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They all gathered around the table in the rec room, slumping down into the squeaking plastic seats. Becker and Connor with a coffee and Nick with nothing, declaring he needed something stronger. From snippets of conversation over the past week all of them had found that their girlfriends (or fiancée, in Connor's case) seemed to have other men they'd been flirting with or had been flirting with them.
"I think James has got more confident after I promised to shoot him," Becker began, shaking his head in disbelief. "What kind of idiot ignores a threat like that?"
"Maybe he's just really into your girlfriend?" Becker punched Connor on the arm hard. "Ow! I'm just saying, no need to get moody about it action man."
"You two think you've got problems, mine has been flirting with Lester."
Nick joined in the conversation, a mug of coffee in his hand and a surly expression on his face. Both men opposite him desperately tried to hide their laughing fits behind poorly faked coughs. Cutter just glared at them, considering chucking the scalding drink all over them.
"Actually, Connor hasn't spilled his girlfriend problems yet," Becker smirked, taking immense pleasure in the blush that spread across the young scientists cheeks. "Come on, what could be worse than Jenny and Lester?"
The soldier slid his chair back just in time to avoid the hard kick that Cutter planned on giving him. When he'd finally calmed down again, he turned to Connor expectantly. "Well? We've shared with you, you share with us."
He muttered something quietly under his breath a few times until the other two men threatened to push him through an anomaly. "She was euphemising."
"What?"
"She was euphemising. Using euphemisms. Deliberately making me think that she was talking about something else when she was actually talking about how big the plant was."
"How big it was?" Becker turned to look at Cutter and they both began howling with laughter. "Remind me to congratulate Abby for being so bloody brilliant."
Connor just scowled at them, crossing his arms across his chest defensively. He hoped that Sarah was flirting with that science guy. It would serve Becker right. And he hoped Jenny was...no, that was just too much. Her and Lester? Creepy. It was then that the three girls the men had been talking about walked into the room laughing about something or other. When they saw their boyfriends, they came over.
"What are you boys up to then? Gossiping?" Sarah asked, smiling and pecking Becker on the cheek.
They were all about to reply no before realising that gossiping was exactly what they were doing. God, they were acting like women.
"I'm going to practice shooting," Becker said getting up.
Cutter followed with the excuse of needing to work out for awhile. Connor just scurried away to his work, not really sure what was going on.