🐺 ~PROJECT SAC-1~ ⚔️

Chapter 28 - The Snipers Loyalty 🤚🏻😔

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A friend in need, is a friend indeed!

Agent Talla trusted Crosshair's skills, and he trusted hers, and as the battle wore on, it had become undeniable that Talla and Crosshair worked well together. Yet it wasn't enough for Talla to fully trust Crosshair because what was happening on this mission was nothing different from the other ones other than the fact, they were teammates behaving as teammates should. It would take Crosshair doing something so completely and uncharacteristically selfless for Talla to trust him, to prove he really did have a heart.

And an unexpected earthquake gave him the opportunity to prove himself, even at the expense of his own life...

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(TODAY - EARLY MORNING - DAY 37 w/ THE BAD BATCH)

It wasn't until long after they arrived on Kaliida before Hunter got some answers. Only after Talla had suffered many grueling hours of examinations and tests and treatments and a bacta tank session that were all a blur for her. It was an agonizingly slow time for Hunter since he was forced to wait around with the others, doing nothing but worry and being hypervigilant.

When Talla was transferred to a private recovery room, Hunter was thankful to snag a few hours rest like she did, though it was only a cat nap in his instance considering his bed was an uncomfortable Kaminoan type egg chair. Hunter technically wasn't supposed to be in there at all, but after a day and a half of doing nothing but worrying, unable to see the injured duo, the Sergeant had forced his way into this room after Tech got notified on his datapad of her transfer, to this room specially made up by Nala Se for her 'personal project' in case she was ever treated here. It wasn't the Intensive Care Unit, so the Kaminoan Doctor no doubt glared at Hunter when he stubbornly refused to acknowledge her kind request to leave, because SAC-1 needed her rest and shouldn't be disturbed.

He just claimed a chair in the corner, without using any words saying he'd be silent as the grave so TALLA could rest, but he was not leaving, and that was that. The same was happening with Crosshair, them being unable to see him, so Hunter decided to physically be here with Talla, turning down the lights in the room and getting some rest himself while she recovered from all the treatment; Wrecker and Tech were back at the Marauder, anxiously waiting for the time Crosshair would be out of Intensive Care and they could be by his side as well, no matter where they put him.

Being in such a light slumber, Hunter was aware of Talla starting to wake up, her little groan of protest instantaneously making him alert.

The first thing Talla could make sense of when waking up was the feeling of laying on top of a soft and heavenly mattress, wrapped up in a nice warm blanket that she tugged around her more snugly with a happy sigh. Next, Talla registered how surprisingly comfortable she was laying here, despite wearing heavy armor. When wearing armor, one always had to sleep in odd positions that honestly made things only microscopically less uncomfortable than before, but every little bit counted when catching a few winks on a mission.

Habitually, Talla shifted to try making herself more comfortable, but her eyebrows snapped together when the pokes and prods of bulky armor weren't felt. She was indeed already comfortable, like actually comfortable. 'Wait a sec.' Her mistrustful eyes snapped open. 'I'm comfortable and sleeping with armor on so isn't.' Peeping down under the blanket, Talla saw a red tunic and pants dressing her body underneath the blanket instead of the plastoid-alloy. 'I'm not wearing my armor - Why am I not wearing armor?!'