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If you're thinking, 'Where have all the reviews gone!? WTF happened?' well it was due to an error, you see when the change over happened from the old AGNPH to the new one happened, I had to add my Co-authors back on, seeing as it took them off for some unknown reason. Anyway, when that happened, 2 copies of this story were made. I tried to delete the one without co-authors but when I did, it also deleted the other one, leaving me with no copies of blood and love, so yeah, have to re-upload. This is a pain in the ass but I heard that there was a problem with the text in all the older stories that made the text all glitchy, so maybe it was for the best that I re-uploaded it. Fortunatly, 'Blood and love' over at FanFiction isn't fucked up so that should make things easier. Also I've now noticed theres a duplicate 'Blood and love' story floating around, why this has happened I have no idea but I'm gonna try get it deleted. Oh, hears the stats for the story before it got wiped out.Views: 26,000Rating: 4.5Reviews: 59Oh, disclaimer. Yeah, Pokemon, I don't own it and I don't intend to make a profit out of it. This was done just for fun.
Hangover.
Richard and Tera got out of their tent, both still sleepy and letting out small yawns, but they felt wide awake when they saw Bruce and Kiara together, sleeping next to the camp fire. Tera was the first to say something. "Well... At least it looks like they're getting along better now." She began.
Richard quickly spotted the empty bottles around them. "I didn't know Kiara was a drinker." He observed as a smile erupted from his face.
Tera had a strange thought in her head, which she thought out loud, "They look cute together."
Richard laughed a little before saying, "They kind of do, in that sort of don't fuck with them kind of way."
Tera giggled a little. "Come on Richard; let's stop staring at the strangely cute couple and see if Owen is awake." She replied while she felt his hand drift over to her paw and held onto it.
"Alright then, lets go." Richard responded as he led her over to the armored car.
Kiara was now lying on top of Bruce, chewing on his shirt slightly as they slept. Bruce hugged her as he slept, completely unaware of his actions. Slowly, Kiara opened her eyes as she heard some noises; she now had a headache and a strange taste in her mouth.
When her eyes focused enough, she found herself on top of Bruce, with his arms around her. Her eyes widened as she blushed lightly, and about a hundred thoughts shot through her head. 'What did we... Oh no, did we?' She thought to herself.
Bruce slowly awoke, and looked down to Kiara who was now staring at him. "Sleep well ice queen?" He asked in his tired voice.
"Err; can you remember what happened last night?" Kiara questioned him, fearing that her thought was correct.
By the look on her face, he could tell what she was thinking, and nearly as soon as he heard those words, a devious smirk crossed his face as he said, "Don't you remember me rocking your world last night? You little slut."
Kiara's eyes widened as a shocked expression quickly appeared on her face before she shouted, "What! We didn't do that last night!" then she paused before adding, "Oh, please tell me we didn't!"
Bruce burst out laughing. "I'm just fucking with you ice queen... Not literally of course!" He added with a grin whilst chuckling.
Kiara growled as she stood up on him. "Bastard." She mumbled before she walked off him.
"What? Angry that you didn't ride me?" Bruce deviously asked her as he sat upright.
"Shut up, I've already got a headache; I don't need a pain in the ass to go along with it." Kiara snapped at him.
"If you have a pain in your ass, it's only because you've got a stick stuck up it." Bruce quickly retorted.
"Ugh, this headache is making your voice even more unbearable than before!" Kiara exclaimed before she looked down to the ground as she felt a dull pain in her head.
Bruce chuckled a little before he exclaimed sarcastically, "Well, I've got to hand it to you ice queen, you can sure put away those drinks!"
Kiara sighed before clearly stating, "I'm never drinking with you again, ever."
"You say that now, but you'll want more of Bruce's juice." Bruce said with a smirk.
"I don't want to be anywhere near your juice!" Kiara shouted.
"When the headache passes, you'll want more." Bruce contradicted as he tried to contain his laughter.
"You know what I really want? You..." Before she could finish, Bruce quickly interrupted her.
"I bet you do." Bruce replied as he chuckled.
"...To shut the hell up." Kiara finished.
"Make me." Bruce said with a smile.
Kiara growled slightly, she thought about headbutting him, but with her headache, she knew that wasn't a good idea. "I will, when I don't have a headache almost as irritating as you are!" Kiara snapped at him before walking away.
Bruce just laughed as he shouted over, "It's going to take a fucking army to shut me up! I don't think a pale blue rat is going to be able to do anything!"
Kiara smirked before looking behind her. "I already did, don't you remember the time I froze that stupid bottle to your mouth?" She asked him.
"That's not going to fucking happen again! Ever!" Bruce firmly told her.
"We'll see." Kiara snappily replied while she walked away.
Bruce's eyes went straight to her rear as she walked away, although, her tail stopped him from getting a view of her private parts. He sighed to himself, he knew he couldn't keep his eyes off her, and he knew that if he kept looking at her like this, he would have many dates with his right hand in the very near future.
Owen was awake, and was now in a conversation with Rhea over his earpiece while he sat down in the car. "Any info on the location of our sniper?" He inquired.
"We don't have a precise location, but we do know what city he's in." Rhea informed him.
"Where?" Owen quickly questioned.
"Castelia City." Rhea responded.
"Driving there will take more than a day; do you think he'll still even be in the city by the time we get there?" Owen asked.
"Our intel gathers he's on a mission, and it's expected that he will still be in the city until midnight tomorrow." Rhea told him.
"Alright then, I'll round up the team and proceed to his location." Owen stated as he opened up the driver's side door and climbed out of the car.
"Good luck." Rhea finalized the conversation before Owen heard a crackling noise through the earpiece, and saw Richard and Tera walking towards him.
Richard didn't want to spend anymore time in this forest than they needed to; he thought staying in one place would only attract attention. "Do you have the location of our next recruit?" Richard asked him.
"Yes, Castelia City." Owen told him.
"Wait, that's nearly right on the other side of Unova, how are we supposed to get there today?" Richard questioned.
"We won't, we'll have to start driving today and hope we get there by tomorrow." Owen replied.
"Alright then, I guess I'll start packing up the camping gear." Richard told him as he turned around and walked back to his tent with Tera.
After an hour of packing and waking up, everyone was now in the car. Bruce and Kiara were quieter than usual. Louis and Reaper were sitting silently, occasionally looking out of the window or asking an odd question or two.
Kovick was now talking to Richard and Tera, he was very curious about their relationship. "How did you two meet?" Kovick curiously asked.
Tera was more than happy to answer. "Well, we met in a cave." She began as she smiled, knowing how silly it sounded.
Kovick gave a confused expression before repeating, "A cave?"
Tera nodded. "Yes, it was raining and I wanted to find shelter. Richard was already in the cave when I walked into it." She told him.
Kovick was a little confused; he guessed that Tera was a wild Lucario before she met Richard, meaning that she most likely belonged to a clan. But he was confused about her having no shelter; he knew that they could build homes, solid ones at that. "Why were you looking for shelter? Didn't your clan build homes?" He asked her.
"Err... My...clan passed away before I met Richard." Tera stated.
Kovick wanted to ask what happened to them, but he guessed that it would be hard for her to talk about. "Oh, I'm sorry... So, what made you stay around Richard?" Kovick replied.
Tera smiled as she laid her story, "I had no where else to go, and Richard asked me if I'd like to travel with him. I studied his aura, and from what I could tell, his word about being a good man was the truth; so I decided to stay with him."
"When did you two get together as a couple?" Kovick asked.
Richard was the one to answer this time. "Maybe a month after we met each other." He stated, remembering all of the good times.
Kovick hoped that he could learn something from Richard's and Tera's relationship, he thought that it might some how help him for when he admits his feelings to his Ninetales assistant, Aneko. "Who said they liked the other first?" He curiously asked.
Richard smiled as he looked at Tera, who leaned on his shoulder, before saying, "I did."
"When did you know it was the right time to tell her how you felt?" Kovick inquired.
"I didn't. A few hours before I told her, I was shot. Thankfully I was wearing body armor. I thought to myself that I didn't want to die without telling her how I felt, so I told her, and she felt the same way." Richard told him with a big smile on his face.
Kovick had noticed how close Richard and Tera were, he wondered if he could be that close with Aneko.
Tera began to wonder why he was asking all these questions about their relationship, so she asked, "Why are you so curious about me and Richard?"
Kovick looked at them both and said, "Because... Well, remember the Ninetales I mentioned back at the gas station?"
Tera nodded as she remembered his words back at the gas station. "The one you're in love with?" She asked.
Kovick nodded. "Yes, well... I want to tell her how I feel after this mission, but I don't think I should go through with it.
Louis was listening in, and felt the need to say something. "You shouldn't. It's sick and twisted." He stated before he was nudged in the ribs by Reaper to show his disapproval.
Kovick glared at Louis, he could already feel his anger rising inside him as he said, "No one asked for your fucking opinion."
Tera decided to interrupt them before a fight broke out, "Why don't you think you should go ahead with it Kovick?"
Kovick looked back over to Tera, still very angry about Louis' interruption. "Because... There's a really big age difference between us." He told her.
Tera looked confused as she asked, "How old are you both then?"
"I'm 27, and she's 200 years old." Kovick answered.
That number came as a shock to both Richard and Tera, but Richard said with a word of encouragement, "Well, it doesn't really matter... You love her, that's the main thing."
Tera looked at Kovick, and asked, "How long can a Ninetales live for?"
Kovick sighed before he statistically said aloud, "The average life expectancy for a Ninetales is around about the one thousand mark... So even if she loved me, she might just forget about me when I'm dead."
Tera could hear the depression in his voice, it was clear to her that he felt very strongly about this. "I would never forget Richard, not even in a thousand years. If she truly loves you, then she will always remember you." She reassured him.
Kovick looked back to Tera. "There's another thing. She's still a virgin... What if she just isn't interested in finding a mate? If I told her how I feel, it could ruin our friendship. I'd prefer to have her as a friend than not have her at all." He replied.
Richard could remember when he thought exactly the same thing about Tera. "I thought the same thing, I was scared of the thought that Tera wouldn't feel the same way when I told her, I thought that she might not even look at me again. But I'm glad I took that chance." Richard responded before he looked back to Tera who had a bright smile on her face.
The more Kovick looked at Richard and Tera, the more he began to think that taking the risk and telling Aneko how he felt was a good idea. "Thanks for putting up with my questions." Kovick said with a small chuckle.
Richard looked back to Kovick and smiled, adding, "Anytime. You can always talk to us if you have any questions. We're here for you."
"Thank you." Kovick replied with a small smile.
Owen was driving, when he looked to one of the passenger side seats and saw the dossier of 'The Sniper'. He reminded himself to tell Richard to read through it later, and then went back to watching the road.
Midnight arrived, and they had covered a considerable distance. The landscape changed from snowy and cold to a sandy desert, but it seemed just as cold as where they came from.
The road they were driving down seemed endless, so he pulled over and decided to find a spot to camp out for the night. Everyone got their tents set up, with the exception of Bruce who had given up on setting up his tent, yet again.
Owen and Kovick now looked out for fire wood, but in a desert where there were nearly no trees, that was a hard thing to do. Although they did find some planks left over from what seemed to be some old construction.
Kovick didn't know much about Owen, so he decided to ask him some questions. "So, how old are you?" He asked.
Owen sighed before he said a two figured number. "37."
Kovick looked at him, he would have guessed that he was in his early thirties; he would have also guessed that his stressful job would have aged him more. "Man, you agents must have some impressive health care plan." He replied.
Owen chuckled before saying, "Yeah, well we need one. We get the shit kicked out of us on a daily basis. But, it pays pretty well, so I suppose there's an added benefit."
Kovick didn't doubt that. "Who would have thought that being an agent would be so dangerous huh?" He responded with a smile.
"I thought that I would be sitting at a computer screen trying to track down criminals from the internet, but no, Rhea got that job." Owen stated sarcastically.
Kovick gave a confused look before he repeated, "Rhea? A friend of yours?"
Owen chuckled a little. "Yeah, my friend and contact, although most of the time it feels she's just there to criticize me." He said.
"Ha, I have friends like that too, they can be annoying but their hearts are in the right place." Kovick replied.
"Yeah... I've just noticed something about our group; everyone seemed to be interested in someone, apart from me, Reaper and Louis." Owen stated.
"Forgetting Bruce and Kiara?" Kovick asked.
"No, you can't become an agent for as long as I have, and not pick up a little something about body language. They like each other... Well, like might not be the right word for them." Owen told Kovick with a smile.
"Oh, so it's sort of a love to hate kind of relationship?" Kovick questioned as he chuckled a little.
"Whatever kind of relationship it is, I wouldn't want to be in it." Owen replied as he smiled.
"You wouldn't want to be in a nice, violent loving relationship like Bruce and Kiara?" Kovick responded, adding a smirk at the end.
"Ha, well, it's different I guess. Just don't tell them I think they like each other. I could do without them shouting at me and giving me a headache." Owen stated.
"Gotcha. So, about our teammates then, what do you think of Richard and Tera?" Kovick questioned.
"They seem nice and polite; I wasn't expecting that from Richard, a guy who has quite the body count to his name. I wasn't expecting Tera to come along as well; I just hope nothing happens to them, I don't think they could cope without each other." Owen told him.
Kovick nodded and then asked, "Well, what do you think of Louis and Reaper then?"
"Reaper seems sensible; he's the kind of guy that would make a good agent. I bet he could if he wanted to. Louis, well, while I don't agree with his views, I still think that he could bring something to the team. I know he has locations and information in his head that we could use; I've heard he's quite the able fighter too. Just try not to get into a fight with him, okay?" Owen replied.
"I know how to manage my feelings... But no promises." Kovick chuckled.
Owen just chuckled before he said, "Good enough."
Kovick looked around him before saying, "I don't think we're going to get anymore fire wood out of this desert."
"Yeah, I think you're right. Lets head back to camp; hopefully these planks will be enough to keep the fire going." Owen replied as he walked back to camp with Kovick.
Richard quickly spotted the empty bottles around them. "I didn't know Kiara was a drinker." He observed as a smile erupted from his face.
Tera had a strange thought in her head, which she thought out loud, "They look cute together."
Richard laughed a little before saying, "They kind of do, in that sort of don't fuck with them kind of way."
Tera giggled a little. "Come on Richard; let's stop staring at the strangely cute couple and see if Owen is awake." She replied while she felt his hand drift over to her paw and held onto it.
"Alright then, lets go." Richard responded as he led her over to the armored car.
Kiara was now lying on top of Bruce, chewing on his shirt slightly as they slept. Bruce hugged her as he slept, completely unaware of his actions. Slowly, Kiara opened her eyes as she heard some noises; she now had a headache and a strange taste in her mouth.
When her eyes focused enough, she found herself on top of Bruce, with his arms around her. Her eyes widened as she blushed lightly, and about a hundred thoughts shot through her head. 'What did we... Oh no, did we?' She thought to herself.
Bruce slowly awoke, and looked down to Kiara who was now staring at him. "Sleep well ice queen?" He asked in his tired voice.
"Err; can you remember what happened last night?" Kiara questioned him, fearing that her thought was correct.
By the look on her face, he could tell what she was thinking, and nearly as soon as he heard those words, a devious smirk crossed his face as he said, "Don't you remember me rocking your world last night? You little slut."
Kiara's eyes widened as a shocked expression quickly appeared on her face before she shouted, "What! We didn't do that last night!" then she paused before adding, "Oh, please tell me we didn't!"
Bruce burst out laughing. "I'm just fucking with you ice queen... Not literally of course!" He added with a grin whilst chuckling.
Kiara growled as she stood up on him. "Bastard." She mumbled before she walked off him.
"What? Angry that you didn't ride me?" Bruce deviously asked her as he sat upright.
"Shut up, I've already got a headache; I don't need a pain in the ass to go along with it." Kiara snapped at him.
"If you have a pain in your ass, it's only because you've got a stick stuck up it." Bruce quickly retorted.
"Ugh, this headache is making your voice even more unbearable than before!" Kiara exclaimed before she looked down to the ground as she felt a dull pain in her head.
Bruce chuckled a little before he exclaimed sarcastically, "Well, I've got to hand it to you ice queen, you can sure put away those drinks!"
Kiara sighed before clearly stating, "I'm never drinking with you again, ever."
"You say that now, but you'll want more of Bruce's juice." Bruce said with a smirk.
"I don't want to be anywhere near your juice!" Kiara shouted.
"When the headache passes, you'll want more." Bruce contradicted as he tried to contain his laughter.
"You know what I really want? You..." Before she could finish, Bruce quickly interrupted her.
"I bet you do." Bruce replied as he chuckled.
"...To shut the hell up." Kiara finished.
"Make me." Bruce said with a smile.
Kiara growled slightly, she thought about headbutting him, but with her headache, she knew that wasn't a good idea. "I will, when I don't have a headache almost as irritating as you are!" Kiara snapped at him before walking away.
Bruce just laughed as he shouted over, "It's going to take a fucking army to shut me up! I don't think a pale blue rat is going to be able to do anything!"
Kiara smirked before looking behind her. "I already did, don't you remember the time I froze that stupid bottle to your mouth?" She asked him.
"That's not going to fucking happen again! Ever!" Bruce firmly told her.
"We'll see." Kiara snappily replied while she walked away.
Bruce's eyes went straight to her rear as she walked away, although, her tail stopped him from getting a view of her private parts. He sighed to himself, he knew he couldn't keep his eyes off her, and he knew that if he kept looking at her like this, he would have many dates with his right hand in the very near future.
Owen was awake, and was now in a conversation with Rhea over his earpiece while he sat down in the car. "Any info on the location of our sniper?" He inquired.
"We don't have a precise location, but we do know what city he's in." Rhea informed him.
"Where?" Owen quickly questioned.
"Castelia City." Rhea responded.
"Driving there will take more than a day; do you think he'll still even be in the city by the time we get there?" Owen asked.
"Our intel gathers he's on a mission, and it's expected that he will still be in the city until midnight tomorrow." Rhea told him.
"Alright then, I'll round up the team and proceed to his location." Owen stated as he opened up the driver's side door and climbed out of the car.
"Good luck." Rhea finalized the conversation before Owen heard a crackling noise through the earpiece, and saw Richard and Tera walking towards him.
Richard didn't want to spend anymore time in this forest than they needed to; he thought staying in one place would only attract attention. "Do you have the location of our next recruit?" Richard asked him.
"Yes, Castelia City." Owen told him.
"Wait, that's nearly right on the other side of Unova, how are we supposed to get there today?" Richard questioned.
"We won't, we'll have to start driving today and hope we get there by tomorrow." Owen replied.
"Alright then, I guess I'll start packing up the camping gear." Richard told him as he turned around and walked back to his tent with Tera.
After an hour of packing and waking up, everyone was now in the car. Bruce and Kiara were quieter than usual. Louis and Reaper were sitting silently, occasionally looking out of the window or asking an odd question or two.
Kovick was now talking to Richard and Tera, he was very curious about their relationship. "How did you two meet?" Kovick curiously asked.
Tera was more than happy to answer. "Well, we met in a cave." She began as she smiled, knowing how silly it sounded.
Kovick gave a confused expression before repeating, "A cave?"
Tera nodded. "Yes, it was raining and I wanted to find shelter. Richard was already in the cave when I walked into it." She told him.
Kovick was a little confused; he guessed that Tera was a wild Lucario before she met Richard, meaning that she most likely belonged to a clan. But he was confused about her having no shelter; he knew that they could build homes, solid ones at that. "Why were you looking for shelter? Didn't your clan build homes?" He asked her.
"Err... My...clan passed away before I met Richard." Tera stated.
Kovick wanted to ask what happened to them, but he guessed that it would be hard for her to talk about. "Oh, I'm sorry... So, what made you stay around Richard?" Kovick replied.
Tera smiled as she laid her story, "I had no where else to go, and Richard asked me if I'd like to travel with him. I studied his aura, and from what I could tell, his word about being a good man was the truth; so I decided to stay with him."
"When did you two get together as a couple?" Kovick asked.
Richard was the one to answer this time. "Maybe a month after we met each other." He stated, remembering all of the good times.
Kovick hoped that he could learn something from Richard's and Tera's relationship, he thought that it might some how help him for when he admits his feelings to his Ninetales assistant, Aneko. "Who said they liked the other first?" He curiously asked.
Richard smiled as he looked at Tera, who leaned on his shoulder, before saying, "I did."
"When did you know it was the right time to tell her how you felt?" Kovick inquired.
"I didn't. A few hours before I told her, I was shot. Thankfully I was wearing body armor. I thought to myself that I didn't want to die without telling her how I felt, so I told her, and she felt the same way." Richard told him with a big smile on his face.
Kovick had noticed how close Richard and Tera were, he wondered if he could be that close with Aneko.
Tera began to wonder why he was asking all these questions about their relationship, so she asked, "Why are you so curious about me and Richard?"
Kovick looked at them both and said, "Because... Well, remember the Ninetales I mentioned back at the gas station?"
Tera nodded as she remembered his words back at the gas station. "The one you're in love with?" She asked.
Kovick nodded. "Yes, well... I want to tell her how I feel after this mission, but I don't think I should go through with it.
Louis was listening in, and felt the need to say something. "You shouldn't. It's sick and twisted." He stated before he was nudged in the ribs by Reaper to show his disapproval.
Kovick glared at Louis, he could already feel his anger rising inside him as he said, "No one asked for your fucking opinion."
Tera decided to interrupt them before a fight broke out, "Why don't you think you should go ahead with it Kovick?"
Kovick looked back over to Tera, still very angry about Louis' interruption. "Because... There's a really big age difference between us." He told her.
Tera looked confused as she asked, "How old are you both then?"
"I'm 27, and she's 200 years old." Kovick answered.
That number came as a shock to both Richard and Tera, but Richard said with a word of encouragement, "Well, it doesn't really matter... You love her, that's the main thing."
Tera looked at Kovick, and asked, "How long can a Ninetales live for?"
Kovick sighed before he statistically said aloud, "The average life expectancy for a Ninetales is around about the one thousand mark... So even if she loved me, she might just forget about me when I'm dead."
Tera could hear the depression in his voice, it was clear to her that he felt very strongly about this. "I would never forget Richard, not even in a thousand years. If she truly loves you, then she will always remember you." She reassured him.
Kovick looked back to Tera. "There's another thing. She's still a virgin... What if she just isn't interested in finding a mate? If I told her how I feel, it could ruin our friendship. I'd prefer to have her as a friend than not have her at all." He replied.
Richard could remember when he thought exactly the same thing about Tera. "I thought the same thing, I was scared of the thought that Tera wouldn't feel the same way when I told her, I thought that she might not even look at me again. But I'm glad I took that chance." Richard responded before he looked back to Tera who had a bright smile on her face.
The more Kovick looked at Richard and Tera, the more he began to think that taking the risk and telling Aneko how he felt was a good idea. "Thanks for putting up with my questions." Kovick said with a small chuckle.
Richard looked back to Kovick and smiled, adding, "Anytime. You can always talk to us if you have any questions. We're here for you."
"Thank you." Kovick replied with a small smile.
Owen was driving, when he looked to one of the passenger side seats and saw the dossier of 'The Sniper'. He reminded himself to tell Richard to read through it later, and then went back to watching the road.
Midnight arrived, and they had covered a considerable distance. The landscape changed from snowy and cold to a sandy desert, but it seemed just as cold as where they came from.
The road they were driving down seemed endless, so he pulled over and decided to find a spot to camp out for the night. Everyone got their tents set up, with the exception of Bruce who had given up on setting up his tent, yet again.
Owen and Kovick now looked out for fire wood, but in a desert where there were nearly no trees, that was a hard thing to do. Although they did find some planks left over from what seemed to be some old construction.
Kovick didn't know much about Owen, so he decided to ask him some questions. "So, how old are you?" He asked.
Owen sighed before he said a two figured number. "37."
Kovick looked at him, he would have guessed that he was in his early thirties; he would have also guessed that his stressful job would have aged him more. "Man, you agents must have some impressive health care plan." He replied.
Owen chuckled before saying, "Yeah, well we need one. We get the shit kicked out of us on a daily basis. But, it pays pretty well, so I suppose there's an added benefit."
Kovick didn't doubt that. "Who would have thought that being an agent would be so dangerous huh?" He responded with a smile.
"I thought that I would be sitting at a computer screen trying to track down criminals from the internet, but no, Rhea got that job." Owen stated sarcastically.
Kovick gave a confused look before he repeated, "Rhea? A friend of yours?"
Owen chuckled a little. "Yeah, my friend and contact, although most of the time it feels she's just there to criticize me." He said.
"Ha, I have friends like that too, they can be annoying but their hearts are in the right place." Kovick replied.
"Yeah... I've just noticed something about our group; everyone seemed to be interested in someone, apart from me, Reaper and Louis." Owen stated.
"Forgetting Bruce and Kiara?" Kovick asked.
"No, you can't become an agent for as long as I have, and not pick up a little something about body language. They like each other... Well, like might not be the right word for them." Owen told Kovick with a smile.
"Oh, so it's sort of a love to hate kind of relationship?" Kovick questioned as he chuckled a little.
"Whatever kind of relationship it is, I wouldn't want to be in it." Owen replied as he smiled.
"You wouldn't want to be in a nice, violent loving relationship like Bruce and Kiara?" Kovick responded, adding a smirk at the end.
"Ha, well, it's different I guess. Just don't tell them I think they like each other. I could do without them shouting at me and giving me a headache." Owen stated.
"Gotcha. So, about our teammates then, what do you think of Richard and Tera?" Kovick questioned.
"They seem nice and polite; I wasn't expecting that from Richard, a guy who has quite the body count to his name. I wasn't expecting Tera to come along as well; I just hope nothing happens to them, I don't think they could cope without each other." Owen told him.
Kovick nodded and then asked, "Well, what do you think of Louis and Reaper then?"
"Reaper seems sensible; he's the kind of guy that would make a good agent. I bet he could if he wanted to. Louis, well, while I don't agree with his views, I still think that he could bring something to the team. I know he has locations and information in his head that we could use; I've heard he's quite the able fighter too. Just try not to get into a fight with him, okay?" Owen replied.
"I know how to manage my feelings... But no promises." Kovick chuckled.
Owen just chuckled before he said, "Good enough."
Kovick looked around him before saying, "I don't think we're going to get anymore fire wood out of this desert."
"Yeah, I think you're right. Lets head back to camp; hopefully these planks will be enough to keep the fire going." Owen replied as he walked back to camp with Kovick.