Chapter 3

Angel's POV:

As the sun hit my face it woke me out of a dead sleep, my head was pounding, and the room was spinning. I slowly sit up grabbing my head, and groaning I look around nearly forgetting I wasn't where I was used to being it almost scared me for a moment but that thought passed because I just shut that emotion off. My eyes fall on a water bottle and two pills wondering who left that there because I never heard anyone enter or exit my room, my guard went up these guys were still strangers, I may have laughed with the girls but I still needed time to adjust to this new home of mine. I grab the bottle and pills shaking off how I felt. I open the bottle, put the pills in my mouth, then take a sip of water to wash them down.

I groan again as I place the bottle down, I push myself off the bed realizing I smell terrible, like a frat party gone wrong. I walk over to the closet and grab my tactical gear, my shower stuff, and a towel and then I walk to my door. I open it and walk out with my stuff, heading for the showers, I walk into the girl's side and place my stuff down hearing groaning and someone throwing up. I shake my head as I get undressed, take my knee brace off, and head into an empty shower, knowing we all felt like absolute shit this morning from drinking until 130am. I wash up and wrap my towel around me once I am finished, stepping out of the shower and leaving my shower stuff there.

"Angel! You can store your shower stuff in the cabinets near the sinks!" Rose says as she emerges from the shower next to mine. "Thank you," I say grabbing my things and walking towards the sinks and cabinets. I open an empty cabinet place my stuff inside, I grab my knee brace and exit the showers. I head back towards my room, slightly limping by Keegan and Ghost who I don't look at, my head is still pounding, this hangover was hell on earth. I finally make it to my room and go inside, sitting on the edge of my bed, I groan as I put the brace back on.

I've been out of action for nearly a month and I wasn't used to it, I place my hand on my knee and gently rub it. I push the pain away as I hear a knock on my door, "Come in!" I call out as I adjust my knee brace to where it needs to be. "Hi, I'm Keegan, Price sent me to grab you to go train some," I look up as he speaks, he wasn't bad looking, I take in his features, as I say, "Okay, I'm ready!" I push myself up off my bed and walk towards him.

"Are you going to be able to do this?" He asks as I stop in front of him. I nod as I say, "Yeah, I've been doing the physical therapy and training as much as my body will allow." He shakes his head and says, "Alright! Let's go then!" He walks out of my room and I follow him to the training room. We walk inside, and I follow him towards the mats in the center of the room.

"We'll start with the easy stuff and work into the harder things, we need to make sure you're ready for anything," he looks at me as I say back to him, "Sounds good. Let's do this!" I give a small smile before we begin. Keegan tries to reach for me as I jump back, unfortunately putting all my weight onto my bad knee which gives out, causing me to hit the floor hard. Keegan runs over to me as I push myself off the floor and get up, "Are you okay?!" His voice was full of concern.

"Yeah I'm fine," I say shaking off the pain I was feeling. "Let's try it again!," I say looking at him. He shrugs his shoulders and we go again, this time when I land my knee doesn't give out. After that we moved on escaping from different grips, Keegan grabbed my arm and pulled it behind me slightly twisting it, I lifted my bad leg and slammed my foot into his knee which caused him to let me go and hit the ground. I bust out laughing because it took me one try to knock him down and let me go. "So Angel, tell me about yourself, we're going to be working together so I should get to know you," Keegan says as we continue training.

"Well I'm 26, and I've been with Task Force 126 for 4 years, I started there when I finished my training, I worked with some of the most amazing people and I miss them a lot and can't even reach out to them because someone could be trying to locate us. I love animals, I have a great shot, I drink, I love to dance, and I'm just trying to adjust to this team after everything that happened." I say as I dodge a punch of his. "Damn, and you don't remember what happened?" Keegan asks as he wraps his arms around my waist and throws me onto the mat. "No, not a damn thing dude, I wish but then again I don't," I say as I roll over throwing him off of me.

At that moment I didn't see Ghost staring at us from across the room. Keegan gets up off the mat and tries to come after me but I sidestep him and grab him, shoving him onto the ground. He wraps his arms around me taking me down with him, I gasp as my body hits his. Keegan just smiles as he says, "Gotcha!" I laugh as I fight out of his grip, push myself up into a standing position, and put my foot onto his chest. "Stay!" I start to giggle as he just looks up at me and says, "I'm not a fucking dog!" I start laughing harder, "Really? You sure?" I tease him not feeling Ghost's stare on us.

I remove my foot from Keegan's chest and offer him my hand so he can get off the floor, he takes it and pulls himself up, I feel a sharp pain go through my knee but ignore it as Keegan says, "Let's hit the gun range, I have to see your shot." I smile, "Sounds good to me let's go!" I turn finally spotting Ghost staring at me, I just shake my head, and follow Keegan out of the training room. Ghost's eyes never left me as I disappeared from his sight following Keegan. We walk by Fox who looks at me and smiles, "Hey!" I smile back, "Hey!" I continue following Keegan to the gun range.

As we pass the offices, I spot Ghost, I remember my old lieutenant telling me I would be working under Simon Riley who went by Ghost. "Yo Keegan!," A guy I don't recognize flags Keegan down, "Hey Konig what's up dude? I have more training to do with the rookie here," Keegan says as he points to me. I just stand there watching them as the one named Konig says, "When you're done with her, Ghost wants to see you." Keegan nods his head as he says, "Yeah tell him I'll meet him in his office after the gun training." Konig nods, "I'll let him know."