Sometimes, Jesse Mcree hated missions. He could've had a good day with Hanzo, sleeping in until Hanzo finally shakes him awake, then training with Hanzo for the next five hours cause it was Monday, and after that just cuddling with the archer. But no, instead he was out here at five somethin in the morning, in the already hot and stuffy climate of Indonesia on a mission to check out a single rumor about Talon whereabouts and so far, that rumor had been a lie. Just as he was about to throw his hands in the air and say screw it, he heard the trees on his left shake. Pulling out Peacekeeper, he aimed at the source of the sound. "Show yourself, ah don' want ta shoot if ah don' have to."
On command, though perhaps not purposely, a small lizard emerged from the trees. It was probably only the size of Jesse's hand and had it not been for his keen eye, he would've missed it. After pausing for just a bit to make sure no one else was there, he slowly approached the small, patterned, gray, white-striped lizard. The lizard was hesitant at first, hissing slightly but willingly relaxed what Mcree picked it up, careful not to get his flesh hand near the lizard's mouth in case it was poisonous. "Awe, you ain't so bad. kinda cute, actually." he said to the tiny thing. It was obviously a baby, Jesse was pretty sure that any adult anything would've just right out attacked had he gotten close. "Now where's your mamma?" he asked the lizard, looking back up from where the lizard came.
He was about to follow the path when doctor Zeigler flew in, heavily annoyed. she opened her mouth to say something but upon seeing the lizard, stopped her previous words to say something new. "Jesse, put that thing down! It's poisonous." she warned, already preparing her healing stream in case the small lizard bit.
"Don' worry, Mercy. ah'm bein' careful." came Jesse's response, still looking over the lizard. He was intrigued with it, clearly.
"Jesse, that's a baby Komodo Dragon, it can kill you." Mercy warned as she stepped closer, planning to bat it out of Mcree's hands, but before she put her plan into action, Jesse lifted his head to look at mercy and chuckled. She recognized her mistake automatically. "no, you Cannot keep it."
"But it's a dragon." Jesse replied with a whine. "Hanzo would love 'im!"
"No, no. That thing is poisonous and we already have enough dragons around the base. And that thing isn't even a real dragon, it's a lizard."
Two hours later, Mercy was still not talking to Mcree, who sat in the ship with the little Komodo Dragon still in his hand. She told him to put it down, he refused. She asked Soldier to tell Mcree no, Jesse didn't listen. She gave up trying an hour ago, finally telling Jesse that if anyone gets bitten by the lizard, Jesse would be to blame, then walking off with a list of Swiss curses on her tongue.
Once they landed, Jesse was the first one up. He managed to beat even Tracer outside the door to see his boyfriend, who was waiting by the entrance to the base. Hanzo, darlin', guess what ah found." Jesse shouted excitedly, cupping his hands together to hide the lizard from his lover's sight.
Hanzo gave a dramatic sigh but, smiling, gave his reponse. "What?"
Jesse opened his hands and let Hanzo see the lizard, smiling eagerly. "It's a baby Komodo Dragon 'ccording ta Mercy. Means ya got three dragons now." the cowboy joked with a chuckle.
Hanzo carefully picked the little thing out of Jesse's hand and holds it up to he's face to face with the small thing, making Jesse nervous. "How old? Do you know?"
"Couple weeks, maybe a bit less. Maybe you should keep 'im outta your face like that, at least 'til we figure out if he really is poisonous right now." Jesse said quickly, already moving to take the baby away from Hanzo's face, but Hanzo was out of Jesse's reach in seconds, still with the baby dragon in his hands. So this is how Mercy felt back there. Oh well.
"I have met many poisonous snakes and reptiles in Hanamura, Shimadas don't get poisoned by them, or bitten, even." but Hanzo did finally bring the lizard from his face so to check for anything off about the thing. Jesse nearly had a heart attack when Hanzo checked inside the dragon's tiny mouth, absolutely terrified that the baby lizard would take the chance to bite. Noticing the alarm from his boyfriend, Hanzo looked over at Jesse with his normal, calm expression and continued. "Due to my connection to the dragons, as is the same with Genji and any other Shimada, most reptiles do not mind us being close, as long as we do not bring harm to them."
"But with every reptile?" Jesse asked, once again coming closer to try to take the lizard from his partner's hand.
"Most reptiles, but this one is not biting me." Hanzo responded, moving inside finally and shutting down Jesse's attempt to take the lizard once again. Finally, Jesse stopped trying to take back the lizard. "What did you name him?" Hanzo asked, still walking but slowing down to walk beside Jesse.
"Well, ah haven't yet. thought you might wanna." was Jesse's response.
"Hm.." Hanzo went silent to Think for a minute and they were right next to the door of the main lounge room before he finally spoke again. "Perhaps Kibo."
"Kibo, then." Jesse confirmed.
Suddenly, Genji began laughing from the couch, Surprising Lena enough to flash somewhere else and making Hanzo roll his eyes. Genji sat up and leaned over the back of the couch to look at his brother and Jesse, still laughing. "You... you named a lizard Scales? AHAHahaa!" he ended up falling back onto the couch with a whole new set of laughs, making Hanzo give one of his famous glares at where Genji had been. He gave another glare to Lena, assuming that she was the one who told.
Lena gave a shrug. "Everyone'll figure out eventually, love, don't you know they grow seven feet long?"
Hanzo finally continued on, muttering to both himself, Jesse, and the newly named Kibo.
MOD MADI: i know, i suck at writing, lol. oh well, here's this cringe.