Hunted

"Look. My father just put a price of at least a million dollars on my death. I almost collapsed from not eating, and you had to give me a FREAKING NEEDLE. Now, I've promised not to leave, so will you please SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"Gee... Lieutenant sure has a violent taste in women..." He said with a chuckle. He had been more than a cook, though a woman's anger didn't compare with the anger of on the battle field. Though when they started sending women out to war it began to get more violent for a man unless a woman was protecting him.

The cook was injured when he refused to shoot a woman enemy because she was a woman. He believed women deserved respect, and he was only teasing about the Lieutenant. Though he wondered how the Lieutenant was going to deal with this spitfire of a girl. He went into the cooking area preparing a sundae and a smoothie which he then put on the side of her then moved to the opposite side of the table so she would be comfortable.

"You know... out of all the men in the army I have the outmost faith in the Lieutenant, he'll protect you for sure. Ya know he'd give his life for his mission or even a person who's innocent. He's the best trained he follows miltary way of keeping in mission. He's never had a real life, the General sent him to go to school of some sort so he could get used to the normal life so he'd be able to choose which he'd furfill his future in. The General knows he could die young in the miltary with the amount of commitment he has. He also knows that his re-election is in a few years and at the rate the Lieutenant is going he could run the whole thing in a few years." He said with a chuckle, "Well I've gotta prepare food for fifty men which eat like 200 men..." He said with a sigh getting up, "The Lieutenant should be back soon."

"Thank..you. For not forcing the issues."

He smiled, "Enjoy your meal." He said walking back into the cooking area preparing the meal for the night. He knew it'd be nothing as good as she tasted. Seeing the solders usually got less great tasting food so as to encourage them to not get too fat. He worked keeping a occaisonal eye on her to make sure she didn't leave. But he needed to finish his work too so he wasn't going to hover around her making her feel weird.

The Lieutenant came back he moved to her side placing two fresh guns with ammo beside her on the table. He was wearing school clothes as if he was a normal boy, he had three guns hidden on him as well as other supplies. He had the Corporal equipt him with some 'special' stuff. He was all ready to take the girl back to the dorm, he had arranged the ability to stay outside overlooking her room. He'd inform her that she could change in the privacy of the bathroom so he could keep 24/7 watch over her except for bathroom breaks and such.

"I'll be watching you 24/7 you can sleep at ease, I'll be watching you from your window. The Headmistress understood it was a matter of life and death she told me you can change in the bathroom during these times until the situation with your Honest-Abe blows over." He said uniformly like he was a machine, he never seemed embarassed or feeling about things. He often seemed very distant and cold.

"Fine. Let's go. Great. Hunted by every assassin and I get my own personal stalker."

"I'm sorry that your in this situation, it's completely my fault and you have all the right to hate me. I'll try to stay out of your way." He said with a slight bow of the head, he wasn't going to let himself like her or get attached to his subject. His only objective was to protect her and her only.

"It's stupid to go back. That's where they're gonna go. If I go back, I'm just going to be a sitting duck for their attacks."

"I actually secured your dorm room and set up a few alarms, a security camera is outside your door at a angle anyone that enters would have their face recorded and I set up a tv in your room so you can see them. I'll be outside your window so you'll be safe from both angles. Alarms are on the walls, windows, and doors. I don't know about people who have the ability to pass through walls but I installed motion detectors incase someone were to try. These detectors will be activated when your asleep by the weight on your bed. So that any movement other than you would set the alarm off immediately waking you up and I'd know there was another presence and be able to assist."

He said informing her, "I ensure you it'll be safer at your dorm than a hotel because you can't set up that much security elsewhere. Besides the dorms have more people around and the possiblity of help in a dire situation would be easier to find. They don't know much about the dorms so it's best to have main headquarters where they aren't used to." He said this all very sure of his measures of protection. Though one might think it was a little overthetop.

"This works. I guess."

He left her side and immediately went to the tree climbing it. The rain was quite light at first, slowly growing harder, until it was a hard pouring. He held onto the tree with his legs, while his eyes kept on the room and his ears on his surroundings. He sat there the water drenching through his clothing, but he had to sit there. He had to protect her, he was only in a shirt and pants. He had no plain school boy jackets or coats to keep him from getting wet as much. So the boy was quite soaked by the rain. Not to mention it was a cool night making it even worse. But he was used to battle fields and long nights sitting in the trench. He supposed he could manage, he noticed her crying but he couldn't do anything. He was merely a officer of the Army.

After a long time of the rainfall the bark grew slippery, and he nearly fell off the branch. He managed to catch himself before he fell 20 feet. He slowly climbed up the slippery tree regaining his position. He kept his watch, his look wasn't helpless but that of a sturn miltary man.

"The mat's for underneath you. It'll stick to the bark so you don't fall off."

He looked at her confused, he took the mat setting it underneath him. He didn't know why she was helping him, she afterall said she wanted him to die. Why would she make it so he wouldn't? He took the offered things. "Thank you Ma'am, I'm sorry for the inconvenience." He said with a bow of his head.

"Tea, to keep you warm. I'd hate to have you get sick."

He took the tea shocked that the girl was being so nice to him. He bowed his head again, "Thank you." He wasn't a man for tea, but he figured he'd drink it because of the thought seeing she was trying to be nice and all. He looked at her, he knew the fact people were going to be trying to kill her probably was the biggest factor in her crying. The needle was probably another. He didn't know what to say to help her, other than to just be there and protect her.