I just want you all to know that I'm having a love affair with Lilah Espinoza.
wtf, why does MS Word think "Espinoza" is a word but not "Lilah"?
Also, sorry I got the Green Lantern oath wrong in the chapter before. That was supposed to be "Let those who worship evil's might beware my power… Green Lantern's light!" not whatever I had.
Oh, and here's a chapter. It came to me while watching Hetalia.
Remy woke to a start with a shattering pain in his ankle. "Motherfucking-!" he cursed loudly, gripping his injured foot.
The veil of sleep was ripped from Z's face as she heard him swear. "God, Remy. It's the middle of the night." She sat up, blinking and trying to make something of the darkness in the barracks.
"You broke my ankle!" Remy shouted, wincing from the throbbing hurt. "You kicked me and you broke my ankle!"
"Really?" Z couldn't help but feel a little proud of herself. "I told you I kick hard." She sniffed.
Remy stumbled out of bed, shakily gripping the top bunk for support. "I need to- get to the nurse!" he managed, breathing heavily as he tried to cope.
"Haven't you ever broken a bone in Battle School?" Z was shocked that he was so sensitive about just a fracture. "I had my left arm broken twice."
"Seriously, Z! I'm not kidding around! I need help!" Remy wore a desperate expression, though Z couldn't see it. "I'm asking you; please walk me to the nurse?"
Z sighed. "Fine, Remy. But this doesn't mean anything." She climbed out of bed, zipped up the front of her uniform to keep out the cold of the night. "Here, lean on me for support." Remy did so, snaking an arm around her waist, which Z didn't take well to. She didn't say anything, though. Better just to get all of this over with.
Z led him to the infirmary, where Nurse Philia was sleeping at her desk. Z flicked the lights on and off to wake her up, which she did so with a start.
"Oh, hello!" she straightened immediately. "What seems to be the problem?" she peered at Remy. From her position, she couldn't see his mangled ankle. He was just gripping onto Z, white-knuckled from holding on so hard.
"Remy broke his ankle." Z informed her lazily.
"Oh dear…" Nurse Philia leaned over her desk to take a look. Indeed, Remy's ankle looked pretty broken. "Let's see how we can patch that up." She ushered the students to one of the beds in the office, and instructed them to sit at the foot. After working steadily for an hour, the nurse had put together a cast that held Remy's ankle where it was supposed to be while it healed, and handed him a pair of crutches. "It might take a moment to get used to—"
"Bonk." Remy quickly found use in the crutches, whacking Z in the stomach with them.
"It might take a moment to get used to moving in them." Nurse Philia repeated herself without a change in expression.
"Thanks, Nurse P." Remy gave a parting wave, hobbling off on the crutches back to the Shark barracks… or, Shark and Coyote now, anyway. "Hey- hey Z, wanna race?" he grinned stupidly.
"I just gave you a broken ankle subconsciously." Z pointed out. "You should know by now that I'm not a force to be reckoned with."
"Oh, but I don't. I think I recall one friendly competition that you… what was it? You lost at it? Oh, that's right! And I won!" Remy laughed, continuing on his way. "Oh, and you can't hit a crippled kid. Only give them sympathy."
"I didn't realize you still consider yourself a kid." Z shrugged. "You're 17… bound to turn 18 at some point less than a year from now."
"Two months and nine days." Remy elaborated. "Yeah, I'll be out of this school. And then what?" he paused for a moment to think about the future. "They gonna send me out to war with the Formics? It seems too much of a jump. I don't want to go to war."
"Nobody says you have to. I mean, we learn plenty besides how to fight, though it's primarily what they want us to do." Z returned. "Who knows? Maybe the Formics'll just blow up out of nowhere and it'll be done." As they reached the door to the barracks, Z held it open for Remy. "I mean, if Facebook can make a comeback around here, anything can happen." A/N Why yes, Jujyfruitlienne, I did reference your fic. Why yes, Lilahboo, I am coming up with stupid nicknames.
"Eh, guess so." Remy dropped his voice to a whisper so as not to disturb the lucky students that had managed to stay asleep. "You really never do know what's going to happen around here." With that, he settled into bed, a hesitant Z behind him. "It's so nice you can be not hostile to me." He smiled, turning to face her.
Z turned in the other direction. "Shut up, it's only because you're injured. Good night, Mr. Thompson." A/N Um. I just made a Neopets reference. Lol, I'm so lame.
LA LA LA BREAKY BREAKY HEART I MEAN THIS IS A BREAK SORT OF
That morning, Alex tried to rise from bed, but felt an arm around his neck, restraining him. It certainly didn't belong to Jimmy, the Coyote commander who he was supposed to be paired with… He strained his eyes to look to his side, and found that Tiana must have wedged herself between the two, and pushed Jimmy off the bed. He spotted him sprawled on the floor.
"Tiana." Alex prodded her gently, and removed her arm from around him.
"HmmMmm?" Tiana blinked slowly, delicately stretching out.
"Tiana, I know that this whole sharing beds thing is a burden on you, but…" Alex trailed off to yawn. "It's a burden on all of us, and we just have to share the weight."
"I'm hungry." Tiana clung to his arm and yawned as well.
"You know when breakfast is." Alex said, businesslike and unresponsive to her charms.
"What's wrong?" she asked, moving to prop herself up on his chest. She acted mesmerized with his morning hair, playing with the yellow-blonde locks.
"You know what would happen if I allowed myself one luxury? Everyone else would expect to have it. I don't want to be that commander. Nobody likes him. He takes everything for himself. His army is loyal for no reason. They don't care for him. They'd leave him for the winning side in a heartbeat. It's not even just that… it's so much more. Do you understand where I'm coming from?" Alex sighed, pushing her hand away.
Tiana gave a solemn nod. "I guess so…"
"Great." Alex gave his signature smile. "Now why don't you get dressed and wake up the others."
Tiana pulled herself away. "They're all up. Lilah and Julienne are making everyone do sun salutations, I think. I didn't want to get up early, so I left in the middle of the night to sleep in here."
"So you got up early to avoid being woken up early?" Alex grinned.
Tiana toyed with her pigtails. "Maaaaybe…" She stood up, and offered a hand to help Alex out of bed. He took it and stood beside her.
"All right, let's wake up poor Jimmy and tell the army to get ready."
BREAK BREAK BREAK IT DOWN NOW Y'ALL
"Riiiise and shine, hot stuff!" Lilah blared a blowhorn in Remy's face.
"Aaah!" Remy bolted upright, his hair stuck up in all directions. There were faint dark spots under his eyes because he hadn't slept all that well through the night.
Z wouldn't be the first to admit it, but she mirrored him nearly perfectly in that moment. She'd jumped up at the exact same moment, her breathing rate matched his, her hair, though darker and much longer, was a mess in the same way, and her tired eyes were darkened at the rims just as much.
"It's time for sun salutations!" Julienne exclaimed. Lilah, by her side, was just as enthusiastic.
"No thanks." Z pulled the covers back over her head.
"Seconded." Remy tried to worm under beside her, receiving threats from Z that she'd break his other ankle and his nose if he liked.
"Looks like we'll need to bring in the cavalry," Julienne gave a little sigh.
"Roy!" Lilah called across the room. A redheaded Coyote boy responded, coming over to pick up Remy and Z in their bundle of blankets.
"This is really cozy." Remy commented, finding himself nose-to-nose with Z.
Roy released the package, spilling its contents on the floor of the barracks. Lilah realized that she just made Roy throw an injured Remy on the ground, and quickly rushed to his aid. Or so it seemed.
"Oh my Green Arrow!" Lilah squealed. "Can I sign your cast? I want to be first!" Immediately, she produced a sharpie and signed, taking as much space up as she could, 'LILAH ESPINOZA'. She passed it off to Julienne, who wrote a modest 'Julienne P.' inside the 'O' of 'Espinoza'. It didn't take long for everyone in the barracks to descend on Remy's ankle and weasel in their signature somewhere on his cast. Even Z had scrawled in an 'I hope you die –Z' on the back of his heel.
Once they were done with that, Lilah and Julienne waltzed to the front of the room to take up the lead of sun salutations. "Everyone ready? Prayer pose." Julienne stood straight and pulled her hands in to her chest. "Deep breath… mountain pose… take a deep breath, and we'll move into downward facing dog…" A/N I'm getting flashbacks of days at Memere's house doing the yoga poses from Wii fit in the front yard…
Alex slowly opened the door on the sun salutations when they were about 15 minutes in. It was easy to tell the Coyotes from the Sharks, aside from the fact that they were in different colored uniforms. The Coyotes were highly enthusiastic about the yoga, and pulled into the poses without trouble. The inflexible Shark boys strained to partially get in. He gently closed the door again, and left with Tiana trailing him. "It won't hurt them." He reasoned.
LOL these are just getting worse and worse.
Seriously, if you have any suggestions, I need them so badly. You're lucky my Command School muse came out today.