Medic frowned silently as he listened to the man yelling at him. It was his first day as the new medic for RED team at 2Fort. He had arrived that morning with the new Sniper and Scout and was now going through 'orientation' as it were. The man in front of them was going on and on about something that he wasn't quiet grasping but he was just glad that the Solider had finally stopped yelling at him for being a Nazi despite Medic's denial of being one. He had been close to slamming his fist into the Soldier's face for the accusation; after all he had only joined RED to get out of Europe with his wife safely. How RED how found them he didn't know but this was better then hiding like they had been, for safety from the Russian Army who were hunting down Germans like the crazy witch hunts of old.
The ranting went on for a while longer before the door to the wreck room slammed open and a rather harassed black man with an eye patch stumbled in, looking around wildly before he spotted them with his one eye.
"Hey one of you lads the new medic?" the man with eye patch demanded.
"Ja zhat vould be me," Medic said frowning then took a step back as the man rushed over to him and grabbed the front of his coat.
"Good, you're comin' with my laddie!" the man said pulling him to towards the door.
"Vhat are you doing?" Medic demanded. "Und who zhe hell are you!"
"I'm yer Demoman just come on now," Demo said as he dragged Medic down the hallways till they finally stopped in front of a door in the personal quarters. "I need yer help okay. I don't what ta do," he said as he opened the door and went inside and Medic being a little curious followed him inside. Of course he had notice some of the other team mates following them to see what was going on so he knew he wasn't really going in alone.
The first thing Medic noticed about the room was the large boxes that took up most of the space in the room, all labeled with 'Warning Explosives'.
"Und vhat is zhe problem?" Medic asked.
"Over here," Demo said from behind some of the crates. "I-I don't know how she got here, I just opened me bag and there she is!"
Medic frowned and came around the crates and looked to the bed. On the bed as a large duffle bag and sitting in the bag was a small light brown skin girl who looked rather pale to Medic despite her skin tone. She was small, maybe three or four if his calculations were right, wearing a little green sweater and khaki skirt. Her black hair in disheveled braided pigtails and her amber eyes looked from the demoman to him like she was frightened.
"Vhy is zhere a girl in your bag?"
"I don't bloody well know!" Demo shouted almost panicked. "Oh Lord lassie say somethin' please," the demoman said turning his attention to the girl who looked like she wasn't very sure if that was even a good idea.
"Vhy are you so vorried?" Medic asked softly as he stepped closer and the girl watched him, her eyes growing wider.
"Well I'm none to gentle with me duffle. I throw it around and drop it and well I think I kicked it," Demo said as he watched the girl.
"Vhat zhe hell is vrong vith you? Vhy vould you carry her around in your bag if you treat it like zhat!"
"I didn't bloody know she was in there!" Demo shouted making the girl flinch then she started coughing hard and Medic stepped closer to her and lifted her face and looked at her.
"She's sick?" he said brushing off Demo's shouting.
"Just a wee bit," Demo said calming down some. "Me mum has been really sick in bed."
"Is zhat true kleines Mädchen?" he asked and the girl frowned as she covered her mouth and continued coughing, even when Medic scooped her up and carried her out of the room. "Vhere is zhe medic bay," he said to the Soldier.
"Negative! First explain where that came from!" the Soldier demanded pointing at the girl and Medic frowned not having the patience for this.
"I vill explain vhere babies come from later but first I need to look her over. Now vhere is zhe med bay?" he asked again.
"I'll show ya," said a different man wearing overalls. "It's this way, but really where did the kid come from?" the man asked as he motioned for Medic to follow with the girl and led them down the hallway.
"Ask zhe Demoman. She was in his duffle bag," Medic said and looked over his shoulder when he heard walking behind the, and saw the Demoman out of the corner of his eye.
"She's me lassie. Her name is Alice. Bonny wee thing ain't she?" he said beaming.
"You 'lassie' is sick und you don't care."
"She didna tell me she was sick! She donna tell me much really, she's only been with me for a month or two," Demo said with a shrug.
"What do ya mean she's been with you a month?" the other man asked.
"Well," Demo said rubbing the back of his neck. "Her mum's been raisin' her all her life till a few months ago when her uncle showed up with her on me door step. Said her mum was gettin' married and well…she didn't want Alice in the way," Demo said softly not wanting to be too loud about it.
Medic frowned and shook his head, if his wife had heard that then she would been raising hell on why the demoman hadn't had the girl's mother's head on a platter. "So you just took her?" he asked as they continued walking through the base till they finally reached a set of double doors with the medic emblem on them.
"Of course I took her! She me lassie, and I been trin' for years ta see her. Ever since her uncle called and told me her mother was pregnant. But Sally didn't want me ta see her so I wasn't about ta turn away me lassie when she needed me," Demo said as they walked into the medbay and Medic sat the girl down on the metal exam table.
"Danke," Medic said to the man that led him there. "Now who are you?"
"Oh I'm you're engineer, the names Robbie, nice ta meet ya," the man in the overalls said holding his hand out and Medic accepted it.
"Again danke," Medic said with a nod then turned back to Alice. "Now Fraulein I need you to take off your shirt so I can listen to your lungs," he said as he turned away and walked over to the desk where someone had put his medical bag when they had brought in his other things.
"Now wait one bloody minute!" Demoman shouted. "What the hell are you doing undressing me lassie!"
Medic sighed as he carried the bag back over to the table where Alice was sitting and put it down then fished out his stethoscope. "Well she can take off her shirt or we can let a possible infection run rampant and leave her to die a horrible death coughing up blood and possibly choking on it," Medic said in a calm voice as he looked at the horrified demoman. Meanwhile the little girl stared at him with large eyes then tried to yank her shirt over her head only to get it stuck on her head and arms, this actually made Medic chuckle so he help Alice get her shirt off then handed it to Demoman as he put the stethoscope on and put it against her chest. "Now breath in und out…ja zhat ist gut," he said as he listened to her lungs. Once he was done there he moved to looking at her throat, eyes and ears while asking a few questions here and there about how she had been acting what she complained about. He was a bit worried when Demoman told him the girl hadn't complained about anything other then her throat had been scratchy. This bothered him because she had a bad ear infection although with a slightly swollen throat so he wasn't sure how a father couldn't have noticed things like these. Surly the girl had complained to someone or was she too scared of Demoman to speak to him?
But all of this wasn't his concern; nether was the child who watched his every move with a strange sense of wariness as if she had already gone through something that would take a childhood trust from strangers. Again none of his business, he would give the child some medicine tell the Demoman how to care for her and that would be the end of it all. And it was a simple plan only two things got in the way. Firstly the last Medic either thought it was funny to leave the shelves in disarray or he had simply never been organized but of course due to the fact that several important drugs were missing Medic assumed his predecessor had simply ran sacked the cupboards of all that he could sell. The other problem was after he finally had found some cough syrup was the girl, Alice. She did not want to open her mouth to the foul smelling red liquid and had scooted as far from him as the table would allow and was pressing against her father who was half heartily trying to get her to take the medicine.
"Dammit Maggot can't you get that little nigger to take that! Shove it down her throat and get her off my base!" the Soldier snapped at Medic, who looking noticed that more people in the medbay, seven in all with a tall man when a crooked hat and a big man with a shaved head standing by the door way.
"Now look here boyo don't you be callin' me lassie names like that!" Demo snapped as he glared at Soldier.
"I will say what ever I want to you coon," Soldier growled making Demo quickly come around from behind the table leaving Alice falling backwards but a strange person in a rubber suit ran up behind her and helped her sit up while the two yelling males were in each other's faces yelling insults at one another.
"Now hold on you two!" the Engineer said as he walked over to them. "No need to start fightin'. An it's even worse to fight in front of women and children."
"I don't see any children here just a worthless porch monkey," Soldier yelled, earning him a fist to the face from Demoman.
"Hey, hey, hey!" yelled Engineer as he jumped in the middle and began trying to separate the two. "Heavy give me a hand here!"
"Da, I will help you," the large man said from the door way with a heavy Russian accent.
"Oh vonderba," Medic growled to himself. A Russian and a German on the same base and with how 'Heavy' looked he could have been in the Red Army during the last World War too. "Kindly get zhem out of here," he growled the best he could over the noise.
"Right oh!' Engineer said as he grabbed Demoman around the waist and started jerking him towards the door, meanwhile Heavy just bodily lifted the cursing Soldier and hauled him out of the medbay past the tall man, who, once the fight had past him, shoved his hands into his pockets and walked into the medbay.
Medic was now relieved that besides himself there were only three others left in the medbay. The tall man, the rubber suited man, and a younger man wearing a cap and leaning against the other table.
"Got a problem there Doc?" asked the tall man with an almost British accent but wasn't quite right.
"Ja the kind won't take her medicine," Medic said as he watched the girl as she whimpered and pressed back against rubber suit.
"What's wrong there Shelia?" the tall man asked then frowned when the girl whimpered something. "Wot?"
"Mmm hmmm hhhmmm," the rubber suit mumbled.
"Wot? Jabberwocky? Wot in the bloody hell is that?" tall man asked frowning.
"Yo I know what that is!" the young man shouted jumping up a bit and startling the girl.
"Scout shut it," tall man growled.
"Ah come on Snips she basically just call you a giant man eating monster and you're yellin' at me?"
"Yup," tall man said and stepped back so Medic could try to get Alice to take the foul liquid again, which she whimpered and turned her head away from it, squeezing her tiny mouth shut.
"Can I try doc?" the tall man asked.
"Eh?" Medic asked frowning.
"Yo doc don't do it, Sniper here might try to eat tha kid," the young man laughed and the tall man called Sniper frowned.
"Oi! I'm good with kids," Sniper growled.
"Vell zhen you try," Medic said handing him the small medicine cup.
"Right," Sniper said as he bent down a little so he wasn't so tall and towering over the girl and smiled at her. "Hey there Sheila, now I'm not gonna hurt you, I just need you to drink this."
"NO!" she squeaked then whimpered as the rubber suit man held her still and Sniper chuckled a little.
"It's okay Sheila it's not going to hurt you. Hey Scout tell me more about that story what's in it."
"Well it's about this girl that falls down a rabbit hole and drinks this stuff that shrinks her then eats cake that make her grow and how she just seems to get into trouble in this other world, almost gets her head cut off by a crazy queen," Scout said with a shrug making Sniper sighed and lean down to look the girl in the eye.
"Okay Shelia," he said pushing the brim of his hat up so she could look him in the eye, "this stuff here is like a magic potion, it's gonna help ya get better. Ya know stop coughing an hurting now open up or the bad queen will get ya," Sniper said as he watched little Alice's eyes go wide with terror then reluctantly open her month then shivered and gagged then whimpered as she swallow the foul stuff. When she was done Medic stepped up to her and helped her put her shirt back on then carefully lifted her up in his arms before he looked at his new team mates and nodded at them.
"Vell zhen I suppose I vill find her father zhen have her sent home," Medic said frowning at the others then looked down at Alice as she looked up at him. "Such a small thing," he mumbled as he thought about how light the girl felt.
"Stay still fräulein," Medic growled as he struggled with Alice. The past few weeks she had mostly been in a drug induce sleep with her few waking moments had been, when he hadn't been in battle, wrapped in madness with few moments of sanity and clear thinking when despite realizing who he was she was still frighten of him. But mostly it seemed to be like this, fighting to keep her from escaping the medbay and having to try to find a way to keep her voice down or from alerting the others.
"Let go, let go of me!" she yelled as she struggled to get out of his firm grasp.
"Neine, I vill not, now hold still," he growled as she fought him and he managed to drag her over to a cabinet and with one arm wrapped around her waist and with his free hand trying unscrew a bottle of chloroform and dosed a small cloth with it before clamping it over her face till she became limp then pulled it away and carried her back to his bed and tucked her in. "I vish you had stayed small vhen you fight me like zhat Alice," he said as he sat on the edge of the bed and brushed her hair back. "Greta must be losing her mind with you not at home."
"Buck up soldier don't lose hope!" shouted RED team's newly transferred soldier Jane Doe as he slammed his hand down on Tavish DeGroot's back as they sat at the table in the mess hall with Sniper, Heavy, Scout and the also newly team switcher Dell Conagher who seemed like he'd really rather be back in his work shop tinkering then drinking with them.
"He's right mate," Sniper said, "ya give up and ya'll never find your Shelia," he added trying to encourage the Demoman while ignoring the guilt he was feeling for not telling Demo that his daughter was down in the medbay.
"You don't get it laddies!" Demo hollered before taking another heavy drink from his cup. "She's never comin' back! She left, gone, ran away!"
"And why do ya think that?" Scout asked, though it was a little obvious to Sniper that the younger male didn't care and was there only to drink Demo's offered alcohol.
"Because of this!" Demo yelled as he slammed a jumbled up pile of fabric on the table and began sobbing uncontrollably into it.
"What the hell is that?" the young Bostonian asked as he raised his cup to his mouth.
"It's her jacket," Demo sobbed as he held up the fabric by the shoulders to show that it was an old light jean jacket covered with burn Demoman badges on the sleeves with a BLU Soldier badge on the right breast with an American flag on the left shoulder. "She never goes any where without it if she's goin' to be out late, it get so cold in the Badlands at night," Demo sniffed and hugged the jacket to his chest.
"Why it have Soldier badge on it?" Heavy asked as he looked over it.
"I gave it to the Corporal when she convinced me to leave BLU and join you maggots!" Soldier boomed proudly. "I also gave her that flag to be proud of despite not being born here."
"Wait, she talked you into it?" Sniper asked but was interrupted by Scout's question.
"Dude is that blood on one?"
"Huh, oh aye, that's when BLU Sniper snot me through the arm," Demo said calming down for a moment as he looked over the mostly burned Demo badges. "She was always so proud of it, made me happy she was a little proud of her drunkard old man," he said somberly.
"Dude, she must be the female version of you," Scout chuckle.
"Eh? Well ye met her once remember? You grabbed Janie's helmet and gave it to her so he'd talk to her."
"Wow, wait that was you're kid?" Scout said with a shocked look, though Sniper's face was blank as he thought about that day.
George Mathews must have been the loudest, most vulgar racist Solider that had ever worked for RED. He insulted everyone, on and off the field, not that that part was unusual but when most of the comments are racist to everyone not born in the United States and most of your team is made up of foreigners you tend to burn every bridge you have and end up with your entire team despising you and wanting you dead. So to say that he'd rather barricade himself into his room most nights instead of drinking with the team and chancing that he let his guard down and spend the night getting sent repeatedly through respawn was a safe bet. This being the norm of things one could say that it was surprising the day he announced that he would be joining Heavy, Sniper, Engineer, and Scout for their trip to the nearest bar in the town of 2Fort was a bit of a shock to the team. Of course it didn't take Scout long before he started to bitch about having Soldier go with them and was quickly silenced by Sniper and Engineer Robbie as they argued who was going to drive now since neither wanted George in his truck; Robbie lost the coin toss.
The first two hours at the bar were pretty much uneventful, by then George was on his twelfth beer and had began talking with some of the locals. Now the REDs had a simple rule, don't talk with the locals and there won't be any trouble. This was a time for relaxing not getting into fights with men that obviously didn't want them around anyways but George wanted to blather on about how much manlier he was compared to the locals.
"Mate, sit it and shut it," Sniper growled at George while Robbie's eyes shifted nervously and he rested a hand in his lap to go for his pistol as soon as someone else drew a weapon.
"I will not take orders from a convict coward like you!" George growled as he stood up and little unsteadily and Sniper groaned as he ran a hand over his face.
"This ain't goin to go over well."
"Yo man just knock it off, ya know I'm up for a good fight like the next guy but come on we don't want trouble here," Scout added which surprised the rest of them since this Scout had only been with them for three years and was still a loud, obnoxious and generally a pain in the ass kid and never was a voice of reason. But George didn't heed anything his teammates said and stumbled over to a group of workers who looked like they were pretty use to beating up whoever annoyed them. The remaining REDs didn't listen to closely to what George was going on about though it wasn't hard for anyone in the bar to hear George's part of it and that was his normal spew of insults, how manly he was, that he could take them all down and for a new twist he added that he could come back for the dead. The last one shut everybody up for a moment before one of the men George had been boasting to smirked.
"Yeah right, how to you do that put a bag on your head then take it off right when you're about to pass out?" the man said with a laugh then his buddies joined in.
"Oh shit," Sniper muttered when he noticed how George set his jaw. "Mate don't do anything crazy now," he said as Heavy and him stood to try to intervene about the same time George pulled out the pistol he carried with him and the men at the table stopped laughing and finally looked worried.
"Alright then maggots, you want to see me come back the dead then I'll come back from the dead." Two things happened about this time, firstly the four other members of RED team jumped up and tried to reach him before he did what they thought he was going to do, secondly, George placed the muzzle of his gun in his mouth. With a loud bag the former soldier's brains were spewed out behind him and his body fell to the ground as his shocked coworkers stared in disbelief, the bar was silent.
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit!" Scout yelled as he clung to dear life on the side of the bed of Robbie's truck as Heavy sat near him, bracing himself with his legs and trying to keep anything else from pouring out of George's skull.
"Shut up back there!" Robbie snapped as he barreled down the road back to base. Twenty minutes later they came to a screeching stop and Sniper jumped out then ran inside to fetch Medic.
"Do you think he is still alive?" Heavy asked frowning as he looked down at George's head.
"I don't' think so," Robbie muttered as he got out of his truck then frowned when he saw how green Scout looked. "Don't you dare throw up in my truck boy."
"I don't think little Scout can hold his drink," Heavy muttered then looked over towards the base when they heard footsteps to see Sniper and a grumpy Medic adjusting his glasses as he stopped next to the truck.
"Vhat happen?"
"He blew his brains out in the bar," Robbie said as he lit up a cigarette.
"Zhe Spy is going to be so up set, he's been vanting to kill Soldier himself for a vhile now," he said as he looked at George's head. "Heavy, vhy are you holding his head he is dead drop it," he said frowning. Heavy merely shrug and did as he was told, dropping the deceased's soldier's head with a loud wet plop which in turn made Sniper frown, Robbie groan at the thought that he was going to have to clean that and finally had scout throw half his body out of the side of the truck and start hurling violently.
"Damn it!" Robbie cussed then kicked the tire of his truck.
"Well were out of a soldier," Robbie said as he sat at one of the tables in the wreck room working on some paper work.
"So what are we going to do? Not like we need him right?" Scout mumbled as he flipped through a magazine.
"Huffuh mmmiedf nnf hhhhuuffff."
"Dude did he just call me honey?"
"Non," Spy interjected quickly as he stared out of the window. "Sadly we need to replace our fallen ally. One of us needs to go to the administer and-"
"I've got it!" boomed Demoman's voice as he jumped up then stumbled a bit before he caught himself on a chair. "I've got the perfect man for the job! I just need a little help for Scout and I'll have ta give someone a call. She's the only one he'll listen ta…I think," he muttered the last part as he scratched his head then stumbled off towards the phone.
"What do you think he is going to do?" Heavy asked.
"Make a phone call."
"But to who? Who he knows can help us?"
"Not a clue mate but why worry about it? The longer it takes for us to get a new soldier the longer we can get a brake right? I've been meaning ta go visit the folks," Sniper said thoughtfully.
"Man that would be cool! I haven't seen ma in a while," Scout said smiling.
"Don't get your hopes up boy, Demoman just said he needed you," Spy pointed out.
"Damn it!"
"I'm more concerned on who zis 'she' is," Spy said thoughtfully. "It couldn't be her could it?"
"You have got to be kidding me!" Scout shouted at Demo.
"Just go an get the blasted thing," Demo growled.
"Fucking suicide mission," Scout huffed as he headed out to BLU base.
"Comin through comin through!" Scout yelled a few minutes later as he ran full speed back to RED base.
"Give it to me lassie!" Demo shouted then grinned when Scout tossed a helmet to the girl Demo had called. About five seconds later they heard BLU Soldier's war cry as he came running around the bend waving his trench shovel in the air, his helmet was missing.
The girl stood up strait and put the helmet on then when Soldier was a few feet away she stepped in front of his path.
"MAGGOT!" she screamed and Soldier came to a skidding to a halt then stood at attention. "You are a sorry excuse for a soldier maggot! Do you have anything to say for yourself?"
"No sir Corporal sir!"
"Is that so? Well maybe it's cause you haven't come to visit me in a while you bloody bastard," she said pushed the helmet back a little so she could see better. "Hiya Janie."
Jane Doe grinned then pulled the girl into a tight hug. "How've ya been Alice?"
"Oh same old same old. It's been too quiet with you gone Janie. You should come over an visit us sometime, Greta said she even misses ye a wee bit."
"Negative!" he said loudly with a shake of his head. "Not after what your dad said about me! It's unforgivable! The brute deserves a fist to the face," Jane growl but it only served to make Alice roll her eyes.
"Really Janie I think yer both over reacting ta all this," Alice sighed.
"Negative! He knew what he was saying and I wont stand for it!"
"But Jane, come on boyo, this is stupid! You're the one that agreed ta kill him for weapons first, that short lady stopped by the house and told 'im."
"I said nothing of the sort! He's the one that called me a c-c-c," Jane cleared his throat and leaned down to her ear, "a civilian."
"Ah come on now, da would never call ye that," Alice said with a chuckle.
"This is no laughing matter!" Jane yelled.
"HEY! Don't you yell at me lassie!" Demo snapped as he stormed out of the nearby door and up to Jane.
"I wouldn't have to yell at her if her dad wasn't a worthless civilian calling one eyed maggot!"
"Oh is that the best you can do? I've gotten better insults out of drunken Turkish spies!"
"Excuse me for trying to not offend the ears of a little girl!"
"Hey I'm not little," Alice sighed, despite the fact that she was indeed shorter then the two men, and pushed back the helmet again then shook her head as they both continued their onslaught of insults that went back and forth like a tennis match while the young girl stood off to the side quickly and silently losing her temper.
"What's goin' on?" Sniper asked as he walked up to the group watching things unfold from the window, mug of coffee in his hand.
"It seems the Demoman brought his daughter to talk to ze BLU Soldier," Spy said before turning away. "Greta is in ze car outside."
"Does Doc know?"
"Know vhat?" Medic asked as walked in with Archimedes perched on his shoulder.
"That Gr-" Scout started to say before Sniper elbowed him hard in the shoulder.
"Demo's Sheila out, she gotten taller," Sniper said thoughtfully then chuckled.
"What?" Scout demanded.
"If I remember correctly we're about ta see fireworks."
"Huh?"
"You'll see."
Alice glared angrily at the men in front of her. "That's bloody well enough!" she shouted startling both of them. "I'm bloody tired of the two of ye bickerin' like two middle aged hags! Why don't ye just man up and put it behind ye or just beat each other senseless with yer fist and get it out of yer bloody system!" she yelled at them then stood there, her sides heaving in and out.
The two men stared at her dumbfounded for a moment before Jane sighed heavily and put his fist on his hips as he shook his head. "You're right Corporal, you're right."
"Really?" she asked looking rather surprised that the soldier was being so level headed and understanding and if she had looked behind her then she would have seen the same look on the faces of the RED team members.
"That's right! We should just put this behind us, right after I beat the tar out of your dad!" he growled before slamming his fist into Tavish's face. It only took Tavish a moment for his senses to return to him before he return the blows to Jane's face as well, Alice wisely stepped back and away from the fray as the two old warriors began their battle again. As the men punched, kick and generally rolled on the ground trying to beat each other's brains out Alice walked over to a grouping of crates that were waiting for pick up and sat down.
"There they go," Sniper said sipping his coffee then raised an eyebrow as he noticed Medic out of the corner of his eye put the dove on a shelf before he stepped outside. "Where's he goin'?" he muttered to himself as he watched Medic walk up to Alice and begin speaking softly to her and Alice was smiling and nodding her and motioned to her right arm the nodded again before Medic reached out a patted her head.
Sniper jumped to his feet. "SHIT HE KNOWS!" he shouted before running full force towards the medbay. He couldn't remember any other time Medic had been left completely alone with Alice and now Heavy and him had been drinking with Demo for an hour or so and there was no telling what Medic could do in that amount of time.
He was panting and near breathless when he practically slammed into the medbay door when he reached it. Medic was sitting at his desk working on something till he looked up at Sniper and frowned. "Vhat?
"Ah nothin' just thought ya might want some company or help with tha Shelia," Sniper panted but Medic only frowned more at his teammate.
"Zhe Fräulein is sleeping now, thank gott."
"Problems?" he asked walking up to Medic's desk and sat down and watched the other closely. "Find anything else out about her?"
""Neine, vhy?"
"No reasons, just thought maybe she told ya about family or something but I guess that's okay," Sniper said taking off his hat and ran his hand through his hair.
Medic stared at the other silently, still frowning till he broke the silence. "You mean like zhe fact zhat she gave her mutter's name and not Herr Demoman's?"
"Wot? She's his?" Sniper said, his voice hitting an uncommonly high note while trying to fain ignorance.
"Ja, but you don't seem so surprised yourself. So vhen did you figure it out?" Medic asked and Sniper figure the jig was up and he might as well just be honest.
"She called me Jabberwocky the other day, only she ever called me that."
"Vhy didn't you mention zhis? I doubt zhe Spy hasn't figured it out on his own by now."
"Well Doc," Snips said putting his hat back on and rubbed the back of his neck and sighed, "because of her dad."
"Zhe Demoman? Vhat does he have to do vith zhis?"
"Well Doc considering how bad things have been between you a Demo."
"Zhat has nozhing to do vith zhe Fräulein …you zhought I would do somezhing to her didn't you?" Medic demanded narrowing his eyes at the other man.
"Well Doc ya can't go three days without killin' him. And that's only on the battlefield, god help him if he mentions Greta."
"As I said before; zhat has nozhing to do vith her. Besides vhy vould I vant to harm her; out of zhe eight men I vork vith it took zhe twelve year old girl to have zhe balls to tell me zhat her father vasing fucking meine vife!" Medic snapped angrily making Sniper wince a little.
"Well mate, I make it a point not ta get involved with marital things. And that defiantly didn't have anything to do with me."
"You could have warn me," Medic hissed but then they both went silent when they heard a clash of metal on tile from Medic's room.
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