Chapter One: Easy On the Eyes
Doyle was at his desk doing paperwork, while his fellow general tested her guns in the same room causing him to jump each time a bullet has fired. Due to lack of rooms in Armonia that were up for living in, and the increase of Armonia's population, many were in pairs for the rooming. It had been decided at random who would be rooming with who, and out of all the odds Doyle and Kimball had been paired for rooming. Despite the protests of Kimball mainly, Washington would not change the pairs. His reasoning being that this way Kimball and Doyle will have some time to get to know each other and make amends.
Much to the dismay of many, this plan of Wash's didn't work out like planned, instead the tensions between the two turned into a silent seething on Kimball's side.
Doyle sighed and continued checking if the numbers for all their supplies matched up and groaned inwardly when he saw that the "luxury" foods (or rather snacks) had gone down much faster than they were supposed to. He wrote a note on the paper to have Washington confront Grif on this problem, once again. He jumped again as Kimball shot the target several times. He wanted to pretend that he didn't see her smirking at that.
Doyle turned in his seat to face her and tried to make his voice as strong as possible, "Miss Kimball, would you mind giving me some warning before you fire six rounds into the target? Its rather disorienting and I'm trying to get some work done here."
"Work? All you do is write on papers all day long." Kimball fired another six rounds into the target in their room.
"Writing on papers all day long happens to be what I am good at Miss Kimball, and happens to be one of the reasons that all of our supplies are kept up nicely since I keep good track. If it weren't for me the army would be in disarray." Doyle was scared honestly that she was going to put a bullet through his head next, but he wasn't going to let her bad mouth the only thing he could do well.
Kimball just rolled her eyes and kept firing until she was almost out of ammunition, and then decided not to waste anymore on training. She sat down by her small wall of favorite guns and began to clean out the one she had just been using. Doyle sighed and went back to his work.
He noticed how focused she was and bit his lip as he looked under some paperwork at a drawing, the paper was a bit worn with use. He slipped the paper out from underneath and grabbed a pencil from the cup that held many other writing utensils and began to draw.
Doyle kept looking at Kimball as he drew, but came faced with a problem when drawing the mouth. He would be lying to himself if he said he hadn't spent many a time looking at her lips, but he had never seen her smile so he was having trouble drawing it. He stared at the unfinished artwork sighing and making noises of frustration and drawing and erasing over and over again.
Kimball looked up from her gun and eyed Doyle, 'What in the world- is he drawing?' she thought to herself. She looked at him perplexed at how in the WORLD he could be drawing right now.
"Doyle what the fuck are you doing." It was more of a statement really than a question.
Doyle jumped in his seat and immediately hid his artwork before turning to Kimball and smiling, "Nothing at all! Just you know, good ol' paperwork."
"Bullshit you were drawing."
Doyle suddenly became very panicked, "No, no not at all! Just boring ol' paperwork here!"
Kimball gave him a deadpan look and Doyle's panicked smile fell as he hung his head in shame, "Fine, fine I was drawing." He looked away as he cheeks slightly reddened, "But I don't see how it is important."
Kimball walked up to him slowly, now very curious, "What were you drawing?" This made Doyle go even redder and Kimball couldn't help but grin at the other general's behavior, it wasn't often she saw him or anyone else flustered.
"N-nothing important just uh, something I have been working on for a long time. I'm sure you wouldn't find it very interesting-"
"Show it to me."
Doyle stared at her wide eyed and in shock before looking down at the small pile of papers where the drawing lie underneath. He rest his hands on the desk and was silent for a while, not sure what to do in this situation. Kimball would probably shoot him right now if she saw what he was drawing, but he couldn't tell her no. Not with her grinning and looking so excited at him like that, he had never seen her smile before now.
He let out a long sigh and slowly brought out the picture and handed it to Kimball, his face now extremely red and turned away from her. Kimball took it out his hand with excitement and studied the picture, her smile fell as she looked at it confused.
Her silence worried Doyle and he turned to see her, but her expression only made him worry more. "Apologies about the smile, I haven't really seen you smile before so I had to leave it to my imagination. If it's any consolation, your smile is much prettier than I drew it- wait. I-I didn't…"
Kimball looked at him bewildered as Doyle stuttered and stammered, "I-I um…"
"Why did you draw me?"
Doyle chuckled and calmed down a bit, it seemed he wasn't going to get shot. "Well to be honest, you're the only person worth drawing. Or at least I think so…"
"There's plenty of people probably more attractive than me-"
"I find you to be most beautiful person in Armonia and all of Chorus if I may be perfectly honest Miss Kimball." Doyle looked sheepish now and missed the darkening of Kimball's cheeks.
"I- thank you…" Kimball was silent after that and gave the picture back to Doyle as she went back and sat with her weapons. Doyle chuckled as he noticed her furiously cleaning an already clean gun.
Many minutes went by until Kimball spoke again and Doyle almost missed what she said, "You're not too bad on the eyes either, Donald."
Doyle beamed, "Thank you, Vanessa."
Author's Note:
Hi! So I got a lot of plans for this little story of mine. I'll post the next chapter after Two Reviews for chapter two! Get it? Anyway, this story is near and dear to my heart and I can't wait to share it with you. 3 If you like this story please do remember to favorite and follow the story! And while your at it check out some of my other new stuff! Look at the old fanfic at your own risk.