Haven's Heroes (Jak 2 FF) *ONGOING*

[29]-Imperium

[Co-Author: butterfly123199 ]

The streets of Haven were exceptionally quiet, only a few people roaming the streets, most on their way home. Elise and Trinity had made their way back sooner than thought, and had headed down into the UG. Down there, Torn was waiting, with quite the annoyed look. The both of them could tell it was towards Jak, but mostly Daxter.

Elise stepped up to Torn's desk, "Soo-"

"No."

She blinked. "Wha..? But I didn't even-"

Torn squinted, "You're gonna ask to go watch the cargo exchange that happens in an hour. No. You're not doing the mission at night." He began looking back at the map. "There's another shipment tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?! Torn, do you know how much easier it'll be to do this at night?!" Elise glared, crossing her arms over her chest. Torn pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Elise... need I remind you of Trinity's condition? And last time you were on your own mission you got kidnapped by Erol." He said. His tone leaked aggression, but not too much. He still respected both her AND Trinity. "My answer is no. End of discussion now go to bed."

She growled in annoyance, "So you're gonna use that shit against me, huh?" She mumbled "Torn, you don't understand how easy this'll be at night! Come on, just let us do this!" Elise glanced at Trinity for support, biting her lip in anger.

Trinity already knew what was playing in Torn's mind, because Trin and his partner used to do all missions at night together. With some thought, Trinity knew it was foolish of him to side with Elise on this one.

"Torn." He glanced up to meet Trin's eyes from the table of crumpled maps of insufficient plans. "I won't do anything rash." Trinity couldn't come up with a valid enough argument, he felt as if those were all the words he could think of.

With a stern grimace, he motioned Trinity to follow him to whisper to the side. "Trinity, this is a costly decision. You're making a fool of yourself getting out on the field so soon." He spoke lowly.

Jak, Dax, and Elise were all giving each other their own mean looks, but the recruit with his ottsel couldn't help but be curious to see Torn NOT so uptight or in a toxic mood. To be fair though, Torn does look after his own men and well-beings.

He gritted his teeth, they watched the brief but tense exchange between the two, Torn seething and Trinity balling up his hands into fists, showing rage but remained with composure.

Torn slowly unsheathed his dagger and pointed dangerously to Trinity, its sharp end almost scraping against his painted steel mask. It gleamed under the dim ceiling light, "I won't allow any of us to be put into such a risk for something as meager as this, Trin."

With a wordless exchange, and a few heavy moments of stillness, he stabbed the table with the worn dagger. The sound snapping everyone back into reality.

Trinity pointed towards the bunker rooms for Elise to follow, she went in first. Before Trin followed suit, he glanced back at Jak, feeling as if he should tell him something. But continued on.

Elise quickly sped up her walking to follow Trinity, walking past Torn like some sort of lost puppy. Jak only furrowed his eyebrows in suspicion. He could never grasp anything the masked man would do, let alone understand any of it.

"So... what was that about? I've never seen Torn act like that." Elise asked, raising an eyebrow as she sat down on the mattress on the floor beside Trinity's bed. She started sleeping there ever since he had come back (after the 'situation') Just to make sure he'd be okay overnight. "Most importantly, are you really sure you wanna do this?"