Game Night (or Why Eddie Doesn't Play Uno Attack)

It's a warm Saturday on Memorial Day Weekend when Eddie joins them for Game Night.

It's simple, really. At least once a month Alex comes down to the house and they sit at the dining room table and play Uno Attack. Sometimes it'll only be Gabe, Kat, and Alex. Sometimes it'll be all 6 of them, pulling up tall chairs and putting Poker Faces on.

It's Kat, Gabe, and Alex today. Carter's in California for the rest of the month (Dad's old family gathering for a huge get together and if he could, Carter would get a ticket back to Gotham in a heartbeat. Apparently there's a huge falling out between the Dent brothers, and if Thanksgiving's show is any tellers, then Carter will be back in Gotham before Tuesday.), Lou's grounded until the 2nd week of June (only thing they could do 'bout the whole "I'm a Vigilante" thing) and Xander's in Texas (Imagine Carter, only between divorced parents and the mother's family. It's not going to be pretty). So it's only the 3 of them.

At least, that's what they thought.

Then Eddie takes place at the head of the table. Gabe raises an eyebrow but continues to shuffle the cards. "Hope you know how to play." She says without looking up.

"Oh, I do." Eddie said cheerfully. Alex rolled his eyes and Kat bumped elbows with Gabe, blue-grey eyes meeting green. It's a simple message-whatever you do, don't let him win. Cheat if you must, but don't let him win, else we'll never hear the end of it.

First game lasts 13 minutes. At that time Gabe lucked out, Kat got 17, Eddie got 18, and Alex got 59 ("Damn wild card" He grumbled, writing down points.). Second game Alex lucked out, Gabe got dead last with 61, Eddie sitting comfortably at 2nd place at 26 and Kat in 1st with 22. Third game Eddie won, letting the rest stew.

Scowls cast in his direction, Eddie won the two games after that. That's when Alex and Gabe switched seats, so that instead of glaring at Eddie from across the table, Gabe glared at him for his right side.

It was round nine when Eddie realized what was happening. He was being ganged up upon by 15-16 year olds. And although Kat was sitting in the lucky spot (they'd later find out that she always won because she looked at cards and chose who'd lose worst, the little shit), Eddie still was in 1st place, so he figured that if he was careful, he'd stay that way.

Then the trio upped their game. They showed no mercy to each other, as long as Eddie wasn't in 1st place. By round 20, Eddie and Alex were hovering dangerously close towards 500. Kat was winning by more than 100 points, while Gabe was just barley at 2nd.

Round 21 was a battle to the death. It was kill or be killed, win or lose. Gabe slaughtered them all, winning 1st place by 37 points, while Alex lay in the dust with a score of 567, and Kat was 80 points ahead in 3rd.

It was clear that if they wanted a nice, clean game (or as close as clean as you can get with a group of fiercely competitive teenagers), then Eddie, the king of all games, needed not to play Uno Attack. With games like Monopoly or Scene It, it didn't matter who played, sense none of them cared who won. But Uno or Poker, it was pure competition. Nothing more, nothing less.

Plus, Eddie and Kat cheat.

A/N-I'm baaaaaaack! And, since this is a loosely tied together short story series, I don't have to worry 'bout continuity and all that crap.

Also, some entries will be fused with the HDM world, so keep a look out on those.

I'll explain the set characters later, in the meantime, Read and Review!

P.S-The Uno Attack game here is that Face Cards=20, Wild Cards=50, and Number Cards=Face Number. First to 500 (or 1000, depending on group size) loses and the game ends, kinda like in Quidditch where once the Golden Snitch was caught, the game's over.

Also, Gabe's short for Gabrielle (I'll explain later), and Xander's short for Alexandria