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As Amir walked back to the hut after prayers he couldn't help but think of the team he had joined and just how amazing they were. He knew intellectually that joining a team would be different then working alone and that omega teams tended to be closer then other teams since they worked in such high stress environments but he wasn't expecting what this team was. They kept surprising him and tonight was no exception. He walked into the hut to see his highly skilled specialized team surrounded by brightly colored yarn and arguing about whose turn it was to kept Patton out of the yarn. Preach was the first to notice him walk in yelling "Amir it's your job to keep him away, he just makes a mess of things and gets Jaz all cranky"
"I don't get cranky Preach, I just lose track of my rounds and then I have to frog stuff and I hate frogging, then I have even more lose yarn and then he gets even more in the way" huffed Jaz
Amir was totally lost at this point "What exactly am I keeping him away from, and what exactly is frogging and why do you make it sound like the end of the world is coming along with it?"
Picking up the purple thing in her lap Jaz showed Amir what he assumed was a hat for a doll, and that didn't really clear any of his questions up but Jaz had returned to her knitting thinking that showing the tiny hat was obvious enough as an explanation. McG took pity on the questioning expression that had taken hold of Amir's face and filled in some of the details. "My mom's a NICU nurse back in Montana and we knit hats, well Jaz, Preach, and I do Top crochets blankets because those can come out wonky and no one cares"
At that Top held up a slightly trapezoidal blanket "My Aunt tried to teach me when I helped out with the farm over the summer, said I needed something to calm my mind and keep my hands busy, but I never was any good but McG's mom says no one cares when they are picking out a blanket what it looks like so I do my part"
Well this gave Amir more questions then answers and he couldn't keep them all in so he just blurted out the ones that were really bugging him "Why are they so tiny? When did you start? and Jaz why do you know how to knit and will you please tell me what frogging is?"
Preach glanced up at him responding "We make hats in a lot of sizes but McG's mom told us that some of the micro premies they get in there are only 12 inches and a little over a pound and those babies need all the warmth they can get, so homemade hats work best. When they are bright colored or patterned its also special for the parents, they get to pick out something they think suits their little one and its special"
As Preach went back to his little hat McG picked up the story "I often helped my mom out with this stuff when I was home but I never really brought it with my on deployment, no one really wants to see their male medic knitting. One time about two ish years ago I was skyping my mom and she mentioned that she was almost out of the hats I had made the last time I was home and that she couldn't wait for the deployment to end so I could make her more. Well I didn't know it but Jaz overheard my conversation and like three weeks later she dumped a pile of tiny hats in my lap and told me that she guessed on sizes and if my mom wanted more specific ones to let her know. Once I realized that Jaz knit and wasn't going to mock me over this it became a thing"
"McG I would never mock you over helping sick kids, I will forever mock you over the fact that you still live with your mom, but never that you help sick kids. As for me I picked up knitting in sniper school, it helps with dexterity and is also fairly meditative. I always bring at least some yarn and needles with me on deployment, but would only ever knit at night because I didn't need to get crap about it being a female hobby and all that" She helpfully added as she held up her hat for inspection.
"Nice Jazzy Mom will love that, she has a new little girl born the other day 25 weeker 1lb 7oz and you know how she feels about purple"
"That its the best color, obviously" sassed Jaz
With that Amir took a seat on the floor to play with Patton and to watch his team knit tiny hats for babies they will never meet all because McG's mom mentioned a need. He was content to soak up how special this team was for several minutes before exclaiming "You never told me what frogging was and why its so awful"
"Rip Rip Rip" was all the response he got as they all dissolved into laugher