#Dirt Diver! Nurf

[aboyandhisstarship]

The Delta AU  (tinder AU reboot)

Notes:

Thanks to @forestwater87 for not only the name Greenwood but also a suggestion as to what Gwen’s new job should be. 

final order of business this fic poses a very serious (not really) question that i want to know your answers to so discuss 

also this bad boy is un proof read because i got a digital date tonight...also i’m lazy 

That’s right a reboot, so enjoy.

 Afghanistan:

David advanced covering the roofs Night vision googles over his eyes as he said into his radio “Sand Man to Dog Patch we are passing Salmon,” The rest of the team moving in a wedge formation towards the destroyed town.

Millers voice returned “roger  Sand Man.”

David crouched raising a fist in a stop motion as he heard a handful of voices walking in the street he whispered “Cool Breeze?”

Jasper shook his head “no weapons….”

Nurf whispered “uhhh they told us that were only dudes holding AK’s out here.”

David shook his head saying “Sand Man to Dog Patch?”

Miller returned “I heard Sand Man…Intel is saying you are Oscar mike.”

Tabii growled “we are painting a target for a bombing raid.”

David asked “Dog Patch…how sure is intel?”

Miller paused “they are saying 60%.”

David watched Kids enter the street kicking a soccer ball, one of the kids kicked the ball wide and it Hit Nurf square in the chest the kids ran up and then saw the 4 soldiers crouching on the ground.

The kids backed away scared as David lowered his weapon nodding for his team to do the same he pushed the ball back to the kids before saying “Sand Man Dog patch…Intel is wrong…we are aborting.”

David tried to smile at the kids who grabbed the Ball before running away.

The lights on the village lit up but by then the team was already gone.

North Carolina:

David stepped off the plane as Miller met him saying “Sir…you got to get those Intel guys straight.”

Miller sighed “they are not on the ground.”

David countered “maybe they should be…Sir…all I ask is that my team know that they are hostiles on the ground…before we are sent in.”

Miller sighed “I will pass on your request up the chain Sargent major, until then your team is off rotation until another Mission comes up.”

David gestured “yes sir, Jasper!”

Jasper smiled “cars running Davie.”

 The next night:

David was dressed in plaid as Jasper dragged out of the car saying “Davie, we both know you need to get out more…you work too much.”

David pointed out halfheartedly “we work the same amount?”

Jasper countered “but I have Sarah waiting for me…who do you have David?”

David sighed “Look Jasper….”

Jasper crossed his arms before saying “that’s what I thought…come on Davie let’s make you some friends.”

The bar much to David’s annoyance was busy and Jasper was waved over by Sarah Jasper's fiancee, David awkwardly stood around before bidding an escape towards the bar ordering a coke, he sat down drinking his coke scrawling through his phone, Tabii was with her girlfriend and Nurf was visiting his mother. So sadly he was stuck with Jasper and by extension all of Sarah’s doctor friends.

David took another sip as a voice asked “you get dragged here to?”

He turned to his right to see a girl about his age, wearing a sundress. She smiled “my names Gwen.”

David smiled “David.”

Gwen looked him up and down before nodding “outdoors type dragged here by a friend who thinks you need to get out more?”

David chuckled “is it that obvious?”

Gwen was about to answer when Sarah walked over “GWEN! I see you met the other recluse!”

David and Gwen said in unison “recluse!?”

Sarah rolled her eyes “Gwen this is one of Jaspers co-workers David, David Gwen was my roommate back in school.”

Gwen sighed “there goes my entire mystic.”

Sarah countered “David here has an enough for both of you!” before walking away enjoying her beer.

David took a sip of his coke asking “another doctor?”

Gwen mumbled “I’m an editor at a newspaper.”

David asked “what?”

Gwen said it again a little louder “I am an editor at a newspaper.”

David lit up “No kidding that is awesome!”

Gwen blinked “thank you.”

David took another sip saying “sounds like interesting work?”

Gwen nodded “it can be…”

She was interrupted as the TV said “breaking news at this hour, Country pop singer Cindy McGuire, has been kidnapped during her tour of South America…”

The bar tender turned off the TV as David’s phone pinged he glanced up to see Jasper pinged as well, he turned around to see Gwen was phone also went off. David opted not to question it saying “pleasure meeting you, but work calls.”

Gwen sighed “same…but I would like to talk to you again.”

David smiled before he threw some cash on the bar before holding his phone to his ear saying “go for Greenwood.”

Jasper following him out, Sarah appeared next to Gwen groaning “they just got back…but duty calls.”

Gwen glanced up from her own emails “what…oh yea…a real shame.”

Sarah smiled “so what did you think of David?”

Gwen frowned “Listen I have to go work.” Dodging the question

Sarah smiled “oh she is hooked.”

 Fort Bragg:

Nurf sat down groaning “man I had to leave my mom…again.”

Tabii groaned “And I lost date night…yet again.”

Jasper sipped some water saying “if it makes you feel any better David was making moves on a girl.”

The entire squad sat forward as David blushed “Wha…me and Gwen…no way, I mean I barely know her and…”

Tabii interrupted “Damn…he is already smitten.”

Miller burst in saying “sorry to pull you all away, but we have a developing situation, this is Cindy McGuire.”

Nurf smiled “my mom loves her stuff!”

Tabii blinked “wasn’t she in the news recently?”

Miller nodded “she was caught on video, doing a rather…caustic rant…and as such is on a tour of schools she helped build in South America.”

Jasper flinched saying “yea I remember watching the news with Sarah when the news broke, it was not pleasant.”

David reminded “we don’t have to like her, we just need to do the job.”

Miller nodded “speaking of, her publisher had the genius idea of publishing her route in advance…she got herself nabbed by a couple of wannabe El Chapo types.”

Tabii groaned “oh boy…”

David sighed “so untrained goons with Ak’s…what are their demands?”

Miller visibly scoffed “500 million dollars, and weapons…enough weapons to arm an air craft carrier.”

Japer took a sip of water “these guys need to manage their expectations.”

Miller chuckled dryly adding “since these guys have demanded weapons a rescue operation has been green lit, this job is going to be in the public eye…so make it clean.”

Elsewhere:

Gwen entered as her boss said “Gwendolyn about time you got here.”

Gwen sighed “sorry sir.”

Her boss rolled his eyes saying “Cindy McGuire got nabbed from her tour in South America, a friend of a friend in the FBI said the investigation just changed hands…and there is red tape involved! You know what that means! NEWS! So I want to know what is happening Gwen! Get on it!”

Gwen nodded “on it sir,” As she started to dive deep.

 C130:

David sat in his black camo the lights in the plane were dimmed as he napped only for jasper to loudly clear his throat “David.”

David replied without opening his eyes “Yea Jasp?”

Jasper took a sip of water before asking “sooooooo Gwen.”

David turned over and went back to sleep ignoring Jasper as Tabii grinned “I ship it.”

Nurf said “we have not even met her yet.”

Tabii exclaimed “who cares, anyone who can make the boss look like that is good in my books!”

Nurf shook his head as one of the flight engineers said “1 hour to jump get ready!”

 Peru:

David landed with a thump his night vision googles over his face as he said “dog patch we have passed RWBY.”

Miller responded “roger that Sand Man.”

The team started to advance toward the abandoned gas station where McGuire was being held as Tabii asked “RWBY? Isn’t that the name of like an anime or something?”

Nurf pointed out “it’s American so is it technically an anime?”

Everyone looked at him and he shrugged “what, just because I’m a meat head doesn’t mean I don’t dabble.”

Jasper sighed “I’m just mad they gave us cartons for this operation, come on not the coolest option.”

David dead panned “the last one was sea food.”

Jasper groaned “I know but at least it was at least somewhat cooler.”

Nurf sighed “are you going to brush past that this one is cartoons and the first one is RWBY?”

Tabii sighed “I thought you were not sure RWBY was an Anime?”

Nurf groaned “yea but…but cartoon doesn’t feel right.”

Tabii lunched into a counter point as David tuned them out. 

At this point this debate had been going on for about three hours when David signaled stop saying “Cool Breeze Dirt Diver give me an enemy count.”

Nurf and Jasper said “Wilco.”

David said “Dogpatch, we have passed…Danny Phantom over.”

David heard chuckling in Dog patch as he said “say again Sand man?”

David rolled his eyes “Dog Patch we have passed Danny Phantom.”

Miller could not keep  the amusement out of his voice having heard the previous conversation as it recorded over there com’s “roger Sandman you have passed Danny Phantom.”

Nurf smiled “now that’s a cartoon.”

David reminded “everything we say is being recorded for the record.”

Nurf paused before adding “Danny Phantoms dad is my spirit animal.”

David sighed “report on enemy Dirt Diver.”

Jasper responded “I got 4 tangos, all packing AK’s all facing east, having a smoke.”

David asked “any inside?”

Nurf this time said “negative.”

David flicked off his gun safety saying “Dog patch Sand Man…permission to engage.”

Miller answered “sand man your team has the Green Light.”

David responded already moving towards the building saying “roger.”

The goons were enjoying their smoke as David said “On my count…3,2,1.”

With that four gun suppressed shots rang out and the goons fell to the ground with holes in their skulls.

The team stacked up on the door as David nodded and they kicked the door open meeting the screaming face of Cindy McGuire.

David said “clear, Red cap.”

Tabii moved over to the tied down girl saying “Ma’am we are American’s we are here to rescue you.”

Tabii looked her over for wounds as she demanded in a high pitched voice, the type of thing you would expect from a rich snobby girl in a high school movie as she demanded “who are you people.”

David ignored her saying “dog patch we have passed courage the cowardly dog.”

Cindy called to David the clear leader saying “I said who are you! You have no right to treat me this way! I demand to speak to my agent!”

David and Jasper shoot each other a “is she for real?” glance before saying “like Red cap said we are American’s.”

McGuire furled her lips “the fuck kind of name is RED CAP!?”

Nurf pulled out his knife as she said “Woah sorry I asked sheesh!”

Nurf sighed “just relax I’m cutting you free.”

McGuire now free from her chair asked “so if she is Red Cap...” dragging on the word as if had personally run over her dog before finishing “what are the rest of you?”

David sighed “my name is Sand man that is Cool Breeze and Dirt Diver.”

McGuire looked Nurf up and down “oh you are a Dirt Diver that’s for sure.”

Nurf looked suitably offended as David said “ma’am we can’t stay here, sun comes up in 4 hours and we still have 8 kilometers to cross, to get to the chopper.”

McGuire laughed “oh that’s a short drive…wait…are you asking me to walk!? This is an outrage! Your treating me worse than my kidnappers!”

She snapped her fingers “I want to talk to this….what did you call it Dog patch…god another awful name.”

David groaned “ma’am we are in a hostile environment as such I am the highest authority you can speak to, if you wish to launch a formal complaint that is your right but will have to wait until after we are out of an active combat zone.”

McGuire groaned “I’m holding you to that…Sand Man.” She spat out the name.

McGuire started the walk as David said “Dog patch, we are passing Cyber chase.”

 3 hours later:

McGuire sat on a rock whining “ my feet hurt, is that helicopter coming or not! My lawyers will have a field day with this!”

David who was next to the girl groaned “chopper will be here in 20 mikes.”

McGuire demanded “I don’t speak baby killer!”

Tabii snapped “minutes!...the chopper will be here in 20 minutes.”

McGuire groaned “it better be, I can’t believe this happened I was supposed to get away without any consequence’s, because I’m hot popular and rich!”

The team looked at each other  yet again silently asking “is this girl for real?”

 Blackstone air force base:

McGuire was taken off the plane with a trauma blanket around her as she wailed “they were so horrible to me!” to the waiting camera’s

Gwen saw her reporters trying to get an interview with the star who clearly put on more make up before coming out to the camera’s but Gwen was more interested in soldiers in the back ground quietly slipping away chatting among themselves, including a tuft of red hear she could swear she could recognize.

 2 days later:

David plucked down on his apartment couch, the debrief for that last operation was a night mare, as true to her Diva ways, McGuire was suing the US government for her “rough treatment” everyone who had seen the transcript had determined that she in fact did not have a case, but the Army not in a mood for a long trial so they redacted anything classified and planned to release the transcript  to a news station.

David lay back already thinking of the memes that will spawn “should RWBY have been on the cartoon list?”

 News office:

Gwen re read the transcript chuckling at the teams moving in attics and groaning every time the letters HVT appeared on the transcript. She had found a picture of David on Sarah’s phone and had determined it was likely they were the same person. Gwen chuckled “I guess Sarah’s was not kidding when she mentioned mystic.”

[aboyandhisstarship]

so you have played Ghost recon breakpoint...but what about wildlands, how about an idea for that game?

I like wild lands a lot! i play the games with my brother so it’s a good time and here you go:

The Marine took a sip of his water as he patrolled the outer wall of the embassy, a man approached the front gate showing his passport, the other marine nodding and allowing him to enter the Marine turned to keep looking out at the streets for a few minutes when there was a rumble and a loud boom, the marine went sailing and the world went dark.

 Fort Bragg, North Carolina:

A woman entered looking at the 4 operator’s assembled quickly saying “thank you for your timely arrival; I am Agent Timmons, Sasha to my friends.”

A read head smiled back “Sargent major Greenwood, Master Sargent Fronds, Master Corporal Nurfington, and Warrant Officer Collins.”

Sasha smiled “I heard stories about you guys, I was a rookie field officer is Moscow when the Coup happened.”

The squad looked down as David said “you have us confused with someone else now…we were never there.” He lied poorly

Jasper cleared his throat “what do you need from us?”

Sasha nodded “right, 47 hours ago a crude but powerful explosive device exploded in the US embassy in La Paz Bolivia, killing 2 marine guards and wound 6 civilians, shortly afterwards DEA agent Ricardo, Ricky Sandoval disappeared.”

Nurf sighed “what’s the OP, sounds like a job for the FBI and locals.”

Sasha sighed “and normally you would be right, the FBI is still combing through the wreckage of the embassy, but in terms of local authority, we have a situation, about 4 years ago, a Us National known only to us as Daniel arrived in country…he was on our radar previously due to him leading for all intents and purposes a cult, dedicated to the worship of Zeemog. Who they claim granted them access to some kind of plant that when fabricated the right way creates a highly addictive and dangerous drug.”

Tabii sighed “and our DEA friend was looking into this Drug?”

Sasha nodded “when Daniel and his followers arrived they lead a coup and took over the Bolivian government, they have a puppet president but for all intents and purposes they run the country, agent Sandoval was undercover to try to find out what he could from the organization.”

David sighed “ok but what connects them to the embassy?”

Sasha pressed a button showing security footage of Sandoval entering the embassy as she stated “he entered the embassy about 4 minutes before the bomb went off, best intel suggests that they tried to use the bomb to kill him and when that failed grabbed him another way.”  

Jasper whistled “bold play for these guys.”

Sasha nodded “your current mission is to locate and  if at all possible recover  Agent Sandoval.”

Nurf asked “if he isn’t breathing?”

Sasha simply “we can adjust the mission as more Intel comes into play.”

David leaned forward “Bolivia is a big country, how are we going to find him?”

Sasha hit a button showing a picture of a woman saying “meet Gwen Santos, reporter for the globe that has been in country for a few years and a friend Sandoval, she is your best bet on finding anything.”

David asked “when are we wheels up?”

Sasha smiled “Right now.”

 Bolivia 0100:

Gwen ate some ice-cream as she looked over he notes when there was a knock on her, well she can’t call it a house it was closer to a shack. When the door opened she was pushed down as four people quickly stormed the shack clearing it, at first she figured it was the Zeemog’s but they were clearly to well-armed for that 4 voices said “clear.”

A man picked her up, he was wearing a helmet multicam with night vision hanging above his face not currently in use, A vest with the AB + symbol on it next to a pale white skull. The guy said calmly “Gwen Santos?”

Gwne blinked “who are….wait you’re them?”

A woman in the group said “them?”

Gwen nodded “Ricky, he told me something was going to happen, he said he could feel it…and to keep an ear open, some soldiers will be at my door.”

A solider appeared in Gwen's view saying “We are the rescue team Miss Santos, our names are Sand man, Cool Breeze, Dirt Diver, and Red Cap”

The red head pointed to each of his team in turn before saying “we were told that you had info about where we could maybe find Agent Sandoval.”

Gwen deadpanned “and you kicked down my door?”

The one Sand Man had called Dirt Diver deadpanned “had to make sure you were here and not a group of thugs.”

Gwen sighed “I guess that makes sense, he disappeared …I didn’t know they grabbed him…but knowing Daniel he is having tortured by a couple of real nasty types.”  

Sand man asked “tortured?”

Gwen nodded “they call them Brother Yuri and Sister Polito, from what I can dig up they were a doctor and nurse respectively. They saved the right or wrong depending on who you ask person’s life and ended up as Zeemogs personal docs…but they are better known for being there…ya know.”

The girl Redcap said “they have had the agent for over 2 days boss.”

Sand man asked “do you know where they act out of?”

Gwen sighed “ a cabin in the woods…in the central province…”

Sand man nodded “thank you, it may not be safe for you anymore.”

Gwen grinned “you let me worry about me Sand man.”

The redhead smiled at her pulling down his night vision saying “sand man to ghost lead.”

47 minutes later:

David crawled up saying “this looks like the place.” ‘

Sasha voice came over com’s “ghost lead to sand man you are free to engage.”

David nodded “roger.”

Quickly the team advanced opening the cabin and quickly clearing it to find it empty moving down the stairs they swept when they heard a voice saying “By Zeemogs breath.”

David held up his arm saying “possible contact”

The team crept deeper as they heard screams and Tabii said “Jesus Christ…”

Around them was a corridor filled with trash bags, no one dared look inside. David said “let’s be quick about this.”

David did a 3,2,1 gesture before hitting a door letting it open as the team moved in they yelled “Hands on your heads!”

Yuri and Polito dropped the pliers and jumper cable’s they were holding, they reached for guns but were met by 4 gun shots and they fell over dead.  David saw they were in mid…session with someone saying “red cap!”

Tabii walked over checking the guys pulse before shaking her head Jasper asked “agent Sandoval?”

Tabii pulled up her sleeve looking at the pictures on her arm before shaking her head “no.”

Nurf said “stairs!”

David took point saying “alright be careful, watch for traps.”

The 4 operator’s slowly went down before looking what looking like a morgue out of a horror movie,  Jasper groaned “Jesus…”

Nurf whistled his sleeve pulled up, David walked over and saw agent Sandoval, clearly tortured to death a symbol of Zeemog Tattooed on his forehead. David asked “any idea how long?”

Tabii sighed “at least since yesterday sir…”

David sighed “Red cap cell phones laptops, files anything of value.”

Tabii nodded “on it boss.”

David said then said “Dirt Diver cool breeze, find or make a stretcher…were not leaving him here.”

Jasper said “On it boss.”

David sighed “I got to make a call.”

 Langley Virginia:

Sasha sighed “thank you Sand man I will be back with more orders.” She looked at her computer and the pop up “submit for approval…Operation Kingslayer.TXT”

[aboyandhisstarship]

Tinder AU: i always figured you would out live me

TW: School shooting (kinda) hostages, guns, violence, Death of a major character

A/N: welcome to angst vile pop you, i debated the ending to this for a long time (more on that later) but decided to go with it, DO you agree with me!? tell me and find out.

David dropped the note he was holding his head in his hands before reaching over to this phone to call Gwen before met with a simple “the number you are trying to reach has been disconnected.”  

David look down feeling the tears welling on his face before his phone buzzed, he reeled himself in saying with a simple “go for Greenwood…Yes sir, not an issue at all.”

David grabbed his bag turning off his apartment light.

6 months later, C130:

The plane flew through the air, David was sleeping in the middle with Jasper doing a crossword, Tabii was trying to help but was not doing a great job, while Nurf was taking a swig of water.

David was dead to the world, as Tabii said quietly “is he ok?”

Jasper paused saying “7 letter word for natural phenome…and what do you mean?”

Tabii scoffed “rainbow and I heard the stories about him; he could be under fire with his radio busted and 3 rounds to his name and still be smiling.”

Nurf added “I heard he was real close to having smiley as his call sign.”

Jasper paused “He is mission ready.”

Tabii chuckled “oh he is everything his rep said he was…save for the optimistism”

Jasper paused saying “look…He is going through a time…he had a girl, they were getting serious…he had started ring shopping, but everyone almost bought it on another op, then he gets home to a dear john…”

Nurf said “Oh…”

Tabii frowned “dear god…”

Jasper nodded “he’s a tough guy he will bounce back…”

As all 3 looked at the sleeping red head,

Fort Bragg North Carolina:

Jasper threw a towel at David who lurched awake on his friends couch, Jasper said “davie…”

David wiped his eyes “I’m fine…”

Jasper paused “You have been crashing on my couch for the last six months. Sophie enjoys your company as much as anyone but…” referring to sophie his fiancé, a nurse currently on duty.

David sighed “soon or later I need to go back to my place…I know Jasp…just…”

Jasper nodded “everything there reminds you of her?” handing the red head a water bottle

David took the water saying “Pathetic I know…”

Jasper shook his head “David I’ve known you for years, Gwen is the only girl you ever opened up to, poured your heart out to…and she dumped you at the lowest point you have ever been…I would say you are allowed to be heartbroken.”

David shook his head “I shouldn’t have kidded myself, what is it 90 percent of all team relationship’s fail? You’re the exception jasp…but I guess I’m not.”

Jasper patted his back saying “she wasn’t right for you…that doesn’t mean there isn’t someone else there.”

David grabbed his phone smiling saying “thanks Jasp… go for greenwood.” As the phone buzzed

Seattle:

Gwen sighed as she looked over one of her grad students thesis, she almost laughed at the irony…the girl it seemed had a boyfriend the she was preoccupied with, causing her to delay her submission, Gwen almost out of habit let it go, saying how important spending time with your partner is, she will always hold onto that from her time with David, not to waste time because you never know when that phone will ring.

Gwen shuddered, she didn’t think about David often but whenever she did she felt a pang of sadness he was only always good to her…whenever he was there anyway, she turned the tv to the news…she never told anyone but she always watched every night just in case, hoping to never see his face.”

Gwen leaned in her chair before shaking her head “I left him, why do I care!?”

A voice in the back of her mind answered “because you know he did not deserve what you did to him.”

Fort Bragg North Carolina:

Captain Miller smiled “thanks for coming on such short notice.” Addressing David’s team

David shook his head “what’s the op sir.”

Captain Miller pulled up a picture saying “this Mai Cai Shek.”

Nurf chewed on a carrot “so who is this guy, terrorist, arms dealer, double parker?”

Tabii shrugged “who cares we render him into prison or grave and go home.”

Miller coughed “Mister Shek, is a student or engineering in the university of Seattle applied science division.”

David shrugged “ok a brainy terrorist?”

Miller shook his head “I know this outside your specialty…but you are to shadow him and ensure his safety.”

David blinked as he said “Sounds like a job for the Seals sir?”

Miller nodded “and you would be right, but this team was personally requested, the request was passed on to the pentagon who agreed to it.”

David blinked “who the hell is this guy.”

Miller sighed “didn’t tell me the details only that the powers that be are very eager for him to stay alive, questions?”

No one answered so miller sighed “you are wheels up in one hour.”

Seattle:

David leaned on the counter of the campus coffee shop, he was smartly dressed…made to look nerdier with a sweater and a pair of glasses, an earwig concealed in his ear. He casually observed the subject saying quietly “redcap.”

Tabii reported “I’m in Nomad, his dorm is bugged and we are inside his computer…this guy can’t order a pizza without us knowing what’s on it.”

David nodded “keep it subtle redcap….dirt diver?”

Nurf sat in a car down the road saying “go Nomad.”

David took the handed coffee thanking the barista he took a sip to cover his question “are you ready for the QR?”

Nurf nodded “roger nomad, t-Minus 30 seconds to hard evac.”

David nodded as he stuffed some change into his wallet saying “cool Breeze?”

Jasper dressed with a bit more punk flair said “I’m on the south end of the building nomad.”

David turned around saying “roger, I’ll take the west…”

David came face to face with Gwen, He tried to play it off speaking in a German accent “Pardon me ma’am.”

Gwen however smiled “Ma’am…”

David froze knowing now that Gwen had recognized him he said “Cool breeze.” Under his breath

Jasper nodded “I see her…Nomad, do what you need to…I have the subject.”

Gwen was looking puzzled as she mouthed “cool breeze?”

David then walked up to Gwen pretending to drop something said quickly “what are you doing here?”

Gwen fumed “me!? I work here what about…”

David cut her off “quiet, we can talk over there.”

Gwen eyed a campus security guard before nodding following David to the table, David sat down saying quietly “cool breeze I am at the west side.”

Gwen sat down before saying “Are you stalking me!?”

David’s eyes went wide “what no!?”

Gwen narrowed her eyes “then why are you….are you working!?” she lowered her voice

David looked down not answering, Gwen frowned “you are aren’t you…”

David sighed “you know…”

Gwen scoffed “you can’t talk about it I know…”

The subject began to move followed by jasper, David let him pass as he glanced at his watch “Gwen it was good seeing you.” Getting up to leave

Gwen said “oh no you don’t.” following the solider out of the door

Gwen yelled in the parking lot “you don’t get to run away on your little missions again.”

David stopped asked “Cool breeze?”

Jasper returned “subject is on the road…myself and dirt diver are following.”

David nodded “Roger, redcap.”

Tabii returned “on my way nomad.”

Gwen demanded “are you really going to ignore me!?”

David turned  off his com before facing Gwen “you left me! “he yelled “you walked away and never looked back not me!”

Gwen demanded “I did it because you are always like this! Anytime anywhere you get a call and leave with barely a word!”

David fumed  “you chose to walk away, you didn’t even wait you left me a note to find when I got back, DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THE DAY BEFORE I GOT HOME GWEN!?” he yelled

Gwen didn’t answer as he yelled “THEY DIED GWEN I LOST TWO MEMBERS OF MY TEAM I WAS LEFT IN CHARGE AND COME HOME TO FIND OUT YOU RAN AWAY! YOU DIDN’T HAVE THE SAND TO DO IT TO MY FACE, YOU DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE EASIER TO RUN AWAY!”                

Gwen shrunk as David cooled off “you couldn’t handle it that’s fine! I won’t hold that against you, but you left, you changed your number ,you walked away and you have the fucking guts to stand in front of me and get mad that I walk away without a word.” he paused before letting out a cruel laugh as Tabii pulled up

David walked over to the car saying “let’s go redcap”

Tabii got out and said “one second” and saw David slink into the passenger she  charged up to Gwen saying quietly “You broke his heart bitch, if you ever try to talk to him again…we will put you in the ground, and if you know anything about us you know that is not a metaphor.”

Tabii climbed in peeling Away, David reached up to turn his com back up but Tabii stopped him saying “easy boss, let us help you.”

David for the first time broke down crying saying “I really thought she loved me.”

Tabbii sighed as she got the heartbroken solider Ice cream.

Gwen meanwhile stood in the parking lot mouth wide open.

Safe house:

David sat in the safe house staring at the wall as Jasper sat beside him “you good boss?”

David paused before saying “Just getting squared away Jasp…”

Tabii added more info to the board with the man subject on the wall, Nurf sighed “everything about this guy seems normal…who the hell is he.”

Tabii laughed “we are trained for…cough target elimination…”

David looked up “did you say cough out loud?”

Tabii looked sheepish “I always wanted to do that…”

David shook his head saying “alright…work backwards…I’m here to kill this guy…how do I do it?”

Nurf shrugged “a sniper shot would do it…”

Jasper shook his head “nah…if we were in Iraq I would say yes…but here…a media circus…”

Tabii nodded “a student getting his head blown off in the middle of the street might make the evening news…”

David nodded “so I need top take him out In a way that not light me up like Vegas lights, household accident?”

Tabii shook his head “we got his house bugged…he is not quite paranoid but differently careful, he is well liked but isolated.”

Jasper shrugged “sounds like the perfect target, over confidant but with plenty of openings”

Tabii laughed “you would think so, but the man is somehow on the floor with the highest number of busy bodies I have ever seen, I was stopped 4 times, dressed as a maintence worker…plus a lot of security cam’s.”

David threw up and catching a paper ball saying “so at home is out, and taking him out in the middle of the street will draw to much attention…what do that leave us…”

The team looked at each other the same way as Tabii said quietly “Jack reacher…”

The team quickly went pale as David reached for the sat phone.

Campus:

Gwen sat outside her head in her hands, trying to ignore the voice in her head saying “he is right you know, he risks his life every day and you yelled at him.”

Gwen groaned “quiet you.”

The voice said “hey don’t shot the messenger I’m you, you know.”

Gwen nodded “I know…but sadly you don’t know how to make this right anymore then I do…”

Gwen then heard what sounded like gun shots.

Nurf sped down the road as Miller called “Nomad, Dog patch we have reports of shots fired on campus confirm.”

David checked his MP5 as he responded “dog patch we are on quick response, requesting local support ASAP, we will be in contact in t minus 30 seconds.”

Miller nodded “roger that local police are in route, you are free to engage, good luck Nomad.”

Gwen was shoved into a room by a group of people wearing sky masks, inside was a wide variety of people, they seemed random with no real rhyme or reason to how they were chosen. one guy was shoved in next to Gwen and hit in the stomach falling to the floor as Gwen was Shoved against the wall.

The man in ski masks raised there weapons, and in that second 3 things happened, the guy on the ground sprung up from the ground producing a pistol firing wildly

The other 2 was the door was kicked open and a strange cylinder was thrown in before all hell broke out.”

David kicked open the door as Jasper threw in a flashbang, in his perifable she saw someone fire a pistol and miss every shot at the hostiles, he ignored them as the guys in the ski masks whipped around, David felt the his weapons recoil as he and his team easily shot down, the hostage takers.

David quickly moved forward seeing there subject he reported “dog patch jackpot repeat jackpot, subject is safe.”

David shoved the guy towards Nurf when he saw movement at the end of the line where Gwen looked at him with pleading eyes “David…”  blood soaking through her shirt as she collapsed. \

David Slid catching her yelling “redcap!”

Tabii was already moving “On it boss.”

David gently lay her down to let the medic work saying “Dogpatch we have a civ hit…”

Miller asked “was it the terroists?”

David at the guy pistol still smoking smiling like a hero with a direct line of sight to Gwen David growled “negative…we had a bit of a john Mclean.”

Miller responded “roger, EMT’s are in route render aid.”

David was barely listening as he said “wilco.”

Grabbing the smug man forcing to his feet he said “hey I’m a hero!?”

David felt his fist clentch as Jasper said quickly “Nomad…he didn’t mean it.”

David responded “Jas…cool Breeze this son of a bitch, if she dies…”

Jasper countered “he will get his…he is not worth it.”

David dropped him kicking him in the stomach he said coldly “whoops.”

The man groaned “fuck you…whoever you are!”

Tabii yelled “Nomad, we need  to get her to a hospital now!”

David nodded “Cool Breeze.”

Jasper returned “go, I got this.”

Using a tarp as a make shift way to carry her they brought Gwen to the car, David floored it saying “Dogpatch nomad, inform county general they have a GSW in bound.”

Miller responded “roger nomad, wait for ambulance.”

David responded “no can do sir, Redcap says she is dying.”

Miller said “David…we are off the record what is happening?”

Davis returned “its Gwen sir…she worked at this campus…she got hit.”

Miller said simply “we will let them know Nomad.”

David returned think you sir.

Hospital:

The car screamed in front of the Er as David and tabii carried in the bleeding Gwen, they were dressed in full tac gear as a doctor bewildered ran up to them having justgot the call, Tabii helped them on the gurney telling them the issue and the treatment she had provided.

David fired a smile at the others in the waiting room making a half-hearted attempt to hide his weapon, he approached reception the woman looked him up and down clearly reaching for a panic button as he asked “can I help you.”

David answered simply “My name is….Her name is Gwen santos, she has o Negative Blood, and is not Allergic to latex or any medications.”

The nurse nodded “yes of course Mister…”

David looked sheepish “Blue…Mister Blue.”

The nurse nodded as David stared off into the distance before saying “roger Dogpatch, Thank you sir…I will Nomad out.”

David smiled “I’m going take my weapons off and come back if that is ok?”

The woman returned “sure…”

David yelled “redcap!”

Tabii handed her weapons over before filling in the rest of Gwen’s info, David saw the hospital security, he carefully reached into his pocket pulling out a card, he carries on state wide ops, the card simply  had a phone number on it.”

6 hours later:

The entire team was in the waiting room now, everyone was giving the strange types a large amount of space, a doctor entered the waiting room reading and then rereading the name he said “mister blue…”

David stood up “that’s me…”

The doctor looked down “we have bad news…”

3 days later:

David sat on the back of his car drinking some doctor pepper, the situation was nostalgic to 6 months ago when the rest of his team died, but this time it was different. Jasper approached “david…”  

David looked over at his head shifting on his bumper to let him sit down, David chuckled “I changed one heart break for another…”

Jasper nodded “Listen about Gwen…”

David shook her head “she left me…I shouldn’t care but…”

Jasper smiled “but you still do inspite of all the fucked shit we have seen…you still care about her.”

David threw his can into a trash bag saying with a sigh “funny, she left me to get away from all this…I guess it didn’t work.”

Jasper shook his head “you can’t do that yourself.”

David crushed the another can in his hand nearly full of pop as he growled “I should have kicked that gun club member into next week…he fired down range…nailed her right in the heart….she never stood a chance all because that guy wanted to be a hero.”

David felt the tears come “her family…they are uhh planning the funeral…better them then me I guess, I mean one of us goes the army…they just take care of it…but if I had to…I wouldn’t even know where to start…”

Jasper hugged his friend “easy there Davie…”

David leaned into the hug “she was the best thing to ever happen to me Jasp…I let her go…I let her leave…I should have tried more…should have done more.”

Jasper sighed “david…nothing could have changed  what happened…even if you stayed together she still would have taken that job…that man was always going to be there…you can’t do that, you can’t go down that road…everything that happens down range.”

David nodded “stays down range…” he fought off the tears best he could. As Jasper deepened the hug.

2 weeks later, new York:

David adjusted his tie as he waited in line for the wake, Gwen’s mom saw him saying “David…”

David saw her saying “hello Miss Santo’s…sorry if I’m intruding.”

she hugged him saying “you were close to Gwen that all that matters now…”

David nodded “Thank you…I’m….i’m sorry for your lose.”

Gwen’s mom give him a quick squeeze “whatever issue we may have had is over David…we are happy you are here for her now.”

David said glumly “wish I was there more.”

Gwen’s mom nodded sadly letting the red head pass, David saw Gwen’s body lying in the coffin he said quietly “Sorry Gwen…for everything”

As he touched the edge of the coffin, he left the funeral room leaning against the wall and finally breaking down and crying.

A/N: so Gwen is dead! F i thought long and hard as to weather or not i wanted her to be wounded by that guy and then form there either reconcile with David pr leave him again, but then i decided to not give her the chance. she dies saying his name sudden and terrible. so of course the question is, is this story over? answer: maybe? i write kind of like valve produces games, coming and going to projects as i feel, but right now the answer is most likely yes, the tragic and beautiful love story is done... will David be ok? probably he has a soilid support network, but he will always have a Gwen shaped hole in his heart, alright, now that, that is done as always leave your feedback? what did you think about Gwen dying, did it feel legit? or did it seem like i was killing off a female for the sake of Drama (TM) let me know i either reply, Ask or tag form...and have a nice night

[aboyandhisstarship]

Just read your soilder David Au its great (i see you at least partly based it on the unit, that show ruled and im glad i found someone else on the tumb who likes it) in the unit everyone has a codename/ call sign what is davids/ the rest of his team?

Glad you like it :D and the unit is a great show.

Anyway

The following is subject to change* you all know how i wrote things change and things get cut..

If your intrested in how this AU has evolved feel free to contact me.

David= Nomad team leader 28 years old

Pikeman= whiplash team rookie and hothead (early 20s aged up)

Jasper= cool breeze team explosives expert seacond on command 26 years old

Tabii= red cap...intel and local coms (aged up to be in her early 20s same as pikeman)

Nurf= Dirt diver (aged up to be about 23)