[Thread] ' 'No More Dead Heroes ' '

[sierra_058]

Characters: OU Linda-058, OU Captain Keyes, Open to Halo characters
Where: the park/wandering around, the cafe
When: noon/early evening
Summary: Linda and Keyes arrive at just about the same time. Linda investigates the call for aid from a dead captain. Old friends unite. / Keyes, with Linda trailing, explores the new facility he finds himself in.

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[tactical_loop]

That most definitely took the captain by surprise. It was odd enough when he had just suddenly arrived in this unknown environment, and at the worst possible moment at that. (Or was that the best possible timing?) He had no idea what happened to his men back in the Forerunner complex. On top of that, now he was talking to a Spartan whose serial number matched the one Keyes had thought more or less dead and frozen in an induced coma by the Master Chief after a desperate mission.

You’re dead, she had said. The phrase rung in his mind for an impossible second of eternity before he recovered and stared up at the stoic faceplate in front of him with a slight frown. “I could say the same for you,” he tried with his own bluntness to equal hers

[sierra_058]

Linda recognized John immediately--and returned his smile with a simple swipe of her own. Even she was hard-pressed not to admit that the sight of her fellow Spartan excited her. John. The one Spartan none of them knew what happened to him. He always seemed to disappear off on his own. It was good to see him again, and to know that he was save. But now she had more questions: like what was he doing here?

She glanced at Keyes briefly. What were they both doing here? --Or maybe the more accurate question was: where was here

[tactical_loop]

The meeting had been a startling one, to say the very least. Keyes didn't know what to think about--well, everything. There was simply too much to completely grasp all at once like that. He needed time to think, time to himself

[charlie_hotel]

Halsey had read the logs of Captain Keyes in Econtra, and from John's constant reports, she realized that Linda was here, too

[sierra_058]

Linda halted instantly when she spotted Dr. Halsey walking towards them; the same keen eyes that allowed her to be such a perfect sniper easily spotted the doctor from a fair distance away. It took Keyes a moment to notice the Spartan wasn't still following but she paid him no mind for the moment even as he glanced back at her questioningly.

Linda straightened and automatically went into a salute when the doctor got close enough. It petered off into hesitance however after a few seconds and she lowered her arm in a slow gesture and nodded a greeting instead. "Dr. Halsey."

Behind her the captain moved to stand up next to her side and, if she wasn't mistaken, actually smiled for a moment as he gazed at the doctor. "Halsey," he said, "it's good to see you again."

Again? She hadn't ever realized the two had met. But then, she didn't really know a lot about the captain at all. And--truth to tell--she probably didn't really know all that much about the doctor except what the ONI civilian specialist wanted the Spartans to know. (Or anyone

[charlie_hotel]

For Halsey, it wasn't simply "good" to see Keyes again. He was not only one of Halsey's oldest and closest friends, but one of the many she mourned for when his life was taken in the Great War. Naturally, her proffessionalism forbade her from ever showing any sort of emotion: Neither Keyes nor any of her Spartans would ever accept it.

After being patched through John's suit on his conversations with the newcomers, indeed, it was too much for them to grasp in one meeting. Fortunately, Halsey had one way they could talk over everything -- Both from this place, and from their universe.

"Shall we go? I got us a few cups of coffee once I realized you two were here." Of course, truth being that she requested the Indigeo for three cups of coffee