Shit happens.
Such an unhelpful phrase, and with so much meaning.
Chance, KIA, drop gone bad, hidden anti-air battery. Shit happens
Ojos, Active, Transferred to a research division, his Rebel force moved with him. Shit happens.
Jacobs; MIA, Was on one of the other lifeboats belonging to the Exo-marine flagship. Shit happens
Ramirez; On Maternity Leave, Raising her and Jacobs' unborn child, alone on vet benefits... Shit happens
Teri, Honorably discharged, completed full term of service, "Wanted out." Shit happens
And then there's myself… six months on, chained up in a Brute Prison cell, prospects of survival? Fuck'all.
Shit happens…
Yeah, torture isn't fun.
Electrified Staff plunged into my side, put through electrode torture twelve hours a day, only my new squad to give me strength.
To be perfectly honest, they're not my squad, they're actually just a rag-tag bunch of Exos who got plucked out of space by a brute carrier, and we almost had that thing too.
There's a lieutenant amongst them but I've seen his type before, book smarts; protocols and tactics, exactly what the brutes want to know… wouldn't surprise me if he broke on their first try… his info is pretty much what's keeping us alive… so… I'm the scapegoat. Ah well… shit happens.
So all I do each day is recover, the Exos help me and this young female corpsman tries to treat me. but with no supplies there's little she can do, kinda feel sorry for her I mean all things considered I'm her only patient, this is her first deployment too, right out of medical training she got assigned to the Redeemer the flagship of the Exo-marine fleet just weeks before it got taken out. She's got no supplies; no painkillers, no antibiotics or anesthetics.
She keeps trying though, constantly trying to keep me in one piece, I'm sure that without her I'd be dead a long time ago. We talk often, I think she's just trying to show how grateful she is, we've seen what brutes like to do to female prisoners, they made us watch. some dumbass ONI Major who Tried to play the tough act. It was horrendous to see, they didn't let us look away. In the end they didn't get the information she had either way but it came at a cost, she was mentally broken, she hasn't spoken in around a month now she just stares at something only she's seeing, and anyone who touches her makes her tremble and for a cascade of silent tears to stream down her face. Thankfully something in their mentality seems to stop them from doing so if a Male stands upto them. They just get really pissed off and take the one who did to the torture chamber. Heh, fuck em, they're not doing that to her, not while I'm still breathing.
I'm not sure why I feel protective of her, maybe I'm symbolizing Ramirez or Teri on her. But it doesn't feel like that, well maybe a little bit in Ramirez's case. Ah well regardless of this we still don't know what's going to happen with this, us. All we know is sometimes the shit hit's the fan and there's no way to escape the fallout.
It's not really as bad as it sounds though, i mean we have achieved a strong camaraderie in here, every other night the marines play poker, lord knows where the cards came from. And regardless of the miraculous appearance of a set of playing cards, we have been having the marines doing sit-ups, pullups, crunches and star jumps, to keep us ready, i join them when i can, simply in-case we get the chance to overpower the guards. Hasn't happend yet mind you.
Yeah Shit happens.