1. Halle, New Recruit
By Rurple101

Chapter Twenty

Words could not express how pissed Grif was. He just tossed Tucker aside and crushed Halle towards him greedily, inhaling her sweet scent and resting his head on top of hers.

Halle clung to Grif desperately and wrapped her arms round his neck, her fingers trailing all the lines there as she tried to calm herself.

The amount of relief that had spurred in her as she'd glanced at the door and seen him there was un-describable.

Several minutes passed as they sat there, clinging to each other and eyes squeezed closed tightly in which they could hear Tucker groaning in pain.

Grif had knocked him against the metal table in the corner and his face had a gash on it. He glanced down at the couple on the floor and felt his heartstrings pull together; they looked so perfect together, the two Reds and the way Grif was holding onto her for dear life.

When had he ever seen the Red this freakin chuffed to see a person? Grif had always seemed to be a quiet and lazy solider. Not freakin active and strong enough to fight for Halle.

The one with the insults and good comebacks and accusing the maroon one of kiss-asing their Sargent. This couldn't be the old Grif; it had looked as if he'd grown up in the space of the five months that Halle had been with them.

Tucker then chose that time to pass out from the pain and everything went black.

Meanwhile the couple on the floor were waking up the face that they were closer than they'd ever been before. Halle could feel Grif's breath on the back of her neck and feel his toned muscles under his non-armour clothing.

Grif could feel Halle's chest move up and down with his as their grip got tighter until they realised they'd have marks from it afterwards.

Grif was shocked; he'd almost lost his Sophie, the innocent and beautiful Sophie who was carefree and happy. If Tucker had (he shuddered to think about it) gotton his way, she'd had changed for the worse, isolating herself from others including him.

He had to tell her. Now.

He pulled back as she did and gazed down at her still worried face. Her face was grimaced in slight pain and his gaze was drawn more on her lips.

A part inside of him was blossoming; trying to get bigger and screaming at him to kiss her. It was the part in his veins that put his nerves on edge and feel the tension of the chemistry between them.

He took a deep breath "Sophie I…-" he paused.

Halle noticed that his voice was a lot softer and huskier than it normally was. The edge of panic could be heard there and his heart was beating wildly. He was nervous. Her expression because tender and her eyes locked with his.

He started again "Sophie…I…I-" he mentally rolled his eyes, knowing he couldn't get the words out.

"Oh fuck this!" he said (as he normally did before when he couldn't be arsed to do something) and leaned down to kiss her on the lips, and feeling his heart explode with happiness as his lips made contact with the soft smooth skin.

She felt his long-awaited lips on hers and beamed as his lips moved against hers; savouring each movement and flavour of passion he could taste on his tongue.

How long had he waited to do this?

Sophie's arms slid lower and rested on his shoulders, moving her hands down his firm chest and caress his attractive muscles she could feel.

Grif's head was in a daze, his grip on her loosened, but he got more possessive of her, sliding his arms down hers and smiling as he kissed her with all his heart.

Halle sighed as she felt his lips curve into a smile and hurried to not need air. They sat there; embraced in each other's grip until they both needed the oxygen they lacked.

They pulled away and Halle shyly looked up at Grif. He just gazed back at her; shocked of what he'd just done…but he was glad.

They were both speechless.

Book 2 is called ' For Action' and it will be updated on here as quickly as I can! Hope you enjoyed this! :D