Prompt: 61. Fairy Tale
Disclaimer: Halo is Bungies
Takes Place: Pre-Series/Halo 3 Level "Cortana"
Cortana knew lots of stories. Fairy tales were her personal favorite, and Dr. Halsey knew them in great abundance (the Spartans were still little girls and boys after all). She could spend hours just reading about fair princesses and thier knights in shining armor. She would laugh at the villians, and wish to cry with the princesses as they lost thier kingdoms and family, and she'd smile as they all had happy endings. After the stories were finished, she'd wish for her own fairy tale ending. For her knight in shining armor to come and save her. If only she'd known.
Cortana smiled, joy running through her as she looked up at John. His armor wasn't shining, and she certainly wasn't a princess. But he'd come for her, across a great divide, he'd come to save her from the villain in her fairy tale. For her, that was good enough.
She had her Fairy Tale ending after all.
A/N: Yes, I know that Cortana would be, what, almost 40, if she'd been around when John was a kid, but I dun care. As for the "shining" armor, well, on every video I've seen, John's got this odd dent on his right chestplate, and he's all scuffed up from the Flood and Covvies. But I'm sure Cortana didn't mind. (giggles)
