Well, this is it... my first attempt at a Hannah Montana fanfic. The basic idea for this is sort of an alternate version of season 3, with the first episode 'He Ain't a Hottie, He's My Brother" having been real, instead of a dream.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the real season 3, and I'm liking season 4 as well... but I just got this idea, and I decided to try it out. How far it will go, it depends on a lot of things.
I'm not a particularly hardcore Lackson fan, but I do think Jackson and Lilly would look cute together, in their own way. I don't know how many of you agree, but well... I welcome opinions.
Chapter 1 – After the kiss
For the uncoutableth time since the last ten minutes, Miley Ray Stewart put both of her hands in front of her mouth, trying her best not to throw up as she peeked at her brother and best friend 'sealing the deal' as Jackson had put it. Considering the time they'd been taking, the deal was already sealed so deep that breaking them apart would be harder than trying to deny her father his access to hair products for a whole week.
Sweet niblets, it's been ten minutes already, and they haven't stopped! Miley thought. It's like that time when Uncle Earl kissed Aunt Pearl after eating an extra-big peanut-butter sandwich and their tongues got glued together.
Fortunately, neither Lilly nor Jackson had eaten peanut butter recently, otherwise they'd really be stuck together for a long time. But even without it, the only breaks they took was to get some air, and none had lasted more than five seconds, basing on what Miley could hear – after all, she spent most of her time with her back turned. It made Miley wonder just how much time the two of them had spent crushing on each other, if what they were giving into these kisses was all they had held back for so long.
If not for having something important to ask them, Miley would be long gone by now, but she had to settle a small matter before going away – and she wanted to do so before she forgot about it.
But in order to do that, she had to talk to Lilly and Jackson, and they had to stop kissing long enough to listen to her.
Miley turned around yet again, trying to see if her brother and Lilly had already stopped kissing. They hadn't. If anything, they were kissing even more deeply than before.
But Miley had waited long enough. She had to get this thing out of her system. Then she'd go away, and Jackson and Lilly could do what they wanted.
"Sweet niblets, will you two stop or what?" Miley shouted. "You've been kissing for more than ten minutes now, wouldn't you at least need some air?"
Jackson and Lilly pulled apart, both of them panting as though they'd run a long distance, and with their hair disheveled – their real hair, as the blue Lola wig was clutched in Jackson's hand, and Jackson had gone to Mack & Mickey in the Morning as himself.
"What is it you want, Miley?" Lilly asked. "You already said you'd be okay with us dating as long as you didn't have to see it. But if you didn't want to see it, you could have gone away."
"I know I said that." Miley said. "But first, there's something I need to discuss with both of you. I wanted to wait until you stopped kissing first, but seeing as you'd be kissing 'till who knows when, I had to interrupt you."
"And what is it you want, Miley?" Lilly repeated.
Miley stopped for a moment, trying to ponder the best way to put the question. She wanted to make sure she got the message across the first time, and didn't want her best friend – or even her brother, for that matter – to get angry at her because of some misinterpretation.
"Well, I want you to, next time we go to Mack & Mickey in the Morning, or any other program of the sort, that either you tell that Lola's not dating Jackson, or that Jackson says he's not dating Lola."
Noticing that both Lilly's and Jackson's looks were starting to get darker, she quickly added, "Don't get me wrong, I'm okay with Lilly and Jackson dating, but if Lola and Jackson also date, that can lead to people starting to wonder certain things – and well, even if I kept you apart, I did nothing serious enough to have the Hannah secret ruined, did I?"
In an effort to convince them, Miley tried to summon the most begging look she could. She knew Lilly and Jackson were still a little bit angry at her for trying to keep them away from each other, but she also knew - or at least, hoped - they weren't angry enough to think she deserved to have the Hannah secret blown.
Fortunately, they appeared to get what she meant – but they didn't seem particularly happy about it.
"Alright, Miley, I guess we can try not to ruin the Hannah secret." Lilly said. "If Jackson and Lola ever go to an event together, we'll try to hold our feelings back."
But it was obvious Lilly wasn't particularly happy about it. Neither was Jackson, it seemed.
"It's always the same thing." he mumbled, just loud enough for Miley to hear. "No matter how important something is for anyone around here, it always has to come second place for Hannah Montana and her precious secret."
"Hey, that's not fair!" Miley shouted. "I only ask Lola and Jackson to hold back, not Lilly and Jackson! Lilly and Jackson can do whatever the hell they want – away from me, at least."
"Yes, Miley, we understood what you asked." Lilly said. "But why do we have to hold our feelings back at all? You never did with Jake. Or Trey. Or Johnny? Why do we have to do it?"
Alright, that much was true. It wasn't really fair. But still, the Hannah secret was too big, and if Lola and Jackson showed the same kind of affection that Lilly and Jackson, it would be basically giving her secret away. And Miley didn't want to do that, unless there really was no other choice. But hopefully she could convince them to hold back while Lilly was Lola - assuming Jackson would really start going to more Hannah events than he did now.
"I admit, you have a point there." Miley said to Lilly. "But in those cases, there wasn't any risk involved. In this there is. Can't you do this for me?"
Miley tried her best to summon a puppy dog look, but either she failed to put it on, or she failed to reach her goal with it. Both Lilly and Jackson were still downcast.
Lilly reached up to tuck a strand of her hair behind her ear – and then, as though that gesture had been a trigger for a certain idea to come to her mind, she said,
"I know!"
"You know?" Miley asked. "You know what?"
"The way for Lola not to have to worry about holding her feelings back."
"What is it?"
"Well, if I have Lola, you have Hannah, and Oliver has Mike, then we just need to create another identity for Jackson! That way, Lilly and Jackson don't have to hold their feelings back, and neither have Lola and… well, whatever secret identity Jackson gets."
Miley opened her mouth at that, but she closed it immediately after. Lilly did have a point. Creating a secret identity for Jackson would work just fine. While it was true Jackson usually wanted to be himself in front of Hannah to impress girls through his connection to her, that point became moot if Lilly was his girlfriend. The only downside was that Jackson would start coming to a lot more Hannah events – and that perhaps Jackson would not agree with it.
Fortunately, Jackson also seemed to think it was a good idea.
"You know, that's just the thing to do." he said. "And I've just had an idea for what disguise I'm going to wear."
After giving the Lola wig back to Lilly, Jackson immediately ran upstairs to his room, to get his disguise. Miley immediately made a face.
Whatever was coming from down there, it was bound to be nothing good. After all, this was Jackson they were talking about.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Bucky Kentucky!"
Miley jumped up from her couch when Jackson's voice echoed through the living room. She'd heard those very words in a dream, about a year ago. It had been her father saying them. Ironically enough, Lilly had also said she loved Jackson in that dream. Again, Miley couldn't help but to wonder how long they had been crushing on each other.
Hoping there wouldn't be a sight to make her go blind, Miley turned her head backwards. Sure enough, Jackson stood there, wearing exactly the same Bucky Kentucky outfit she'd seen him wearing on that dream. And by exactly, it was right down to the slightest detail.
He was wearing a long blonde wig with a cloth headband tied around it and a sleeveless shirt, with a dog tag around his neck. He also had a piece of cloth tied around his right elbow, another tied around his left wrist, and a bracelet with spikes on his right wrist. He was also wearing trousers made of fake snake skin, and red cowboy boots.
How can he remember the outfit from the dream so well and yet don't remember what's coming on the tests? Miley thought. Or for that matter, how did he get to know how the outfit looks? I told them about the dream, but never about Bucky Kentucky's outfit!
Lilly, however, didn't seem to be thinking about those matters. Instead, she simply put the Lola wig back on, and walked toward 'Bucky' with a wide smile on her face.
"You're looking pretty handsome in that outfit, Mr. Kentucky." she said, with a very pleased look in her eyes.
Miley's eyes went as wide as saucers at that statement.
"Girl in the blue wig say what?" she said.
Handsome? How could Lilly find someone dressed like that handsome?
"Come on, you've got to admit that outfit gives him a sort of rugged charm."
Rugged charm? Did she and Lilly actually live on the same planet anymore? Or were Jackson's effects on Lilly's brain so nasty that she had started seeing things the way they weren't?
Then again, 'Lola' was the one in the tight clothes with loud colors and a different wig about every time she appeared in public. In its own way, that was about as strange as 'Bucky Kentucky's' outfit.
Meanwhile, 'Bucky' gave 'Lola' his own pleased smile.
"Why thank you, Ms. Luftnagle." he said. "You're looking really pretty yourself."
"Oh, you're so sweet." Lilly cooed.
"No, you're so sweet." Jackson replied in a very similar tone.
"Alright, you're both sweet." Miley interrupted. "But just wait until I'm out of here before you move on, OK?"
Not giving Lilly or Jackson a chance to reply, Miley took the Hannah wig off, and went to her bedroom. Now that Jackson and Lilly had agreed with the point that Lola could not have a public relationship with Jackson, it was better just to stay put and try to wrap her mind around the fact Lilly and Jackson were dating.
Yes, it was quite weird, when, as far as she recalled, Jackson and Lilly hadn't ever revealed any sign of a crush for each other. And yes, it had its creepy, even disgusting side, considering what Miley had seen when Lilly had told her to 'look up there'.
But Miley loved both of them, and wanted both of them to be happy – even if it had to be with each other. And for their sake, she would just try her best to accept their new relationship.
But it sure would be one of the hardest tasks of her life.
So, this is it. The first chapter is only meant to be an alternate ending to the episode 'He Ain't a Hottie, He's My Brother'. The rest of the fanfic will leave from it.
Help is welcome. I tried to get some Hannah Montana jokes right - like the 'say what' thing, or the 'Uncle Earl metaphors', but I don't know if I did it. I'd greatly value it if some experienced writer in this domain gave me a review.
Also... feel free to give me any idea for any change you'd like/think would happen in one of the future episodes now that Lilly's dating Jackson right from the start.
And well, I hope some of you review.