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XCOM: The B Team, Chapter 1

XCOM: The B Team, Chapter 1
by Christopher Ruz

Prologue – Goodbye, A-Team.

Commander Pournelle slumped in his chair as the footage looped for the eighth time. He'd hoped there'd be something new to discover in those fifteen minutes of chest-cam video, some vital piece of information that would compensate for the loss of his three best soldiers, but it was useless. Grainy images of a shadowed warehouse. A flash of movement. The sudden concussion of a grenade detonating, followed by the meaty thud of Corporal Lebedev's body hitting the floor. Then flashes of muzzle fire, screams, and silence.
Pournelle paused the replay and rested his head

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I guess its all over now

by ~ruzkin, Sep 26, 2003, 9:17:34 PM
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I'm looking out over the places
Where I played football with my friends,
The places where we met
And the places where we fought
And the places where we made up.
And I realize
That I'm not crying for the places
But rather the people that I'm going to leave behind.
And while we all hug
And promise to keep in touch,
In truth I know that they'll
Fade,
And my memories will recede
Into the corners of my mind,
Only to be conjured up momentarily
By a smell, or a familiar sound,
Leaving me grasping at a figment of a figment
Of a face, or a moment
And wishing that I could go back
To hedonistic summer days
And the friends who made my life complete.

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Yesterday was my last day of classes, ever. That means that it was also the last time I would ever see my classmates, aside from the final exams, where we'll meet for a few hours in small clumps. It was the last time I'll ever walk through my school and be part of the Grammar community. This all hit me around 10:30, and then I didn't stop crying until around half-past two.
I'm leaving behind the best group of guys that I could ever have hoped to meet, and it's tearing me apart. But I guess there's nothing I can do but write.
I spent five years waiting eagerly for the end, and now I can't bear to move on.

~cerasi1 Sep 16, 2008

I know the feeling.

Meanwhile, you haven't updated your journal in nearly a year. I feel... uninformed.
And I'm really hoping you've got more writing stashed away here. Three? Only three? And two of them are a world of connected...

~ruzkin Sep 17, 2008

I haven't posted any writing here in a loooong time. The wordpress is where it's at. Looking over the work I have here... it's a bit weird. Like those first Weathermen drafts. Worlds apart from what I have now, but I can still see the paths I took to learn what I have over the years.

~cerasi1 Sep 18, 2008

Years. Jesus, you make me feel like a child. A writing-child.

~Eyes-S Mar 3, 2005

That's so beautiful... Makes me feel all nostalgic... Just so well written... Also what you wrote, is so true... About the fading... Still, the ending is perfect!

~ruzkin Mar 3, 2005

Thanks, I really appreciate the comments *hugs*

~Eyes-S Mar 4, 2005

You're welcome!

`chezza-t18 Oct 26, 2003

You rawk!

so sad...

but you will always have the memories. no matter how long ago they were, the people that you surrounded yourself with have made you the person you are today. from the look of your poem, you are truly gifted.
Grammar....as in Guilford Grammar in WA?

~thedarkest-one Oct 6, 2003

great stuff. you are now officially THE best person on this site in my eyes. glad to see someone can put into words when i lacking cannot. keep it goin'

~ruzkin Oct 6, 2003

Thanks for that, it really gives me a lot of confidence when someone says that. I'm gonna be on a high for the rest of the day now!

~vzealotes Sep 26, 2003

Amen, man.

Peace out CGS.

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