"Man I am stuffed..." Rocket said holding his stomach as he leaned back in his chair.

"Those are words I never expected to hear you say Rocket." Peter joked earning him a halfhearted scowl from Rocket. The waiter came by and placed the check on the table and left to tend to other customers. Rocket and Peter both reached for the check and smirked.

"Let me take this one..." Peter said with a grin.

"Not on your flarking life Pete I'm taking it after all I ate the most so I am responsible for most of it." Rocket argued. As the couple argued over who should pay the bill Orion decided to put down the money himself effectively shutting his parents up.

"Orion you didn't have to pay..." Peter and Rocket said in unison, Orion simply gave them both a skeptical look.

"Oh really? Then tell me, exactly how long would you two have sat here arguing over who would pay if I hadn't stepped in." Peter opened his mouth to retort but quickly shut it. This all but confirmed Orion's statement and so Orion nodded.

"Yeah... Thought so." Once the waiter had come by and picked up the bill Rocket and the others made their way out of the restaurant and back into the city. Rocket pulled out a map of the area and Orion and Peter stood behind him so they could look at it as well.

"So where to next guys?" Orion asked as he looked at the map.

"Hmmmm we could go shopping and have fun making your dad try on some stuff." Peter suggested with a sly grin. This earned him a death glare from Rocket that to most would feel like two Daggers piercing into them but only caused Peter's smile to widen.

"What's the matter Rocket?" Peter said in a sarcastically worried tone that was meant to egg things on. Rocket let loose an only half joking growl.

"You know flarking well what is the matter Quill..." Rocket almost snarled. Peter quickly laid off of Rocket about the whole clothing thing. Once Rocket seemed to relax a bit again they resumed their mission of finding the next stop of the day.

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There were a lot of things, Rocket thought to himself, that he would do for Peter and Orion. However Rocket never in a million years pictured himself being dumb enough to be sitting on a wooden board in the middle of the water.

"So how did I get out here in the first place?" Rocket finished his thoughts aloud as he sat on a surfboard more or less against his will next to Peter and Orion who were on their own.

"Because you love us and we asked you to?" Peter asked with a sly smile. Rocket scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"You mean you two wouldn't shut up until I came out here..." He grumbled.

"Different method same result!" Orion chimed in. Before Rocket could manage a reply they noticed another wave coming up and prepared themselves and their boards for it. As he wave made it's way under their boards they slowly got to a standing position and rode their boards towards the shore. Rocket was a little tense and tentative at first but slowly came to relax and even if he wouldn't admit it to anyone actually began to enjoy it. Unfortunately as Rocket was swept up into the moment as he rode the wave he neglected to stop properly and the front end of his board nosedived into the beach and sent him flying into the sand. Rocket sat up as he spit out a mouthful of sand.

"That's why you watch where you're going Dad." Orion chuckled as he approached his father. Rocket finished getting to his feet and dusted himself off before unlodging his board from the sand.

"Ha, ha very funny where's your pa?" Rocket asked with a quizzical look.

"Right here!" Peter said as he walked up behind the two. Once they brought their boards back to the rental shop they made their way back to the hotel.

Back at the hotel Peter and Rocket got busy changing out of their beach clothes and into more casual attire before picking Orion up and going out for dinner.

"So... Having fun yet?" Peter decided to ask to break the silence in the room. Rocket came out of the bathroom rubbing a towel through the fur on his head.

"Yeah, I mean I may act a bit of a kill joy but it's still quality time with my husband and my son so of course I am having fun." Rocket said with a slight smile. Ever since Norion started making appearences Rocket had slowly devolved back into his old self that took Peter eons to break him out of and reveal the real sweet Rocket he married.

This is not to say Rocket was ever really rude or anything of the sort like he used to be but he was always a litle stricter and serious lately. Peter could fully understand why Rocket was getting more gruff again after all it isn't everyday that some clone of your son tries to almost kill your son and husband so he had cut Rocket a lot more slack as had the others as they all could more or less understand what Rocket was feeling. Drax especially only more so than Rocket because unlike Rocket Drax had actually had his wife and child killed in front of him. Drax however had been very sympathetic to Rocket these past couple months.

"So you ready to go?" Rocket said, his voice breaking Peter from his thoughts.

"Hmmm, what?" Peter said as he shook off his daze. Rocket sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"I said... You ready to go get Orion?" Rocket repeated.

"Oh... Uh yeah let's get going." Peter said as he tried to recover from that little slip up. Rocket was concerened about what had Peter distracted but decided it could wait so he just led Peter out the door of their room and they made their way to Orion's hotel room.

-Meanwhile-

"How do you suppose the three of them are doing down there?" Drax asked Gamora as he was once again sharpening his swords.

"Knowing them like I do... Peter is doing something to embarass Rocket... Rocket is threatening to shoot something and Orion is egging them on." Gamora said with a deadpan look as she continued some maintenance on the Milano.

"And what of this Norion person?" Drax inquired. Gamora then developed a more solemn face as she turned back to face Drax.

"I don't know Drax... I just hope when he returns that we are ready..." Was her only reply and with that silence once again fell on the Milano.

-Anoher scene jump line look how pretty it is-

Rocket looked down at his chest where an orange floral necklace type thing was hanging around his neck. Apparently it's part of the culture here to wear them. Rocket looked over to Peter and Orion who just finished their meal and had similar necklaces adorning them, Orion's was a deep red and Peter's was blue-green which broke the color trend set between Rocket and Orion's. The place they ate at also had live entertainment currently there were some fire dancers which Rocket found surprisingly intriguing to watch how the men twirled the staff-like sticks around with fire burning on either end. Once the show had ended they thanked the waitress and the performers and made their way back to the hotel.

Once back in their room Rocket took his necklace off and placed it neatly on the nightstand. Once he got in bed and looked at Peter he was instanty reminded of his feeling Peter was hiding something from him that he had earlier when Peter was obviously distracted.

"Pete..." Rocket said. This got Peter's attention and got him to turn and face Rocket.

"Yes Rocket?" Peter replied.

"What had you so distracted earlier?" Rocket asked as he wrung his hands nervously.

Inwardly Rocket knew what Peter was worried about but he felt he needed confirmation before trying to reassure Peter that everything was fine.

"Just thinking about stuff." Was Peter's reply. Peter could tell by the look on his husband's face that his answer was not satisfying him nor was it fooling him causing him to sigh.

"Look Rocket I just... Ever since Norion came into the picture you haven't been the same... I know you want us safe, but I miss that more fun loving gentler side of you that I married... I'm not sure I like the much mor strict and serious Rocket you are being lately." Peter said. Rocket was proccessing what Peter just said.

Honestly Rocket wasn't surprised he knew that was probably what had Peter concerned and this was actually what he was prepared to reply to.

"Pete... I know I have seemed a little harsh lately I don't mean to be but like you said I just want my family safe... I know I need to relax more if not for our sake then for Orion's I mean there is no need to stress our son out more than he already is... That's why I agreed to this trip in the first place to try and get away from al of that and rekindle the feelings that got us where we are now." Rocket finished as he leaned up to kiss Peter passionately. Peter reciprocated the kiss but notbefore turning off the lights in their room and holding Rocket close before they drifted off to sleep in each other's arms. Unknown to the both of them Orion was listening through the door the entire time and wa now smiling like a crazy person.

"Yes! Plan: get my parents to remember their love for eachother is so far a sucess." Orion exclaimed to himself in a whisper before sneaking back off to his room to get some sleep himself.

(Okay so I tried a new method to make my normally shorter chapters a bit longer... I basically wrote a few of my shorter chapters separately then used linebreaks/timejumps to link them together into a longer chapter if you guys like this new method let me know and I will start using this more often)