Hello to all fellow humans! (And demigods XD) This is Ροκεmοηςhεn speaking coming to you with another update!
First, I'M SO FRICKING SORRY! I say that I'll give sneak peeks to the next chapter but I didn't :( However, my computer was acting all freaky and stuff (like blue screens were popping up saying stuff that I needed to shut down, blah blah blah and all that good stuff) so yea... It was mainly because of computer problems :/
Therefore, I'M SO SORRY! Those who got the answer right will get a sneak peek for the next one! PROMISE! (Can't swear it just in case my computer dies on me again :/)
Anyways, from here on out, it'll be Lightning-AND'Death taking the mic so ya...
Published: 12/12/12 (Lightning-AND'Death says 12/11/12 but I'm publishing it today so ya...)
Disclaimer: One shots, one shots, I don't own P J O.
Title: The Newbie
Author: Lιghτnιng-AND'Dεατh
One shot for: Tratie (Travis X Katie! XD)
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Katie Gardner's POV
I was neatly scrubbing some dirt off the stainless steel appliances in the shop and was really working hard. I wiped a sweat bead off of my face and whipped my caramel hair to the side. My green blade eyes were working intensely as it was settling on that one spot that won't get out. Frustrated and angry, I threw the old rag to the floor and rested my chin on my hands, letting out one huge sigh.
It was then I decided to leave. I packed my apron and set it on my hook, retrieving a blue jean jacket and wrapping it around myself. Just as my hands settled on the metal door knob, I heard some loud pangs meeting in contact with my very own.
"Hey Katie? You mind staying here for a while. I need a favor." My old cranky manager said to me (more like demanded) and didn't take no for an answer.
I stood there, hesitating and thinking about some ways I can ditch this joint.
"Well?" Mr. Helde peevishly said, aggravated was a clear expression.
I scrunched my nose and sighed. "Whatever you say, boss." I muttered, sarcastically.
Mr. Helde grinned superiorly and looked down at me. "I need you to guide this newbie in this process of sandwich making." He addressed to me.
"Why can't Thalia or I don't know, Leo do this?" I asked, impatient and obviously annoyed.
"I already asked them and they called in sick."
"Yeah. Sick. Can you blame them?" I mumbled to myself. I saw Mr. Helde's eyebrows perk up and his eyes settling hard on mine.
"What did you say?"
I shook my head and told him to forget about it.
"He should be here in five minutes. Now make me proud." He stated, almost letting acid spit hit my face.
I nodded gloomily.
SOS.
Stood there, popping my hip and looking irritated. My eyes were hard and my foot kept tapping like it was on some marathon. I twitched my head to the clock, constantly. Gosh, he was late for almost half an hour!
Just as I was about to leave, the door flew open and a tall, lean boy walked inside. He had wild fluffs of brown hair which looks like something was hiding inside. Soft blue eyes were marking in his eyes, as it formed a natural mischievous face.
Without a doubt, I knew this boy is the newbie. The freaking newbie that cause me here to wait!
"You." I venomously stated as my glare settled on his face, hard.
"Me." The newbie said sarcastically and my glare turned harder.
"What took you so long? You had me here waiting for hours!" I angrily said.
"One, it was only 24 minutes. Two, whatever happened to fashionably late. And three, ran into some girl." He winked at me and flashed me a grin.
In disgust, I walked to the nearest boxes and pulled out a spare apron. With ease, I whipped the apron and to my irritation, he caught it with simplicity.
"Great. Another one." I mumbled to myself. I saw newbie's eyebrow twitch up.
"Put that apron on, Newbie." I addressed him like a mother.
Slipping his head into the apron he looked at me.
"Now, now, now. Can't be talking to some stranger. What's your name?"
I raised my eyebrows at him. "Katie. No last name." "Well Katie no last name" He said sarcastically. "I'm Travis. Not Newbie. The pleasure is all yours." He winked at me the second time of the day.
I rolled my eyes with dramatic effect and spoke. "Let's start with the basics. When a person comes in, welcome them. I'll pretend to be some customer and welcome me. Got it?" I didn't take no for an answer and just walked out. I counted back and entered the shop.
"Well hello pretty lady. What would you like? I'm sorry to inform you that I am not on the menu so I will not accept 'You' as an answer." Travis smiled innocently.
I walked up to him and pushed him. He stumbled back a bit but kept his pace. He looks at me incredulously. I just gave him a naive smile. I pushed him out the door and yelled out "Watch the pro, Travis!"
Travis walked in; looking bored as ever but still gave him grin.
"Hello and good day sir. Welcome to Subway. We have a special today, 2 sandwiches for a price of 5 dollars! Your order please?" I asked Travis politely.
He raised an eyebrow at me and smirked. "One foot long steak sandwich. Make sure the steak is grilled to the best roasted in some toasty sauce. The steak needs to be hot and soft. Make sure the bread is grilled to the max but not burnt okay. The tomatoes should look exactly like the ones in the picture; perfect. Or else I won't take it and you can't have your money back. Please hold the mushrooms, they are the devil. Add some shreds of garlic to make the sandwich come to life. Extra meats, remember that, I hold nothing against cows."
I literally felt my jaw drop and Travis copied my innocent smile.
"What?" Travis spoke in child like voice. With that said I rolled my eyes, which comes naturally when talking to him.
"Okay, okay. Enough of that. I think because of my expertise you got the whole greeting thing under control." I warned him.
He walked up to me way too close, touching my sides and small red tinted dots crept up my cheeks. I coughed nervously. "Why don't we uhh…work on the sandwich making? Huh?" I stumbled my words as I walked behind the counter.
I sense Travis Trailing behind me and I slipped on some clear plastic white gloves. I slid the box to him and he followed my example.
"Sandwich making is pretty easy once you think of it. There's a whole chart here that shows the different sandwich types and the ingredients. So it should be pretty simple. Try making a grilled chicken sandwich." I instructed and fled to the back to have a better view of Travis' sandwich making process.
I saw Travis analyze the chart intensely and went on with the sandwich making.
"Uhh Travis…You took the wrong type of bread...should be whole wheat…" I saw Travis take the wrong bread.
"Nope…Newbie that's whole grain."
"Well does it matter?" He snapped and mumbled something incoherent.
"Of course it does. Now the whole wheat bread should be beside the zucchini."
"What the hell is a zucchini?" Travis wondered loudly and I again rolled my eyes.
"It's right beside your hand!"
"Ohhh…Okay!" He cheered happily.
Travis picked up some piece of meat and I made a Tsk-tsk-tsk sound.
"Newbie...yeah...that's pork not chicken."
"Again does it matter?" Of course it does! It's in the name! Chicken Sandwich!" I exploded.
"Actually it's GRILLED chicken...but whatever you say boss." He corrected me. I seethe in some air and counted my breaths.
Deep breaths Kate, atta girl! "Just take the meat beside the pork!"
"Fine, fine. No need to be so mean." Travis muttered.
I saw Newbie' arms move constantly and after several minutes of checking my nails and staring off into space, Travis turned around.
"Voila!" Travis presented the sandwich which I watched topple over to the ground.
I started laughing ands Travis' face fitted into a frown.
"Ha-ha, you're...sand-wich...m-m-ay...be worst…th-than...Percy's!" I laughed so hard with my face merging red.
I heard some colorful language coming from the sailor and that made me laugh harder.
"Okay, okay. I get it. But you have to admit. I rock the whole sexy chef thing is I right?" He grinned, cockily.
"You are just so sick of it." I muttered picking up some green lettuce and embracing it in my hands. I looked at Travis with his eyes wide open and a little taken back.
"Katie dearest, you wouldn't dare right. I mean you're too nice for that err...right?" He laughed nervously and raised his hands in surrender. But I have no mercy.
I whipped the lettuce and watched it spat on his face and slimed all the way down.
Once again I started laughing and I heard him growl from the distance.
"You should have seen it, Newbie! The lettuce like dripped down your face, surprisingly!" I chuckled more.
Travis got the whole bowl of salad sauce. He took grasp of it and fiddled with the saucer. He grin at me evilly and chuckled to himself. I focused on the dripping of the sticky sauce.
Travis approached me and wrapped his arms around my waist closely 'till we were inches apart. Despite the circumstances, I can't help but fight the urge to blush. By the way, I lost.
"Don't call me Newbie."
He winked at me and let the sauce drip all over my face. I wiped the sauce off of my face and looked at the chuckling face of Travis. I glared at him hard and snarled.
I threw the tomatoes at him and he launched some olives at my face. We were in full out battled food fight. He started spinning me around the place and I felt fits of laughter escape out of me. I squirted some ketchup all over his shirt and stopped twirling me around. I chuckled as he looked like a person who came out of a cheesy horror film. He whipped out the mustard and lashed it on my mouth, which by the way is pretty terrible. I got the pickles and initiate them at him as if they were daggers or ninja stars. He then counter counts it back by chucking relish at me as well as beef. What a waste. I mean vegetables were fine but mean was just a waste.
We continued this whole epic battle between 2 workers until my evil boss walked in with an over exaggerated expression.
"What is going on?!" He yelled at us. He didn't even give us the chance to explain for our selves because he took it upon himself to lash out a full punishment towards us.
"You two. Clean this up. The store will open up again in half an hour! This better be clean by the time the sign is flipped open!" Mr. Helde chastises. As he walked out over heard him mumbling about the mistake of hiring teenagers. I rolled my eyes.
I walked dot the slop sink and grabbed two mops for both me and Travis.
I threw him the mop and started cleaning the floor.
"Gosh, does Mr. Hell ever take a chill pill?" Travis chuckled at his tacky pun.
"Mr. Hell? Where did that come from?" I laughed softly at him. "It fits doesn't it?" I nodded, acknowledging.
"You think you got the whole Subway thing figured out. No need for any re-caps or anything."
"Considering we practically did the whole review in 3 hours max. Don't think I need a re-cap." Newbie smiled at me.
"Anyways, new here?" I asked wiping up the whole mustard and ketchup artwork.
This is a pretty small town. I would've realized if Travis was new or not.
"New, obviously. Had to get out of my old town." Travis said grimly, revealing the vulnerability in his eyes and felt a twang of sympathy wash over me.
I smiled at him comforting and place my hand on his shoulder to let him know I'm always here. He smiled at me in return.
"That was a pretty neat fight we had there." He said as he cleaned the tiles till it was spotless.
I grinned. "Yep. Mastered the art of throwing. Thank gardening for that."
He twitched his eyebrows up. "Gardening huh?"
I nodded. "Don't even get me started on that, Newbie. Once begin, I never end."
Travis chuckled. "Mr. Hell is pretty bad. Why do you put up with him?"
"I like this job. Just that he is the only bad part." I shrugged, not really giving Mr. Hell a thought.
"You serious. I would be making a hell of a trip out of here if you weren't here." Travis winked at me and I looked away, hoping he wouldn't see the blush on my face or the smile that was forming.
"Uhh…yeah…anyways you said you were new. You are liking this town so far?" I asked, dampening the dirt.
Travis shrugged, his face relaxed. "Ehh. It's fine. Been moving a lot so no biggie. I mean Connor and mum seems to like it pretty well."
My eyebrows raised up a bit and a curious expression grew on my face. "Connor. Connor Stoll?"
His eyebrows scrunched up a bit "Yeah. My younger brother. How'd you know about him?"
I rolled my eyes. Obviously they were related! "Oh nothing, just that your so called brother put Easter eggs on our community garden center's roof!" I hissed.
Travis grinned from ear to ear. "That's my bro. But how dare he do it without me!"
I sighed grumpily. "Oh sweet lord…we're going to have handful with you aren't we." I muttered under my breath.
Travis chuckled which seemed either a soothing sound or a warning devil's call. Can't decide.
Oh dear gosh, I can picture it now. From year to year, he will be stalking me. Practically playing pranks on me with his partner in crime. OH gosh, this will be the beginning. And I blushed because of a devil!
My thoughts were interrupted when I heard the most surreal and strangest sound I have ever heard.
"Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude! DUDE!" Travis said, cupping his mouth in an 'O' shape and speaking in a cracked and deep voice-deeper than normal-. I started laughing till my sides' burn.
"Dude. You sound like a constipated cow."
Travis grinned with a mischievous glint and chuckled. "Moo. Moo. MOO." He spoke, mimicking the tone of a constipated cow.
I was chuckling and laughing till my stomach burn, though I kept laughing. My face was red, and you should've heard it. He sounded so retarded! "Stop, stop it." I chuckled in between my sentences but Newbie kept on with the Moo thing. "
Oh. What if you just say Moo when something awkward or you're about to be raped. Perfect sound." Travis stated as he went on with the moo thing. I chuckled. "How the hell did you even get the moo thing from?"
"You." He said, simply.
I gave him a questioning smile but before he was about to respond, Mr. Hell came back.
"What is going on again? I see you've finish tidying up. Now go and get to work, custo-"
"Moo." Newbie interrupted with that voice and I couldn't help but chuckled a bit.
Mr. Hell gave us a question yet stern glance and left.
I looked at Travis then walked to flip the sign over. Like magic, the moment the sign was flipped…in came our first customers of the day.
Mountains after mountains and nose after nose, customers just came crashing in Subway. Thank gosh Travis was handling pretty fine with his corny jokes and his terrible pick up lines.
But as a familiar blonde walked inside the shop, trouble started.
A tall and lean boy with a vicious smile walked up to me and cupped my face. He smiled sweetly at me as if we were dating for over a year and I glared at him. "
What do you want Dylan?" I spitted venomously at the blue eyed boy which by the way, who's eyes was no where as gorgeous as Travis's.
"What Kat? Miss me?"He chuckled to himself.
That son of a gun.
"Dylan. Get out. I don't like you anymore. Get over it. Now the door is waiting for you. Don't let hit you, where Mother Nature split you." I smiled cheekily at him.
Dylan glared and growled at me, completely himself now. He cupped my face harder and grimaced at the pain. He dug his sharp talon like nails and pulled me closer to him, all I see is black.
"Let. G-go. O-of-f. Me." I struggled from his grasp, trying to remove his hands from my face and glowered over him. But he didn't flinch one bit.
"How dare you say that Kat. I know you want me." He said manically as he flashed me a wink. In disgust, I tried to wiggle out of his touch some more, but the more I do that. The more tighter his grasp on me.
Kind of reminds me of a plant.
Just as Dylan was clutching me in his, Travis swooped in and decked him. As Dylan flew to the floor, I gasped.
Newbie held the door towards Dylan, and was glaring furiously at him. His once mischievous face was now merged into something horrid.
"Get the hell out. You do not do that to ladies." Travis growled at the now trembling Dylan. The moment Dylan left Subway; Travis came to me and embraces me in a hug. He patted my shoulder and massaged my back. He released me and gave me comforting smile, which twitched into a pleasant smile the moment he took notice of my flushed expression. He started speaking soothing words to me and I smiled.
Now that I think of it, I can't stand Travis. He's a jerk and just drives me insane, but there are times where he can be genuine and a true friend. He is a narcissist and ego maniac who can't make a proper sandwich or can't take a greeting seriously. But he has your back, you know?
Oh great, I'm getting all mushy.
"Thank you." I said softly at him as he let go of me.
He smiled and chuckled at me when I said "The only thank you from me you will ever get. So feel special I actually said it to you, Newbie."
I don't know. But I bet you this much. Newbie will be the death of me with his comments, but somehow some way, I know he will always save me.
Now matter how annoying or sarcastic or weird and idiotic or stupid or just plain strange-and the list goes on- newbie is. He will just be, well..we would be enemies…but really close friends at the same time. He will just be….
Newbie.
So sorry if you didn't enjoy it. I liked the beginning of it, the ending sorta went downhill from there. Haha…the "Moo" thing was between my friends and I. Started saying "Dude" on the bus, people told me to shut up and then moo popped in xD. Hoped you like it, love Tratie so I? hope you do as well xD. Any questions 'bout this..don't hesitate to give me a PM audience ;)
Can you believe I wrote a story with the theme Subway…yet I never order at Subway. Please forgive me xD
Any Maximum Ride fans catch the name Dylan who took after his namesake…he's just that evil in my eyes. I'm sorry for any Dylan lovers but…..FANG, IGGY AND GAZZY ALL THE WAY! :DD
Anyways, this Ninja is out!
~Lightning-AND'Death (published as of December 11, 2012.) ZOMGSSSS! Tomorrow, we're all dead. Don't worry. Zombies will also come tomorrow, but this girl is a certified zombie hunter –my bracelet told me so…thank gosh for hot topic- Any zombie Hunters out there? XD