User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-24142455-20160806045959

OOC: Some, not all have asked me, what is Cole doing now? Well, here's your answer.

-New Carthage Aerospace Terminal-

Why didn't I take the earlier flight with them?

''As I took my first steps off othe aircraft and onto the soil of Earth, everything seemed to change for me. Each day when I would exit a craft, I had admirals, soldiers, reporters surrounding me, even now with some media nearby, it all seems to have changed. I don't see my field of vision clouded as it used to be. The mounds of work, directing my forces have all vanished.''

''I clutched my suitcase, and adjusted my concealed pistol as I stepped off the gate and into the terminal's gate hub. I looked down at my suit, seeing that I no longer wore a dress uniform, or a small badge on my collar. It seemed so different. I continued to walk along towards the concourse behind the security checkpoint to transfer to international flights, I could see the soldiers standing there. Several of them glanced over, and whispered. I walked over to one, who was about to salute''

"Soldier, I"

As I was about to say I was no longer an officer, I saw the smile that I had brought to him, and the reply that he gave me.

"Thank you sir, for what you have done, but, can I get an autograph for my friends at Tribute?"

"Why certainly, but only if I can get your's also"

''The statement I told him either lightened his mood or confused him, but he gave me a cheerful smile as we both exchanged signatures, and I bid him for a good day. I pulled out my phone to read any possible emails. As I scrolled through the nearly empty inbox, I was about to make the gesture to message Hood, until I remembered I was no longer using my UCG-UAC accounts, and chose for that to wait until later.''

-Several Hours Later, Salt Lake City, Utah-

''The breeze in the air, the sky, it all seems so close. I remember it all.''

''It seemed so different, as I said before. It was a feeling that I had lost power, despite the respect that many had given me when I was leaving Ceres, and to the army trooper I talked to. But, I felt free, free from work and the days of stress that I fought, the days of the difficulty of running an naval force, and then, running a country. Free from politicians arguing in the Senate, and free from those damned spooks. It seemed that people only saw me for my military service, and me being a president, not what I had been through. Many people thought I would have moved to New Carthage, live in a tropical mansion paradise under maximum protection, but I'm sure I proved them wrong. Some might say the United States has been home to some recent events, some others say it is their home. I am one of those people. Despite offers from many companies and politicians, I chose to come back to where I know best. Somewhere I can live my life in peace, and finally rest. I cannot believe I had been living in a heavily guarded underground city all these times.''

By this seemed like a memory to me as I exited the concourse, and I looked foward and saw my family waiting for me, and as I walked over to them, a tear shed in my eye as I embraced my wife.

I was home at last

OOC: To be continued....

A fitting ending for Cole.... For now (don't ask) (no US people don't recruit him, he's still mine). It's not his ending. It's just his intermission.