This is the sequel to bxkmaniac's story 'Camping'.

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DISCLAMIER : I think its obvious enough that I don't own Ben Ten Alien Force or its characters!

Ok: now on to the story...!

Camping 2 : The Truths Revealed(the sequel)

RECAP:

The foursome team consisting of Ben, Kevin, Gwen and Julie, decide to go camping for two weeks as a stress-buster remedy. During one of the nights, the boys spill their feelings for each other, and owing to the sound seclusion and privacy of their sleeping spot, they make love. Unfortunately, the next morning Gwen catches them. Reasoning with the boys, though angry, she decided to keep the matter a hush, in order to prevent her best friend Julie from shocking herself.

And the story continues…:

Chapter One : You got no one to love.

It was a glorious chirpy morning.

"So, how was your sleep last night?" asked Julie, all smiles, fresh from a happy sleep.

Unlike Gwen, who has unfortunately lost all her 'freshness' after the debacle she just saw.

"Why don't you ask the boys? They'll tell you", Gwen hummed darkly, her eyes sore on Kevin's, who returned the cold stare just as perfectly.

"The boys? Oh, ok then'', Julie innocently turned to Ben and Kevin, "How was your sleep last night? Well?"

"Oh, it was…great..." was all Ben could reply, forcing his mind to not drown in a flashback.

Kevin merely smirked at Gwen.

"That's good." Julie smiled. "A sound sleep is really good for the mind and body."

"Sound….yeah. It was pretty 'sound'. Noisy actually."

"Huh?"

It was only after Ben looked at Julie that he realized his words didn't make any sense…to Julie!

But it did, to Kevin. And Gwen.

"Oh, it's nothing. I guess I didn't get enough sleep, though", squeaked Ben, nervously sweeping his hand behind his head, chuckling embarrassedly. But that was a bad move. As his hand reached up to his neck, his sleeve lowered, only to reveal a nasty bruise on his wrist.

Kevin easily recognized it as was caused when he was trying to hold down a thrilled Ben from moving too much.

"AAAW !", squeaked Julie, who immediately spotted the wound. She jumped out and grabbed his arm, tying to inspect what she found.

Ben was trying to do the opposite –

He was trying to hide his wrist.

But Julie won't stop, she finally managed to hold him still and pull down his sleeve to his elbow, displaying an array of more bruises, but they were smaller and less significant.

"Ben! What the?! How did you get hurt?!", she looked up at him in sympathetic pity, if that is possible.

A trickle of sweat ran down Ben's spine, as his neck started to heat up.

His green eyes quickly glanced at Kevin, who looked back helplessly.

"I..uh..I..ran….ran into some prickly nail, I mean, thorn bushes…"

What else could poor Ben say?!

Kevin and I were having hot, vicious sex and we hadn't cut our nails.

"Oh, my! " Julie sighed at the bruises, and then looked up at Ben, "But why did you run into prickly bushes? And when was that?!"

"Well….um, it-it was last night, I woke up to pee and, I lost my way to the Rust Bucket. I was half asleep."

Thankfully, for Ben and Kevin, Julie bought it.

She smiled at him, "You, dope! Next time, draw luminescent lines to the Rust bucket on the ground, ok?!"

"Eh,eh..eh...", was all Ben could sigh.

"Come Ben, you need to give some first aid to those bruises. And-'', before she could continue she noticed more evidence of 'last night'...on Ben's neck.

"Gosh, it looks almost like as if someone's scratched you bad, all over!" Julie exclaimed, staring at Ben's column of slender neck.

"Gee, I wonder who", piped Gwen sarcastically, her eyes still battling with Kevin's.

Ben was getting quite uncomfortable, with Julie staring at his bruises, and Kevin and Gwen undergoing what seemed like a cold war between their eyes.

Gwen was not ready to forgive the boys. Neither were the boys ready to give up their new found relationship.

Julie smiled good-naturedly at Ben, "All right then. Let's treat those wounds, now shall we?"

"Ok", Ben smiled forcibly.

Julie smiled wide, and before Ben could blink an eye, she leaned in and kissed him gently on the lips. Immediately, Ben's eyelids widened, his pupils dilated, as the green of his eyes glanced sideways at Kevin, whose fists clenched on their own.

Guilt was written in Ben's eyes, but Kevin's merely said nothing.

"Come", she said, linking an arm with Ben's and leading a confused Ben towards the Rust Bucket for first aid treatment.

The osmosian and the anodite were left alone.

"Well, Mr. Homo Romeo, how long do you think your 'man' can fool Julie?!" asked Gwen, hands folded, and her left-foot tapping, waiting for Kevin's reply.

"As long as your bitchy mouth stays shut."

The look on Gwen's face was priceless!

Kevin turned to leave, when Gwen stopped him, by calling out, "It doesn't depend on my mouth; if Julie comes to know about the two of you, and your hormone-overload, you ain't seen the worst of me yet!"

So said, she huffed off.

Kevin rolled his eyes, "How can a guy get some ben-licious peace around here?!''

The following few days were rather a miniature hell for the gays.

During the day, they behaved as if nothing had happened; the boys had to spent time with their respective girls. They camp, swim, eat, star-gaze, and do all the other stuff the four used to do, before, of course, that one night a leech crept up Ben's leg.

The pretending usually hurt both the boys with guilt.

Like right now, two days after the 'revelations' night, it was a sunny day. The four had decided to swim. Then afterwards, the two pairs lay out on a beach chair each; calm, quiet, simply contend to watch the indigo sky with its vast expanse, and to listen to the whispering breeze.

A rather romantic and gentle weather.

Ben lay in the beach chair with an oblivious Julie next to him, her head on his bare boyish chest. Every passing second, Ben thought of Kevin, which made him slowly angle his head, without moving his chin that rested on Julie's head, and there !

He saw it.

Kevin and Gwen, in exactly the same position in a beach chair, as himself and the Asian. The couple, however, pasted false looks of dreaminess to hide their bitterness.

(Or better said, Gwen hid her annoyance and Kevin his annoyance caused by Gwen's annoyance)

Currently, it seemed as if the raven and the red-head were chatting, with their eyes on the sky, resting against each other, comfy, calm, and relaxed.

But THIS was the real 'chat' between them :-

"Don't strangle me, you moron. I'm not a guy to bear all that muscle!"

"Quit whining, will ya?! If you don't like sitting here, how about I just fling you off into the lake?''

"I would have jumped in, myself! But I can't do that because it would raise a question from Julie."

"Darn it. Do we have to sit so damn close?!" hissed Kevin, though from far it would seem as if he wasn't speaking at all.

"If we don't copy them-'', said Gwen, flicking her head gently towards the hero and his girlfriend, and then turning to Kevin, "-Julie will notice and, we'll have to lie and lie again to cover it up and lie and lie and-''

"Shut up! I get the point, bitch!", he hissed again.

"Call me that one-more-time, Levin, and you'll see the REAL side of the bitchy anodite!"

At that instance, Ben sighed.

He knew they were fighting even while acting. He knew Kevin like the back of his hand now. And he knew Gwen as well. It made him uncomfortable to think they were trying so hard to keep it all a secret, but kept treading on each other's toes.

Julie noticed Ben sigh. When she looked up, she followed his gaze and saw the two older teens. Julie smiled and waved at Gwen, who waved back, after which both the girls snuggled back into their muscular counterparts.

(Of course, it was snuggling-plus-cursing in Gwen's case; and Ben wasn't all that muscular either.)

Julie looked back up and found that Ben resumed his gaze at the sky.

"Ben, they look happy, don't they?"

"Hmm? Uh, yeah..I guess so."

He was no one to judge, was he?

"Is…something wrong, Ben? You look a little..confused!"

"C-c-confused? I'm not confused! About what should I be confused?..."

Julie simply blinked at him. She maybe innocent, but she was smart as well, "Is there something you want to tell me?"

Ben froze.

And then, he simply turned back to the sky, sighing,"All I want to tell you is that you look really great in pink."

In reply, Julie chuckled before kissing him gently and going back to sky-gazing. And Julie decided to drop any further questions.

It was a good thing she couldn't see his left eye twitch.

And this was during the day.

But, at night….

One could say, that Ben's and Kevin's relationship was ..nocturnal.

They would have to keep it that way, because the night was the only time Julie wasn't around Ben, the only time when Kevin could kiss the brunette all he wanted, the only time they could….

It was the same schedule each time:

Once alone, they would lay quiet in the sleep bags, and stare impatiently at the stars, waiting for Julie to fall asleep, which she did soon, because after all, the various activities of the day tire her out.

Then, it's a ravenous testosterone battle.

The only person not enjoying the night is poor Gwen, unable to sleep owing to her sharp hearing and her anger as it pipes up, and not to mention the moaning and groaning that wouldn't stop bothering her even if she put a force field.

And the next morning, Kevin would beat the alarm to dress his lover before popping him back into his sleeping bag. Once the alarm rings, they would all wake up and when Julie has disappeared into the Rust bucket for toilette, a disgruntled Gwen would glare at Kevin with her sleep-deprived eyes, accompanied by acrid remarks that rewarded her equally acrid replies from the calm raven.

And "ahoy!" to a new day.

A sunny day.

Gwen and Julie sat on a picnic mat near the lake, doing their nails, while Kevin stood leaning against a tree, iPod plugged to his ears. It was then that the raven saw something move from the corner of his eyes. Turning to his left, he spotted Ben waving at him in a beckoning gesture.

An immediate and sly smile crept on his face:- no Julie around, Ben alone, he too alone, genuine privacy.

Should he risk it?

What if Julie came and caught them?

Should he risk it?

Quietly, Kevin switched off the iPod, and stuffed them into his pocket as he casually made his way, as un-suspiciously as possible, to the Rust bucket from behind which Ben had beckoned him.

Duh, Kevin dared. Risk was his middle name!

Ben watched as Kevin approached him and could almost not contain himself, so much that he was lashing his hands out, he grabbed him into the other side of the large van, out of the girls' view.

But once he had Kevin dangerously close and gazing at him, he had no idea what to say. The older teen cocked his head, grinning sensual, he asked, "Whassup?"

Hand it to Kevin to be casual.

"It's the first time we get daylight privacy, Ben. You didn't call me here to spend it on hi's and bye's, rite?!"

Ben's green eyes were at first coy, then turned into concerned pain, he subconsciously traced circles on Kevin's chest.

'' I…There's something that I want to confirm…about…. us and –''

Kevin cut him off, ''If you're worried whether you'll carry, don't fret; boys don't conceive. Your body ain't equipped for it, either."

An indignant blush flooded Ben's face, "You ass! That's not what I was gonna ask!" and after a pause, "But, thanks for the news."

And then, breathing deep, he asked, looking bravely into the velvet brown eyes, "Tell me, does it hurt you when Julie makes out with me?"

Kevin's face went pale.''No. Not much." His eyes looked away.

"Now, I want you to be real honest. I'm being honest. It hurts ME, when Julie is making out with me. Because I feel guilty."

Kevin could see signs of Ben about to pout, as his green eyes scrunched in grief, "I'm really sorry. I don't know what else to do! It's hard to put aside the horrible feeling when I'm kissing her. I keep thinking it stabs you every time I do that."

"Actually, it does hurt, but only a bit, 'cause I know you're not doing it on purpose. And what about you? Do you feel hurt when I have to kiss the anodite?"

Ben's face hardened and he shrugged, "Before the camping, during our normal days in Bellwood, I was so used to feeling hurt about you two being together, that I don't feel its impact anymore."

It's rare that phrases ever passed through Kevin's tough exterior and touched his heart. But hearing Ben's last sentence, he almost melted.

Kevin didn't say anything in reply. Instead, he reached out to cup the small face in his calloused palms and eased it to his lips. Ben smiled into the kiss; now that they had, he might as well do justice to it, so he let the pink appendage of Kevin's mouth dive into his own.

It was their first kiss in broad daylight.

Their romance had finally broken its vampire-ish schedule!

They broke apart only on the sole reason to do the inevitable:- breathe.

"So, its settled then?", whispered Ben, his forehead against Kevin's, both on the verge of going back into another kiss, and again risking being caught.

"Settle what?" moaned Kevin, his eyes on Ben's effeminate lips, his hands around Ben's effeminate hips.

"That, all the pretending is not taken seriously? That you are not hurt?'', Ben spoke, biting his lips nervously.

"Look, Ben", sighed Kevin, pulling away a little to look into the emerald orbs of concern, "If you're STILL not convinced, lemme put it this way; you are not bothered cause you know that I love only you and not Gwen. Once we're out of the camping week, we can get as kinky as we want. Same here. I'm NOT, again, NOT bothered or hurt, that's 'cause,-", he then laughed, "Your kiss said a lot. I don't have to feel scared of loosing you to the Japanese chic."

Ben felt a whole lot relieved.

Even more so, after another powerful but thankfully silent kiss.

"Let's go back before they notice us missing", said Kevin finally, peering at the far spot where the girls were still chatting.

"Notice you missing", corrected Ben.

"Yeah", agreed Kevin. "See ya, later. Or make that, tonight", he winked, spiking up Ben's pulse, as the raven walked away just as casually as he had come, back to that tree, resuming the attention he gave to the iPod.

The girls didn't even notice Kevin come or go. Maybe Gwen did, but she was definitely doing a good job of keeping quiet about it.

Ben sighed. "Why the hell is the sun talking so long to set?!"

Now, the boys could go on pretending without any guilt, at least, a bit of it was relieved if not all, for they did feel a little green with envy, every now and then.

Gwen was starting to cope up too, when this happened:

It was a dark night. Only two more hours to sunrise, and that's when Julie got up. She stretched and yawned, still sleepy, but she got up because wanted to go to the bathroom, which was in the Rust Bucket.

She looked at a Gwen who finally found some sleep. It was a quiet and crisp-sleepy atmosphere. She smiled, as she got up, "Better go quick. It's a lovely…yaaaaawn…time to sleep...!" and she got up on her feet, neatly putting her sleeping bag in a position to receive her after she comes back.

The Rust bucket could be seen from where she stood, but to get to it, she would have to walk past the boys' sleeping spot. She would have passed across without a problem, but unfortunately, she simply for no reason decided to look in at the boys.

"I'm sure they're sleeping fine; there's a lovely scent in the air, and it's a -"

Her breath stopped; her smile fell flatly; her dark eyes widened to their limit.

It was a shock, but it was a good thing that both the boys were asleep; and not in 'motion'.

Only, their sleeping bags were askew, and they seemed to be currently lying within a cocoon of their blankets. It was obvious; it was not that they just rolled around in their sleep; it was really sex, at least, all the clothes and the underwear hanging off the bush said so. Not to mention that they were in an embrace while asleep, which made it all the more clear…and shocking.

Julie just stood there, not realizing that her breath caught, and she wasn't breathing; she couldn't breathe. Her face went pale enough to attract a vampire, her stomach pulled in from the gasp that was never let out.

Gwen's senses were remarkable; she was sleeping with her ears open and immediately felt something was wrong. She opened her sleepy green eyes and froze to see the empty sleeping bag.

"What?...", now fully awake, she raised herself on the elbow and rubbed her eyes, "J-J-Julie?", she looked around and yawned, "She must have got off to pee."

For a moment she relaxed, but then suddenly it struck her.

"OH, SHIT!"

She swung off her sleeping bag and got up in a flash. Tip-toeing quietly, so that she won't be caught by the Japanese girl whatsoever, she prayed, "I hope I'm not too-", but that's when she saw it; Julie standing frozen, her black eyes fixed on the sleeping gays. "-late", she continued.

"I am too late. Damn you, Kevin." she grit her teeth, her anger bubbling, she wondered what to do.

Then, her mind set, she straightened out. Gwen's eyes glowed pink, as she quietly approached Julie from behind. Her glowing pink hands landed on Julie's shoulder and Gwen turned her around. Before Julie could say anything or faint (as it looked she would), Gwen said out in her eerie anodite voice:-

"You have not seen anything. You did not get up from your bed; you did not come here and you did not see anything. When I count to three, you will fall asleep. One. Two. Three."

Julie's eyes glowed pink once too, then her shocked look dropped, her face got back its colour, but her eyes were hypnotized as she repeated robotically, what Gwen said:-

"I haven't seen anything. I did not get up from my bed; I did not come here and I did not see anything. When you count to three, I will fall asleep. One. Two…Three… - "

Julie's eyes rolled up, and she fell forward in a swoon. She would have fallen on the ground, but Gwen caught her around the waist, and held her, as she breathed a sigh of relieved.

"Phew. That was close."

Gwen would have led the sleeping Julie to her bag, but Julie's sleeveless pink night shirt was too slippery, and her slim legs refused to move and hung as dead weights. So, Gwen used her manna to lift her off the ground and effortlessly carried her to their sleeping spot. Once Gwen had Julie comfortably tucked into her sleeping bag, she turned around. She could see the Rust bucket, and knew that she would have to move the van or hell would repeat again. So, again using her manna, she raised her hands at the van far away, lifted it into the sky, and moved it all the way near the girls' spot, so that they would never have to cross the boys again.

Giving off a weary sigh, she yawned and fell flat into her sleeping bag.

Next morning.

"Psst, Ben."

"mmmmhhhm.."

"Ben."

"urmmmm..hmmm"

"Tennyson! Get UP, you moron!" hissed Kevin, shaking the brunette's shoulder. But Ben slept on, cuddling further into the raven.

It took ten minutes of cajoling and Kevin managed to get Ben only half awake, but just enough awake to easily dress him like a mannequin, and lay him back into his bag, of course, after a kiss.

Half an hour later, the alarm rang, waking all four of them. Julie was the first to jump to her feet after a crisp, "GOOOD morning !" And Ben would follow, leaving the older male and older female alone.

"Well, hello there! G'morning, wuss!" smirked Kevin, leaning on the dividing bush, greeting Gwen.

Last night's encounter re-blazed her anger as she flared her nostrils.

"Whuz wrong?" Kevin teased further, "Cat gotchyur tongue?!"

That was it. She could not hold it back.

"All right, buster. You wanna know what happened?! I'll tell ya what happened! Julie got up in the middle of the night, and she saw you! Yeah! SAW you and your boy friend, snuggled up like a bunch of god forsaken puppies!"

"Whuh?!" Kevin merely raised his brow in amusement, "Really?! What'd she think about it? Did she run off for a bowl of popcorn to watch the 'movie'?!" Kevin grinned.

It made things worse.

Her eyes looked lethal as she gripped his collar and yanked him close, hissing on his face as she meant every word:-

"Now look here, jerk. You think this is all funny, huh? Well, lemme tell you; I don't care what you do with your Ben; fuck him to hell if you want; tear apart his body and stuff it into your mouth; but if you can't keep your stinking sex-driven fantasy outta Julie's face, I swear I'll pick you sons of a bitch up and toss you off to Jupiter, YOU GOT THAT ?!"

"Whoa", Kevin had the audacity to smirk, "And they say I have the rotten mouth."

He looked down at the Tennyson girl who glared at him, their noses almost touching, she panting with anger, he observing her red face. "Look at yourself, Gwen. You - are - just - jealous."

"What?!" she hissed, pushing him away roughly, her green eyes running rampant over his calm, even teasing, countenance.

"Yeah. That's right", he said as he straightened his collar, "You're so full of yourself that you can't stand seeing others happy. Gimme a break, will ya? No amount of screaming is gonna get me and Ben over each other."

"This isn't about you."

"It ain't. It's about YOU. You have no one to love; and no one to love you back. You are simply unleashing all your frustration on to us. You think you'll be happy when Ben and I break up. That's sadism. But the satisfaction you get will be only momentary."

"But I'm not about THAT! I don't want Julie to - "

"YOU'RE-, "he raised his voice to cut her off, and then lowered it, "- just using Julie as an excuse to keep us apart. You are alone, Gwen. You're inwardly lonely, and you're trying to make others alone as well. Instead of wasting your energy on doing that, try finding out some person who loves you."

Leaving Gwen just standing there dazed at his philosophy, Kevin quietly walked off, but half-way he stopped and looked over his shoulder, "Hey, what'd you do after she saw us last night?"

"I..." she stammered, her green eyes on the ground, frowning, half in thoughts, half replying distractedly, "I ..used manna..wiped memory….put her to sleep.."

"Good."

He then turned all the way to look at her.

Seeing the lasting impression he had made on the hard-to-convince Gwen, he felt a little piteous; so he said, "Look. Just so you know; we are trying. We really are. To keep it a secret from her; only for you. But you don't know how it hurts to be kept away when we are under each other's noses! Night is the only time we can be together. I'm not gonna waste time explaining why we are so twisted love sick… 'cause you won't understand. And don't worry, we'll make sure we don't fall kissing in front of you best friend."

Thus assuring , he walked off.

Gwen stood there alone and confused. So many questions bombarded her.

"Was I really jealous of them?"

"Did I really want them apart for my sadistic needs?"

"Why am I so adamant on not letting Julie know, anyway?" But she had an answer to that. She didn't want Julie to feel hurt to see Ben cheat on her; which led Gwen to another question.

"Why am I so concerned about her feelings?"

Finally, poor Gwen reached the most puzzling question of all -

"When did Kevin become a counselor?"

- End of chapter -

OK ! so this is the update that took me two years !

So what happens next?

Does Gwen get over the gays?

Or does she spill the truth to Julie?

Or does Julie discover the gays again?

Answer : no, no and...no !

oh dont worry; mores coming! In the next chapters that is! wink!

Reviews are welcome!