Yondu shrugs. “We never go anywhere without weapons…. it’s a … prepared thing… we keep weapons even if we go on a picnic.”
Jamie whines. “Jamie likes pups… upset he can’t have pups because of
nut… because he’s crazy…. mean… violent…. Jamie gets frustrated…”Carlos frowned slightly at Yondu. “It’s Earth – this is the place where you shouldn’t have weapons on you!” Carlos shut his eyes and took a breath. “Sorry… I’m sorry, I’m just… now that you guys are here I’m anxious all over again…”
Tullk just lay there with Jamie, humming with his gravelly voice to calm the other.
Yondu sighs at that. “Sorry……. perhaps we should… go…” he didn’t want to but he didn’t want to stress carlos out.
Jamie eventually calms and nuzzles against him. “Nuts quiet again….he’s gone back to sleep. Your humming put him to sleep.”
“Good to hear,” Tullk grunted. He smiled at the other man, still petting his hair.
“No, wait – don’t go,” Carlos said quickly. “I – I’m sorry, it’s me… everything will be fine. I’m… it’s my job-search – it’s making me antsy.”
“He is,” Mikey agreed as he rolled up with a glass of water. He offered it to Yondu. “Carlos is getting stir-crazy from staying in the house for so long.”
Yondu hums. “….I’d offer a job but… you know…. and I can easily convert credits to cash so your family lives comfortably…”
Jamie purrs and pulls him into a kiss.
Kraglin peered out the back door and made a face. He turned away to give the other Ravagers some privacy while he nursed the bubbly drink that Mikey had given him. It was really fruity and sweet, and it was purple… he could practically feel his teeth rotting from drinking it.
Carlos sighed. “I can’t do that… the government here likes to know where money is coming from. And they’re more liable to believe that it’s drug money rather than space money. I… it has to be an Earth job.”
“He’s keeping busy with some of my work,” Mikey said with a smile. “It’s nice to have somebody to do the heavy-lifting when people bring in their computer towers for us to fix.”
Yondu frowns and sighs. “Listen…… it won’t be gigantic amounts… Tell ya what….consider this your oayment for fixing my ship…. it’s payment plans because he’ll we owe you. I owe you..”
Carlos blinked at Yondu. “I… I really owe you guys,” he said softly. “You brought me back home when you could have just dropped me when I fixed the engines. Ravagers don’t do things out of the goodness of their hearts… so that makes this even more special.”
“Look carlos… please just take it. And please… we all would be dead if we hadn’t found you ok…. in the end I had s thought to just .. keep you the original promise to take you homexwas a lie ok…. a lie…. I had no intention of doing it but…..I must have a weakness to terrans it something because I just…. started on the trip to terra……..I owe you far more then you owed me. I owe you my life…. my crews life…. my boys lives….. you did a lot more. You never gave up even when some things happened…”
Kraglin came up behind Yondu, giving Carlos a serious look. “Take it. Like ya said, Ravagers ain’t about doin’ things outta the goodness of our hearts.”
Carlos was speechless for a moment. He looked between Yondu and Kraglin. “Um… o-okay, then,” he said softly. “Uh… Yeah. Thank you.”
Yondu nods and smiles. “Krags.. go fetch Tullk and Jamie before they end up mating in the grass. You know how they can’t control them selves….” blinks frowning when he hears a car drive up but settles figuring it was just there father.
Carlos turned toward the garage door when he heard it opening. He smiled. “Wait a second guys – I’m going to help my dad carry in some stuff.”
Kraglin just grunted as he went back outside to get Tullk and Half-nut back in the house.
Jamie was already half undressed as he and Tullk have There fun out in the grass.
Yondu nods and leans against the wall finally dropping down his bag and pulls from his coat a small folded bag of beastie worms and crunches on some as he looks at Mikey.
Mikey smiled at Yondu, but when he saw the Beastie Worms he made a slight face. He quickly turned away, hoping Yondu didn’t see it.
Kraglin sat beside Yondu with his can of fruity bubbly drink that Mikey gave him, blocking most of Mikey’s sight of the worms.
Yondu looks to him. “Did ya summon the two love birds?” Looks up as Jamie walks in zipping up his jumper with a dazed look on his face.
Kraglin just grunted and nodded. He was this close to just sending them back to the M-ship for the rest of the visit.
The garage door could be heard closing and Carlos opened the door into the house. He was carrying a few plastic grocery bags and he held the door open for his father, who hobbled in carrying one as well.
Mr Ramon looked over the visitors and smiled. “Well hello – it’s nice to see you all again!”
Yondu grins and waves getting up going over to help. “Good to see you again. I brought you some things from space. And some beastie worms.. few bags of em.”
Mr Ramon blinked blankly at Yondu. “Uh… I’m sorry, what? What did you say?”
“Dad, do you have the galactic translator on?” Carlos asked him.
Mr Ramon looked at Carlos before it dawned on him. “Oh! Oh, no – I don’t. It’s up in my jewelry box.”
Carlos chuckled. “Okay… I’ll get it after we put some things down. Yondu says it’s good to see you too and he brought some stuff back – like Beastie Worms.”
Mr Ramon beamed and looked at Yondu. “Oh yes – thank you! That’s very thoughtful of you! I apologize – I didn’t know you were arriving so soon or I would have already gotten the translator out. Bear with me, please.”
Yondu nods and waves him off with a grin as he lugs the bags to the kitchen peter was stealing sips of kraglins soda as he lays half over his back craving that closeness again.
Jamie was sniffing at a pineapple and a potato curiously and poked it.
“Careful,” Tullk murmured to Half-nut. “Ya don’t know what those are…”
“He shouldn’t try eating them,” Carlos commented. “They’re not prepared, and one of them’s a little dangerous uncooked.”
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