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"I want dino pants! I. Want. Dino. Pants!" she heard come through the phone and she pulled it away as her nephew's voice got to Pterodactyl level. (See what she did there) She heard her sister yell at him to stop and took her phone back.

"Sis, you sure you can't find them?" she heard her sister ask as she brought the phone back up to her ear.

"Sorry chick. I looked in my dirty clothes hamper and in my laundry I just washed, they aren't there," she replied.

"Your place is the last place I remember seeing them on him. And he got them muddy so I put a different pair on. I think I left them sitting on the lid of your hamper, in the bathroom," her sister recalled. "AUNTIE SAYS DINOS ARE OVERRATED, TRANSFORMERS ARE BETTER."

"Now Sis, that's a white lie and you know it. Pokémon are so much better," she laughed.

"Don't test me Sis! Right now, I'm hoping that Auntie's influence is so much better than Mommy's and he decides to wear Transformers for several days, until we find or replace those dino pants," her sister snapped.

"Well, you sound desperate," she commented.

"He loves those damn pants," her sister sighed.

"Don't worry. I plan on going back to the Laundromat and seeing if I may have left them in the washer or dryer. Don't do anything drastic yet," she replied.

"Oh, I hope you did! Love you!" her sister exclaimed.

"Love...You," she tried replying but her sister had hung up. She quickly grabbed her purse and keys, to keep her promise.

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"Excuse me, Miss?" she asked trying to get the manager's attention. "Has anyone turned in a pair of green dinosuar pants, I think they would be about 3T."

"No, there's not a lot of clothes in the lost and found. And none of them are smaller than adult medium. Definitely, no dinosaurs," the young woman replied before she even looked up. "Oh hey girl! Weren't you here yesterday? And 3T dinosaur pants?"

"They're my nephew's, his momma left them on my laundry hamper and I'm sure I washed them. 'Cause I'm an awesome Auntie and I probably figured I'd wash them... And then I forgot they were in there, shows you how awesome I am right? I forgot my nephew's dino pants," she joked with the tall blonde manager, who also happened to be a friend.

"I remember checking the washer after you were done and there was nothing in there. The dryers were busy yesterday, so maybe whoever came after you took them home," the blonde suggested.

"By any chance, do you remember who used that dryer after me?" she asked. "If I don't find them my nephew will never forgive me."

"As a matter of fact, yes I do! His name is Gunner! You know? That really tall, older, blonde guy you were crushing on last week? The one with the tats?"

"I was not crushing on him. I was admiring his tattoos," she replied.

"Oh please, you were practically drooling over him. And not just 'cause of his tats," the blonde teased.

"Whatever! How do you know him?" she asked.

"My sister's dating one of his buddies. They hang out at Tool's tattoo parlor, she invited me to go with her once. A guy named Caesar was hitting on me the whole time... Anyway, you might find him at Tool's," the blonde said, dismissively waving her hand in the air.

"This will be my only attempt beyond here that I will try to track down these damn pants. If I don't find them there, I will just buy him a new pair. He'll get over the heartbreak and hating me some day. They bounce back more quickly the younger they are," she rambled, as she started for the door.

"Good luck!" her blonde friend called with a saucy wink.

"Why don't you get a life and find your own man, you vicarious slut?!" she exclaimed. Thankfully, there were no children, but that didn't stop people frome giving her the stink eye.

"Where's the fun in that?!"

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The guys were in various places around the garage. Tool and Christmas doing their usual pissing contest, throwing knives at a decorative dart board. Toll and Ceasar were watching a game on the old TV. Yin was talking to Barney, as he worked on his truck. And Gunnar was drinking a beer and lounging on his bike.

"We got company," Christmas called as he looked out the garage door, that were open to let the fresh air and sunlight in.

Across the street, a dark green 90s Mustang parked and was turned off. The door opened and a young woman stepped out. She was wearing jeans, a black mens tee, and work boots that had 3 inch heels.

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She pulled up outside of Tool's Tattoo parlor and and saw the garage door open. She could see several men inside. When she got out she ignored the two men wolf-whistling at her and walked just in the door. A man that had long black hair, wearing a button up with the sleeves cut off and buttoned so it showed off his colorful chest, walked toward her.

"Welcome to Tool's. How can I help you pretty lady?" the man flirted.

"I'm looking for Gunner," she replied.

The tall blonde man's eyes snapped toward herm. The men were silent for a second, before they started their usual male banter.

"Whoo! Tool she brushed you off quick, you've lost your touch man," called Christmas.

"Oh man, a beautiful woman came calling on his ugly ass? I don't think she knows what she's in for," Caesar said almost at the same time.

Tool directed her toward the man on the motorcycle. Gunner watched her approach with confusion, he didn't recall her from anywhere off the top of his head.

"Hi," she said with a small smile. "A mutual friend, at the Laundromat, said you might know where I can find a pair of dinosaur pants, because she recalled you used the dryer after I did. They would be about 3T and I'm really hoping you might have found them."

Gunner finally remember the woman who he had been waiting for, to finish her laundry so he could use the dryer, the day before. "Give me a minute, I go look," he said, as he got off the bike and started for the door that lead to the rooms they kept at Tool's.

"Tough luck, mate. Looks like she's already taken," Christmas chuckled as he clapped him on the back. He shrugged him off and disappeared.

She looked around, admiring the tattoo designs and motorcycles that graced the shop. Gunner wasn't gone long. He came back with a pair of green dinosaur pants barely peaking out from his fisted hand. He handed them to her and sat back down in his original position.

"Thank you very much. My nephew will be so happy to get these back, he's been driving his momma crazy about these," she said.

"No problem. Never seen someone go through so much to get a pair of pants back," he replied.

"I think they're like his safety blanket or something," she said. Then, she smiled almost mischievously. "What do you say, as a thank you, I buy you a drink?" You could almost hear a pin drop behind her. Gunner grinned back at her.

"I'd say you're on, Princess. Meet me tonight at Olde Point? Say 9?" Gunner shot back.

"I'll see you there!" she turned and walked out the door. Not bothering to look back at some of the men who had to pick their jaws off the floor. Caesar manage to regain himself quicker than the rest and started ribbing Gunner as the young woman drove off.

A/N: Randomly thought of this when I was doing my laundry and found a pair of my almost 2 year old nephews sweat pants in the washer. He's not in 3Ts yet, but my 3 year old nephew is.
And I'm not putting names in the one-shots because I'm doing a kind of third person Reader x Gunner. In case you were wondering. And if anyone's offended, sorry for that s-word. I google Gunner and found that it's spelled with an E not A, so if you get a lot of notifications, it's probably just editing. Thank you to the awesome fan, who left my first review for this, I was all excited and squealing for like 2 hours, to anyone who listened.

Oh! If anyone sends me a song prompt for the one-shots, I may need to listen to the song several times before an idea clicks, especially if I haven't heard it before.

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