Tuesday morning, Tucker woke up to see that Sis hadn't come into his room last night when she'd finished helping Doc patch up the Reds but he wasn't concerned.
"Why should I be worried about Sis not being here? I am after-all such a great catch, how could anyone resist me?" he thought to himself.
"But Doc saw her naked first! What if he decided to return the favour?" asked a slightly more suspicious part of his brain.
"She sleeps with me every other day so I got nothing to worry about. Besides I could always see if Tex wants some fresh meat since Church is a robot. I can see why he put up with that bitch for so long…she's HOT!"
"Oi Tucker! You getting up anytime soon?" asked Sis from the doorway.
He looked up to see her leaning against the door seductively with a cheeky smile on her face. All her armour was on except her helmet but Tucker didn't need to see to know what she was wearing under all that metal. He had gone through her closet earlier after-all and Sis had a thing for very tight fitting hot pants. They showed her ass off to perfection. Think Kylie Minogue's little gold number and you got a standard piece of Sis' wardrobe.
"Well are you?" she asked again.
He smiled sexily at her, "Yeah… I'm getting up."
The two headed to the kitchen to find an icy silence as Tex and Church glared at each other across the table as Caboose cowered as he was stuck in the middle. Tucker looked at his girl and shrugged as she headed to the counter to grab some toast and he grabbed Caboose by the arm and dragged him out of the Base so that Tex and Church could have their little spat in peace. After what he had seen yesterday… he didn't want to get caught in the way. It seemed Sis had the same idea as they left Caboose on the roof of the Base and they headed into a secluded little spot behind the base where they could have some breakfast and maybe some bow chicka bow wow in privacy.
Tucker wasn't far of the mark. Within seconds of everyone else getting out of earshot Church and Tex had launched into a full-scale verbal war. Her calling him a lazy, too-caring fucktard or something like that and him calling her an unforgiving bitch who cared about no-one else no matter what anyone else felt or, again, something like it. The shouting continued as the two got closer together and closer to physical violence and possibly could of ended up as a fight but with their faces just an inch away Church did something that Tex wasn't expecting… he kissed her, as well as his robot body could anyway.
Tex was shocked, here was Church a ghost in a robot body, his heart broken by her so many times and yet he still wanted to kiss her and love her. She drew away softly and sighed. She would never admit it out loud but she had missed kissing Church… he was a damn good kisser, especially for a robot.
Church looked at the softer expression that was slowly making its way onto Alison's face and smiled, "I would do that properly but as you can see… I'm still a robot."
"Yeah, I did notice that… your lips hurt a little." She smiled at him and her entire face just lit up and her eyes glowed as she looked at him.
"So how did you survive the explosion and get your body back?" Church asked as he once again took his seat and sipped his cooling motor oil.
Tex pulled up her chair, took a bite of a piece of toast and sighed as she began her story.
"I ordered Sheila to take off and I could feel O'Malley starting to get comfortable in my head again and I saw Andy counting down and I realised what was going to happen so I cut all radio communication with and within the ship before O'Malley could stop me and waited for Andy to go off and with ten seconds to go Junior asked if I could save his life… he just wanted to go back to Tucker. He said he could give me my human body back if I did so I put him in the escape pod and let it go as I left my robot body with O'Malley trapped inside and left the ship. I wasn't fast enough to get away from the ship and so I lost awareness and woke up when I saw you walking through the field. I hide until you disappeared with my hairclip and went to find Junior."
"You were there on the cliff! Why didn't you show yourself to me?" Church asked outraged.
"I didn't want to until I was sure Junior could get my body back." Tex answered simply before continuing her story.
"I found the escape pod and let him out and we made our way into the canyon. We hid ourselves but we did manage to hear about your little party so I decided I would use that as my grand entrance so we went into the cavern located under Bloodgulch and Junior found the thing he needed to bring me back to life. He gave he some improvements and repaired my body and I hopped into it-"
"What kind of improvements?" Church asked.
"He just made me stronger, faster, harder to hurt, quicker to heal and basically just better. Can I continue?" Tex seemed mildly amused at Church's questions.
"Sure, go ahead."
"Anyway I hoped back into my body and came to your party, pissed you off and beat the crap out of the people who were responsible for, ordered or threw the grenade that ended up killing me."
Church leant back and stared in awe at Alison before he pulled himself together, "Well I'm impressed. So do you think that Junior might be able to give me my body back too?"
"Blarg honkie blurg honk!" Junior remarked as he came into the room.
"Blarg honk?" Tex asked.
"Blurg!" replied Junior, "Blar honk, BOW CHICKA HONK HONK!!"
Tex smiled as she gave Junior the finger before turning to Church, "He said yeah if you want to come with us now."
"Sure!" Church exclaimed, "Wait… you understand him?"
"Yeah, I gained the knowledge when I possessed his body so I could launch the escape pod and when he brought my body back to life he made sure that he had changed it so I could speak his language fluently."
Church looked a little sceptical but when Tex looked at him he realised that if Junior could give him the chance to be in his body again and with Tex, he would have to get over his hated of the little alien love child.
Junior reached up a tugged on Tex's arm, "Blarg?"
"Alright then," Tex looked at her ex and sighed, "you ready for this then?"
Church looked at Junior and the black-clad freelancer and nodded. Junior let out a little squeal and dragged Tex and Church out of the Base and into the caves to bring Church to life.
Caboose laughed as he watched Junior drag Tex and Church away. He knew that Tucker's kid really wanted the two of them to get together again. Caboose kind of felt the same way, after all Texie made Church happy and if Church was happy he wouldn't be as mean as he normally was. He didn't know if Tex would be nicer with regular sex but it was always worth a shot. Thinking of regular sex he looked to the left to see Sis and Tucker emerging from behind Tucker's Rock. Their helmets were off and Sis was struggling into her chest armour while Tucker was doing up his greaves. Caboose did feel a little left out since he was the only one not getting any but it didn't really bother him. After all, things were looking up since the party. He felt like things were moving forward in his love life but things like that take time. Maybe after Church came back he could ask Texie about what to do next. She may be mean but she was a good listener and her advice was usually right.
Down in the caves Tex was looking over Church's dead body while Junior got ready to start reviving it. Tex was surprised to see how well muscled it was despite the decomposition and made a mention of it to Church.
Church would of blushed if he'd had any blood when he heard Tex's remark about his body but thought he should give an explanation, "Well I noticed that all the guys you ran off with had decent muscle tone and all that so I thought I'd try and improve mine."
Tex looked at him, "Why? To try and impress me Church?"
"No… more like to make me feel better about myself. Why… are you impressed, Alison?"
Tex threw back her head and laughed, the movement drawing Church's eye to the smooth, graceful length of her neck and the curve of her shoulders, "Sort of, I suppose. I like my men muscled, with strong arms, a defined chest and a decent six-pack… so yeah, I like what you did."
"Thanks Alison."
"You're welcome Leonard, just don't expect me to jump in the sack with you when we get back to Base. It would ruin my bad-ass reputation."
Church laughed at that before admitting it wasn't really on his mind and Tex soon joined in the laughter. Junior looked over at them as he picked up Church's body and started his work on it. The alien child sighed and shook his head at the stupidity of the Blue leader and his cowardice to admit how he really felt about the beautiful freelancer. He just hoped that they would stop dancing around and realise that they were made for each other.
Tucker laughed as he got his pants back on, Sis was struggling to put her double-D size 'puppies' back in her tight armour and he remarked to his lover, "I would of thought that the water would make it slide on easier."
Sis glared at him as she finally got her boobs in, "The water helped you side along me easier, by the time we finished it was all gone."
Tucker reached up and closed the clips that kept Sis' chest armour attached to the rest of her outfit and whispered with an evil look in his eyes, "Well then maybe I need to keep you out of your armour more if its so hard to get into."
Sis gave Tucker an evil look of her own and reached down to help him with his greaves. She grabbed and locked into place the 'box' piece that protected a delicate piece of the male anatomy, she stroked over the area until Tucker threw his head back and sighed, "I'm surprised you can fit that into your armour… it's an impressive size."
Tucker moved behind and held her close, "You know it, girl."
"Of course I do… I just spent an hour with it inside me!"
"Bow Chicka Bow Wow!"
While the Blues were either getting it on, getting their bodies back or just staring out into space the Reds were hiding in their base licking their wounds from the night before.
"That bitch broke my nose!" screamed Grif, as he attempted in vain to breathe and eat at the same time. While Doc had been able to set his nose back into position, it had to heal on its own and so was very tender.
"At least she didn't almost kill you like she did Sarge." Simmons pointed out as he swallowed two headache pills to try and lessen the pounding in his head from the concussion.
"You got off easy, at least you can breathe without pain," Donut moaned as he rubbed his chest, "she broke every one of my ribs!"
"You were the one who killed her in the first place." Simmons remarked.
"After she tried to kill me and got me stuck in this light-red armour!" Donut whined.
"For the last time Donut, we know you're trying to safeguard your masculinity but it's just faster to say pink." Grif laughed.
"It's lightish-red!" Donut cried.
"PINK." Simmons and Grif declared in unison.
Donut sighed and gingerly sat down, "So how do you guys know its pink if you're as 'masculine' as you say?"
Grif and Simmons looked at each other and smiled as they got up and headed to Grif's room.
Simmons turned and looked at Donut, "We're masculine… I never said we were straight."
As Simmons headed out of the room to join his lover Donut's mouth dropped. Sarge entered the room with the help of a walking frame. In a word… Sarge looked dead. What parts of his body weren't in casts or bandaged was all nice shades of blue and purple due to the bruising. Donut knew his commander must have been really hurt since it was the first time he had seen Sarge out of his regulation Red armour.
"Are you alright Dad?" Donut asked softly.
"What did I tell you about calling me that when the others could hear you?" Sarge barked.
"Sorry Fat- I mean sorry Sarge."
"It's ok Franklin. So where are the others?"
Donut looked at the hallway leading to Grif's room and blushed behind his armour, "Doc said it was best for them to be left alone, today. He also said the Blues will leave you alone since they don't know what's going on with that Freelancer."
"We really should look into hiring her for our side."
"Somehow I don't think Grif will like that."
"Even more reason to do it, Private. Even more reason."
In the cavern things were going well. Tex and Church were in their ghost forms while Junior worked on restoring Church's body and making some minor adjustments to Tex's. Things were going well as Church and Tex hadn't argued once… yet.
"So what are you doing to my body Junior?" asked Tex.
"Blarg honk blarg honkie blard." Junior replied as he pointed to the area.
Tex blushed and giggled, "Thanks Junior… it will make my life easier."
"And everybody else's." remarked Church sarcastically; he too could now understand what Junior was saying.
Tex turned to Church with her hands planted on ghostly hips, "What do you mean by that?!"
Church shrugged, "You ain't the easiest person to get on with at the best of times and you're almost a hundred times worse at that time of the month so if Junior can make them stop or last for maybe and hour… it's an improvement."
"Right." Muttered Tex.
Church walked forward and gently placed a hand on her shoulder but he was ready to pull away if she didn't want it.
Tex was surprised that Church had the courage to touch her when she had been pissed just a second ago but what was even more surprising was that she could feel his touch, given that they were both ghosts at this point. The touch was electrifying; the feeling of it spread quickly and made its way along her arm. She looked at Church and saw that the touch had affected him as well.
"Did you know we could do that?" Tex asked softly.
Church shook his head, his eyes wide with surprise, "No, I didn't."
Tex sighed, "That's the thing I missed the most about being dead… feeling."
"Yeah, I miss the afternoon breeze on my face and I remember how you loved standing outside in the rain," Church reached forward and hugged her close, "I missed this too."
His hug made Tex gasp as she could feel everywhere he touched. From his head on her shoulder, his chest along her back, the way their hips seemed to fit together, his thigh rubbing on the outside of her leg to the feel of his arms wrapped around her waist. She didn't know what to say or what to think. She thought that she was over Church, hell she though she hated him. It took her a moment to realise she'd only started to hate Church once O'Malley had gotten in her head. Sure she'd been pissed at him before, their personalities almost guaranteed that they would fight occasionally, she was a rotten bitch after all but it had been O'Malley's influence that had really forced them apart. When she finally realised just what O'Malley had cost her she turned to face the ghost of her ex-boyfriend.
"I missed this too." Tex admitted.
Church looked surprised at her admission and hugged her tighter, "I thought you hated me. Why would you miss this?"
She sighed as she looked at the confused look on his face and giggled, she always thought he looked cute when he was confused, "I always thought you could be a pain in the ass, Leonard, but it was O'Malley who made me hate you."
"Why would he do that?"
"Maybe because of all the people I've slept with… only you cared enough about me to try and save me when O'Malley took over."
"Yeah… I would of given anything to help you remove O'Malley," Church smiled at her cheekily before letting go of Tex and remarked, "even if you always were an ungrateful bitch!"
"Hey you dick! You exactly a saint either!" yelled Tex as Church ran off.
She quickly caught up and attempted to tackle him but flew straight through him. Church laughed and took off in the other direction with Tex close behind. They came back to where Junior was working to see him watching them while he tapped his foot.
"What?" Tex asked the little alien.
"Blarg honk blarg!" Junior replied with a smile.
Tex considered what he said for a moment before replying with a slight tone of resentment in her voice, "OK, ok… you were right. Happy now?"
"Blurg!" Junior answered as he jumped up and down happily.
"What do you mean when you said 'I told you so' to Tex?" Church asked Junior.
Tex sighed, "When we came here the first time Junior said that before Sheila blew up he could see some relationships forming… two in particular and it turns out… he was right on the one that I never thought was possible."
"What was that?" Church asked.
"Us." Tex said simply.
"Oh," Church took a breath before continuing, "who's the other one?"
"Tucker and Sis but I thought she would have more sense-" When Church smiled she stopped, "They did? They got together?"
Church nodded, "Sis and Tucker have been having some 'bow chicka bow wow' for about two weeks now."
"Wow… how do you know? Somehow I don't think Tucker that insensitive to talk about sex when I'd just died and Sis wouldn't of told you for the same reason." Tex mused.
"Let's just say… they're loud."
"Both of them?"
"Yep."
"Well at least we know that you and Tucker do have something in common after all… besides you both wanting to get into my pants." Tex replied sexily.
"That's not fair… just because I loud with you doesn't mean I'm always loud!"
"So I'm only one good enough to make you scream?" Tex gave him a cheeky smile as she ran a hand along his chest.
Church was so glad he was a ghost at this moment, Tex would never of let him live it down if she knew how much of a hard-on he would have if he had blood pressure or how much he would be blushing at this point. "Yeah."
"Well it's good to know that a girl is good at her job." Tex laughed.
Church rolled his eyes to the ceiling and prayed that Junior would be finished soon so he could get away and calm down.
