Another day was making its way upon the horizon.
As the sun rose upon the sleepy town of Sodor, its sweet warm rays of light sprinkled onto the lands below, light casting into citizens' windows and welcoming a new day.
And while some would enjoy the early pleasant hours of this fine morning. Down on Sir Topham Hatt's railway. It was disturbed, by an unpleasant shout.
"GORDON!"
Percy huffed as he looked at his engine, big words painted in blue across his entire boiler and cab door. He was most unhappy with what he woke up to.
"Gordon! You stupid bossyboiler!" Percy shouted again
"What are you angry at Gordon for?" James asked tiredly, rubbing his eye as he carried his jacket in his arm
Percy gestured to his engine as the others were just coming out. And they all just laughed.
"I Need A Teabag". Was written in bright blue paint for all to see.
That bossyboiler" Percy growled
"Who is?" Gordon asked, walking out already dressed for the day
"Oh don't you act all innocent, you express jerk. Look!" Percy said, clearly mad "look at that!"
"Sheesh Percy, keep your lovemaking in the bedroom" Gordon said, walking over to his engine while James just snorted in laughter
"YOU DID IT!" Percy defended
"How would you even know it was me?" Gordon asked, his inner laughter coming to the surface
"Umm, hello. It's you! It's blue, and you have paint on your hands!" Percy said, showing the evidence to Gordon
"Oh yeah, where did that come from?" Gordon said, acting innocent
"Oh give over Gordon! I caught you blue handed!" Percy said
"Really love?" Henry asked, a little unamused yet trying to hide his laughter at the childishness of his lover
Gordon simply just shrugged before giggling
"What are you laughing at Gordon?" Sir Topham asked with a smile as he came over to give everyone their jobs
"Sir. look what he's done!" Percy whined, showing Topham what he woke up to
"It's kids paint Percy, wash it off" Gordon snickered, climbing into his engine
"The washdown isn't operating right now!" Percy said "and the nearest one that would be open in the morning is in bloody VickersTown!"
"It means a teabag for tea Percy" Gordon said, smirking as he closed his cab doors so he was safe in his engine
"It can go both ways Gordon!" Percy said
"and you know the dirty meaning how?" Edward asked
"doesn't matter" Percy defended "The number of looks I'm going to get from passengers because of you Gordon"
"Oh well, not my problem" Gordon shrugged before laughing
"Oh you wait Gresley" Percy warned "you fucking wait"
Gordon simply smirked as he leaned an arm on his engine cab door and looked down at Percy
"Try me Stoheart- oh shit" Gordon cursed in fear as his engine puffed forward as the break had come off
He quickly put the break on while his friends were laughing, and chuckled in embarrassment "the firebox warmed up faster than I wanted"
"Well, either way Gordon. You aren't going anywhere till you clean Percy's engine of paint" Sir commanded "Henry will cover your express till you get back"
"Not unless I get there first!" Gordon said proudly as he turned onto the turntable and turned on the correct tracks before puffing down the line.
"Gordon!" Sir shouted "Gordon Gresley you get back here this instant!"
"Leave it sir. I'll talk with him later" Henry assured
"Thank you Henry. I don't know what's gotten into him" Sir said with a huff "Percy. Head down to the Steamworks and get yourself cleaned up, then head to the orchards"
"Yes sir" Percy nodded
-Down at Knapford-
Gordon was sitting happily at the station, waiting for the passengers to board. he looked up at the clock and counted how long it would be before he needed to leave, a habit he did all the time with the express.
he then heard an engine puff up beside him, he looked over and saw Henry apply his brakes before looking at him, and he looked tired.
"tired Henry?" he asked
"that flying kipper keeps getting bigger and bigger recently" Henry sighed tiredly "anyway, enough about that, what was up this morning with Percy?"
"payback" Gordon simply stated, looking quite proud of himself
"for what?" Henry asked confused
"Remember last week when I was at the washdown with you and he splashed me with watered-down brown paint?" Gordon said
"yes- Oh! now I get it" Henry said, giggling as he realized "well-played sausage"
"well, it was that or I poured paint on him too, but kids' paint only comes in small tubes so... I wrote that" Gordon chuckled
"he's going to get you back love" Henry chuckled
"But you'll protect me I'm sure" Gordon smiled, using his classic begging eyes on Henry
"no point using the begging eyes sausage. because I'll protect you as much as I can, but that engine is a sneaky boiler" Henry said
"very true" Gordon agreed
then the stationmaster blew his whistle, making Gordon jump slightly but he whistled back and began to puff out the station.
"See you later on HoneyBear!" Gordon called and he whistled again down the track "Express Coming Through!"
"Honeybear?" Arry snickered as he and Bert oiled into the station with a train of metal
"you two wouldn't get it" Henry denied, tooting his whistle and puffing out the station to his first job
-that evening-
"colours...whites.. colours.." Henry mumbled to himself as he sorted his and Gordon's laundry in the correct groups before washing them.
once he'd done that, he went to grab the coloured pile and place them in the bottom of the basket when he saw Gordon's shirt on the end of the bed.
he rolled his eyes as he grabbed it and went to the bathroom as Gordon had forgotten it again. but just as he was about to knock on the door, he heard an unmanly scream come from their bathroom.
"WHAT THE FUCK!? AAAH FUCK!"
Henry instantly opened the bathroom door and bolted in, and couldn't help but laugh at what he saw.
an empty glass was present in the open bathroom window, and giggles were present
from outside as they heard Gordon freak out in the shower below.
"not funny Henry!" Gordon exclaimed
"That wasn't me!" Henry exclaimed while still laughing
"Now we're even sausage" Percy smirked, his face peeking in at the window now
"OoOoh, you're so dead Percy" Gordon growled dangerously
"bring it bossyboiler" Percy smirked
only to then splutter as Gordon took the showerhead and pointed it at Percy, spraying him with water till he moved away from the window
"no one wants a peeping tom Percy!" Gordon said as he put the showerhead back
"How did you even get up there?!" Henry asked in surprise
"a prankster engine never tells their secrets" Percy smirked, poking his head in the window again
"GET OUT!" Gordon demanded again as he sprayed Percy with water again until he left
Henry rolled his eyes and started taking the ice cubes out of the shower so Gordon didn't step on them, giggling as he realized why Gordon had yelled out the way he did.
"it's just ice and water love" Henry teased
"shut up bitch" Gordon grumbled
you would think it ended there, but the pranks ended up lasting for a few weeks.
and this morning was no exception because the night prior Percy pranked Gordon with a fake spider for putting salt in his drink. so Gordon was getting his final revenge.
he quietly snuck into his and Thomas' house with his spear key and quietly crept upstairs to their bedroom. Their room was so kiddy like but had a touch of adultery too, Gordon will never admit it, but he praised Thomas and Percy managing to put a nice balance of child and adult in their room.
Once making sure Percy was in the bed, confirmed by the fact he was cocooned in his side of the bed, he brought his weapon close to the sleeping couple. He sounded the airhorn loud in an instant, causing Percy to jolt awake and Thomas to fall out of the bed in shock. Gordon fell to the floor laughing while Percy sat up and breathed heavily as his heart was racing from shock, meanwhile Thomas managed to get off the floor and leaned on the bed.
"Really!?" he exclaimed angrily "it's Saturday!"
"that's for the spider!" Gordon said, falling into a fit of laughter again
"what the freak!?" Percy shrieked
"you started this" Gordon smirked, walking out like nothing happened
"well fuck you!" Percy scolded
"perc, You and Gordon have to stop" Thomas mumbled tiredly, climbing back into bed and snuggling into the blanket again
"I have to get him back" Percy defended
"Yeah, but make it so you'll both stop. It's affecting everyone, James is wearing makeup to work every day because he's not sleeping, Edward's drinking a lot more coffee, and Henry.. well... he's sleeping during the day" Thomas pointed out
"Emily's fine" Percy said
"probably because she's wearing earplugs at night until this prank war is over... babe please, one more prank and then finish it. I'll even help you" Thomas said
"alright" Percy said
he sighed as he laid down next to Thomas and rested his head on his chest, smiling as Thomas wrapped his arms around him. but then the two jumped up in fear as the airhorn sounded again.
"GORDON!" they both shouted
"That wasn't me!" Gordon shouted from downstairs before closing the door
Then they heard a door slam from outside and the sound of that airhorn going off in short flares every now and again. Thomas got up and went downstairs to look out the window and chuckled as he saw Gordon being chased by a clearly tired James.
"Give me that fucking thing!" James demanded angrily, obviously, he'd been trying to sleep this whole time.
-a few days later-
"ready?" Thomas smirked
"go for it" Percy giggled as he puffed towards the coal hoppers
Gordon was already there refilling his tender, he looked lost in thought about something. Percy smirked as he signalled for Thomas to move in, Thomas did just that and silently coupled himself to the back of Gordon.
they both smirked at each other as Percy moved back slightly so he was out of the way and watched Thomas gather enough strength before charging backwards and pulling Gordon under the falling coal
"hey! what the-?!" Gordon exclaimed before spluttering and coughing from the coal dust falling on top of him
"haha! take that you big showoff- OOF!" Percy said before he felt himself get biffed from behind
the force was so strong, that Percy didn't have a chance to apply his breaks and he found himself under the coal hopper and was soon spluttering and coughing like a madman as coal also poured down on him.
once the coal stop pouring, the two engines took a moment to stop coughing from the smoke before looking at each other
"The coal hoppers? REALLY!?" they said at the same time
"looks like you both had the same idea" Henry said casually
"that was you Henry?!" Percy exclaimed
"yeah, he was helping me get you back" Gordon explained
"and I was helping Percy" Thomas admitted
"that was you that pulled me?! how did you-?" Gordon questioned in amazement
"don't ask, even I don't know" Thomas admitted
"Since we got each other.. truce?" Percy asked with an innocent smile
"agreed" Gordon chuckled before couching from the leftover coaldust "ack, my smokebox is clogged"
"same here" Percy admitted
Henry and Thomas chuckled before they puffed backwards to change tracks, they then puffed beside their boyfriends and then changed onto the tracks they were on and coupled up to them.
"let's get you silly boilers to the Steamworks before Sir Topham finds out" Thomas said
"Remember last time Gordon?" Henry smirked
Gordon just blushed out of embarrassment, causing Thomas and Percy to laugh
"come on, let's go" Thomas said, tooting his whistle and puffing away with Percy in tow
Henry whistled back and followed Thomas out the yard as he pulled Gordon behind him towards the Steamworks.
safe to say no further pranks happened that day, and Percy agreed to settle on a tie...
though he was already plotting his next revenge for later down the line when Gordon forgets.
for those who are new here, welcome to my stories :D
for those who have met me before, you'll recognise that this book is from my Wattpad.
I'm going through a bit of a tough time with personal stuff at the moment so I've decided to try and write elsewhere instead of always in the same place. so most, if not all, of my Wattpad books are going to be brought over here too.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, stay safe and I'll try and update soon
peace out for now! :D