Chapter 7.
A/N: Right chapter seven. Please Review and I do not own.
When Tool and the others got back the three were still watching TV and were now on their second beer. Tools big load turned out to be shopping and tattoo supplies. Big load Caesars smallest gun.
But Yin Yang had found he could help after all, he was holding two crates of beer. Big achievement that was, thought Gunnar but hey it got him some beer ready to drink so it was... appreciated. God stop this mushiness.
"Rocky go bed my friend" Tool said just as Mickey opened his mouth, no doubt to do the same.
Gunnar looked at Rocky properly; his eyes were slightly glazed over. Clearly Barney's long nights had gotten to him.
Rocky nodded and Tool led him to Barneys/his room. Shortly after Tool returned grabbing a beer.
They ambled about and decided once Rocky woke up they would go out for a meal; meanwhile Lee decided to give Lacy a short visit. When he returned he seemed okay, so they assumed that went well.
"Hi"
They jumped they hadn't heard Barney enter.
"Barney? Wanna go out for a meal?" Tool asked.
"Yeah sure, I'll go get dressed" Barney mooched back into the room and came out five minutes later. Fully dressed and clean.
Thankfully Tool had taken one of Barneys once ignored advice and bought a truck an old Chevy. So he and Mickey went in that while the boys drove their bikes.
"So where 'bouts we going?" asked Mickey.
"Just to Sam's Diner, nice place" Tool told him. He was focusing on driving, which was good but he wasn't much for company. The drive was only short though, thank God. They pulled into the parking lot.
"C'mon" Tool said.
"Okay, I'm comin' I'm comin'" Mickey told Tool smiling.
Tool was smiling back. Definitely friends.
The boys were already inside and waiting for them to catch up.
"Come on Old men" said Lee.
"Oi watch who you're calling old!" said Tool.
"Watch it!" Mickey told him.
Barney raised his eyebrows at Lee as if to say I'm only two years younger than Tool, you calling me old?
At which Lee shrugged and looked abashed.
"Just go find a big table" Barney told them.
They couldn't find one big table. So they got two medium booths back to back.
They decided to split the big guys up so there was enough room. Toll, Caesar, Lee and Yin on one.
Lee sat next to Toll while Yin sat next to Caesar so there was enough space for everyone. Toll was large but nowhere near as large as Hale so he sat with Lee who wasn't exactly bulging with muscle. Nah Lee was of a medium build. Strong but rather thin. And obviously Yin was very small compared to Hale.
So that left Gunnar, Tool, Barney and Mickey to sit at the next table. Mickey and Tool sat next to each other. Fortunately Gunnar was more tall then big so he sat next to Barney. For a small guy Barney didn't half have a barrel chest and huge shoulders. Hopefully I can talk to him now, thought Gunnar.
"Hello and welcome to Sam's Diner, I'm Katie and I will be taking your order tonight. Would you like to order your drinks now and I will come back to collect your order afterwards or are you ready now?" asked Katie their waitress. She was a happy person. She had a skinny little girl with the pigtails image. The sort everyone wants to be their daughter but oddly not many as their wife. She had dirty blonde hair which was unsurprisingly held up in pigtails and big blues, though they were slightly grey.
"Drinks" Barney said looking to the others on the table to make sure. The others in the next booth were also being served by another woman. Older than their waitress, but she was wearing a low cut top and mini mini-skirt. Very revealing. She also had black hair, big chest and huge green eyes. The devil may care look on her face sort of suggested she was the type of girl who had loads of people around her but no real friends. So did her looks. Barney didn't like women like that. They were usually loud, unreliable and selfish.
"I'll have a coke" He added. He didn't fancy beer, he was driving after all. What a lie he thought to himself, he always drink-drived. He even drink-drived the plane. Just didn't want it tonight though. He had a feeling he might want to be a hundred percent, Gunnar was nervous about something and if Gunnar was nervous then something big was going to happen. That or Gunnar wanted to talk, which Barney would have to be completely sober for. Only fair and he didn't want to lose focus if they did talk.
"Me too" said Tool obviously trying to assure Mickey that he was in safe hands.
"I'll have a root beer" said Mickey. He didn't drink often and when he did it wasn't much.
"Uhm, Smirnoff Ice in a glass" said Gunnar. Liquid luck, he thought, just what I need.
"Okay I will be right back" she told them politely.
Gunnar fortunately was sat at the open side of the table so he muttered to Barney;
"Can we talk a minute?"
"Yeah I'll follow you" Barney told him.
They both walked outside. Once outside Barney turned to Gunnar and waited for him to start.
"Umm, I know it's not your fault, but I don't get why you kept it from us. You said no secrets" Gunnar said sounding confused in his own way. The dazed sort of way he almost always seemed to have when it came to feelings and stuff. Blowing something up, cool whatever. Shoot someone, okay pass us a gun.
"Gunnar, I didn't think... I don't know why. It's just I don't think you would trust me as much, same reason that the army wouldn't have, that's why I didn't tell them, and no one got killed or hurt because of me"
"I don't think you should have kept it a secret, we tell you practically anything, and we would have trusted you, but you know what if you changed to say Rocky in the middle of a mission. I don't think Rocky would kill, I think he would die before killing someone else. And that means you are dead" Gunnar started to rush through the words.
Barney put a hand on Gunnar's shoulder to reassure him.
"I don't think Rocky would be waking up in the middle of the mission, gunfire and smoke won't register to Rocky's persona because Rocky had nothing to do with either. Rambo might but I know Rambo would continue to kill. And even if Rocky did awaken then he is gentle but he is also defensive. I'm pretty sure that when I went to Russia as him I was doing it o sort of avenge one of my friends. Yep I am definite about that, so he would defend you and himself" Barney told him boldly.
"You remember then?"
"I remember an Apollo Creed, I'm sure he died though" The dazed expression crossed Barney's face.
"Yeah he died, during a match with Ivan Drago who needlessly gave him a swift, angled upper cut which broke Apollo's neck, he died... in the ring, in my arms" Barney said the last slowly as if struggling to remember and grieving all the while.
"I'm sorry" said Gunnar truthfully. That was awful.
"I think, I think you might be right about the Rambo thing and for God's sake Barney talk to us. We are your team and we are there to help" Gunnar told him. The problem wasn't solved but it was getting there.
They both went back and had a great night of laughing and talking with their pals. Gunnar's fears were quenched and they were all pretty much thinking along the lines of perfect.
A/N: It's not finished yet. Though time may be skipped. But next time...
Is a mystery.