A.N. Hey so it's my first Skins fanfic...also sorry to any people reading my Grey's stuff...will it get finished? Ummmmm...
Anyway, this is AU and may be slightly out of character but this is basically what I came up with while on my own Annual Field Exercise for cadets and I thought that since I've written it I may as well share it and at least see if you want me to either continue it or delete it, never talk about it again and hide my head in the ground somewhere. It's not my best work and it moves fast but while you're on a camp like this things really do happen quickly...friendships, relationships etc. :D Now enjoy and please drop a review to tell me if I should continue or not!
1.
It was day three. I know that usually starting a story from day three isn't good. Starting a story from day three means that you've left out a whole heap from the first two days and usually people will have no clue what's going on but this story didn't really start on 'Day One' as such. My week and this story started on the third day of my Annual Field Exercise. You say you can't see me? That's me right there, in the camouflaged army gear walking in line with twenty other people. You say you can't see her? Well it's okay, because it wasn't until this day, the third day that I saw her either.
"Campbell!" I heard my Corporal yell out and I quickly pulled myself up off the ground from where I had been keeping watch on my guts, the only one by the looks of all the other slackers who were eating chocolate out of their ration packs instead of keeping an eye out for the "enemy" we knew were sneaking around. "The Sergeant wants to know how far we've gone."
I checked at the little device in my hand. 3778. That's how many steps I'd taken since we set off in the unrelenting heat and swarm of flies. "Nearly 3k's I answered to him, watching as he ran back to the Sergeant to relay my information and with a barely audible swear word from him we were all up and moving back in the direction we'd just come from. Yep, lost again.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, click. That's how it went as I counted the paces and although the repetitiveness wore away at your head a little it was good because it left no room for thoughts and my mind was gloriously empty as we approached our third k.
I suppose I should explain to you a bit better; I'm an Army cadet. Not one of those loser ones who don't have any friends outside of the cadets and their whole life is devoted to memorizing retarded facts about the exact size bullets every single rifle shoots. No, I'm an Army cadet because I need to kill time between school and leaving these try-hards for the real army. Only one year and three months now, not that I'm counting or anything.
Just as we hit step 3999 the sign for obstacle was passed down the line and we all halted, taking a knee as we did to search for our "enemies" as our retard of a sergeant tried to figure out how to cross a road. Okay, that was a little harsh, it was a lot harder than that because as soon as you took a step out onto the road you stuck out like a sore thumb for half a k at least. We were getting across now, albeit slowly with two people sprinting across at a time, scouts watching the road for any minibuses which were the vehicle of choice to move the vast amounts of cadets we had on the camp.
I reached the last cover before the dirt road, shoving the pace counter into my webbing last minute before looking back to my corporal for the signal.
Now I know cadets isn't real but when you receive a signal to run like hell, something in your head takes over and you're flying, boots sending dust everywhere and I was actually surprised that I noticed her when I did, my eyes being so focussed on the minimal cover on the other side of what felt like the widest road in history.
A flash of red. That's all it was but after being out bush for three days colours as vibrant as red stick out a lot. Actually before that flash I couldn't remember seeing a colour that bright out there. The M&M's they gave us in our rat packs might have come close.
My head turned from the tree I was ready to throw myself behind to look at vibrant colour and I found myself staring at two big brown eyes, red flying about her face as it escaped her hat and for the tiniest second that our eyes met I was stunned. I didn't think about the tree I would be throwing myself behind or anything else remotely tactical just that in this stupid camp full of morons I had managed to find the most beautiful girl ever.
Then I threw myself at the ground harder than I should have to smack out such stupid soppy thoughts from my head. I couldn't help it though, I peeked my head from around my tree and soon saw her distinctive hair almost hidden behind a large bush, her brown eyes finding mine a moment later.
I looked away quickly, my face blushing, the curious and for some reason admiring look in her eyes imprinted in my brain so that it took a few yells from the corporal to get me focussed again.
I didn't know what to think. There was something in her eyes as I snuck one last look as we went back into our formation and every time I closed my eyes I saw her hair. Like red was suddenly imprinted on the back of my eyelids. I didn't know what to think of her.
Short but I have more if you guys enjoyed it; so review! and make me happy :)
Jules
