I'm back. SW marathon with my brothers! :) Love it!
Sands didn't understand this feeling. Every time she was around he felt... different. He wasn't sure what to make of this. Maybe he just needed sometime alone by himself. Yeah, that sounded like a good idea. Some time alone to think through his thoughts and get some idea of what this was.
"Sands! How nice to see you!" Ahhh! She's everywhere!
"Ummm, hi, how are you?"
"Good, you?"
"Alright." Why was he always so tongue tied around her? It drove him nuts.
"Well, I'll see you later."
"Bye." Sands mentally face-palmed, why couldn't he say anything intelligence when she was around. She had to think he was an idiot. He decided that he just needed some time off. He figured he'd find a couple of guys and hang out. Several men of the 566th who's girlfriends were off planets or weren't busy hung out at night and played sabacc, poker, pool and talked with each other. Right now he needed a break.
Katrina wasn't sure what to think of him. From all reports she'd received, he had been an excellent strategist and an amazing soldier. He had been one of the army's best. He was also supposed to have been terminated half a year ago because he was unfit for duty after a Laat/i crash on Shili. However, he had disappeared the day before his termination and hadn't appeared since. At least not in GAR records. She had a feeling that Del-Tara had something to do with his disappearance.
When she had first discovered that their lieutenant was supposedly terminated she had thought he was lying. But Tara would have been able to detect if he was lying to her. So she dug deeper into the GAR's records. She found that the Sandstorm she had met looked exactly like the old one. Blonde hair, blue eyes, same height, completely identical.
However, because she found that the old lieutenant had disappeared the day before his reconditioning and that he had never been replaced, she came to the conclusion that the clone was one and the same with the original.
He seemed friendly and funny, at least from Tara's reports. Madrid seemed to like him a lot. The 12 year old assistant constantly asked Tara about him and called him her Ciera (Brother). However, when she was around he seemed tongue-tied and on edge. She'd seen him around his brothers and he seemed friendly enough.
Now that she knew he was the original Sandstorm, she just had to figure out why he was acting so weird around her.