Thunder... and Hallucinations [Lightning]

[templier90]

Scratches his head for a moment as he walks out from the locker room, Templar just having enough rest after his covert operation in Palumpolum along with 3 of his trusted right-hand members of BSWTF. It's really not tiresome as Templar already stick to it, and never complain once.

Even after promoted as a Captain of Bodhum Security Regiment, Templar still the same as he says to his friends after his promotion ceremony "The more things are changed, the more they stay the same.", he refer that line as a joke but still he is an outgoing joking officer in Guardian Corps.

Checks his pistols for a moment, Templar holstered them back to his shoulder holsters. He walks down the hall for a moment as Guardian Corps soldiers in their suits walk pass him, and greet him "Captain Mactavish!" In return he greets them back with his smile and soft chuckle, "Hey, how are you boys doin' today?" the soldiers nods and reply "Doing good sir." the captain was rather outgoing one, not strict and follow-by-the-book type officer like others, Templar and Lieutenant Amodar is the only officers that Guardian Corps soldiers respect and sociable with.

As he walks past a window where other Guardian Corps personnel behind their tables and doing their paperwork, Templar saw pink-haired Guardian Corps soldier busy with her work, no doubt is his "love to annoy but cares for" friend. He stands at the door with his elbow rests on the door, while one of them saw him.

"Captain Mactavish?"
"Shh-!.... Oh Lightning~! What are you doing there?"

Templar chuckles for a moment as he hold his laughter, he really loves to annoy and somehow jokingly flirtatious with his old friend Sergeant Farron.

[Lightning]

Seeing as all her missions we done early Lightning saw no harm with starting with her mission reports earlier than usual. She paused before taking a seat at her desk one thing disliked more than guard duty was submitting mission reports. She sighed but complied with her superior officer lieutenant Amodar orders.

She informed a soldier from her unit not to let others disturb her, at least not until she was done. Lightning smiled as the thought of her sister came to mind. A faint and rear smile crossed her lips however it only lasted for a moment then faded as quickly as it came. Her thoughts soon wandered to the resent call she received from her sister earlier. Remembering the promise she made of finishing work early so they could meet.

For hours she sat at her desk constantly writing one report after another till she heard voices from the hallway causing her to glance up to see Captain Mactavish. Her eyes soon diverted back to the stack of papers on her desk with a sigh. “Can't you tell by looking.... What is it you want…?” She asked glancing up from the corner of her eyes for a moment before resuming her work.

[templier90]

He really did enjoy when he annoys Lightning while she do her paperwork such as writing down reports after actions and so on. Templar slightly whistles for a moment and then sit on Lightning's desk, take a look at her papers for a moment with his smirk. "Nah... Just drop by and say "Hi", I told you already that you should get into my task force, no paperwork and reports but intelligence gathering and direct actions on the field for you of course." Templar pretends to be sarcastic and chuckles for a moment, then let his breath out again. Mentioning his task force is his pride, really.

Look above the ceiling while Templar crosses his hands onto his chest, it was likely cold in the office but curiously that Lightning would stand the cold as she wears lightly, Templar forget that Lightning is a survivalist, means better than him. While look at Lightning's paperwork, Templar thinks that going around Bodhum will be very, very boring anyway but since Lightning is in front of him with her hill of papers, Templar rubs his chin with his hand. "Hey Light, don't be so over-workaholic and push yourself too much. Why don't try to relieve your tension by coming with me? Let's take a walk and chat for a moment?" Templar rests his elbow on his lap while his left hand placed on his hip, looking at Lightning with his smirk, "I'll treat you some drinks later on.." in a seconds, Templar gently grabs Lightning's unfinished report from her with his mischievous smirk, ".... and you can write your reports later or tomorrow. Forget to mention that you only summon your reports to me." Templar winks at Lightning while places her report back onto the desk.

"Come on now, haha." Templar laughs for a moment as he leaves Lightning's desk and motions his head towards the door, which leads outside of Guardian Corps headquarters.

[Lightning]

Lightning simply ignored him as she continued her work, knowing that words would aggravate him to continue. Her eyes remained on her report, however they elevated to him once Captain Mactavish sat on her desk. The soldier shifted in her chair, obviously annoyed by his behavior but there was nothing to do but to continue to ignore in hopes that he would stop.

“I appreciate the offer….” She said not even bothering to glance up. “But I already told you I enjoy my work as a Guardian Corps Sergeant… even with the paper work I have to fill…” Blunt as always, Lightning didn’t really know why he offered again after the first time she declined. She was proud of her job and rank despite not saying anything to show it, however she rejected any further promotions when considering her sister. Another promotion meant more field and less free time, she could hardly see her sister as it was, another promotion would just add to the wall between them.

Lightning sensed Captain Mactavish shiver, was it really that cold? She wondered not considering the temperature to be that low. For her it was perfect but perhaps others didn’t feel that way once entering her office. She considered that for a moment before letting it fade as her mind returned to her reports.

‘Workaholic?’ the soldier shrugged at that word but didn’t bother to respond until an offer to take a break came up, she glanced to where he sat stopping her work for a brief moment. “I am afraid I must decline this offer as well. I have made plans to spend tomorrow with my sister Serah… however I am not about to take a day off work for that. If I am to keep my promise…. I must finish all my work earlier than usual and as you see I already have a lot to do so maybe another day…”

Her eyes darted back to the stacks of paper on her desk before frowning when her superior reached for her report. “I already told you… I don’t have time for breaks….” Lightning replied, her tone void of any emotion as she reached to take the reports back. “Maybe next time…. And if memory serves me right I believe Lieutenant Amodar is the one I submit my reports to….”

[templier90]

"...Well that's just sad, Light. Your call after all and right... I'm kind of forgotten about Lt. Amodar." Templar shrugs while frown sighs for a moment after Lightning decides to stay and continue to write her reports. Well being a Sergeant is likely a desk sergeant, reports reports reports all the day otherwise go out and slashes some monsters or bandits. Speaking that she going to spend time with her sister, Templar kinds of remember his elder brother Barisan, who were right now becomes PSICOM's special agent in Palumpolum and haven't been contact with each others for years.

Well he didn't want to annoy Light from her work anymore, the fun is gone away from his mind. "Well, you can't continue to work without taking anything right? I'll go outside for a moment and buy something for you.... DON'T..DENY.." Templar wags his finger to Light before she could resist Templar's honesty and after that, he pulls up his jacket hoodie until almost covers his forehead. "Ciao~ Be right back in ten." Templar waves single-handed to Lightning as he turns around, walks out from the Guardian Corps office.

Down the staircase and reaches outside the headquarters, the skies are begin to dark as small light rain drops coming down. Templar just ignores the rain as he walks down the streets calmly while place hands into his jacket's pockets. Looking around, Templar finally saw a shop nearby his location, a 24 hours open shop. He opens the door as he pulls down his hood onto his shoulders, the girl shop owner bows down with her hands onto her lap. "Mind if you get me uh... 2 grande size tumbler of warm dark mocha and a small box of different flavored donuts?" the girl nods to Templar and immediately went to do her job. As he waits, Templar look outside the window for a moment and look at the pour rain drops and he saw umbrellas in a vase, for sale of course.

"Here you go sir,"

Templar grabs one of the umbrella and places it on the counter together with his buyout food things. "I take this too," he says as he takes out his wallet, count the gil and places them on the table. The girl accepts Templar's pay and it was exactly amount of the things he buys out. While opens the door, Templar opens his new umbrella as he walks out in the rain. The rain is getting heavy as he approaches the Guardian Corps headquarters' entrance, even there's thunder booming on the skies.

Finally he get into the headquarters, Templar lowers down his umbrella as he watches the heavy rain outside of the entrance and lucky the snacks and drinks he bought doesn't spoils. "Lightning, look what I bought...!" Templar calls out as he reaches the office door, shows Lightning the things he bought as he approaches her desk. Pulls the chair nearby and sits in front of Lightning, he takes out the tumbler which is still warm with dark mocha in it, and places in front of Lightning's table. "Here you go, buon appetito [bon appetit in Italian]." Templar smiles to Lightning as he takes out his dark mocha tumbler and the box of different flavored donuts, placed them on the table while opens it.

"Come on, pause your work for a moment... You can continue later after we finished eating those." Templar grabs one of the donuts and take a bite on it, while his other hand hold his dark mocha tumbler. While looking around the office, only Lightning and Templar are in the office. "Odd... where's everyone go before 10 minutes?" Templar asked Lightning as he sips his dark mocha.

[Lightning]

Lightning wasn’t expecting him to give up so easily. This was definitely unlike him, or perhaps annoying her wasn’t as fun as he hoped would be. She shrugged and paused to sigh before glancing up once he offered to get her something to eat or drink. “That won’t be necessary commander…..” she replied but it seemed he wouldn’t take no for an answer.

The soldier paused to sigh once again as he left before returning to her reports on her desk. Only a few were left to finish. Lightning smiled in satisfaction as she glanced down at her work. In a few more hours she would be done.

Glancing up again Lightning to where her unit stood “You may leave seeing as we don’t have any missions for today…” She waited till they all left after before her gaze returned to her paper work to continue her writing, though it wasn’t long till Captain Mactavish returned with what seemed like coffee and doughnuts .

Lightning let out a laugh shaking her head once he asked her to take a break yet again. “You just won’t give up will you…..? Alright but just for a few minutes….” she replied pausing to reach for her cup of coffee taking a small sip before letting it down. “My unit…. I told them to leave…. See in as there was nothing for them to do….”

[templier90]

[Happy Birthday, Light *hugs*]
"You know that I'm persistent type,"" Templier raises his eye brow with his smirk towards Lightning, then chuckles for a moment before he can take final bite from his donut which in his hand. Gazes out the window, it seems that the heavy rain never stops thus the room is darker and only Lightning's desk table lamp still on while the other lamps... off.

Thunder were roars outside of the windows, and in time suddenly his cellphone rings in his pocket and Templier hisses in annoyance as he takes the cellphone out, and answers it. "Mactavish... Ah, Ling... So what you got about new recruits from Eden?" Templier's tone gets serious as he rests his palm onto Lightning's desk and look around on it, he then takes the pen and a blank paper nearby Lightning's report files, begin to writes down single-handed while listens to his cellphone with his ear. "Mmm hmm.... Mmm hmm..." Templier murmurs as he continue to write down on the paper.

"Got it, thanks mate.... What? Tonight in usual bar at Bodhum North Seaside?" Templier look at Lightning with his widened hazel eyes while still holding his phone close to his ears. "Nah, maybe next time... Got a date with an attractive lady tonight... Yeah, goodbye... No kidding! So long!" He winks to Lightning as he answers the phone with his smiles as turns it off and places it besides the donuts box, exhales deeply and whistles for a moment. "A friend from our Guardian Corps recruitment sector, new players step in and I have another shift... Oh and about that date, I lied to him and so don't worry."

Boundaries shift, new players step in but power always finds a place to rest its head. Templier need to see those recruits run the course in "The Pit", a CQB testing field not for from the office and you can always hear several gunshots from there. Templier grabs his coffee tumbler and look into the mocha for a moment, and sips them with his eyes closed. He smiles towards Lightning and wishes to ask her how does she and her sister's doing.

"Well, how's your-"
"Templar..."

A cold chill female whispers behind his ear, frozen him from talking. Templar feels that a cold embrace from behind, arms wrapping around his neck, it was so... coldly painful. He suddenly drops his tumbler and the dark mocha, spills on the floor and Templar was hardly breath for a moment, cold sweat comes down from his forehead. Places his palm and covers his face for a moment, Templar deeply inhales as he was desperate for air. Looking behind his back in hurry while bite his lips and reaches his hand to his pistol, no one was there, no one was behind him. "... Did.. Did you hear something?" It was his first time that he encounter with this... phenomena or.... illusion, Templar was shivers and trembles for a moment, his first time.

[This guy suffers hallucination etc xD ]

[Lightning]

(Thanks )

“Now how can I forget that?” Lightning asked pausing to take another sip of her coffee. She heard her superior’s words but wasn’t really listening; her mind was elsewhere concerned for her sister Serah. Would she be with Snow? “Probably” angered by just the thought, Snow was just someone she couldn’t accept or allow to be with her sister, not if she had anything to say about it.

A sigh escaped the soldier’s lips knowing stopping Snow wouldn’t be a simple task. She needed to find a way to stop him from seeing Serah. ‘Maybe Serah would realize on her own….’ “Date” At that word, Lightning’s mind instantly snapped back to reality while her eyes turned to gaze at Captain Mactavish once she realized what has been said. She shrugged clearly uncomfortable.

“Commander… how can sitting in my office while I work be considered a date…. ” Her tone was stern as she spoke, though there was always a hint of respect that she used whenever she addressing her superiors. She sighed at his words once he confirmed her view though still annoyed by the thought of it.

Lightning returned to her reports and as the room filled with silence again, though it didn’t last long when Captain Mactavish suddenly gasped spilling his coffee on the floor before dropping his mug. Her eyes elevated to his another irritation in her voice once he asked if she heard anything. “All I heard was you spilling your coffee on the floor and gasping in fear…..”

[templier90]

".... Probably didn't have enough sleep last night." Templar deeply sighs for a moment and rubs his forehead with his thumb and finger for a moment, a slightly headache. Last night Templar was discussing new weapons, gears and equipment with other experienced Fidelis operatives, being a field commander in his own personal task force is not an easy one. He stares blankly at the mocha's puddle on the floor, and look behind him for a moment.

"Later I ask someone to clean this mess up..." Templar rubs his nose for a moment with deep breath, then exhales out. An illusion? A nightmare? This isn't first time that he encounters this strange illusions and the female's whisper always follow him anywhere such as workplace and home, Templar couldn't sleep sometimes as he tries to ignores the illusion.

A total silence around both of them. Suddenly Templar remembers that he haven't finishes his question yet just now, "So how's Serah? Haven't meet with her for years, I remember she was still this height when I saw her last time." Templar gestures his hand about a child's height in the open space towards Lightning,"...and I heard about arguments between you and the leader of NORA team... May I know what really happen?"

[Lightning]

(happy birthday Temp )


"Later....?" Lightning sighed lowering her pen for the first time stopping her work completely before getting up. "If we leave it for later it will stain and I prefer to keep my office clean...." She explained before cleaning the spill herself.

The soldier sighed at the thought of what hindered her work, and how long it would take before she was done. A frown found its way to her lips as she leveled her eyes to meet her superior's, but what she saw was something she didn't expect.

Confusion and a hint of fear, from that alone it was easy to guess this wasn't the first time. It was that look that calmed her mind and lead to the following question out of concern "That wasn't the first time was it... how long has this been happening?"

Lightning waited for an answer but words uttered next were questions about her sister and Snow. Her lips pressed together to form a clear frown. Annoyed by the question the soldier stood up returning to her desk. "I would rather not talk about Snow if you don't mind" was her only reply.

[templier90]

[Thank you ^^]

His question rather makes her snappish and annoyed right now, storm is coming in the office. Lightning's sudden stand up really frightens Templar and he was almost dropped down from his chair, "Whoa! All right! All right! I'm sorry!.... My mistake, chill down all right?" Templar positions himself back on the chair as he was quite.. in fear of his colleague's wrath. Nothing the captain will fear except for Lightning, otherwise he will be tastes her infamous falcon punch or the mop that she's holding right now.

Been asked that how long that he suffers the hallucination, Templar slicks his hair back with his palm and his front fringe comes down, covers his eyes. He wouldn't dare to say what cause this, but even though he keeps it, Templar will still hold the guilt within him and its better that, he should tells Lightning. "... Since after... that failed rescue operation in Palumpolum... You remember it?" Templar rubs his nose with his hand and deeply sighs, sadness across his face.

Few years back then, Templar was still a Sergeant and leading his newly organized fireteam Fidelis Combat Team along with his mentor Bishop into a rescue operation in Palumpolum. The place was taken in a sports stadium, which filled with hostages and a chemical time bomb were setup by a group of Cocoon terrorists which Templar and his team hunt for a long time. It was a hard firefight between two forces when they trying to reach the stadium in order to defuses the bomb but when they reaches the stadium, the bomb releases the chemical gases and the gates was completely locked. Templar's team member Enrica who is expert hacker, couldn't open the gates even she was die trying with her tears and bleeding hands, tapping on the gate's panel desperately.

The chemical bomb kill every hostages inside, Templar and his team could hear their screaming of agony and pain from outside the gate, it was... horrible experience. Soon few days later, Templar, Lightning, PSICOM and his Fidelis Combat Team capture the terrorist who is behind the massacre and interrogates him on-the-spot interrogation. After the interrogation, Templar personally executes the terrorist with his pistol, a shot in his head in front of Lightning and the rest of law enforcement members, they was speechless when he calmly walks out from the room.

"You were there, Light... You saw what happened and how many people died in that place, how can I forget that nightmarish incident while the voices of the hostages keeps on playing within my mind, crying out for vengeance?" until now, Templar still blames himself for not saving the people trapped in the stadium. He deeply sighs as he cocks his head up and look onto the ceiling, blankly.