-Westward Ho!-
Family vacations are always hell. So, when Ally suggested taking everyone to Yellowstone, Liz nearly took her head off.
" How in the world did you even begin to think that this was a good idea!?" Liz fumed, staring down at Ally, who played with a red lock of hair as she read a book.
"Because it is." Ally responds, popping her gum and finally looking up at Liz. Setting her book down, she crossed her arms defiantly, "besides, I've already booked all the hotels for the first week."
Liz gaped, then glared at the redhead. By now she had to resist the urge to smack her upside the head.
Liz kinda calmed down on her way inside to get a Popsicle. She, as always, picked the blue raspberry flavor that's as blue as her hair(even though her hair is more bright) she then went back outside and ate her Popsicle while ally was raving on and on about how great their vacation would be. Liz looked around and everyone else had actually fallen asleep from boredom and Liz could feel her eyes getting heavy.
Suddenly, Ally jumped up and clapped her hands together, waking up most of them. Thor was the only one still asleep.
"I believe the term is 'dead to the world'" she stated, gesturing to Thor. She then smirked and said, "you all have until 10 tonight to pack your bags. Two is the minimum. It's five now, might want to hurry."
They all sighed, and left to go pack their bags. Ally then pulled out a notebook and started writing in it.
Liz went inside and grabbed the rest of her blue raspberry Popsicles and went into her room to pack. At exactly 10:00 pm, Liz came into the living room and put down her two extra jumbo king sized bags stuffed full of stuff on the ground and said "I'm never gonna be able to get these up in the morning!" Then sighed and ate her last Popsicle. The next morning Liz put all her electronical stuff and money into her Vera Bradley book bag abd slung it over her back then stormed into the lot hen and grabbed a Popsicle!
Ally was putting the last of the bags in the trunk, with the help of Genesis, just as the only known resident couple walk out. Liz was sitting shotgun, not looking particularly happy to be there.
Ally, however, looked positively chipper. Spinning the keys to the car on her finger, she grinned insanely at them all.
"So," Genesis asked, "why are we doing this again? And what is Yellowstone, exactly?"
"You'll see. It'll be fun." Ally responded. Liz groaned.
Liz was also eating one of the only things she ever eats, Popsicles. She was particularly grumpy. She fell asleep with her turtle glow pet and blanket. Thor, Natasha, and genesis were all asleep also while ally was chatting away happily to no one in particular even tho no one was even listening.
Reno and Rufus were busy ogling over a IPad playing Pocahontas, and other Disney movies.
Loki and Tony were talking quietly, both laughing softly occasionally. Suddenly Ally's phone started ringing. "Steve!" She exclaimed when she answered, " how's the honeymoon so far?"
She reached over and poked the angry Liz repeatedly, and when she finally got her attention she mouthed 'its the newly weds, Steve and Clint'
Liz gave her the death glare as she ate her Popsicle and took the phone ally handed her and started talking non stop then listening then continuing to talk, listen, talk, listen, and so on and so forth. Eventually Liz hung up and fell asleep once more. Thor had awoken and started to bother the sleeping Natasha.
"THOR!" Ally hissed, "if you leave 'Tasha alone until we get to Illinois you get to pick the place we eat at, and I'll let you have as much food and coffee you want."
Genesis was talking in his sleep, and Reno and Rufus were making random comments about the movie.
"Ally reminds me of the raccoon, and Liz the little dog." Reno said randomly. Ally look at then in the rear view mirror, raising an eyebrow.
"Care to explain?" Ally asked.
Liz, still sleeping, turned over and kicked ally. Ally then turned around and yelled "OUCH! What the hell was that for?!"
Liz, still sleeping, didn't answer. Ally glared at Reno and said " explain. NOW!"
In turn, Reno tried to hide himself in Rufus' jacket.
Ally groaned, banging her head on the steering wheel. She muttered curses under her breath, then glared at them.
" behave, or you won't wanna deal with the consequences."
Reno stared at her defiantly from where he was hiding, and kicked the back of her seat.
"Oh, no, you did not just do that." Ally hissed, hitting the breaks and pulling them over to the side of the road. She got out, opened the door and pulled Reno out.
The minute he was standing, she punched him in the face, almost breaking his nose.
"Now," she said, shaking her hand out, Completely ignoring the looks and stares they were getting, "are we ready to move on and act mature, or do I have to sock you In the face again?"
Reno whimpers something that sounds like a yes so ally climbs back in the car and as soon as Reno climbs in, she starts driving again. Liz woke up from the commotion about 5 minutes into the road and Thor says to her "You missed all the fun Liz! Ally just socked Reno in the face!" Liz made a pouty face and said "No fair! I wanted to see that!" Liz then grabs a Popsicle and starts eating.
"It was very satisfying. Hey, want me to send you the first chapter of Earl and the Fairy Doctor?" Ally said, looking over at Liz, then gestured to her Vera Bradley bag beside Liz.
"Hey, why don't you plug my phone in and play my IPod?"
"Sure why not." Liz said before reaching for another Popsicle. She picked out a red one and ate it. She plugged in ally's phone and started looking through her own Vera Bradley book bag. She found her phone and pulled it out and plugged it in too. She crashed again after that. Thor and Natasha were whispering in the back like everybody else.
Meanwhile, Ally was singing along to Florence and the machine and Phildel, Coldplay and The Fray, all sorts of artists.
Suddenly she turned down the radio and said "hey, where do you all want to go to dinner at?"
She kicked Liz in the foot, and when she was awake, asked the same question.
Thor said "any where good!"
"Yeah.." Natasha said. Liz murmured something and grabbed a Popsicle yet another Popsicle. As Liz was eating the Popsicle, she asked "can we go to Walmart so I can get more Popsicles?"
Ally scowled at the mention of Walmart, and then said- "we'll stop at Walmart, I suppose. But, we'll also stop at longhorn for dinner. Genesis, do you- Would someone wake genesis up?! God!"
She quickly pulled over into a shopping center where there was a LongHorn and a WalMart. The sudden turn shook the car and everyone slid to one side.
The whole car was silent for a minute- the only sound was Ellie Goulding's 'In My City'.
Liz was clutching her blanket and pillow pet nd Popsicle for dear life. Thor poked Gen with a stick he found constantly until he woke up and slapped him in the face. Ally said "c'mon Gen, were going to longhorn for dinner and then to Walmart to find Liz more Popsicles."
"You could have left me in the car, you know." Genesis grumbled sleepily.
Ally pulled into the parking lot, rolling her eyes.
"It's another few hours until we get to Rapid City, and I'm not stoping for anything but gas. And I won't be feeding you." Ally stated. Genesis groaned, covering his face in his red neck pillow.
Reno and Rufus were already out of the car and walking in, Ally and Liz followed in close second. Ally was dragging Genesis along, and Thor and Natasha followed after them. Tony and Loki were last, still talking and laughing.
Ally pushed Rufus out of the way, determined to be the first in. The restraint wasn't crowded at all, and they didn't have to wait at all. The waiter smiled at them as they entered.
"How many?" The brunette waitress asked. Ally turned around and counted them all.
"Party of Nine." She told her with a smile.
Liz yawned and followed the waitress to the table. They all ordered and waited for more service.
Ally poked Liz, then started chatting to Genesis, Rufus and Reno.
Ally and Rufus seemed to be arguing about who would pay for dinner.
"Ally, you've payed for everything else, let us pay for this." Reno stated. Ally shook her head.
Liz "Reno, just pay for it! Ally, he's right, u have payed for everything else so Reno is officially paying for it..and Rufus too!" No that that's settled, there's still the topic of dessert." After a jumble of 7 yes's and 2 no's Liz looked at Reno and Rufus,
"It's up to you two since you're paying. Dessert or no dessert?" Reno said "dessert" and Rufus said "no dessert"
"Ally?" Reno said, " Your the tie breaker. Dessert or no dessert?"
"What do they have for dessert?" She picked up the little pamphlet with deserts and said- "wow, this brownie Fudge thing looks good- I'm going to go to with dessert."
Liz let out a squeal of delight and grabbed the dessert menu searching intensely for anything that had Carmel and finally found a Carmel pie and instantly chose that. Natasha and Thor, along with ally, got the brownie fudge thing. Reno and genesis got a hot fudge sundae and Rufus got cheesecake.
"Oh, hey, look our waiter is here with our dinner!" Ally declared cheerfully. She had the Flo's Filet. Genesis had gotten a ribeye.
Ally turned over to Liz and whispered, "those two are in their own table, and their own world." She pointed at Loki and Tony with her fork.
Genesis snorted, "you don't say." He murmured to Ally and Liz.
"Natasha, what do you think?" Ally asked Natasha , who was sitting diagonally from her.
Natasha had her mouth full and couldn't talk but when she could she said "theirs DEFINITELY something going in over there." Liz didn't eat anything because of her stomach but she ate a Popsicle she brought in. Thor was digging into his hamburger quietly at the edge of the table.
"Well," ally said teasingly to Thor, "what does the big bro think?"
Thor had just finished his 4th hamburger when he answered "huh?"
"Well," ally said, then pointed at the far end of the table, "do you think something's going on between your brother and tony?"
Natasha added, "they've done nothing but talk to each other all night."
All was silent for a minute, then ally said, "Liz drives, I wanna watch both Star Treks."
But, she kept her inquisitive gaze on Thor, who remaind silent.
Natasha and gen both shouted "LIZ..DRIVING?! OH NO! THAT AIN'T HAPPENIN!"
Ally blinked, doing a perfect cat imitation.
" yes, it is." She stated.
" I could drive," genesis volunteered.
Liz said "sure" Thor and Natasha agreed and so genesis was the designated driver.
" okay." Ally stated, then pulled a notebook and a map out of her bag. "Lets start planning our trip. We have two weeks, so we have enough time to see everything we want."
Liz is completely zoned out and Thor is staring at Liz. Natasha is eating her dinner and was listening to ally and Gen, Tony and Loki talk about the plans.
"So, we will be staying in a hotel in Rapid City, and that's about... What, fifteen hours away? So, we're also going to stop in Mitchell tomorrow. We'll eat lunch and frolic in cabbela's."
"Okay," said Natasha. Thor was still staring at Liz and tony and Loki were fangirling about some random thing they were talking about.
Ally stared at them all, especially Loki and Tony. Suddenly she jumped up, pointed at the two, and declared, "If you two don't sleep to Rapid City, I will make you sleep. I know and can tell the effects of sleep deprivation, I'm probably going to start showing it in a few hours myself. But you two need some sleep, damn it!"
Loki and tony just stared while Liz was still completely zoned out.
Ally glowered at the group of two, giving them the ultimate ally stare down.
Then, ally turned to Thor and calmly said, "anyway, what do you think?"
Thor was stuffing his face with leftovers that miraculously appeared before him...loki's work most likely...but once he head finished, he responded "I don't even remember what we were talking about!":D ally facepalmed while Liz was eating a Popsicle chuckling to herself at the scene.
" about your brother having a crush on tony, and vise versa." She deadpanned.
Thor said "OHH! Idk...I guess it's...kinda awkward but…I'm kinda used to it now..."
Ally stared, then shook her head. Liz just walked away with Natasha, Thor, tony, and Loki; heading for the car.
Ally followed behind, chatting merrily about nothing. She sat in shotgun, and genesis got in the drivers seat.
Liz asked ally, "why aren't you driving? No offense, but I don't exactly trust gen driving in the night."
Ally turned around and raised an eyebrow.
"And you trust me to," she said with a slight coloring of disbelief, "after the Miami incident?"
Genesis looked over and blinked, "the Miami incident?"
"More than gen." Liz stated the obvious as she ate another Popsicle. Only god knows how she kept those things frozen in the car.
"He'll only drive for a little while, I drive again soon." Ally reassured her then muttered, "I just hope I don't run over another tiger or moose or something..."
Liz muttered in return "me neither.."
"That was a bad night to be doing anything..." Ally said, and looked back to see most everyone was sleeping, except Liz and Natasha. And Natasha was on her phone.
Liz, after she finished her Popsicle(of course), then fell asleep so it was just Natasha and ally...well really just ally because gen was driving, do he "couldn't talk" and Natasha was "plugged in" to her phone.
Ally just watched Star Trek, and was talking to herself.
"Russians go hand in hand- GO CHEKOV!" Ally yelled, throwing her hands up in the air in an overly dramatic fashion. Genesis looked over at her briefly, then focused on the road.
"And what is you excuse?" He asked her as if he had heard it all before.
"Scarlett Johanson is a blonde too." Ally resorted, and they caused Natasha to look up at the two.
"For ur info, I'm not a blonde I'm a redhead! And I would never act like that so just leave me out of it!" Natasha said and went back to whatever she was doing on her phone. Meanwhile, Thor was snoring loudly and it was driving ally crazy!
"It's in the face- shut Thor up before I decide to shove something down his thought that might cause some breathing impairments." Ally snarled suddenly.
Well as no one heard her, or was listening anyway, she drew on thor's face then put cold water on him so he would wake up. Thor woke up and screamed "WHAT THE HELL! WHO DID THIS TO ME?!"
"Shut your big ass mouth." Ally snarled, "or I'm going to shut it for you."
"Ally," genesis stated, looking over at the other redhead, "calm down."
Thor sneered-ish "yeah ally! Calm down!" He chuckled at himself but quit when ally raised her clenched fist threateningly.
"Silence..." Ally sighed, and continued watching the movie.
Thor pouted in the corner...Of the car...
Suddenly ally yelled- "Mississippi-" and yelled that for the entire time they crossed the bridge over the Mississippi River. Then, she pulled a large red book out of her small bag. It was red and on the spine it read- Mythology. She grinned at anyone who was awake it the back, and they all stared.
Liz woke up, ate a Popsicle, and said to ally "how can you read in the summer, let alone, on VACATION?!"
Ally blinked, "I am a special child."
"I read loveless..." Genesis piped up, joining the conversation.
Liz glared at gen and said "no one said you could join our conversation, did they? NO!" Liz turned back to ally and said "yeah, special's what you call it!"
"I am a better person because of it." She stated, looked at genisis and said, "I like loveless too. Don't let her get to you."
Ally opened the book and a folded up piece of paper fell out. She opened it to reveal her own flowy writing.
"Hm, it's from seventh, want me to read it? It must have some importance if the whole sheet was marking... The beginning of the whole section on loki..." Ally stated, dread coloring her voice, and she squeezed her eyes shut tight.
"Liz," ally stated in a pained voice, "I documented one of the prophetic readings we got."
"So?" Liz asked.
"Well," ally said, and handed it to her, "read it."
Ally waited for a moment, looking at Liz, then turned back to her book.
" 'Loki- God of Lies, trickery, and chaos.' And fire too, I think. I'll have to ask him..." She read aloud.
Natasha had fallen asleep so this time it really was ally all alone with only gen to "talk to" even though she was really just talking to air because gen wasn't listening to her.
"Genesis!" Ally wines, then huffs, and finally starts watching something on her iPad.
