A/N: Hey guys, just to let you know this chapter is a little bit romantic for most of the freelancers. Hope you enjoy.
2 Weeks Later
The team was doing the usual Last Man Standing training battles, Tex, Maine, and Carolina against Wash, Wyoming, and North. Tex and Maine decided to knock out Carolina in the beginning, they were quite the pair when it came to fighting. Now that they had AI's they had become more invincible, Wash was the only one on his side without an AI and he felt like he was at a disadvantage. Wyoming and North were quickly knocked out within seconds, now Wash was against his two best friends who looked like they were really going to have fun torturing him. Soon Wash found himself pinned against a wall, Maine held him while Tex turned his balls into mush.
"Okay!...Ow!... F.I.L.S.S.!" Wash barely got out his words before he was suddenly dropped to the ground like a sack of shit.
"Round complete, training over. Point to Texas and Maine." F.I.L.S.S. chirped. North and Wyoming helped drag Wash out of the training room even though they weren't in the best condition themselves, a medical team came and retrieved Carolina. North and Wyoming sat Wash on a bench in the locker room and then sat down next to him.
"Damn Wash why do you have to like the only girl that enjoys beating your balls black and blue?" North asked as he slowly started to remove his armor and grab ice packs.
"You like her to North, I seen you and Maine 3 months ago!" Wash shouted before curling into a ball on the floor.
"Date her and maybe Maine will be nicer to all of us too." Wyoming suggested taking a ice pack from North.
"You may be onto something Wyoming." North agreed as he threw a ice pack at Wash.
Tex and Maine were sitting in the chow hall eating with York and South, Tex and Maine were going over how badly they beat up Wash, North, Wyoming, and Carolina. They honestly expected a different reaction from York, laughing wasn't what they expected.
"Did you and Carolina break up?" Tex asked.
"Yeah for the time being, she's getting way to jealous of Delta and after you went off on her she got really determined to get herself an AI as well." York shrugged unsure how to handle this.
"Wash and I are next in line for AI's. She is going to have to wait!" South slammed her first on the table.
'South calm down' Maine growled at her.
"Sorry Maine..." South fell quiet, causing Tex to raise and eyebrow. York also gave her a weird look but decided to ignore it as he seen Wash, North, and Wyoming come hobbling in, this sight gave him something to laugh at again. Maine and South slowly slid away from each other, North and Wash sat next to Tex while Wyoming joined Maine, South and York.
"Recovering well boys?" South almost had a sign song voice.
"Better than Carolina that's for sure." Wash said before he began eating.
"Sorry I went so hard on you." Tex whispered in Wash's ear, he simply nodded and continued eating. Before long they all headed back to their rooms, Tex pulled Wash off to the side by her door. Maine winked at Wash as he continued down the hall following South, Wash raised an eyebrow at him before shaking his head.
"Hey Wash..." Tex rubbed the back of her neck.
"Yeah?" Wash watched her as she seemed to be fighting with Omega.
"I... um..." Tex didn't know how to say what she wanted to say.
"... Okay...um..." Wash scratched the back of his head.
"I like you!" They both shouted at each other, this not only shocked both of them but it caused what seemed like relief for both of them.
"That was smooth..." Omega said after he appeared. "It only took both of you 3 months to come up with this."
"Not helping Omega!" Tex snapped at her AI. Wash shook his head at them before he pushed Tex against her door and kissed her. They stayed like this for a while till a strange scream came from down the hall, Wash and Tex pulled away from each other as they heard another scream.
"That doesn't sound life threatening." Tex gave a curious look.
"I really don't want to go check it out." Wash said as he looked back at Tex as she opened her door.
"Omega go check it out." Tex ordered the little AI as she pulled Wash into her room. Sadly it wasn't long till Omega came back to the sight of Tex sitting on Wash.
"Seriously I just came from this sight, only less clothes." Omega went to Tex's book shelf to look through her books.
"What do you mean?" Wash asked.
"Its Agents South and Maine in your room. Need I say more." Omega kept it short before logging off.
"Looks like your room is off limits for a while. No wonder they were acting so strange at dinner." Tex smiled as she kissed Wash again.
"Guess that's good news for us." Wash added as he kissed down her neck as he slid his hands up her back.
"I guess so." Tex smiled at him and rolled them so he was on top.
North and York were playing pool in the Rec Room, they weren't worried about waking anyone if they stayed up late because they were roommates. Which in the long run was a good thing, they made sure they brought enough beer with them to keep them entertained.
"So what is with you and Carolina?" North asked as he set up for his shot.
"I don't know anymore. I still love her, but this whole AI thing is causing way too much strife between us." York shrugged and took a long drink from his beer. "Has South said anything?"
"No she hasn't." North shrugged as York took his shot. "She hasn't really said much to me lately which is really weird."
"Yeah that is.. weird."
"At least Wash and Tex got their shit figured out. I was tired of having to coach Wash with what to do."
"Honestly I am slightly jealous." York finished his beer, the room fell quiet for a while.
"Me to..." North added quickly as he returned to the game.
"Holy crap I thought I was the only one!" York got over excited.
"No! Maine even has a thing for her. 3 months ago it was hard for us to not do something about it." North felt like a heavy weigh was lifted off his chest.
"We shouldn't be talking like this. I though you and Minnesota had a thing?" York tried to shake off the image in his head.
"I don't know, she hasn't been around for a while." North shrugged. "I think she got located else where."
"Oh. Makes since I guess, on a Blood Gulch mission or something like that." York nodded and won the game.
"That's what I'm guessing." North shrugged.
"Well bud, I'm sorry but I am going to go find Carolina and... ya don't stay up." York patted North on the shoulder.
"I understand I'm going to go take a shower." North chuckled. "Good luck my friend."
Wash woke up laying next to Tex, he smiled when he remembered what happened the night before and placed a kiss on her shoulder. Tex smiled and rolled over to face Wash.
"Morning." She kissed him then looked at the clock. "Shower time, the breakfast."
Wash pulled her close and pretended to fall back asleep. "No 5 more minutes."
Tex laughed and pulled away slowly. "Yes gotta get up." She kisses his and headed to her shower, she wore a black sports bra and booty shorts. Wash smiled and bit his lip as she disappeared into her bathroom, he got up and went back to his room to get his shower supplies. South and York were both returning to their original rooms wearing the same clothes from yesterday, Wash just shook his head and proceeded with what he was doing.
Wash and Maine were the first ones to enter the chow hall, they both looked like they had a great night sleep to the unknowing eye. York was the next to show up, he also had an extra skip in his step, North and Wyoming looked like walking zombies with obvious hangovers.
"Morning North, Wyoming." Wash smiled as he ate. All he got in return was a groan from his friends, Tex and South came in with huge smiles on their faces. Tex sat next to Wash like normal, South sat by North so things didn't seem too weird between her and Maine.
"South is Carolina coming to breakfast?" York asked, it had been quite a while and she still hadn't showed up.
"She was in the bathroom when I left." South shrugged.
"Top agents to the observation deck." F.I.L.S.S. announced causing the team to all give the same annoyed sigh. They all reported to the deck, all except for Carolina that is.
"Where is Agent Carolina?" The Director asked the team in front of him. Searching anyone for the answer. "Well?"