A/N: This crack fic was spawned after an embarassing loss for my team. And from my love of Loki. XD
Loki belongs to Marvel, the rest of the characters belong to me (well, themselves, but... Since I'm using them as characters, they're mine).
"Come on, Brittany! Bring her home! I miss her!" cheered one of the irritating girls on the Three Valleys team. I clenched and unclenched my jaw, trying to keep my anger in check. God they were annoying. I watched Cait rock back, leap forward and hurl the ball at Selina. The batter swung and sent the ball rocketing to left field. Catch it, catch it, catch it! I thought, lifting up from where I was seated on the bench. Selina jumped up, peeled of her helmet, and swung her arm as if trying to knock someone away. Beth, our left fielder, seemed to trip, flying through the air, glove outstretched. She landed on her chest and winced, about to scramble to her feet when she felt the ball hit the glove. She looked at it in shock.
Brittany, who had already taken off her helmet in the dugout, stood still for a moment before grabbing a helmet, pulling it on, and sprinting back towards second. But it was too late. Beth threw to Asha, who caught it, then walked slowly to the bag, still faster than Brittany. Brittany cursed as our team jogged in from the field, each and every one of them grinning.
"How am I doing? Anything look too unatural?" Selina whispered, sitting between the edge of the dugout and me.
"No. Not terribly. Beth has always been rather clumsy, so that little flinging business didn't seem particularly out of place," I laughed quietly, earning a playful punch from Beth, who was now sitting on the other side of me.
"I'm not that clumsy..." she whined. I chuckled a little, but did not respond. I chose instead to watch Hayle hit. The pitcher rocked, jumped forward and hurled the ball. At the umpire's face.
"Ball!" he yelled, straightening his mask. My face scrunched up in confusion. What the hell? I know she's not one for accuracy, but that was out of even her range... The next pitch, I watched Selina. Sure enough, as the pitch was coming down, her eyes darted to the right. The ball hit the home team dugout. "Ball outside!"
"This is fun," Selina laughed to me. I raised an eyebrow and nodded.
"Try slowing it down and bringing it straight down the middle this time," I suggested under my breath. Hayle hit this one, which was slow and centered, with a resounding Clang! "Keep going, keep going, come on... Just a little more!" I cheered, watching as the ball flew over the outfielder's heads. Homerun. Everyone on our team jumped up and cheered. I gave Selina a high five, then stepped out to join them in congratulating Hayle.
The game ended two innings later, won by mercy rule. All seventeen of us lined up to shake hands, then followed the coaches out to the pitcher's mound. "I told ya!" coach Schauer exclaimed, "I told you we could beat them! Wonderful job. All of you. Isn't it a more satisfying win knowing they'd already beat you twice?"
"Third time's the charm," coach Lemon added, grinning. I hadn't seen him this happy since... Well, since we mercied Saint Bertrand about a month and a half ago.
"Right. Now, our next game is against Saint Bertrand tomorrow, home. Game starts at 5:30. Be out there and ready to warm up at five. Alright, hands in!" Schauer added. We all put our right hand in, Selina warring with Asha for top, then counted to three.
"One, two, three... INDIANS!" We broke the circle and started walking back to the dugout, waiting for Rachel to do her signature post-Indians cheer.
"Reeeeed Robin!" she sang.
"Yummm!" the rest of us replied, grinning.
Once everything was packed up and in Schauer's SUV, those of us who were riding the bus home (Asha, Beth, Selina, Rachel and me) piled into the leather seats, still chattering excitedly about how off their game Three Valleys was today. Beth, Selina and I shared a knowing look, then burst out laughing. "What? What's so funny?" Rachel asked.
"It is nothing concerning you," Selina answered happily, not meaning for it to come out as rudely as it had. The bus fell silent, save the sound of tire on pavement.
"What did you just say?" Rachel asked, leaning over the bus seat, the look on her face menacing enough to make me shrink away from her.
"She only meant that it's an inside joke that you wouldn't find funny," Beth explained quickly. Rachel glared, looking between Selina and Beth, then shrugged, accepting the explination. The three of us laughed together the rest of the way home, mainly about jokes made at Three Valleys's expense.
"See you tomorrow, Beth!" I called, waving as she climbed into her mom's car. Turning back to Selina, I asked "Do you have a place to stay tonight? I'm sure Mom would be more than happy to have you."
"I would be grateful for the lodgings," she answered, grinning as we approached my mom, who was on the phone.
"Hey, Mom, would it be alright for Selina to stay over tonight?" I asked, waiting by the window for an answer. She nodded and held up a finger. "You're clear. Come on, we should get home. Tons of homework to do and such."
A/N: Right. So. I'm aware that this story does not, in fact, seem to be about Loki at all. But it is. As shall be revealed in the next chapter (just in case you haven't already figured it out). C=
