A/N The events during the party will be split up into characters with different character POV's there will be a Rapunzel, Kristoff, and Elsa in either the next few chapters or in one. I have different challenges lined up for every ship. This is the longest chapter so far! On to the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Disney or DreamWorks
Once the cheering decreased so all that was left was chatting from the audience getting up to leave and music from the speakers did we discuss our game plan. Anna looked up from her phone. "I'm going to catch a ride with Kristoff to the party, okay?" From the light dusting of blush upon her cheeks and a small grin Merida knew that her roommate and boyfriend might take a detour for a congratulatory kiss.
With a sly smile Merida responded "Take all the time you need." Anna's face flushed red. With that she hopped up from her seat and walked over to the locker room to wait.
Elsa sighed with relief. "Now I can go home." Muttered the white haired hermit. Rapunzel slid across the bleachers so her arm was slung over Elsa's shoulders.
"Now Elsa, do you really think we will let that happen?" Rapunzel gave a mischievous smile.
"One could only hope." She responded airly. Punzie pulled Elsa up as we walked back to Merida's new red pick-up truck.
Merida was raised by a wealthy family; she however, was constantly having her mom's wishes for her thrown to her. She knew being the eldest in the family meant that the Dunbroch company, of medical and military personnel to stocks, was her birthright. Her mom tried to groom her into a young lady capable of running the company. Merida resisted. There were perks to being an heiress though. She thought sliding into the driver's seat.
"You do know how to get to Zeta Psi, right?" asked Elsa from the back seat.
"Of course." Merida shot back as she turned on the ignition and started to drive to the party.
"Should we even go to the party? It's a frat party."
Rapunzel shifted so she was looking into Elsa's eyes. "Kristoff's a member and he is a catch: kind, hardworking, smart, protective, reasonable, sweet, and at times awkward. If there was any sort of thing that conflicted with his morals he would have left." She smiled encouragingly.
"Plus we can't back now." Merida put the car in park across of the large Victorian styled house. Outside she heard loud pop/dubstep music seeping from inside. Flashes of bright neon light rotated so it glinted from the windows.
As they walked closer she could see that it was packed with people. Merida glanced back at Elsa who was frozen to her spot. Merida grabbed one arm as Rapunzel grabbed the other and together they crossed the threshold into the house. The music resonated through the floorboards and into her chest.
Off to the right was a large area designated for dancing. Already there was a mob of people dancing to the DJ's jams if you could call what they were doing dancing. Some were jumping up and down, others were doing their own thing, and quite a few were- Merida's brain lost connection for a second- *cough* grinding.
Ahead was a big open foyer with stairs in front of them leading to another level with a balcony overlooking the dance floor. Another set of stairs led down where she could hear voices and screeching wheels. Must be the video game area. To the left was a big dining table full of food and drinks. Beyond the food was sofas and a large plasma TV playing a recording of the football game.
Merida watched as a group of young adults cut a pepperoni pizza. She let go of Elsa's arm and walked toward them. "Pizza Russian Roulette?" She asked with a grin.
"Mer!"Rapunzel rushed over to her dragging a limp Elsa.
A tall black haired man nodded his head. "You want in?" He also had a smile.
"Hell yeah. I'm Merida." She offered her hand and he took it in his larger one to shake.
"Tadashi. Do you guys want to join?" He asked her roommates. Rapunzel shrugged and Elsa imitated a statue. "A yeah" he pointed at Punzie then switched to Elsa "and a no." He continued to cut the pizza into 8 slices. "That is Go Go, Honey , Fred, and Wasabi." He pointed to an emo looking chick, a hipsterish girl, a skater boy, and a buff African-American man. "Guy invited us here. He almost joined our "club" of creating the next great invention." He rolled his eyes as he said club. "He knows we need a break every so often not to push ourselves into an early grave." Go Go pointed to Tadashi.
"Oh cool, what are you guys working on?" Rapunzel asked with bright eyes.
Go Go blew a bubble and popped it before responding with "Bikes with electromagnetically-suspended wheels."
Lemon enthusiastically replied "I am working on chemical metal embrittlement! So cool right?!" Merida and Punzie just looked at her blankly while her friends nodded and Tadashi had a tender smile on his face.
"My latest project includes laser induced plasma with magnetic confinement." Wasabi supplied.
"Uh… Supporting these guys." Fred announced throwing his arms around Go Go and Wasabi. They are such nerds. A group of nerds. They shall now be known as the Nerd Squad. Merida nodded her head in finality.
Clapping his hands Tadashi finished cutting the pizza. "The rules are simple we spin the pizza, we each take a slice, and the one who ends up eating the hottest slice wins. I was told that there was milk in the kitchen. Ready?" When everyone nodded he spun the box.
Once the box stopped spinning everyone reached in for a slice. Merida looked at her chosen slice. Nothing looks out of the ordinary. She thought as she took a bite. Everyone was glancing at each other- looking for the winner. Nothing happened. No signs of discomfort.
"Huh?" Tadashi placed his piece down and looked at the 8th slice. Taking a bite out of it he showed no reaction.
"Did no one win?" Honey asked
As if struck with realization he looked at Wasabi. "Dude…"
"What?" Wasabi asked still eating.
"You do realize this is supposed to be an ordinary pepperoni pizza yeah?"
"Oh…" Looking down at his slice a grin split his face in half. "I won!" He raised his slice up to the heavens in rejoice.
He must really like spicy foods if the heat didn't bother him."No wonder they call you Wasabi." Merida cracked. Everyone laughed except Wasabi.
"I only got it on my shirt one time." He said tiredly.
"Hey guys." A voice behind Merida, Rapunzel, and Elsa said. They turned around to see Kristoff and Anna with his arm around her shoulders. Anna ran up to Elsa and glomped her sister.
"I'm going to sit and watch the game." He said awkwardly leaving the girls.
"Be with you in a second." Anna called over her shoulder to Kristoff. "You are all here! What should we do first?" She asked enthusiastically.
"Dance?" Offered Rapunzel. Merida knew her best friend was naive but how on earth did she not see the people on the dance floor practically having sex.
Elsa must of thought the same thing "No. Anything but dancing."
Anna looked back to the mob of dancers and grimaced at the public displays of affection. "How about we go sit down and talk to the guys?" She nodded in the direction of where Kristoff was sitting talking with a bunch of teammates while reviewing the game.
Once common consent was given together they walked to the sofas. Anna sat next to Kristoff placing a kiss on his cheek. His eyes brightened and he stopped midsentence. Placing an arm around Anna he leaned down and kissed her lightly on the lips.
All of the roommates awed at the couple. It was a circulating topic around their apartment of how perfect the two were together.
Kristoff continued his conversation with Nod another linebacker on the team. The girls sat down next to Anna. Next to Nod was Guy who was talking to the person sitting by him.
"So you see how number 35 did the same play twice? I think if we-" Guy looked up from the TV to the buffet of food to see the Nerd Squad. "Hey Tadashi!" He hopped up to greet the group.
Rapunzel started a conversation with Anna and Elsa. "What should I bake next? A cake, brownies, or cookies?"
Anna shared a look with Elsa before replying "Sweetie, no matter what we say, you always end up baking cupcakes."
Rapunzel made a look of disbelieve that caused Merida to snicker. "What? I don't do that."
"Just last week you promised you were going to make cream cheese brownies but instead you made chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting." Elsa pointed out.
"Not that they weren't delicious, but we were promised brownies. So for goodness sakes just say you are going to bake cupcakes. Okay Punzie?" Anna asked. The baker could only nod in agreement.
Merida laughed her hearty snort filled laughter at the exchange between her friends. Looking around the room to see if anyone heard it. Sitting across the girls was the one and only Flynn Rider. He was sitting by the spot where Guy was. Guy must have been talking to him.
Flynn was staring at them. He must had seen me snort. She thought. On second thought she followed his stare to learn that he's actually looking at Rapunzel. Merida leaned over Elsa to poke Punzie in the arm.
"Ow. What?" She asked
Merida couldn't keep a smirk from sliding on but had concern flooding her blue eyes. She whispered "2 o'clock."
Confused Rapunzel glanced to 2 o'clock. Low and behold her eyes widened and let out a squeak. Anna and Elsa, also followed the instructions.
"Hey are you alright?" Anna asked
"Yeah…" She responded shakily "I will be."
Elsa got up. "I'll be back, I left something in the truck." She left the tension filled room.
Merida also stood up and stretched her back. "I'm going to get some food." She pointed to the table behind them. Rapunzel just nodded her head.
Walking behind them she gave Anna a look that said "Keep your eye on her and don't let Flynn Rider near her". Only after she got a nod from the ginger did she go look for food.
Merida looked down at the assorted candies, dips 'n chips, and veggies. Farther down the table was various types of liquors and sodas. Doritos and Mountain Dew- the fuel of my generation. Merida smirked at her own joke. True to her joke she picked up a dorito.
Merida felt a tap on her shoulder. Turning around she was met with two attractive guys. One was Hiccup Haddock. That's his last name right? He was just as good looking as earlier, but he looked nervous. The other was equally as handsome. His snow white hair was messy in the way that only multiplied his hotness. He had iceberg blue eyes. Wearing a blue sweatshirt and jeans he began to speak.
"Have you met Hiccup?" With that he walked away from the reunited pair and to the dance floor.
She watched him leave in confusion before turning to Hiccup. "What was up with that?" She asked pointing after the disappearing figure.
"I'm so sorry about that." Hiccup rubbed the base of his neck. "That was Jack- my roommate." He cringed at the word.
Merida smiled "Oh, so that's the person I have to thank for dragging you to the game and I'm guessing here too?" She shoved the dorito into her mouth.
Hiccup visibly relaxed "Yeah… So where is Rapunzel?"
Merida nodded in the direction of her two roommates. Flynn was trying to strike up a conversation with Rapunzel but Anna was holding her attention. "Do you know what happened to them?" She asked.
"Yeah, something along the lines of them working on a project together-"
"I know that already." She smirked at him.
He gave her the infamous half smile. Curse that smile. She thought as butterflies erupted from her stomach. "Well did you know that they kissed?"
"What." She whisper shouted.
Nodding he continued "It was supposedly on accident but the 'accidents' kept happening. Near the end of the project he asked her out. They were going to meet at Starbucks on fifth but he stood her up."
Narrowing her eyes she asked "And you know this how?"
"She told me." Her look of disbelief led him to continue. "Seriously she wanted to get a guy's opinion on it and I offered to listen." He shrugged. "Who does Kristoff have his arm around? I thought he had a girlfriend?"
With sparkling eyes she answered "Anna- the girlfriend." Hiccup started to blush with embarrassment. "They balance each other out. Anna is, outgoing, enthusiastic, a dreamer, and Kristoff helps to keep her grounded. She wants to get a teaching degree. On the other hand Elsa, her older sister, is the exact opposite. Elsa's unsocial and a realist. She wants to become an architect. I saw some of her sketches when I first moved in and let me tell you- she will become famous. Where is she?" Merida glanced around until she found her on the balcony talking to Jack. "There she is." They watched their exchange. Jack said something making Elsa laugh and respond. Whatever she said hurt him because took a step back. Jack recovered and said something with a grin before handing her a slip of paper.
"Does Rapunzel still want to pursue a painting career?" Hiccup asked turning away from the two white haired people. Merida nodded with a smile on her face. Rapunzel was a talented artist. She had binders full of drawings and on her walls beautiful paintings. One was a picture of the roommates taken from a baking day together. Anna had flour all over her red hair and Elsa had a cracked egg on her head. Rapunzel had cake batter all over her clothes and face. Merida had a wooden spoon woven through her thick hair and it was everywhere, not being restrained by a hair tie.
"What about you Hiccup? What's your major?" She asked with a tender smile.
Hiccup's breath hitched for a second. "Biomedical Engineering. Ever since high school I knew that it was my calling. I wanted to help people with prosthetics. I made my own after the accident and yeah." Hiccup gave her his half smile again. Distracting Merida from her question for a second.
Shaking her head she looked at him with questioning eyes. "What happened?"
"In high school I made my own motorcycle. Runs like a beauty. One day I was riding him to my girlfriend's house." Merida's stomach dropped. Why do I feel sick? Must be from the damn butterflies. With a subtle shrug she turned back to his story. "When this semi-truck comes barrelling down the street and bam. I wake up in the hospital and they said they had to amputate my left leg. The thing they gave me was so damn uncomfortable I made my own." He pulled up his jean pant to show metal.
"That's so cool." Hiccup blushed. "My dad also only has one leg. He always complains of phantom pains."
"I still have those…" He said absently rubbing his calf. "Anywho what about you?"
Merida let out a snarl. "My mom wants me to get this stupid business degree so I can continue the family company- but I don't want to."
"I totally get that." Hiccup sympathetically nodded. "My dad was expecting something different then me. A big beefy son, who could lift double his weight. A man's man. I can fix any car problem with my eyes closed. But-" Closing his eyelids he shook his head. When he opened his green eyes her blue ones were staring back in concern. "Sorry. I just keep all of it bottled up inside. What is your family's company?"
Merida hesitated. She didn't like telling people her last name. They always changed into someone else afterwards. But he did just tell you about his dad. Taking a deep breath, she replied. "Dunbroch."
Green orbs widened in surprise.
"I just don't want to continue the business. I'm not built to be a CEO of a multi-million company. I would rather just stick to something else. Since my parents are who they are I can't do anything I want without their permission." Rolling her eyes she grabbed a beer from the table and popped off the cap. Merida took a deep swig. Merida wasn't new to alcohol but the sudden flood of bitterness did leave a frown.
If I drink enough maybe it will go away. All of the pressure and disappointment from my parents- no from my mom.
Hiccup picked up a beer of his own. "Well here's to disapproving parents." As they clinked their bottles together, you could almost hear the sound of the beginning of a friendship.
A/N Next POV will likely be everyone's favorite shoeless blonde Disney princess.