Gray walked out of the bar carrying Yurika and placed her in passenger seat of the pickup truck. A voice sounded out from the door to the bar as a waiter was looking for Gray.
"Sir! Your friend, he left his card!"
Thinking back, Gray remembered that Major Valen had paid for their drinks. Gray nodded, glanced at the card and said "I'll return it to him then, we live in the same area"
The waiter handed Gray the card and Gray slipped it into his pocket, then got into his truck.
Yurika was still sound asleep, at this time she was sprawled across the entire bench seat of the truck forcing Gray to have to move her out of the way. When Gray tried to sit her up, she punched him in the face, but she was still asleep.
"What the heck is wrong with this woman!" Gray thought to himself. Not wanting to try and sit her up anymore, Gray just pushed her over as much as he could to get in the truck.
Gray looked at the time and saw it was 2:30 am. "Hmm, should we just crash here or head back to the base?" Gray said thinking out loud.
At this point Yurika was trying to spread out in her drunken sleep over the bench seat and started headbutting Gray's thigh. "Seriously?!?" Gray exclaimed.
"Uggg, let's just get back to base!" Gray lamented the thought of driving over an hour in the pitch black when the road was barely usable but figured it would be best as he didn't want to spend the night at the military base in the city again.
Gray made it to the main gate that lead out of the city and was stopped by the guards.
"Where you heading too sir?" the guard asked Gray politely.
"We're heading back to the military base south of the city." Gray said as he thumbed over at Yurika's passed out form.
"You didn't drug her, right?"
"Of course not... I was the designated driver tonight."
"Ah, makes sense, okay, have a safe trip back then!"
Gray waved to the guard after the guard returned to his shack and opened the gate to let them leave.
When Yurika was sleeping peacefully Gray couldn't help but admire how pretty she was even without trying to be. When she wasn't being so peaceful, Gray would suffer the consequences as she would usually disrupt his driving.
One time Gray thought she was whispering something so he leaned in close to hear her and she ended up biting his ear. Yurika ended up snuggling up and resting her head on Gray's lap, much to Gray's enjoyment, at least until she started drooling on his pants. Still, this drooling was preferred over the punching and biting so Gray just patted her head and let her drool away peacefully.
When Gray got back to the base, Yurika had started mumbling about what may have been her past, or present, or maybe her dreams. Gray decided to just listen as he carried her back towards her room.
"Zzzz… not real… no I can't…" Yurika mumbled "… they betrayed us… stop them… stop Mehhnk…"
"Mehhnk?" Gray thought to himself "I've never heard of that name before."
"Zzzz… Gray is my wife…"
"Wait… wife?" Gray was half tempted to check if she was a male or female, but considering her personality she was probably always the alpha male in every relationship. Was she dreaming about the pregame lobby earlier when she declared Gray as his wife in front of Carly?
Gray finally made it to Yurika's room and knocked on the door.
"…"
Gray suddenly realized he was an idiot as he was carrying the occupant of this room so nobody would answer. Squatting slightly, Gray tried his best to reach out with his hand while carrying Yurika and tried to turn the handle but found the door to be locked.
"Umm… do I dare search for her key card?" Gray thought to himself, he tried to shake Yurika a little to wake her up but all he got was a belch straight in his face.
"Wow that reeks of booze… How much did she drink?"
Gray didn't want to leave her in the hall and he couldn't remember where Xyra or Stacia's room was, or even if they were in. Gray said "Screw it!" out loud and carried her back to his room. Laying her on his bed, he brushed her teal twintails off of her face and went to go brush his teeth and wash his face before going to sleep on the couch.
Gray only took off his shoes and snagged a pillow off of his bed before lying down on the couch. "Sheesh, this thing sucks to sleep on, no wonder Geoff wanted to crawl into the bed even with me in it already."
Gray did his best to get comfortable and stretched out on the couch, his feet hanging over the far edge of it. He closed his eyes and was starting to lose himself in sleep when he heard a lot of shuffling and Yurika grumbling something in his bed. Gray turned his head away from the bed and chose to ignore, but when the shuffling stopped, he felt something warm fall on his chest.
"Oh, looks like she noticed me and tossed me a blanket." Gray thought innocently enough "Hmmm, this blanket smells a lot like beer, and it is very small."
Gray couldn't see what it was but once he started feeling it directly, he suddenly realized what was thrown on top of him. "This… this is Yurika's jumpsuit!"
Gray's heart started to beat faster and he thought to himself "Calm down, she has shorts and a t-shirt underneath it!"
Gray heard more rustling around in his bed and felt something soft and warm land on him and realized it was Yurika's t-shirt this time. The proverbial angel on his shoulder reminded him that she was a good friend and that he should not take advantage of her while she is drunk and passed out. Gray turned to look at the proverbial devil on his shoulder and the devil was in agreement with an angel.
"Hey, aren't you supposed to be the one encouraging me to take advantage of her?" Gray said while looking at the imaginary devil on his shoulder.
The little devil nodded its head and Gray said "So why aren't you?"
The little devil on his shoulder pulled out a picture of Carly and held it up, the pulled out a sign and wrote on it "She scares me".
Gray recalled the warning Carly gave him earlier and he totally understood what the little devil meant. "I get it." Gray, the little devil, and the little angel all nodded solemnly in agreement, then the little devil and angel disappeared as Gray maintained his willpower to not turn his head and look.
Gray felt another piece of clothing land on him suddenly and without even picking it up he could feel the lace and clasps on it. "Her bra!"
Gray's heart was thumping like crazy! He was on the verge of losing self-control, but then he heard Yurika toss something else and it smacked him hard in the head.
"Owww! What the…" Gray picked up the object and saw that it was her armlet. "Why would she take this off now?"
Gray heard the whooshing of something else being thrown, this time it brought Gray to the verge of tears. "An empty liquor bottle?!? Where was she even hiding this? On second thought, I don't want to know."
Gray heard her toss something else and he instinctively protected his head. A second empty bottle of liquor had smacked on to his arms that were covering his head. Gray was in tears at this point "What the @#$%&! You weren't carrying these when I carried you into bed! That's cheating!"
Yurika now seemed to be sleeping peacefully at least after she got rid of her jumpsuit, t-shirt, bra, and the 2 empty bottles. Gray balled up Yurika's jumpsuit and her t-shirt and used them to protect his face while he tried to fall asleep since he wasn't sure if she was going to throw more at him.
"I need to totally get back at her for this…" Gray thought to himself.
Gray looked around his own room for ideas on what to do to her in revenge. His eyes locked on to the drawer near his bed. Gray remembered that Geoff and he had bought some extra 'protection' when they went into the city last time but of course never used it.
A devilish smile appeared on Gray's face as he thought to himself "Oh… that's… that's just mean! I have to try it!"