While my friends were talking with the BLUs, Medic and Valkyrie went to talk. Valkyrie had been avoiding Medic lately because she didn't want to talk about what happened next.
"So, Vat Happened?"
Valkyrie said nothing.
"Vould you like to talk about something else?"
"Ya! That would be great!"
Medic looked at his chart before turning back to Valkyrie.
"Tell me about Mark"
"Mark was a real show off, full of himself kind of guy! You would walk past him without him doing that cocky smile. He used to always get into fights. Or that's what I'm told!" Valkyrie smiles happily.
"You never knew him personally?"
"No! In fact I never knew anyone outside of people in the War"
"You never had friends your own age?"
"No. Well except for Simon and we used to do all sorts of crazy stuff before the real training. Then he started focusing on being the best"
Medic raised an eyebrow
"So how come he isn't in the War?"
"Well actually you'd have to ask him. He was the best at what he was and then suddenly I see him leaving the base with only one finger in the air. It was the finger Scout sometimes gives!"
"..." Medic gave a grunt of annoyance.
"Well anyway, I never went to school! The only reason I have those guys is because they were the ones who found Mark and when I was found I told them about Mark"
"How did you meet Mark?"
"Well because he was a cocky guy everyone wanted him to be in their team and I'm talking about groups in school because not only was he HOT but he was apparently really smart too! But he liked his own crowd. They were called 'Freaks' and he didn't like that so he tried to help them"
"Okay..." Medic didn't see the point but didn't want to interrupt. He might not know Valkyrie that socially but if she's anything like her father she could be dangerous.
"Well anyway! Do you know the way Simon left? Well he went to that school and became friends with Tracy, Carter and Tae!"
Medic nodded
"But Simon hated Mark. Even though Mark never met or even knew who Simon was, Simon would always be the one to say bad things about him because he was, and I quote, a Cocky, manipulating freak"
"But Simon doesn't seem to hate Mark now"
"Well the people who kidnapped me liked to play sick games. So they took Mark, tortured him and made him watch what they were doing to me as a message" Valkyrie explains.
"A message?"
"After they were sure that Mark was what they wanted, they dropped him in the parking lot of the school for everyone to see. Now he's not the Cocky guy or the freak friend he turned into a scared boy who would cry if something scares him or someone touches him. They made sure that he told Simon about them having me as a kind of sick torture of Simon not being in control. And Simon loves to be in control. I think he feels guilty that Mark got dragged into this situation because of him"
Medic nodded understanding.
"How long was Mark in the same situation for?" Medic asked.
"About a week"
"So vhy is he like that and you are vell normal except for the fact that you're incredibly energetic?"
Valkyrie thinks for a second.
"I was tortured for a year but I never really talked or even thought about it. Mark couldn't stop thinking about it and the army didn't help because they made him talk about it to get information about me and then left without actually helping him. He was forced to deal with it on his own until Simon came along. Simon stopped people who thought they could take advantage of Mark and soon Simon became really possessive. Mark doesn't mind though! He finds it comforting. I was protected straight away. That's the reason me and my family are here, for protection."
"So vhy are most of your family on the other side?"
Valkyrie smiles
"I told you! Even before I was kidnapped my Mom and two brothers joined the REDs and my Dad joined the BLUs!"
"But vhy did YOU join the BLUs?"
Valkyrie thought about it but realised that it was getting late and she had to talk to her brothers or else they would be MAD!
"Can we talk about this tomorrow? I have to go! See ya Medic!"
And with that Valkyrie ran out the door to find Scout.
...
"I'M SORRY!" Valkyrie cried as Fionn started chasing her.
"You're late!"
Scout and Lawrence were laughing their heads off and BLU Scout was currently the thing separating Fionn from Valkyrie.
"Scout! Help! Fionn's gone crazy!" Valkyrie pleaded.
"Why is he like this!" Scout asked while trying to move out of the way of Fionn's glare.
"Oh little Rapunzel over there got caught smoking with our Sniper and Mom tore him a new one right in front of the entire team!" Lawrence laughed.
"Ya, you should've seen his face! But it's not as funny as how he was caught!" RED Scout laughed.
"How was he caught?" Scout asked.
RED Scout held his lips trying not to laugh while Lawrence explained.
"Well, he went out with Sniper and had a couple of cigarettes. He then went back inside to the kitchen with the cigarette to show off to me and Scout and then Mom was there so he held his breath and hid the cigarette. But then Mom kissed him on the cheek and he coughed!"
Lawrence was reduced to tears at this point rolling from side to side clutching his sides.
"So he coughed in her face and she smelled the smoke?" Scout asked confused on how that would be funny.
"No, no, no! He was walking in to show off by blowing smoke hoops. So when Adriana kissed him on the cheek he-he-"
With that RED Scout rolled from side to side clutching his sides in tears.
"-he blew smoke in her face..." Scout cringed. He had ran into the orange Engineer before and you NEVER wanted to make her angry.
"It was like a black cloud that looked into your soul and gave you what you most wanted" Lawrence waved his hand in the air as if clearing imaginary smoke.
"A pissed Engineer and a so-scared-was-close-to-wetting-himself Sniper!" RED Scout put in and then both fell backwards into laughter.
Fionn, who was still chasing Valkyrie, stopped in his tracks and turned slowly towards them.
"What did you say?" Fionn growled.
The two laughing boys froze and went quite before turning to the ANGRY Sniper.
Scout and Valkyrie wanted to help them but it was their own fault but you couldn't really blame them.
It was like standing in front of a bull while poking it in the eye while in a narrow hallway which was too small for the bull to turn around in. You know what's going to happen, you know it's bad but you can't stop yourself.
...
By the time Fionn, Lawrence and RED Scout got back it was late. They didn't notice that the BLUs went back during their fight but you couldn't really blame them, they were fighting for a really long time.
As they entered, they were greeted by 8 laughing men. Fionn glared at them but turned his attention to the two injured boys behind him who were trying their best to stop the team from laughing in case Fionn decided to go crazy again.
Fionn decided however to go apologise to Mom. He went looking but could not for the life of him find her anywhere.
...
Valkyrie wasn't having a good time back at her base either. For some reason nobody has seen her father since she left with Medic to 'talk'. She was worried. While running around she somehow managed to crash into Pyro.
"Pyro! I'm so sorry! Have you seen my Daddy?"
Valkyrie was like a lost child without her father or any of her family really but she made up for it by visiting them on the field.
"Mf...mfmf"(No...sorry) Pyro shrugged and then went off the find Demo.
Valkyrie huffed in annoyance. Where was he?
Valkyrie jumped and ran again hoping to find him but again she was interrupted by falling over someone.
"SPY!" Valkyrie screams in happiness.
"What is it now?"
"Where's Daddy?" Valkyrie asks shrinking slightly.
Spy sighed and sat up.
"I was 'oping you could tell me" Spy answered.
"Where do you think he went?"
"Well 'e is your father"
"When we were still in training, but on the BLUs, Daddy used to take these long walks but he wouldn't tell me where he was going he'd just tell me not to worry"
Spy thought for a moment before turning and walking down the hall. Valkyrie following.
"Sniper might 'ave seen 'im or might be able to find 'im" Spy told Valkyrie.
"Hey, where did my friends go?"
"Oh that little boy, Mark, got scared when Soldier started shouting, Simon punched Soldier then took Mark away and the rest of your little friends followed" Spy sighed boringly.
"What you don't like my friends?" Valkyrie asks with a smirk.
"Listen little girl, It is your own business. I do not want a part in your personal life"
"Simon told you that he was meant to be a Spy, huh?"
Spy grumbled.
While they were walking, they Spy saw Ron turn the corner.
"Ron!" Spy called
Ron just kept walking, not turning back. Ron reached his room and closed the door in their face.
"Is Daddy mad?" Valkyrie asked Spy who was fuming from being ignored.
...
The next day, before the battle started, Soldier was telling the 'Visitors' to stay out of their way because even though bullets would pass though them it would still hit them and they didn't need distractions.
It ended with Simon punching Soldier in the gut for poking Mark in the shoulder.
Ron came in but didn't say a word to Valkyrie. Valkyrie thought he wanted to be alone and just went on with her day.
Mark wasn't having a good start. Honestly, he didn't want to go out and watch Valkyrie fight. He watched her be tortured, what if she dies a slow and painful death and then just walks out of that room and has to re-live it all over again?
He was brought out of his thoughts by Simon who wrapped his arm around Marks shoulders protectively and smiled.
Valkyrie smiled happily at the two.
"Hey Val?" Engie called.
"Hey Engie!"
"Hey, what's with those two over there? Are they brothers or something?"
Valkyrie gave a confused look.
"No..."
"So they're best friends?"
"No..."
"Then what are they?"
Valkyrie raised her eyebrows
"They're a couple"
Engie gave a weird look.
"But they're only like 14,15?"
"Think so!" Valkyrie says happily before turning back to the door as the countdown started.
...
Valkyrie didn't understand a lot of things. Mostly because she was training a lot and didn't see any point. For example, she never understood couples, mostly because she only ever saw in her entire life two couples.
The first was obviously her parents. And the second was Mark and Simon.
Because of them she was different to her brothers. Her brothers were in school for a while and got this strange notion that Gay was Wrong.
Valkyrie didn't. She didn't like judging people before she met them. But her brothers were proven wrong when Valkyrie saw Mark and Simon.
This scene for example, that Valkyrie was looking at from her crouched position on the ground.
Mark and Simon were on the roof. Mark still under Simon's arm looking comfortable and safe, Simon watching out and looking happy as well. Simon would squeeze Mark gently whenever something scared Mark and when Simon got angry for someone shooting bullets at the two, Mark would hold his hand to calm him down. They worked perfectly together and this was another reason why Valkyrie wasn't mad that RED Scout liked Scout. They would work together as well. Or that's what Valkyrie thought at least. She wasn't going to do anything though. That's their own business.
Mark flinched at the evil laugh of a Demoman (Valkyrie wasn't sure which one) and Simon gave him a full hug.
Smiling at the scene, Valkyrie turned back to the battle.
...