Everyone turned and headed out, that night it grew cold and started to rain, no one complained but they kept walking because they knew they had to find some sort of shelter they saw a house in the middle of nowhere which confused most of them but the girls ran straight to it because they didn't want to get rained on anymore, Cortana opened the door and a gun was put to her head
"HOLY CRAP" She screamed
The boys ran up to the door
"Who's there?" someone asked
"What the hell is going on?" Dutch asked
"Dutch is that you?" someone asked
"Dare" Dutch said
Cortana relaxed as the gun was taken away from her head, and the one holding the gun walked out sure enough it was the ODST captain Dare
"Dutch, Rookie" Dare said "Where are the others?"
"Past the Covenant Army" Dutch said "Back that way"
"Can we come in?" Cortana asked
Dare stepped back and let the others walk in, on there way in they saw a young girl standing in at the other side of the house, in the kitchen, she was leaning on a counter staring at them, she had short dark blond hair, she wore an old white t shirt and ripped blue jeans. She was watching them intensely, which caused a bit of uneasiness in Cortana
"Don't worry about her" Dare said "Now what should we do?"
"We stay here the night and find a way back to the beach tomorrow" John said
"Okay" Dare said
Everyone was getting situated in the living room, the girl never left where she stood, but watched carefully as all but three of the new visitors fell asleep
"Raee you should sleep" Dare said
"For some reason I don't trust them" Raee said
"Don't worry about them" Dare said
Raee shook her head then noticed that only one remained awake, the only who hasn't said a word since he got here, he seemed more like he was observing everything, then he got up and walked up to her, now standing on the other side of the counter Raee was leaning on
"Who are you and why are you here?" Raee asked
"The Rookie is my designated nickname and Im here because it's raining out there" The Rookie said
Raee watched as he took off his helmet and shook his head a little, his hair was short and dark, he looked up at her with deep blue eyes, Raee stood completely still, The Rookie now stood close enough to see that Raee had emerald green eyes
"You okay?" he asked
"Yeah I just haven't slept in a while" Raee said
"Then sleep" The Rookie said "I have to take the first night shift in case Aliens show up"
Raee walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs to her room, The Rookie watched as she left, then he went and sat down near the door so he could hear if there was any sound, it was morning and Thel was the one at guard, he took a moment to look out the window, Thel looked around to see that The Rookie had fallen asleep on the stairs, John and Dutch fell asleep back to back in the hallway, Angel fell asleep in a chair in the living room while Cortana slept on the couch, Thel knew that the two other girls had gone upstairs but he didn't want to wake The Rookie just to go up there, however it seemed his thoughts woke the boy up
"Is it morning?" he asked
"It's light out" Thel said "So Im guessing so"
The Rookie rolled his eyes at Thel's remark
"Should we leave then?" he asked
"Get the others and we'll go" Thel said
The Rookie quietly walked up the stairs and woke up Dare
"We gotta go now" he said
Dare was half surprised because this was the first time she heard The Rookie speak, but she got up silently so she wouldn't wake up Raee, the two went downstairs
"Are we bringing your new friend with us?" Dutch asked
"No she can't fight and I don't want her to get killed" Dare said
Raee listened from the stairs, The Rookie turned to the stairs he swore he heard something, but when nothing was there he couldn't do much but leave with his group and hope that Raee doesn't do anything crazy. A few hours after they had left, they could see that old warehouse