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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 Engineer returned when it was already late at night. He had brought many bags full of stuff, and Scout felt sorry for him having to buy all that on his own expense because he didn't have a single coin on him.
Scout had been waiting for Engineer in his own bed, and he still harbored it the most embarrassingly awkward moment of his whole life when the Sniper had dragged him there. The Sniper had become a man of very few words, and Scout hadn't minded too much. He really didn't have any idea what to say to the man after the little chat earlier. It was a rare moment when Scout was completely speechless, but it did happen.
So when Engineer walked in, Scout was already hollering him "Welcome home!" from his bed. The Sniper nodded at Engineer, and took him to the side for a second. Scout couldn't hear what they were talking about, but I guess it was about the earlier. Engineer would probably die with worry.
The Sniper paid Engineer a curtly goodbye, and he quickly sneaked through the door and was on his way. The Engineer came quickly to the back of the trailer, and looked at Scout with slight worry. "Are you okay?" He asks, and drops the bags on the floor.
"Yeah. I'm just fine." Scout looks at the bags, already trying to guess what all the engineer had gotten.
"I had a feeling that the Scout would become an problem, but I didn't think that he would challenge you with your.." Engineer's words were left to linger in the air as he looked at Scout's legs, and Scout interrupted him before he would mention anything about his disability. "Yeah, but nothing happened. Sniper was there."
Engineer nodded, and sat on his own bed opposite from Scout. "Well, I told you that the man wished you no harm. He has a heart there somewhere. Or had." Engineer mumbles, and Scout nodded, even if only so slightly. He was not going to forgive the jerk ass Sniper after just one day of guild tripping.
"But let's worry about that later! What did you get!" The engineer looks doubtful as he wonders if he should already start planning precautions for the RED Scout, but drops it for now.
"I got a three pairs of everything. I also got a couple of books and a movie." He mumbled and went to dig through the bags to Show Scout his catch of the day.
Scout was eagerly looking about the clothes, and even though they were very simple design, he was pleased. At least they weren't embarrassing, even if they weren't the best of kind.
"I'm not really too good with the clothes shopping thing, but I hope that they fit you." Engineer mumbled, took a pair of jeans in his hands, trying to guess if they were the right size.
"I bet they are fine!" Scout smiled, and looked through them. He had 3 pairs of boxers, two blacks, and a white. He got had two pants, jeans, Adidas sweatpants and casual gray fleece pants. He also had three T-shirts, also white, black and one red, all with a simple design or text on the front. He got one red hoodie, a black shirt, and shirt with a long collar. Engineer had also bought him a black jacket for some reason. "So, you plan on me wearing red?" Scout asks, and pulls the t-shirt close to him to see how it looked on him.
"Well, I wasn't really planning on the team colors or anything, just picked up something." Engineer defended, and Scout smiled. "Nah, I think it's great. Blue always made me look pale anyways." He mumbled, looked up to Engineer.
"I also got you a cap. I wouldn't want you to get sunstroke since you are outside so often." He says, and shows a cap at Scout. The hat is white, which is great. His previous black hat tended to get awfully hot.
"I think that's great, I love caps! Too bad I lost my old cap. I loved that cap. Did you know that I once caught a baseball with that cap? You know, in an actual game. I have that ball signed at home!" Scout cheered, and pulled the hat deep to his head. "That was an amazing cap that." Scout says, and then realizes to look at the bags, which surprisingly weren't completely empty yet.
"What else is there? You got something more?" Scout wonders, and Engineer dug out the books and the movie Scout had completely forgotten about already.
"I had no idea what you liked, so I just asked the salesman what someone your age would like. I told him a had a nephew visiting, and he was glad to show this stuff at me." Engineer said, and to be honest, he had no idea what he had bought for Scout. He had not even bothered to read the back cover of the books, he just hoped that Scout would like them, or at least find enough distraction in them to manage until next weekend.
Scout had no idea about the movie or the books either, but they looked interesting enough. He had not been much in to reading, so he wouldn't have been able to say anything about the books none the less, but he was surprised that Engineer had managed to find an action movie which he was completely unaware of. He loved movies, but he guessed that it had to be a new movie that had come out when he was with his team. "I bet they are just fine." Scout put the movie and the books to the side, planning on getting to them tomorrow.
"I also bought you some paper and pencils. I thought that maybe you would like to write or draw something, who knows." Engineer said, and placed a stack of paper along with pencils, rubber and a sharpener on Scout's night table, next to the movie and books.
"Thanks man!" Scout smiled, and looked a little forlorn. He would like to write his mom, but he doubted that he was allowed. Otherwise Engineer would have gotten him envelopes and stamps. "I think that's awesome, thanks for all of this. I must owe you a lot!" Scout said as he tried to reach to hit engineer on the arm, but couldn't reach, so he awkwardly shook his arm at him instead.
"You don't own me a single thing! This is all my pleasure!" Engineer insisted, and Scout smiled. "Yeah, that's great. But I think that I'll get some sleep now." He mumbled, and looked at the pile of clothes that Engineer was folding so they were right next to his bed and easily reachable for Scout.
"Yeah, you should. From what I have heard, you might have had a long day here with sniper." Engineer said, and let Scout sleep.
When the morning came, it was Scout who awoke first. He quickly ate one of the pills he had on the night table, and picked up some of his clothes, and started to dress up. He decided to wear jeans and a black t-shirt, and once he was ready he started to make his way to the kitchen. He took a book with him, because he didn't have anything else to do this early. He wanted to start working with his arms as soon as he could, but he didn't yet have anything to work with. He thought that he could do some push up, but that hurt his legs too much. His legs were constantly sore from the spot they had been cut, and the pain was horrible if he accidentally hit his leg on something, say, a table corner. He couldn't start on pushups yet. He had not gotten any weights yet, so what he could do for now was to climb on the kitchen chair and wait for Engineer to wake up. Maybe the man could arrange something. He opened to book in front of him, and started to read. He hadn't bothered with the back cover, because there was no use on being picky. He only had these two books after all.
Scout came aware that Engineer had woken up when he heard the rusting of sheets. "Scout?" The Engineer called, and Scout could swear that the man sounded worried. "In the kitchen!" Scout folded a corner of his book and closed it. The book seemed readable, and the plot was good enough, but he still would prefer to do something else than sit and read.
"I see." Engineer said with relief in his voice, and he put some clothes on. "How come you are up so early?" Engineer asked as he went to the toilet.
"Just did." Scout had to say loud so Engineer could still hear him through the door. Scout heard the slosh of the toilet being opened so the waste could drain in a tank.
Engineer came back not long after.
"So do you have plans for today?" He asked and sat on the table, looking at scout. "No. Not really, I would like to start training my arms though." Scout mumbled, and he lifted his arms up, trying to show off his bicep. It wasn't much to show, he had nice muscles going on, but not enough to provide him what he needed. "Goddamnit, I need that workout badly." He mumbled, and looked at Engineer. "Dammit, it looks like I skipped the upper torso day, yet have only half of the legs! Do you have anything I could use?"
Engineer looked like he was trying to remember if he had anything, or if he could somehow make something like that. "Well, I don't really have anything, but I think that I could make something. I think I have some metal parts that are small and heavy enough for that. I also have this huge elastic band of you would like to do stretches?" Engineer asked, but he wasn't completely sure if they could be used for exorcising. It was as good as it could get for now.
"Let's go look, who knows." Scout says, and he is already turning around, but Engineer carries him to his wheelchair. Once outside they went to Engineers shed, and Scout made sure to push himself all the way without any aid from Engineer.
Scout couldn't get too far into the shed because of all the junk on the floor, but he didn't have to. Engineer did all the looking. He had brought him two kinds of big parts that Scout had no idea what they were. They might be bearings or car parts, but he had no idea. They were round with a hole in the center. The hole was big enough to have his hand through it, so it was possible to lift it. HE might even tie some ropes on the bearings, and pull them up from the rope. He thought that would actually be the better choice from just lifting the bearings themselves. Engineer also found him one of the elastic bands, and Scout was surprised by how big it was. It was about one and a half meters long loop, and the band itself was nearly 10 centimeters thick. The band was originally for fastening something on a trailer, but Scout thought that it was perfect. He could tie it somewhere, maybe on the outside wall of engineer's trailer, and he could pull the band to exorcise. The band was very stiff and hard to expand, but that was made it even better.
"Hey, do you have some fastenings or robes or something, I could tie some on these bearings. It would be easier to lift them then." He said to the Engineer, and the man got some orange fastening rope, also meant to tie stuff on a trailer. "Brilliant." Scout mumbled, and he piled all this on his lap. "If you tie the band on the outside wall of your trailer, I will work on these bearings."
And so they did. It didn't took them more that fifteen minutes to get it all done, and Engineer pulled on the rubbed band by the wall as hard as he could to see if he could make the trailer move, but couldn't. That was good.
Even the bearing lifts were good. The ropes didn't cut on Scout's hand too much, even if he was slightly bothered by the bearings hanging about, and occasionally hitting him on the legs when he lifted them too carelessly. But they were still functional, so they were good.
Once the the option to exorcise was open Scout took to it immediately. He had started to train his arms daily, and Engineer would keep watch at him every day. Scout learned to appreciate and like Engineers company, and things were looking up. Sniper was paying visits more often now, and Scout was vary about Sniper at first, but they had finally managed to achieve an neutral ground, or a momentarily peace at least. Scout had noticed the RED Scout and Spy and occasional other team members lurking about, but he was the most worried about the two aforementioned. He had no idea about how to react to Spy, but the man might just be spying on him to gain information or what not, but he still was very careful when he thought he was being watched. The RED scout was watching him and trying to find moments when he were alone, but Engineer had been stuck to him like glue lately, which thankfully bought them time. Even Sniper had been on Scout watch occasionally.
It was now a little bit over a week after Scout had started exorcising, and he could already see improvement. Well, not as much in the sense of seeing, but in the sense of feeling. "If I keep this up, I will become a real strongman!" Scout said, as he pushed himself about. He and Engineer were on a walk as they put it, and Scout had already gained enough strength in his arms to push himself the whole trip that it took to go around the 2fort.
"Well, I'm glad for that, because having my hands ache every evening is not cool, but so worth it!" Scout cheered, and Engineer walked beside him. Scout had noticed small changes in Engineer, just tiny ones, but he could see them. The man seemed to be happier, and more relaxed, like he had finally gained a true friend out of him. "Well, you have been rather busy lately, you even finished that book." Engineer smiles, and Scout nods. "And long as book that was, you don't even have an idea how annoying the main character was!" Scout yelled, and Engineer knew. He had heard Scout complain about the story. He knew that Scout hated the main character for how angry and indifferent she was. He had listened all of his rants. Scout had always picked up a book after training when he was literally too tired to lift his hands, and read until he had fallen asleep, telling Engineer all the funny parts he could find from withing the pages. Engineer couldn't say that he minded.
"I think that I'm finally getting better! If only we could find a way for me to use the damned door!" Scout changed the topic, and Engineer nodded. Scout had become surprisingly adjusted to his new lifestyle, and in such a short time too. He had insisted on doing nearly everything himself, only letting Engineer carry him through the door. Engineer kind of missed carrying Scout, but he knew that it was only an excuse.
And somewhere deep withing, he thought that Scout knew that too.
It didn't take them long to get back to the trailer from their walk, and Scout noticed the Sniper was at the trailer, waiting for them.
"What are you doing here?" Scout asked, and he wheeled closer to Sniper. He had finally started to trust the man a little. After a week of peace, the waters seemed to be calm between them.
"Just visiting." Sniper mumbled, and opened the door to the van. Sniper usually did not go in to the trailer without Engineer's permission, so it was common to see the man lurk about, waiting for Scout and Engineer to finish whatever it was what they were doing.
Scout had noticed that during the last week, Sniper had started to be different around him. Or course the thing that he first noticed was how the man had started to not hate him. There obviously ceased to be so much fighting and angry looks between them, but there was something else too. The Sniper seemed to be in deep thoughts lately, and he seemed to be constantly looking at Scout. Scout had noticed him looking over him when he trained, and he had lately started seeing the man outside of the familiar environment too. Sometimes he could see Sniper all the way at the Sniper dock, paying attention on him as he was scrolling about, and Scout thought that the man was just worried. Sniper was paying so much attention on him, that either he was really damn worried, or just plain ass creepy. Scout had no idea which.
"Get in you two." The Sniper egged, and Scout only then noticed that he had been too caught up in his thoughts to notice that he had stopped. "Yeah yeah." Scout said, and reached his arms. He had stopped fighting Engineers insist about carrying him through the doorway, and just let the man have his way. Besides, he hated having to come tumbling down them, or having to climb up.
Engineer took him up the stairs, and they all settled on the dining table, and Engineer started on making food. Engineer was always glad to make food for them, and Scout had finally learned why Sniper adored Engineer's cooking so much. The man was a wizard when it came to cooking. His food was absolutely delicious.
Scout was already dreaming about the Delicious foods the man could make, and they still had some of the fawn meat left. The steaks Engineer had done yesterday were the best ones he had eater ever.
Scout was soon surprised when Sniper sat next to him, instead of sitting on the opposite end of the table like usually, and what little feeling Scout still had in his legs told him that the man had pressed their thighs together. What's up with that? Scout took a little bit of distance between them.
"So, Engineer, are you going to town on the weekend?" Sniper asked, and leaned back so he was resting against the backrest. The man even threw one of his ridiculously long legs over the other, and Scout almost got said appendage on his lap.
"I have thought about it, but am not sure." Engineer thought, but did not lift his look from the food. "I have had this idea in my head for a longer while, a project let's say, but I would need some books and parts for the prototype. I also need some dairy products." He thought out loud, and Scout became curious about what the Engineer was talking about. Had he finally decided to start the house project? "What kind of project is that?" Scout inquired, and Engineer refused to meet his eye, but Scout barely noticed as the man's head was soon stuck in to the spice cupboard.
"Just some research for the RED, you know." Engineer said, and picked up a handful of spices. Scout had no idea what they were, or how they were to improve the food, but Engineer probably knew, so it was enough for him.
"I think I know about the project. Is it the one on hold?" Sniper asked, and the man looked a little worried, but after a moment, the man seemed even slightly hopeful.
"Well, obviously it's not on hold anymore." Engineer said, stirred the food.
"I see. You want me to stay and watch this kid?" Sniper pointed a finger at Scout, "Hey!" Scout exclaimed, not liking the other's pointing "I'm no a kid!" Sniper pushed the cap deeper in to Scout's head, covering Scout's eyes with it. "With that attitude, I beg to differ!" Engineer laughed at the two.
"I'm glad you get along." Engineer looked at them from the kitchen, and Scout was ready to protest, but Sniper caught him in to the most awkward hug he had ever experienced. It was not a hug per se, more like being strangled against the Sniper's side. "What do you mean, we are the best of friends." Sniper said with serious voice, and Scout fought his head free. "In your dreams!" Scout yelled, and Sniper lowered his arm behind Scout's head, and left it there obviously to just spite Scout. "See, we get along mighty fine already." Sniper teased, and Scout huffed. Scout wasn't left to pout for long though, because Engineer had finished the food, and Scout shrugged away the offending arm as everyone was digging in.
"I would like you to look after Scout though." Engineer said after a while, and nodded. "Of course. Everything will be just fine." Sniper said, and looked at Scout. "This means it's going to be some quality time between men then. If you act nice, I might take you to hunt with me." Sniper said, and Scout perked up. The Sniper sure had never been kind to him, and now he was offered to come hunt. That was probably the best offer he had been given in weeks. He had been dying with boredom, and Sniper was being his savior. He had no idea that the man had it in him. "Really?"Scout asked with excitement in his voice, he was more than eager to go. He had wanted to learn to hunt so bad when he was a kid and his father still lived with them. He had went hunting a lot, and he had shown Scout all kinds of things, but now Scout had forgotten all of that, but he was still eager to learn.
"If you can shut up, I will allow you to use the bow, If you are strong enough to draw it, of course. I might consider the sniper, but we will see if you can be trusted with one." Sniper said, and If it was possible for Scout to do so, he was practically jumping on his seat.
"That's going to be so cool, I can't wait!" He said, and didn't even care that it was the Sniper whom he was gaining the shooting lessons from, but he was glad to be out of this trailer.
At least the man was the best shooter he knew.
During the rest of the evening Scout was firing the Sniper with questions. He kept asking about what to wear, when they were going, how long would it take, what would they hunt, and what was it like. Sniper was surprisingly eager to answer all and even some more of the questions that Scout could come up with. At some point the Engineer had sneaked away, but Scout had paid no mind. He knew that the man was much likely off to his shed to fix something. He had mentioned that project of his.
Scout was talking a mile a minute, and this was the first time he saw Sniper smile directly at him. The man seemed to enjoy his company even if it was only when they were talking about his favorite thing.
"Oh my god, I just realized! How can I ever go to that forest, I can't walk!" Scout went silent. He knew that they couldn't bring the wheelchair, the ground was too uneven and soft, he would only get stuck, also, it would make a lot of space.
"Please say that I can still come though!" Scout sounded almost desperate, but definitely sad. Being handicapped sucked. It was so difficult to do anything anymore.
"We will come up with something, if nothing else, I will tie you to my back, and when we find a kill, I will let you down to sit on one of those foldable hiking chairs."
Scout seemed to think about that for a moment, but then he brightened up immensely when he really saw that it was a completely valid way to go. He then grinned an awkward lopsided smile, and shrugged his shoulder "Are you sure you wont mind? I will be at your neck for the whole time, you sure you can deal with me so close to your comfort zone?" Sniper smiled and shrugged.
"We'll find out, but I think that I will manage."
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