<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #BF0000">Karra Lee Micheals</span></span></div><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #BF0000">Captain Micheals</span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/d8d8d07d-bef1-4b12-bb9c-4a8ccbe576b0_zps6c4f5818.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/>When Tom handed her the hairband, she knew he must have been shaken. It was such a trivial thing, but it spoke in volumes to how much the entire ordeal effected him. She put the hairband on her wrist, deciding to leave her hair down for now. Her head was hurting too much for her to even consider putting her hair up at the moment and if Tom liked her hair down, then she would keep it down for now.<br/><br/>He began to tell the events and she was surprised. She wasn't sure why she was so shocked by it all, but she was. The fact that Sam had immediately come to their rescue was a surprise to her, though she reasoned Sam didn't hate them. Tom's actions were that of a true leader--a leader that could face anything. Her hands came up to his face, gently turning him so that he would be forced to look into her eyes,<span style="color: #BF0000"><span style="font-weight: bold"> "Tom, I promise you that I will never leave you willingly. You did everything right. You always do everything right,"</span></span>Karra said softly, her lips pressing into his. The kiss was chaste compared to the others they had shared before, but it held more meaning than all of them combined.<br/><br/>She was amazed at Tania's ability to have helped with the surgery. If it had been Karra in her place, she wouldn't have been able to do it. The fear would have taken her over to have to do such a high risk thing. Then again, Karra had done things in the past that she had never thought she would have been able do until the need arose. She wondered if Tania had been a soldier in a past life or if Tania really was just born tough. She turned to look at Tania, her hand reaching out for hers. She gripped it,<span style="color: #BF0000"><span style="font-weight: bold">"Tania, thank you. Thank you so much,"</span></span>Karra said as she tried not to cry again.<br/><br/>She turned back to Tom again, her voice suddenly determined, though a little shaky,<span style="color: #BF0000"><span style="font-weight: bold">"Tom--no matter what happens here or anywhere else in the future, you have to promise me that even if I die, you will continue on. That you will never give up. That you will still do your best and be the best leader that you are..." </span></span>Karra's hands were on Tom's face again as she looked into his dark eyes. Seeing Tom so beat up about her almost dying left her worried for him if she ever did die. She knew that if it were the other way around, she would have never been able to keep a clear enough head to even help Tom and would have ended up in complete shambles and likely suicidal, but that was Karra. For her, Tom had always been the strongest man she had ever met--both physically and mentally. He was everything she wished she could be. Capable, intelligent, strong, independent... To see him in such a state hurt her. To know that it was her fault hurt her.