So, I do know these are little diversions from the original text, but I might as well just point you to the original text if I wasn't going to put anything original in here! I hope you all like the additions!
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Gilbert looked in awe as Anne entered the train station. He'd never seen her in a skirt before, the denim came just below her mid-thigh hugging her tightly like a pair of jeans her t-shirt was an off-shoulder khaki top which was long enough that it cut off mid-thigh. Her boots were knee high and her hair was let loose down her back it waved down her back.
"Hey!" She smiled as she approached him with a wheelie bag trailing behind her and a smaller bag in the other hand.
He smiled at her approach and stood up from the bench he had been sitting on. The words wouldn't form in his mouth as he looked at her.
"Are you okay?" She asked him.
"Um…" he said and then shook his head, "Yea I'm fine, just…" he looked at her again. "I've never see you in a skirt before." He admitted "I mean I did at the winter dance but never in a casual... Aa-and that top…" he said confused.
"Oh." She blushed. "Well I figured I needed to look a little better then my old band and geeky shirts." She said.
He looked at her and smiled "it suits you." He told her. "I mean there's nothing wrong with what you normally wear but, if that's how you want to dress, but…" he said managing to take his eyes off her "It suits you better."
She smiled and then looked at him "Thanks." She blushed.
She pulled out some hair straighteners Gilbert looked at her confused "Don't you need electric for those things to work?" he asked her.
"Energy cells." She said to him reaching into her bag throwing him one.
Gilbert looked at it and "hum." He nodded. "You have enough of these for four weeks?" he asked her.
"I have money to buy enough for four weeks." She laughed. He frowned at it as if he wanted to say something but wouldn't "What?" she asked him.
"Just your hair." He shrugged. "I dunno, I guess I don't mind it like it is." He said looking at her.
"Really?" she asked him, "It's not just messy?" she asked him.
"no, it looks…" he blushed "natural." He said looking away.
Anne nodded and switched off the hair straighteners. "Well, since its just going to be you and me." She said quietly. "I don't really care…" she muttered.
A smile played at his lips as he reached over with the power cell for the hair straighteners handing it back to her, "Okay then."
There was a silence between them for a moment before Anne said "If I knew the train was going to be late I would have done it at home."
"If it was on time it wouldn't have waited for you." He pointed out.
"How is that even fair?" She said to him with a smile on her face "If I'm late I'm left behind if they are late I have to wait." She said her nose turning up, he smiled at her as they heard the train in the distance.
"It heard you." He joked.
"Shameless!" She exclaimed.
They boarded the train in silence, though not a deliberate one. "Oh cool!" He said looking at the tickets again, "we're in a compartment!" he exclaimed with a smile.
"Like in Harry Potter?" Anne smiled looking at the tickets.
"Cool!" The two friends said together as they boarded the train.
He looked to her and smiled "You like Harry Potter?" he asked her.
"Of course!" she exclaimed "Anyone with an imagination likes Harry Potter." She smiled at him "Ravenclaw." She said proudly.
Gilbert smiled at her "Pottermore?" he asked her.
"Yeah, you know it?" she asked him.
"Know it?!" he exclaimed, hit his chest proudly and proclaimed "Gryffindor!"
"You're on it?" she exclaimed as they found their compartment.
"Yeah." He agreed.
"I wanted to be in Gryffindor, so I'd be like Hermione." She said with a sigh "Smart and still in with the cool guys."
Gilbert laughed as they sat down next to each other even though they had the whole compartment alone together. "Really?" he questioned "I always saw you as a Ginny Weasley kind." He said with a shrug "Red hair, smart as hell, and is one powerful graceful women." He said with a tone of admiration.
"She was still in Gryffindor." Anne observed and he nodded, "Anyway I think people see me more as a Luna."
"That's not a bad thing." Gilbert admitted. "Luna is awesome!"
She smiled at him "So who does that make you Harry Potter?" she quipped.
Gilbert shrugged "I always saw myself much more as a Neville to be honest. Or at least I hoped I'd be brave enough to stand up like he did, I always think Tom underestimated his powers."
Anne laughed "You mean Voldemort." She corrected him.
"Fear of a name… besides he was a little boy spitting his dummy out, Dumbledore never called him it, why should I?" Gilbert said. He looked out as the train started to move. "And we're off." He said quietly.
"That we are." She said gazing out of the window.
He looked at her curious "what are you looking for?" he asked her as the train station was steadily becoming a dot in the distance and they entered the countryside.
"Fairies." She whispered not even noticing she had answered.
"Dim vales- and shadowy floods-
And cloudy-looking woods,
Whose forms we can't discover
For the tears that drip all over!
Huge moons there wax and wane-" he recited.
"Poe!" She exclaimed looking at him surprised.
"Always with the tone of surprise!" he said mocking insulted.
She chose to ignore him "Fairyland."
"Fairyland." He agreed.
"You know if you believe in fairies there's this hike right outside of Avonlea, no one really goes on it and it's a real shame, it's about five miles round trip, but in the middle there's this… garden, is the only way to describe it, I think someone used to live up there because there's a flat paved area with what would have been the base of the house, but the garden is beautiful and the views are just… well perfect in my opinion."
Anne looked at him amazed "You like hiking?" she said longingly. "I should have know I should have been friends with you all along, I tried to convince Diana to hike and she just moans until we come back, the furthest we got was a two mile round trip." She laughed.
"Well you're barely out of Avonlea!" Gilbert exclaimed.
"That's what I tell her!" Anne laughed. "Oh it'll be good to get out and stretch my legs with someone, can we go?" she asked him.
"The moment we get back." He agreed. "I'm curious Anne, on the surface you and Di, you don't seem to have much in common?" he asked her.
"I suppose that's true." She agreed.
"So, how come you're such good friends?" he asked her.
She thought for a moment before she answered and squared with him "I met her first, when I came to Avonlea, and I wanted to fit, I wanted kindred you know?" she asked him.
"Sure." He agreed. "I know that feeling."
"You've wanted to fit?" she asked him surprised.
He took a sigh and sat back "I kind of fell into the social group I'm in." he admitted. "I like playing football it just sort of happened." He continued. "I can't tell you how often I want to just reference something completely geeky and nerd like and I don't mean that as an insult, to be a geek or a nerd is to be so enthusiastic for something it just oozes out of you! And I want that Anne, I want people to see that I'm passionate and not just some mindless fiend for the popular crowd, I guess…" he paused for a moment before he said "I guess that's why I wanted you as my vice president. You…" he said then looked at her admirably "you already do."
She blushed looked away for a moment before she looked up "Diana is sweet and where she doesn't always get what I'm talking about she tries to be my friend." She sighed "she was the first person to ever try to be my friend, and you know we aren't completely without topics of discussion, she loves to read and have you heard her play the piano?" she asked him, to which he shook his head "Oh you need to Gil, its simply divine!" she exclaimed "I wish I could play like that. I barely have a musical bone in my body." She laughed.
He sighed contently "That sound nice." He admitted. "To have a friend like that."
"You know… we're friends like that don't you?" she asked him.
He smiled and looked at her amazed "really? You think of me like that already?" he asked.
"Of course, I do, a true kindred spirit." She admitted. "Don't…" she started "Don't you think of me like that?" she asked him wide eyed.
"I always did." He whispered, neither noticed their fingers intertwining with the other before they both realised their hands drew back and they both blushed away.
"Sorry." They both said in unison before they stopped and burst out laughing together.
"So if we're kindred spirits and your kindred spirits with Di, does that mean Di and I are kindreds too?" he asked her.
"That's up to you." She admitted.
Gilbert smiled at her. "I guess I'll be spending more time with her now we're friends." He admitted.
Anne shortly followed him "hey what do you think of Fred?" she asked him. "I mean he's your friend and you know him, is he good enough for her?" she asked him.
"Oh, Fred is a decent fellow. It'll depend on their own temperaments as to if it works out." He said logically.
"Oh, its scary!" Anne admitted.
"Scary?" he asked her amazed.
"Yes scary." She confirmed. "I just get used to something and poof it changes on me." She said her eyes going wide.
"Was it like that much?" he asked her. "growing up?"
"Yeah, and believe me, it wasn't always for the better." She said quietly.
"You think that's why you don't like change?" he asked her.
She looked at him seriously "You're taking me seriously?" she asked him.
"Of course, I am!" he exclaimed.
She chuckled with relief "You really are something else Gilbert Blythe."
Gilbert knocked on Anne's door six days later. The last five days had been fun, full of seminars where they worked in groups on team building games, strategy planning, they worked together and apart but had spent their lunches and evening dinner in the same group.
Anne opened the door to Gilbert standing awaiting he looked at her confused for a moment as she was dressed in her shorts hair tied back with a cap on and backpack.
"Anne," he smiled "You look like your going on a hike not a tour bus of the city?" he questioned her.
"Oh I um…" she trailed.
"And you were going to abandon me?!" he playfully accused her.
"No, no I just didn't think you'd be interested in playing hooky!" she exclaimed.
"I hate tour buses!" he told her "they're too cramped and you don't get to see the real city, you know?!"
"No, I know that's why I don't like it." She agreed.
"Can I come with you?" he asked her.
"I normally do it alone, but sure, okay." She agreed.
"Oh, I don't have to." He told her trying to curb his enthusiasm.
"No, no!" Anne exclaimed then with a smile said "It would be nice to have some company"
It was twelve hours later they came in back through Anne's door.
"That was awesome!" he exclaimed dropping his bag on her floor and lying on it. "I haven't stretched my legs like that for a long time!" he exclaimed. "Anne that was sooo much better than just taking a tour bus."
"And when we had to hide behind the statue just to avoid the group I must admit its much more fun with someone to ramble with." She said laying on her bed.
"Anne?" he said.
"Yeah?" she asked him.
"We missed the evening meal." He told her.
"I know." She admitted.
"Want to order in pizza?" he asked her.
"Yes!" she cried. "Thank you! Spilt the cost?"
"Sure." He laughed "Oh my phone is dead remember; my charger is in my room." He said.
"Use mine." She told him flopping her hand in the general direction of the charger.
He obediently did so. "Thanks." He brought up just eat and shrugged "Pepperoni?" he asked her.
"Oh my favourite!" she said, suddenly jumping up a little. "Wanna watch something with me?" she asked him, "Since you're going to be here a while."
"Sure, what do you have in mind?" he asked her.
"Lets see whats on Netflix."
"Pizza and Netflix?" Gilbert said with a shrug sitting up his back against the bed "You are one classy lady Anne Shirley."