„Julia! " Chrissy whispered to her friend as they were having breakfast. Curious the named one looked up from the roll she had on her plate, to meet with a smiling face just a few inches away from her. Julia raised an eye-brow; she knew that look on her face. Chrissy always looked like that if she wanted to ask something really personal or wanted Julia to do her a favor. Julia squinted her eyes and waited for Chrissy to spit out what she wanted from her. It couldn´t be anything serious.

Chrissy, who noticed Julia´s look started to giggle like she was some sort of a crazy teenager, who was allowed to go out on her first date. Carefully Chrissy got closer to Julia and eyed her. She knew if she wouldn´t tell her what she wanted, Julia soon would get really pissed and would yell at her, what the hell she was up to. Chrissy would have loved to see her friend implode but a quick look around told her, she wouldn´t push it that far. The whole mess hall was filled with soldiers and Chrissy didn´t want to start a scene. Besides Chrissy was sure Julia wouldn´t tell her the truth if everyone around them would knew what they were talking about. Chrissy stopped her mad giggles but kept a smile on her face as she bended over to Julia´s ear.

"I´ve heard there´s something going on between you and the Lieutenant. Is this true?" Chrissy whispered in her ear and could feel how Julia tensed up at the word Lieutenant.

Looking around if someone had noticed what Chrissy had asked her, Julia shook her head and let out a sigh. She was sure that Caroline had given her that idea and now Chrissy wanted to have an answer from her too. To Julia the curiosity of her friends was annoying her more than she had ever imagined. She knew that especially Chrissy and Caro were curious as hell and wanted to know every secret from a person, but Julia really didn´t want to talk with them about her relationship to Ghost. She knew that they wouldn´t let him or her life in peace anymore, if they would find out what was going on between them. It didn´t matter if they were a couple or not; both of them would either try to convince them to have a relationship or would find some things that would bother them if they had one. Julia thought about ignoring her friend and continue eating, but she knew that Chrissy wouldn´t shut up if Julia didn´t tell her at least something. However, Julia wasn´t sure how she could tell Chrissy what was going on between them, without revealing too much. Julia knew the only thing she could do to finish her meal in peace was to answer her question by turning her answer into a question.

"What did Caroline tell you about it?" Julia asked and took a bite form her roll.

"Not much. She just said you told her that he´s a good kisser." Chrissy answered and waited for Julia to give her more information.

"That´s right." Julia said and took one last sip from her coffee.

"And?" Chrissy started to get edgy, she was about to reveal the secret.

"There´s nothing more I can tell you by now." Julia shortly said and shoot up from her spot and walked away, leaving Chrissy on the table with a puzzled look. That wasn´t the answer she wanted to hear. She wasn´t wiser than before. Disappointed she turned back to her breakfast and didn´t notice how Julia left the mess hall, followed by a man.


He closed the door after she had stepped into his room. Carefully he locked the thin wooden door; they didn´t need the Captain to step in and disturb them. Slowly he followed her to sit opposite of her on his bed, removed his mask and laid it on the mattress next to him. He used both of his hands to restrain the mess, he called his hair, only to come to the conclusion that it didn´t work and after he heard her chuckle, he lowered his hands in defeat and looked at her huffy.

"You really need a haircut." Julia told him and patted his head, like he was a little child.

"I know, I know." He replied and slapped her on her hand playfully, to show her she should stop it.

"I could cut them for you if you want." She said but Ghost shook his head. He was pretty sure that haircuts weren´t Julia´s strong side. She probably would cut more of his head then his hair.

"Well, your loss. You really sure you want to do this?" Julia asked him and as an answer Ghost nodded at her and smiled.

"It´s not the first time we´re doing this." He said and grabbed one of her hands.

"I know, but I think it´s kind of strange. It wasn´t planned before." Julia said and got closer to him.

"Yeah, right but remember it was your idea." Ghost told her and wrapped one arm around her waist.

"You know I said that because the last time my feelings were too messed up to come to a clearly result. This is the only way we´re able to find out what we really want." Julia answered and flung her arms around his neck, bringing their faces close to each other.

"It´s not like I´m complaining, I told you I liked it how your lips felt on mine." Ghost answered and tilted his head a little.

"Yes and I remember you´re a really great kisser. Sure, it wasn´t the best kiss but it clearly was a good one." Julia answered him smiling and cut the short distance they were in.

"Well, thanks for that. Do you believe I still want to kiss you?" Ghost asked her and grinned.

"Of course. Otherwise we wouldn´t be sitting like this." Julia simply said.

"You have a point." Was the last thing Ghost said before their lips met.

"Wow, you really wanted to show me that you´re a great kisser." Julia said as they parted to take a breather.

"You asked for it." Ghost replied smiling and Julia rested her head on his chest.

"Has anything changes?" Ghost asked her and Julia shook her head slightly.

"No, nothing. What´s with you?" She lifted her head and saw how he shook his head too.

"No, the same feeling I had after our first kiss."

"That´s good." Julia smiled a little and looked into his eyes.

"Yes, it is. So we agree about our relation?" He asked her relieved.

"I think so but to be completely sure we maybe should have sex." Julia said drily but started to laugh as she saw Ghost´s surprised look.

"I´m just kidding." She told him and punched his shoulder playfully, making him smile eased.

"You´re really good in kidding people." He said and put his mask back on.

"I know but when I´m thinking of it, we maybe should have sex? Aren´t you curious if we change our opinion after we had sex?" Julia asked him serious and Ghost just stared at her, not knowing what to say to this. Was she kidding him again, or did she mean what she said? Unsure he kept on staring at her with big eyes and a slightly opened mouth. He must have looked like a little child, who explored that there was a difference between male and female. Not able to think straight he stayed in this position, till his head got hit by his own pillow. Confused he snapped out of his trance and leered at Julia, who sat in front of him with a grin on her face and the pillow in her hand. Ghost shrugged a little, shook his head and showed a weak smile, before he stole the pillow from Julia´s hand and carefully hit her in the face with it, making her look at him puzzled. Both sat there a few seconds and looked at each other, before they both started to laugh. They had to admit that they were acting very childish at this moment.

Ghost´s laughter soon died down and he wanted to say something to her, as someone tried to enter the room but was cut off in his doing by the locked door. Ghost and Julia looked at each other somehow terrified and immediately shot up from Ghost´s bed. Taking a deep breath, Ghost stepped up to the door and unlocked it again. Nervous he put his hand on the door knob and opened the door slowly, only to get greeted from the surprised face of his Captain.

Soap looked at Ghost, wondering why he locked the door, turned his head to the side and saw Julia standing in front of Ghost´s bed. He wanted to ask her what she was doing here, alone with Ghost, in a locked room, as he got a clue. Smirking he looked back at Ghost, who clearly found the whole situation pretty embarrassing. Amused Soap shook his head but within a second he got very serious.

"Mac wants to see us all in the conference room." Soap said, turned around and waited for Julia and Ghost to move. With a shrug of her shoulders Julia followed Ghost out of the room and all three made their way to the room. As they entered it, all of the others were waiting for them and after they took a seat everyone turned their attention to Mac, who looked pretty serious.


"What´s going on Mac?" Price asked him and the General let out a deep breath.

"I wanted to inform you that the 141 base doesn´t exist anymore." Mac said and all soldiers looked at him with eyes wide open.

"What do you mean? What happened?" Chemo asked and stared at the General, waiting impatient for an answer.

"I got informed that someone had blown the whole base up. They used tons of C4 to raze the base to the ground. I don´t know who´s responsible for this, but I´m pretty sure it was Makarov´s deed. The base wasn´t just blown up, two fire fighters got killed as they got there, without gas masks on. They say they died ´cause their lungs collapsed as they were inhaling the air, which was around the base." Mac answered him and closed his eyes. He felt guilty for the death of the two men. If he wouldn´t have been that stubborn as Price told him Makarov was a danger, maybe they would still be alive. Maybe the base wouldn´t be destroyed.

"We were right. He plans to kill a lot of people with toxic gas. We should go and end this now." Price raised his voice and shot up from his chair.

"You´re right John but Makarov´s still in Russia. Someone else must have had the order to blow the base and spread the toxic gas." Mac answered calmly and watched his friend clench his fist in anger.

"He must have accomplices in the UK. We know that he´s in contact with Natasha and we´re sure that she was the one who told him where our base was located but we already checked the waybill of the last planes that left Russia and flew to the UK. We couldn´t find anyone who seemed to be suspicious." Mac kept on explaining and tried to calm Price down, but the Captain´s anger only grew bigger.

"Then we have to find out who destroyed the base and find them. If they started to spread the gas in the UK, maybe they continue to spread it all over Europe." Price said and looked at Mac, who nodded at him.

"You´re right but we also need to keep an eye on Makarov." The General added.

"That means we have to split up and stop at least two different groups. One probably in the UK and one in Russia." Captain Michael Winters added and waited for the General to give him new orders.

"You´re right and we have to be fast. I don´t want to have a crazy men in this world, who starts a new war." The General told them and everyone nodded in agreement.

They had to be back in business. For the peace of the world.