Codename: Ghost - An Arknights OC Fanfiction.

Trying to be normal

In the kitchen of Rhodes Island's Landship, an operator named Gummy was busy cooking as always, something naturally seen as she had always been an expert at it.

But one morning, her usual daily routine was a little disturbed by a meek Ghost suddenly present in the kitchen, a place he was seldom seen in. For the past couple of days, he's been seen sitting on a chair in the kitchen as he intently looked at Gummy as she mind her own business cooking.

This made Gummy feel a little uncomfortable, seeing as to how he was carefully looking at her, so she decided to approach Ghost and asked,

"Ummm.....can I help you with something?" Ghost was a little taken by surprise from her suddenly saying to him, and nervously he tried to reply,

"Well, uh....I.....uh...actually-"

"If you need anything, I can try to help!" Gummy tried reassuring the stuttering Ghost. Hearing her say that, he then took one deep breath to think straight his thoughts, before saying,

"I actually...uh...wanted to ask you to teach me how to cook, if you don't think it's a bother..." His tone a little meek as his hands nervously scratched the back of his head. Gummy only looked at the fidgeting person in front of him with an amused face as she replied,

"Sure, I don't mind!" 

"Really?! Yes!" Ghost's meek face now turned energetic at her response as his hands collapsed into a fist, a small celebratory jump was evident of how excited he was. Gummy felt a sense of self-content looking at the now cheery Ghost, but there was still a question lingering in her mind that she wanted to ask him,

"But, why do you want to learn how to cook?"

Ghost paused his celebratory act for a second, his hands now moved to grip the sides of his hips as he thought for a moment, before he finally replied,

"Well.....I just thought that maybe I can learn to do something else other than fighting....I want to try doing normal things." Gummy was a little surprised but also glad to hear his reason. And add that to the way things were with his past, this only made her feel more determined to teach him.

Gummy smiled at him, before she made her way back to the kitchen counter. She then grabbed her frying pan and struck her signature pose, all the while saying,

"Let's get started on our first lesson, shall we?"

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"...Where's Ghost?" Jessica asks Adnachiel as she steps foot into the training range with the intent of honing her shooting skills, but instead her attention were now caught by the absence of Ghost in the training room.

Usually, he'd be the first person to be in the training room, no matter how early she tried to enter the training room, she could never get there before him. So for him to not be there was something that quite bewildered her.

"Oh, him? He's over there." Adnachiel who was also there for his own practice said as his head nodded to the direction he mentioned. As Jessica turned her head in the said direction, she was caught once again by surprise.

Out of a window in the training room, in a separate room, she saw Ghost, but in a way she'd never expected to see him in and with someone she never thought she'd see together with him. Ghost was sat on a chair, and besides him was Deepcolor while Durin sat sleeping on a table in front of the both.