Just a 'leetle' bit of fluff for Will... From two certain people...

While pupils formed groups and started chattering noisily in the snow, Will patiently waited for Matt to get off the bus, well aware that Sondra was already out. She watched Martin Tubbs walk away from Irma, who looked relatively angry and wondered what the chances were that Sondra could be to blame. She didn't take much more time to mull over it though, as a certain boy stepped off the coach. "Matt! Fancy you being here! Do you ski? I mean, of course you ski! So, would you like to ski down me?" She caught herself and suddenly her face felt very hot. Matt grinned. "W-With me?"

"I'd love to. With you I mean; I only ski down people I'm really close to."

She looked up at him, "Really? I mean the with me thing, I know the other part was a joke, I mean-" She sighed in defeat as he laughed, only looking through her unruly locks at him when he seemed to sober.

"Later, though. I kinda promised I'd help Sondra with her boots."

As if summoned, Sondra wiggled her way over, holding a cup of hot chocolate Will could only assume was from the flask Martin had been carrying. "Oh, 'zere you are, Matthew. Who eez your leetle friend?"

Will refused to acknowledge the girl with even a nod, "It's WILL, Sondra. We're in the same History class, Math class, Science class-"

"Well, I can't remember every face." Will felt Sondra's eyes travel up and down her body, adn Will resisted the urge to hug her arms over her small frame. "Surely you don't ski on those tiny leetle legs."

A short joke. Too far. Will could no longer be held responsible for her actions. "As surely as you can form the words to talk in that tiny little brain!"

"WHOA!"

In that second everyone had turned to look at them. Apparently they had all been eavesdropping. Will didn't dare show the embarrassment she felt as pupils judged her; Sondra faking hurt. "What are you saying?"

Will's eyes narrowed to slits. "I'm saying I can ski the homemade goat pants off of you!"

"Well, zen, we have to have a leetle race. Winner seets with Matt on ze bus ride back!"

"Fine by me."

Matt held up his hands in mock-surrender, trying to make jest out of the tension, "Uh, girls-"

"STAY OUTTA THIS!"

...

Blunk had been acquiring goods when he'd been thrown into the giant metal box. He clumsily climbed out into the snow after a bump journey, slipping and yelling out as he fell down the mountainside.

...

"Remember, children, stay on the north side of the mountain, well away from Deadman's Trail." A deafening screech carried down the mountain. Taranee, who had been lounging on the mountainside with Irma looked round at that moment, to see that Hay Lin had knocked Knickerbocker off her feet.

Taranee grinned, watching Hay Lin's decent past them; her arms and legs flailing. "I admire Hay Lin. She doesn't care about boys, or what people think of her-" She squinted down at Hay Lin, who was still out of control. "-or if she ever walks again."

"You know what they say," Taranee shook her head and Irma shrugged, pointing in Hay Lin's direction, "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, Turn." Taranee laughed.

...

It had been a long day for Will. It was hard avoiding doing any skiing during a ski trip. She sat back in the comfy armchair, enjoy ing the soothing crackling of the fire that accompanied it's warmth. Hay Lin burst in. "Will, I need your scarf, and your hat, and your sweater, and do you have any extra gloves?"

She put down her mug, and helped Hay Lin without question.

Will wrapped her scarf tightly around the shivering Blunk. Apparently he'd been caught in the luggage. Will could only wonder what he had been doing with the luggage in the first place. "Just keep this around your face. We don't want to start a panic. No offense."

"Need cocoa."Apparently he wasn't too cold to be choosy.

Hay Lin looked up as a car pulled up and Yan Lin climbed out. "Grandma! What are you doing here?"

"He made me drive him up to prove a silly point!" Will glanced over to see Yan Lin pointing at Caleb, smiling smugly.

"I'm no fun, huh? Well, just tell that to my skis!" Caleb held up a pair of extremely basic looking.. Planks of wood.

Will tried to keep her features in check, failing miserably, "You're kidding. They look like the deck planks from the Titanic."

"Those babies served me well back in China." Yan Lin pouted as only a child should do. Will grinned back at Caleb, but her smile softened due to an uneasy feeling she got, realizing his piercing eyes were already on her. She swallowed, looking away when she realized he had averted his gaze down to his skis with the same expression she had pinned on Matt as being a crush only the day before.. Well.. She seemed to have been wrong about Matt.. She was clearly not very good at this.. Plus, she concluded, Caleb practically hated her. It was a mutual thing.

Will quickly changed her sights to Hay Lin, who peered at the skis in Caleb's raised hand, "They looked like they served Genghis Khan back in China!"

Yan Lin shrugged, "I got new skis now! I'm gonna carve me up some powder, dudes!"

As the group headed into the chalet, a heavily blushing Will avoiding the rebel leader's ongoing gaze, not one of them heard Blunk cry out, having had seen a certain reptilian Lord behind him.