Decisions - G
Title: Decisions
Author: vintagememories
Rating: G - Suitable for all
Characters: Becker (pre ARC)
Word count: 230
Warnings: None
Spoilers: N/A
A/N: This is something I've been wanting to write for forever because it's something I've gone through recently. I'm hoping to be an administrator in the Army within the next couple of years and it's something I've been wanting to do since college, so for about seven years and a couple of months ago I finally told my family about it, something I was really nervous about, mainly their reactions to me joining the Army, mainly I was doubting myself thinking that they would thing it was stupid that I was joining the Army and that I wouldn't be able to do it. I have quite low self esteem. Anyway I told them, well I wrote it down lol cause I still a little scared to actually say it. But they were ok about it.
Anyway I decided to write this about Becker before he joined the Army and then the ARC, and it's sort of part of the Becker: Early Years series I have planned, well more the history of how he met Kaitlyn (my OC) but it will feature stuff about Becker before he joined the ARC. Anyway this was inspired by that. And apologies for the long ramble lol. Ironically I have a cousin called Sarah as well, though that's not why I named Becker's cousin Sarah and where the similarities stop.
After finally coming to his initial decision it had taken Becker weeks to finally get the courage to tell his parents about said decision. He'd spent most of that internally debating with himself whether it was such a good idea in the first place, but those doubts were quickly pushed aside.
This was something he had thought about long and hard and he'd done his research and made sure that it was something he really wanted, and he really did want this, so why was it so hard for him to just come out and say that he wanted to join the Army.
It took his cousin Sarah, who he's always been close to and who he had always thought of as his best friend, to finally give him the courage he needed to tell his parents and the rest of his family about his wish to join the Army, her advice had been the thing he needed to finally tell them.
Their reactions to his news hadn't been as bad as he had originally thought, though his mum was worried about her 'baby' - as she often called him being that he was the youngest of the family - going off to fight, and despite this she did tell him that she was proud of him and that she would continue to be so whatever he chose to do.