Drink it up -open-

[eric]

Two weeks leave, it was amazing that he'd even been able to get it but well, pulling rank actually seemed to work, despite the fact that he'd never really had to do it before. His whole career he'd had no reason to be home for Christmas his parents, both dead, his brother too. It was the main reason he'd enlisted in the first place, as a reason to get away, something to think about other than loneliness.

This year, he had an excuse, a fiance and newborn twins to get back to. So, he'd taken the chance, they weren't his kids, and she wasn't his fiance but they'd made a deal and well, it sucked to be alone on Christmas, even for a girl as tough as Sammi. Besides the kids deserved a decent first Christmas. The only problem now was locating her.

Last they'd spoken he hadn't even been able to tell her when he was flying out, security issues, she'd been somewhere around this area but that didn't mean anything now, for all he knew she could have been on the other side of the country by now, though he doubted that very much. He sighed taking a drink of his beer holding his phone in his hand trying to call her.

"Come on Sammi" he muttered. Whenever she didn't answer he assumed the worst, he was a hunter, or a former one he knew that in a split second things could go from okay to bad in less than a minute. "Answer the fucking phone!" he said growing frustrated, not with her, more with the fact that he didn't know what was going on. With a sigh he hung up the phone playing it down on the bar willing it to ring.

[aricsummers]

There was nothing wrong with taking a break right? Hunting could be very frustrating and very stressful at times. That was why you would see most hunters drinking at bars during the nights. Even sometimes during the days, hunters would go into a bar and drown their stress in a bottle of whiskey. Aric had done it twice in the time that Sammi was gone… Or so he thought she was. Up until a couple weeks ago when he ran into her at a hotel nearby.

Aric sat at the bar, drinking a beer, enjoying the burger and fries in front of him, watching football on the small bar tv hanging above the alcohol. Suddenly he heard the guy next to him say something that sounded like ‘Sammi’, but it couldn’t be. Even if he was looking for the same Sammi, how did Aric know this wasn’t one of the guys that was after the kids? The reason she was running in the first place. When the guy cussed at the phone, Aric couldn’t stop himself from looking over ”Female troubles?” He asked with a small grin.

After the time in the Marines, Aric had found himself getting a little more frustrated with things when he went on leave. Not that this guy was in the military, he wasn’t sure, but Aric had seen plenty of guys go through the same things. ”Don’t worry, man. Back when I was in boot and you felt like you were never going to get to talk to that special lady again… She’d call or write at the perfect time… I’m sure yours will, too:

Sure, he was trying to start conversation. Aric hated the loneliness of being a hunter sometimes. It was nice to have the peace and quite sometimes, but most of the time, Aric needed someone there to talk to. Since he had been on the road, this would be his first potential conversation he has had since talking with Sammi a couple weeks ago. Damn he needed to meet more people…

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[eric]

He glanced over at the guy. Not that it was strange for people to strike up conversation in a bar, he just hadn't really been expecting it, his mind had been elsewhere. "Aren't there always" he stated simply. Girls seemed to cause a lot of trouble even when you weren't freaking dating them. Grant, he supposed that for all intents and purposes he was, this one at least more than that on the surface so it only made sense that she would be getting under his skin. Trouble, he was pretty sure, was Sammi's middle name and he'd barely known her for very long.

That was what was really making him worry. If she wasn't answering her phone cause she was at Chuck E. Cheese or whatever then he wouldn't be worried but given the current situation, she could be under siege attack by demons...and that, was cause enough to be worrying. Not to mention the other things that could happen to a woman alone on the road with two kids. He needed to find a way to make them a safe house, but he knew that in order to have them hidden in any manner they needed to do more than just lock box a house or a cabin, it was going to be far more intense than that. "It's my fiance, she's M.I.A" he said simply. "I'm just hoping to hear she's alright" he admitted.

He actually missed those kids to, he had to admit, even though they weren't actually his and he'd only actually spent about a month's time with them before he'd been deployed again. Their little faces on the webcam when he called to say hey, they were getting older everyday and despite it all being part of the lie, well, he felt like, as well as pretended that they were actually his family.