Hey guys! Hope you're all well. So here's the second part to our little Holix Arc called Halfway Gone. Yes, another song chapter title. Halfway Gone by Lifehouse, check it out, it's a great song =]

God's Tourniquet472: Thank you, I agree, cheese rocks =D And LOL maybe Seven should jump off a bridge...hmmmm XD

ChimeraRaven33: LOL good, you, like me love the whole jealousy aspect, great =D

Oh and document manager is being a bit stupid with me and not letting me insert page breaks. So I've just got the first word bolded where there should be a small time-skip. Sorry for that.

Ok guys, get ready for a sad heart-breaking little chapter of sadness XD Enjoy!

Halfway Gone: Part II

Long after Noah had hung around with them and left, Team Six was still at the court, the boys lazily shooting some hoops and Holiday sitting comfortably on the ground nearby, watching. Her back was facing the setting sun behind her and her lab coat lay on the tarmac next to her.

"Devin…" Holiday said, looking up at Seven, intending to ask a question she'd been pondering for a while. "Can I ask you something…a little personal?"

"Huh? Ow!" Seven cried as he turned to Holiday and then proceeded to get hit in the head with the basketball that Rex had just thrown at him. Rex immediately burst out in laughter. Seven half-heartedly glared at the teen before turning back to Holiday. "Yeah…sure." He began walking towards the doctor. "I could use a little break anyway" he said, rubbing the back of his head gingerly. Rex, who had gone back to shooting hoops (by himself this time), laughed again. Seven took a seat on the ground next to Holiday. "Alright, go ahead; what did you want to ask?"

"You've only been here for a year, right?"

"A year and five months-but yeah" Seven nodded.

"So how exactly did you end up here?" Holiday asked carefully. "In Providence I mean."

"Well…" he sighed "Just like everyone else, I guess. Skilled with no where else to go."

Holiday waited for him to continue.

"My parents died when I was young; six or seven. Some freak car accident. I don't really remember much, I was raised by my older brother, Connor. He was almost ten years older than me and he was studying to become a soldier. He eventually did just that and I followed. He and I became two of the top soldiers in our sector. And then the EVO attack happened." He paused a looked away for a moment.

"And then?" Holiday dared to ask after a while.

"The demand for us soldiers grew larger and larger after the EVO attack. It came to the point where we'd be out for days on end, get back to rest or a few hours and then go back out."

"Must've been hard" Holiday said quietly.

"Yeah...it was. My brother collapsed one day about a year and a half back. They managed to keep him with us for about a week. But everything was wrong with him…internally it wasn't long before…"

"Oh…" holiday breathed "I'm so sorry."

"Don't be. After that I didn't have a choice but to continue on in the army, which I did and eventually, being a top of the line soldier, White found me and recruited me."

"You didn't have any other family?" Holiday asked.

"I had a wife, but I lost her to the EVO attack. Had some other distant relatives, but you know how selfish people can get. After the EVO attack, they were too busy helping themselves to help me."

"Yeah, I know what you mean. My fiancé did just that" Holiday frowned. She suddenly noticed how close they were sitting. How casually his arm was pressed up against hers.

"He did? Is he dead at least?" Seven scowled.

"Yeah…" Holiday looked down. "EVO tore him to pieces."

"Good" Seven nodded. He looked up as Rex walked over and sat next to him, his basketball rolling off in the complete opposite direction.

"You know what really surprises me about you?" Holiday said, looking up into Seven's eyes. "That you're not-"

"That you're not another Six" Rex completed the thought.

Seven laughed a bit. "You wouldn't have said that I you met me about a year ago. I might have been worse than Six then."

Both Holiday and Rex raised a brow.

"But my brother, you know, he was such a cheerful guy. Even as he was dying he was smiling. He had like fifty people in the room as he was dying. And fifty more people waiting outside. Because he was just that guy. He died happy because o who he was. And that was really inspirational for me. Once the initial shock, anger and frustration of losing him wore off, I tried to smile a bit and be the man he would have wanted me to be. Does that make any sense?"

"It makes so much sense" Holiday said softly.

"You should give Six that speech" Rex chuckled.

"Well, you can't blame him for the way he is. I'm sure he had it worse than me" Seven shrugged. "He's a good guy, Rex. If he's been watching after you and Julie for seven years as carefully as he has, clearly he care about you."

"Yeah…" Holiday muttered. "I wish he did a less shitty job of showing it.

Rex gasped. "My god, doctor, who ever taught you that word?"

Holiday reached a hand around Seven and smacked Rex, who laughed.

"Alright, let's head back" Seven sighed, standing up. "It's getting late." He held out a hand for Holiday, who grabbed her coat and took the hand.

Once they were all standing, Rex grabbed his ball and they headed back to H.Q.

Once back at headquarters, Seven had excused himself and gone back to his room, and Rex, who for once in his life was lacking energy, retired as well, leaving Holiday alone. She figured she'd just head back to the lab, finish whatever remaining paper work she had and call it a night too.

So now here she sat at her desk, paperwork before her, unable to concentrate. She simply could not focus. Her mind kept going back to Seven. Damn, he was such an odd character. In a good way of course. She'd only known him for a day and she felt like she'd known him as long as she'd known Six.

Ugh, Six.

He was another one. No matter how hard she tried, her train of thought always came back to him. Only natural she guessed, she had after all been thinking about him alone for the past seven years.

Damn.

That was a long time.

She felt like she knew Seven for seven years. She knew his entire life story. And what did she knew about Six?

Well, let's see, let's gather some information from memory: he had an older brother…Aaron, was his name? A younger sister, a father, a mother, a sister-in-law and young nieces and nephews, all of which he lost during the EVO attack. His best friend, Scott was murdered by an EVO two years back. He had the strangest habit of sharpening his swords to calm himself. His beard had the amazing ability to stay in the perfect shape of a triangle, no matter how many days he went without shaving. He hated eggplant. Yes, there was something else in his wardrobe other than green suits and button down white shirts. But he never touches them because they were his brother's that he managed to save. He was a Five Star Admiral of the U.S Navy before recruit to Providence. His real name is Adam Christian Falconer, he is 36 years old, 6 ft, 2 inches with the most incredible, elusive green eyes she had ever seen.

And then, something occurred to Holiday. For Six, that was a lot. Most people didn't even know a fourth of all that. Even Rex didn't know all that. Only she knew all that. Because he'd told her. Because he trusted her. And now, because of one little thing he did, she was stepping all over his oh so fragile trust by blatantly showing interest in Seven.

But why? Why the hell did that matter to her when she could have someone as perfect or her as Seven without even working as hard as she would have to with Six? Why would she choose the harder option to pay attention to? What was the main thing setting Six and Seven apart? What was the difference between Six and Seven?

You like Seven. You love Six.

Funny. The difference between Six and Seven was one. One word.

"Holiday?"

Holiday jumped at the sound of the voice behind her. She spun her chair around and found Six standing there.

"Oh, Jesus Christ, Six" Holiday breathed, looking up at him. "I swear to god you're going to kill me one of these days."

"Don't die" he said, a bit too quickly.

"Do you need anything?" Holiday asked, ignoring the request.

"I-"

"Shouldn't you be resting?" She asked suddenly, her doctor instincts suddenly kicking in. he gave her an irritated look, to which she quickly shook her head. "Sorry, please continue."

"I wanted to apologize…"Six hesitated. "For my…my behavior…earlier. And I was wondering if you'd like to join me…for dinner ton-"

Six was cut off by the sound of the doors sliding open. Both Holiday and Six turned towards the door, and much to their dismay, found Seven entering the lab. "Julie, I've got the schedule for our transport tom-" He froze though, upon seeing the pair. "Oh…crap. Sorry, am I interrupting anything?"

Before Six could even open his mouth had hurriedly answered. "No, not at all, come in, Devin."

Six backed away a few steps as Seven walked over and in front of Holiday.

"Six, just hang on a second, ok? Please, just, stay there for one second" Holiday said quickly just before Seven began to speak.

"Alright, so Callan dropped by my room a minute ago" Seven began "And he told me our transport was going to get here tomorrow morning at six. So we're gonna have to be up super early, whoever you have to say bye to, do it now, because you most definitely won't find them before we leave. Plus this is going to be a long term mission, we'll be out for a while-I'll explain the details on the way there. Got it?"

"Yeah, yeah, I got it" Holiday said quickly, having registered only half of what Seven had said. Her eyes quickly darted from the man before her to where Six was standing.

Only he wasn't there.

Holiday felt her stomach drop. She immediately scanned the entire lab; he wasn't anywhere.

Her eyes finally settled on the doors, which were now sliding closed, behind Six no doubt.

"Hey, where did Six go?" She vaguely heard Seven say.

Vaguely, because at the moment, Holiday's mind was racing. Her heart was pounding and all too fast, the thought of Six being gone brought warm, stinging tears to her eyes.

He was just about to ask her to dinner, he was just about to actually do something about…about them. He was finally about to do something! He was just about to make everything alright.

Holiday blinked back her tears.

And now he was gone.

That was the last Holiday would see of Six for two and a half weeks.

Now, now, before you all throw me into a wall for breaking Six's heart like that, let me explain *laughs nervously*

Lol, so that was part II. Sad little chapter. I know it might be a little confusing, you'll have to excuse me for that, I've been real busy lately. And I've been typing this up as fast as I can so yeah...

In other news, AHHHHHH my review count dropped! NOOOOOOO. So I'm assuming the Holix arc didn't turn out as awesome as I thought it did? Maybe that's it...well, for anyone for whom that's the case, just know, once this is done we'll be going back to our regular one-shots. Not to worry =]

Oh and for anyone that cares, things are going very nicely with my Agent Six, and for those of you who gave me your hilarious responses as to what you would do with an Agent Six, thank you =]

This chapter's question is, What's the craziest thing you've ever eaten? I ask this because just an hour or so ago, I had lunch with a rather odd meat which I later found out was goat brain. It was so damn good, but the fact that it was goat brain bothered me a bit. I still ate it, but yeah. That was a bit crazy 0.o

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