hard work before time off

The morning after I had gotten my request papers was a good one, a nice day to say the least, so before doing anything else I decide to head over to Battle Stategist Hawks office to hand in my request papers.

Once I get there I see him in his chair already sorting through other bits of paper work, "oh Daniel, I was wondering who it was who came in , so what can I help you with today." When I reach his desk I drop the papers on it, without saying a word. "Your already turning in the request papers I see, well then let's have a lo-."

The puase lasts for a while until he begins talking again, "I see, you wish to return home for a small vacation, well I can't quite do that yet, but I might be able to do that in another two months, once you have trained up those trainees of yours a bit more, then I will send you back for vacation."

"Thanks Battle Stategist Hawk, it means a lot to mean, even to get just some time off to go back and see my grandfather, and everyone else back home."

When Hawk smiles I know he's happy at that moment, "well at least I know you'll be coming back, also when I finally do get it approved for you, please tell your grandfather hello for me ok." I nod when he says that, since everyone here knows my grandfather, maybe he would like the hello from Hawk.

From that day onwards the training for the trainees increases just a bit, more range practice ontop of miles gone in a day. Everything was turning out Good in their training, and fairly soon I had noticed two months had fully gone by.

"Hey instructor Daniel, your time off starts as of tomorrow correct?" I nod at Siler, I had found this out two weeks ago when I got called in by Hawk again. "Then how about you join all of us tonight for dinner, since we want to at least wish you well on your vacation time off."

Thanking him for the invite, I quickly accept it, since it will be nice to unwind some before I leave for my vacation time. After we finish up training for the day, everyone including me, head to the mess hall, thinking back as we walk I still can't believe how much they have advanced forward in there training, so I feel that it is good to see them off tonight, before I depart for my home town tomorrow.

When we get to the mess hall, I see a few extra things all rapped up like presents. "Hey im not leaving, sure I'll be gone for about three weeks, but I'll be back before you know it." They all laugh knowing I won't be leaving, but they quickly say it's just thank you gifts from everyone.

The gifts are assorted in small to larger sized ones, "good gosh I don't know if I'll be able to take all of them back home with me." They all laugh again, as we begin to have dinner, some of them begin talking amongst one another about future training without me around, which makes me feel good inside, seeing them all planning before I'm gone.

Once dinner is nearly finished, they start bringing over some of the gifts they had gotten for me, "here you go instructor Daniel, this is the first one we all want you to open." When I finally get the box open to finally see what's inside, I'm shocked to see a four leaf clover badge.

"Really everyone, wishing me luck while I'm away, you guys are all amazing." They all smile and clap while I continue to open the rest of the gifts as they slowly give them to me.

After an hour of just opening gifts, I had received everything from a good luck charm, to a restaurant reservation in my home town. "Everyone here, you have done a lot for me tonight, however, I still want to see all of you in top form when I return once my time off is done, is that clear!"

With the echo of my voice in the mess hall, after only a few moments they all stand, and just like they had first done, saluted me. "Yes sir!" Once I put on a smile, I feel satisfied, but this feeling of satisfaction is different from others, unable to explain it it just feels right, so I leave it at that.

Soon after they help me take everything that they had given me to my room, they are surprised to see very little had been packed. "What are you taking with you instructor Daniel?" When I point to a single luggage bag for the trip, some of them decide to get another one, so I could take everything they gave me with me on the trip back home.

Eventually, somehow in some way they managed to fit everything they had given me into a bag. "Alright that bag is done, instructor Daniel, we shall leave everything else to you tomorrow, so take care on your time off, and we shall all see you once you get back from your time away."

With that being said, I wave them bye as they all pass by my room, some saluting me, while some wave me off. Once all of them have left, it becomes quite in my room, "sigh maybe I became to used to the noise those trainees make on a regular basis, that now I feel it's quite, it's actually fairly lonely."

Those thoughts stick around for a little while, but they quickly disappeared at the thought of reuniting with everyone back home. After another hour of doing the rest of my paper work, I take a look at the clock, to see it says nine o'clock, "well time for some sleep."

Once I lay down on the bed, I start to drift off into sleep, some thoughts come to mind as I drift into sleep. The thoughts of good times once this upcoming war comes to an end, the thoughts are both of the possible happy times, but also the not so happy times, seeing if the Empire possibly losses the war. After stopping my rampant thoughts, I completely slip into a deep sleep, with my thoughts now only fixed on back home.

The morning comes just as fast as I had fallen asleep, with about three hours before my plane ride departs, I decide to go and quickly check the trainees. But before that I decided to grab everything that was packed, and bring it down to General White's vehicle, since he said that he would take me to the airfield.

Once I arrive at the meeting place, I see General White with a military truck instead of his own vehicle. "There you are Daniel, are you ready to go?" Shacking my head, I tell him that I wish to see the trainees before I leave, "alright, but make it quick you have only two hours left." That amount of time is completely fine, since I plan to make it quick.

When I make my way to the firing range, I just observe them all, now helping one another on their training. "Guess I have nothing more to worry about here." Then without any hesitation, I turn around, and head back to wherr General White was waiting for me.

"Welcome back, so did you talk to any of them, or did you just observe them?" A small smile goes across my face, "just simply observation, now I feel ready to leave for vacation, with no doubts in my mind to how they are performing right now." General White gives me some light pats on the shoulder, "right, then let's head off." With those words we both get into the truck, and head for the airfield, where my ride home waits for me.

Once we arrive at the airfield, I see my ride back home, it's the same behemoth of an airplane that I came here on. "Hey it's nice seeing you again, so your Daniel correct?" Telling him yes he soon introduced himself as well, "that's nice to here, I'm Alfred, I'll be your plane pilot taking you, along with some cargo back to your home town." After he says that I thank him for the ride back home, after that we both get ourselves assorted on the plane.

Then I also notice General White also boarding the plane, "General, why are you getting on, I thought you were going back to base?" He shows me a brief case, "this right here is going to the new general in charge of the base three days away from your town, so I'm hitching a ride to deliver this."

After he explained that, we both got on the plane and waited for its departure, not so long after I feel it begin its taxi onto the runway. This part feels nostalgic, sure it's only my second time experiencing it, but it's what brought me here, and now it's being used to take me back home for some time off. Fairly soon after, I hear the engines spin up, then maybe only a minute later we are in the air, saying goodbye to the ground below us.