**Buck Bradley - MEC - Farren/Dean and Robert**

Buck smiled.

For some reason it made him feel really good, very confident and assured when Farren told him he didn't need to apologize.  He blushed when she called him a giant teddy bear.  "Hey, keep it down with that kind of talk.  I've got a reputation to uphold!"  Off to the side Dean was still demolishing the yogurt.  "Guess the little guy was hungry," he observed.  Buck gave the boy a thumbs up when he made eye contact between gulps.

He straightened up when the stranger approached, but seeing as how it was a relatively harmless looking old man, his tension quickly eased.  He shook Robert's hand.  "Pleased to meet you, Old Timer.  My name's Buck.  This here's Farren and her boy Dean."  He stiffened a little bit again when Robert mentioned John.  He wasn't quite over the first impression that guy had made yet.  "Yeah, Johnny let us in last night.  Appreciate you folks lettin' us in.  It was sketchy out there for sure."  He folded his arms and leaned back against the wall.  "You folks been here a while, huh?  Since the beginning?"