To help with grief over losing Billy, the Expendables try a month vacation at Barney's family cottage. While there, Barney struggles with past memories, Gunner and Toll are trying to out-fish each other, Caesar is trying to save his marriage, and Lee meets Emily Charlton and her daughter Maya, which leads to a possible answer to his dream of leaving blood work behind him.
Jacoba Dixie Kooper is a 6 foot 4 inch dark haired woman who has snuck into the hearts and lives of all of the Expendables, especially of one giant Swede. In this series of one-shots, their relationship will be explored. Written with story prompts and in no particular order. Mostly AU.
Soul Searching Norah ends up in New Orleans and connects with a team who are well versed with grief and loss: The Expendables. Lee keeps everyone outside of his team at arm's length to keep them safe, but Norah starts to break his walls the longer she stays. Can a hardened mercenary finally let someone in? Will Norah find a way to heal from her own past tragedy?
For years now, Barney Ross has been Expendable. It's not a lifestyle for everyone, and he remembers each loss as if it happened only the day before. So when a new threat emerges and aims to destroy the one thing he has never truly had, his team have to kick it into high gear to save him from being completely destroyed. Because if this goes south, they might never get him back.
What could go wrong at a wedding with a judgmental mother, a former bully, a narcissistic-like ex, and a fake boyfriend? By chance, Emily Charlton meets and enlists Lee Christmas to help her get through the weekend, but will their time together show they're actually meant to be? As Lee falls for Emily, he sees that she is worth the wait, but will Emily be too afraid to let him in?
Emily Charlton and Lee Christmas are thrown together when their best friends suddenly die in a tragic accident and they become guardians to their honorary niece and nephew. Having only met once at their friends' wedding seven years earlier, Emily and Lee have to adjust to each other and figure out how to handle family matters while learning that family matters.
Peace is soon interrupted when a ghost from the past arises for revenge. Separated from the others, Lee and Kate must fight to survive with the help of one obnoxious CIA agent Church and a mischievous, orphaned boy. Barney thinks he can hold his own, but he is soon proven wrong, and the cost could be deadly. Will help arrive from an unexpected source? Or will they be too late?
Dusty is settling into her adjusted life with the Expendables now that they know the truth about her parents and her relationship with Lee. Despite life taking a turn for the better, she still must battle her inner demons and try to find peace with the things she has done in the past. Barney thinks hard about his feelings and his role as a father-figure.
There's still loose ends to tie up and truths to learn about each other that are keeping everyone on edge. Sammy navigates the world of a mercenary through new eyes as they hunt to finally put an end to Conrad's control. Lee and Barney both struggle to fight alongside the people they care the most about. Gunner wants to be better, but he isn't sure how to unburn those bridges.
Maybe, just maybe while facing this absolute mystery of a deranged version of Alice in Wonderland, you could find yourself looking at Barney Ross like an absolute idiot while stating 'Holy f*** you're real' seconds before you fainted. Because why not?
Aurora was dealing with the sudden loss of her friend. She was doing what she could to heal, but when Lacy's ex comes to the house unexpectedly, perhaps a friendship could form. / Lee was angry, she cheated on him, as he went to go back to the house to get his shit, he found a tiny woman barely holding herself together. Something inside him told him she was important. But for what
Amelia was just your average girl, working in a Law office as an Admin assistant, but fate brought to the doors of the Expendables, and her friendship with one, would bring the others into her life / Toll Road wanted something special in his life, but given his career choice, and the woman that hung around the bars they did, it wasn't looking good.
Gunner makes a promise to his daughter but at the first chance he's given, he breaks his promise. Then his past catches up with him and threatens to take away the last good thing in his life. Will the expendables be able to stop what's in plan for revenge or will Gunner loose everything he loves.
'I felt his blood pouring from his body directly into my hands. He begged and I walked away. I left him to his own fucking death' She snarled at him with rage in her voice and pain in her eyes. 'He was my family and I let him die. I followed him into hell and I couldn't bring him back. I couldn't bring any of them back. I can't get back. You should have let me die.'
Sammy is still adapting to life with the Expendables. Some news arrives one day and changes everything she thought was her new normal. She's going to have to make some compromises in order to make what she believes is the right decision. The only problem is that it might cost her everything. Barney has a lot on his mind, and his rocky past might be just what the team needs to help.
They didn't even want to take on a trainee, but Barney had been convincing, and it was his team, so they did. A couple years later left them with Dusty, a fiery twenty-something that was deadly with a bow and arrow and had an attitude that they all agreed would get her killed one day. Barney swore to protect her, but she's still recovering from his last failed attempt at that.
Il y avait des conversations qu'on pouvait se faire et se refaire des centaines de fois dans la tête sans qu'elles ne soient moins douloureuses et celle-ci hanterait Barney jusqu'à la fin de sa vie.
'You've seen and feel things you don't wish on anyone and I can understand that. But just because you can take it, it doesn't mean you should have to. At least not alone. I will be there for you when you come back' She'd said. But now her eyes were cold and empty, and her screams would haunt them forever. [Rated MA, please read the author's note.]
Barney is expecting things to blow up, and they do, in more ways than one. A woman named Ava comes from nowhere needing R&R, Tool drops a bombshell of news onto him, and one of his team members gets badly hurt on a mission. When Gunner and Ava get lost in the jungle after this mission goes south, Ava finds herself connecting with someone again, no matter how hard she tries not to.
A little sharing among teammates never hurt anybody. ONE SHOT. COMPLETE.
"But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which." ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire. Lee/OC maybe Toll Road/OC
I can hardly believe I am writing an Expendables story, but what can I say. This irascible bunch just tickles my fancy. This is an Expendables 3 story specifically, and is likely going to be a fairly fluffy exercise in indulging my current obsession with Kellen Lutz...Consider that full disclosure peeps. That said, it will feature most other characters from the movie and an OFC.
What starts as a simple meet-and-greet for Barney's teenage daughter and his crew turns into much, much more.
So I hated that Billy died, this is an alternate sequence of events. (Warnings: cursing/gore/torture/sexual themes/violence possible character death) Billy was captured by Vilain, but what if there was a more sinister motive and the disk with the blueprints was only a cover up for something much worse? Better summary inside.
Okay three facts about me, One I have fallen in love with Barney Ross, Two I have an actor playing a character I made up in order to sell my paintings and not worry about being discovered, and three there's 15 years in between me and Barney. There's a secret that I am keeping from the group and Barney finds out about it, What should I do? What can I do? What is my secret?
Combat specialist Rosa Gearings used to be part of the US Marines till she was 17. Now she works with Barney Ross and his crew. The Autobots need their help. Who knows what can happen. M for future chapters and character death.
Nearly two years after loosing the love of her life, Kayla returns to the Expendables for the last time. She is finally coming home and finding closure after all she's endured with the only family she has ever known. Conclusion of the Kayla Quadrilogy.
Based off the tv series, the war continues between the Republic and Sepratists as the Expendables do whatever they can to help in the war by doing critical missions and creating an army of their own to help the Republic
Death... that doesn't matter. What matters is that you went out doing something worth it. We don't choose when we die. But we can choose how to spend our life, and for Jake Jensen and Sky Christmas, they've already made that choice... no matter how much they suffer in the process. Sequel to 'The Kids Are Alright'.
No one ever said having kids was easy. Especially not when the two kids in question are Jake Jensen—certified genius, motor-mouth, and son of 'the Viking', Gunnar Jensen—and Sky Christmas—sarcastic, determined, and daughter of 'Knives Out', Lee Christmas. Throw these two kids together in a house full of mercenaries as guardians and you're in for a fun ride. One-Shot Series!