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important characters:

daniel sharman as noah miller₊‧.°.⋆🪐•˚₊‧⋆.

alycia debnam carey as maia noemia van amersvoort₊‧.°.⋆🫧•˚₊‧⋆.

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you could compare their relationship to a rollercoaster. exciting, scary at times, filled with ups and downs. 

they had breaks in-between, not very voluntary ones, but in the end, the two always somehow found back to each other. 

meeting maia was as unexpected as the chaos noah's emotional world would turn into. but then, when he met maia, it wasn't as scary as he had thought. 

before noah, maia hadn't really expected to fall in love with someone. but then, when she met noah, maia suddenly wasn't sure about that anymore. 

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noah miller came into her life like a whirlwind and never left. he changed her life in a way maia never would have expected. but when he did, she was thankful. 

as a wise man once said: "the road to happiness is paved with rows and rows of very tempting parking spaces.". and maia couldn't lie, she more than once had been very close to just stop her car and not continue. at times trying to be happy took a toll on her. 

and suddenly there was noah. she hadn't planned on him appearing, so when he did, maia didn't know how to handle the "new" emotions. she obviously had had crushes before, but nothing serious. stupid highschool feelings maia had told herself were real love at that time. 

but with him, it was something new, something different. she felt like a constantly blushing teenager, every time they talked. maia didn't know if he felt the same, but internally she really hoped he had the same feeling of comfort with her as she had with him. being in his presence maia could calm down, let herself fall. 

for the first time; she felt like she was human again.

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maia noemia van amersvoort entered noah's life so suddenly, she was like a breeze of fresh air. noah felt like he could finally breathe freely again, not feeling like he was about to suffocate anymore. 

growing up, noah had to work for his parents affection. without him contributing, they would ignore him, treat him like a soldier. not like a son. at times, noah thought about giving up, but he knew that his parent wouldn't cry, they would criticise him, that he hadn't had enough will power to continue. being happy wasn't easy growing up. 

and suddenly there was maia. brightening up every room she stepped in, radiating pure comfort. for the first time, he didn't have to work for affection, maia never expected something in return. noah felt like she had love to give in infinite amounts, unconditionally. 

with maia, he felt safe. he felt stupid at times, naïve, like this could just disappear suddenly. like she could just disappear, leave him. he was scared. in her presence, he felt like he finally could be himself, not a soldier.

for the first time; he felt like he was human again.

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when graves told him of shepard's command, he hated everything. he didn't want to. this was betrayal they were talking about here. but in the end, shadow company was his job, he had to follow his orders. 

and in the blink of an eye, everything happening too fast, maia stood in front of him, begging him to leave with her. ghost and soap had already fled the scene, alejandro had been hit unconscious. 

noah was torn. torn between his orders and the thought of leaving shadow company behind, leaving with maia. the possibility of maybe finally having a "family". he had seen how maia acted with ghost and soap, even alejandro and rudy, whom she had met at the same time as him. he had to smile, having to suppress the jealousy. 

noah knew, that he would never find the same thing in shadow company or at "home". this realisation hit him like a punch in the face and on more than one occasion noah had to keep himself from crying.

but maia didn't stop, she continued trying to convince him to run. but he knew he wouldn't run. she deserved better than him. 

he didn't want to do it, but he didn't see another way. so noah grabbed his gun and aimed at the one person he had felt comfortable with for the first time since a long time. 

noah saw how her facial expression changed. a second before she had hope in her eyes, now it was confusion, questioning what he would do. 

and he did something she for sure hadn't expected. he pulled the trigger. 

noah couldn't look at her. he was so sure, she would hate him now. she should run as long as she still could. noah lowered the gun and maia turned around, following soap down the slope into the forrest. 

noah felt like crying. but he couldn't. he had orders. noah miller jr. was a soldier after all.

noah turned around, looking at graves, who nodded and proceeded to order his men to bring alejandro into a cell. 

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that day probably had been the lowest point of their relationship. but despite that they couldn't deny their still existing feelings for each other. 

when soulmates find each other, it is difficult to just forget each other again. in their case, maia and noah couldn't. 

maia had cried. and then not anymore. she told herself, that noah didn't deserve her tears. not anymore. so maia stopped and threw herself into work. 

noah had hated himself, his decision, everything. and then just stopped. stopped feeling. just doing his job.

the exact way how they resolved their issues and found back to each other is a story for another day. but in the end they got back to each other again. and they were happy. 

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after that it still took a long time until they managed to actually tell each other how they felt. maia was the first, one night she randomly told noah: "ik houd van je.", i love you in dutch. noah had obviously asked , what it meant but she had lied and said, that she just had asked him how he'd been. 

both had forgotten, what it meant, but then maia started teaching noah dutch. every night, one word. either in person, when they were together, or over call. it became their tradition. slowly over time noah learnt, what "I love you" means and suddenly remembered the night, maia had told him these exact words. 

suddenly everything made sense. and noah had made the plan to ask her out. so he asked her family for permission, her father floris, price, ghost, soap and gaz. he even travelled to the netherlands to visit her brothers grave, to ask pim too. 

they all had seen over the time how the two looked at each other, acted around each other. and all gave him their permission, after telling him that he didn't need it. but despite having a difficult childhood, noah couldn't change how he was raised. 

so after noah had gathered her family's permission, he started to plan everything. he wanted it to be perfect. because maia deserved only the best.

but their first date too is a story for another day. 

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now they're here, happily married. obviously their weeding couldn't have been without something unexpected happening. but they managed to resolve that problem. they had their friends and they had each other. 

at this point you can't just have maia without noah. or noah without maia. they are a team. the perfect team. despite ups and downs they got through all of it, together. 

after shadow company disbanding, maia immediately went to price, asking him if he had a place and job for noah. and price agreed. noah was a perfect asset, not only in combat but as an ally. he deserved a group that really respected him. 

and taskforce 141 is a family, which he now is a part of. a team that won't leave him.  

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you could compare their relationship to a rollercoaster. exciting, scary at times, filled with ups and downs.

they had breaks in-between, not very voluntary ones, but in the end, the two always somehow found back to each other.

because together they feel human again. 

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dedicated to:

casnap_

creator of noah miller

CaptainSam_

Nate_notinit

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