#halona x brady

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halona is so sweet

my babyyy. her dog attack story/fic should be going up soon but here’s some softer post war ramblings about her and brady.

- idk if i’ve said this on tumblr or just discord but they don’t actually kiss until post liberation. babies. there is a one off two off ~incident~ in the stalag where they like. get each other off but they don’t kiss so obviously it means nothing (:

- benny wants to Scream when he kinda ribs brady about hearing it and he completely dead serious is just. halona’s my friend. it doesn’t mean anything.

- brady also just feels Bad about it and tries to apologize, which she shuts down but. they otherwise don’t really talk about it. the march happens shortly after and there’s enough going on as is.

- then post liberation she’s trying to keep up w brady in the partying/doesn’t want to pull him from his friends but. hatesss how crowded the o-club is. makes her itchy and she can’t even see where elowyn is to latch onto her instead so she panics a little.

- brady gets her outta there and back to the bunks and. it’s quiet. she looks so pretty in this light, the war is over and they both go in to kiss each other at the same time. have been waiting long enough :p

- **i need to do more research on hawaiian service members pre: hawaii being a state stuff so pls excuse any discrepancies here (still developing halona’s backstory more but her dad is an american navy admiral) when everyone is getting their shit sorted to go home from TA brady and his moving too fast heart wants to take halona home to meet his mom and sisters Right Away Immediately. talks himself off that ledge and tells her she should go home and see her folks but. you know there’s a lot i wanna leave here, and this isn’t one of those things.

- writes her the second he gets home and her family is so ::eyes:: about her getting a letter from a boy she served with when she’s barley through the front door. but they worry about her and think it might be good for her to be with someone who Understands so. no hard feelings save for her dad being very 1940s You Tell That Boy I Also Know How Guns Work lmao.

- brady’s sisters are SOOOO nosy nellie about this girllll he’s writing to. they make him tell them everythingggg about her and even write a letter to her themselves for him to stick in with his.

- once things are a bit more settled he pulls some strings to have a reason to go do some flight instruction at a base in hawaii and see her <3. so nervous bc he’s scared things are gonna be Different. which they are in some sense, but not in a bad way.

- is a little bit tiny smidge scared her dad is gonna hate him, is sweating a little when he’s introducing himself but. it goes okay. brady is a good man 🙏🏼

- ^ that last pinterest photo is her later down the line w her and brady’s little girl samara <3. 50% named after elowyn’s co-pilot that died before she could bail out, mara. brady calls her his little peanut and she VERY stubbornly informs him she is not a peanut, she is a girl. 🙄

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like… i wanna ask 3 and 6 with buck and halona 😧 if u can make it work 😧

Halona took a step and misjudged the distance, the snow on the ground suddenly closer than thought it ought to be. A guard said something that she only understood half of in German and she dragged her head up to gage where it was coming from.

The yard looked emptier than she remembered it looking a few minutes ago.

She couldn’t judge how far away the guard was, or how far she was from the bunk house- the disorientation coursing through her brain, reaching the front of her head and looping back around. When the snow seemed to shift again, she took a step back, flinching at the voice that sounded much closer, now accompanied by the sniffs of a dog.

„Falscher Weg, du nutzloser Kerl!“

The air cut through her one good eye, and everything felt blurry- feet stumbling across the frozen dirt as the dog went from sniffling to growling.

Two more words in German and the weight of the animal slammed into her side like a wrecking ball, teeth tearing right through the layers of her coat and into the skin of her hip.

The pain exploded through her, white-hot and immediate. Her body hit the frozen ground, knees scraping, and she barely managed to twist away, but the teeth held fast. She tried to push at it, but it was no use, bite only digging in stronger.

“Call the damn dog off!”

Buck, she realized, and tried to call out something back to him but couldn't force anything to leave her throat save for a half-garbled scream.

The dog was yanked off her in a rough motion and the pressure lifted from her hip, but pain flared up her side- snow beneath her turning red.

She heard Gale’s voice again, this time closer, as strong hands wrapped around her shoulders, hauling her upright. His grip was warm, but she barely had the wherewithal to register it.

“I’ve got you. I’ve got you.” He said, helping her to her feet, and picking her up again when she fell right back to the ground.

Halona blinked and she was inside, but it seemed like everyone else had gone outside, voices that felt too far away to be coming from anywhere else just barley making it through the cotton it felt like someone had shoved in both ears.

She heard Brady- she thought it was Brady- shouting but couldn't make any of it out clear enough to understand.

“They sicced it on her!” someone that sounded an awful lot like Benny joined in. The anger in his voice sliced through the fog enough to make her recoil back into Gale, breathing coming in shallow pants.

The sound of footsteps, running, and more shouting all blurred together into one mass of terrifying noise.

“Brady, stop!”

Elowyn’s voice stuck out among the others, but it still felt clouded. The ceiling of the stalag was there, and real. Gale was practically breathing down her neck and her side throbbed. Everything else felt disjointed.

Then, the sharp crack of a gunshot split the air, the pulse of the movement coming from outside quickened, and suddenly the voices crashing over one another sounded a whole lot closer.

“If your name isn’t Elowyn, you need to back up,” Gale’s voice barked.

The room went still for a fraction of a second, who she recognized more clearly as Elowyn breaking it first.

“Brady can stay."

She could feel Gale shift as he hesitated, but he let out a resigned sigh and didn't push.

“Alright,” he mumbled before raising his tone back towards the others." “If you're not El or Brady, ten steps back that’a way,"

Brady’s voice came through next, trembling.

“Colonel Clark’s gettin’ a medic.”

Medic echoed off of every side of her head and drove her hand back to where her side was still throbbing. She shoved it under the torn layers of her coat, jolting when she felt it- hot and sticky blood seeping between her fingers and over the back of her hand.

A whimper broke from her lips before she could stop it, edges creeping into her vision and pulling everything into a narrow tunnel.

“Hey, hey,” Gale said, gripping one shoulder under his palm. “Look at me, Halona, you need to breathe.”

Her fingers shook as she pressed harder against the wound, someone grabbed for her wrist, and she went to yank it away before it set in that it was Brady.

"Let me see it Hallie," He said, gently lifting her fingers from her side. He was holding what she could only assume was someone's shirt, using it to wipe the blood off of her hand.

Faintly, she felt Elowyn putting her scarf against her side, breath hitching when she looked down and saw how quickly it was soaking through.

“You’re alright,” Brady whispered as he got the last of the blood from her palm and replaced the stained t-shirt with his own hand, intertwining their fingers. "Don't touch it, just breathe."

Tightness gripped her chest, but she squeezed her eyes shut, then opened them again, trying to focus. Her fingers clenched around his so hard she worried for a moment she might be hurting him.

But Brady's grip didn't falter, the pressure dulling the edges of her panic just enough for her to exhale without it feeling forced.

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literally makes my heart break to think of them setting a dog on halona :( she doesn’t get hurt does she? i’m also sorta here for the angst though so if you have any more thoughts pls share. feel like it’s something that would make stalag bucky go even more insane

it gets her in the leg ): not catastrophically but enough that she’s got a nasty gash and a camp medic’s gotta look at it which goes. bad in the same way someone checking out her eye when she first got the stalag went. poor girl.

but yeah all the guys are kinda lose their shit over it. think it’s one of the times bucky gets snappy with colonel clark (if ur memory is shaky he’s the officer that says the ‘there are only americans in stalag luft iii’ and stops the riot over bucky. i think their relationship is inchresting more people should write it) in a very “im hitting my brink with how much i can tolerate in here” way. and colonel clark has to tell him getting himself a bullet in the head trying to avenge her isn’t gonna do anything for halona or anyone (:

one tiny bright side, by this time this happens she’s gotten a lot closer w brady. and he’s a good help with her skittishness about getting medical attention. gives him +.5 points in el’s book because it’s obvious in all of that he genuinely cares for her and she trusts him.

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soft hallie/brady hcs pls 🥺

beloveds…

like i said in a diff post elowyn normally sleeps in her bunk with her. halona has a really rough time with sleep ): has night terrors and el worries about her fully getting out of bed and accidentally hurting herself or worse wandering outside and getting the ire of a guard. and even night terrors aside has a horrible time falling asleep w/ how her mind feels like it’s racing 24/7.

then elowyn gets sick (: and bc she wants to avoid giving to hallie at all costs she very begrudgingly goes to brady all. i still don’t like you 😐 but you need to do something for me 😐. and asks him if he minds sleeping in hallie’s bunk until her cold has passed.

and ofc he doesn’t mind. nods very earnestly and says he’s got it, she doesn’t have anything to worry about.

elowyn: well i do. but thank you.

sweet lover boy brady crammed in halona’s bunk with her at night talking to her all quiet when she can’t sleep and realizing how much he really does like her. feels something close to love which scares him to death but. feels it all the same watching her breathe as she sleeps, feeling her feeling around for him to curl tighter into when she’s scared. his girl ):

**this is before they’ve even kissed. they move slowwww as sloths in that regard bc stalag brain wise it feels like a line cross that they couldn’t take back which feels. scary. makes crank’s jab in house fire a little funny in that he’s like GO FUCK HER!!! when they haven’t even smooched.