Only a few shots were landed before the girls were pulled off each other. A Fan-boy named Liam had Lilly around her waist, while the remainder of the fangirls latched on to Debbie's arms. To the amazement of the group Liam picked Lilly up and carried her acorss the tiny clearing.

" Put! Me! Down!" She gasped while trying to hurt Liam into releasing her.

" Not until you calm do- OW!" he yelped. She had a grip on his ear and gave a little tug. " I am not your enemy girl!"

With that Lilly let go of his captive ear, and went limp in his arms. He let her down as gently as one would a sack of potatoes. She looked over Liam's shoulder at her real enemy and figuritivly shot fire out of her eyeballs. You never know what could really happen in these alternate universes can you? The group of Debbie-allied charlatans started to make their way back to camp, their crazy leader among them. Lilly knew that within 2 minutes the story would be out. With Debbie the winner.

" I'm not about to let that happen!" she said aloud. Before she could move Liam grabbed her arm.

" I know exactly what you're thinking, and let me just say 'nuh-uh' and 'who cares'?" Lilly could only grunt her assent. He was right, even if he didn't let her beat that chick into a bloody pulp which would have looked better on her than her freaking sneer which only looked like the hog she was portraying me to be, how funny it that she knew just the perfect pitch to call pigs, I could have sworn I saw a whole pack of them stampedeing over to her and..... crap, I got off track. Okay so the boy had a point, what of it?

" Grr.." she muttered.

" See? You're still riled up about some stupid box blonde my-top-is-too-tight-for-my-boobs-OOPS! bimbo who probably couldn't write a good date on Fanfiction. And I'm not even talking about days, months, or years, honey. Hell, she probably wrote herself to look like that before she came here because at home she's just an idiot who got beaten with the U-G-L-Y stick everyday." Liam thwacked the air, and Lilly cracked a smile. How could she not?

"Twice a day." Lilly giggled, " No, every two hours!" After a few moments both were shouting with laughter. Liam pushed away tears that came rolling down his face. Lilly wheezed until she could easily breathe again. They took one look at eachother and started laughing agian. Thus the cycle went on for another half-hour before the two giggling idiots finally decided to stop laughing and get back to camp.

" You crack me up, man" Lilly said as she lightly punched Liam on the shoulder.

" I know." there was a silence between them before Liam said the inevitable." We should go back to camp before they leave without us."

" Nah, they won't leave, not when so little of the hoarde is here, and on such a beautiful day." Lilly looked up at the sky through the trees. It's a deeper blue than the sky at home, she reflected. " Actually," she said suddenly, " I don't really want to go back to camp just yet. I kind of want to enjoy the day WITHOUT any kind of elf, hobbit, wizard, or ranger near me!"

Liam took in a shocked gasp, his mouth gaping wide, as though she had just uttered the most heinous words in the world. Then his face melted back into place before he replied, " I understand."

Lilly laughed. She couldn't help it. This kid was awesome! Funny, smart, sarcastic, cynical, and strong. It was just too bad about the gay thing.

" There's this lake we passed as we jetted over here to admire our hapless heroes." he continued." It's not too far. You could go there and clean off all the dirt that seems to be making a colony on your face at the moment." Lilly's hand flew to her face. Liam laughed. " Seriously though, you could do for a bath."

" Gee, thanks Mr. Sensitive." she fake frowned, he smirked. " fine, sounds lovely actually. Wanna join in for some hot, steamy, wet action?"

" You mean I get to hold your clothes and cool my heels out of the frigid water while you make an ass of youself skinny dipping infront of a gay man? Really? Well then, by all means." He smiled gallantly.

" Actually if you say it like that, I'll pass. And I'm the one going to skinny dip!" His reation was to look all sad puppy-like, damn him.

" Fine, how about this Liam, I'll set you on a mission." she said and his proverbial ears perked right up at that. " Go and try to find any and all dirt on Little Miss Piggy, who she talks to, where she sleeps, who she sleeps with, that kind of thing. Okay?"

" Now you're talking my language, Mama!"

" Cool! See ya later then!" She said before turning away.

"Bye babes!" He responded and turned toward camp.

Now if I were a lake......