Characters;
Matthew 'Canada' Williams
Jett 'Australia' Kirkland
Pairings; none
Summary; Duckies!
Matthew sits quietly by Jett, both brothers munching on ice-cream like it's going out of fashion, the television being mostly ignored, as neither nation is overly interested in the news. If anything terrible happens in their respective country, they'll know about it, and if anything important happens in someone else's country they'll find out about in the next meeting. Keeping up to date on the news has become rather redundant to them.
Until the headline "Duck family crosses road" appears in the bottom third. Jett squeals in gigil as the camera zooms in on a bird's eye view of a small badling of ducks waddling their merry way across a road.
"Really, Jett?" Matthew giggles, "I know you love animals, but seriously, your country having news stories on ducks is a little too far. I mean, this is seriously national news to you?"
"This isn't national," Jett says, pointing to the screen, "This is international. This isn't even happening in Australia; it's happening in Canada."
Sure enough, just above the headline in a little red box reads the location; "Toronto, Canada".
Matthew openly laughs, "This is ridiculous! They're just ducks!"
"How could you!" Jett howls, "This is a big deal, Mattie! Do you know how often wittle animals like duckies try to cross the road but get run over by some meataxe bogan in a truck! Do you?"
"It's hardly international news though, is it?"
"You Americans and your damn bad news all the time!"
Matthew glares, growling something about not being American as Jett just stares back cooly, ice-cream bowl balanced in his hand as he sucks the thick melting gloop off his spoon. And then, without warning, Matthew's hand flies up, smacking Jett's bowl of ice-cream straight into the Aussie's face.
The cold attacks the hot nation's face mercilessly, and Jett jumps up shrieking an apparently typical Australian exclamation of mild surprise; "Fuck a duck!"
Matthew's jaw drops and eyes snap open, the Canuck thoroughly shocked. "I-is that why you want to save the ducks?"
"What? No! It's just a saying-"
"Jett Australia Kirkland, you disgust me!" Matthew backs away from his sibling, taking his ice-cream with him, "I'm leaving! And I am going to save those ducks. I'm keeping all the ducks away from you, you dirty bastard!"
"No! I like ducks, they're all cute and fluffy!" Jett whines, "Everything in my country is trying to kill me! Except the koalas, but they're high on eucalyptus all the time!"
"Stay away from the ducks," Matthew growls.
And both the writer and the readers are left thinking; "What the duck happened here?"
Sorry about the madness. I don't really know what happened here either.
Sorry about the wait too. Been having a few software problems.
If you're bored and want a laugh, I recommend visiting and looking up your country/area/language. It's ridiculous, and where I discoved the phrase "Fuck a duck!"
Quick note; exams are coming up. Would you rather I put TACA on hold to give you guys more revising time, carried on as normal or updated more regularly as 'revision breaks' (note the sarcasm; I'm a procrastinating piece of shit too)
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-Laurel Silver
