Just a Little Push

Part 35

Gillian loved mud.

It was so squishy and fun and dirty. When she was little, she'd always get super excited whenever there was a rainstorm, because she knew that when it was all finished raining, she'd be able to run outside and play in the mud. She'd be able to stomp around in the puddles and paint her face with mud and search for slimy worms and smear mud or drop worms into Ludwig's hair if she managed to catch him...

Of course, when she did that, she'd usually get scolded by Mutti. But, it was usually worth it. Since Ludwig's squeals were always hilarious.

Pretty much anyone's reaction to getting shoved into mud was hilarious. Roderich had taken forever to get himself out of the mud, as he kept slipping everytime he'd tried to stand up. Lizzie had finally gone over to help him, sending Gill a look that warned her that she was going to pay for this when he was out...

Let Gill just say now that Eli was awesome.

As he'd come up behind his sister while she was leaning over to take Roderich's hand—and shoved her. Hard.

So she plopped into the mud. Right on top of Roderich.

Gill was pretty sure that she'd never laughed that loudly in her entire life.

Once Lizzie and Roderich had managed to make their way out of the mud pit—both of them looking like incredibly infuriated drowned rats—her team and Roddy's team had faced each other... Thankfully before either Roddy or Lizzie had a chance to kill her or Eli...

"Ew~! This is like totally gross! Toris~ Like look at my new sandals! They're like totally ruined!"

Did she really need to explain how that match had ended?

They had dominated, of course. Because they were awesome!

And partly due to the fact that both Roderich and Feliks had let go of the rope as soon as everyone had started to pull. Roderich, because he didn't want to ruin his hands for his piano... (Seriously, if he could have that thing's babies, he totally would. And he'd totally name Gill as their awesome godmother, of course).

And Feliks because... He was Feliks. And 'like, totally wasn't going to like ruin his like new manicure with like a totally groaty rope, bitch!' Paraphrase courtesy of the awesome Gill.

And their failure had ended up sending the entire other team into the mud with just a few tugs on the rope from Gill's team. Well, entire other team once she'd snuck up behind Feliks and Roderich and pushed them both in... Laughing hilariously at the squeals coming from Feliks.

Ah, this was so much fun.

And now, she was about to face off against her arch-rival!

Or she would be if it weren't for the fact that Antonio had disappeared at some point during this entire mess—although, now that Gill thought about it, she couldn't actually remember seeing Antonio here at any point—and now Ally's team was one person short...

"This was all your fault!" And Gill was slightly startled when Ally suddenly jumped in front of her, pointing toward her accusingly. "You used your evil mind control powers to make Antonio leave so we wouldn't have enough players! Cuz you're scared!"

And Gill immediately puffed up at that. The awesome Gill was never scared! Especially not of Ally! "Psh, who would be scared of you? My team could easily crush your team into dust!"

"Gill, Ally!" Ally had started to open her mouth to respond—with a comeback that would never be able to defeat any of the comebacks that Gill would be able to come up with—but was interrupted when Mattie suddenly stepped between them. Flashing each of them a very very angry glare. That made them both immediately freeze.

Before she yelled, "Quit arguing! Just get a replacement for Antonio and let's get this over with! Quit ruining this for everyone else!"

Mattie...yelled...

Gill just stared at her in shock for a few seconds. Holy shit. She'd never seen Mattie yell before...

She was standing in the middle of the crowd, hands on her hips as she flashed her glare between the two girls. Violet eyes sparking with something vaguely dangerous. That promised a world of hurt if they didn't straighten up immediately...

Sheiβe, she looked hot~

"Fine." She probably shouldn't think about things like that right now. She needed to focus all of her attention on the competition. She couldn't lose sight of the goal.

Namely, crushing Ally's team to dust...

"Okay." Ally pouted, but nodded her agreement. Before her eyes began glossing over the group surrounding them. "Someone else?" She tapped her index finger against her chin. "They'd need to be suitably heroic..."

And Gill noticed Ally's gaze land on him just a moment too late...

"Leon! You can be on my team!" She looked overly-excited by the prospect.

"No way!" No way was Ally going to steal one of her best friends to be on her unawesome team. "Leon's way too awesome to be on your team! He should be on my awesome team!"

"No! He should be on my heroic team!"

Gill glanced toward the rest of her team for back-up. Lizzie was flashing her a death glare, hand clenched around the handle of her frying pan—Gill had hoped that the crazy bitch would have left that back in the cabin, but apparently not. Ludwig was staring off into the distance, as if attempting to ignore the argument, while Feliciana looked confused and a little worried. Natalya just looked disinterested, Heracles was sleeping... And Arthur and Francis... Well, Francis was laughing hysterically for some reason. She didn't really see how this was that funny... While Arthur was just staring at Ally with this weird expression that Gill couldn't immediately identify.

Leon, on the other hand, was gaping at them. Looking completely shocked. And now he cleared his throat, attempting to gain their attention. "Um, I don't think that me playing would be the best ide—"

"Cops are heroes. They shouldn't play with evil villain albinos!"

"Leon's my friend. He should play on my team!"

"You already have enough players!"

"You can have Lizzie!"

And she was suddenly jerked out of the argument, which had ended with her and Ally almost standing nose-to-nose, as Mr. Roma stepped between them, pushing them apart. "Hey, hey..." He smiled brightly and clapped them both on the shoulder before nodding toward where Eli was standing, far away from his sister. "Why don't we let Eli play on your team, Ally? I'm sure that he'd be able to take over for Antonio..."

There was a moment of quiet. As Ally glanced toward the boy. Who grinned and waved back in response. And then...

"Fine."

Which earned a grin from Gill. Finally. "Awesome!" She ran around to where the very messy rope was resting against the ground and lifted it into her hands, flashing a toothy grin at Ally as she hurried to do the same, the rest of their teams falling into place behind them. "Let the best team win~"

"Don't worry. The heroes always win!"

A/N: Yay! Took me long enough to get to this chapter, I know. And when I do, it basically just involves them arguing. xD Ah well, it's Gilly and Ally... Who are adorable.

And poor Leon. He totally wasn't supposed to stay in the campsite this long, but he just keeps getting dragged into stuff that doesn't involve him...

So, I mentioned in the last chapter of R&R that I created a list of all the characters in the Pleasantville verse. If you'd like to read it, here's the link…

theauthoress13 . livejournal . com / 25227 . html

Minus the spaces.

Oh, and speaking of Leon… So, I'm on break now. This chapter technically should've been up like 2 days ago, butttttt…

I started playing Resident Evil again, since I don't get to play video games very often at school. And then I spent pretty much all of yesterday reading RE fanfics… Soooo… Yeah. Not much time for writing.

Oh, but after 2 months of not playing video games …I failed. Miserably at playing RE4 again. It made me rather sad. Then I attempted to play Kingdom Hearts… And failed. Even more miserably. *head desk* I blame the fact that Kingdom Hearts just confuses me 90% of the time. I'm better at games that basically come down to… "See those scary things over there that are trying to kill you? Shoot them. In the head. And during the few moments of downtime that you have, feel free to drool over the lovely virtual man with pretty hair that we have graced you with…"

*…Shot…

…Multiple times…

…By Leon…*

I am such a freak, but I love it. xD