Bullworth Roses
Rating: PG-13/T
Genre: General
Summary: Rule of Rose-Bully crossover Short snippets on the girls from Rule of Rose interacting with the students of Bullworth. Somewhat AU side-story to Bull and Boar.
Author's Note: You know, I actually thought of this when I was half-asleep at seven AM on a Saturday morning. I wanted to do a Bully crossover with Rule of Rose, but not a multi-chapter, on-going plot, I-will-never-be-able-to-finish-this story. Just something simple.
So I just thought about randomly inserting the girls into situations with the Bullworth students. Random is always good- one doesn't need an explanation for everything. And so when I fully awoke and realized what I'd dreamed up, I thought: "HOT DAMN! WE HAVE A STORY!"
Disclaimer: I don't own Bully or Rule of Rose. They are ruled by Rockstar and Atlus respectively.
She doesn't say much; just keeps her hands folded on her lap and watches the birds pecking at the ground, looking for worms. Jimmy is itching to test his aim with his slingshot, but senses that it would be inappropriate (Odd, because propriety's never mattered much to him before). Jennifer looks tense enough as it is- back ramrod straight, arms rigid, and brow furrowed into a look of perpetual timidity.
She's nineteen- three years older than he is, but contradictory as to how you'd expect it to be: Jimmy's stood up to Russell, Derby, Johnny, Earnest, Ted and Gary and countless members of the cliques on his own, and Jennifer's intimidated by some mouthy little red-head with a superiority complex?
Granted, Diana's a scary girl. The best way Jimmy could put it was that Diana was a smaller, red-headed version of Gary- psychotic element oh-so-happily included in that Happy Meal as well.
He suspects that Jennifer is frightened of him- Jimmy- as well, which would explain the rigidness. But then, her first glimpse of him involved watching him give Davis a swirly (Totally justified- the little punk had put lipstick on him when he was asleep, and he was in classes for two hours before Petey finally pointed out to him why everyone was snickering), so he sees where she's coming from…
"So…" Jimmy says, brushing a yellowed leaf from his shoulder. "What brings you out here?" Jennifer jumps a little, startled.
"Ah… Well… Diana… She and Gary were talking again… Well… I didn't want to get in the middle of that…" Jimmy sighs.
"I dread to think what those two are cooking up. The school'll be leveled by the end of the week." Jennifer nods a little, unfolding her hands and placing them flat on the bench on either side of her legs. Next to her, dozing lightly on the ground, Brown twitches and opens an eye. He sees the birds, analyzes them for a moment, then decides that chasing them would take too much energy and puts his head back down.
"Does… Does Gary always cause trouble?"
"It's kind of in his nature. You should've seen him last year, when he was off his meds…" Jimmy snorts. "Ka-BOOM. He went totally nuts. Started a full-scale riot among the students." Jennifer's eyes widen.
"Oh my," She whispered. "Was anyone hurt?" Jimmy shrugs.
"Not seriously. Worst injury was a fractured leg, I think. Gary and I ended up falling off the roof and through the skylight in Crabblesnitch's office." Jennifer's eyes look just about ready to pop from her head. "I was the one that had to go after him when the riot started, and of course, he went up to the roof to fight."
"That was very brave," Jennifer whispers. "If it were me… I don't think I'd be able to do it…" Jimmy pauses.
"I could help you with that." Jennifer looks uncertain, tilting her head down and twisting her hands nervously. She glances at Jimmy from the corner of her eye.
"Really?" Jimmy nods, then turns on the seat to face her a little more.
"With your confidence? Yeah. First of all, remember: This is America. You bribe, you make promises, you make threats. And if that doesn't work, you beat people up. You, on one hand, might want to get a bat or something…"