Vacationing

[sentryslinger]

[Continuing this thread, in which Spy has convinced Engineer to spend a vacation with him. Fishing, fine dining, and some enemy bonding ensue.


Engineer steps into the elevator, hitting the button for their floor, pulling at his collar to loosen that next button.]

Hey, thanks again for the dinner and the suit. I'll have to put it to use some other time to justify your spendin' money on all this.

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[not_onyourside]

Eets our reward for a successful day of fishing.

Zhough zhe storm does not seem to have let up much. At least zhe lightning stopped.

[sentryslinger]

You weren't exaggerating on how much that stuff gets to ya, were you?

[not_onyourside]

Non.

At zhe base eef zhere ees a bad storm I usually cook. Eet distracts me and zhere are no windows een zhe kitchen so I cannot see eet.

[sentryslinger]

You got no one to sit 'em out with you?

[not_onyourside]

I would not want to show such weakness een front of my team. Zhey would replace me.

[sentryslinger]

And it's more acceptable in front of an enemy, somehow.

[not_onyourside]

But eef you tell anyone you would also have to admit how you know and why you were here wez me.

I zhink I am safe.

[sentryslinger]

You got me there.

So what do you do on the battlefield when the weather gets like this? It rains a lot out at Double Cross, doesn't it?

[not_onyourside]

All zhe time. But not often lightning and thunder. Eet depends how bad zhe storm ees, because eef zhe lightning ees close zhe battle usually ends.

Double Cross has a long bridge over a ravine between zhe two bases, anyone on eet wez lightning would just be a target.And eef eet hits eizzer base usually eet knocks out zhe power.

Ozzerwise I stay een zhe enemy base underground wez zhe briefcase. Safer and I look like I am working.

[sentryslinger]

It is. Just don't get caught doin' it. I can tell you right now that it's no fun bein' stuck in an enemy base.

[not_onyourside]

But I had your best interests at heart.

[His grin is practically audible.]

I have been trapped een an enemy base before, believe me, I am well aware.

[sentryslinger]

[He pauses, not sure if he's going to be crossing a line with this question.]

What happened?

[not_onyourside]

You saw my arm oui?

Zhat happened.

[His voice is utterly monotone, not wanting to elaborate.]

[sentryslinger]

[There's some silence that follows, the only sound being that of the rain outside.]

I'm sorry.

[not_onyourside]

You do not need to be. Eet was a long time ago.

[sentryslinger]

Doesn't mean the scars aren't still there.

[not_onyourside]

As I am all too aware.

But zhe past ees zhe past. We simply learn from eet and move forward.

[sentryslinger]

I suppose we have to, don't we?

[He sighs, keeping something to himself.]

[not_onyourside]

Zhat ees zhe idea. Zhe future ees always better because of all we have already done. Or at least zhat ees how I look at eet.

You can never go back, so eet does not good to dwell on zhe past.

[He squirms around, unhooking some of the blankets from underneath him and draping them around Engineer along with the one he's already under.]

But I may be zhe only optimist left.

[sentryslinger]

[He's unmoving as some of those blankets come across him.]

You do dwell on what a Pyro did to ya, though.

[not_onyourside]

I try not to. Eet just -- keeps coming back. I cannot help eet.

[sentryslinger]

Maybe it wouldn't so much if you gave 'em a chance.

[not_onyourside]

I am not sure how zhat would rectify anyzzing.

[sentryslinger]

You might learn that most of 'em ain't so bad off the battlefield.

[not_onyourside]

Except when zhey keep me een cages or steal my car or trap me een hammocks.