The next morning B.A. was woken by a strange scratching and thumping on the door to his room. He looked over at the clock on the bedside table. "Six?" He said to himself as his stomach growled in hunger. The noise at his door didn't stop. Getting out of bed he walked over and carefully opened the door. On all fours was Murdock who had one hand up with a sock over it about to scratch at the door again.

"Time to go get Facey arff!" He said cheerfully a smile from ear to ear his tongue sticking out in a pant.

Rolling his eyes at the man B.A. stepped over him headed to the van Murdock the now dog jogging after him, Hannibal already in the passenger seat. "I have the window rolled down for you Murdock." He said with a smile as he puffed on his cigar.

()()()At the hospital ()()()

"I cannot wait to get out of here! Get some good breakfast. Enjoy the sunshine." Faceman said as he walked down the hallway as he put his sunglasses on hoping it would help with the small headache he had. It still amazed him that he only ended up with a small concussion from hitting his head. He only wished that's the only thing he was leaving with. He hated that it was the only thing he could think about all night as he laid in that rock hard cold bed. The quiet ate away at him the rain the only company he had.

"This time keep your eyes to yourself." Hannibal told him unlit cigar hanging in his lips.

"This time I'm ordering eggs."

"How about a biscuit, ruff!" Murdock huffed with his tongue still out socks on both hands.

"I'm sure they will have something for you to enjoy Murdock." Face told him reaching up to give Murdock's head a pat. "Were you a good boy on the way over?"

"Why do you humor him Face?" B.A. asked rolling his eyes again, he found he was doing that a lot over the past few days, not understanding the friendship the two had.

"Why, I don't know what you're talking about B.A." Face said winking at Hannibal who smiled in return. "I was thinking about trying something I never tried before."

"Oh, what's that Faceman?" Hannibal asked with curiosity.

"Kayaking over the waterfalls, cliff jumping or better yet swim with the sharks!" Face said as Murdock smiled at him his hands moving to the top of his head making a fin moving back and forth.

"I thought you wanted ta do somethin fun for all of us to enjoy, seems to me you're gettin as crazy as the fool next to you." B.A. yelled quickly shaking his head telling Face it was a big fat no with him.

"I think its a great idea kid. I'll do some research and make it happen." Hannibal didn't want to swim with the sharks but who was he to put a damper on Face's life plans.

"As long as they don't go thinkin we're goldfish well be fine!" Murdock's cheeks sucked in his lips perking out opening and closing his hands out beside his neck wiggling, eyes huge. "Guess what I am."

"No one cares what ya are ya idiot! And if ya don't stop it I'm ganna getcha!" The big man said pointing his meaty finger at him.

Murdock frowned his face turning to a pout.

"B.A. be nice. Its a great day!" Face told him giving him a smile. "I don't need to stress over a fight."

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Few days later the four were on board a good sized boat out in the pacific. True to his word Hannibal had made it happen. BA was sitting on a chair, minus his gold, he didn't want to do it, but he would. Hannibal was dressed in a wet suit, as was Face. Murdock stood there in an old fashioned men's swim suit from the early 1900's. Looked like a pair of those onesies.

BA was not wearing no stupid wetsuit or a swim suit. Hopefully he wouldn't have to fight a shark today. "You know what guys, I drank too much milk and I have to wait an hour to get in the water."

Hannibal nodded cigar between his fingers. "I'm pretty sure that's just a myth." B.A. ended up shooting him a glare. "But better safe than sorry." Hannibal smiled back at him with a wink. He knew B.A. wasn't too fond of sharks.

"You guys ready?" The instructor lady asked. "So one by one each of you lower yourselves into the cage. Make sure none of you have anything in your pockets."

"Shuuuu." Murdock whispered to himself.

First Faceman got into the water cage, then Murdock followed by Hannibal.

Murdock looked up at BA. "Hey big guy, The nice sharks will want to talk to you too. I see them coming over. One is yelling a challenge to arm wrestle you. Says he can take you." He sang.

"Shut up fool! I don't hear no shark sayin nothin."

Murdock put on his face mask so that he could talk to the other two that was outside the cage. "I want to pet the sharks. I brought gold fish to feed them." He said waving a zip bag with goldfish inside.

The other two men looked at him, and then back to the bloody fish that just hit the water. The three waited for the fun to begin. "Come on fishy fishy…oh look guys at that big one, with the scar on his chin. He looks mean. Reminds me of our big ugly mudsucker over there!"

Sure enough there was a huge one, with huge teeth coming at them. It kept coming until it rammed his nose near the slit in the side of the cage. It moved off and came again, faster. "Well, you have no manners, you get no gold fish from me scar face."

"I never seen one that big before Hannibal. Glad I'm in this cage." Face said thinking about how maybe this was a very bad idea.

"Me too Face. Look we have more company. Three coming at seven o'clock." Hannibal was getting a little excitement from the thrill.

The three turned to look and as they came closer the big one took a big bite out of one of them. Blood poured from the smaller shark. All the sharks then turned on the injured one. A feeding frenzy, and the three men watched. "Maybe we should have tried the rapids instead."

"It's up to you kid, you can do both. I'm sure BA would prefer that one anyway." When the sharks left after their snack, the three got back on board. Nothing really to see.

Face looked down over the boat. "I want to dive down a bit. See if there are any lobsters or anything That is when we get closer to shore."

Murdock nodded his head and whispered to his bulging front pocket. "Yeah we can go with Facey. Maybe I can find a new pet."

"I think I'll keep BA company then. You two go have fun. Call if you need anything." Hannibal said lighting a fresh cigar.

"OK Hannibal." Face dove in and disappeared with Murdock into the blue waters.

Murdock came up first holding up a rubber ducky. "Look what I found. He begged to be set free! Found the little fella inside an under water lunch box." His smile grew as the algae sun faded duck shined in the sun.

Face emerged from the warm water a minute later holding his head. "Murdock? Somethings wrong with my head." He said floating on his back the sun blaring in his eyes. "Oh I think this is it man."

Murdock swam over to him discarding the duck to the waters. "Facey!"

"The sun is so bright."

It was a nice day to be outside Hannibal thought as he heard foot steps coming towards him. The young man from below stopped where the two men sat and handed the phone to Hannibal. "It's a Doctor..I'm sorry I forgot."

With a surprised look Hannibal acknowledged the call and grabbed it, remembering he gave the doctor the number in case they found someone to take Face's case. "Hello? Yes this is Ford." First surprise and then total delight on his face as he laughed. "Really? Are you completely sure about that?"

BA looked at him as if he had lost his mind. No phone call should ever make a man laugh like that unless it was their girlfriend.

"What?" BA asked as Hannibal gave the phone back to the young man smiling so bright.

Hannibal jumped up and looked around, cupping his hands around his mouth he yelled. "Face!"

"Whats goin on Hannibal?"

"It was the doctor, he made a mistake…a big one! Face is going to live, there's no tumor!" You could hear the relief, excitement and joy in his voice.

"What?!" B.A. jumped up and hugged the Colonel with a big smile. "We ain't losing Face!?"

"He said they got the scans mixed up."

"So Murdock was right for once? Da doctor's an idiot?!" B.A. clapped looking out to see Murdock grabbing a hold of Faceman and swimming them both to the boat. "What happened?"

"His head hurts." Murdock said looking worried.

"They made a mistake Face, mixed up the scans. You don't have a tumor!" Hannibal shouted to him making Face's eyes open.

"What?" Suddenly his headache felt a little better his ears ringing as the blood rushed though his ears. "I'm not going to die?"

"Not from that you wont." B.A. said giggling.

"My head still feels funny though." Face said holding on to the side of the boat.

"You got a leech buddy!"

"What?!"

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well this story didn't go the way it was planned on my head at all. dam thing wrote itself. had sad parts and funny parts. written for my mommy cause she wanted a Face story and i feel as if i didn't do it justice. but as long as she's happy I'm happy happy mother's day to my best friend and best mother God picked to be mine