The air was still, warm as light beamed off of the steel walls, and tile floor.
Newbie stood in his Formals, the black colour of the ODST Formal suit absorbing the light around him.
Quiet enough for him to hear flooding in his ears, the blood running inside of him, it was maddening.
He had waited for this day, the day he could assert justice into the terrorist that killed good men and women.
Behind him was the two Spartans that loved and cared for him, Spartan II E118 Lilith and Spartan III E343 Marius, trying to give him support behind the one-way glass.
With a deep breath, he walked inside the darkroom, that damn freelancer sitting there with blood on her face, hands bound as well as feet.
The only word came to mind when he looked at her, the red was natural for her.
The names of all the ODST, all the Marines she
The words to use for the crimes she caused were endless
He inhaled deeply, moving towards his chair with pent rage.
Sitting himself down he exhaled, clearing his throat to make the freelancer looked up, barely any light was on her face.
“Freelancer, are you aware why you are here?”
There was just silence from her, spit and blood hitting the table. She was not easy to capture but Black team never fails.
“I am, a very kind and gentle person Freelancer, please be happy that no one else took my place, as I very much wanted to see how a Psychopathic Murderer reacts to facing her demons.”
Her face looked shocked when she heard the word Murderer, Newbies anger almost got the best of him as he exhaled deeply, sitting upwards with hands on the table.
“Don’t act like you don’t Know what you did Agent...Her birthday is today- Did you know that?”
As he spoke he pushed a button on the table the pulled down a screen, showing a smiling, white-haired Marine Medic with some family.
”Maria. A mother of six wonderful children and two days away from retirement before YOU SLAUGHTERED HER AND THE REST OF HER PLATOON!”
When he raised his voice, he grabbed her by the collar and pulled her in so they were nose to nose, her face pained with tears slowly running down her cheek.
A video played from Her helmet camera, showing her treating a shot marine. The marine points to the side, her camera quickly turning to the windows in the room she was in as a bright light of a SPNKR round crashed through the glass.
The recording ended with multiple screams of pain, newbie letting go of her.
On the other side of the glass, Lilith was worried for him. Putting her hand to the glass as if she was trying to be there beside him, protecting him from any mistake he might make.
“...that...we weren't....”
Her voice was soft, pain flooding her as more tears broke through. She was trying to speak to him, trying to tell him that she was not at fault, and was told she was in the right in killing them. That to her THEY were the bad guys.
That she regretted ever listening to his orders so blindly to be better than her.
Newbie’s anger was bubbling, 26 UNSC personal slaughtered and 36 ODST eviscerated. Men and woman that had children,
He was ready to hit the freelancer, not seeing the pain in her face. Blinded by the rage of those that was lost in her Conquest.
Newbie called out, punching her directly in the jaw, a tooth flying out to the floor with a splatter of blood surrounding it.
He walked around the table, pulling her to the wall with anger in his eyes, Both Marius and Lilith shocked to see this side of newbie
Newbie. The soul that was thrown into a time that used kindness like his against him.
The one who never gave in the pain of Betrayal and loss.
A Smile that could bring hope in the worst of times.
Ever since that operation, he’s had that...Killswitch implemented into him
Whatever Maddox made him do, it almost killed newbie and replaced him with some heartless soldier, but he pushed through the trauma.
Was this what he would have been? A soul filled with hate and anger?
As he held her, he thought of multiple ways to kill her where she stood, horrible ways to slaughter her like she did with the soldiers.
She looked him in the eyes, blood on her lips and tears in her eyes.
A face of fear, not a killer
Newbie quickly realized what he was told was not accurate, and thought the same could be said to her.
Newbie sighed, moving the freelancer to her seat, sitting her down as he sat across her, looking down to his feet
There was a moment of silence, instead of his blood...it was her tears flowing, the coughing and the pain in her voice with silent sobbing.
He offered her a towel, cleaning some blood off of her face gently. It caused her to stop what she was doing, looking at him with more questions than worries.
“...Did you know they were good people?”
The question hung around for a short while between the both of them.
She quietly nodded side to side, crying more with the realization of what she was forced to do, hating herself for it. for the guilt of all those people she killed.
She didn't know they were good men and women, to her they were thieves and murders.
Newbie saw the pain she was in, and though back to the first and only ONI operation he did... what Maddox made him do...
It made his stomach turn to see him act in such a way, to someone that was blind of their sins.
He walked beside her, causing her to shift away from him, bracing for another punch to the face.
In a fight, she could easily kill him without a second thought, yet here in this very moment, she found herself cowering away from him. Fear?
To her surprise, she felt him wrap his arms around her, holding her close as tears ran down his face from the guilt of punishing someone wrongfully.
For a moment she continued to cry. Her voice was clear in her sobbing
After a few minutes of comfort, he sat beside her, a hand on her lap and on within hers. their faces looking at one another as he gave a slight smile
“You aren’t the only one who killed and regretted it...please make this easy on me and start from the beginning?”
SHe inhaled, nodding in agreement as her eyes opened, to see not an Angry man full of hate
But Newbie, someone that would help her see her errors not from hate but from his own way.
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