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Say goodbye to ya kneecaps, chucklehead!	By : Imaginary Category: +S through Z > Team Fortress 2 Views: 1785 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The upcoming days Scout spent training himself. He was determined to be able to run properly with his legs, even though it was a nightmare all the way through. Engineer had been worried of him at first after seeing the bruises and finding out about the clash between the Scouts, but now he seemed amused by his efforts, but he had soon noticed that Scout was actually putting effort in to gaining better results faster.

Scout went to take walks and small running trips every now and then, and he tried to exorcise his upper leg muscles. One thing that was good about the prosthesis was that metal never got muscle aches.

Engineer has been looking over him all the time, making sure that he wouldn't hurt himself by outdoing himself. The man had enjoyed watching Scout walk and run about right after he had realized that Scout could actually do so now. Engineer had been so excited after he returned from the meeting, only to see Scout running at him. Engineer had scooped Scout in a bear hug and swirled him around as he frantically yelled "They work!" Over and over. Of course after closer inspection he noticed Scout's ruined face and missing tooth, but after a lot off fuzz about cleaning and taking care of the wounds, he settled down to watch Scout while he run loops just to demonstrate. Engineer had been worried about many things. He had worried that the junction might not be properly made, and the legs wouldn't be responding properly, he was afraid that Scout's leg would start to reject the prosthesis, and he was worried that even thou everything went well otherwise, Scout just couldn't learn to walk again. He was so relieved to see that all his worries had been in vain.

Engineer was very proud of the whole situation in itself. He was proud of himself for being able to make this happen, and he was proud of Scout to be able to achieve all this. Hell, he was proud of everybody.

"Engineer!" Scout yelled, and run to sit next to him, slopping on the garden chair in exhaust. "Ungh, these legs are so difficult." He mumbled, and gasped for breath.

Engineer straightened up, and he was always willing to hear feedback for his job. "How so?"

"Well, first of all, they weight, like, a ton! Totally not suitable for fast running. Also, the knee joint is stiff, I can't get the leg to straighten fast enough when I run. I have to slow down so the prosthesis will keep up." Scout complained, but he was secretly grateful for what little he had. He was probably wanting too much, but didn't care. He was glad to be able to walk, but he wouldn't mind being able to run.

"I see." The engineer mumbled, and Thought something hardly, and Scout could see his brows furrow with concentration. "It might be something with the design, I might be able to fix something up." He said, and tried to remember if there were any prosthesis legs he had seen before.

"Really?" Scout asked, sounding excited. "So you could, like improve all this?" Scout pointed at his legs, and smiled wide. "That'd be so awesome!" Scout laughed, and then his eyes widened with excitement. "I just remembered something!" Scout exclaimed.

"Oh my god, I need to show you something, look!" Scout slapped his arms on his legs and jumped up, swaying a little because his poor balance. Scout walked to the Trailer door, and opened it. He held the door frame for support. "Watch this, just, watch." He said, and lifted his leg as high as he could, which still wasn't quite high enough to reach the first step. The prosthesis weighted so much that he couldn't lift his leg as high as he used to, and since he couldn't really bend the leg in midair, it just hung about, but Scout didn't bother with it. The legs was only an inch too low to reach the first step, but he laid his prosthesis next to the step, and then slowly dragged hi leg to the side to the prosthesis settled on the step. "Ha, see, this is so awesome!" Scout yelled, and held tight on the door frame as he pulled himself up, and laid the other leg on the step too. The next step that led him through the doorway was not as high as the first step, so it was a breeze to get up to the trailer all by himself.

"Did you see that! That's so awesome, I can walk by myself now, this is like, the biggest achievement of my life!" Scout boasted, and Engineer laughed. He had no idea where the kid got all his energy from. "Well, that sounded weak, but you get my point. I mean, My life would sound pretty damn sucky if being able to walk through a door is my best achievement, but seriously? This is so awesome." Scout ranted, and Engineer shook his hand in a come hither motion.

"That's great, now try to get down."

Scout nodded eagerly, and went the first step down by keeping his prosthesis straight like a pole, which didn't really present any trouble, but the second step was a lot deeper, and Scout couldn't reach the ground by so. He tried to bend as much as he could, but with the leg on the step staying straight, he couldn't reach. "Ugh, well this is awkward." He tried, and tried to hop closer to the edge of the step to reach down more, but simply couldn't do it.

"Try to bend your knee." Engineer guided, and Scout huffed.

"What knee, I have no knee." Scout complained, and stepped back to the step, and sat on the threshold, from where he laid his legs on the ground and straightened himself up. "Ah, ha!" He yelled, and did a small victory fist pump, while Engineer sighed. "You should really train your knee. It is possible to bend it even when you are carrying your weight on it." Scout nodded, not questioning Engineer's word, but still, pending the knee was difficult. The leg was always straight when he stepped on it, and it remained so until he lifted his leg up the leg pended backwards, but straightened out again when he was about to take another step.

"I wish I had a flock of stairs so you could train them. It would be so hilarious watching you slide them down on your ass." Engineer laughed, and made Scout blush in a huff.

Engineer shook his head at the boy's reaction.

"Well, I think that the perfect exorcise for you would be to try and walk backwards." The Engineer instructed, and crossed his arms. "Give it a go." Scout frowned as he knew that he was back in to training, but tried it none the less. He wanted to get better.

Walking backwards was totally harder than he had ever expected it to be. He would have to bend his knee first, lay it on ground, straighten it up and repeat with the other leg, and try to keep his main direction behind him. He noted that it was really difficult, but absolutely possible. He realized that by moving his tight differently caused his knee to react to it. It was tasking, and time consuming, but he got the gist of it eventually.

If he laid his leg down on the ground, and kind of lifted his leg without actually raising the sole from the ground, but more like lowered himself down, got the favored outcome. It was awkward because he had a bad habit of pending his back while doing so, but after Engineer kept reminding him to straighten his back, Scout got the point. It took him several hours, but he was eventually able to walk backwards properly, instead of doing the most awkward penguin backwards shuffle he had ever seen. He was actually pleased. He even got to try the same method for walking normally, and instead of walking with his legs straight as poles, imitating penguin quite poorly, he managed to walk properly, even if it was doing something weird to his posture.

"Scout just try to walk with you back straight in the line with your legs. It looks like you walk with your knees first, and the rest of the body lagging behind like some teenager jaded of life." Engineer mocked, and Scout growled. It was difficult walking like this.

"Shut up, as if you could do any better." He growled, and tried again. It was difficult, because he seriously thought that it was necessary to bend down with his steps every time, and he couldn't help slouching.

"Just try to relax the leg, bend it down in a slight angle that causes the sole to bend, and thus it will also pend the knee." Engineer instructed, and Scout was surprised when it actually worked, but he refused to tell Engineer that. He was too proud to admit that he might have been right once again.

When the sole pend he could go forwards easier, faster, and it was kind of as he had springs on his feet. It was awesome.

"Well now it looks like you got it!" Engineer commented, and Scout couldn't make himself to tell the other to shut up. He was just glad that he had mastered this. He went to try the stairs again.

He got up quite same as he had before, but with less problem. Once he was up, he went down by adapting what he had just learned. He pend the knee he had his weight on and straightened the one out before him, and he realized that he actually managed to lover himself on the lover step properly, and repeated it with great success. "This is so cool." Scout mumbled, and took a couple of steps forwards. He was flabbergasted about how simple it had been.

"Well, I think that it went great. And I think that you should learn to put that in to your running too." Scout turned around to face Engineer, and placed his hands to his hips. "Hey, what's wrong with my running?!"

Engineer smirked an laughed , but covered his mouth quickly. "Nothing. If you intend to look like this when you run." Engineer got up, and started to run and imitate Scout. Engineer flung his legs to his side instead of pending them at all, looking like some retarded ostrich with it's legs plastered. Scout was so embarrassed.

"Or like this." Engineer said, and changed the way he ran and started to proceed by having his legs always straight, throwing one leg ahead the other, looking like one of those toy soldier that had a key on it's back. The key would be turned, and with all limps straight it would start marching onwards. That's what he looked like.

"No fair! I don't look like that!" Scout whined, and he was even more embarrassing by sounding like that.'

"Yes you do!" Engineer teased, and pointed at Scout while he went to retake his place in the garden chair.

"No I don't!" Scout argued, and Engineer nodded his head. "Show me."

"I, what?" Scout was about to argue some more, but was taken back by being told to actually do something.

"Well, okay, I will!" He said, and he was so nervous. He didn't want to make a goon of himself in front of the Engineer.

He started to walk like he had done a while ago, picking up speed little by little.

"I told you to run." Engineer teased, and Scout huffed. "I know!" He yelled, and picked even more speed. He had no idea how amazing it was to run like this. He felt like he was just fleeting about, nearly flying.

"Well that's how you do it!" Engineer yelled, and got up to clap at Scout, who was running fast, rather big circles. "This is amazing!" He yelled, and went even faster.

"I can't believe these legs work so well!" Scout yelled while he ran, and the Engineer laughed, and Scout was sure that he would pretty much anything again if he could hear the other's flabbergasted "They work" cheer over and over..

"So I guess that you do have to learn to walk before you can learn to run, after all!" Engineer yelled, and it was Scout's turn to laugh. "This is amazing, simply the best thing ever!" Scout boasted, and kept running for a while.

"Erm, how do I stop?" He yelled after a whole, when he realized that he should calm down before he hurt himself.

"What?" Engineer asked, and Scout kept going. "I don't know, just slow down?" Engineer suggested, and Scout tried, but his knees pend and he always had to take a new step to not fall straight on his face.

"Engineer?" Scout asked, worry in his voice. "Just lean back and slow down." Engineer said, and Scout tried, and miraculously, he was slowing down.

"Hey it works, I'm stopping!" Scout yelled, as he came towards Engineer, but he couldn't judge the distance it took him to stop, and he eventually collided with the other hard enough to knock them both over.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch" Scout complained, and tried to pick himself up, but realized that his legs were totally tangled with the Engineer's, and he couldn't just untangle them. "Sorry." Scout mumbled, and rolled to the side to let Engineer to do the untangling.

"It's okay, such happens." Engineer insisted, as he started to straighten their legs.

"Well look who are all tied up!" Sniper laughed, and came to loom over them both. "You two crack me up, you know that?" He said, and pulled Scout up when Engineer was done untangling them.

"How did you even manage it this time?" Sniper asked, and put Scout on his feet. "I can run!" Scout exclaimed, and took some steps forwards, proper steps. "And I can walk properly!" He added, and the Sniper nodded.

"I can see that." He said, and helped Engineer up as well. "Do you guys mind if I crash your dinner?" he asked, and Engineer shook his head. "Not at all."

Scout smiled. This was what it was like to have friends.

Everything seemed to normalize after that. Engineer had once again locked himself in his shed, not telling Scout anything about what he was so interested about. He himself had been busy training, and Sniper had been around to look over him. Scout had managed running, walking, and even some minor tricks, like jumping and somersault. Somersaults were funny to do, but they were kind of difficult, and even harmful at times. The metal was heavy and it sometimes dug on his stomach and chest if he wasn't careful. Sniper had even gotten Scout to full on kick him, after he had been annoying him long enough. Sniper had not minded at all, he seemed to be more interested about actually getting Scout to train on the kicks than feel sorry for bruising his angle.

In Scout opinion, the kicking was the most frustrating thing to train. Mostly so because when he kicked forwards, managing that, he ended up losing his balance because his supporting leg gave, and he ended up on his ass, with Sniper laughing so hard he couldn't get a breath in. Scout didn't feel sorry for him at all.

But with enough patience and actual intend to get back at the man, he managed to land some good kicks in, and he then realized the upside in to having legs made out of fucking metal. They were nearly an unstoppable force, didn't bruise or hurt himself, but dug in to his opponent like knife sunk in to butter.

"Kid, you are getting good with this." Sniper said, and he rubbed his arms to soothe the ache from a yellowish purple bruise there. "Thanks to you." Scout added, and sat flopped on the garden chair next to him. "It's entirely your fault for picking on me."

"I hear you keep saying that." Sniper said, and put some cold on the bruise. They both sat in silence for a while, neither knowing what to say. Scout had been working hard, and they had all been busy with their own thing.

"What is Engineer doing?" Scout frowned, and pulled his legs up to him so he could hug them against his chest. He had barely been able to see him at all during the days. He was lucky if he saw the man come to sleep at all.

"Not sure. I haven't seen him much either. He just yapped about some idea he had." Sniper shrugged his shoulders, and leaned back against the backrest, sighing loudly. "Do you seriously have to kick so hard?"

Scout grinned, and blew him a raspberry. "You totally deserved it."

They got back to training, but they hadn't gotten anything done yet when Engineer finally emerged from his hideout of a shed.

"Engineer!" Scout exclaimed with glee, and run to meet him up halfway, turning to walk besides him. "We thought you would say there for good this time!" He joked, and felt secretly grateful to be able to clap the man on the back. He had missed Engineer greatly.

"Humbug! I wouldn't dare leaving you guys alone, I'm too worried that you would destroy the whole place in my absence!" Scout pushed the man on the side with his elbow: "You are joking!"

Engineer grinned and pulled Scout in a sideways hug, almost making Scout topple over against him. Scout had to push himself up, and he swore that his cheeks were aflame. Engineer ruffled his hair immediately after that, and Scout almost wished that the man hadn't noticed his blush.

"Of Course I'm joking. I couldn't stand being away from you guys." Engineer looked at Scout for a while, and Scout thought that he saw something in the other's eyes through the thick goggles, but he wasn't quite sure what. Maybe it was affection? Engineer turned his look away, and went the campfire, nodding shyly at Sniper, and started to set up the fire.

"I'll make food. After that I have something to show you." Engineer said, and neither of them was sure who Engineer referred to, but they assumed that he meant both Sniper and Scout.

"I hardly even noticed how hungry I am!" Scout noted, and went to sit on the garden chair. He had been too busy training to feel hunger, but he sure was glad that engineer had come to make them food.

"Does that mean that you have your project finished?" Sniper asked, and helped Engineer with the fire by bringing him fresh firewood.

"Yeah. But we will have to see how it works." He nodded, and went to get some ingredients from the trailer.

"That's so cool! What is it?" Scout followed him around, but didn't get answer. "You'll have to wait and see." Scout huffed, and crossed his arms. "So not fair!" He complained, and Engineer just shook his head, and prepared the food. They were soon eating, and Scout was gobbling his food down to be ready faster. He wanted to know what was up.

Once they were finished and the dishes were dealt with Engineer took them to his shed. He went to fetch something inside, and Scout tried to reach higher to see what it was, but Sniper beat him to it.

"It's another pair pf prosthesis." Sniper said in confuse, and the watched Engineer bring them over.

"What's this?" Scout asked, and watched as Engineer held the prosthesis up so they could see. The new pair must be the weirdest pair of prosthesis Scout had ever seen.

The knee part was normal, but below it there was a huge sickle shaped part. The sickle was round, and the sharp end of the sickle curved forwards. It was completely flat circle, so that it wasn't meant to make any harm, he thought. The metal of the sickle was hard and it gave way a little when Engineer pulled it to show that it flexed.

"I have seen those somewhere." Sniper said out loud, and Scout looked at him. How come he knew something like this. "Some runner had those!" Sniper mumbled, and took the prosthesis on his own hands to examine.

"Scout, sit." He commanded suddenly, and Scout didn't react at all. "But it's dirt out here, can't we go back?" He tried, but Sniper glanced sourly his way. "Sit." He repeated, and gave the other prosthesis to Engineer. "If these work, they are just what we need. How do you get them on?" Scout looked at them both in confusion, those things didn't look like legs at all. They kind of reminded the hind legs of an animal, but that was probably the worst way to describe the prosthesis that he could come up with, but his mind drew a plank when he tried to come up with something better. He sat down on the ground, wanting to know what the others were seeing.

Engineer and Sniper busied themselves with his prosthesis, removing the previous leg, and replacing it with the blades.

Sniper picked him up to his feet as Engineer held his other pair of prosthesis close, making sure that they wouldn't get lost.

"There you go." Sniper said, and patted Scout on the back, and Scout almost fell straight on his face. It was so difficult to stay up with the blades. His balance was horrible. He was standing on top of the sickle blades, and he could wheel them bend when he tried jumping slightly.

"They area a lot lighter than the other ones." Scout mumbled, as he took a couple of careful steps forward. Trying not to wobble too much. "These are really hard to walk with."

"Then it's your luck that they are not meant for walking." Sniper laughed, as he watched Scout's desperate efforts to teeter about with his new prosthesis.

"They are specificity made for running only." He said, and bend backwards, and Scout could swear that the man was proud to even know about such a thing. Scout looked at Engineer to confirm, and the man was smiling fondly, and gave him a small nod. Scout's eyes widened, and his mouth split in to a grin. "Really? Like, proper running?" He asked, and he couldn't hold his joy.

"Yes." Both Engineer and Sniper said, but Engineer was the one to explain how they worked. "You will have to step with the edge of the blade, and it will bounce you up, making you run faster."

"Like springs?" Scout asked eagerly, being once again reminded by the springs of an old bed they used to tie on their legs when they were young.

"Yeah, kind of like springs." Engineer nodded fondly, and Scout jumped to hug him, totally miscalculating the amount of force he needed to jump that distance. Because of the blades he didn't need that much force behind his jump, and he was practically all over Engineer when he finally landed awkwardly in the biggest bear hug he had even given to anyone.

Scout blushed deeply, but refused to retaliate, and mumbled a "Thank you." Instead.

"You're welcome." Engineer put Scout back down, and Scout could swear he saw the other man blush as well!

"Go give them a try." Engineer took a hold of Scout's shoulders and turned him around before he could comment, and pushed Scout on his way.

Scout felt like turning around and saying something, but he didn't really know what to say, so instead he kept on going. "Yeah yeah." He said, and prepared for a sprint. The blades felt a little bit like hockey blades, the blades kept him off the ground, and he felt wobbly and uncertain, but once he got on the ice, namely, on the run, he could really understand why he was wearing such thing.

The blades really put a bounce on his step, and he could feel like he was flying. His steps were nearly half longer than they used to be, and he was faster. The wind was blowing in his ears, and and he truly felt like he had springs tied to his feet. This time it was not something that was just on his head, because this time it was completely real, not just some childhood fantasy.

He felt like a lighting, he could go so fast, so, so fast. He made a big lap around the fort just to feel the wind and adrenaline rush over him, and he was sweating like a tiny big when he returned back to the trailer. His lungs ached, and even if it was uncomfortable, Scout welcomed it. He had never felt better than he did then. The legs may be awkward to walk and to do normal things with, like walk the stair, but they were like made for Scouting. He was fast as the wind itself, and he jumped with his hands spread just to feel the freedom. He felt like a bird that had been released from his cage, and he could finally open his wings, and let the air flow against his feathers. With this, he felt like he could return to the Scouting one day.

He truly was the Scout 2.0 Sniper had been playfully calling him. The better, and improved version of Scout.

"This is amazing!" Scout yelled at Engineer, and he run couple of loops over him just to declare his point. "Look how fast I am! I'm the force of nature!" He yelled, and jumped so high, that he was sure that he made a new record on the long jump.

"I feel like a Scout again." He said with astonish when he finally managed to stop next to the Engineer, and he panted loudly, crashing against the man's side. Engineer took a hold of him, and pend him down to lay him down on a chair.

"Easy there, you shouldn't strain yourself." Engineer sounded worried, but also glad. Definitely happy, and proud.

"Engineer." Scout took a hold of the other's arm when he was retreating, and pulled him back. Scout looked Engineer straight in the eyes, and he felt the need to kiss the man, but held back. "Thank you." He said instead, and turned his head to the side, blushing. He couldn't believe that he felt like doing something reckless like that. The Sniper was watching. He didn't even know for sure if Engineer liked him like that.

"No problem." Engineer smiled, and Scout swore that he melted a little. The man's smile was so soft and sweet, like taffy. Scout liked taffy, and he thought about the other's lips, wishing that he could taste them.

"I have probably gotten a sunstroke." Scout babbled, feeling fleet. He really doubted that it was caused by the sunstroke.

"Well, let's get you inside then." Engineer said, and smiled. He knelt down to remove the blades, and Scout couched. He liked seeing Engineer kneeling in front of him, and he really wanted to see that more often, but he hoped that the man's hands would be higher up his leg then, preferably all the way to his groin. Even more, he would prefer it to not be the man's hands at all, but something quite else.

Scout coughed again, and turned his head to the side so fast he heard his neck snap.

"Yup. Going inside sounds pretty sweet to me!" He said, trying to come up with something completely different to think about, but he failed horribly.

"Well, I'll be off then." The Sniper had announced at one point, but Scout hadn't even noticed. He was far too busy digging his face in to Engineer's neck when the man lifted him up to carry him inside. Scout shamelessly inhaled the man's scent, and he connected that smell with all things Engineer.

"Are you tired?" Engineer asked, and Scout shook his head, even if he felt wasted, tired to the bone. He didn't want to go to bed yet.

"Well, I could take a nap. I haven't slept too well." Engineer said, and Scout nodded eagerly. "Yeah, we should, like, take a nap together!" He insisted, wanting to spent more time alongside the Engineer. "But I thought you said you weren't tired?" Scout shook his head from side to side. "I lied."

"You are just silly." Engineer laughed, and put Scout down on his bed, before he sat down on his own bed, taking off his clothing.

Scout felt like he had just swallowed a handful of ice, and tried to say something: "Could be, like, I dunno, share a bed?" Scout asked, trying not to stray from the point.

Engineer looked at him with a raised brow, obviously questioning Scout's logic, and Scout was already regretting asking. He wanted to be close to Engineer, but he didn't want the other to do so unwillingly. He was trying to come up with an excuse, but Engineer beat him to it. "Well, sure, I guess. Just wake me up if you start feeling bad after the sunstroke." The Engineer said, and and put off the rest of his clothing, and Scout was busy to tear himself free from all extra clothing, except his boxers. Sunstroke his ass.

The Engineer came close, and settled to lay next to him, and Scout cuddled shamelessly against his side, and threw his hand over the other's chest, smelling in the other's scent as he buried his head against the Engineer's chest. Scout sighed with content.

He felt like saying a million different things varying from "I love you" to simpler "I like you" and such along the same thought trail, but decided on the much more safer "Good night" Instead.

Engineer replied with kind, and Scout made sure to take in as much of the other as he could, enjoying his proximity. He tried to stay awake as long as he could, but that only got him so long before he fell in to content slumber, lulled in to sleep by Engineer's steady breathing.
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