In a Name

Date/Timing: January 2015
Setting: Canteen, Jaeger Academy; Kodiak, AK, United States
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"Seat taken?" asks an RAF. Not just any—the one who came in with the punk. Stacker Christmas or something. 
Herc offers it.
"So Scott and ... 'Hercules'?"
Herc sighs, looks up from his lunch. "Granddad and a field medic."
"Your father?"
Shakes his head. "'s a long story."
"We've two hours before our next workout. Plenty of time."
Sticks his fork in his pasta, sighs again. "You remember the conflicts in Cyprus?"
"'This land is my land' between Turkey 'n Greece, yea?"
"Yea. Mum's eight months along and shouldn't 've left the grounds but ye couldn't tell her 'no'."
RAF snorts, rolls his eyes, 'I know the type'.
"So off they go escorting a negotiator. Car hits a mine, Mum goes into shock; out I come, blue as the Atlantic and wearing the umbilical cord like a scarf." Pokes the carbs. "Greek field medic has us gone before the dust settles, gets me breathing, and Mum's so grateful she insists on naming me after him."
"That's quite a tale."
Herc shrugs. Starts in on the chocolate cake.
"What happened to your father?"
"Died on the spot." Stabs the cake. "Never knew what hit him."
A sympathetic grunt.
"How 'bout yours?"
"Hmm?"
"'Stacker', right? Not exactly common."
He snorts. "It's a bit of a long story."
"Still plenty of time before that workout."
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