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[Magus00]

"Oh...s**t. I'm...sorry." Mike knew he was out of his league in many ways with this woman. "Uh...my hair...yeah..." Mike knew he crossed boundaries and likely this woman, who greatly outranked him, now was pissed. For the first time in a long time, he was flustered.

"Uh...my hair, ma'am...I...uh, yeah, I just...choose to ignore the standard..."

[bionic madman]

David picked up Gavin and said, "Faye grab a hold of my arm i gotta get you two back into the suburban and Gav it was morphine man so just let it run its course you'll mellow out in a while." A weird tingley feeling went up Davids arm as Faye wrap her arms around his, that was weird.

As David walked back to the truck he heard Kate and Mike's little conversation, "Talkin' bout the rangers are we? I used to be one." He said as he got nearer, "i remember this one time i was on the roof of an apartment building surrounded by hostiles with just my M14. I got 30 kills that day."

[Serenity]

"It's not a...standard, per se. It's more of a tradition. You don't have to shave your head like the rest, though, it's recommended you keep it short. If that's the standard you're referring to, you see to have ignored it quite a lot," she clarified, casting a judgmental eye on the private first class.

"You seem a little tense, is it because I'm a Ranger? Just look, soldier, right now, I think we've left the standards of the battlefield. This is survival, not a battle. That thing is after us, and in order to work as a team, we work as equals. Don't feel inferior to me," she finished, leaning back against the chair.

She sat up again. "Just because I've had more training than you does not make me better than you." Actually, it probably does...bah, I shouldn't think like that. "So, we're cool?" she asked, extending her hand.

[Serenity]

"Talkin' 'bout the Rangers, are we? I used to be one," said a voice from outside. It was the driver. "I remember this one time, I was on the roof of an apartment building surrounded by hostiles with just my M14. I got 30 kills that day."

Kate gave the man a confused look for a moment. "M14? How long ago were you a Ranger? Those aren't in production anymore, and...I don't think the Rangers adopted that gun, just regular army grunts, like this one here," she said, nudging her thumb at the private first class.

[Magus00]

Mike felt about two feet tall. Two Rangers and here he was just mouthing off and crackin' jokes.

He sheepishly took Kate's hand not once believing himself an equal, nor fooling himself into thinking she thought as such. He patted Natasha, his M4 with grenade launcher attachment absently at hearing the M14 being discussed as standard.

Mike decided he should keep his mouth shut for a while.

[Serenity]

Nothing escaped Kate's eyes. She saw Mike be quiet again. He didn't speak and act like the type to be like that.

"Hold on for a moment," she said to the driver. "McManus, you alright?"

[Serenity]

((I hope I'm not being a total bitch. I'm starting to really get in character with Kate.))

[Magus00]

((Haha, not at all. I'm just acting like Mike would act. I know the difference between char and not char. Do you think IRL I would leave my friends in the road to hold a conversation with a new person?))

Mike just nodded, face beet-red.

[raelyn]

((I keep spacing out listening to music like NOBODY's business. Sorry! XD And yeah Kate you're fine. ...Though I do act alot like Faye, I'd be panicking over Gavin still if it were really me. I'm one of those worrywart people when someone else is hurt, regardless of how I feel. XD))

Faye, holding David's arm to steady herself, had followed them to the car, fighting to keep the ground under her feet. Jake had moved in to steady her from the other side, but Faye was busy staring at David's face.

"...Hey, Dave?" she asked, voice shaking a bit. "Do..Do I know you from somewhere?" Faye swallowed dryly, fighting back another wave of tiredness. "You seem familiar, but I can't quite place your face. Like, I knew you, but you grew older...does that make sense?"

[bionic madman]

((this is the gun i'm takling about. its also the one David got in the amory back in the factory))

"I was a ranger for about five or six years and the later half of my time as a ranger my squad was one of the rangers black ops squads. I wasn't talking about those old wood stock m14's, i was talking about the mod o ebr that the seals use. It was a joint op where my squad and two other ranger squads were to backup some seal teams. I was the rangers DMR and was supposed to protect the buidling next to mine beacuse that was where the chopper would come on for exfil. So thats how i got it, higher ups thought i should use it andduring the debreifing they acknowleged my skills with it and decided to let me keep it."

David was to into his story to notice Mike feeling small and Kate asking David to stop so she could ask Mike what was wrong.

[bionic madman]

((sorry for the double post but i kept getting ninja'd))

"This is really weird, i was gonna ask you that." All the thoughts and images he'd been having were starting to connect, everything was almost in place for his true memories of his youth to come rushing back.

[Serenity]

Is he embarrassed?

"Mike," said Kate, "I'm sorry if I came across a little forward. It's just how I speak," she said, hoping that could fix something. It was a pretty bad start. She needed to change the subject.

She noticed the gun he had been patting earlier. "So, M4, huh? That a grenade launcher?"

If he's anything like an Army grunt... "I'm fond of the A4 myself. M16, that is. Hey, if the Marines love it, why can't we, you know?" she chuckled.


She turned back in time to hear enough of the driver's explanation to feel embarrassed. "Oh, 'scuse me, then. I automatically think of the old versions," she smiled.


((Ditto with Kate, lol.))

[Tyran]

They stopped. He stopped as well, head cocked as he stared at the group. Slowly, he walked into the trees, moving towards them. The Masked One followed him, glancing at the group every now and then like an overexcited animal.

The Tall One turned around and glanced down, staring at his accomplice for a moment before turning his attention back to the group. Slowly, he walked out of the trees...

((Ok, I'm gonna do that PM thing, where Slendy focuses on one person at a time. Who wants to go first? :3))

[Magus00]

Mike's blush didn't diminish one bit. "Uh...yes, ma'am. There is a grenade launcher attachment..."

Mike's thoughts trailed off mid-sentence. He thought to himself, "Two D**n rangers...and another grunt like me to boot. We are in essentially a mobile assault vehicle...If these folks ain't safe now, then safe just ain't coming."

"Tell me everything you know about this blank-faced Slender-f**k." Mike blurted, rather abruptly, thinking himself quiet clever but feeling a twinge of guilt at tricking his friends.

((I could, Tyran.))

[Tyran]

(I'm sort of walking right towards you guys. You'd think you'd notice. X3)