Yay, it's another interlude!
Here is part of the backstory that I promised before. I've split it into 3 parts, which should be fairly self- explanatory. It should also be noted that, at one time, I had planned to just write a whole story using Jacoba as one of the main characters before I changed my mind. This whole backstory is loosely based off of the original 1st chapter I had started back then (but never finished). I'd take parts of it directly, but I think I threw it out and don't really want to try to find it in my mess. So, here we are.
The legalities: I do not own any of the Expendables franchise (characters, places, and objects especially) and this is mostly au.Rated M just to be on the safe side.
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Hope you enjoy!
There weren't many things that Barney could definitively say he wasn't sure on. Taking Gunnar back onto the team about a month after the mission to Vilena and what had preceded it had been one of them, but they were about a month past that now, so they were good. This mission was currently right up there with that.
It had seemed pretty straight forward. The team would go in quickly, take down the bad guys, and get out just as fast. In fact, they'd gotten most of the goons and were in the process of planting the explosives to bring down this compound as they searched for the leader.
They had cleared out most of the compound when they heard a gunshot ring out. Hastening their pace, the team surrounded the only door they hadn't cleared yet. On Barney's count, they stormed in, only to stop themselves short at the sight they saw. There in front of them, standing over the now deceased leader, was a tall, black-haired young woman holding a pistol. After holstering his own weapons, Barney slowly approached her, taking the gun when she held it out to him and allowing her to grab ahold of his wrist. He led her out and back to the plane, trusting the rest of the team to finish the job.
When the team finally joined them on the plane, Barney and Lee got into the cockpit to get the plane into the air. They didn't hear the young woman, whose name she had said was Jacoba, say to the rest of the team, "Wait, they actually fly this thing? It looks like shit!"
Gunnar, who had been elected to sit next to her, since he would probably be the only one who could keep her secure, scoffed. "How else did you think that we were going to get back to the States?"
Jacoba glared. "Oh, I wouldn't know. Since, you know, those idiots drugged me and did who knows what to me while they kept me under. Hell, I don't even know how I am coherent right now!"
Gunnar put his hands up in surrender, but the tension throughout the plane was almost overbearing. In an attempt to get everyone's minds off of her revelation, Gunnar spoke up again. "Why don't you try to get some shut eye? It'll keep your mind off of everything else."
"Doubt it."
Suffice it to say, she did actually fall asleep, curled up into Gunnar's side. And Gunnar preceded to dump her onto the floor after they had landed, causing Jacoba to jump up and turn on him. This would be their first full-blown fight.
Barney decided right then and there. He really wasn't sure about this Jacoba.
