Prompt 144.02

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Five times Cam didn't lose his pants (but kinda wish he had)

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Five times Cam didn't lose his pants (but kinda wished he had)

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Thanks to rinkafic for the brainstorming!

1. "They aren't serious, are they?" Cam groaned. "No pants? What kind of people make their visitors parade around half-naked?"

"Not quite naked," Sam grinned. "You can keep your underwear."

"Don't worry about it, Mitchell," Jackson said. "I'll do it."

Which seemed very charitable to Cam, right up until he found out that the ritual ended with Jackson surrounded by a bunch of pretty girls. In a tent. For the rest of the night.

Jackson, of course, swore that nothing happened.

2. Gretza were surprisingly vicious creatures for their size. Mouse-small, but sharp teeth. And they travelled in packs, which was something the biologists who first surveyed the planet forgot to include in their report. Cam cursed them--and the sturdy ripstop of his BDUs, which would not tear beneath those teeth--as he ran for the water with a half-dozen gretza clawing their way up his legs

[anotherdreamer5]

Wow. These were all really well thought out. I liked the progression from the superficial to the sillily dangerous to the personal to the serious. "We" he said, and meant a group he'd joined voluntarily, loved and fought with. We meaning him and her and their entire lives. For a man to get a place where he would want to take off that uniform--I think you did it justice, the scene. You played it right.

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Thank you so much! I'm glad that last scene worked for you; it was one of the last I thought of and one of the hardest to write.

[archersangel]

#5 packs a punch.