Green Fields (Alone)

[thehonorablebat]

Summary: The second story I ever posted.

Before XCOM's victory over ADVENT, there was twenty years of struggle. Bradford isn't sure how he survived it.

A loose collection of snippets, pre-X2.

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When she left, he pretended he was still asleep. Bradford knew that it would be a long time before he saw her again. If he ever saw her again.

The night before had been wrought from desperation and an all-encompassing emotional toll that hadn’t been eased in the slightest by what they had done. If anything, it was worse now that she had left in the early hours of the morning. The sun had barely even risen before the side of the bed she slept on was cold.

Bradford wasn’t dumb, even if she thought he was. He had known she had been planning on leaving for weeks now. Long before Shen had taken off in hopes of finding his daughter somewhere in San Francisco. There had been no stopping him any more than there was stopping her. He figured she had only stuck around this long for his sake. Part of him was grateful. Part of him didn’t want the pity.

But she was gone now, like so many before her, and he was alone.