As the siblings unplugged from the sim each stood there for a few moments, removing their respective helmets and staring at the other. The others left the room and South let out a loud sigh. “Go on, get it over with.”

“Okay fine. What the hell did you think you were doing back there?!” South opened her mouth to speak but North quickly interrupted. “No, you know what? I can tell you what you were doing back there. You were going to get yourself fucking killed in an effort to save Cal, who’d made his own decision to suicide it.”

“Oh please! If it were you, you would have done the exact same thing.” South replied, though her words had nowhere near the anger of North’s. She sounded more upset than anything.

“No, I wouldn’t have. Okay, in a real life mission I would have done everything I could have done to get him out of there safely. But that was a sim. It’s different-”

“No!” South suddenly snapped back. “You can’t think like that. Yeah, it wasn’t real but that doesn’t mean you can treat it differently to a real life situation. All that will do is cause you to hesitate when it really matters. I’m not as experienced as you are in this, I get that. So I need to treat everything like it’s really life or death-”

“-and because of your decision you almost got both you and Cal killed.” North snapped back instantly. “You don’t have any field experience South, you can’t kill people, simulated or no. You can’t just ignore orders. That’s not the way it works. You don’t know how to drive a warthog. Not in real life. You don’t get it do you? Cal made his decision, a dumb decision and there were dozens of others he could have made that would have put him in a better position than the one he’d ended up in. It was stupid of him and because of it you were put in danger too.”

“Which was my own choice, you can’t blame Cal.”

“I don’t. I blame you. You acted as if your life was worth risking to save him.” Once again south moved to interrupt but North quickly stopped her. “I can’t lose you okay!” He instead shouted at her. “Not… not again. If anything happened to you… what do I have left? Don’t… don’t ever do anything that risky again. Please.”

South looked at North for a long while as the reality that he was right sunk in. If she had been in his position she would have reacted the same way. Turning, tears welling in her eyes the girl stormed out of the room, passing the others without a word before she began running down the hall, turning a corner and disappearing from sight. North emerged a few moments later, looking tired. “I need a drink.” He said with a small smirk.