Purgatory, Rookie, age unidentified:
"Damn, you're gorgeous." I moan down at the blonde waitress. If Judge Paler found me with his other daughter sucking me, he'd rip my dick off, "You're very good at this. You are Krista's sister."
She removes her mouth from cock, "What do you mean, 'I'm really Krista's sister.' Is there anything I should know about?!"
I whimper and wish my big fat mouth would've stayed shut, so I could get a load out, "Not at all. Hurry, I can't stand the delay!"
She slaps me into my childhood. What's going on? I did not have sexual affairs with that woman. Oh God, no!
"Mom, why are you crying?" my prepubescent voice squeaks when my mother has a bottle of gin and tears around her.
"Nothing sweetheart, go back to bed." She cracks before it fades; echoing, "…back to bed… back to bed."
"Blake! Get back to bed!" Sergeant Major Johnson shouts as Dalton begins polishing the new magnum, "I gave you an order, recruit! Back to the barracks!"
No. Not this. This was my first time ignoring a superior's orders and my only disciplinary learning experience. The memory will always be with me.
"Bite my ass, you old son of a bitch. War is won with tech, not dreams." Dalton practically spits every word at Johnson.
"What. Did. You. Just. Say?" Johnson asks from behind me, "You better tell me again before I get pissed. You won't like me when I'm pissed."
The Hell is up with these clichés? I don't remember him saying… oh wait. Guess he did say that before literally beating shit out of me.
"When I order you to do something, you do it." Johnson growls holding my bloody head and sniffing, "Change your pants boy."
I can't take it any longer. The memories of my wrongs, when have I ever made the right choice.
"Sometimes the right choice is the wrong one." Rachel faintly whispers and flinched, "Just like the wrong decision is also the right one."
"I don't know anymore. I told my mother to go to Hell; fucked my drill sergeant; had an unwanted baby." I sigh looking at my feet, "I just don't know what is wrong, and what's right anymore. Have you ever regretted what you have done?"
She pauses for a second before the scene changes to a quiet home, "Look inside; tell me what you see."
I sigh and peek through the window, "I see a young woman, a man, and a newborn. The woman is holding the man tightly in a hug."
"No, Blake. Look closer past the appearances." She waves her hand to the window again.
I look again, but it's all so much clearer, "It's… it's my parents. Dad's just going off to war. Mom doesn't want him to, she's starving herself in protest. How?"
Rachel places her hand on my shoulder, "Look beyond. To the child."
The baby, it's not me. It's a girl. This is not right, I never had a sister. She's pale. Her eyes are closing slowly and her ribs can be counted through her flesh. She's starving with mother. Where am I?
"It's a shame, that infant would have been me. I would have been 22 today." Rachel sighs, "When I died, my spirit wandered into your infantile mind. You never grew up with me, but I grew with you, my brother."
"But Dalton, and Michael. They were never in our family." I am shocked by the revelation I had a sister, "They are just spirits like you. No. I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but they are too strong."
"They don't exist, they never did." She purrs before Michael violently throws my newly discovered sister.
"Knew I would find the whore. Blake, I take from the front; you get from behind." Michael orders pinning Rachel down.
"No. You will not hurt her!" I scream and tackle him.
My fist grips his jacket collar while I continually send a barrage of punches into his jaw. Every punch thrown takes a burden off of me. I have waited years to do this. It's wrong. No, it's right. The wrong choice is right one. His face was a bloody mess when I finished my turn to make him MY bitch.
"Oh Dalton." I maniacally call for the bastard who ruined my life.
Med-bay, Rehe, age 23:
Three days. Three long; grueling; fear filled days have I stood awake by his bedside. I was beginning to lose hope that he will live until the end of this week, but something is happening.
"Whoa! Whoa! Brain waves are off the charts. Heartbeat is erratic." One of the human doctors commands the others, "200 cc of adrenaline. Keep monitoring the brain activity and heart rate. Rehe step back and let us work. Go, go, go."
Rookie, please wake up. I love you. You only care about my well-being instead of breeding. You're the only male I would die for.
"He's flat lining! Defibrillator! One, two, three, clear!" multiple humans shout over one another, "Flat line! Flat line! Clear!"
I can't watch him die, not like this. A warrior like him needs to die from old age, not a plasma wound.
I wrap my talons around his hand and hold him. The Sangheili in the halls look at me with shocked eyes. Fucking males!
"Leave us alone!" I snarl to everyone and no-one with tears forming in my eyes, "Leave us alone."
"No pulse! No pulse! He's gone?" the doctors cry out from their failure, "Time: 1100. Date it and send it to archives."
I kneel beside him and silently cry. The humans leave me alone with Rookie to sob my farewells.
"We have not known each other long, but every moment I spent with you was exciting. Blake, Dalton, and Michael all made you who you were. You were a prized warrior, and a noble ally. Goodbye, suitor."
I don't know how long I knelt there beside him, but soon I heard footsteps approaching me.
"Wonderful farewell, Rehe." A human, Buck, says with Rookie's squad mates behind him, "When an ODST dies, we put his weapon beside him to take into the afterlife to guard us."
I look back to Rookie and wipe the tears away. I won't show them how much I cared for Rookie.
"I don't think I should be here." My voice threatens to begin crying again.
A high pitched sound echoed throughout the room, and then another, and then two more.
"DIE! DIE! I'll kill!" he screams swinging his fists wildly around him, "I'll show you man whore! Die Dalton, die!"
"Doctor!" Dare shouts outside the open door, "Doctor, he's alive!"
"Easy kid. You'll hurt yourself." Buck playfully punches Rookie's arm.
I see the fire ignite in his eyes, "Stay away from my sister!"