Holidays may be a little difficult to keep track of on a planet that has 90 hours in a day, but Gaige's father calls to remind her that (at least back on Eden-5), it's a day devoted to celebrating and showing love. Thankfully, she has someone who's more than willing to fill up those 90 hours of Pandora's "Valentine's Day" with as much love as they can both handle.

[THIS VERSION IS THE OLD VERSION. Feel free to read it and enjoy it, but just know that I will be MAJORLY rewriting this whole thing before I continue.] [NEW VERSION SUMMARY] For Vault Hunters, the trials of daily life become commonplace. But none of them were prepared for war, conspiracy, myths becoming reality, and the existence of existence itself being threatened.

Kacia Roane is drafted into the Terran army at the age of nineteen and left in the hands of a squad that can barely function. As if that weren't bad enough, it seems that increasingly dark secrets being revealed about Auraxis could impact much more than the war alone.

John returns to Eridanus-II after all the dust has settled to make peace with his past. It's more difficult than he thought, but thankfully, his voice of reason is there to help him. Set quite a bit after Halo 4 (and any subsequent games). Human!Cortana.

(Halo 4 spoilers.) Following the events of Halo 4, John-117 tries to come to terms with the loss of Cortana, and though his ineffective coping methods do more harm than good, he eventually realizes that showing weakness isn't necessarily a bad thing. One-shot.