#story changes

“I don’t know what you are talking about. As far as I’m concerned last night didn’t even happen.” She retorts, keeping her eyes forward.

“Oh, I remember everything, do you want me to refresh your memory.” Chris straightens his back, getting ready to step into the colonels office.

Before she could say anything, else Chris opens the door stepping inside with Dr. Hinsen following behind him.

“Dr. Hinsen, Maybe you should report to the nurse, you are looking a bit flushed.”

“She’s Fine sir, last night was a long night for her that’s all.” Chris smirks.

Juniper doesn’t say anything instead she just places her documents on a nearby table.

“Sir, Cpt. Lawrence’s Avatar is ready for the link. We can move forward with the next step.” Juniper pushes her glasses, fixing them.

“Perfect timing Dr. I already have the Cpt.’s first assignment. You will accompany Dr. Augustine collecting samples in the alien world.”

“With all due respect Colonel, if I have to work on my free day, I prefer to work with the soldier at the motor pool getting everything ready, where I’m actually needed.” Chris protests.

“Unfortunately, Cpt. I wasn’t asking. Be ready at 1200 hours.” Chris was going to protest but the door opened, interrupting him.

The Colonel looks up for the first time during this entire conversation.

“Corporal Sully, impeccable timing, you will be Joining the captain during tomorrows assignment, ill let him give the details. Now leave, and Christopher please stop teasing the scientist they are flustered enough”

Chris chuckles at the comment and Juniper grumbles.

All three of them Leave, Chris hasn’t even bothered to look at the other guy.

‘Sully, where do I know that name.’ He decides to look at the guy next to him but finds him on a wheelchair.

“Jake sully?!” Chris says excitedly, Juniper looks very confused

“Christopher Lawrence?”

“It you man, Holy shit” Chris shakes his hand and lowers himself to hug him.

“Do you two know each other?”

“Jake and I have done everything together, we enlisted at the same time, started our training together, we were put together everywhere, even in our deployment.” Chris says excitedly

“So, you guys are War Buddies?” Juniper asks

“You could say its something like that” Jake answers

“Come on, we gotta get to the lab, ill brief you on the way there”

A few minutes later they walked through the doors of the lab, the room was full of machines and tools that Chris was sure they needed but looked to complicated to be practical.

There were a few tanks nearby, giant blue human looking creatures floated in them, like a fetus. It was at the very least unsettling.

Chris then walked by one that looked exactly like him, of course it had Na’vi features, but it still looked exactly like him. Down to the faint scar on his right eye.

Jake was looking at his too.

“No, we are not taking two trigger happy thugs down with us, it just isn’t going to happen” A woman argued from the other side of the lab. Apparently, someone wasn’t too happy taking

“Is there a problem Dr?” Chris asked.

“Have any of you idiots ever worked in a lab?” She asked, irritated

“I dissected a frog once.” Jake answered

“I’m sorry, I’m a little busy protecting your lab to work in it.” Chris says without a single feeling being expressed in his sentence.

“Well, that’s great.” She throes her arms up and storms out of the lab.

“I’m taking this to corporate, I’m tired of this shit!”

“Be here at 0800 tomorrow, we’ll do the link up then.” Another scientist that had initially let us in the lab and was talking with Norm said. Letting us out of the lab.

“See you later Juni” Chris waves at Juniper who was already in her desk flipping through clipboards.

“Goodbye, Cpt.”

“You know you guys could at least fake that you care about the natives” Norm Scoffs and is ignored by the pair.

A few hours later, Chris and Jake find themselves in the stations bar.

“Why are you here Jake? What brought you to the middle of nowhere?” Chris leans back in his chair Looking for a reaction on jake’s face but doesn’t find one.

“Tom died; they wanted me to take his place in the experiment.”

“Aw man that’s awful, I didn’t know, I heard that someone on the scientist side died, I didn’t know it was your brother.

“Well, it doesn’t really matter, you couldn’t have done much anyway.” Jake took a sip from his bottle.

“Why are you here Chris, what happened to Monica, last time I saw you guys was at the wedding.”

“She uh, she died, a few years later, she got lung and brain cancer, and they caught it a bit late, so you could say I’m here looking for an escape.” Chris rubs his thumb on the ring that was still on his finger.

“I’m sorry man.” Jake pats Chris on the shoulder.

“Hey, it’s all right, it was a long time ago, let’s not let the night get ruined.” Just as he said that Juni and Trudy walked into the Bar.

“Hey, Over here.” Chris waves enthusiastically.

“You know, you could have been a little nicer with Dr. Augustine earlier.” Juniper said before sitting next to them.

“Ah, I was just having a bit of fun its just a matter of time, so she warms up to me.” Chris comments which make Jake choke on his beer.

“Oh sure, because you are so likeable.” Trudy mocked, with a smirk

“Trudy, this is Jake Sully, he’s going to be joining us on the next assignment”

“Pleasure to meet you jake.” She extends her hand and Jake takes it in his shaking it.

The night was light, and the group talked and laughed together, before heading to their rooms, tomorrow was going to be a long day after all.

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