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"His name was Thomas Maki, but everyone called him Fin because of his finnish ancenstry. We were in the same unit during the last world war. I treated him like dirt when we first met but he never took it personally. He was nice to me, despite how I treated him."

"Why did you treat him so poorly?" Togusa asked as he sat down on the floor.

"At first, I thought he was a poor excuse for a soldier. I had no idea why he was there. So I chewed him out at every opportunity I had. I tried to break him so he would leave and stop slowing us down." Motoko said with some regret in her voice.

"But instead of breaking him down, I just motivited him. Each day he pushed himself harder and harder and he got better and better. And one day, he saved my life."

"How did he save your life?"

"It was during a very chaotic firefight. There was one moment where an enemy soldier got behind me and had a clean shot at my head. But before the bullet could hit me, Fin pushed me out of the way and took the bullet for me."

After Motoko told Togusa that, she noticed that he started to yawn.

"I'm sorry Togusa, I see that I'm boring you."

"No you're not. Just everything is catching up to me now." he quickly said.

"Maybe I should continue this some other day." the Major repiled. Togusa just nodded his head.

She opened the door to leave and she looked at Togusa and noticed that he was about to say something but the words weren't coming out.

"What is it?" she asked.

"Nothing, it's nothing."

"Are you sure it's nothing?" Motoko then noticed that Togusa looked almost scared to say what was on his mind.

He then clasped his hands together, seprated them, and then put them together again. He kept doing this and that started to bother the Major.

"If you have something to say, just say it." she said with some irrtation in her voice.

"Okay. Can you stay here with me for the night?" he sheepisly asked. "Please, I need someone here. I don't want to be alone."

Motoko just stared at him with a blank look on her face. Then she closed the door, kicked off her shoes, and laid down on the mattress. Togusa contnuied to sit on the floor with a stunned look on his face.

"Togusa, are you going just sit there or what?" Togusa didn't say anything in reply, he just got up and laid on the mattress next to the Major. He picked up a green blanket off the floor and placed it on top of the two of them.

"Thanks Major, you have no idea how much this means to me." he whispered to her but Motoko was to lost in her thoughts tohear him.

'What is this I feel? It's feels so familiar but it can't be that. Or can it?'