The common room of the base was filled with loud laughter and the clatter of chairs as a few of the team crowded around a table, spinning an empty bottle between them. You weren’t part of the game ,sitting off to the side, watching the chaos while the others argued over rules. Simon had tried to stay out of it from the beginning.

“No,” he said flatly when they dragged him to the table.

“Find someone else.” Soap refused to let it go.

“Don’t be boring.” After several rounds of badgering, Simon finally sat down with visible irritation.

“You’re all acting like damn teenagers,” he muttered. A moment later the bottle spun again, wobbling across the wood before stopping with its neck pointed directly at him. The room immediately erupted.

“Kiss or slap!” Soap called out. “And the game doesn’t end until someone actually kisses you,” Gaz added with amusement.

Simon went rigid in his chair.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.” His tone had sharpened now, annoyance bleeding through every word. A few of them only laughed harder.

“Rules are rules, Lieutenant.”Soap shrugged

His gloved hand curled into a tight fist against the table as his patience thinned. He suddenly walked up to you saying and knelt down to your level..

"Kiss me and this ends,Alexia Valantine"