The RED Sniper couldn't sleep.

Not one wink.

He doesn't know why he couldn't sleep, though.

He groaned in considerable frustration, as he flipped over to his other side, intentionally trying to sleep better in his decent bed as his blankets were typically on his body, except down to the middle of his chest.

But, he still hasn't fallen asleep after getting comfortable, as the modern crickets chirped in the considerable distance of the deserted plain.

No animals were outside, nor lizards appeared at this time of day.

He groaned in considerable annoyance as he flipped over to his back, gazing thoughtfully at the ceiling of his van, naturally wondering who instantly shot the BLU Spy back at his tower earlier and why the BLU Medic was close to him as longtime friends or…

More than longtime friends?

He continued to stare at the ceiling in doubtfulness until he sighed gently and sat up, wearing his white undershirt tank top with his gray boxers and glanced at the BLU base, through his locked window, in both considerable confusion and considerable annoyance, naturally wondering if he should find the BLU Medic to talk to him, humbly apologizing to him about his mighty shout and unanimously decided to willingly risk his life to go inside to typically find him.

Even though the BLU team is asleep without their weapons, he remains, however, an enemy of the BLU team since he is a RED team member.

He was quiet for a memorable moment until he sighed gently and mumbled to himself, "Bloody 'ell…"

So, he gently pulled the covers off his body, instantly revealing his brown boxers, and he reached over to his pants and put them on after he gets into his work clothing, he only left the rifle carrier and his pouch behind, and he gently picked up his hat and gently placed it on top of his head.

He gently opened the door to his van and wandered outside, in the freezing cold air and only shivered a bit.

He gently closed the door to his van and promptly locked the doorway to his mobile van so that no one else than the RED members would cautiously enter and glanced out on the plain, towards the BLU base.

'You're bein' stupid about this, ya know…' he thoughtfully glared to himself about the terrible idea.

He conveniently ignored his modern thought and marched directly towards the BLU base, eyeing out for any of the BLU team members and instantly noticed that the door to the BLU base has been forced open, like the RED Heavy of his team, except more powerful than him.

He conveniently ignored his modern thought again and intentionally walked through the halfway destroyed door frame and cautiously entered the BLU base, with his gleaming knife in his right hand, and the polished blade typically has a black handle and curved forward slightly, to stab any team members of the BLU team.

As he carefully walked through the visible remains of the BLU base, instantly noticing the intelligence paper briefcase is missing, the BLU Engineer's modern machines and modern electronics are intentionally destroyed and modern furniture that was inside in case of being tired or just being lazy, were and tossed around, like the BLU Heavy threw a tantrum over the BLU Scout devouring the last piece of the sandwiches that the Administrator always ordered back at her control room.

Then, an overpowering smell of copper and rotten flesh instantly strikes him, and he softly groaned in profound disgust quietly so that no one of the BLU team could overhear him, and he gently covered his nose with his left hand, intentionally trying to intentionally block the foul odor from his nose.

'Wot th' bloody 'ell is that smell?' he naturally thought to himself in profound disgust.

He continued walking towards the precise spot where the terrible smell typically comes from, as it is getting stronger, instantly making him iller and when he instantly reached a room with the visible lights on inside at the end of the hallway, he cautiously entered the room and to his mild shock, the discovered bodies of the remains of the BLU team were on the ground, all sliced up and ripped apart, revealing guts and organs scattered everywhere in the place.

The RED Sniper almost vomited at the terrible sight of the shattered remains of the BLU team.

But, he held it in his stomach as it churned in unutterable disgust and as he was intentionally typically trying ignoring the disgusting sight, he instantly heard soft crying from someone.

He glanced at the cleared table that the BLU Engineer that used to make comprehensive blueprints for new robots, but instead saw the small BLU Medic, softly crying to himself as his glasses were off in his right hand, sobbing to himself, as he gently wiped away some of the countless tears with his left rubber blue gloved hand, weeping silently to himself.

The RED Sniper felt completely guilty of the sight of the BLU Medic, so, he exhaled again and carefully placed his knife into its slot on the left side of his hip and after he had put away the polished blade, he glanced back at the still weeping BLU Medic and sighed quietly to himself once more.

He slowly and carefully walked in front of him, in front of the cleared table, not knocking it on accident to genuinely frighten the BLU Medic on accident and being extremely careful, he steadily reached over to him with his right hand and when he got close to him that practically stroked him, he gently curled his fingers around him slightly, not too much to typically make the tiny BLU Medic scared out of his wits.

When he touched him slightly with his palm, he instantly felt him jolted in genuine fear, and he naturally thought he was going to thrash anytime soon.

Instead, he glanced up at the RED Sniper with tear-stained cheeks, and the RED Sniper was quiet.

He instead gently curled his middle, ring, and pinky fingers around him, not too much to cause him to panic and typically make him extremely traumatized to calm down, and sincerely hoping he can typically get the whole "gentle giant" thing right, enlisted by the aware RED Heavy himself.

The BLU Medic felt slightly annoyed that he was stroking him, even though he doesn't want to be genuinely touched by him, justly accusing him inside for the apparent death of his team, but, a pleasant feeling inside of him made him quiet from yelling at him, typically making him feel calm and oddly…

Genuinely loved.

He instead allowed the RED Sniper to handle gently him like if he was precisely a plush doll compared to him, not even bothering to squirm out of his hand to miraculously escape from him.

Being careful with the small BLU Medic in his right hand, he gently lifted up the BLU Medic in his right hand and gently put his left hand, palm up, underneath his feet, as a stable platform for him to not accidentally drop him on accident on the cleared table.

After he had put his left hand underneath his feet, he gently placed him against his front, not too much to suffocate him against his chest and the BLU Medic felt his cheeks tinted rosy red in considerable shock, apparent calmness and slight embarrassment.

As the RED Sniper was walking leisurely, walking away from the base, along with the dead team members, being extremely careful with the small BLU Medic in his palms, gently holding him against his chest and intentionally trying his best to soothe him down, the BLU Medic was quiet inside the RED Sniper's hands, oddly feeling…

Safe and sound, even though he was kidnapped from his team.

He absent-mindedly tilted his head on the RED Sniper's front to listen politely to his heartbeat through the shirt and the RED Sniper glanced at the BLU Medic in considerable confusion, naturally thinking he fell asleep in his hands from all the economic trauma that he went through, but, he was instead was leaning against his chest, listening silently to his heartbeat, even though it was gently pulled out a couple of times from the RED Medic of his team, it was still beating strongly still.

The BLU Medic couldn't believe his ears that he is actually listening to a gigantic organ in the body, that is 3 times bigger than himself, gently thumping against him from behind all the flesh and bones!

It feels surprising and yet, curious too.

The BLU Medic's rosy cheeks were splashed more with hints of red as the RED Sniper's heartbeat every while he took a step forward to the entrance of the BLU base.

When he reached the demolished entrance of the BLU base, a wave of a cold temperature hits the tiny BLU Medic in his hands, and he shivered slightly in coldness.

Even though he is wearing a bunch of clothes underneath the coat, he can still feel the coldness poke through his little body.

The RED Sniper noticed him shivering, so, without a doubt, he gently curled his fingers around the BLU Medic's body, gently removing his left hand below the feet and pulled back his shirt's collar, along with his tank top underneath and gently placed the BLU Medic inside, to gently warm him up with his body heat, instead of through the clothes.

He stopped instantly at the RED Sniper's chest at where he was earlier when the RED Sniper picked him up, and his entire face went red as a blooming rose.

'Vhat es he doing?! He thought to himself in embarrassment.

'Alright, I zhink I have-!'

His conscious thoughts were caught off when suddenly he felt something gently stroked his back, and he jolted slightly in genuine fear and in startlement, thinking that someone else than the RED Sniper is touching him, but eventually to his mild shock, he calmed down instantly but instantly gave out a slight squeak instead, instantly realizing the touch is the RED Sniper.

Before long, the walking continued and he felt absolutely relaxing!

This thoroughly bewilders him that he can't even think direct about what is going on!

But the most thing that soothes him down; is the RED Snipers heartbeat.

He felt confused and calm at the same time that he is in the hands of a RED team member that he fought earlier, but, now, he is protected in his hands instead of remaining a prisoner to him!

His cheeks burned in a bright red color as he was carried across the flat land of the battlefield, the RED Sniper has his hand over the BLU Medic to warm him up from the coldness that surrounds the plain, and to remain him up to his chest so that he won't accidentally fall more to his stomach or worse than that.

He arrives at his van and with his left hand, he reached into his right pocket where the key is and unlocked the lock to the truck.

When he unlocked the lock, he gently placed the key back into his left pocket this time, and gently opened the door to his mobile van and walked inside.

When he got inside, he gently closed the door to his van, to keep the heat inside for the BLU Medic to warm up from being outside and in the cold BLU base.

He reached back into his shirt and the tank top to retrieve the BLU Medic inside his clothes and when he stroked him with his middle digit, he instantly reached his entire hand inside and carefully wrapped his fingers around him and gently pulled him out of his clothes.

After he had pulled out the BLU Medic, he instantly noticed the BLU Medic was blushing, so, he ignored the look on his face and reached over to a small blanket that the RED Pyro made for him a long time ago, as a little present for him to typically have and gently cloaked him in it, so that he can still be warm from being outside for a few minutes.

After he wrapped him inside, not too much so that he can get very hot than too cold from being outside for a few minutes, he softly put him on the counter table of his van and after he gently placed him on the visible surface, he backed up for a moment and instantly started to undress to his boxers, not minding the BLU Medic was staring thoughtfully.

As for the BLU Medic?

Well, he's embarrassed to gaze at him now as his cheeks were tinted slightly pink.

He lifted up the blanket over his eyes to conceal them from the looks of the RED Sniper even though he had seen the RED Sniper change once in front of him.

After the RED Sniper was stripped down to his gray boxers and a white tank top, he glanced admiringly at the embarrassed looking BLU Medic, and he softly chuckled to himself.

He walked back over to the BLU Medic and gently moved the blanket away from him to undress.

After he gently removed the blanket gently, the BLU Medic glanced up in a considerable confusion of what is he doing, when he naturally thought his modern thoughts stopped, when he instantly noticed the RED Sniper's eyes.

He has been longingly wanting to see what's underneath the RED Sniper's glasses, but now that he sees his eyes, he has calm steel blue eyes.

He glanced away so that he can maintain some privacy to change.

The BLU Medic noticed how generous the man is acting, therefore, he instantly started gently removing the backpack like machine off his back to change.

After he had changed down to his steel, icy blue boxers and white button-up shirt, and he neatly folded his clothing and placed his glasses on top so he wouldn't forget them in the next morning, so that he can get prepared for the following day and sleep uneasily on the uncomfortable and cold counter.

But, then, the RED Sniper, directly gazing at him after he had subtly changed, reached over to him with his right hand and gently scooped him up into his palm, which startled him a bit, and he carefully hoisted him up to his face, in front of his gentle and calm steel blue eyes.

The BLU Medic felt calm that he was staring longingly at the relaxed and gentle eyes than blurry visions without his glasses because he is far-sighted, then the BLU team who typically have mischievous and achieving eyes.

Afterward, the RED Sniper got up to his feet as the BLU Medic is gently against his chest for protection in case of accidentally dropping him to the ground of the van and walked over to his bed, carefully carrying the small BLU Medic in his hand against his chest.

The BLU Medic was genuinely shocked to see how careful and gentle the RED Sniper's being and felt oddly calm.

When he got to his bed, he carefully pulled his blankets off the bed halfway so that he can get comfortable in his bed.

He carefully sat down in his bed, with the passenger in his hand, against his chest.

He typically got into his covers and gently pulled the blankets up to his hips before carefully laid down on his back, his head on his plump pillow.

He was silent for a possible moment, feeling guilty for properly treating the BLU Medic horribly, so, he instead went quiet, as his gentle hand was still on the BLU Medic's back, not gently pressing him against his chest anymore from walking.

The BLU Medic instantly realized why he was doing this in eternal silence was because he's directly apologizing to him, but, by soothing him down from his economic trauma.

Of course, he was inevitably the one that always gets nervous in his team and gets scared too much when he tries to escape from the RED Pyro, which he's terrified the most about, but, after the fight, none of his crew members support him.

But this is the first time someone from the RED team that is an enemy to him, ever helped him calm down.

But, the strangest thing that he's confused about is the peculiar affections that he always felt whenever he's around the RED Sniper.

Nothing but, sleepiness overcame him, and the gentle lullabies of the RED Sniper's heartbeats typically made him slowly fall asleep on his chest, with one curious thought of the genuine feelings.

The RED Sniper watched as the BLU Medic fell asleep on his chest and to him, it looks attractive to him.

But, he naturally felt an irresistible urge to positively inform him about his genuine feelings to him right now, but, the look of him sleeping made him feel sleepy too.

So, he gently placed his head back on his plump pillow from gazing thoughtfully at him on his chest and slowly blinked a few times, before falling asleep on the bed, with his right hand on the BLU Medic, finally asleep in his van, as the modern crickets gently chirped in the considerable distance of the deserted plain.