>>15 I'm spoiling -me-. I DO have other things to do, but I'm looking at finishing the next chapter already now. I admit, I thought I could 'get away with' the medigun thing. It's a mysterious piece of technology and nobody knows for sure how it works. I'm actually bending quite a few things considering I've ignored friendly fire barriers and respawning altogether. Basically my theory is that though friendly fire is impossible, if it were maybe the Medigun wouldn't work due to some difference in technology or something. In this story I don't want to explain the ins and outs of a new system of battle-- this is a budding romance story. I don't want to talk about cloning or science-fiction because it isn't part of the story. BLU is a faceless enemy. So I had no qualls about implicating the death of the BLU Scout... that's my candid explanation of why RED won't suffer in Scout's absence. Basically... it was a tool I used out of convenience. It's an idea I've had for a while and might expand on in a different story in a more convincing and scientific way, but here it's completely me cheating myself some convenience. I will willingly accept complaint. And then take way too much time to write it off when I could be finishing part 5, haha. If I review this into a 'complete version', I'll definitely try and re-think the medical mumbo-jumbo. And everything else you've had for me so far. :) I really like how invested you seem.