No Fear

Third Person Pov:

After about a week, Tord finally comes out of his room. He seems much more serious than usual, but he's also acting a bit more easygoing as well. He never smiles, but he also never yells. In fact, he's rather quiet and he isn't demanding much from the soldiers.

As Tord sits at his desk and catches up on his paperwork, someone knocks on the door and asks, "Permission to enter?"

"Permission granted," he says a bit quietly as he keeps his eyes on his papers.

Paul opens the office door and closes it behind him, he has a foldable chair in one arm and a board game box in the other. He unfolds the chair and places it in front of Tords desk, he holds up the chess box.

Tord looks up slightly at the box and Paul asks, "Wanna play?"

Tord sighs then says, "Sure, why not."

Their chess game then begins and it seems Tords tactic is the "Backup Tactic" as he called it, he isn't sure if he's the one who invented it, but it always seems to work for him.

It's basically where he moves one pon up two spaces in the first move then move the one next to that one space, then keep that pattern going until all the pons have another pon to protect it, so if the opponent tries to take a pon then its "Backup" will take that piece and it will be harder to get past the pons to get to the better pieces.

Luckily, his plan worked and he won, this made Tord smile. Even if it's just a chess game, it feels good to win for once.

Paul holds his hand out for Tord to shake as he says, "Good game Red Leader."

Tord takes his hand and shakes it as he says back, "Good game."

There's a knock at the door and someone asks, "Permission to enter Sir?"

Tord replies, "Permission granted."

Patryk walks in and notices the chess game, he asks, "Sorry, did I intrude?"

"No it's alright, I already won," Tord says to Patryk. "Now what is it Soldier?"

"Well, the peace meeting is in an hour Sir," Patryk says to Tord, nervousness comes over Tord.

Tord really doesn't want to see Tom this soon, Tom broke something very important to Tord after all. Tord isn't afraid of Tom and he never will be, but the confidence he had for years has decreased quite a bit, well he had none for the last week.

That bracelet gave him the confidence he had all the way from high school, he was pretty self conscious when he was a teenager until he got that bracelet, he didn't even come out as a communist until they were all sixteen.

After an hour, Tord and a few soldiers arrive at the large building where all kinds of meetings take place in, today it was scheduled for the Rebellion leaders and Red Leader to discuss different subjects.

Tord and Edd sit on opposite sides of the table, with Tom and Matt at Edds sides and Paul and Patryk on Tords sides. Tord has a monotone face and he doesn't talk with much enthusiasm as he explains his points of views of the subjects they talk about, while Tom actually does most of the talking unlike how Edd usually talks the most.

Nearing the end of the meeting, Tord says to everyone in the room, "I'd like to talk to Blue Leader in private for a few minutes."

The room is quiet for a second or two before Edd says, "Okay, but remember this place is a no violence zone, so please don't kill each other while everyone is gone." Tom and Tord only nod, then everyone else leaves the room.

"What is it Commie?" Tom asks Tord and crosses his arms. "I have things to do."

"Why did you do it?" Tord asks the other male with his head down.

"Do what?"

"Break my bracelet,"

Tom raises a eyebrow, "Is that why you've been acting like this? Because I broke your goddamn bracelet?"

"Tom I asked a serious question, now can you stay on topic for once in your fucking life?"

"I don't need to fucking answer it,"

Tord lifts his head to Tom, "Why won't you answer it?! It's not even a hard question!"

"Because I wanted to,"

"That can't be the goddamn reason, you knew how important it was to me, didn't you??"

"How would I know if it was important to you?"

"I saw your face when you broke it, you looked angry. Don't lie to me over something this important,"

After a few seconds Tom says, "A bracelet isn't important," Tord knows a delayed answer is a sign of lying, but he can't be sure.

"Well it is to me Tom!" Tord stands up since that really offended him. "I got that bracelet in high school and it's what kept me going this whole time, and you fucking destroyed it right in front of me!"

Tom stands up as well and says, "Well if it was so important then maybe you should just give up being a communist leader then!"

"I will never quit my dream, even if you destroy everything precious to me, I will always come back!"

"Oh well, no matter how much you love my jewelry it won't keep you safe from death," Tord goes quiet and Tom walks to the door. "We're done here."

Before Tom could even open the door, Tord asks, "What do you mean by "my jewelry" Tom?" Tom freezes in place, he's made a god awful mistake.

"I.." Tom gets a cold sweat. "I didn't mean to say "my", it was just a grammar mistake. Don't think too deep into it Commie." Tom then quickly escapes the room, leaving Tord completely confused, was it really a grammar mistake?