RAQUEL

Getting prepared to get to her new station where she was assigned to was a dream come true, she had always wanted to work at the headquarters finally, after writing a series of letters, it was finally approved.

Raquel, is a human girl, born to a doctor father and a teacher mom.

It was very strange that none of her parent's field was of interest to her, but rather she was rather interested in becoming a soldier

This was strange to her parents, but to Raquel, it can't be more thrilling. She loved getting into the face of danger, ever since she was a little girl, she made it known to her parents that she wanted to become a soldier.

When her dad asked her why?, she told him, she wanted to fight for justice and save the lives of humans from treacherous werewolves

Raquel hated injustice, that was why, she always got beaten up in school for trying to defend the innocent from the hands of their bullies.

Raquel was known as a peacemaker wherever she went, also when things get tough, she did not hesitate to fight her way through.

When she was newly recruited into crime army, during trainings she gave most of the guys a black eye because she was brave and tough too.

Even though she was slim and tall, the strength she possessed was threatening, she was well respected by her colleagues and the higher ups.

Most times when she got back home, her mother will start lecturing her about acting like a lady and to get married to a handsome young man, so she could bear kids.

When Mrs Carol Peterson starts giving these lectures, Raquel rolled her eyes.

She was tired of the lectures, only if her mother could stop with the lectures.

At a long run, she discovered that her parents just wanted her to have a stable and normal life by becoming a wife to a man someday.

Open to becoming a wife, sometimes gives Raquel the chills, she's never really fallen in love even when she was 25 years old.

She wasn't even interested in love, not because she hated love, but because she hasn't truly found the man to make her feel butterflies in the stomach.

Ever since she was a little girl, she kept dreaming of a strange city, where she reigned as a queen.

These dreams grew up with her, even as an adult, she still had those dreams, just that now the dreams were becoming constant.

Before she only dreamt about the castle once a week, but presently, it has become something she dreamt of every day.

Sometimes she saw herself in a white robe with green eyes, but in reality her eyes are blue, so blue that people get attracted to them easily. For this reason, Raquel was always in sunglasses, specially when she's at work or in the gathering of people.

She was tired of attracting unnecessary attention for herself.

Being tall and slim was already making the guys go crazy over her, but to her, the attentions were becoming irritating.

After putting on her uniform and boots, she looked in a mirror, she smiled, feeling very satisfied with her dressing.

“Dad, mom, I'm leaving now”. She said leaving the house.

“You be careful out there”. Her mom said aloud from inside the house.

“I will….”

“Christ!, what is in this bag?”.

Raquel struggled to get the bag into the truck, but it seemed the bag was filled with things she probably might not want.

“Mom!, what did you put in my bag!?” Raquel shouted.

Just then, Mrs Carol came out, with a flask.

“You forgot to take this”. She said, giving her the flask.

“I thought we talked about this mom, no more packing”.

“Why can't I, see how skinny you are, you hardly eat for goodness’ sake!”

Raquel rolled her eyes. Sometimes her mom could be so dramatic.

She wasn't skinny because she didn't eat, it was her kind of nature.

No matter the food she ate, she's never added more flesh to her skin, and her mom knows that, she thinks her mom is just using her stature as an excuse to stuff her back with foods.

She's going to be living close to her new station since the place was very far from home, so she has to leave early.

Initially, her parents objected for her to be far away from them again. The first time she had left them was when she started training as a rookie in the military.

While she was at training, her parents called her countless times in a day just to know how she was doing.

You know when your child is out there in a military training field, you hear stories about how people died during trainings.

For this reason, her parents called her everyday just to know how she was doing, and thankfully she completed the training successfully and came out as the best in combat

Though her parents were happy to hear the news, but she could tell that they were also scared. They didn't bear another child after my mom had me, so, I understand why they are worried.

“Getting to her assigned destination, Raquel discovered that she wasn't the only one transferred to the headquarters.

Getting into the hall where they were to present themselves for honoring the transfer, Raquel met two girls and a guy.

The girls seemed very tough because when she greeted them, they just stared at her in disgust, she began to wonder why they acted that way.

“Hey, I'm Jeremiah, but you can call me Jerry”.

The guy among them said, wow, finally a friendly one.

“Hi, my name's Raquel, nice to meet you”. She said, stretching forth her hand for a handshake.

“Raquel, I like your name”.

Said Jerry. Raquel noticed he wasn't bad looking, yea, that was the only way she referred to the handsome dudes.

No matter how handsome they maybe be, she can only say not bad.

Jerry had a nice brown hair that was neatly cut short and styled to the corner of his face, which made him look very, not bad.

His chin, chiseled and hard, his eyes were gold brown which matched the color of his hair, making him look more not bad.

Meanwhile, the other girls who kept stealing glances at them were both blondes, not that much of a beauty to say.

The first was a bit chubby, averaged height, the second was slim and tall, but not as tall as she was.

The two complemented each other, she thought.

“So are you newly transferred here too?”. Jerry asked out of curiosity.

“Yup, I'm new, and I guess you are too”.

“Yes, and so are the others”.

By others, he meant the two blondes with the “don't mess with me” faces.

“Do you have an idea why their faces are so hard?, I believe you all came together”.

Raquel asked in a whisper.

“Yea, we came together, and I think they are like this because of you?”.

Jerry also replied in a whisper.

Raquel immediately opened her eyes wide in surprise.

“Me?, why?

“Because of your uniform”.

Raquel immediately looked at her uniform, wondering what was wrong with it.

She slowly took a glance at theirs but found no difference between their uniforms and hers, for they had the same color and badges, she thought.

Something caught her attention swiftly, and she looked at their badges again, and there she saw Sargent.

“What...the… Fuck!” She could not believe they were of higher ranks.

She glanced at Jerry's badge, and it was written, Private.

Oh, she finally realized why they were giving her the cold shoulders. Turns out she's the only one with a lower rank, that's why they snubbed her, but that's insane.

Having a higher rank shouldn't be the reason to snub people. Like Jerry for example, he didn't act all grumpy when he saw her even when he knew he was of a higher rank than her.

This is the reason it's said that, the women are the strictest in the military.

She can't deny the fact that she was strict too, but at least she wasn't a snub.

Does this mean she's the only one with a lesser rank in the headquarters?, if that was the case, why did they transfer her here then? She asked herself, carefully confused.

After they have all taken their roll call, They all were shown to their camps.

This was the first time Raquel was going to stay far away from her parents. The drive to the headquarters takes at least 8 hours, and she wasn't a fan of flights.

The last time she took a flight, she almost threw up, the reason she could not become an air Marshal when the opportunity was presented to her.

For some reason, she always gets air sick whenever she was in the plane, so she decided to make all her travels by road.