For PachiiRiisu

Scout Wars!

I ran through the battlefield as quick as lightning. I smirked as I passed BLU enemies, only turning around to see them fall on their faces after they hit the floor after lunging for me. I grabbed the intelligence multiple times that day, although I always won for my team. I was the perfect team mate, always winning and bringing smiles to the guys at the base. I was the jokester of the team and always found out how to make every person happy and take their minds off the stupid war we were fighting.

Today felt different, it felt awesome – mainly because I was going to win again – but it felt so weird. I jumped all over the field, smacking idiots with my Sandman and annoying the crap out of those Heavies (Slowly Moving Practice Dummies) with baseballs aimed right at his gigantic head. I laughed at him while he looked all around him for me, but I moved to fast for me to see him. I chuckled, but I instantly felt a bat hit my shoulder. It was that stupid BLU Scout trying to take swings at me.

I jumped back and started to swing at him. It was almost like fencing when we engaged in our own personal Scout War. I know the Snipers had their own wars, so why can't Scouts? We swung at each other until we heard the final blare of the siren stating that the fighting was done. I then headed back to my base where I was surrounded by my other team members. "Where the heck were you?"

"What do you mean?"

"We lost 'cuz of you mate!" Sniper said.

"What? Someone tell me what's going on!"

"Min, the other Spy was able to get in here and take our information." Soldier yelled.

"Well, why didn't our Spy stop him?"

"If you don't mind, I was in the infirmary." Spy said, looking like he was in a lot of pain.

I then felt really bad and let my head hang, and I was ready to apologize when I found a pillow and a blanket shoved into my hands by the Demoman, "Sorry lass, you're outside tonight." I was about to protest when Sniper's hand came over my mouth, "Sorry mate, you failed us." I pushed his hand off and yelled as I walked out, "Jeez! It was one time!"

I sat outside, and I was now having a moment of weakness. I cried a little and kicked a can around. It went to the middle of the 2Fort Bridge, but as I went to kick it, another foot came down on top of it. It was the BLU Scout, and he actually kicked the can back to me. I smiled and muttered out, "Thanks…" He just gave me a look and sat down on the bridge, holding his own pillow and blanket. "Were you thrown out of your base too?" He just nodded and sighed audibly. I patted him on the shoulder, "Hey man, it's okay. I was thrown out too if that makes you feel any better." He shook his head and said, "It doesn't help. The team got angry at me for not being with them. Your team may like you running around and getting the info, but my team wants me fighting alongside them." I rubbed my shoulder a bit and then thought about what he said; it was kind of sweet that his team actually cared about his safety. My team just cared that I had the information and if I was well enough to goof around and tell them jokes. They didn't care if I was on fire, just as long as I had that stupid briefcase.

I then felt a pat on my shoulder coming from the BLU Scout. He then got to his feet and grabbed me by the arm. "C'mon," he said, "I'm going to show you how to have a good time after hours, you have your bat?" I nodded and he dragged me to the far off places outside the perimeters of the bases. He made a loud whistle and I saw some of the other Scouts that supposedly went home. "Guys, we got a new player, even teams!" They all cheered and they turned on some field lights.

They created this great baseball field, a sport I haven't played since I joined this war a few years ago. I smiled as I ran the bases, feeling like a little girl again. I was the best on my softball team until I moved up to the boy's baseball league. I still had me jersey with "Min" written in big blue letters somewhere back at the base, but if I left, I would forget how to get back here.

We finished the first game and the sun was beginning to rise up over the hills. BLU Scout challenged me to a race, and I beat him due to my awesome running skills. We both agreed to lose more often so we would get kicked out more. BLU Scout said he'd make me a map to the field if I ever just wanted to go there alone. I smiled as I parted from him and made sure to do extremely bad that day, tripping over everything in sight and getting myself into trouble everywhere.

That night I was literally kicked out with force and I met up with BLU Scout. He raced me to the field, but he called for the others, but none showed. He pushed his hair back and said, "Looks like it's just you and me Min."

"How'd you learn my name?" I said.

"Oh, I just picked up on it after hearing the Soldier of your team yell your name while giving you the boot." He said, smiling. I laughed and I felt his hand snake around my waist. I turned and smiled at him, blushing under his touch. He leaned in and gave me a quick kiss, smiling as he picked up a catcher's mit. "Want to do a little practicing?" He said, picking up a ball. I smirked at him and said, "Sure, I'd love to practice…" I pulled him into another kiss and shoved my tongue into his mouth, making a mental map of his mouth and shoving the one to the field out of my mind.

His eyes were wide open when we pulled away from each other and I smiled, "How was that for practice?" He laughed and put his arm on my shoulder, "I dunno, you might need to do some more work, maybe come in for some extra practice tomorrow?"

"Oh, why not?" I said as we began to toss the ball to each other, laughing as I thought about everything I could do at "practice".

oO0OoO0OoO0Oo AUTHOR'S NOTE oO0OoO0OoO0Oo

Hi! I have done two stories for tonight! The end of this one is a little weird, mainly because I just finished watching Glee, and weird thoughts were entering my mind. Then my research project pushed its way in there and then some different games and my brain has become a jumbled mess. Ah, that's two stories off my list, four more to go! I'll probably have 2 up tomorrow and 2 more on Friday (I hate Christmas shopping in malls, too crowded.) If you send me a request on Saturday, you'll probably have to wait a bit because I have to perform a parade (Ugh). Anyway, happy reading and keep the stories flowing!

-J