Sold My Soul To Keep You Safe

by Polkadottedgiraffe11

Commander Yon-Rogg had been serving the Kree Empire since before Carol Danvers had come to Hala, molded into a weapon himself; the perfect solider, the perfect commander. But not for the same reasons as her. Moreover, Carol wasn't the only one with nightmares or memories of a lost time. Yon-Rogg had lost someone and it haunted him. Yon-Rogg/OC

1. Prologue

No One's POV

"Destination Hala." The computer chirps as Vers, now Carol, or perhaps, Yon-Rogg reflects, it really had been Carol Danvers all along, puts him back into his grounded and half-destroyed escape pod.

"I can't go back empty handed." Yon-Rogg tells Carol, his tone wavering only slightly as Carol looks down at him in her own unwavering and unforgiving look; despite what his former protégé believed, he hadn't wanted to lie to her, not even in the beginning, and more than that, he himself didn't have a choice, even against the Supreme Intelligence.

"You won't be empty handed. I'm sending you with a message. Tell the Supreme Intelligence that I'm coming to end it. The war… The lies... All of it..." Carol replies, looking down at her once mentor who she had trusted for six years, who had trained her, and most importantly, who she had once thought was her friend.

"No, you don't understand, Vers." Yon-Rogg answers his former protégé. "I can't go back empty handed." He looks nearly defeated as he repeats the words, at the implication of what going back without completing this particular mission, without capturing Vers, who was supposed to be the Supreme Intelligence greatest weapon in the war against the Skrull, meant for him.

Carol pauses for a moment, her hand hovering over the controls of the escape pod preparing to send her former mentor off into space, yet something held her back from launching him into the atmosphere of C-53; something was slightly off in her former mentor's tone, although she was uncertain what it was.

"What aren't you telling me, Yon?" Carol questions with no small suspicion, her head tilting, and her hand dropping from the controls as she instead presses for more information; despite what she told herself, all her anger towards him for the lies, she couldn't quite put it in herself to hate him outright, after all, for six years, he had been her mentor and closest friend on Hala.

"You're not the only one with nightmares or the one who can't sleep, Vers." Yon-Rogg tells Carol.

"What does that have to-" Carol questions with impatience.

"You're not the only one who's lost something to the Supreme Intelligence." Yon-Rogg continues as if Carol has not interrupted him, his gaze almost distant, fond, but dispirited as if he had lost something, a part of himself perhaps. "I have a mate… I have a bondmate and the Supreme Intelligence took her from me."