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The next day Johnny got all his gear ready and called Roy to tell him he was ready. Roy was on his way, he was going to drive his old antic car over to Johnny's house and then drive John's Rover for him. Johnny smiling broadly when he thought of the fun they were going to have. He was going to teach the Doc how to fish with a spear, and Roy how to find his way in the woods without a compass.

When Roy got there he helped Johnny with his bags and they were off to pick Brackett up. Once they were all in the Rover they were talking and Johnny was going on about how he and his grandpa would go on trips and all the stuff he had taught him.

The air was warm and the air smelled sweet, the trees were various shades of green along with the grass. Some parts that Roy could see were nothing but reddish dirt, Johnny had his window rolled all the way down and his eyes closed enjoying the fresh air blowing against his face.

Brackett was reading a mystery book in the back seat. He was relaxed in his jeans and light blue teeshirt. Roy couldn't see his eyes in the mirror because of Brackett's dark sunglasses, but there was a slight smile on the good doctor's face. Roy had his window rolled up and was started to sweat he looked at the gas meter and then over at John. "Where's the next gas station at?"

"About a mile and a half." Johnny replied sitting up and opened his eyes rummaging through the glove box and moving stuff around.

"Good we're almost out." He smiled at the song that came on the radio and turned it up he loved that country song.

"Man, I'm out of snacks." John found no nuts or pretzels and looked back at Brackett in the backseat. "How you doing back there?"

"Doing well. It's a bit breezy but other than that I think it's nice. Hey Roy could you turn that down please?"

Roy did and then they pulled up to the gas station and he and John got out.

"I'm going to get some snacks. Hey Doc do you want anything? Snack or something to drink?"

Brackett sat up and stuck his head out the window. "Sure. Coke would be nice. But I don't want a snack, going on a diet, Dixie and I are doing it together." He said with a smile.

John didn't see the joke in it and believed him and walked off toward the store but then Roy called out to him. "Get me something!"

Johnny grabbed some drinks and went to look for some snacks. "Ohhh." He grabbed a packet of mixed doughnuts and some Pringle chips, pretzels, nuts, and for the Doc he picked up a banana. Then he went up to the counter and saw a pretty girl and smiled big at her. "Hello."

She looked up at him and smiled. "Hello. Is this all?"

"Yeah…I mean no. The gas."

She looked outside and rang it up. "That will be eleven forty three." She looked up at him and put her hand out.

"Sure." He handed her the money and looked at her hand no engagement ring or marriage ring. "I'm John. John Gage."

She gave him back his change. "Love the name. I'm Lilly. You look so nice."

"Thank you, so do you." He smiled again. "So do you live around here?"

"Sort of. Why you asking me out?" She came around the counter and the first thing John saw was her big round tummy. She must have been 7 or 8 months pregnant.

"Ummm…Well…I don't know. I was going to ask you if you knew where a book store was."

She looked down sadly. "It's this isn't it?" She looked up again and John felt bad. "You men are mean!" She went to the back of the store.

"But miss. I never said I didn't want to go out…" But she didn't hear him. "Good going John. Look what you did." He went to the car and got in a sad look on his face. "Here you go Doc."

Brackett took his coke and banana and saw the look on John's face. "What's the matter?"

"Nothing. Here you go Roy." Then back to Brackett. "Want some?" He reached over the backseat with the doughnuts.

Brackett looked at them, he didn't really want one but they looked so good. "Thanks Johnny." He grabbed a white powdered one and started to eat it. "Ummm…It's so good. Could I have another one?"

John handed him the whole thing. "Eat as many as you want I lost my appetite."

"What about me?" Came Roy's voice. "I want to try the chocolate ones."

"Why? The white ones are way better." Brackett handed Roy a white one. "Trust me."

Roy tried it and the rolled the window down and spit it out. "Aww. That's nasty!"

Johnny laughed and took one from Brackett. "I'll see who's right." He popped the whole thing into his mouth and started to chew. "It's not bad. I'm with Doc on this one." He said with his mouthful of food showing.

Roy looked at the two men. "You're both crazy." He reached over and grabbed a chocolate one and took a small bite. "Now this one is good." Then he chewed it some more and his face changed and he spit that out also. "Man those things are disgusting! Did you get anything else Johnny?"

John gave him the bag of chips. "You have no taste in food Roy. They're wonderful!"

"Yeah." Brackett had eaten the whole bag and wanted more. "Hold on Roy. I'll be right back." He ran in the store and came back with 3 bags of them, barbeque, garlic and ruffles. "That's all they had but the garlic ones will keep the vampire out of your tent tonight. Hey John is the reason you didn't like it in there is cause of the big guy that curses a lot?"

"What? What happened to the girl?"

"What girl."

"Never mind. Let's go."

Once they got to their destination they pulled up the car under a big tree got out and grabbed their gear. Johnny put on his cowboy hat and Brackett surprising Roy pulled one on as well, leaving Roy with a ugly baseball cap that had been washed too many times. The three men with their backpacks on began to walk up the mountain Johnny leading them, not following the marked trail. He knew where he was taking them.

About an hour later Roy sat down on a rock and looked for his canteen, wiping the sweat from his face and neck. "Johnny, have you seen my water?"

Johnny looked at Brackett who was having no problems keeping up and smiled at his partner. "It should be in your bag and I have some sunflower seeds. Want some?"

Roy shook his head no, and found his canteen int he bottom of his bag, pulled it out and drank some.

Brackett pushed his hat up on his forehead and looked around and wondered if Dixie might like to come out here with him one weekend, just the two of them. She would be scared at night from the animal sounds and as they sat by the fire, she'd no doubt cuddle up to him.

"You ready Roy? We have miles to go before we stop to fish for our dinner."

"Dinner…I'm starving Johnny."

"Well pally you will get it when you can catch it. Doc want to see who catches the most fish?"

"Sure, I'm game. I brought some of my grandpappies famous bait."

Roy stood up, feeling like an old man compared to the other two.

Finally after what felt like forever they stopped in a nice area that was not far from the lake. Johnny had explained it to him that if they were too close to the water the animals were more likely to wander into their campsite tonight. Roy didn't want to find a bear in his sleeping bag. He would only share his bag with Joanne. He watched the other two drop their packs and head off to the big beautiful lake, the mountains behind it reflecting off of it. The trees and land looked so peaceful.

Johnny's eyes shined. "Now isn't that a nice sight?"

Roy looked around and liked all that he saw. "Yes. It's nice. Jo would love it. Maybe I should take her and the kids up here. Or leave the kids with her brother or something."

Brackett was quietly taking photographs of the scenery.

Johnny started to walk around looking at the dirt ground but then stopped. "Hey guys. Come here. Look at these tracks. Can you guess what made them?"

Roy looked down at them and shook his head. "I don't know."

"Take a guess."

"A cougar?"

"No. It's a bear. I don't get how you came up with a cougar." He laughed a little and then went on to look for some more.

Roy looked around and saw one. "Hey look. I know what this one is. It's a fox!"

Johnny came over and looked down at it. It was small clearly a squirrel made that. He looked up at Roy and saw the huge smile on his face so he decided to not tell him. "Yeap. You know my grandpa taught me how to track. But not just animals, people too."

"That's nice. If one of us go's missing then we can rest assure that you can fun us." Roy smiled big and they walked over to a tree.

"Ha ha. Funny Roy. Real funny."

Brackett stopped taking pictures and went to look at the fox print. "That is not a fox. They must not know their prints." Brackett was surprised at John thinking it was a fox or maybe he just didn't want to embarrass Roy.

"Let's go hiking."

Brackett didn't feel like it but wasn't about to ruin the boys fun. "Sounds good to me."

Smiling they started up another green brown mountain. Roy saw an eagle fly over head and it was huge. Brackett tried to take a picture but it was gone. Johnny found a large feather from a big bird and put it in his pack.

"Where do you want to set up camp Johnny?" Brackett asked looking up admiring the colors of the sky.

"Somewhere flat." He smiled and stopped to look around where they were was a perfect place to set up camp. The ground was grassy not many rocks and under bushy tall trees. "Let's camp here then keep hiking."

"Johnny, don't you think we should take a break first?" Brackett wasn't use to walking this much and was getting tired and thirsty.

"Setting up camp is a break. I'll do the tents and you can sit and watch. That way you'll be ready to go." He smiled and walked over to the spot he thought was best and took out the big tent that they would all be sharing with Roy helping.

Roy looked around. "I just hope there aren't any snakes around."

Brackett was drinking some cool water from the canteen and tapping his foot.

Roy and John finished and they started walking again. John found some more prints and started to fallow them, he just couldn't remember what the name of the animal that made them were called.

Brackett was once again talking photos and Roy was sniffing a tree that smelled like pine. "Smells pretty good."

Johnny was walking close to the edge of a cliff and lost his footing on some lose rocks and fell over. He was trying to grab onto something to stop himself from falling but more rocks and dirt fell taking him with it. With a yell he went over the edge and tumbled to the bottom hitting rocks, bumps and other stuff going down.

Roy heard John yell and looked over in time to see his friend go over. "Johnny!"

A/N I hope you liked it! Wonder what will happen to Johnny? Please REVIEW!! Reviews make me Wright faster. Thanks for reading!