Of Brothers and Sisters (Kirlov/Missy)

[Kirlov]

“Well it won't be that easy. I first need to find the correct channel so I can actually communicate with the fleet. And I don''t think the message are returned yet. Most likely I figure tonight we'll get an answer.” Sergei had been happy with this discovery but Odessa's command that he leave her had deflated him. He turned to her as he finished looting the rest of the bodies. The marine crossed his arms and shifted his weight to one leg.

“Did you really have to ruin the moment like that? Look even if we get a response tonight it will still take a few days for the main fleet to arrive. And even then they would need to find us. So we have few days. And no, I know An'ubak can hear me in there, but no they can't come out to play.”

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As they stood there off in the distance a figure watched them. It was a Solitare, a harlequin outcast. It stood watching the couple with a grim expression on it's half masked face. “The cards have been played. Now only you can save humanity. We will be there, when it is time.” The figure twirled and disappeared in haze of colors.

[Missy]

Odessa sighed
''We don’t have the time to argue. The Legion will notice there missing patrol eventually...I suggest we move our camp somewhere ells'' She loaded her bolter with fresh ammo before making sure to hide the body’s in a nearby trench. The less trace the left the better off they would be in the long run. And she turned to her brother
''I didint mean to spoil...I am simply being realistic. An'ubak...if that is what it called is waiting to size me again...'' She felt how her very flesh was a prison and her soul where fighting to control it again...Something she wouldn’t let happen again.

[Kirlov]

Sergei nodded as they hid the bodies. “I know it's just... At most we have a few days and other than conducting sabotage upon the chaos forces there isn't much between us to do. But lets go then. He still have a whole day ahead of us.”

The space marine left the road and continued along cross country. A thought came to him as they walked. He looked down at Odessa. He felt protective of her. “So did you ever find out about what happened that first night? If the demon hasn't told you, well I guess you will never find out.”

[Missy]

Odessa nodded. She knew alight
''Well...I dismissed it as a dream...But now...I know...'' Odessa strained her voice. She did not want to remember...She had only instigated the romance not turned it on the lusty display of excess. That was it....It did that...Even if it only played on her real emotions and dreams....
''It played on my true feelings and used me in a way it knew i would have wanted..'' Odessa didn’t want to admit it but she wanted to share the fleshly pleasures with her brother marine...It simple used that desire that night to escape in one of its faces ...Soon all of them came out...Her love had made her reckless... She almost wanted to puke
''I suggest we start moving slowly towards one of the hive city’s...Even if we cant reach it in time before we are evacuated...In chase something happens.''

[Kirlov]

“I know how you feel... Sort of. Some how the demon found some sort of emotional weakness in me and empowered it I guess. To be honest I was expecting the demon to taught you with it. To lie and say that a whole lot more happened than actually did.” Odessa looked a bit... what was the phrase... 'green around the gills' was it? But Sergei knew impart that his weakness truly stemmed from the weaknesses of his chapter. Things his chapter prided itself with, such as compassion and other human emotions. The demon had some how learned of it and used it.

“I would have told you myself but I didn't know how to describe it or what words to use. And... I was ashamed. No space marine has ever fallen in love, as far as I know. A few, I believe, have come close to developing feelings but they just can't. I guess I am an anomaly also.” Sergei took a sip of water before passing it to Odessa. Would they be able to last another night together. He knew in the end he would pay for his sins. But the sergeant was alright with it. For it was in the name of a prize far more precious.

[Missy]

Odessa took a ship of the water...The desert in front of them seemed endless...Sand on sand rocks and ruins...Nothing but dust
''We sisters might still be human...But most of our doctrine leaves us so fanatical that we have no room for anything but faith....And only in this way have we avoided corruption'' She gave back the bottle to Sergei as the passed yet a another old ruin
''Yet you have sparked in me something that I hade buried a long time ago...''
She looked out over the desert again....Its looked so enmity and lonely...It had no one to hold it warm when nights got cold...No one to whisper loving kind words in to its hears....It was just like hear...Dust. A tear ran from here eye
''Tis is a cruel fate I been rewarded....'' She knew it all now...She was doomed to take the mantel of the second great betrayer of the imperium...She would become the new Horus...A destroyer and consumer of all that is good...Her sisters...Her emperor...Her love...All she would crush with impunity. Her gut wanted to rip out of her stomach....She wanted to exile this horror with her...And yet that seemed impossible...Her own soul was tainted it was strained with this beaning...A being of all four powers of chaos...
''Long have i suffered nightmares....I have seen the world of the warp....That land where An'ubak comes from...And now i fear that what I am will return there...''

[Kirlov]

Sergei stayed silent for a long time. She was right. There was almost nothing they could do to prevent the rise of the demon now. But then something came to him, a conversation with a psyker from another chapter. He stopped and turned to Odessa. “Beloved, little Sister,” he said as he placed his hands on her shoulders. “I was once told that fate is like a tree. As you start from the trunk there are many times where it branches off. No fate is set in stone, entirely.”

Not knowing what he was doing Sergei took a deep breath before continuing. “Though my choices may have doomed you and the Imperium there is still hope for us. For humanity. I have sworn to you that I would rescue you. Now I swear that I will be your protector. Even if the demon rises and the galaxy is set to burn I will find you. As the Emperor is my witness I will face the armies of the warp so I can see you safe.”

Kneeling, Sergei drew his sword and knelt down on one knee before Odessa. His blade, he planted before him point down in the dust and sand. “I swore to the demon that no matter how long it took that I would find it. I swore that no matter what I would save as many citizens as I can. Once I save the people I will save you. As I said before service to the Emperor is service to the people. All this I swore against the demon and now I swear it to you. I am yours if you will have me.”

[Missy]

Odessa took off his helmet. His eyes that use to fill her with disgust are now mirrors...Mirrors that reflect her self in his image.
''I...Member of the our matyerd lady Sister Nihila Odessa swears you to now be my confidant and lover. Out here the desert of Miigor III makes you a honorary member of the Adeptus Soratries. She rips off one of her holy texts and puts it on his shoulder.
''Rise now...Rise now my confidant...my proctor...My lover...Rise'' She kisses him on the forehead to mark her ritual over.
Strangely she hadn’t broken any Order rules. Any one could become a ''Honorary'' member of the sisterhood as long as it did not participate in combat with them. But sense he was a space marine that problem solved it self.

[Kirlov]

Sergei stood up. Over and over he thanked the Emperor silently. Reaching up he pried off one of his purity seals. Leaning down, he affixed it to the chain around Odessa's neck. “Take this my love. Because though your body may be not be pure, your soul is. And I found a piece of your armor a while back. I plan to keep it so I may always remember you.”

He showed her the fragment of armor and with it a long scrap of parchment upon which was written a prayer. “This streamer came from your armor also. You lost it in the sewers beneath the port. I would keep it, if that is acceptable.”

Sergei took a look at the skies. Darkness was coming again. “But lets get moving . We should find some shelter before night.”

[Missy]

She nodded
''Keep it'' She put the helmet back on him after kissing him one last time. And again she nodded when he talked about shelter
''Agreed.'' She took a sigh....If only her inquisitor could see her now...Oh how he would have smiled.
They track for at lest another hour before spotting ruins of a former guardsmen outpost...It wasn’t so much ruins as they just where abandoned. Odessa pointed towards it
''A place for us to spend our night''