A Painful Decision
When she woke, she felt sick and aching, and the first thing she did was throw up.
The world was spinning and still she felt sick, but with an empty stomach all she could do was dry-wretch.
"Good thing you're awake." A familiar voice said from the other side of her bed and she looked over, able to distinguish an out of focus green blur with a gold stripe on its face.
"Heh-I-uh." she spoke in a beaten and broken voice that was hard to distinguish, "WE-ee-air I-zz sauce-ike."
"What?" he asked, eyebrows raised behind his face plate, but quickly knew what she meant when Shasic walked in, and she smiled at him.
"Sauce-ike..."
"It's ok, stoop trying to talk." He spoke softly to her as his rough skinned alien hand applied slight pressure on her shoulder, it felt like a hundred pounds to her ands he fell back into laying down obediently.
"Whez do Izz ur-et?..."
"What?"
"She's asking why she hurts." Shasic told Master chief, who had never seen Star..megan...hurt like this before.
But he could remember so well when she'd been shoved into a beam of plasma energy by a brute..She had cried and had trouble talking and had lost some skin on her left arm...
"Because you used that weapon and destroyed the flood."
"Izz new-ed da-at, whi-ze Ien no-et de-ead?"
"Because we gave you blood and carbon copied some skin on the inside of your thighs for skin grafts."
"Wh-oo gee-ave blo-ood?"
"Both of us." Shasic growled, though he glared at Master Chief. "We both gave blood even though he insisted human blood would be fine."
"Well it wouldn't have been." Spoke Cortanna as she appeared on a Holo-pad, "You've been living on covenant food so long that that was more then 40 unknown vitamins and minerals in your blood stream that were also in this Elite's."
That was all Star heard as she fell back asleep...Unable to keep her scar-white eye lids open any longer.
It took two weeks before she could eat solid foods, and when she did, it was applesauce and Leekra.
The next week Shasic and Master Chief, (Glaring at each other the whole time), helped Star to walk down the hall.
Finally she could stand, eat, and walk on her own...And could speak properly as well.
The day it was determined she was healthy enough to be taken out of the medical wing, Master Chief was their, but no Shasic.
"Hey Tin Can." She breathed, her prosthetic arm reaching up and scratching her head as she looked at him.
"Hey," He spoke taking his helmet off and looking at her bright teal eyes with the light gray pupil dotting each one. "I was wondering where you were going, now that your normal."
"Since when am I normal?"
"Normal Health wise."
"I see." She said, watching him with her alien eyes gleaming.
"So, where do you plan on going?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You can't keep going from the covenant back here, you need to pick which side your gonna be on and stick with it." Master Chief's pale face looked calm... It was his eyes that gave away the hope she would stay with him.
Just then, Shasic walked in.
"Come back to the Covenant, Star."
"No, come and stay with the humans."
"Come back to your family!"
"Come back to your race!"
"What race? You humans never came looking for her!"
"We humans thought she was dead! Look what you did! You turned her into your pet!"
They where cut off from their shouting match by Star, she was laughing, face looking up as she just kept laughing... Then she looked down and tears rolled down her face.
"This isn't about the battle anymore, you just use that too hide what your saying... Isn't it strange that a human super soldier and a high ranking elite are fighting over nothing more then me? You idiots you don't grow up do you? This isn't about war it's about winning! That's all it's ever about to either of you! Your still just kids playing king of the hill!"
"Yes, this is about you, and you should probably tell your covenant friend that I always win." Master Chief spoke, smiling before a metal fist slammed into his well armored rib cage.
"No John, not this time. Your Such an asshole."
"I-"
"You too Shasic!"
Both the super soldier and the covenant warrior left without another word, but it was Shasic who came back that night when Star was watching TV and said, standing in the doorway.
"I'm sorry. Your right, we shouldn't be acting like children over this."
"Where's John?"
"The Demon? In his quarters asleep."
"...Let's go then..." She stood emotionlessly and walked towards the door, where Shasic smiled and lead the way.
"Megan I-" Master Chief said fifteen minutes later, walking into an empty room, just as an alarm went off. Someone was stealing a ship.
By the time he got up to the bridge, the ship was docked with a small covenant carrier.
"What's your call Chief?" the commanding officer asked, and Master Chief, after almost three minutes of thinking, managed to say what his military mind told him. "Open fire."
But as Star stood on the observation deck of a covenant ship and watched as the weapons on the human ship began to switch from dormant to battle mode, she couldn't help but take a deep breath and bite her lip. The first shot was fired just as the Covenant ship made a jump.
Shasic but his arms around Star from behind and she leaned against him, tears rolling down her face as Karo, Koro, and Yappity stood with her as well.
On the human ship, in his cabin, one tear rolled down John's face. The first time he'd allowed one for years...Since her heard that his best friend Megan Parker was dead.
But even as Megan closed her eyes and sniffled still leaning against Shasic she knew it wouldn't be the last time she'd see John.
Because the human-covenant war was not over. And no amount of pain, tears, or love would change that.
And even though she was crying now, Star was surrounded by her friends, and she wouldn't have it any other way.
Unless the other way had John with her too...
John, not Master Chief.
END! Review! Sequel? WHO WANTS A SEQUEL? WELL SCREW YOU IF YOU DON'T CUZ I'M WRITING ONE ANYWAY!MWHAHAHAHAHAH!
