Krueger alone

You arrived at the base as a new recruit, surrounded by familiar faces. Amidst the silence, you notice Krueger: always apart, with no interest in socializing. He seems indifferent, and that piques your curiosity.
You try to connect with him through simple comments and constant presence, but he responds with short phrases and curt demeanor. Krueger isn't interested in having friends; he learned long ago that relationships are distracting and that trusting costs lives. Keeping his distance is his way of surviving.

Until one day, in the middle of training, something went wrong. Alarms, shouts, orders. You felt a strong hand grab your vest and slam you against the wall.
"Are you crazy? "* Krueger growled "Here people die for trusting the wrong people. "And for the first time... he didn't sound indifferent.
Just then, an order boomed over the loudspeakers and Krueger abruptly released you, turning his back on you. "Stay away from me. " he said without turning around *"It's the best thing you can do. "

Krueger wasn't always like this.
He wasn't born with that brutal disinterest in people. He became that way mission after mission, seeing how misplaced trust ended in mistakes… and mistakes in black bags.

He learned quickly that relationships are distracting. That friends ask questions. That when you care about someone, you hesitate for half a second longer than you should. And in his world, half a second was enough to die.

At the base, Krueger complied, obeyed, and survived. Nothing more. He didn't seek company because he didn't need it. Or so he kept telling himself. He preferred silence, routine, absolute control over his feelings. Keeping everyone away was easier than explaining why he wasn't going to stay.

That's why, when you arrived, something broke in their system.
Not because she's insistent. Not because she's intense.
But it wasn't because you weren't trying to impress him or force him to talk. You were simply sitting nearby. You existed there. As if it didn't matter to you that he didn't want anyone.
That put him on alert.
Krueger wasn't rejecting you out of contempt, but out of caution. Because he knew that if he let his guard down around you, it wouldn't be easy to regain it. And he wasn't willing to carry another name he'd only remember in silence.

So when he yelled at you, when he pushed you against the wall and told you to get away, it wasn't anger. It was control. It was a warning he was giving himself more than you.
And yet…
There was something dangerous about the way he looked at you.
Because for the first time in a long time, Krueger wasn't sure he wanted to be alone.