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"That´s my story." Julia ended her explanation.
She had told Soap everything, including that she was the one saving him in Prague. Now she waited for any response from him but he just sat there, eyes closed and didn´t say anything. Julia wondered if she had said something wrong, something that had upset him. She was about to open her mouth again as she heard him chuckle. She raised her eyebrows in disbelief. Did he think it was funny? Didn´t he get the gravity of the situation they were in? She shook her head and was about to stand up as he began to speak.
"You´re a little crazy you know? I don´t know a single person, except soldiers, that would sacrifice itself only to save someone they don´t even know. What was going through your mind as you saw me lying there? You must have seen that I was already dead and still you put yourself in danger." He shook his head and opened his eyes, staring at her with a weak smile.
"I want to be honest with you ´cause I think you deserve it. All the time I was in hospital and even a few hours ago I told myself that I would blame you, you just saved me ´cause you wanted to see me suffer. I mean I was dead for about four minutes and I´m sure you know what consequences the lack of oxygen would cause to my brain but now I see that you´re just an altruist. I also can see why Ghost fell in love with you, you´re somehow cute in your own way and as you spoke I tried to find something on you I don´t like but till now I haven´t found out what. So thanks for saving my arse."
Julia looked away from him a little embarrassed.
"No need to thank me for that. You know sometimes I forget to think about thinks before I act that´s why I put myself in danger so much. Of course I´m aware of the consequences lack of oxygen could cause but in this situation I didn´t think about this or about our orders not to put ourselves in danger. I just acted the way I´m happy." She answered him and tried to look him in the eyes again as she remembered what he had just said about Ghost.
"But there´s one thing you must have gotten wrong. Ghost´s not in love with me. Who said that anyway? We´re just friends nothing more."
Julia looked at him very curious, at least she tried to. She couldn´t hide a little smile and Soap chuckled again.
"You know what? That are exactly the words Ghost used as he tried to deny it."
"There´s nothing do deny. As I told you he´s not in love with me and I´m not in love with him." Julia stated and crossed her arms in front of her chest, looking offended.
"Whatever you say." Soap just answered and smiled at her widely.
Thereupon she shook her head, mumbled something and stood up, walking to one corner of the room where a mattress was lying. She grabbed it and pulled it next to Soap.
"You should rest a bit." She shortly said and walked back to the corner.
Soap watched her leaning against the wall and closing her eyes. He wanted to say something to her but instead he sighted and rolled himself over to lay down on the mattress. Only God knows how long it would take till this Andrew came back.
Soap closed his eyes and tried to rest a bit but his thoughts drifted to Price and his Team. What were they doing right now? They were searching for him, he was sure of that, but did they know where to search? Did they already know where he was? He wondered if they had rescued Prices daughter and if they were all okay. He asked himself why he even trusted Andrew. He had have a bad feeling about him, as he saw him on base. Why didn´t he listen to that feeling? He never was that naive, but in one case Andrew didn´t lie to him. He met his live-safer and that was all Andrew promised him but why did he got captured? Has he ever met him before? He couldn´t remember. The next thing he wondered was why he captured him in this place? Sure, Soap had good memories with this place but he could tell that wasn´t the reason he was here. Andrew must have chosen this place ´cause it has something to do with him, not with Soap.
Soap let out a deep breath and then an idea crossed his mind.
"Julia?" He called her and lifted his upper part of his body, looking at her.
She opened her eyes and looked at him questioning.
"Why are you here?"
He felt her getting nervous. She widened her eyes and seemed to think about the right answer. After a few seconds she shook her head and looked down to her feet.
"I can´t tell you I´m sorry. It´s too personal."
Soap wanted to tell her that this answer was ridiculous, that they could lose their lives in here and nothing´s too personal in their situation, but he didn´t response. He could tell she was getting sad about his question, so he just laid down again and closed his eyes, falling asleep after a while.
Tears started to run down her cheeks. She felt guilty and ashamed at the same time. Why didn´t she tell him the truth? How did she get so scared? Andrew wasn´t here with her, she should have told Soap the truth, but she had a feeling that Andrew was watching her. Besides she had to stay with Soap in here maybe for a few days and if she would tell him the truth he might get angry at her. Sure, he was bond and couldn´t move freely but his avoiding against her alone was reason enough to not tell him her part in this event. She closed her eyes and hoped someone would come and end this nightmare.
Ghost was at the shooting range for about three hours now. He needed to calm down from all what has happened in the last few days. It was all so surreal to him. He never imagined he would ever feel so desperate again. In the past few years he never let anyone touch his heart easily, even MacTavish has had his problems to get accepted from Ghost as a captain and as a friend, but as the ice broke the Scot became one of his best friends. Of course Roach was also one of his best friends but who didn´t love the little bug? Ghost smiled weakly, Roach was that much concentrated on his burn marks in his face that he even not realized that the guys didn´t act different in his presence. They accepted him for what he was and not for what he looked like.
Ghost shook his head and his smile disappeared. His thoughts again drifted to Julia. Did she really help Andrew? Was all she told him and the time they spent together a lie? Was she a cold hearted bitch? A part of Ghost´s mind didn´t believe it and the only thing they sure knew was that Andrew got help from a woman. It doesn´t mean it was Julia who helped him, maybe there was another woman involved.
He laid his weapon down. He couldn´t calm down now completely and so he decided to head back in the building, take a shower and then help the others to find Soap. He walked away from the shooting range, hoping Julia wasn´t on Andrew`s side. If she was he would do anything to stop her.
