"Kate! Please listen to me, just calm down," he said as he looked down at me.
"Where did he go! What did you do with him!?" I screamed.
"Kate..." Keith sighed.
"Why won't you people tell me!" I yelled as tears poured out of my eyes. I would have gotten up and gone to look for him, but after what seemed hours of struggle they finally got me tied down to a chair. It took the other three top rangers, Barlow, and Professor Hastings to get the ropes on. I still continued to struggle though.
"You ass holes! Where is he!"
"Kate, you know very well that we can't tell you that," The Professor used a soothing voice.
"Why not? I'm a top ranger and I have the right to know! You told Keith, and Sven, and Wendy!" I spat in my defense.
"But they don't have an emotional connection to him, we know they won't set him free and we have right to think that you will," The Elder explained.
"But it's not his fault! He never wanted to be what he was, or do what he did!"
"Even if that is true, he still did those horrid things and he has to pay for his crimes," Keith said to me, and all of the others nodded in agreement.
"At least let me go!" I ordered.
"No, Kate. It's obvious that you are in no state to be marching around Almnia," Wendy explained, "I mean look what you did to Keith."she gestured to the red haired boy who now had a black eye. It was swollen, and he held and ice pack to it. I had done that to him. I punched Keith. The same Keith that I became best friend with at the ranger school in a time that seemed so long ago. I had to take a moment to realize that I had hurt him, and I was out of control.
"Well then can you just leave me alone? I need to think things through," I tell them.
"Damn right you do," Keith said as he exited the room.
"We will leave you alone, but Kate, don't try to break free. Even when we are not in here we are still watching you, you know the drill," Hasting told me, but I was only half listening. I was lost in thought. The past year had been hell for me. I had done so many things in that year. I graduated from ranger school, became a top ranger, went on all these mission that led up to Operation Brighton, and then I saved Almnia. I guess my life doesn't sound too bad, but what happened during Operation Brighton and the missions leading up to it ruined me. I fell in love. But falling in love is a good thing, right? I guess it usually is, but not in this case. Love is not good when it pops up in places that it shouldn't. Like love between two people who's countries are at war with one another. That is the kind if love I had. But how was I supposed to know that he was from team Dim Sun? He wasn't wearing a uniform or anything. I didn't know until he pulled out that Minermo and attacked me. I like to tell myself that it was too late for me to change my mind about him by then, but the I'd just be lying to myself.
After he attacked me he left the castle, and I didn't see him until that day when I was on patrol. Then I saw him again when I was patrolling. Then he showed up in the dessert, but that could have easily been a mirage in that heavy sand storm.
Then he raided the union. His friend broke in on the grounds floor as a distraction while he was upstairs kidnapping the genius mushroom head, Isaac.
The last time I saw him was Operation Brighton, when he tried to kill me. After i beat him he ran off. He was gone. I looked for him for so long, but I never found him. During my search ! got a tip that my own team had him locked up somewhere, and now they won't let me have him back. They tied me to a chair, and not even Keith will tell me where the guy is.
"I miss you..." I say to the walls of the empty room. "Ice," I murmured, and the tears begun to flow once again.