Prologue (It's a long prologue, but I think the story needed it, not sure)
With Mengsk dead, and no clear leader willing to immediately step into his place filling the role of emperor of the Terran dominion, human civilization as we know it in the Koprulu sector is in shambles. With the Zerg focusing their attention away from the Terrans and entirely towards the Protoss, it gave the opportunity for mankind to rebuild itself thus; Efforts to serve and protect the dominion had since been reverted towards rebuilding mankind and preserving man's way of life. Rising up from the ashes like a phoenix and living up to the Terran saying "We're too dumb to die, a smart species would have given up ages ago".
November "Nova" Terra, once arguably humanities best chance against the Zerg and furthermore argued the most powerful Ghost in existence making her arguably the strongest singular human being in the known universe has gone quiet. Due to her status, the only individual Nova took orders from were from Mengsk himself and with his death she was left with nothing, no immediate purposes in life. She fondled with the idea of becoming a freelance assassin, earning wages through killing targeted individuals throughout the galaxy but she had felt that the act of killing people without the authority of a superior figure and purely for self-benefit would put her in a position no better than a Spectre, the individuals she was last assigned to track down and annihilate.
So instead, Nova decided to try and live a "normal" life, which came with great difficulties such as having next to zero funds as all her wages were sought after directly from the Ghost academy itself and expenses paid for by the private financial sector which had since been wiped out on Tarsonis. Furthermore her Psionic Index rating of 10 made it incredibly difficult, almost unbearable to be in open public with a large amount of people around her, she needed a residence with secluded access with not many people around her. Nova had also decided it was better now than never to try and form what she called "relationships" with people which may or may not include the idea of dating. This didn't sit well with her, her whole life she relied on frequent memory wipes to deal with the thought of making wrong decisions and now with seemingly all her memories coming back to her with her exposure to Terazine made it all the more difficult.
However, Nova wasn't alone; before going about searching for a new life she had decided that it was a good idea to meet with old friends, persons she knew was still alive, there wasn't many other individuals she knew that were still alive but one of them just so happened to be Delta Emblock. Delta was a ghost with the ability to essentially dream about what is going to happen, particularly about individuals that are close to her or her as an individual. Delta was still in her younger teenage years, and to make things simpler her status remained as Nova's surrogate daughter, the age difference wasn't too huge of a gap as nova was also only in her early twenties. Delta too was searching for a normal life style, away from being a Terran Ghost Assassin even though it had been what they were trained to do virtually their whole lives. Delta has a very bubbly and cheery personality, much the opposite of Nova who took a very long time to form a bond with anyone let alone feel warm and loving towards said person.
Then, inevitably, there is you, you're a hardworking and by all stretches of the imagination a "normal" guy, absolutely nothing special about you other than the fact that you grew up in a middle class family and those were far and few between in your world. All your mates you grew up with, your friends at school were all from mixed backgrounds, not that it mattered to you since they were just your friends. You have been on all of one date and your luck with Girls was seemingly at an all-time low, you think you're a pretty nice guy but clearly no girl see's you for what you think you are. But it didn't really affect you, getting the cold shoulder by girls became a regular occurrence, so much so that you became slightly sexually oblivious. You were a single child, your parents unlike many others were both still alive and you were in close contact with them every day, in fact, you still live with your parents in your early 20's, a sight rarely seen in your worlds modern day society. Absolutely nothing exciting happened during your life time thus far, with the most exciting thing that's happened to you being graduating high school from your local place where your grades weren't anything too astonishing. You were sheltered to the harsh realities that were occurring outside of your world, you knew the presence of the Zerg and the Protoss but weren't too interested in them, a few of your friends had left to join the Terran Marines, to which you thought was insane but understood their decision and accepted it. You were content with a 9am to 5pm job, day in and day out earning your daily wage and contributing to society. You were in all aspects of the word, normal as you could be.
You manage to cross paths with Nova one day at a local bar close to both your houses, and the story ensues.
It was a fairly warm night out, fairly low humidity, warm breeze for this time of the evening when you and the boys decided it was a good idea to hit the pub for a beer or two and then head from after a long day of football. As time passed and the hours grew later into the day more and more of your friends had decided to head home for the night soon leaving you by your lonesome self at the pub, you sat there by yourself by the bench on a barstool with your eyes fixated upon a screen showing the local news when she walked in and sat a seat apart to your left. She was absolutely beautiful, blonde hair with a very long pony tail which reached all the way down her backside, her layered bangs fell down either side of her face effortlessly and in between them, lay a pair of emerald green eyes which seemingly shone even in low light conditions. Not that any of that mattered because your eyes were fixated and glued to the screen to the top right hand side of your vision.
As time went on only when she called out for a bartender to receive no response did you call out in order to get his attention did you notice her very existence. Upon first glance you noticed what she was wearing more so than her face or any other trait about her. Nova was in her hostile environment suit minus the armour plating she normally wore on top of the suit and the Mobius reactor. In your eyes, first you thought she was "overly dressed" for the occasion but you weren't too fast to pass judgement on what or why she was wearing what she was wearing. To Nova, what she was wearing was fairly "normal" in that she would normally be seen on board ships or military bases – installations wearing what she was wearing, not realizing it was a little bit inappropriate for civilian or built up areas.
Nova could read the minds of everyone in the room, the ones that did notice her generally noticed her figure and stature, generally followed up by what they really wanted to do to her in bed behind closed doors, but when she read your mind, you were solely focused on something else about her. Nova found you interesting in particular and was puzzled by what emotions were going through your head as it was definitely a mix of interest and fascination as well as another agenda which didn't involve getting into a bed and turning out the lights. When Nova served alongside marines, typically the other thought they had on their minds was fear, knowing that Nova could read their minds struck fear even into her superior officers whom she was serving with or assigned to, Nova was so powerful she could read through the minds of people even while wearing psi-screens which were specific hardware designed to prevent psionic individuals from reading their minds.
Nova upon receiving the attention of the bartender and placing her order tilted her head back towards your general direction so as to make subtle eye contact, she grinned with her lips and her cheeks lightened to a light pink colour on her pale skin which could easily be seen. You immediately dart your head back forwards upon realizing she just caught you staring straight at her, thoughts go through your head, "oh my god, she saw me staring straight at her", "she probably thinks I'm a creeper". Nova read his thoughts and thought it was cute that you were stressing out over making eye contact and proceeded to move closer to you, sitting on the stool right next to yours on the counter right beneath a low-hanging light fixture.
Nova sensed the amount of stress and embarrassment you had going through your head and knew she would have to start the conversation, she remembered what Delta had told her as words of advice and start with small talk, like "So what are you doing here". Nova thought it was overly cliché but since nothing else came to mind decided to try it anyway. "So what are you doing here" with a smile on her face as your head was still fastened forward trying to not make eye contact with her, you were shocked by the fact that she had managed to move a stool closer to you without you even noticing, but given the amount of other thoughts that were going through your mind it was probably the least you had on your mind at the time.
"I-I- uhh I'm just having a few drinks" you muttered out of your mouth, your lips were jittering and both palms were held firmly to your cold drink that had barely been drunk. Nova thought to herself, "This really didn't break the ice, he's still nervous, if anything he's more nervous now than he was a moment ago when I was sitting over there", following up with her futile attempts at small talk and going down a mental list Delta had prepared for her she decided to ask "So what's your name" as warmly as she physically could with a semi-forced smile. You were shocked initially, you tried to move your head towards her general direction but could barely move at a snail's pace towards her and this time with even more jittering to your words mumbled out "W-william" but then followed by "But my friends call me Will!" with confidence and clarity. Nova read his mind clearly, but she didn't even need to read his mind to know he was lying about his friends calling him Will, but she went with it anyway for the sake of conversation. Oh okay she exclaimed, well my name is November, but you will call me Nova. You read that quickly over your head and realized she said will and not can, she had made it apparent to not call her by the former and strictly by the latter. You reached back towards you drink as the small talk between you continued, but your mind was focused solely on her and as such your hands slipped and missed the drink entirely, toppling the bottle over pouring the contents all over the counter as you suddenly dart your head forward realizing what you had done and quickly attempt to place the bottle upright. Someone at the bar yells out "Someone call a Taxi for this guy here!" but it didn't faze you and continued to try and make small talk, finding things to talk about with her. Nova thought to herself, perhaps I should offer to buy him a new one? To which she thought twice about it and figured he was probably reaching his limit as it was. Then it struck her, do I really care that much about him? Is that what liking someone all about, caring for their safety? Thinking back to all the times Delta was telling her about tales of true love and affection and the time she was briefly in a relationship with Tosh.
An hour or two had passed, drinks were had by both parties and now you were beyond tipsy but by no means drunk, Nova on the other hand here had quite a bit more to drink than you had expected her to over the course of the time spent with her. Nova thought to herself that she had made her intentions quite clear and that she intended to befriend this individual but this is where her training ends, Delta had left her on a cliff edge and said that only you can decide as to whether or not he's worth keeping around or not. Nova was indecisive for the first time in quite a while, not sure as to whether or not they should remain in contact with one another, she cared about him and she liked him as a friend at this point with the potential to become much more than just friends but wasn't sure if the feelings were reciprocated on his part. Upon reading his mind she wasn't so sure either, he was just as indecisive about it as she was, but she stuck to her guns and waited it out, knowing that he should be the one that decides whether or not they had become friends or not. Half an hour had passed since the last she thought to herself and the bar was winding down as it was close to closing hours, time and space had lost her and she realized it was substantially later than she anticipated, then it struck her as to whether or not there were enough leftovers from last night's dinner for Delta back at home.
You notice a changed expression on her face, a worried one which had come suddenly onto her face from a gleeful and cheery one just moments ago. Is there anything wrong Nova? As she explained what was on her mind you decide it was best for her to go home to at least check up on Delta. You realize neither of you are in any particular position to walk home alone and proceed to ask her whether or not it would be okay if you walked her home. It is with this thought that you remember that you should have called home about an hour ago if you stay out late. Nova embarrassingly says yes, her now completely pink cheeks turned red when she said yes, but before leaving she needed to quickly use the restroom which coincided perfectly with what she knew he had to do. You quickly dart out of the bar and make a phone call home "Yes Mum, I'll take care of myself, No I'm not hanging out in the street, I'm taking a girl home and I'll be home right after" you abruptly end the phone call home as your mother wholeheartedly lets out an "Awwww!" which deeply embarrasses you, even more so when she does it in public and not just over the phone.
As she exits the bar it quickly comes to your attention as to how she manages to relieve herself with the hostile environment suit on. Nova brushes him off and bluntly tells you "Don't even ask, I'm not telling" rolling her eyes in the process. It's now that you realize that she can read your mind, that, or your so drunk you don't even realize your saying things. Nova turns back and ushers you to follow her asking "Didn't you want to take me home, come on!" to which you pick up pace and try to catch up. It's only now that you realize that she is indeed fairly tall, there weren't any heels on her boots but even still she was just a tad taller than you were to which amazed you considering you hadn't met many girls as tall as you were as most people came from middle to lower class families faced the issue of stunted growth due to poor nutrition and diet. It only became apparent now that you had not yet covered where she was from or what she did as her job but now was not the time to be asking, it would have to be saved for another day. Nova sensed the amount of questions which suddenly filled your head and knew at the very least you showed quite the degree of interest in her, to which she didn't quite know if she was fully ready or committed enough for a relationship just yet.
A year had passed and needless to say things had progressed between you and Nova, and now Delta, bonds had been formed, understandings were made and not everything was perfect and right in the world, both on their planet and throughout the Terran dominion. Valerian had been sworn in as the new emperor, as the direct heir to the throne after his father Arcturus. Valerian was young, fresh and had new ideas for the Terran dominion allowing a greater deal of free speech to be had in his rebuilding empire. Tarsonis was still in ruins, 2 billion people had to be buried which instead meant that mass incineration of the surface of the planet, reducing the surface to ashes and melting the ruins of old buildings and towers into ruins. Terraforming of the planet had begun once again, rising up from the ashes would be the new capital of the Dominion.
It was 10 AM with the brightness of the sun seeping through the curtains and onto the bed in which you were laying in. Nova was snuggled underneath your arm with her head placed comfortably on top of your chest under the blankets. It was the middle of winter and the sun was still rising in the sky. It didn't take much to wake up Nova, she wasn't a deep sleeper and could be awoken by as much as a movement of feet on the bed. Nova found this trait about her particularly annoying as it lead to being very easily awoken but luckily for her she found it fairly easy to fall back asleep in your presence. Nobody else was awake yet, Delta was asleep in her bed on the other side of the room but it took a lot more to wake her up. Lifting up the blanket slightly and ducking your head under the sheets you whisper into Nova's ear that you're getting up and making breakfast, to your surprise she was semi-awake already and gently nuzzles your neck and whispers "Thanks" and rolls off your body. You quietly and gently try to get out of bed without making too much noise and exit the room trying to not wake up Delta, walking right past her bed.
It was pancakes for breakfast this morning, as you turn on the holo-projector to see the latest news from the newly reformed UGN on New Tarsonis. "The rise of the Unified Democratic Republic of Man" was today's headline, as it showed a protestor waving banners which said "Down with Teeps!" shouting it and others around him chanting it with enthusiasm. The camera panned to one protestor who linked the fall of Tarsonis to Kerrigan, similarly another PI 10 who went rogue and lead the Zerg invasion against Tarsonis and slaughtered billions of Terran lives across the sector. It was only now that you realized the pancakes were burning to your disappointment, pulling out the burnt ones and putting more batter in while you were opening windows to let out the burnt and pungent charred smell which now wafted it's way throughout the residence which woke up Nova to whom got out of bed and rushed downstairs to find you making pancakes.
You managed to burn pancakes Will? Nova said condescendingly, you replied still better than yours with a smile on your face to which she got flustered at and was about to reply when she saw the holo-projector and saw the headlines. Nova was deep down concerned with how large and how many worlds the UDRM's members were found on, with their attacks in recent months becoming more and more violent and daring. Nova thought to herself, last week they planted explosives near the ghost academy and left a 10 meter deep crater killing countless of civilians in the process as well as disrupting ghost training. You notice a very concerned look on Nova's face watching the holo-projector, finishing up the last batch of pancakes you come up from behind and wrap your arms around her hips and gave her an affectionate cuddle. Soon after the news broadcast shows another protestor, who screams out "This is the other PI 10! She could go rogue and cause yet another massacre just as large as this one!" the picture was of course none other than Nova herself. Nova immediately fell to her knees, all she ever wanted was to live a normal life, away from politics, away from deaths and lead a normal lifestyle where she could be as normal of a person as possible. Now it seems as if her past has come back to haunt her and trying to catch her trying to turn over a new leaf.
"It just isn't fair" Nova cried out on her knees, tears welling up in her eyes and a noticeable frown on her face with her cheeks lighting up a bright pink. "I've tried, so hard to be normal again, become a normal person, y'know?" this time looking over her shoulder in your direction as you rest your head from behind on top of her shoulder. "B-b-ut now I" you cover her lips with yours, silencing her and surrounding her in affection. It was a long kiss of affection, but well needed, and regained Nova's focus and attention to what was really at hand and what really matters to her and the individuals she cares about. You dip your nose against hers and rubbing it back and forth side to side gently against hers as she wraps her arms around the back of your neck and closes her eyes.
Delta lets out a scream which pierces the otherwise quiet of the entire house, Nova darts her head towards the stairs and sprints up the stairs at a blindingly fast speed towards the bedroom and found Delta hunched over sitting upright in her bed. "Delta! What's wrong?" Nova exclaimed while jumping onto her bed and consolidating a clearly distraught Delta. Delta's face was white and frozen with fear, as if she had just seen an Ultralisk charging at her. It's at this moment that you quickly pace into the room to find Nova hunched over Delta, "The, They're coming for you Nova, it was the middle of the night, all of them, they're masked, and-and-and they were in the house too! They were so scary and shouting things" Nova calmed Delta down trying to piece together what was said and what she had just dreamed about. Nova turned around and looked at you solely in the eyes "Baby, I love you and all, but right now she needs some privacy, can you go back downstairs and shut the door behind you?" You quickly oblige and silently shut the door behind you but wait outside.
An hour passed, and Nova slowly walks out of the room with her Hostile Environment Suit on and hair done as per usual. Do you really believe the dream she had? You ask out of curiosity to which Nova stares deeply into your eyes and says "Absolutely, she wouldn't be a Ghost if she was wrong, and now I'm going to try my very best to change the outcome of what she just saw, I'm calling Spaulding, he owes me big time after Gehenna". As she proceeded downstairs, you slowly open the door to the bedroom to find Delta lying on down on her bed with the sheets made. Delta? Can I come in? Delta nodded without looking at you. You gently enter the room and gently sat down on the side of her bed. You hardly ever saw Delta like this, she was always cheery and full of optimism and generally outgoing. Slowly you begin gently rubbing her belly which turned into lying down and cuddling her on top of her sheets, comforting her. Delta gently whispers "They killed you, first. I think you ran out trying to protect Nova, but they shot you down really fast before Nova could react and teep the bullets away". Your eyes widen and you gulp nervously because it sounds like something you would do given the situation.
Nova slowly opened the door and said "I brought you guys up some panca-"when she saw Delta clasped tightly into your arms. Nova gently puts the two plates of pancakes onto the drawer and gets into Delta's bed as well and wraps everyone into her arms. Reassuringly, Nova says "There are 3 Battlecruisers en route to this planet with 4 Hercules Class Drop ships carrying a small army of Marines as well as almost an entire division of Ghosts expected to in orbit within the next day or two at most". The most we can do now is bunker down and hope nothing comes either tonight or tomorrow night. You wanted to ask whether or not that was a tinge of fear you felt in her voice or not but thought again about saying it, to which she was thankful because it would have been met with a firm response she didn't want to give in this sensitive time.
The rest of the day was spent normally, nothing in particular exciting happened until later at night. Normally, Nova would be in Pyjamas upon finishing her bath but instead tonight she was in her battle load out which consisted of armour plating on top of her hostile environment suit, and Delta also followed suit. So, as night fell you lay in bed as two heavily armed girls sat in your room silently eyes trained out the windows of the bedroom with Nova pacing about back and forth between the her window and the bedroom door. Nova being Nova when she decided upon a residence wanted half inch thick Neosteel panels be placed into every wall frame ensuring structural stability as well as security. Alongside the Neosteel lay layers of padded mesh which had been proven to reduce the amount of outside thoughts coming into the premises. The front door to the property was built around a 30mm thick bonded carbide plate, to give the impression as if everything about it was a normal door but in reality it was anything but, the front door could withstand a Marine firing squad opening up fully automatic fire on it for 2 minutes with few penetrations. Nova wanted her house to be a fort, but look like a normal house so as to not draw suspicion or attention.
Hours passed, with no sign of anything happening Nova gently whispered to Delta to change into her Pyjamas and go to sleep, much to Delta's unliking she grumbled and agreed, Nova tucked her into bed and kissed her forehead and wished her sweet dreams as Nova stood up until dawn, her dedication not wandering to the protection of her family. For the first time in her life she was feeling a sense of dutiful protection to the ones she loves instead of protection of those she was forced into serving under. As the sun came up over the horizon she sighed a breath of relief and began taking off her armour plating and going to bed in her suit. Nova gently collapsed into bed, taking extra caution to not wake you up in the process, she thought about snuggling up against you but was worried about waking you, so instead slept on her side of the bed facing towards you gently kissing your lips before falling asleep as sunlight shone through the windows.
As the warm sunlight shone onto your face waking you up from your sleep you awake to Nova's face in front of you with the sunlight shining through strands of her hair making it look a brilliant blonde. You want to hug and kiss her, but judging by the deep bags under her eyes which aren't normally present you could thought otherwise as she likely only recently fell asleep. Very, very slowly you begin to slowly get out of bed to ensure you don't wake up Nova in the process, closing the bedroom door quietly behind you as you head downstairs to make breakfast for yourself and enough left over for whenever the girls wake up. Delta was the first to wake up, the fleet arrived sooner than anticipated and began coming in overhead. This planet was alien to the presence of Terran warships overhead as they were in a secluded part of the stellar neighbourhood, away from the fighting and had little influence by the Terran Dominion.
The first two Drop ships touched down on an LZ located in and around a park close to the property and began spewing military equipment and hardware into the areas around it. Smaller troop ferrying ships began dropping off small squads of Ghosts who were to rendezvous near the property while Marine Force Recon began assessing and securing the ground around the premises. It was only now that you realize how important Nova was, you found it completely astonishing that at the click of her fingers and with a legitimate reason she managed to call down the wrath of the Terran dominion around her. Pro's to being a very, very important asset to the Terran dominion even if it's not immediately required in peacetime with the Zerg and Protoss.
"Where did all these guys come from? I thought they would have been taken out defending Tarsonis "You asked Delta, she replies "Well, they weren't assigned to the defence of Tarsonis you see, they're primarily all special missions units, exempt from the nitty gritty stuff the normal guys see". You've never touched a gun in your life up until meeting Nova, never even thought about killing another human being or what have you before so the idea that now suddenly all these people were arriving at your doorstep willing to do that for you in the event that it came to it left you breathless.
Suddenly the doorbell rang, knocks on the door made absolutely no sound heard inside as the thick armour plating inside the doorframe made any audible sound outside virtually completely unheard. Delta yelled out "I'll get it!" as she bounced down stairs towards the door. It was Spaulding and he immediately recognized that he wasn't talking to an ordinary young girl as Delta appeared in front of him in her Ghost suit. Upon looking up at him she mumbled "You smell funny, and you look wei-"you cover her mouth with the palm of your hand and smile at the man. Now now Delta, what did I say about making those types of comments about visitors, laughing awkwardly you look at the broad shouldered, 6 foot tall of a man standing at your doorstep and awkwardly ask "W-what can I do for you..err, sir". His eyes darted up and down then rechecked his papers and turned around to ask his NCO, you sure this is the place? To which his NCO checks his papers and nodded assumingly. I'm here to see a November Terra, do you by any chance know her? Delta's eyes lit up and quickly spewed out "Yes we do! I'll go wake her up!" and she sprinted up the stairs with speed. You try to make conversation with the man in front of you, "Sooo" to which he bluntly replied you got knocked up and gave birth to that? Your eyes widened and muttered out "Tha, no oh no no no" she's Nova's surrogate daughter. He grunts and briefly replies "Huh, is that so, we'll all be damn, didn't think she was much of a" to which he abruptly finishes his sentence with Nova walking down the stairs. Nova upon reaching the bottom of the staircase asked Spaulding to finish his sentence to which he wasn't very inclined to do so.
Nova's hair was all over the place, Delta hadn't given her any time to look appropriate for the meeting, with her long pony tail untied it formed a layered mess at the back and her normally neat bangs sporadically spread across her face, she was not in the mood either only managing to catch a few hours' sleep at the most. "Is there uhh, anywhere we can talk in private?" Spaulding asked, to which Nova hastily replied "Yeah, just through here" she said so while turning around and walking down the main corridor of the house. As he step foot into the house, Delta told Spaulding what you couldn't "Mr Captain Spaulding Colonel sir, If you could take off your boots before walking in our house, my Daddy would greatly appreciate it" pointing at you, you hastily brushed her hand back down and smile at Spaulding to which in turn rolls his eyes and complies as his NCO follows suit.
They were locked away in the meeting room for quite some time, hours had passed by and you were wondering if they were still talking about the events happening here and now, unlikely. You turn to Delta who is equally just as curious as to what is happening inside that room and ask her "Do you know the history between them?" to which Delta replies "Nope" maintaining an intent stare on the door of the meeting room. Moments later Nova opens the door to the room to see you and Delta intently looking towards the door from behind a couch, quickly ducking down behind cover when the doors had sprang open. You quietly hear "Strictly private and confidential Nova" abruptly followed by a clearly annoyed Nova growling back "My family has every right to know as much as I do" to which Spaulding replied "Very well", Nova personally saw to it that he left the property and stood outside.
With the front door shut, Delta shouts out "So what's gonna happen!" to which Nova sighed gently and said "Nothing's gonna happen Delta, just they're gonna sit outside for a week or two and make sure we're okay". You could see from Nova's facial expression that she was relieved but still very concerned, to her, you could have an entire armada of Battlecruisers overhead right now and it still wouldn't instil a perfect sense of security for her. You wrap your arms around both Delta and Nova forming some sort of a circle, "I'm sure we're going to be fine now, right?" to which Nova once again sighed and replied "Yeah, I guess so" Nova leans in for a kiss when she read your mind wondering as to whether or not now would be the right time to kiss to which Delta looked at and scampered off to the living room turning on the holo-projector. "You should really get some more sleep in Nova" to which she nodded in agreement. Still in her suit you picked her up to her surprise and carried her up the stairs to which she giggled and smiled gleefully. Tucking her into bed, holding her tightly against your body, nuzzling away at her nose before she passes out into a deep sleep. You decide now would be a pretty good time to take a nap as well but reminded yourself you needed to be up again in a few hours to prepare dinner for Delta.
Later that night as you and Delta prepared to go to sleep, Nova was wide awake, once again being completely kitted up in her armour plating staring out the window at the small army below in her yard, on the street, and in the neighbouring areas around the premises, virtually a makeshift fortress in the middle of a relative suburbia. Nova was sat down in bed tonight though, different from a much more active pacing back and forth last night. You feel as if she's scared, even though she wouldn't admit it and certainly not to the people who were protecting her. You come up from behind and wrap your arms around her waist to which she bluntly replies " I am NOT scared" folding her arms and looking away from you "Really?", after a long pause "Okay, maybe just a bit worried, but I definitely wouldn't say I'm scared" with as much defiance as the first time. My dad once told me "I do respect other people's faith, but I do not respect their manipulation of their faith in order to create fear and control in others" and to be honest Nova, I think they're just saying that to get you all worried and scared Nova, they want to evoke a response from you to which you have and -. Nova cuts in "But Delta's dream, she's never wrong, you can change the events of what happens in those dreams and that's what I was doing, or trying to do, we just don't know yet". A period of silence ensues, you decide to break it with "Then can you at least try to get a good night's sleep in with Delta and I tonight?" She looks back at you with a concerned look on her face "Please Nova?" She sighs and replies "I'll try", Thank you Nova followed with a quick kiss. As you exit the bedroom she muttered "But I can't make any promises, and when I do, I'll sleeping with one eye open".
"Nova can I stay up tonight too?!" Delta exclaimed, to which Nova replied, "No, not tonight Delta, thanks though", Delta was visibly disappointed but knew Nova wouldn't change her mind. Nova tucked Delta in to sleep and you wandered in soon after closing the door behind you. Nova once again sat down on the side of the bed facing the window, peering outside to what was happening outside, which wasn't anything particularly exciting but that didn't matter. You wrap your arms around Nova's waist and place your head on top of her shoulder and span your legs around Nova's and held her tightly until you fell asleep. Nova was touched by your display of affection but remained dedicated to having a personal expression of interest in ensuring their safety. Hours passed and with you still wrapped around her she finally had decided to call it a night, she carefully unfolded your arms and gently placed you back on the bed as she began taking off her amour but once again going to sleep in her suit.
After taking her armour off, she gently and as quietly as she could slipped into bed and snuggled up against you. She began tearing up, thinking back at what you had told her earlier that night about fears and overcoming them, and how it was affecting her and others around her. Nova unknowingly squeezed tighter and tighter around your chest borderline suffocating you, causing you to wake up. Finding a teary eyed Nova on resting her head on your chest you comfort her and proceed to nuzzle her and wrap your arms firmly around her. Even though you weren't exactly a teep by any means, you knew what she was thinking. When she began audibly crying and whimpering you begin to stroke her backside and reassuringly tell her that it's okay, and everything's going to be fine which calms her down.