"Yo Lezpez get up we gotta go in like... 15 minutes to get to base on time" Puck says in a loud voice with a devilish smile on his lips, as he comes out the bathroom with a towel around his waist.
"Err remind me again why I'm friends with you when you call me names like that" Santana groans from beneath the pillow she placed on her head, before popping it out and glaring at Puck.
"Duh its 'cause ya love me and find my body insatiable" he grins with a smirk as runs his hands down his chest and does a ridiculous pose.
"Look Puck we've been over this before, your just not my type" Santana replies in the most serious voice she can muster.
"Aww come on I'm everyone's type" Puck says with a pout on his lips.
"I'll remind you that you said that next time we go to a gay bar and you get hit on by guys" with that they burst out laughing.
Once the both stop laughing Puck speaks again otherwise knowing his friend she will fall asleep again and it ain't good for the sergeant to not be on time or early. "Ok we know have 10 minutes and you need a shower" .
"Alright I'm up and I'm going" Santana groans as she makes her way to the bathroom with the clothes she laid out before going to bed last night.
On her last day of leave she always packs her bag and collects her stuff into one, so she can grab it. She found out during her first leave it was a lot easier to do it that way instead of rushing around like a headless chicken with 20 minutes to pack and leave for base.
Flashback
Santana hears an annoying beeping sound coming from her left. It takes her a few minutes for her foggy brain, due to sleep, to clear and realise it is her alarm. She immediately looks at it and realises she has 25 minutes to get up packed, showered and dressed and leave.
"SHIT" she shouts out loud and jumps up with her duvet still wrapped around her body, almost causing her to face plant the floor. Luckily she just manages to get herself unwrapped and too her bag unscathed.
It takes her 10 minutes to shower and get back out to her bedroom, in her army fatigues with her hair up in a tight bun. She quickly grabs everything that is hers and in sight and stuffs it into her bag, foregoing folding any clothes. It takes her another 5 to gather everything and another 5 to make the bed and room respectable, to be seen by who ever has to sort it out.
Once this is done she puts her boots on, grabs her bag and legs it down the stairs to hand in her key to the room at reception. She then sprints out the door and to the bus stop where she can see the bus that is there to take her back to base. Luckily on her first day of leave she found an alright, not to expensive hotel 5 minutes walking distance from the bus stop which suited her greatly.
She only just got to her base on time. Most of the others in her squad at the time had got an earlier bus there that morning.
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They got to the earlier bus that would take them onto base with a few minutes to spare. And for once they were there before the bus actually got there.
"So you get with that girl last night" Santana asks glancing up from the book she was reading and over to her friend.
"Now why would think that a good little Jewish boy like myself for one would ever do something like that" Puck turns to her with shocked expression on his face.
"One I know you, two you aren't that little down there and three you sounded like rhino coming in at God know what time this morning. I'm actually surprised you were up before me" Santana responds with a full blown out smirk on her lips.
"Touché" he smiles. "And for your information I did not get with that girl, but I did get her number and we just sat around in this quiet little bar that she took me too after you left".
Santana turns with an incredulous look on her face, before examining her best friends face for any trace that he is joking. "What do you mean you didn't get with her, did you hit your head last night, she was fucking hot!".
"I know, I know she was but I didn't hit my head. We just got talking and didn't stop. She's from fucking Ohio, I mean what are the chances of meeting someone out here from there. She told me that she is a teacher and has been out here since the beginning of the school year and that she is moving back to the states soon". Puck states in a rush, almost to quickly for Santana to actually understand what he is talking about.
"OMG you like her! You've only just met her" Santana exclaims. "Ah I can't wait for the rest of the squad to hear this". Santana laughs out evilly.
"Do it I don't care" Puck says with a nonchalant shrug.
"Aww my baby boys growing up" She says in her best baby voice as she pinches his cheeks. She then turns serious for a moment "I'm glad for you really, just make sure once we get back home that you do call her".
"I will. Anyway you get any hot lady action last night?"
"Nope wasn't really in the mood just wanted to have one last relaxing and quiet night to myself, before I have to go back to being Sergeant Santana Lopez of the U.S. Army." She says with a shrug, when actually her mind last night was on their latest deployment. That was happening today when they step onto base. For some reason she has just got this feeling, that something bad is going to happen in the near future.
"Cool" he responds. After this the rest of the journey goes pretty quickly with Puck falling asleep and snoring and Santana reading her book.
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"I hope you all had a good few relaxing days on leave" Sergeant Major William Schuester tells Santana's and Puck's squad. "Now as of 1300 hours today you are being deployed to Afghanistan, to relieve another squad. This means you have 3 hours to collect all the gear you need and be on the tarmac on time help carry cargo onto the plane". He speaks loudly to the group of soldiers.
"Yes Sir" the squad says.
"Ok, everyone is dismissed. I hope you all have a safe time over their and come back. Good day." With that the Sergeant Major walks off to the murmurs of the squad thanking him and saying bye.
"Alright you know what to do, grab your stuff and something to eat for lunch and meet on the tarmac." Santana addresses her squad.
"You got is boss" a short guy about 5ft5 called Connor says cheekily back to Santana. Everyone sniggers at that as they know she hates to be called that. As soon as he turns to walk to go collect his stuff he gets hit on the back of the head by Santana's hand. Which then sets the whole squad off laughing again.
"Enough of joking around we can do that later once we are all packed and ready" Santana says going back into leader mode.
With the promise of being able to have a laugh before leaving and catching up on things, the squad hurry about doing their things.
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It takes everyone about an 2 hours to sort their stuff out and meet on the tarmac. As per usual Santana and Puck are the first ones there, with Puck dozing with his hat on his face.
The two hear the rest of the squad before seeing them. The squad consists of 10 people, including Santana and Puck. There is Connor the short guy with a goaty, Jared a quiet guy from Texas with a strong southern accent, Jack and Joe identical twins from Minnesota, Amy a brunette with long curly hair from Alaska, Jordan a surfer from California, Blake a girl from the Bronx in New York City wanting to make a difference and finally the baby of the group Nick, who is also from New York City.
Together they are quite a rambunctious group and there is never a dull moment between them. Other squads hate being pitted against them in any type of game, as they are extremely competitive and more often than not win.
"Yo Serg how was your few days off?" Nick asks always being the most pleasant of the group.
"Yeah get any action with some nice, hot girls?" Jordan pipes in. It was common knowledge in the group that Santana was a lesbian and no one held anything against her for it. Well maybe Puck sometimes when she steals the girl he wants when they go out to bars. But it is all just friendly banter.
"Nope, sorry guys got no stories to tell this time."
"Aww really?" Jordan asks.
"Yeah but Puck here got a really hot girls number and didn't even sleep with her or make a move" Santana says to the squad. Most of them with shock written across their face not believing what they are hearing, as it is known for Puck to have some wild nights when on leave.
"What?" Jack and Joe say in unison. Yeah they do that sometimes it can get a bit freaky.
"Yeah apparently they just sat and talked in a quite bar most of the night after I left him."
"Nah I'm not believing it" Blake says with a head shake.
"Well you might cause it happened" Puck responds.
"Did he hit his head?" Amy asks causing he group to laugh.
"No I didn't. What happened was I met a girl we talked, I got her phone number she told me to call her when I get back to the states, as she is only out here teaching for the school year. I said ok we talked about some other stuff then we went our separate ways" Puck says in a huff.
"Aww is Puck going to have a tantrum" Connor says giving Puck a patronizing pat on the head, before jumping up and running with Puck hot on his heels. The squad laugh and watch them for a bit before talking about what the others had done.
Not long after that there plane came in, so they gathered all there stuff and loaded it on before they helped with other things. Just as they were taking off Santana and Puck did like a secret hand shake, which was their way to calm each other for the up coming task ahead. And off they were to Afghanistan once again.
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