Everyone awoke with headaches the next morning, some worse than others. The mercenaries slept in rooms of two, in order to provide as much security as possible amongst themselves.
The Engineer was Demoman's roommate, The Scout was Pyro's roommate, Medic and Spy had their own rooms as Medic had the clinic attached to his room and Spy "absolutely requires" a room for himself only. The Sniper lives in a camper van near the base.
Spy had finally decided to give up his privacy to let Janine share a bedroom with him. While the ten mercenaries were drunk the last night, they moved her bed into his room. Everyone figured this would be useful, as she would be a very easy target for the other team.
Miss Pauling advised someone to stay near Janine at all times until she could properly fight for herself. Besides, nobody knows when the BLUs would decide to attack the REDs' newest and most defenseless mercenary. During this meeting between the Administrator's assistant and the mercs, Scout loudly agreed to this.
"I'll be Bruisah's bodygahd! Ain't any BLUs getting neah her with me being the protectah!" he looked at Janine proudly and winked. Janine nodded and smiled. "Oh, thank you so much." she said. "Hell, I'll even train ya! We're both runners, only difference is I'm a battah and you're a puncha!" Scout insisted. Nobody seemed to mind the idea of Scout being the one to protect their newest member. They just found Scout awfully annoying and clingy towards Janine.
"Thank you for volunteering, Scout," Pauling started. "Oh, and Medic..." She continued, looking towards the German clad in his medical gear. This got a nod and a small "Ja." from him. "Don't forget the surgery. We can't ever make this mistake." The assistant finished. Janine looked at Medic and then back at Pauling with a worried expression. "Surgery?" She asked.
"Yes, surgery. Every mercenary of both teams requires a heart surgery in order to survive this ongoing war," Miss Pauling explained. "After a mercenary is killed, as long as they have had the Über heart operation, they can be revived and come back into battle thanks to Medic and respawn." She looked back at Bruiser, hoping she'd understand. "So if I don't get this operation, I would die once and never come back." Janine commented. "Correct!" Pauling smiled. "I'm glad this one catches on quickly. Now, if nothing else is necessary from me, I have to go back to my other duties." She said as she stood up from her chair and wiped down her skirt. "We will meet again, RED mercenaries." She said as she took her leave. Janine and the nine men all said their farewells to the assistant and began chatting amongst themselves.
Medic was the first to tap Janine on the shoulder. When she looked at him in response, he cleared his throat. "Ah,my apologies for not meeting you at ze velcoming party." He began. "I am ze Medic, and I am very busy in and out of zese battles with ze ozher team." Janine flashed him a smile. "Oh, don't worry about that! I didn't mind at all. If you need the rest from your work, then you deserve to have it." She thought for a bit and her worried look came back to her."Uh, about this surgery..."
"It iz not as bad as it sounds," Spy interjected. He noticed her concern earlier and wanted to calm her. "Ze doctor will simply put you to sleep and make sure zat his medigun will not let you die while he does his operation." He explained. "Medigun?" Janine wondered. "This heals the patient, right?" Medic happily nodded at her assumption. "It will not let you lose blood while I'm switching out your heart for one zat is more capable in zis war." This made Janine curious. "And when does this have to be done?" She asked. Spy didn't have to think too much to answer her. "It must be done before ze next battle, which will be about next week." He replied. "Ja," Medic began, "Ze BLUs are kind enough to let us train our newest member before ze battle next veek." Janine sighed in relief. "So not today or tomorrow, then."
After she was properly introduced to Medic, Scout ran up to Janine while she ate the sandvich Heavy prepared for the mercenaries' breakfast. "So, when do ya wanna start training?" He asked, sitting next to her and resting his legs on the table. "I wanna see what those big punchin' gloves can do!" Janine smiled. "Whenever you like, Scout. I'm pretty excited to show you what they can do, too." Scout patted her back, delighted. "Then meet me at da trainin' room after you're done! Come wit' light clothes and some water or sometin', it'll get hot quick in dere!" He warned her as he gave her two more quick pats and ran off. He was more than likely getting prepared for training in his room.
After Janine had finished her sandvich and the kind Pyro brought it to the sink to wash it, she headed into the bathroom to wash her face and hands. After she recalled the past few days with the mercenaries, she suddenly let a small laugh leave her lips. "Oi, what's so funny, mate?" She heard Sniper ask with two knocks to the door. Bruiser quickly opened the door and smiled at him. "It's not something funny, it's just that I've been remembering the days here with you all." she answered, splashing some more water on her face. This brought a warm smile to Sniper's face as he chuckled and gently gave the top of her head a friendly kiss. "I dunno how much better you think it'll get, sheila, but keep the good times in your head a lot. You'll need it for the battles." He advised. She gave that a quick thought and nodded. "I'll try to not need respawn so much. Thank you, Sniper." she told him.
After she dried off and left the bathroom to Sniper, she went back into her shared room with Spy.
Alright, training time.