Sisters of War
AUTHORS NOTE: I would like to remind everyone right now that this is AU. I have only recently gotten into COD and do not claim to be an expert... Enjoy anyway though! ^-^ *!~
Disclaimer: I do not own this, actually I don't even own the idea really. Well I do but, as stated above, this is all really for USMC Girl, my unofficial twin! ^w^ The only things I own, which I kinda share with USMC Girl are Emma and Ashton.
Chapter 2: The Mission
I sighed as I continued to copy down the files that Cookie had left, they were completely sub par and I refused to let them stay as is. In Fact this had been my project for the last week, it had taken a full week to get the infirmary properly sanitized then another whole week for me to sort through and inspect all of the supplies that the infirmary had had in stock, one more week for the remaining supplies needed to come in and here I am...
Going through the files of every single person on the base and attempting to put them in order and find out what the men still needed seeing as in the first file alone that man was missing no less than ten immunizations. Ten!
Needles to say i reported Cookie and sincerely hoped he was never allowed near a hospital again.
Letting out another sigh I began to flip through the list of who still needed what that I had been compiling since I first started going through the files.
HPV vaccines, check. Looks like he did something right... Flu shot, needed. Cookies an idiot. Rabies prevention, needed. How could he have forgotten that!? What with all those dogs the enemy was using... MMR vaccine, check.
I growl, irritated at myself, as I threw down my pen and rub tiredly at my face before getting up for the unpteenth time today. I wearily walked over to the entrance to the tent, making sure to grab my radio- I hadn't let it further than three feet away, and looked up into the sky. I knew that I wasn't going to see anything, but it didn't help to stop me hoping.
I just knew that something bad was going to happen today. I was so sure of it in fact that I already had a station prepped and sanitized for surgery. I had even gone so far as to scrub up twice this last hour alone.
My nerves were shot and I knew it, I just couldn't handle this. The people here had become like a family to me in my short time here. One month and they were already my brothers, my confidants. We... All but one.
Ghost and I had become extremely close this past month. I had even found that just hearing his voice... Talking to him at least once a day was enough to keep any nightmares from happening. When I was drowning in my flashbacks and not even Emma noticed he was somehow able to pull me back. But he wasn't here right now... Really no one was right now.
Ghost and Roach were on some mission for General Shepherd. No one really trusted him anymore but they still did it. We had a war going on right now after all and that was what truly mattered. That didn't stop Emma, Ozone and Archer from spying on the meeting however...
Soap would have been there as well but he was currently with Price on another mission that Shepherd had assigned.
Despite the situation I couldn't help but let out a small giggle, I just knew that something was happening there! I think it would be amazing for them to get together! They could be such an amazing couple I thought as I moved back over to my desk. Now, how to get them to admit their attraction to one another?
I was plotting and I knew it but hey, he was my brother and she my best friend. I just wanted them to be happy.
I glance over at my radio and let out yet another sigh, I hope everyone's okay...
Emma, Ozone and Archer were hidden just inside the thin scattering of trees surrounding the meeting area.
Shepherd was already there, the helicopter going and ready to fly at a moments notice. Shepherd was currently lounging against the side idly smoking a cigarette.
As Ghost and Roach came into view they silently drew their guns and aimed, Emma on Shepherd, Ozone and Archer each on one of the two unidentified Shadow Company soldiers with him...
"Do you have the DSM?" Shepherd asks once he finally reached where they were standing.
At first Shepherd had been wanting the raid to be a full out attack, luckily it had been changed to a stealth mission at the last mission going from most of the force being deployed to only Ghost and Roach, both men looked perfectly unwounded. Roach looked as though his ankle had twisted during what must have been a hasty escape but other than that they looked just as they had gone in, unscathed.
"We got it, sir!" Ghost replied, respectful as always.
"Good. That's one less loose end," Shepherd said as he pulled out his 44 magnum and quicker than they could move shot Roach in the abdomen.
~*`141`*~
"NO!" Ghost screamed as he watched Roach crumble before looking up to see the 44 leveled at his head and Shepherd about to pull the trigger...
The world seemed to slow as he focused on Shepherds finger as it pulled the trigger agonizingly slowly. Ghost wished he would just hurry and end it...
The sound of four consecutive gun shots were heard followed by an agonizing pain coming from his chest.
As the world around him blurred Ghost could have sworn it was the exact color of Ashton's eyes... He felt as though he were floating now, his body numb... Still the world was that gorgeous emerald and Ghost couldn't help but think that he could die happily being surrounded by that amazing color. By the eyes that he had fallen in love with.
His one regret? That he wouldn't be able to tell her how he felt...
~*`141`*~
"NO!" Ghosts scream echoed around them as they fixed their aims and fired...
Both SC's went down smooth. The bullets blasting through their skulls as though their skulls were nothing more than the practice targets they used at the base.
Shepard, who was already pulling the trigger by this time, didn't go down as smoothly. The bullet hit his throat directly and the shock wave that went through his body upon the impact caused his arm to jerk downwards just as the bullet was released.
Whereas the bullet was meant to hit Ghost directly between the eyes it now hit him squarely in the chest...
The gun shots still ringing in the air Emma, followed closely by Ozone and Archer, sprinted from their hiding spot and straight for the still bodies of Ghost and Roach.
Emma headed straight for her brother, praying the whole way that he was alright... Jumping over Shepherd Emma came to a stop on her knees turning Ghost over swiftly and applying pressure to help stem the wound Emma fumbled for her radio and finally, managing to draw it out, frantically pressed the button to make the call that could very well save her brother...
"Fable! Fable come in! Please!" Emma shouted into it quickly holding back the tears she could feel stinging her eyes, knowing that she had to remain as calm as possible to have any chance at helping her brother.
"What is it Lynx?" Ash answered quickly, she had obviously been next to the radio and sounded nervous, she had had bad feelings about this after all.
"Ghost and Roach have been shot! What do we do!?" I was panicking I know I was and I forced myself to calm down as I waited for the answer.
"Okay, first I need you to put pressure on the wounds, do Ozone or Archer have Roach covered?" Ash said quickly, voice calm. She was in her element.
"Yes, we've already got pressure going," I replied glancing over at where Archer was leaning over Roach listening closely as well. Ozone was scouting out the plane making sure there were no one waiting to ambush us...
"Good, now check the pulse. Is it fast, slow or normal?" Came Ash's voice over the radio, I checked just as she ordered and felt that it was stable, a little weak but stable.
Archer had his radio out now, and we both answered with the same weak but stable verdict.
"Good, now check if their breathing, if they are do they have an exit wound?"
Ozone had come over now so I let him handle telling Ash our answers as I checked for breathing and an exit wound.
"Ghost is breathing but the bullet didn't go through!"
"Same over here with Roach!"
"Both are breathing but neither have an exit wound," Ozone spoke into the radio quickly as we waited for the next command from Ash.
"Okay, now you need some kind of fabric. A shirt, blanket, pad of gauze, anything. Use that to help stem the blood flow instead of your hand. Ozone since you have the radio and I'm relatively sure you scouted the area were there any blankets? Jackets? You need to keep them warm, keep them from going into shock."
"Got it!" Ozone said quickly before digging through a bag I hadn't noticed him bringing from the copter. He pulled out two piles of gauze and handed them to us before laying two blankets across their legs.
"Done," he said into the radio and I held my breath as we waited for the next order to come through.
"Okay now, you have to get them back here to base. Applying pressure is all that you can do right now but make sure to keep them as steady as possible! Especially Ghost, if he's moved too much and that bullet nicks his spinal cord he could be paralyzed." She was talking fast and we could hear objects moving, she was preparing a surgery station more than likely.
My mind was racing, he could be paralyzed? Okay, okay, don't think about that now! We've got to get them back! Ash can take care of them, she'll make sure they make it, I reminded myself as Ozone began to move around. He was clearing out the cots on the inside of the plane and bringing them over, First he got Archer and Roach since Roach was barely conscious enough to apply pressure to his own wound long enough for Archer and Ozone to help get Ghost while I kept the pressure going.
Finally after what seemed like years we were loaded and taking off leaving the bodies of Shepherd and the two SC's for Nikolai to pick up...
By the time Emma and the others had gotten back I was already prepared and in scrubs. I had ordered a few of the soldiers who were in the rec room to help bring them in immediately and had already gotten in contact with a nearby medic who was currently scrubbing up.
The medic who was assisting her was named White and though White had more experience she herself had more experience with chest wounds so she would be working on Ghost with Whites help if he was done first.
Whites name suited him though, he was tall, pale, with platinum blonde hair and extremely pale blue eyes his lab coat was also pristine, almost blindingly so despite the fact that this was a war zone. He was rather nice however, when he had shown up he had taken one look at her before getting her a nice hot and very strong cup of black coffee. She prefered it with a horrific amount of sugar, her guilty pleasure, but the black coffee had been just what she had needed...
White was apparently from the US, Texas to be exact, and very very kind.
Right now he was standing at the cot next to her, both dressed and ready in their surgical scrubs, and prepared to operate as soon as their patients arrived.
Ashton had already triple checked their records and had the necessary blood ready and already hooked up to the iv. They were going to have to move swiftly if they were going to have any chance for keeping Ghost and Roach alive.
Ashton looked up and steeled her nerves as the wounded men were ushered into the operating room. This was what she was trained for and she would rather die before she allowed either of these men to die because she lost her calm in the middle of operating.
Moving swiftly with a grace that she should not have obtained for years yet she shouted out orders to those left in the room as she prepped Ghosts wound for the operation.
~*`141`*~
Ashton rushed into the operating site, hand still applying pressure to her brothers wound. The second the door was open Ashton rushed forward and quickly replaced my hand with her own as we were moved to the operating table and ghost was laid down on it. She grabbed some scissors from a table on the side and quickly began to cut off Ghosts hoodie and shirt all the while barking orders at us.
"Archer, Ozone, go get scrubbed up. You two are the only ones with emergency medical training, you're going to have to assist. The rest of you get out! This room cannot be contaminated! Wait in the waiting room or wherever just get out!" Her voice was firm and her hands moving quickly as she slid the iv into my brothers arm.
Her words were harsh but I knew that they were the truth as we walked out of the operating room, I glanced back just before the door swung closed, the last glimpse I received of my brother was of my best friend leaning over him with an odd, unidentified, metallic object.
I could feel a shiver run down my spine but forced it down. Ashton would heal him, if anyone could, she could...
The operations had been going on now for close to five hours... Everyone was getting extremely anxious but none more so than Emma Riley. It was understandable, that was her brother in there after all.
No less than three hours previous Nikolai had returned with the bodies of Shepherd and the two SC's, Soap had been informed of all that had happened and what was still happening. Since his and Prices mission hadn't truly began yet he had radioed the one person he never thought he would have to, Marcus Mactaliver.(1) He was the only man that General Shepherd answered to and the only one that they could go to on this issue. Mr. Mactaliver had automatically ordered them to abort their mission and head back to the 141 where he was actually going to meet them! Nikolai was due back within the hour with Soap and Price and Mr. Mactaliver within the same time limit.
Just as Emma was about to get up and pace yet again, as she had been doing off and on for the past five hours, the doors opened and everyone froze. Everyone was filled with both hope and dread at what was they could possibly learn...
Through the door came Archer and Ozone carrying a cot that held an unconscious Roach between them.
"White got all of the bullet fragments out and patched up. He'll be out of commision for a while but he should be fine," Ozone said as they transferred Roach to one of the hospital beds.
A collective sigh of relief went through the infirmary at this knowledge. Roach would be okay!
"W-what about my brother? What about Ghost?" Emma asked, she had faith in Ashtons abilities no doubt about that but that didn't stop the worry.
Especially not when she saw the looks that crossed over Archer and Ozones faces...
"Emma... Ash is going to do her best. She already is! If I didn't know better I would swear that she's had at least twenty years of experience! Ghost is in safe hands. If anyone can do this it's her," Arched said gently as he rested a hand on Emma's shoulder. But Emma already knew this damn it! She wanted to know what was going on, not just that he would be okay.
Emma wasn't a fool and as much as she would have liked to delude herself she knew that it was a long shot, even if Ash had been right there with everything she needed the second it happened.
"I meant what's been happening? What has been done so far? Damn it tell me!" Emma growled out when they looked like they weren't going to answer.
It was Ozone who answered, drawing a deep breath to steady himself before looking her straight in the eyes and telling her what she needed to know despite the fact he knew it would hurt her...
"Ghost flatlined twice... The last time he didn't come around, Ash did something called 'Cardiac Massage'. His heart started again but White told me the moment she had to do that his chances dropped down to a thirty percent chance of survival. Ash is doing her best though, she didn't even glance up when White took over for Archer here. Have faith hun, that's all we can do."
~*!END OF CHAPTER 2*~
AUTHORS NOTE: Dun dun dun~! Can anyone out there tell that I love M*A*S*H*? Hawkeye is amazing! ^-^ What will happen next? It's anyone's guess... Including mine! :D
1: Marcus Mactaliver is not in the actual COD game saga/comic. I have made him up, unfortunately it was required. He shall not be in this story that much however.
