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I went in the main hall, quite a surprise to see that everyone was already here, but most of them busy, as usual. But today they're busy with something...side important. Harry mentioned a vacation. A vacation to Germany, it does sound exciting... But was it that necessary? Or is there something more, that I, perhaps don't know about?Before I could sink further into my thoughts, Jäger jumped at me from seemingly nowhere, literally. "Freund!" He shouted in mild voice, with a thick German accent. At least over time with being friends or somewhat close with Jäger and the other German operators, I understood what 'freund' meant, pretty sure it meant 'friend'. I quickly held him up, so he wouldn't fall as he clinged to me, just like a toddler."Hey Marius."I said more as a whisper than actually talking, but it wasn't too quiet either, knowing Jäger would hear me anyways, I didn't wrap my head around it."Did you hear?! We're going to Germany! We're going to Germany!!"The excitement in his eyes was as real as it could be... After all, it is Jäger's home country. I laughed before responding "Da, I heard", and a grin spread over the German's face."Did you already pack your stuff?" He asked fast, and continued, "do you need help? I can help! Let me—"Before Jäger could finish talking, a hand laid down on Jäger's shoulder and cut him off. "Marius, breathe, give him time to answer too." It was Bandit.Jäger gasped and quickly wiggled free from me to turn around and tightly embrace the taller German in a hug. "Dominiic!"It was sort of impressive to me, Bandit, rather Dominic, didn't seem to care about the 'big baby' aka Jäger, or Marius, clinging to him and being way too close in Dominic's own personal space. And seemingly much rather patiently listened to Marius speaking fast in gibberish, obviously something that neither both of us, me and Dominic, could properly understand, but still listened.It was draining to me, so without a word I distanced myself from them as quickly as possible.I walked around to find who I searched for in the first place, and quickly found them, further away from everyone else. I wasn't planning on engaging in any group conversations, but listening to them was enough for me.I decided to walk over to them, silent enough to not be noticed right away."You...won wrestling battle against Fluffy...?"I heard that Maxim asked, the disbelief in his voice being far from hidden as he looked up at Sanya. Tachanka, despite his name being Alexsandr, had many nicknames and especially from Spetsnaz, although most often used were Sanya and Sasha rather than actually using his first name. Then remembered that Fluffy is Sanya's bear, quite an unusual pet."Da."I could metaphorically hear the smirk in Tachanka's voice, it wasn't uncommon for him to fight Fluffy in a training matter, but often the stories were interesting to listen to.A Kamchatka brown bear on base was a surprise for everyone, but Harry just allowed it without second thoughts. Who knows what that man was thinking, sometimes the whole company Rainbow feels like a big chess board to me, and, the way he was putting us into teams. Defender or attacker...and then the units. Wolfguard, Redhammer, Ghosteyes and Viperstrike. It's rather confusing. I always questioned why I wasn't assigned with my Spetsnaz comrades, but the answer was so obvious. I don't use explosives, or any kinds of traps."I'm surprised they allowed your bear here..."Maxim's voice ripped me right out of my thoughts with that one, and I glanced over to Sasha, waiting for an response."Harry is a good Comrade"Tachanka paused, and I could hear Shuhrat mumble something next to me. "Annoying, he told me to communicate more..." Is what Fuze mumbled.I turned my head towards Fuze, I haven't noticed him standing there before, but seems like Maxim neither Sanya had noticed either of us."When did you two show up?" Maxim had a pissed undertone, to his displeasure neither of us answered properly. "Meh" Fuze said, more like let out an uninterested sound as the only response, while I just shrugged and glanced over to Shuh, he was looking right back at me. A little nod was everything we needed to greet eachother, both of us didn't have the need to talk to understand the other one. "... Didn't expect an answer" Alexsandr muttered under his breath and Maxim nodded in agreement, before he started talking again."So..., Germany, huh?" The excitement was low in every single one of us, as we'd much rather stay on the base than leaving to anywhere else, and especially to a different country. "Yeah... But Harry allowed me to bring Fluffy!" Sanya said and I could already feel the chaos coming up in my guts before anything else. "WHAT!?!" There we go. Maxim's eyes widened in shock and he stared Alexsandr down. a bear on a military plane? That's surely interesting."A BEAR ON THE FUCKING PLANE?!" Maxim switched to Russian really, really quickly...cussing out not only Sasha, but Harry aswell.I felt a gentle nudge to the side, it was Shuhrat, he wanted to talk. We slipped away without a problem as Maxim and Alexsandr were going deep into their argument."What do you think of this vacation?"Shuhrat asked me as he leaned against the wall, outside of the base. Standing in front of him, I lowered my head and started thinking about it. This question was valid, what do I think? "It's weird, doesn't sit right in my guts...You?" I turned my head towards Fuze, raising and eyebrow in interest about what he thinks. "The same, would prefer to stay in motherland." Russia, was where we were born and also where the Rainbow base was at. Though Shuhrat didn't finish talking, "but Harry said all operators had to go." After that, there was silence, way to long...and awkward.Decided to the decision, I broke the silence and finally asked "why though?", the answer came quickly "Renovation works", and there it was again, silence, but shorter."Huh...." was everything I could get out to break the silence before it could continue any further as I leaned against the wall next to Shuh. I looked up at the sky. It was night, still, stars dancing over the sky and shining beautifully... What a perfect sight. The Sun itself was a star, but in the night laying on the other side of the universe."Planning to paint it?" Fuze asked, glancing at me "Hm?" I snapped my attention towards Shuhrat, I didn't quite listen therw and he knew that, so he repeated. "The sky, are you going to paint it?" he asked again. I looked back up at the sky to admire it, "...Yea...maybe." Was my answer.
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The ride took long, way too long for my own personal taste, but I've dealt with longer trips and rides. Though, here we are, now in Germany.
"Deeeeutscchhlaaandd~!"
Called out Jäger, he was the first to leave the plane and ran around, he was way too excited about this. Honestly not that surprising."Marius don't—" Before Bandit could even finish his sentence, Jäger already tripped and fell to the ground face first.‘What an idiot...’, I thought to myself.I heard IQ burst out laughing, yelling out in between laughter—"Bitch, you're so, clumsy!"‘Such idiots...’, I thought again. They were, in my eyes. Or at least they behaved like bunch of childish adults, no, their behavior was fully depended on childishness.Jäger slowly lifted an arm and gave IQ a thumbs up, non verbally showing he's okay, but otherwise made no attempt on getting up just yet. Her laughing turned into wheezing, unable to breathe properly that her breathing came in short quick gasps for air.Something is about to go down, I could feel it.That thought proved to be correct, when Jäger lifted his head and was bleeding from the nose, noticing it, and called out for his lover. "... Baaaaannddiiiit!" Jäger started sobbing and Bandit rushed over to him, kneeling down next to him and holding him by the shoulder.
"No no no–"Blitz shifting his attention away from a previous conversation with another workmate, Blitz went over to his comrades quickly, "Oh my fucking god, wait, no seriously, are you okay?" He asked in a rush.
IQ stopped wheezing and calmed down quickly from her high of laughter and looked a little worried at them, especially at Jäger.‘Vacation, huh? Great...fucking great...’
"What a Drama..." I mumbled,"You said that out loud." Someone said."Oh fuck, did I really?" I asked, I thought what I said was just one of my thoughts, but that proved me I was apparently wrong.A small chuckle came from my right, "You sure did. But I ain't judging, neither will I tell anyone. It's not like I have anyone to tell it to, or do I disagree with you. It is a drama out here.""Oh—my—god! The big man himself won't rat me out." I responded in pure sarcasm, but Pulse knew that to well, and I, I knew he liked it. A little snort is all i got out of him next before getting a simple friendly insult,"Fuck you Timur."And so I grinned, "Fuck you too."Pulse and me were never that good friends, only comrades, workmates, teammates when assigned together or on the same team where both of us were, tolerated each other and could work together, get a strategy going we could agree on and get the job done. But we were never that close,
...well, until I started playing poker with the FBI SWAT where Ash firstly invited me in for one evening, turned out I was as good as them at it and that one night with them turned into several shared evenings.
It's always fun to play with them, chaos, sure... But fun. There's always some sort of laughter and enjoyment in the evenings."What even happened?"
Pulse tried to sound interested, but I think he only wanted to hold a conversation going a bit longer. And I ain't complaining about that though, it was quite nice actually.Loud sobbing snapped me out of my thoughts and brought my hearing attention back to the four German's."Tooth...! Gone...!"‘What the fuck has happened?’ I questioned myself.
I turned my head to look at the German's and try figure out what happened, but found my eyes only meeting a small incident.
Jäger was sitting in Bandit's lap, a tooth between his fingers with a bit of blood, freshly ripped out.
IQ seemingly rushed away to try and find Doc for the poor little friend of theirs, Blitz patted the little German and tried to calm him down."I zoned out for a Minute and hell broke loose...."IQ seemingly successfully found Doc, who was dragged to the 'crime scene' and did the simple shit just like to a small child at the dentist, two tissues, one for the tooth to cover and maybe perhaps keep. And the other one for the nose, Jäger had a light nosebleed.Standing there and turning away was the best choice at the time, no energy to watch such children scenario within bunch of adults.
The only choice that was left, was to wait. And this long time felt like minutes that turned to feel like hours, hours like days, and god, then finally..."Come get your keys guys!" Someone yelled, calling out to everyone. The farm we're on belonged to Jäger's uncle. Nobody has seen this man, so called uncle, in the past hour, and it made me think to myself ‘was he okay?’
I glanced over to Marius."Have you ever heard the rumors about Jäger?"My attention quickly shifted over to Pulse. I stared at him for seconds, maybe even minutes."Timur?"I snapped out of my thoughts. I realized that my staring was probably, no, most likely odd show to watch. Where were we? I lost focus... What has he asked me—Oh! Jäger and his rumors!I scoffed well played, "Please, I'm from Ghosteyes. If there are any rumors, I know them instantly, you and the FBI should know that the most." It was a lie,
I didn't know any rumors about Jäger, neither have I heard anything, and do I want to? No, not really... Not my business, not my tea. I'm not the one to pry, and especially not on the German's.Pulse shrugged. "If you say so..." As the keys were given out to each and every operator, we were told that couples share rooms. Practical.
Maxim took the key to our room, asking for my permission to share. I gave him a simple nod,
I wasn't interested in the room... I rather wanted to know who was put into rooms with eachother.Zero and Nøkk were in a room but they definitely were not a couple. It's simple to understand, Zero was like a father figure to Nøkk, and very protective for whatever reason.Shuhrat, or as I like to call him, Shuh took another key for his and Sasha's room with a grin, and looked over to me with a wink.As time went on, the place outside got less and less crowded, until it was completely empty."Speed runned this shit, hah!" Jäger announced happily and high fived the next to him standing Mozzie.‘Annoying’ I thought to myself, referring to Mozzie, was he tho? It was a mere opinion by Vigil... I never got to talk to Mozzie that much, there isn't time to talk to everyone, and neither did I wanted or had the urge to talk to everyone.
But I could see why he's so good with Jäger. Both energetic and fast but also clever.A little yawn has escaped me and so there, in that moment, I have decided that's a good sign to cut the day short and go to my room for a proper sleep now that I had the chance, or for a short nap. I waved Jäger and Mozzie goodbye and left to go to my room.