A/N: Thank you to all that have reviewed. And stuck with this story from the beginning. You guys are the best! And thanks for all the support! I hope you like this one. Sorry for any miss spelled words. Can't catch them all.

Johnny looked around and saw what looked like a possible cave up the hill, surrounded by brushes and trees. His curiosity got the better of him. "Let's go check that out, looks like a cave. But be careful, something to could be living in it."

"Then maybe we should skip it." Replied the Doc.

"No, let's go see. Maybe I can find some arrowheads for the kids."

"Ah Roy, Let me check it out first, I'll check for signs of any animals around the entrance first."

But Roy was off with a smile on his face, Johnny looked at Brackett who just shrugged his shoulders and walked up beside Johnny. Johnny walked faster to try and catch up with his partner. Roy had already entered as Johnny was six feet away. He put up his hand to stop Brackett. "Let me check around, move over there in the trees and wait." Brackett didn't argue as he moved out of range. Johnny looked around and saw prints, and fresh scant on the ground.

"Roy! Get out of there!"

"What? Why? I'm not done." He turned back around and started looking around, seeing a set of glowing red eyes that was looking at him. "O…"

Johnny ran up to the entrance just as he did a roar filled the air. "Roy!"

Roy came running out of the cave.

"Don't run!"

But Roy grabbed his arm and jerked "Run!"

Brackett who was already in the trees started climbing a tree. The bear came out of the cave and gave chase getting closer to them.

Johnny looked back to see how close the bear was and seeing it getting closer ran faster. Roy almost ran into a tree trying to look back. "What now?"

They saw a cliff and Johnny kept going and jumped off, he remembered walking by it from earlier that day. Roy stopped and looked down to see Johnny landing with a big splash in the water below. Then he leaned over and the ground gave way and he fell into the water himself. Once he surfaced he looked around and saw Johnny swimming to the embankment.

Johnny stood on the embankment water running off his clothes as he looked up at the bear that stood on two feet on the cliff. He hoped it wasn't planning to jump too. "Roy, get out of the water. Where's Brackett?"

"I don't know, I didn't see him."

"I hope he's safe." Johnny watched the bear give up and turn to leave.

Brackett climbed out of the tree and looked around. No sight on the bear he slowly got up and started to jog in the same direction that the bear had gone, but going off to the right hoping to avoid the bear. Soon he found a river and he remembered it from earlier, he even took some photos of it. He walked down to the river and saw Johnny and Roy soaking wet. "You two ok?"

They looked over at him and greeted him with smiles. "Yeah, You?"

"I'm fine, it's been awhile since I climbed a tree. But I managed it." He came over as Roy began to remove his wet pants and shirt. "Hey if you're going to go swimming, I will too. I'm a bit overheated." He removed his boots and stripped down to his underwear…his blue briefs with red hearts on them. Roy smiled and Johnny snickered.

"Hey Doc, never thought you were the type."

Brackett smiled and turned a little red. "It was a Valentine's day present from Dix."

"Lucky you Doc, all I got for Valentine's Day were a box of cookies my aunt sent me."

Roy thought it was all funny until he remembered what he got, and decided to not to say anything.

Brackett went in and liked the way it felt on his hot skin. The water felt better than a shower, somewhat cool but still warm.

Johnny took his shoes off and also stripped down to his blue boxers and hung them over tree branches to dry and walked in.

Roy hesitated he didn't feel like a swim but he was hot after that scary bear moment. He stripped down and hung his wet clothes up also. He then got in and they swam for ten minutes when Johnny got out. "Be right back."

He climbed up the embankment and did a back flip off it landing gracefully in the water.

Brackett looked at him. "That looks like fun. I bet I could flip better than that." He grinned as he got out and went up the embankment and took at off at a run to the drop off. He did a front flip and then landed head first in the water like a pro. He felt just like teenager again.

Johnny clapped his hands and he and Brackett looked at Roy.

"What? I'm not jumping off."

"Scared?" Johnny said serious as ever.

"No. I just don't feel like jumping off."

Brackett and Johnny shared a look. "He's scared."

Roy shook his head. "Fine. I'll do it." He grumbled the whole way up. He looked down and then took a few steps back and ran at it jumping off he went head down in the water.

Johnny started to laugh. "That was great!"

Bracket rolled his eyes and Roy swam over. "There. You two happy?"

Johnny looked behind Roy seeing something floating on the water. "What is that?"

Brackett and Roy looked at the red thing floating in the water.

Suddenly Roy went as red at it was and went over to grab it. He turned around with a lopsided smirk. "Oops, I didn't plan to go commando. I guess I need to get Joanne to buy me some more boxers."

"That's a risk of getting worms like that from the water?" Brackett said looking at him in disbelief.

"Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. The fall was just too much for them to stay on I guess." That got a big laugh from Johnny which also makes him laugh.

"You better hurry and get them on. A fish might come along for a snack."

They all laughed at that and Roy put his boxers back on and went to sit on a rock. "Are you two ever going to stop swimming?"

Johnny shook his head. "Nope. I'm ganna swim until I'm shriveled!"

"How can you not be? My hands and toe's are."

"I don't shrivel so easily my friend."

Brackett called it quits a good thirty minutes later while Roy took a nap.

Johnny came out soon after and put on his almost dry clothes. "Hey Doc. Do you think we should cover him up?"

"I don't know why you would. It's hot out."

Johnny walked over to a bush and picked up some lose branches with leaves still stuck to them and put them lightly over Roy's body. "Pays him back for laughing at me over Chet's jokes."

'Well in that case you should have used a sticker bush."

Brackett seemed be a completely different person when he was away from work. Johnny liked this side of him better, more fun to hang out with. Then he saw a deer on the other side of the lake. "Doc. Look."

Brackett went to grab his camera but remembered that his pack was gone. "Darn."

The deer went on his way and Johnny woke Roy up.

Roy looked down at himself. "What is this?" He moved them and looked at John. "Why did you do that?"

"Do what?" Putting on his best innocent face.

"Put these on me."

"I didn't." He nodded his head over toward Brackett.

"Yeah sure he did." Roy got up and put his close on too. "What now?"

"More hiking! Don't you just love it?"

"Yeah. But no more caves."

Brackett went to put his clothes on but they were bundled up on the ground. "Ugg. Wrinkles."

They had walked for a few miles and then Johnny decided to call it quits for the day. Roy dropped down on what he thought would be a soft spot and pulled out his canteen. "I'm going to be too tired to go to work on Monday at this rate."

"It's good for you Roy. Toughen you up. "Johnny put his pack down and began to put together a pit for the night fire, as Brackett began to sit up the tent.

Roy excused himself to have a bit of privacy and left them to it. Johnny just finished up the fire, and began to put stuff into a pot and put it over the fire that was beginning to burn nicely. Brackett got out the plates and silverware. He was hungry. He wished he had his camera to take a few pictures of the sunset, and the campfire. Dixie would have loved to see them.

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The food was done and Roy came back and got his share. The three men ate the stew that Johnny had put together, neither of the other two men asked him what was in it. Might be better to not know, since it wasn't from a can, at least most of it wasn't, especially the meat.

Roy started to feel itchy and gave it a little scratch then went back to eating. Got a few more bites in when the itch came back and he scratched the hell out of it. But the more he scratched the more it got itchy. "What the heck."

Bracket looked up from his food. "What is it?"

"I have this bad itch." Then he felt a burning sensation. "Ahh. Now it burns!" He jumped up and took his pants down a little way and looked at his upper leg near his butt. "Look how red that is."

Johnny and Brackett went to get a closer look. "Looks like you have a rash Roy."

"Thanks Doctor. I would have never figured that out if you haven't told me." Roy was getting grumpy and the itch was getting more itchier and burny. "Sorry Doctor."

"That's ok Roy. Johnny I don't suppose you brought a first aid kit?"

Johnny nodded and went to get it. "Hey Roy. What plant did you play in?"

"I didn't play in anything."

"What did you go near?"

"I don't know! I've been all over the forest."

Johnny gave Brackett the first aid kid. "Roy, pick one to fix you." He snickered. Chet is going to love this.

Brackett grabbed some ointment out of the first aid kit and applied it on Roy's leg. "Do your butt yourself Roy." Brackett handed him the ointment. "I'm going to finish my food."

"Thanks Doc."

Brackett went over to where he sat but found his food missing. "Johnny. Did you move my food?"

"Why do I keep getting blamed for everything missing around here?"

"My food's gone." He frowned. He was so hungry.

Johnny looked around hoping it wasn't a bear.

Brackett heard movement off to the left and saw a bush. "Shush…" Johnny and Roy froze as they looked at the bush. Golden eyes that were glowing were looking through the busy bush.

Johnny breathed a sigh of relief. "It's a small animal. Nothing to worry about."

Then the small animal jumped out of the bush and ran at Brackett. Brackett yelled out and moved back, fell over a log and landed on his back knocking the wind out of him.

Roy looked at it. "Your right! Hello little guy." He looked over at the small raccoon. "It's kind of cute."

Brackett looked over at it. "No its not. They carry disease and rabies. There filthy."

"Doc! How could you say something so mean to it? It's a wonderful animal."

Roy agreed with Johnny by shaking his head.

"I'm a Doctor. That makes me right!" He pulled himself up and hissed at the animal. "Get!"

The raccoon just stood there. "I said get! Go on."

"I don't think he's going anywhere Doc." Johnny threw it a piece of meat from this stew.

"Don't feed it Johnny."

The raccoon took the small meat and ran away. "Why? It got reed of him didn't it?"

After they all ate and disposed of the left over's they went to bed. The next day they headed back to the Rover to go home. On the way there Brackett found his bad in peaces the only thing still in tacked was his camera and that made his day even better.

The drive back was quite and when they finely got back to work Johnny and Roy had one hell of a story to tell their work mates. Brackett showed Dixie the photo's he developed and she wanted to keep them. He let her.

The end.

A/N: Thank you for reading this. I hope I didn't disappoint anyone. Please let me know what you all think.

I'm going to post another story tomorrow. It will be a Dr. Brackett and Dixie romance story. I've never done a romance before so cant what to see how it comes out.