was something that never completely left her mind. To the point she started to write some of the plans she had in her notebook.

That just made her wonder once again. Who? It didn't make any sense, she couldn't really think of someone that would betray them that way. And even then, why stay in the Marine Corps afterwards?

It was stressing her out very badly.

And now, night after night, she woke up covered in a cold sweat and running to the bathroom to puke. All that was happening made her memories even worse. The nightmares were so recurrente that even the others were noticing her eye bags. Even Jackson tried to convince her to take another time off, even try using sleeping pills.

If only he knew…

She has been taking pills since a long time ago but they didn't work. Never completely. And less now.

“Ugh…I need to end this soon so I can sleep.” She murmured to herself one day when blood started to drop from her nose while she did paperwork.

After a couple of days, she just tried to focus on her work. By the afternoon, she went for a glass of water while she was already prepared for another restless night. That is until Wraith walked inside.

“Do you have the information?” Alicia asked without looking at her fellow comrade.

Wraith stayed in silence for a second, almost like she was doubting. “I do.”

“Let’s hear it then.”

Alicia turned around, just to see how Wraith from all people looked at her with sadness and pity. She raised an eyebrow but waited for her to speak. Soon Dominique sighed and spoke, trying to avoid any eye contact for the first time since they met.

“The numbers…it belongs to a Raider.” Wraith started to say.

“Okay, we knew that much.”

“The thing is about who that Raider is.”

“Who is it? Someone from the Sixth? Maybe another black operations team?”

“I'm sorry Alicia.”

Alicia frowned. “Why are you apologizing? It starts to worry me.”

Wraith just gave her the folder with the traitor’s identity. When Alicia opened it, the first thing that she saw…was a well known face. One that she saw not so long ago.

Oliver.

Fucking Oliver Reyes.

“You’re joking...” She whispered, trying not to throw the folder to her face. “You’re joking!”

“I wish I was, but I confirmed…”

“It can’t be! He was one of us!”

“Alicia, breathe. Please.”

But Alicia wasn't hearing her anymore. She just felt how everything was destroyed and disappeared around her, all the plans she made. Everything that she had created to make sure her team was SAFE and getting the job DONE. But everything went sideways BECAUSE of that one person who she trusted the most.

Not long after, Alicia was starting to have trouble breathing while she kept asking in her mind for the reason.

At some point her legs gave up as she fell to the ground. She couldn't hear anything other than a buzzing in her ears. In just a second the world was moving so fast that she felt like it stopped for a second.

Alicia couldn't believe it.

She never thought about the possibility of Oliver being the traitor. But now she learns that he sold them. He gave them to hell on earth.

“He was one of us…” She whispered, crying uncontrollably.

She could see how the boys barged into the kitchen and how Luke argued with Wraith, but it was surreal. Almost like she was in her body but at the same time she wasn't. There was no other sound than the buzzing. And suddenly, she felt like she started to laugh.

Alicia passed a hand through her hair while she laughed and cried. Completely desperate. Unknowingly to her, she looked like she had lost her mind. Then she covered her face with the same hand, still crying.

She couldn't believe it. For a second she wished it was just a nightmare.

William. Richard. Kate. Jason. Sean. Arthur. Leo.

All of them were dead because of Oliver.

She went through hell because of him.

And yet, she couldn't understand why. Oliver was like them. He was part of the 267 too, they trained, fought and survived together.

Why? WHY?!?

While she felt a pressure over her chest and her vision started to darken, her mind just repeated a single thing. It was his fault. All of it, all of the pain, the nightmares, the blood shed. It was him.

At some point she swore she saw Jackson kneel beside her, with a worried expression. But she couldn't be sure, because something snapped inside her and she fell unconscious.

Hours later she woke up with a groan, feeling her body weight a ton. To her surprise, Jackson was sitting behind his desk simply doing his paperwork while Luke napped near him. It was the first time she ever saw them so…peaceful around each other.

“...Why aren't you killing each other?” She asked, trying to feign a smile while straightening up.

Jackson stood up and stopped her from moving. “Don't.”

“Jackson-”

“No, Origin. This time DON’T.” He said seriously. “You had to be sedated.”

“What?”

“You had a full blown panic attack. It was so bad I had to sedate you to stop you from hurting yourself.”

Alicia sighed tiredly before laying her head back down. “Damn it.”

“I haven't seen this since we met and even then it wasn't this bad.” Jackson said, now looking at her with worriedness. “Are you really okay?”

“... I'll be.”

Jackson sighed and shook his head. “I don't believe that. This time I can see how much it’s affecting you.”

Alicia just raised an eyebrow before looking at her hand. She saw an IV connected to her arm. After that, she looked at Jackson again.

“So now what? I assume Wraith told you why I had a panic attack.”

“She did. And we spoke with all the team-”

Luke looked at her, already awake. “We’ll help you to find Reyes, no matter the time it takes, but under one condition.”

“Shoot.”

“You go with us. Not on your own.”

Alicia was completely in silence after hearing Luke’s request. Before she could even answer, Wraith had walked in. There was no need for another word before Alicia raised her hands.

“I know what you will say.” Alicia said with a sigh.

“You won't be in this.” Wraith ordered coldly. “This time the CIA ordered it, it's above you and me.”

“What?! But Alicia's the one-!” Luke tried to intervene, just to be interrupted by Alicia's hand.

“It’s fine, still, thanks for offering to help me, guys.” Alicia said before looking at Wraith. “Who takes it?”

Wraith shook her head. “I can't disclose it, but they know your clash of interests.”

“Do they think I’ll do something stupid on duty?”

“Most likely.”

Alicia looked at her jacket, that was over a chair, before moving to take it. In silence she looked for something and stripped it. She gave it to Wraith, who raised an eyebrow when she saw Alicia’s captaincy badge.

“Alicia-”

“I have too much to lose to risk it like that.” Alicia said, surprisingly calm.”Here, keep it until this is ended, I won't be the Captain for now.”

Wraith grabbed it with a frown. “I expected you to be furious.”

“I am, but I won't risk my people.”

“Right…”

Alicia looked at her tiredly. “I'll be on leave, call me when you find him. I need to speak with him.”

Wraith doubted for a second, but then she nodded with a look of pity. “Where will you go? To Las Almas?”

“...No, I need time alone.”

Wraith nodded and soon she took Luke along to ask him to fill her role in the meantime. All while Jackson looked at Alicia in silence, raising an eyebrow.

“I’m actually surprised by your reaction.I thought you’d go full psycho hunting Reyes.”

“Nah…you know I can’t.”

Jackson sighed and nodded. “Guess you’re right. Anyway, call me if you feel sick, okay? For now, I’ll go see what I have to do. Now that Luke is the leader temporarily.”

“Good luck, kid.”

“Mhmm.”

The medic walked out of the medic bay while Alicia kept the calm expression, until he disappeared from her sight. For a second she stayed like that, then her expression changed to a deep angered scowl and clenched her hands until her knuckles became white.Still without saying a word, she grabbed a second phone hidden in her jacket to message someone.

[We need to talk. Soon.]

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I love u so much, M 💖💖💖💖

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Adult!Val: *arriving to the Vargas-Marchant house* Liv! Leo! Are you home?!

Adult!Olivia: *closing her book* Hey Val, what's up?

Adult!Leo: Hey man, good to see you! *walking out of the garage cleaning his hands* if you need our mom or dad, they're out for the day

Val: Actually I need your help

Olivia: A new case?

Val: Yup

Leo: Is it even legal you ask us for help?

Val: ...No one needs to know

Val: Also, I brought your favorite hot drinks, and the amazing promise of total and complete secrecy.

Leo: Starting to learn old tricks, huh?

Val, setting everything on the table: What? Bribery?

Leo, winking at Olivia: No, talking with the best experts.

Val, smirking: Of course… (winks back)

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Nicolás: *finds Dante asleep/collapsed on His sofa* Wow, Flo really screwed him

Nicolás: :) *uses a marker and scribbles in Dante's face*

Nicolás: ...Damn, I'm like a kid *chuckles and cover Dante with a blanket* well, there you go

Him getting up after a powerful sleep only to see himself in the mirror & getting super confused at the scribbles on his face but never blaming Nicolás because he thinks he is “too good” to do that to him!!!! 😂

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(I know Thanksgiving past already but I want to share this if the Specters invited the 4 Toa Siblings for Thanksgiving!)

Kanoa, was enjoying the food as he thought of something: Say! How about we all take turn of telling each other of what we're thankful for? Luke: Not a bad idea! Rangi: We can try that. Sami? How about you start off? Sami: Hmmm...well...I am very thankful that I don't have an ugly ass scar on my face. Alicia, was sitting NEXT to Sami: ......... *everyone was silenced* Rangi: ......AHEM. Um, Alicia! Your turn! Alicia: Hmph. Well, I'm thankful that I ACTUALLY forgave MY family when they did something wrong. Tiala, sipping her drink awkwardly: (Here we go...) Sami: Well, I'M thankful that I'm not that clingy with my spouse. That'll cause you annoyance. Alicia: That's call LOVE you asshole! Jackson, rubbing his face: We JUST finished eating you two idiots. Sami/Alicia: STAY OUT OF THIS! Alicia: Well, I'm thankful that I get to spend time with my FRIENDS who CARED about me instead of IGNORING them most of the time! Sami: I WAS OUT AT SEA! Alicia: STILL! Luke: ......*whispers to Kanoa* Luke: You HAVE to bring that up between these two? Kanoa: I-I didn't know it will go THAT bad! Rangi: Still. Should've seen it coming... Tiala: Hey Jack, want to get more drinks? But stronger? Jackson: Yes please.

(Happy Belated Thanksgiving!)

Oh damn...

Those two can't get even a celebration in peace, huh? Definitely an awkward dinner 🤣they didn't even let the others have time to be grateful.

I love that Tiala and Jackson are like: "I'm out of this, I'm too sober for this."

Sorry for taking so long to answer, Taro 😅 hope you had a good Thanksgiving and still have a good december 💖💖 LOVE YOU AULELEI 💗❤️✨

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WIIIIIIIITCH! If you remember that vid that I sent from TikTok about Alejandro and Rudy. And knowing for Alicia and Kanoa's friendship. They are like BESTIES FOREVER! BUT...he also love his sister as well.

So...I was thinking...of another ANGSTY ideas for Kanoa.

If the three of them (Kanoa, Alicia and Tiala) went out on another mission and they ended up got backfired. Meaning the three of them were captured and was interrogated.

And let's just say that the enemy knows the three of them very well and knows their weakness. Mostly KANOA'S. So you could say this boss is given him a CHOICE.

The choice of choosing one to live and one to die. And his choices were right in front of him.

It's either choose his SISTER or his BEST FRIEND.

Kanoa is totally shaking right now and not wanting to choose. But if he doesn't choose then BOTH of them shall die.

How would Alicia reacted to this situation? Seeing Kanoa was hesitating and seeing Tiala was trying to tell her brother to let Alicia go instead.

AHHHHHHHHH!!! NOOOOO! TARO WHY?! 😭😭

Alicia was looking at Kanoa, noticing his doubts as he heard Tiala asking him to let her go instead of Tiala herself. For a second she thought of how they ended in that situation.

A mission gone south and an enemy that knew enough of them three.

Now Kanoa had a choice to make: one of them dies, the other lives.

In silence she stared down at the floor thinking on what to do, anything to find a chance of the three of them escaping. But at the same time, she knew it was almost impossible.

"Alpha Six." Alicia called, looking at him. "Choose Shark."

He looked at her, scared, and even Tiala's head whiped on her direction. "WHAT?!"

"Hey, I'll be fine. I have a plan." She said with a calm smile. "I promise."

Kanoa seemed to be doubting, but the rifle cannons were shoved against Tiala and her heads. That made him react and panic about the desicion.

"Wait! Wait!" He shouted to stop the enemies.

"Choose or both die!" The boss roared furious.

"Don't tell them anything, if we lose the intel, we have lost." Alicia said, then looked at him and winked discretely at him.

Tiala noticed the wink and went silent. At the same time Kanoa seemed doubtful, but with a worried look at Alicia, he chose Tiala. So the enemies cut Tiala's ropes and dragged her with Kanoa to the cell. And as they were dragged away, they managed to free themselves and escape.

"You don't have a plan." The enemy boss said surprisingly calm.

"I don't." Alicia said as she felt the cannon on the back of her head.

"Idiot."

"Perhaps, but at least they're going home." She said, closing her eyes as the sound of a bullet being charged on the chamber sealed her destiny.

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Me and who

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Earthquake

One-shot inspired by an episode of the k-drama Descendants of the Sun! Remember that the WTF belong to the marvelous @islandtarochips! Now, let's begin!

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The Specters and the WTF were involved in a mission regarding a branch of a cartel they both were hunting. At first they were sent to France to chase the two leaders they were looking for. As they arrived and raided the main building, they noticed how the objectives had already fled away.

“Wraith, where to now?” Alicia asked while all of them looked around. 

“They split. One is going to Kiribati, but we have their live location over Kyrgyzstan.” Wraith informed through the joint line. “The other one’s going to Cyprus, right now arriving.”

Kanoa intervened from his comms as well. “Then we need to split as well, Origin. If we let them have any kind of advantage, they’ll disappear.”

Alicia nodded and made a sign to call her boys. “I agree. Where will you go, Alpha Six?” 

“Kyrgyzstan, if we can intercept the bastard, we can get the locations.”

“Copy that, we will go to Cyprus then.” 

Wraith intervened with a calm voice. “Alpha Six, you and your team can go with our pilot. I already planned a transport for the Specters.”

“Much appreciated, Wraith.” Kanoa said, then nodded at Alicia before going to get his people.

“Copy and over, guys, good luck.”

Soon Edward and Nicholas were flying the WTF to a base in Kyrgyzstan, meanwhile the Specters were on a carrier going to Cyprus as they were taking a look at some last minute files Wraith sent them to prepare themselves. They were arriving at night to the island and were meant to go to a building in a city near Nicosia. Although, Elliot was looking at the sky with a bad feeling.

“Something wrong?” Marcus asked curiously when he noticed Elliot’s frown.

“I just…have a bad feeling, y’know? But it’s odd, I can’t get a name to it.” He murmured a bit worried.

“You should tell the Captain.”

Elliot nodded, then his frown deepened a bit when he noticed the birds flying weirdly. “Yeah, I’ll go get her.”

As Elliot spoke with Alicia, Jackson was looking at the comms, noticing they were getting oddly cracked. When they contacted Nicholas about it, the man was confused but figured it out relatively quickly as they docked in Cyprus.They were driven to the city where they had the intel about their objective in silence. 

Either way, they kept comms open. 

“Alpha Six, here Origin, you copy?” Alicia asked calmly.

Kanoa answered with a chuckle. “Here Alpha Six, how’s the paradise island?”

“How funny.” She murmured with a smile. “We’re arriving at the building, fucking old by the way, you?”

“All done here, we managed to intercept it and we sent the intel to General Kalani and Wraith..”

“Good to hear that, have a good trip back home.”

“Thanks. Change and out.”

“Hehe, we’ll keep comms open just in case. Change and out.”

Soon the Specters went inside the building, noticing it was oddly empty. So they prepared for any kind of traps that might await them inside the building. With the rifles raised, they started to walk back against back as Elijah and Alexander climbed up to the ceiling beams. That was the way they moved for a while, with their recon and sniper cleaning part of the path and informing them about any kind of enemies or problems ahead, of which Noah and Elliot took care of. 

At some point, Elijah and Alexander stumbled over the beams and it called everyone's attention.

They climbed down quickly, surprisingly uneasy as they walked towards the team.

“Delta, Hawk, what is it?” Alicia asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Something’s wrong, ma’am. Up in the beams, it shook.” Elijah murmured, shivering. “Not like us losing balance, but…literally shaking. It wasn’t strong but-”

“It’s not normal. That never happens.” Alexander interrupted, oddly serious.

Luke frowned and soon everyone was on high alert at what they said. The Lieutenant especially looked around and paled when he noticed some signs he knew well.

“What the-?” He murmured as he looked at some stagnant water now waving. “Oh fuck.”

“Harlem?” Jackson asked, now worried.

“Earthquake.” Luke murmured, and everyone tensed.

And in a second, the ground started to shake with enough strength that the huge machinery started to clink and fall. 

“Origin, Origin! What’s going on?!” Kanoa asked over comms when they heard the rumble from the other side of the line.

“There’s an earthquake! We’re evacuating!” Alicia answered as they started to ran towards the exit to avoid being locked with the machinery. 

“Wha-?!”

“CAPTAIN, THE PLACE IS COLLAPSING!” Luke shouted as the walls started to crack and explosions could be heard outside. 

“Get out! GET OUT! EVERYONE RETREAT NOW!” 

“WATCH OUT!” Jackson yelled with an edge of worry and fear.

Then a scream cut on the line, then it cracked and got cut off completely, just leaving static behind.

Meanwhile in Kyrgyzstan, the WTF seemed in shock as the static filled every channel they had available to try and communicate with the Specters. Tiala shared a look with Kanoa, then both of them looked at Agnes and nodded in silence. 

Blast nodded back and sped away, running towards the plane where Edward, Nicholas and Francis were anxiously looking at the control console of the comms.

“What’s going on?” She asked Edward, panting from the run.

Edward shook his head and looked at Nicholas. 

The comms expert seemed even more anxious than the other two. “I can’t get a hold of them. None at all. Lines are down completely.”

“What?” Agnes whispered worriedly. 

Francis simply went to look for some documents in the meantime, all while Tiala, Kanoa, Aelan and Nigel arrived running. The Specters cartograph was frantic as he logged in to get some news in real time.

“Viper, what do you have?” Edward asked worriedly.

Francis was pale as he read the breaking news, then looked at his Sergeant, whispering nervously. “Cyprus was hit by an earthquake that's a 6 on the Richter scale. They were near the epicenter.”

Kanoa felt a cold shiver run down his back and the fear started to clench his chest. For a second the world stopped as his mind kept running at the speed of light thinking about all the possible scenarios. 

“There’s seriously no way we can know how they are? None at all?” He asked, trying to keep his composure.

“Well, we all have trackers for our vital signs.” Edward explained, scratching the back of his neck out of pure nervousness and worry. “If Wraith can find the signal, at least we can know if they’re alright.”

“Good, good, is Wraith available?”

“Yes, sir.” Nicholas said, connecting with Black Tomb and Wraith’s office inside it. “We have her right now on channel three, connection stable.”

Kanoa nodded and took his own radio. “Wraith, here Alpha Six. You copy?”

“I’m here, Alpha Six, send traffic.” Wraith said as a keyboard clicked on the background. 

“We’re aware of the situation in Cyprus right now. Sergeant Edward Jackson informed us about vital signs trackers, can you get access to it?”

“I’m on it, give me a second.”

For a second everyone stayed in silence as they waited. It was a heavy silence filled with tension, and Tiala was speaking with Edward to prepare everything to take flight as soon as possible.

“I…I don’t know.” Wraith murmured, scared to everyone’s shock. “I can’t find it.”

“Repeat that, Wraith.” Kanoa ordered, his voice trembling for a moment.

“I can’t find the signal of the infantry team or recon pair trackers. To this moment, we aren’t sure if they’re dead or alive…they’re MIA from this moment forward.”

Kanoa closed his eyes almost like he received a punch while Francis sat next to the control console with a trembling sigh. Nicholas simply frowned and kept trying to connect with their radios. Even Nigel and Agnes seemed worried and confused, not sure of what to say at that moment or even at all.

Meanwhile Tiala looked at his brother and noticed the fear in his eyes as he leaned against the wall of the plane. She walked to him and put a hand over his shoulder.

“We can’t- we need to go get them. I don’t wanna think they might be dead.” He whispered, unable to look up from the floor.

“Noa, breathe in.” She said, worried. “We’ll find them. I already spoke with the Sergeant, and we’ll be ready to fly to Greece and move from there to Cyprus.”

Kanoa nodded in silence, feeling a lump on his throat. The forty minutes that took to refill and prepare the plane felt like an eternity for everyone. And as soon as the plane was ready to go, they charged everything and took flight while Wraith coordinated everything with a base in Greece.

In the middle of the flight, Wraith told them more about the situation as Francis showed them a map of the island.

“I’m following the news live, and it seems like the epicenter was in Nicosia. The capital is almost destroyed, and the cities nearby are somehow in the same state.” Wraith murmured, sighing heavily while Francis showed them images of the disaster in Cyprus. “We can’t wait for the rescue aid services, the priority is on Nicosia right now. From what I can tell…it’ll be days until they get to the place where they are.”

“What about the UE aid?” Tiala asked with a raised eyebrow.

“They aren't ready yet, but the Greek government can assign a rescue dog and its handler for now to help us if we’re ready to help in the rescue.”

Kanoa sighed and looked at Aelan, who seemed thoughtful. “Aelan, if we encounter an emergency-?”

“I'll lead with it until we can take them to a hospital or medical tent, Captain.” She said with a nod, seriously.

“Good to hear.”

“We’ll go too.” Edward said from the pilot seat. “We might not be infantry, but this is our team too.” 

“All hands are helping hands in these cases.” Kanoa said with a nod. 

As they flew over Georgia, Kanoa just closed his eyes and pressed the back of his head against the wall. He sighed and tried to ignore the thoughts about the possibilities of what happened. 

His hand clenched on a fist as he tensed. Not again. He won't lose anyone again if he has a say in it. 

A couple of hours later, they arrived in Greece and Kanoa went to speak with the high ranked soldiers while the rescue dog and the handler arrived. It was Aelan who spoke with him, coordinating everything to start the search as soon as they took land. Soon they hopped into a helicopter to fly towards Cyprus to start the rescue. 

The sight of the cities was discouraging, with the buildings collapsed, fires in some points of the cities and blocked roads. In a few minutes they arrived at the city where they had the last location from the team. And the first thing they saw was dozens of buildings destroyed on the floor while some people tried to help to find some victims of the earthquake. 

“Alright, let’s move everyone! We have people to find!” Kanoa ordered in a roar. 

“Yes sir!” Everyone shouted back and they started to move around the debris and the broken streets. 

The dog and its handler took the lead and Aelan followed them while the rest started the search and to help wherever they could as well. Sometimes, the dog barked towards some piles of debris where they started to search. To everyone's relief, they found many civilians still alive, so Aelan helped as much as she was able while some medical staff arrived after the nearby hospital sent their ambulances.

As they kept searching, bodies started to appear as well, which only worried the WTF and the remaining Specters even more.

For a while they didn’t find much as Wraith also told them that the rescue aid from the UE was on their way, which made everything a bit quicker for them. While they kept searching, at some point, when the rescue dog was a bit far, it started to bark loudly. And that called Aelan’s as well as the handler’s attention, so they called some of the paramedic and aid personnel. 

“Wait a minute-” She murmured at the same time she saw some smoke coming from under the debris near the dog, flare smoke. “They wouldn’t do something that stupid. Wait, it’s them, they would.”

Aelan ran towards the dog, who was scratching the debris and barking. 

“Who’s there?!” Jackson’s voice asked, half worried and half relieved.

“Jackson!? It’s Aelan!” She screamed, avoiding the flare smoke . “Are you okay?!”

“We’re still alive and using gas masks! But we need medical treatment for some of us!”

“On it! Have you-?!”

“Done triage?! Yes! We have one that needs immediate transport, two that need evaluation, another two with apparent light wounds and the rest of us are safe!”

“Copy that!” Aelan shouted, then turned on her radio. “To everyone, I found the Specters infantry and recon team. I repeat, I found them.”

“Copy that! Where are you? Six and I are on our way.” Tiala asked through comms.

“Approximately eight kilometers from the medical tent, follow the smoke, it’s a flare.”

Nigel’s voice came through as well. “Blast and I are going with some rescue personnel. Everyone can hear you right now.”

“Alright, we have eight people, all survivors, most of them are wounded and buried. I have no report of any external agent that can complicate the rescue.” She explained looking around and seeing how pieces of the building were still up. “Seems to be a partial collapse, so there is a possibility of foundations still supporting the area.”

Soon the comms were in stand by as well, and Aelan simply stayed beside the opening from where the smoke came from. She narrowed her eyes to try and glance inside, sighing relieved when she noticed the light of a flashlight emerging as well, followed by the well known medic.

“Good to see you, Jackson.” She said with a chuckle.

He huffed and sighed. “Me too, Aelan, me too. How’s everyone out there?”

“We’re helping with the rescue labors while searching for you, and you?”

“...We’re still alive and that’s enough for us right now.”

Aelan nodded and as soon as the flare started to burn off, she lit a new one and helped as much as she could to move some of the debris that didn’t seem to be of structural support. Not long after, the rest of the WTF arrived with Edward, Nicholas, Francis and a group of rescue workers. 

Bit by bit, the debris was taken off as the rescue personnel started to send a stretcher down. The first one that came out was Elijah, who was in the worst state of them.

The recon expert had an iron bar going through his leg, with his uniform already stained with blood. He was already in silence, simply exhausted despite the pain.

“The bar didn't seem to have punctured the femoral artery, either way, I haven't removed it in case I misdiagnosed.” Jackson explained to Aelan. “I stopped the bleeding, but still, he lost a lot of blood.”

Aelan nodded and helped to move Elijah to the place where the aid personnel were waiting before they rushed down to transport him to the medical tent. The next one was Alexander, who seemed to be hurting as Jackson explained that he was hit by some debris over his back. 

“He hasn’t moved since the end of the earthquake, I haven’t allowed him in case he has a crack or something.” Jackson explained while Alexander was taken by the rescue workers.

“Understood.”

One by one, he helped everyone to get the wounded ones out. Kanoa sighed relieved when he saw that everyone was alive, even chuckling a bit when Nigel and Agnes running to speak with Marcus and Noah, both of them with light wounds. 

However, he felt a shiver when he noticed how Alicia was unconscious. But before he could start to overthink, Tiala dragged him to talk for a second.

“Easy Noa, she’s okay.” She said to calm him down. “Jackson told Aelan what happened, she got hit by debris on the back of her head, but she’s unconscious because she was starting to panic bad.You know how Licia gets with dark places.”

“You sure?” He asked, worried.

“Wanna ask Luke? He’s already out.”

“Yes please.”

Tiala nodded and made a sign for Luke to get near, so the Lieutenant came near still covered in concrete powder and ashes. 

“What is it?” He asked curiously.

“First of all, are you good?” Tiala asked.

“Just a cut in my arm, nothing serious.”

“Good, do you mind explaining to Kanoa what happened? He's getting pretty worried for Alicia.”

“Ah, about her? She got hit by debris in the head, but when we ended down there it was pitch black and…well, we all know Alicia doesn’t like being in dark places like that. Long story short, Jackson helped her to calm down and she basically went out cold. She’ll be fine, Captain Toa, I promise.”

Kanoa nodded and sighed again, relieved, then decided to keep helping with the rescue activities while everyone was sent to the hospital. It was hours, until late night, before they could finish their help. mostly when the UE rescue aids came finally. They were covered in dust and tired, but they decided to go see if they could see everyone.

However, Wraith told them, more calmly than before, that they were in a hospital on the Turkish coast while they got treated. Mostly referring to Elijah’s injury, since most of Cyprus hospitals were either destroyed or collapsed. 

It wasn’t until three days later when they were able to go see them.

“Oh, c’mon! I didn’t die! No need to go mama hen with me here!” Elijah exclaimed, and it was heard from outside of the room.

“You shut up!” Noah exclaimed, half amused, half worried. “What if you fall down or something?”

“I’m not that clumsy, Noah!”

“Lie!” Nicholas intervened, laughing.

“Shut up!”

Tiala and Kanoa shared a look and chuckled. 

“Seems like they’re alright already, eh?” Kanoa murmured.

Once inside, they found the eight of them in their stretchers, some of them talking and some of them doing other things, while Edward, Francis and Nicholas were sitting with them and speaking. Jackson was in a corner, just watching everything with a smirk, but also with a huge bruise on his face and arms.

When he noticed them, the medic nodded as a greeting. Aelan went to get an update from him while the rest went to say hi to the wounded.

“You look horrible.” Kanoa commented to Alicia, chuckling despite the spark of worry in his eyes.

“I know, the worst part is that my neck itches and now I have a bald patch.” She commented with a calm laugh, leaving her book aside. 

“You do?”

“...Yeah.”

“Hehe, baldy.”

Alicia rolled her eyes, but smiled. “Shut up. But it’s good to see you, Noa.”

“Yeah, me too.” He murmured sitting beside her stretcher. “I was scared, y’know? For a second I thought you might be dead, and even just remembering you and your team were MIA…”

“I understand, don’t worry.” She said with a soft smile, punching gently his arm. “Also, since when am I easy to kill? You know I’d crawl back from hell if I had to.”

“Haha, how funny.” He said sarcastically while rolling his eyes.

Alicia laughed softly, and then looked at how Tiala was waiting for them to finish. So she smiled and waved at her, to which Tiala waved back and went to hug her gently. 

“Good to see you, Licia.” Tiala said with a hum, sitting beside her and leaving a flower bouquet next on the nightstand.

“Likewise, Tia, it’s good to see you too. How did everything go?”

“Our objective is captured and being interrogated, and yours is dead.”

“For real?”

“We found the body after a while under the debris.”

“Huh, seems like the world took it in its hands.” Alicia joked with a smirk.

“Yeah, it seems like it.”

“Well, it ended well after all. But I can already guess Wraith will give us an update for the trackers.” She murmured, looking away. “And a scolding now that I think about it.”

“Oh yeah, even Wraith was scared.”

“Ah shit, what if I feign I ended deaf?”

“Alicia no!” Tiala and Kanoa shouted, frowning.

“Okay, okay, sheesh. Just let me rest while I get better, then I’ll lead with Wraith.” Alicia said with an ashamed smile, raising her hands as a peace gesture and chuckling.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! IT LOOKS GREAT! HURRICANE AND STORM! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!

BRACE FOR THE STORM!

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WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs

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Witchy, my dear :3 for the ask game

🍜 dish

🎶 musical artist

🌻 flower

Hi Bel dear! Thanks for sending this in!

🍜 favorite dish?

Hmm, I'd say meat (beef), rice and beans!

🎶 favorite musical artist?

Carlos Vives for sure!

🌻 favorite flower?

Peach roses, they're beautiful and I love them bc I remember my grandpa grew ones when he had a garden. Sometimes he even gets some for the living room!

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☕️, 🐈‍⬛ and 🌦️!

Hi dear! Thanks for the ask!!

☕ favorite hot drink?

Coffee! Always coffee.

🐈‍⬛ favorite animal?

A jaguar. I love them tbh.

🌦️favorite weather?

Rainy or cloudy. It brings me good memories all the time, and I'm used to it since always.