Liv and 10K
Summary:
After Liv moves back home instead of not finding any friends, she finds a friend in the gun loving Thomas.
Disclaimer: I don't own Z Nation or Liv and Maddie
AN: just so that you're not confused I've changed up the order of the episodes for my fic a bit and the breakup with the skater was still in Hollywood.
Also just btw I have basically no clues about guns, so when I talk about them I'm gonna be rather vague.
|Rooney house - evening|
Liv Rooney, twin sister of Maddie Rooney and successful teen actress comes skipping down the stairs, seeing her sister watch something on TV.
"Ohh, what are we watching? Fashion week, music videos? Ohh, basketball." Liv says excited at first but shocked once she sees what her twin was actually watching.
"Yeah, I'm studying the game tape of our school rivals, the ravens. They wiped the floor of us last year. It was the first game I ever started, and I scored 7 points." Maddie tells her sister.
"Ohh, 7 points yay." Liv cheers.
"Not yay, not even a little yay. It was humiliating, it was a career low, but I've been working my butt of an this year Maddie Rooney is gonna pluck those raven, Bam! What?!" Liv explains with her catchphrase added at the end.
"I don't hear game tape. Why aren't you watching the Ravens?" Pete Rooney asks his daughter with a gasp.
"You got to get ready, now let me see that rage face." Pete tells his daughter, making her scream rage-face angrily.
"that's what I'm looking for, now get back to your game tape and oh could you do me a favor and not tell your mother I'm fanning the flames of your fury." Pete says as he exits the room, getting a thumbs up in response.
"fanning the flames of your fury, and somehow I'm the dramatic one." Liv says sarcastically.
"How about you pause that video and come to the mall with me for a sister-centric shopping fest?" Liv suggests to her twin.
"Oh Liv, I would so love to go to the mall with you, except I hate the mall and I'm busy." Maddie replies shooting down her sisters' idea.
"Are you sure you wouldn't rather have some Liv time? You know they say it's good for the soul." Liv asks her.
"There has been a lot of Liv time since you moved home and it's been great but now, I have basketball season and midterms and I can't just pauseruski my live to hang out with you 24/7. I think maybe it's time for you to find a friend." Maddie tells her sister.
"What are you doing?" Maddie then asks her sister who is pretending to wipe something off her face.
"A truth bomb just blew up in my face." Liv says.
"What's the problem? I'm sure a lot of kids will want to be your friend I mean you're Liv Rooney." Maddie asks her.
"Yeah people are always nice but then they want an autograph and for me to reenact scenes from Sing it Loud!, which I don't mind doing, but you get it." Liv tells her.
"Ok, but you still have to try and find a friend, I won't be at your disposal all the time, like I said I've got a lot on my plate right now." Maddie replies.
|next day at school|
Liv just finished a talk with her mother, who encouraged her to go and find herself a friend when a girl runs up to her asking her to sign something.
"Oh sorry, I only do autographs after 4th period." Liv tells her.
"Oh no-no, this is a petition to start meatless Mondays in the cafeteria. My name's Ocean and ohh, you look familiar." Ocean tells her.
"I get that a lot, I'm Liv Rooney, star of the hit-tacular show Sing it Loud!" Liv says.
"No, I think we have German together, wait let me see the back of your head. Yes, I sit two rows behind you. Guten Tag." Ocean says after Liv turns around so she sees the back of her head.
"Yep that's me just Liv Rooney from German class. I love your backpack." Liv says excited since the girl obviously doesn't know her from her TV show.
"Oh thanks, I made it from my old jeans. I'm into upcycling." Ocean tells her.
"Wow you're positively percalitious." Liv says impressed.
"I live on a sunflower farm and if those little seeds can spring out of the earth and find the sun, why can't I?" Ocean replies.
"Do you want to do something later?" Liv asks her.
"Ohh, I can't. See I have spirit club, archery lessons and oh my blog happiest teen on the prairie. But tomorrow I'm totally free, let's hang out." Ocean tells her excited, making Liv clap her hands excited as well.
|later that day Rooney house|
"Ask me what I did today, no don't I need to blurt. I made a friend. Ohh Wow. She doesn't even care that I'm the famous Liv Rooney, she likes me for me." Liv tells her sister, who was doing sit ups in their room excitedly.
"Liv that is so awesome and see that was not nearly as hard as you thought it was gonna be." Maddie tells her.
"Uhh, I have to admit you're right." Liv says.
"Well thank you and isn't her backpack so cool too?" Maddie asks her sister.
"Soo cool. She said she was gonna make me one out of her mom's old belt bottoms, wait what. I never said anything about backpacks. How did you know it was Ocean?" Liv asks looking at her twin accusingly.
"Look pretty lights." Maddie says as she turns on the blinking lights over Liv's bedframe, decorated around her poster.
"Maddie, my twin-stincts are telling me that you're up to something." Liv says.
"Fine, do you remember how you were saying that it's really hard for you to make new friends cause everyone knows who you are? Well I sort of found the only girl whose family doesn't have a TV and sort of send her your way." Maddie confesses to her sister.
"You send Ocean to me? I can't believe this. You totally friend-ipulated the whole situation." Liv yells shocked.
"Well Liv I just thought you needed some help." Maddie tells her.
"And I thought Ocean liked me for me but now I guess we'll never know because you think I'm so pathetic that you had to go and set the whole thing up. You just wanted to get rid of me." Liv says disappointed.
"Liv that is not true, you were out friend shopping and I just made it easier, I brought the friend store to you." Maddie argues.
"Do not distract me with shopping metaphors." Liv screams angrily as she exits their room.
|the next day at school|
Liv is walking through the hallway as Ocean spots her and yells "Liv Rooney." Over and over excitedly until Liv caves and stops, turning to the girl.
"Good news. Meatless Monday is official. Big smiley faces when I told that to my cows in the barn this morning. Ok, so are we still on for later?" Ocean says.
"Uhm, thanks but no thanks Ocean. Maddie told me that she set this whole thing up, so uhh you don't have to pretend to like me anymore." Liv tells her and turns around to walk away.
"Oh my oatmeal. Liv Rooney, it's not like that OK, sure it was Maddie's idea but people can become friends in all kinds of ways." Ocean tells her.
"Sorry Ocean but I don't need a pity friend." Liv tells her and walks past the girl when after a few turns she walks into a hallway where she sees two teens dressed all in black by themselves, standing at their lockers. The girl is eating an apple and the boy is getting some books from his locker. Since the boy is closer to her she decides to try him first.
"Hey, you look like you could use a friend." Liv says cheerfully walking up to the black haired teen collecting books from his locker.
"Calling me a loser the first time we meet, I'd call it rude if you didn't look like you mean it in a nice way?" He replies looking at the blonde curiously.
"Ohh, I see how that could be interpreted in the wrong way. No, I meant to ask if you would like to hang out later?" Liv says.
"Well if we overlook the fact that I have no clue who you are, I still gotta decline. I'm working most of the time." He says, closing his locker after he finished stuffing the books in his backpack.
"Oh I'm sorry, I'm Liv Rooney. I just assumed you knew me." She says hurriedly and stops the teen from walking away.
"Well you assumed wrong, but It's nice to meet you Liv. I'm Thomas but everyone just calls me 10K." 10K replies offering his hand, shaking hers.
"Just out of curiosity why should I have known who you are?" 10K asks.
"Ohh, don't mind that. Anyways let me ask again now that we know each other's names, would you like to hang out and get to know each other someday?"
"OK, I should be able to take a day off work, how does the day after tomorrow sound to you?" 10K asks her.
"Sounds perfect. Now excuse me, I'm going to see if that girl over there wants to hang out as well." Liv says as she looks at the girl eating an apple.
"I'm not gonna tell you to stay away from her but she's trouble and that's coming from the guy even the nerds call an oddball." 10K tells her, patting her shoulder once and gives her a wave as he makes his way to his next classroom.
Liv ignores the warning and goes up to the girl.
"You look interesting. I'm Liv." She tells her poking her on the nose.
"Congratulations." The girl says sarcastically and kicks the door of the locker she was leaning on, opening it and throws her apple core in.
"Careful, don't want to dent your locker." Liv tells her.
"Ahh, that' not my locker. I just don't like to litter. Cya." The girl replies an walks away.
"Uhm I didn't catch your name, but that's OK." Liv yells after her, following her two steps.
"Did I just see you talking to Kylie Kramer?" Maddie asks her sister, having come around the corner.
"Oh so that's her name." Liv says happily.
"Liv stay away from her, she's really bad news." Maddie warns her.
"Why? Because you didn't pick her for me?" Liv asks annoyed.
"I'm serious, she's really big trouble. I mean this girl has been kicked out of three schools. One of them was online." Maddie tells her.
"Ohh, I wear black. I switch schools. I must be a bad girl." Liv says sarcastically.
"I get it, you're angry at me and you want to pick your own friends, just please don't pick Kylie." Maddie pleads.
"Oh so now I have to run all my friendship choices by you? I like Kylie so don't be dissing on my KK." Liv says outraged.
"Fine, just don't be surprised when you KK turns out to be cray-cray." Maddie tells her making Liv grunt in annoyance and run out of the school, catching up with Kylie.
"Hey KK." Liv says.
"Yeah, that's not happening." Kylie tells her.
"Got it, so my sister says you're kind of a bad girl." Liv says.
"Yeah, I got in trouble at my last school, but I'm a totally different person now." Kylie tells her.
"Ohh you turned over a new leaf?" Liv asks.
"No, I got new ID. I'm literally a different person. I'm ditching the last two periods want to come?" Kylie offers.
"You mean like skip class? I've never done this before. I mean even on my show I was a good girl. I had other issues…" Liv says nervously.
"Boring! I'm going to the mall." Kylie tells her, making Liv follow her as soon as she heard mall mumbling to herself "Is this a sign or what?"
Later that day Maddie meets up with Ocean, who tells her that it's not going to work out with her and Liv and gives her the class notes and informs her that Liv skipped class to go to the mall according to rumor.
Maddie suspects that Kylie is behind this and follows her sister to the mall. At the mall Kylie stole a pair of sunglasses and hands them to Liv, who drops them as she hears the alarm go off and Kylie tell her that she stole them. Maddie comes upon the scene of the two girls running away and picks up the glasses, getting arrested for stealing them since she gets confused for Liv. She doesn't sell her out because she fears that the paparazzi will be all over Liv if they heard that she stole something. At home her mother punishes her by benching her for the game against the Ravens despite her father trying to get her another punishment since Maddie is the star player of his basketball team.
After receiving the punishment Maddie goes up to her room, where Liv is pacing around.
"Oh god I'm so glad you're home. I've been dying to talk to you. You were so right. I guess after the second person to tell me this I should have listened. Kylie is bad news." Liv says
"That's funny coming from a shoplifter." Maddie says accusingly.
"What? I didn't…" Liv starts to say when Maddie cuts her off telling her "Liv, I was there. You stole sunglasses."
"Pause the newsfeed. Maddie, I didn't steal anything. I mean Kylie stuck those shades in my hand I dropped them and I bolted. I didn't even wait for the machine to finish engraving our names on a penny." Liv tells her.
"Wait you didn't steal them? Liv I took the blame for you." Maddie tells her.
"What why?" Liv asks confused.
"Because if I hadn't the security guard would have caught you and your picture would have been all over the news quicker than the one of a duckling cuddling a kitten." Maddie explains.
"Oh man did you see that though, wasn't that just the cutest thing you've ever seen." Liv says excitedly and the two of them impersonate a duckling and a kitten respectively.
"Wait that's not what we're talking about right now." Maddie says strictly.
"No it isn't." Liv agrees guiltily.
"Liv you are so lucky I was there for you, as always." Maddie tells her.
"Maddie I know you think it's your job to protect me, but you've got to stop. I mean you tried to make Ocean my friend, you tried to protect me from Kylie, just now you took the wrap for me and just because you were right in every one of those instances does not mean you know what's best for me." Liv says.
"Well if it makes you feel any better mom benched me from the Ravens game tonight." Maddie tells her sadly.
"What she benched you? Wait what does bench mean again?" Liv yells shocked.
"It means I'm not allowed to play." Maddie explains.
"That's what I thought and there is no way that is happening because this game is way to important to you." Liv tells her and makes her way downstairs, stopping at the door to tell her "By the way there is a pretzel from the mall on your desk. It seemed more generous at the time."
Once downstairs she sees her mother and father arguing about Maddie not going to the game and tells them "wait mom, dad. I have to tell you something. I ditched school with my new ex-best friend Kylie and she stole sunglasses. Maddie had nothing to do with it. She was just covering for me."
"No." her mother sighs disappointedly while her father practically screamed in joy.
"That means Maddie can play." Pete says excitedly.
"Fine but tell her that she's still in trouble for lying." Karen Rooney tells her husband.
"Suit up Maddie, we've got some Raven's to beat." Pete yells running upstairs to his daughter.
"Yay, OK let's go cheer on Maddie. Go- Porcupines." Liv says excitedly.
"You are not going anywhere. You can start the laundry while I call Kylie's parents. Kiss the next two weeks of your live goodbye." Karen tells her.
"But no mom, I made plans for in two days with the only other person I found who seems to want to be my friend." Liv complains.
"Who is it?" Karen ask since she knows most of the students at the school.
"Someone called Thomas, but he said everyone calls him 10K. No clue why." Liv replies and after a few moments to think it over Karen tells her "OK fine you can meet 10K the day after tomorrow but the rest of the two weeks you are grounded."
"Thanks mom. But do you know him or why are you letting me meet him?" Liv asks surprised by her mother caving.
"Yes, since I'm the school's guidance counsellor I've met basically everyone and him I've met more often than others but if you want to know why you would have to ask him yourself, I'm forbidden to tell others what the students discuss with me." Karen tells her.
"So he's a weirdo, I don't think I should hang out with him then, one whackadoo a month is enough for me." Liv says.
"No-no, just ask your sister about him. She should know why he had to see me. Now don't stand around and get started on the laundry." Kare says.
After the game the rest of the Rooney family comes back home and Maddie goes looking for her twin to tell her that they won and finds her in their room sitting on her bed.
"Oh, you're back, how did it go?" Liv asks her excited.
"We Won big time. Bam! What?!" Maddie replies.
"Great, I'm so happy for you." Liv says hugging her sister.
"Oh Liv, mom said you needed to talk to me about something after the game?" Maddie asks.
"Yeah, before I asked Kylie to hang out with me, I actually asked somebody else and mom allowed me to meet him despite me being grounded but I'm not so sure now. She said he had a lot of appointments with her as the guidance counselor." Liv tells her.
"A guy huh? Who is this bad boy?" Maddie asks intrigued.
"Thomas or as he told me 10K." Liv says unsure if Maddie knows him.
"Oh, then scratch the bad boy part. Everyone knows him, but he had to go to mom because his father died like two years ago, ever since then he's pretty much been a loner." Maddie informs her twin.
"Oh, so he's not a whackadoo like Kylie?" Liv asks relieved.
"I don't know. I've never really talked with the guy myself, like I said he's been a loner for two years now, but if mom lets you meet him despite you being grounded, I'm sure he's not that bad." Maddie replies.
"OK then, it's decided the day after tomorrow I'm going to hang out with Thomas." Liv says excitedly.
"Ohh, aren't you a little too excited about this? Are you sure he didn't ask you out on a date?" Maddie teases her sister.
"Oh, hush you. Just because you have your weird jock romance doesn't make you any more experienced then me in the department of love." Liv tells her.
|Two days later after school|
10K and Liv agreed to meet at the school's entrance after they're done with their classes.
"Thomas, there you are. Are you ready to go?" Liv asks him excitedly.
"Sure, wait where are we going anyways?" 10K asks.
"To the mall?" Liv asks hoping he'd agree.
"OK, but once we're done with the stores you want to visit, we'll go to the one I have to go to." 10K says.
"Deal." Liv agrees cheerfully and they start to make their way to the mall.
"So, are you new in school? I haven't seen you around much." 10K asks her having gotten a quick lesson on how to deal with girls from his legal guardian, who gets called Doc by everyone, being a psychiatrist mainly for veterans as well as having been a field medic himself.
"Oh, I actually used to live here, I just moved to Hollywood for a while because I was the star of a TV show called Sing it Loud!" Liv tells him.
"Huh, and yet you came back to Stevens Point Wisconsin?" 10K asks surprised.
"Yeah, my twin sister as well as my whole family lives here. You actually know some of them." Liv tells him.
"I do? Wait twin, are you the sister of the girls' basketball captain?" 10K asks.
"Sure am. And my mom is the guidance counselor, dad is a gym teacher and my brother Joey goes to this school as well, not sure if you know him. I'm pretty sure that you don't know my little brother Parker though." Liv tells him.
"Hah, big family you got there. Must be nice and a little hectic?" 10K asks.
"Yeah, but it's all worth it." Liv tells him with a smile.
"What about your family?" She asks him.
"Well I never knew my mom, I was raised by my dad, who was a mildly famous hunter and ran the local shooting range, but he passed away almost two years ago and I've been living with my godparent who's a psychiatrist for veterans, he just gets called Doc by everyone." 10K tells her.
"Oh, I'm sorry about your dad." Liv says gently.
"It's alright, at least he died doing what he loved. Hunting, you know I've been hunting with him a few times as well, I know why he loved it so much." 10K says.
"Well enough about that, anything specific you're looking for at the mall?" 10K asks her as they come up to the mall entrance.
"Are you kidding? Have you ever been shopping with a girl?" Liv asks him incredulously.
"No can't say I have. I don't really have any friends right now, after my dad I lost touch and I've been busy running the shooting range." 10K tells her.
"Well you're in for a surprise then." Liv tells him, hooking her arm with one of his and drags him along.
Over the next two hours Liv dragged him to almost every clothing related store in the mall, asking him for his opinion about some clothes and asking him to carry her purchases before she decided that she had enough for one day especially since it's their first time hanging out together and while they are getting along great, talking and joking around she feels a little guilty for using him as a pack mule for her 6 shopping bags despite his reassurance that he can handle it.
"Alright. I think I've got enough for today. So where did you want to go?" Liv asks.
"Oh, it's right over there, come on." 10K tells her and leads her to a gun store right next to the mall.
"And it's a gunstore. Why am I not surprised?" Liv says amused.
"If you don't feel comfortable going in you can wait out here, it won't be long. I'm just here to pick something up." 10K tells her.
"No it's alright. While I have no real interest in guns it's only fair if I accompany you since you've been such a great friend today." Liv says.
"Thanks." 10K says with a bright smile, making Liv stare at him for a second thinking to herself 'now that I see him up close, he's actually pretty handsome.'
"Coming?" 10K asks her, snapping her out of her thoughts as he holds open the door for her.
"Jo 10K you here to pick up your order? Or are you here to impress the girl with your impeccable aim?" the store owner asks him.
"Hi Luke, no I just came for the order and this is my friend Liv." 10K tells the man.
"I've seen you on TV, Sing it Loud! Right?" Luke asks her while he unlocks a shelf, getting out a package and a wrapped-up rifle.
"Yes, that's right." Liv says cheerfully.
"Well nice to see that you've got a friend 10K, I was getting worried about you." Luke tells him.
"Oh, shut up or are you trying to get me to challenge you again?" 10K asks with a smirk.
"I know when I'm beat. Enjoy the rest of your date you two." Luke tells them as the two teens make their way out of the shop.
"Sorry about him, he's like a much older big brother. I've known him my whole life." 10K tells Liv embarrassedly.
"No no it's OK. Maddie teased me about hanging out with a guy as well." Liv says.
"You talk about her a lot, you two really get along huh?" 10K asks.
"Yeah well we're twins. Our motto is sisters by chance friends by choice." Liv tells him.
"Aww that's sweet." 10K replies.
"Are you sure you can carry all that? I can carry my bags myself." Liv asks him seeing him heft the gun across his back and clutch the package under his arm while he holds her shopping bags in his hands.
"Don't worry, I got it. Now lead the way I got no idea where you live." 10K says chuckling.
Half an hour later the two arrive in front of the Rooney's house.
"OK, if my dad acts weirdly, don't think much of it. He suspects every one of the male gender who comes too close to his little girls wants to be their boyfriend. Maddie's boyfriend is constantly suffering under my dad's watchful eye." Liv tells him amused.
"I see how he could assume that, I mean I can't speak for your sister but you're a beautiful and nice girl I'm sure there are tons of guys lining up to be your boyfriend." 10K tells her.
"Yeah well, most guys know me from the show and want to date me because I'm famous, my ex-boyfriend was a pro skateboarder, but he also only got together with me because of his image." Liv says with slightly reddening cheeks at being called beautiful by him, it usually doesn't affect her at all but when 10K said it she could feel the heat rising to her cheeks.
"Come on in." Liv says opening the door for them only to see Parker take pictures of Joey who is wearing a ridiculous looking helmet with kitchen tools glued to it while trying to get a phone to work.
"Well if we're gonna hang out again you might as well get used to this. The little one is Parker and the nerdy one is Joey." Liv tells him before she takes him up to her and her sister's room.
"Hi sis, where is dad?" Liv says walking into their room.
"He's getting something from the hardware store. Joey broke something again I'm guessing." Maddie tells her.
"OK, coast is clear, no dad no fear." Liv sings and motions for 10K to follow her inside.
"Hi." 10K and Maddie greet each other while Liv tells him "You can put the bags on my bed over there, thanks Tommy." Liv tells him.
"Alright, I guess I'm gonna head out then." 10K says readjusting the gun on his back and shifting his package so he's carrying it in his hand. He then quickly bids goodbye to Maddie before Liv leads him outside.
"We should do this again sometime. I liked hanging out with you, it's refreshing since you don't know me from TV." Liv tells him after they are standing on her porch.
"Yeah sounds good. I liked having a friend again. If possible tell me beforehand if you want to hang out so I can look for someone to cover a shift at the gun range. It's usually just me and Doc." 10K tells her.
"I will keep that in mind, but I'm grounded for the next two weeks either way. I didn't listen to your advice about Kylie and got in trouble." Liv tells him disappointed in herself.
"Better to try and fail than to not try at all?" 10K says.
"Well we can still hang out at school and then after I'm not grounded anymore." Liv says with a bright smile on her face.
"Sure, and tell your mom I said hello." 10K says waving goodbye as he starts to make his way home.
Liv goes upstairs to her room intending to sort through her purchases but before she reaches her bed Maddie pulls her onto her own bed saying, "spill the beans, was is a date or just two pals hanging out?"
"We were just hanging out, though there were these awkward moments here and there, like his friend telling us to enjoy our date or me being nervous about dad and telling him all about him tormenting boyfriends." Liv says.
"So, a shopping trip with potential?" Maddie asks teasingly.
"I guess If you had to call it that. Either way, I had a good time with him and despite the fact that he loves guns he's really nice and I guess he's cute." Liv tells her.
"Nice and cute that's the first step to developing a crush." Maddie says imitating her sister to tease her.
"I told you that when we were 12." Liv protests.
"And I'm sure love has changed soo much in the 3 years." Maddie says sarcastically.
"Oh, shut up, I didn't tease you when you told me you liked someone called Diggie." Liv complains.
"So, you do like 10K." Maddie counters.
"Mind your own business. Even if I did, we wouldn't have such a weird jock-romance like you and your boyfriend." Liv says annoyed.
AN: Hope you like it, leave reviews and Happy New Year!
