'She's always been a rotten bitch...'

Church snickered to to himself, this had been becoming more apparent about Tex. She had changed, at least in his eyes. Everything seemed to have changed for Church, it felt like his whole world was being turned around. To him it seemed insanity was taking over. It was always supposed to be him and Tex, Leonard and Alison, that's how he had wanted it for so long. Something inside of Church had told him the whole time he knew Tex that the plan was for them to be together, but if that's how it was supposed to be then why did the thought of Tex bring him so much hatred? Why did he want to get out of the relationship he worked so hard to be in? Why did everything in his life seem like a big lie? And why the hell did he not want to win that stupid game of hide and seek?!

Somewhere else

Grif sighed, he didn't want to admit it but life outside the military wasn't that fun either. Yes the first couple months it was great to be able to sit back and do nothing but it lost it's appeal. It didn't help much that he didn't really have anyone to talk to except for his sister, Kaikaina, and half the time she was on the phone with some random guy so he couldn't talk to her. If he was back at Blood Gulch right now he'd be talking to Simmons making fun of Donut's armor or complaining about Sarge. When the ship with Tex and Jr in it blew up the blues started to go home one by one, not long after Grif left.

The only reason Grif knew what the rest of the reds were up to was because Simmons would every once in a while call him. Donut had started an acting career, which Griff wasn't too surprised about since he seemed like the 'type'. Sarge had become a boot camp general, again not that surprising taking into the account of his love for the military. Simmons on the other hand had a more normal job, he was an accountant, apparently his love for math actually took him somewhere. Grif unlike all of them had no job, even though life was now even more boring than the military he opted to playing video games rather than getting a job. Grif was snapped out of his thoughts when Kaikaina left her room and was heading towards the door, she had her long blonde hair straitened and her make up on, obviously she was going on a date.

"What are you doing?" Grif asked angry with his little sister who was wearing a small yellow dress that made him want to beat up the guy she was going to see. He didn't want to admit it but his sister did get around... a lot.

"I'm going to go meet up with Tucker." Kaikaina said with a smile on her face obviously not finding the fault with her clothes.

"Tucker from Blood Gulch? The one who used to make all those perverted jokes?" Grif asked, crossing his arms. He didn't really like Tucker, in fact he didn't really like any one on blue team, besides his sister. There was Church who was a jack ass, always flipping out and swearing like no tomorrow, Caboose who was dumb as a rock, probably even dumber than Donut, Tex who was a bitch, she had a thing with beating up everyone in her way, and Tucker who was an annoying pervert, always making jokes about banging chicks. Grif grumbled to himself when Kaikaina nodded her head enthusiastically, he really didn't feel comfortable with her seeing him.

"Yeah he's in town so we decided to meet up." She told her older brother, she then opened the door to their apartment and left. Grif got up from where he was sitting and grabbed a beer from the fridge, he needed something to get his mind off of his sister and Tucker.

"This is going to be a long night."

Somewhere else

Caboose sat down at the table in his apartment with the peanut butter and jelly sandwhich he had just made. He started to think back to Blood Gulch and his team mates, which was a common thing since that was one of the most eventful times of his life. Everyone had gone their seperate ways which made him a little sad. Sister was now living with Griff back in Hawaii, Tucker decided to travel around the country to see how many girls he could pick up, and Church had gone looking for Tex planning on taking her back home to Dallas after he found her.

Caboose didn't want to admit it but it made him even more sad when he thought about Church looking for Tex. It took him a little while to realize that he didn't want the two together and that he actually wanted to be more than best friends with Church. After Blood Gulch he was able to think things through more clearly and he realized that like Tucker had told him before he was obsessed with getting Church to be his best friend. Caboose noticed all the feelings he had for Church were odd, they weren't feelings friends usually had for eachother. The jealousy towards Tex made it even more apparent of what his true feelings for Church really were.

Caboose felt like there was no where to turn in this situation, no matter what he lost. He really did want Church to win the hide and go seek game, but that meant never seeing him again, never getting to tell him his feelings. If he did go see Church on the other hand he would be mad at Caboose for coming, he would probably be even more pissed when he found out about the feelings. Any ways Church was with Tex now, he always has been and probably always will be. Even thinking this through, the fact that Church would probably never like him back, it didn't stop the feelings from being there, the want to go see him. Caboose sighed, he doubted Church missed him, he never seemed to care. The blonde haired boy put down his sandwhich, he was only half way done and had lost his appetite thinking about this. Tex probably treated Church terribly, the thing that made this even worse was Church probably still would cling to her no matter how far off the edge she pushed him.

Caboose was about to go back to his room when there was a knock at the door. He wasn't sure who would come to see him, given that his parents were on vacation and he didn't really have any friends around. When Caboose opened the door there was a man with short brown hair in army fatigues, a serious expression on his face.

"Hello are you Caboose?" The man asked, Caboose just nodded in responce. 'What could the army want with me right now?' He asked himself.

"I'm from Command I was sent here because I may need your help with a critical situation. My intelligence informs me you're from Blood Gulch and were once infected with an artificial intelligence program, is that right?" The man asked the blonde.

"Yus! Wait, are you talking about the mean thing that stayed in my head for a while?" Caboose asked, the man nodded.

"The Omega that was in Agent Texas." He said.

"Then yes. He was like my room mate, but then he infected the Doc." Caboose said.

"Right, I'm going to need you to come with me, I need the help of people who were familiar with the AIs and the freelancer program." The man said, moving to the side allowing Caboose to leave the apartment.

"Then you might want to talk to Church." The blonde said excitedly.

"Who?" The man asked.

"He was the leader of blue team in Blood Gulch, he knows all about your freelancer program, he's dating Tex." Caboose told the man.

"Tex? I didn't even know that was possible..." The man started to say but Caboose cut him off.

"So where are we going now Mr..." He started to ask but trailed off not knowing the man's name.

"Washington, my name's Agent Washington, and we're going to pay your friend Church a visit."