Sorry for the delay everybody… here's the fourth chapter of Rainbow Six: Grim Sky!
Tina was following Craig the entire way towards her wing, and two questions could not leave her mind.
One, why Sebastien was so pissed and why he hasn't been talking to her all day, and two, why Craig has decided to help her?
It's not like she was complaining or anything… she got to be near him and not have him ask questions about it.
But what is Craig really accomplishing here? What is he going to say to Sebastien that will get him to express his feelings? The only person to be able to that was Tina, and no one else.
Tina and Sebastien have known each other too long to know when something's wrong. That's the way it's always been.
"Craig, what are you going to say to him?" Tina asks, coming to his side.
"Nothing too tricky."
"That's not too specific."
"I'm just going to talk straight-forward to him. No bullshit. Men like directness when they are talked to."
"What if you piss him off more?"
Craig shrugs, grinning, "I'll take a punch. I've had worse during my time with the SEALs."
"Yeah, well… Sebastien doesn't angry very often, but when he does…"
"Tina, please, don't worry about this. Everything will be fine."
Tina sighs, running a hand through her tied up hair, giving up on talking to him.
They finally reached the JTF2 hall, where it was quiet as a mouse, and that worried Tina. When she wasn't there, Sebastien would be talking anyway.
Tina steps in front of Craig, keeping him from walking, "Let me find him first."
He nods in understanding, and she walks past the living room and to the bedroom, where she opens the door and looks around.
Her bed is nice and neat, untouched, but the bed across from her has Sebastien on it, just laying down and looking at the ceiling.
"Seb?"
He doesn't answer her back… hell, he doesn't even look at her.
"Craig, he's in here." Tina says, not breaking eye contact with Sebastien.
She feels him behind her, "What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know," she looks at him, "can you please stand outside so I can talk to him?"
"Tina…"
"Craig. Please."
He looks at me, nodding, "Okay. Just let me know if you need me."
He leaves and Tina nods back, looking at Sebastien again, walking to him, "Seb?"
Sebastien looks at her, "What?"
"What's wrong?"
He looks away again, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"You're acting like you are angry about something."
"It's maybe because I am."
"Well, tell me why. I want to help you."
"Tina, if you haven't figured it out by now, then you can't really help me."
"Sebastien, you need to talk to me now."
Sebastien looks back at her in mild surprise, knowing that Tina rarely raises her voice, "I don't know how to."
He sounded so broken instead of angry now, and that caught Tina off guard, "It doesn't need to be hard Seb. You know you can tell me anything."
"I know that. I'm just afraid you'll hate me or something."
Tina places a hand on his leg, "Never Seb, never."
He sighs and lays his head back, closing his eyes as if he was dreading this decision, "Do you remember when we first joined Rainbow?"
"Yeah, of course. It was the best day of my life."
He nods, "Right… and we went to the bar and got hammered, something that was completely new to you.."
"I'm not used to getting drunk."
"Yeah, I know." Seb laughs gently as Tina joins.
"Anyway, then, we woke up at our apartment completely sore and feeling just terrible…"
"Then we found we did something."
"Yeah, well…" Sebastien stops, not saying anything else.
Then, Tina gets it, putting her hand on her mouth, "Oh no, Seb.."
"Yeah."
The memories came flooding in, "We had sex."
Sebastien nods, "I enjoyed every moment of it. I'm in love with you Tina."
Her breath left her body, "What…?"
"I love you Tina."
"Sebastien," she puts her head into her hands, "god dammit…"
"I'm sorry I had to tell you like this. I didn't know how else."
Tina looks back up, looking around the room other than into Sebastien's eyes, "I know, but this was the worst of times to do it."
"Why?" Sebastien leans up, placing a hand on her knee.
"Because right now I'm trying to hook up with Craig."
He gapes at her, "No fucking way."
"Yeah. Shoot me."
He doesn't say anything, just rubbing his hand against Tina's leg, trying to comfort her, then saying, "How is it going?"
"Not well. I don't even think he knows."
"You should probably tell him then."
"After your news, probably not."
"Look Tina," Sebastien leans in to where Tina can feel his breath, "even with my confession, if pursuing Craig is what you want and it makes you happy, then it'll make me happy."
"Yeah?"
"Of course," he kisses her forehead, "always."
She ignores the tingling sensation on her head, "So.. are we good?"
He smiles, "We're good."
They hug, with Tina kissing his cheek, "Thanks for understanding."
"No problem. All I wanted to do was tell you."
Tina makes a quick decision and kisses him quickly on the lips, leaving Sebastien in a trance and still state.
"That's what it can be if this Craig thing doesn't work out," she says, standing up, "catch you later Seb."
He's still in his shocked state when Tina leaves and sees Craig sitting and waiting, "Well?"
"We're all good."
"See how easy that was? What was wrong with him?"
Tina didn't really want to bring this up to him, "Something personal from our past. He was holding a lot of guilt."
"That's fine," Craig says, checking his watch, "we should probably go to…"
Before he can finish, both their phones ring and Craig curses, "It better not be Grace fucking with our phones again…"
Tina reads hers, "Oh shit."
"Already? Fuck, fine…" Craig puts his phone away, "let's go."
She hears Sebastien coming from behind and walking past her, "Let's go Frost…" he smiles as he looks at her, "we've got another country to save."
Just like that, her Sebastien was back.
"This happened just 20 minutes ago."
Six points to the television, with Big Ben's current picture on it, "Citizens were killed. The White Masks are pulling all the stops on this one. They wanted our attention."
"It's like they did this on purpose," Meghan adds next to Craig.
"Yeah, more like an act of war." Jordan says.
"We've been at war with the White Masks for years," Eliza replies, looking at Jordan, "what makes this any different?"
"The fact that the White Masks are now doing anything and everything they can to hurt the environment and us at any costs instead of building themselves again," Six concludes.
Everyone turns silent.
"Now, all because of these events, we now have to move London as sooner as expected."
"What does that mean for us ma'am," Marius asks, "no offense, but we haven't been prepared for this. We don't have our bare essentials."
"I say that you better haul your ass to get your things. We leave at 12 o hundred, no excuses."
"So, with all of this, what's next for us?" Emmy asks, leaning in.
Six looks at Baker, who's been standing next to her, "There's only one thing…"
The operators stand attention at their founder.
"We have to bring in Clash and Maverick."