Chapter Three
Vanessa unlocked the door and went inside her apartment. She hung up her jacket and went to her room to pack. She got a suitcase from the closet. Here I am packing again. That's the life of someone in the military for you. Never get to settle. She thought to herself.
She took her clothes out from her closet and folded them neatly in her suitcase. After she finished she zipped up her suitcase and left it in the bedroom. She took a box from the closet and went to the living room. She put the pictures of her and her brother in the box along with her other valuable things but not without first wrapping them in newspaper to keep then from being broken in the shipping. She soon packed everything she owned into boxes, which wasn't much, and got some packing tape from the drawer in the kitchen. She sealed each box, and then put by the door. She looked at her watch and saw it was eight o'clock. She had to leave early the next day so she decided to go to bed. She went to her room got under the blankets, and herd a woman singing a lullaby to her child. She listened to the lullaby as it lulled her to sleep she was confident it was lulling the kid next door to sleep as well.
Memories came flooding back to her and she remembered everything that happened in the past week. A tear rolled down her cheek and she fell asleep, remembering her brother, and a picnic, long ago, when their parents had been alive. The picnic before the accident that took them away.
The next morning Vanessa woke up, rubbed her eyes, looked at the clock, her eyes widened in shock when she realized the short time that she had to get ready to leave.
'Okay, fifteen minutes, I can do this.' She thought as she quickly got up and ran to the bathroom she jumped into the shower, jumped out, brushed her teeth,and ran her fingers though her hair since she already packed her hairbrush, and ran to her room to change into her uniform. She finished changing, and threw the toothbrush into the front pocket in her suitcase. She grabbed the suitcase from the bedroom, put the box under one arm, and headed towards the door.
'Okay, box, suitcase, purse, keys. I think I have everything.'
She exited her apartment and locked the door. She sighed, 'How am I going to get to the train station?' She thought to her self. She started walking down the stairs, and out the front door. And Havoc was there.
"The chief said that you didn't have a car, so I volunteered."
"I hope I didn't keep you waiting, my alarm clock didn't go off-"
"Nah, you didn't. But let's get moving, we're going to be late, okay?"
"Sure." She put her suitcase into the trunk, the boxes would be sent later, and got into the front seat of the car.
Going to the train wasn't far, but it seemed as if every second was like a minute.
"You're three minutes late." Roy said.
"Sorry, chief, traffic was pretty bad." Havoc said.
"Sure, just don't let it happen again."
"Yes, sir." Vanessa said.
"All aboard!" the conductor said. They picked up there various boxes and bags, climbed onto the train, and walked to a free compartment. Roy sat down and obviously Riza sat beside him. Vanessa sat across from her and Havoc sat across from Roy.
"Last call! Everyone onto the train!" The train started moving the ride stayed quite for a while, until two gunshots where heard, and everyone stood up.
"Where those gunshots?" Havoc asked.
"Don't know, split up, before this gets out of control." I hope it's not what we all think it is. Roy thought.