A/N: Chapter 7 is here everyone! And thank you for the support and followers! 50+ followers! Whoot! I named this chapter off a good tv show I used to watch. Remember when Disney was awesome back in the day with 'bug juice'? I've been to camp for like a day or two because of girl scouts when I was younger but the camp life reminded me of 'bug juice'. Lots of good memories from that show. Enjoy! Please Please share this wonderful story around with your friends! (:
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I do not own 'It Takes Two'
OCs I do own
Alice ran back towards the field finding Arthur crossing his arms. She figured he was upset with her just leaving the game without a word. The little girl sighed as she slowly made her way to her team's side to talk with her coach. "Amelie, why did you run off from the game?" Arthur looked down at the girl curious as to why she would leave from her favorite game. Sure, maybe it was the nerves that got to her, making her go the wrong way to score the goal; but that wasn't to be something to be ashamed of. People make mistakes all the time. Arthur just wanted her know. "It was all for fun. Sure you got nervous for going the wrong way but that doesn't mean everyone will be mad at you. It was just a mistake, it happens." Alice blushed and looked at the kids on her team running along with team in red. "Sorry Arthur, I gots a reputation to protect remember? Everyone was probably laughing at me from messing up," The girl sighed letting her shoulders droop in the process. Arthur just smiled back patting the girl's head lightly, "You didn't mess up. You are still my star, remember?" Alice smiled back blushing from the contact. The man was actually a nice person, he reminded her someone. His smile. His eyes. There was something that intrigued the little girl to he reminded her of; but unfortunately, she lost the train of thought when Gilbert blew the whistle to end the game, "All right! Way to go Team Awesome! 2-1! Whoot!" The white haired coached jumped with glee along with his red shirt group. The blue shirts slowly walked over towards their coach and their 'once missing' teammate showing sad smiles. They really wanted to win, but sometimes they have to lose. It was natural. "There you are Am!" Bella gave her teammate a hug as a 'welcome back'. Alice acted in response and hugged the girl back, "T-thanks."
"Yeah Amelie thanks for making us lose!" Dimitre rolled his eyes and crossed his arms in a furious manner that they lost. He was always a sore loser hating the feeling of not receiving a win. "Dimitre!" Arthur stared at the little boy in a stern matter, "That is no way to treat members on your team! Now apologize!" Dimitire sighed not giving eye contact mumbling a 'sorry'. Alice just shrugged it off; it was the best she was ever going to get. "All right let's get something to eat. Bet you all are hungry after playing."
"Yeah!" Everyone took off their jerseys and placed them in the bin their coach provided for the laundry. Once the laundry was collected all the kids were free to go to the mess hall for dinner. "Go ahead poppet," Arthur patted Alice's shoulder to walk with the group, "I'll join you once I drop the jerseys off, okay?" Alice looked at the group of kids and Gilbert walking over towards the big building which she now assumed was where they will be having their meals. "O-okay," Alice smiled and ran towards the group to join. Arthur smiled watching the little girl go as he was carrying the bag of dirty laundry towards a different building.
Alice and her group went through the big doors to see many children running up to long benches of tables eager to have some dinner. Many of them squirmed in their seats waiting what may be on the menu tonight. "Am! Let's sit here!" Bella took one of Alice's hands towards a table that many of her teammates from the 'football' match were sitting. On another table right across from them were Gilbert and his team pounding fists on the tables, wanting their food to come sooner. It was tradition in the camp that groups of the kids were assigned kitchen duty for serving the dinner and cleaning the dishes. As the kids from Elizabeta's group was serving out the trays of food, all the kids cheered out eager to see what was to eat. It smelled very good. Alice's stomach was making flips, craving that delicious smell. Each kid went up to the table passing out a covered tray so everyone could dig in. "Where's Arthur?" Alice looked around looking for the Brit to come join her. Searching through the swarm of children Alice spotted a man with the eyebrows. Those eyebrows were a perfect target for locating the Brit. Alice stood up on her bench waving her arms to get Arthur's attention to where she was. With a couple of shouts and spotting the waves, the Brit found her smiling as he was making his way towards the table. "There you are!" Alice smiled while she was getting herself comfortable in her seat. "I make my promises remember?" Arthur smiled back sitting in his place next to Alice. "Igs pass it down!" Dimitre was banging his fork and knife wanting to finally eat. "What is the magic word?" Arthur smirked back letting the boy suffer for tease. "Fine! Pleaseeeeeee!" Dimitire whined and so were the other boys that were sitting in his row. "Okay. Okay," Arthur opened the tray finding one of them filled with hamburger buns and the other tray filled with some red meaty sauce that made Alice go white. She had never eaten anything like that before. It looked very strange even sitting in this big room made the girl a little uncomfortable, but she'll just have to get adjusted to her surroundings. After all, she was Amelie.
Alice was slightly worried on how she was going act during dinner. Especially since she was sitting with very large groups of children, which was something she hadn't done before. Not even in her school in England did this actually. "Amelie here you go." Alice shook her head finding a plain hamburger bun that was placed on her plate soon later Arthur scooped up some of the red substance on the bun making it very messy all over. The girl inspected the food in front of her questioning to herself, "What is this?" Arthur caught the girl's response and eyed her in a confused manner, "What are you talking about?"
Alice took a look around her table finding many of the others making messy faces off the red meaty sauce. They look like they were enjoying it stuffing it down quickly in their mouths. Alice realized she voiced out her opinion and started getting nervous as her cover could be blown at any minute. "Uh-Uh...I-I mean," She stuttered and tried calming down. "Amelie this is your favorite? You're feeling alright?" Arthur started to place his hand on the girl's forehand to check for a fever. The girl had been acting very different today. Maybe it was the fresh air. Alice nodded and quickly started to grab her sandwich. She made an uncertain face looking at the messy food. It was now or never. Alice closed her eyes as she was taking her first bite into it. Even though the sandwich looked very messy and unappetizing, it actually tasted very good. She never had something so delicious like this before. Yes her father made hamburgers, but she never was able to eat them before everyone else did. She enjoyed it and started eating more, causing her face to dirty with the sauces.
"Back to your usual self," Arthur sighed and tried to wipe her face from the mess nicely and delicate. Alice smiled and put down the soaked up bun, "This is one good ooey gooey messy burger!" She did not know the proper name of the sandwich. "Otherwise a sloppy joe. Your favorite?" Arthur stared at the girl wondering if she had her head on straight. That was very strange that the girl didn't know her favorite meal. "Uh yeah..that..it's darn good!" She said before taking another bite of it. She had to do something before anything was suspected. "Yeah..darn good," Arthur sighed and passed another one in the girl's direction, "Before I say no."
Alice grinned and took it before eating it like her father. Though she appeared like her mother and had most of her personality, she had the appetite of her father. "Someone must be hungry," Arthur chuckled while using a fork and knife to eat his. He was not the type of person to eat the messy sandwich with his hands. Alice nodded and her most her face was covered in sauce by this point. Another bad thing about having her father's appetite: he was a messy eater, so was she.
After dinner was over, Alice's group went over to the grounds for a game before bedtime. Since it was getting dark many of the counselors had flashlights on themselves to help guide the children to the area. When they got there was a big lit of stage with many hanging lights decorated around to make the stage pop up. The little girl figured maybe they will be putting on a play, those were her favorites. Watching them in England was an enjoyment. At home she and Uni would reenact many of Shakespeare's classics of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, etc. Once all the children were gathered in the theater area, the counselors assigned the girls to sit on one side of the pew wood benches and the same with the boys. Elizabeta took her clipboard and ran up on the lit up stage announcing the game, "Okay! So you all are wondering why the boys and girls are split up, we are having a charade competition to see who is best. Whad'ya say everyone!" All the boys and girls stood up and cheered excited for the game to start. Alice just stood in her seat confused about what was happening. She stood up with the others clapping along to play Amelie's part. She should've known this game.
"That's right! Its boys against girls! Charades! So you guys decide who will act it out and Arthur will give them a hat filled with actions! You guys know the drill right? So let's get going!" Elizabeta went and sat with her team having her clipboard ready to tally up the scores. The game was very simple the team who has the most points wins, and with points meant time. By answering the correct charade quickly will boost their team in many points. It was best to be the quickest and most knowledgeable to get the answers. Arthur took his lead and stood next to the stairs that led up to the stage with a hat in ready in his hands. Inside the hat was filled with many actions that the children will be performing whether they are song names, people, places, and even things. The hat held wonders. Gilbert, as the captain for the boys' team, had a stop watch ready to take time whenever. "Okay, ready everyone!" Elizabeta cheered along with the excited children for the games to begin.
Throughout the game many of the boys had a steady lead answering the correct charades very quickly. It was now Dimitre's turn to get extra points for his team. Dimitre raced over towards Arthur and grabbed the piece of paper fast from the hat. He slowly opened his up as 'Huckleberry Finn'. The boy gave a couple of chuckles that he got this in the bag and folded up the piece of paper placing it inside his jean's pocket. Alice was watching the boy named 'Dimmy' and glared at him slightly since he was always being so rude to her for some unknown reason.
"Okay Dimitre you're up," Arthur pushed the boy lightly up onto the stage. Elizaveta observed everything and saw that Alice was glaring at Dimitre and chuckled quietly, "Why you two have a rivalry I'll never know...brings back sweet memories though," She muttered with an amused smile as she shook her head fondly looking at Gilbert in her direction. Alice just gave an ugly face of never wanting to know. No boys! NO! Especially him! The little girl shivered in her seat watching the boy getting ready for the clock. "Ready?" Gilbert smiled wide and clicked his watch for the time, "Go!" Dimitre was in a ready stance to get the guys on his team ready to guess. With the time started, he moved his arm around in a triangle to imitate a 'fin'. The boy started to bend lower letting his elbow take the show. Alice was having trouble telling what the boy was acting out and sighed, "Why must this be so difficult?" She whispered to no one but herself. In mere seconds, the boys were wondering what the move was that Dimitre was stunting, Yu stood up and correctly answered the charade. Yu was an intelligent child knowing that Dimitre was imitating a person. 'Fin' stuck out to him referencing the famous boy in the Mississippi river. Dimitre smiled back and gave a 'thumbs up' in approval letting all the guys cheer in glee.
"Alright! The boys won but can the girls answer it faster? What do you say girls!" Elizabeta cheered on noticing how slightly pale Alice turned. In order for the girls to win someone must pull the best charade to get the girls a better score over the boys. They needed to guess at least eight seconds faster than Dimitre's stunt for a celebration to happen for the girls. "You can do it Amelie!" Bella said cheering up her slightly frightened friend. Alice nodded though she had no idea how to play the game. The group of girls decided that Alice was going to be their actor since she was always good at these kinds of games. You owe me big Amelie!
Arthur stood with the hat in his hands looking at the girl. She appeared to be very nervous and was fidgeting even the boys were giving confused looks as to why she was acting this way. "Old Amelie wasn't scared of nothing. Why is she nervous?" Yu inspected the frightened girl making her way for her selection in the hat. Alice started calming down and took a note from the baseball cap looking at Arthur like 'I don't want to do this look'. "Why are you nervous poppet? Teach them who the professional of this game is," Arthur gave a smile hoping the girl's nervousness to disappear.
Alice nodded and took in a deep breath. She unfolded the piece of paper and sighed, "What am I supposed to do?" Her slip of paper read: London Bridges Falling Down. The little girl knew the song but how would she represent it?
"Go on Amelie," Arthur smiled letting the girl come on the stage. The win of this game fell into her hands. Alice got up and walked towards the center, trying to keep her faltering cool. Once she was in position, Gilbert had his clock set, "Ready? Go!" He clicked the clock for the time to start. Alice just stood there not knowing what to do. "Song!" All the girls shouted out. The girls seen her opening her mouth guessing it was a song she was singing. Alice couldn't really find a way how to express London bridge. So she walked around slightly before doing what she did best: fainting! Once they saw the girl falling on the floor hard. Bella stood up and guessed, "London Bridges Falling Down?"
Alice titled her head up giving a 'thumbs up', "That's it!" Elizabeta nodded and checked her watch to see that they got it faster than the boys. "Well it looks like girl power beats everything! Girls you win!" She shouted in glee and laughed at the disappointed faces of the boys. Alice quickly stood up getting knocked down on the floor once more from all the cheery happy girls giving her a 'congrats'. She felt happy being part of a team, winning for once. Dimitre and all the other boys were complaining, stomping their feet on the soil ground demanding a re-count. Elizabeta checked the list more than once in her tally and overall the girls truly won. Arthur set the hat down nicely and started to applaud for Amelie smiling towards the stage like a proud parent. Knew you could do it poppet.
Dimitre was so mad that their team had lost the game. He thought of a clever idea to get back the girls, especially Amelie. It was getting dark and all the counselors guided the children back to their designated cabins for the night. "Lights out everyone! See you all in the morning for more fun!" Elizabeta yelled out giving a wave back towards the campers for sweet dreams. Arthur escorted Alice to her cabin. "You did great sweetheart," The Brit patted the little girl's head softly, "Get some good shut eye alright?"
"Yes! I will," Alice blushed from the contact, "Goodnight." The little girl gave a quick smile and headed inside with the others to get ready for bed. Arthur smiled along and made his way over to the counselors' cabins to get sleep for him as well. With the coast clear, Dimitre, Yu, and a couple of the other boys snuck around the girl's cabin to unfold their plan for their sweet revenge. Alice smiled as she was getting comfortable in her bunk. She did it! She won the game and hadn't blown her cover! Dimitre and the boys covered their mouths for the big show. One of the stronger boys offered to give the black hair boy a boost to reach the window above. Dimitre himself did the honors of letting a slimly frog into the cabin. They were close by Amelie's window, hoping that their plan had succeeded in scaring the girl. He gave a few chuckles that she didn't suspect a thing. She was sleeping like a baby never suspecting anything to happen at all. Giving the window a little pull without making any noises, the boy took the slimy frog out of his pajama pocket and snuck it inside the building. With the plan a success, Dimitre quickly closed the window shut and jumped off the boy's shoulders. All the boys made their own hiding spots around the cabin's first story windows to see the reactions of the girls finding the frog.
Alice laid in her bed and kept her smile, "Hey Bella, this was fun wasn't it?" She said not really bothering with the sound of a frog 'ribbit' coming from the outside of her window. "Hmm? Pasta..." The girl below kept snoozing from the bottom bunk. Alice laughed slightly from the comment and sighed, "This really was fun...but I still miss Daddy," The girl didn't notice that the 'ribbit sounds' got louder and louder. The boys outside had to hide their giggles and waited for the grand finale to come.
When suddenly, Alice felt something sticky land on her face she stayed silent before screaming her tinny little lungs off. "AHHHHH!" The girl screamed prompting the others to scream along in the cabin. "IT'S A FROG!" Alice screamed as tears built up in the girl's eyes. She quickly shook the creature away with her hand letting the frog fall off the bed somewhere. Alice was never a fan of insects, mice, rats, snakes, and especially frogs. The poor girl was having heart failure from seeing the amphibian. All the lights in the cabin were on and many of the staff had calls to come and check out the problem, especially Arthur he knew it was Amelie. Dimitre and the other boys gave a few chuckles of the plan succeeding. "I can't believe Amelie is scared off a little frog! She's changed alright!" The boy had to hold in his stomach to prevent anything from spilling out. "Dimitre wait. Tonight's a full moon," Yu reminded him the previous story of the moon. What if Amelie is different person since of course coming back from the house she wasn't the same as she used to be. "Let's get out of here!" The boys started to freak out and left leaving the grounds as fast as they could. Dimitre unfortunately had a Cinderella moment by leaving his slipper behind. He didn't care he just wanted to get back to bed safe and sound.
Alice kept screaming about the frog. She put the blanket over herself to get the bad thoughts off. From tossing the frog earlier the poor creature landed in Bella's bed making the girl scream as well. Bella did the same and all the girls threw the frog as it was a hot potato. "What's the bloody ruckus about?!" Arthur came in the cabin with Elizabeta checking on the girls. Elizabeta caught the frog she found on the floor and sighed, "Anyone like to explain this?" She said holding up the slimy poor frog that kept ribbiting. All the girls shook their heads in denial. "Amelie?" Arthur went by the girl's bunk and found the little girl bundled up in the blankets shaking. Alice was shaking in the blankets since it was a first to have something like that happen to her. Honestly, it did frighten her! Elizabeta sensed the concern and group the girls around her to distract them from Arthur and Amelie.
"Amelie? Sweetheart, what's wrong?" Arthur checked to see if the girl is alright. Alice kept shaking and started tearing up slightly. Though this was fun, though it was exciting, it was frightening. She didn't have Toris or her father with her, protecting her or watching over her. It was scary not having her family with her. She didn't like the fact that she was scared half to death by the frog and realized how truly alone she was. Arthur could tell something was wrong, "I'm here Amelie. I'm here." The Brit climbed up her bunk and carried her slowly down. "She'll stay with me tonight. Maybe it was too much for her." Arthur's room did have a spare bed in his suite cabin so the little girl couldn't cause any harm to spend the night. Elizabeta nodded and helped lull a lullaby to calm down the scared girls while Arthur took Alice. Alice kept shaking in his hold and started sobbing.
"Shh Shh I'm here. I will never leave you," Arthur had to kept reminding the little girl on their way towards his suite. At the door he used it with his foot and set the little girl down on the spare bed gently. The counselors had better rooms so they could feel well at home. There was a mini kitchen, a little living area with a television and of course a private bathroom for them.
Alice clung onto Arthur and started crying her eyes out, "I-Im scared! Papa! Mama! I don't want to be left alone!" She sobbed out not thinking about her surroundings. She could blow her cover. The only thing she thought she was in was in darkness and that she saw the shadows of her mother and father walking away from her.
"Amelie," Athur placed the girl in his lap cradling her to calm her. He started to tear up of her mentioning her parents that she lost. He never knew this side of her coming out and she needed him dearly. "You're not alone you got me remember?" Arthur tried to brush the light blonde's hairs away lightly to see her beautiful eyes. "P-Please...please don't leave me," She whispered in fear and kept clinging onto him. "I won't sweetheart I won't," Arthur kept patting the girl's head and hum a simple lullaby that sound familiar to the girl. Alice eyes widen that she knew the words. It was her song as long as she remembered.
"So far apart
No sense to restart
Our dreams are distant
Please don't be resistant
Memories obscure
But feeling so sure
I've not forgotten
Battles we both fought in
Yet I know how close we are together now."
Alice hiccupped and started to calm down, eventually falling asleep in his arms but still clutched onto him. She still was in a dark place. As the song got louder in the girl's mind, the room got brighter and showed her happy times with her Father and Toris. "There. There," Arthur was getting a little tired of sitting up and gently laid both of them on the bed to relax letting the little girl snuggle up in his arms. "You have been acting differently today is everything all right?" Arthur asked and continued humming the lullaby.
Alice managed to wake up slightly, still half asleep so she really didn't know what she was saying, "Natalya...she was being mean...stole Papa...but you...you're nice...you sound like...Mama..." She whispered quietly. "Amelie? What are you talking about?" Arthur used his thumb to rid the girl's tears.
Alice shook her head with her closed eyes and smiled, "Mama used to sing that."
"She did? You remember her?" Arthur widen his eyes.
"Alice...Kirkland..." Was the last thing she murmured before she clutched his hand and fell dead asleep. She hadn't cried like that in years and so it tired her out. "Alice?" Arthur's eyes started to give out too and sleep over powered him. Both he and the little girl didn't unravel from their cocoon of sleep.
A/N: Had to do one down here (: Remember the lullaby from Pull Through? I wanted to do that hehehehehe. And more plot is thickening up let me know what your guesses may be. After the next chapter we are half way done with this story! Thanks readers see you next time!
