A/N: Hey just a few things...
1.) Thank you for reading!
2.) Translations will be at the bottom
3.) Please tell me if anything is too OOC
Other than that, Nothing. Enjoy!
Today was a big day, and big days meant waking up early, and for Ludwig early meant 5:30, luckily he went to bed at 10:00 sharp. He was up and walking towards the meadow by 5:45. It was his sixth year at Camp Clearwater and this was his second year as a councillor and he intended to make a difference. When he arrived at the meadow, he almost had a heart attack. There sleeping in all her glory, was Feliciana. Her auburn hair was swathed around her head like a halo, her strange curl jumping with each breath. When Ludwig realized he was watching someone while they slept, he blushed and turned away. This happened just as Feliciana yawned and opened her eyes, before immediately closing them again.
"Ve~ Ludwig! I thought I might find you here!" She jumped up and hugged him, making his blush even deeper. He patted her head and then attempted to peel her off, but she held tight.
"Uh… Feliciana, why are you up so early? The earliest I have ever seen you up was 9:00 and that was just because school started at 9:30." Feliciana's eyes snapped open.
"Ve~ I took a little bit too long of a nap yesterday and I woke up really early. I figured you would wake up early too~" She finally said letting go of him.
"Well are you going to train, or not?" He was definitely startled.
"Yes… I was about to start my run when I noticed you here." She grabbed his hand. "Then lets start, no?" and took off running.
They jogged towards the new units, Feliciana chattering all the way about camp.
"That was the unit I had my third year." She gestured to Treetop Trail. "I had 8-9 year olds. I hope I have littler kids this year~." She slowed down and turned to Ludwig who had also slowed down. "Did you hear that?"
She asked quietly, he shook his head no and she picked up the pace once more.
"I bet it was nothing."
They ran the loop, two more times before starting the long haul to the dining hall. They walked slowly, only once stopping so Feliciana could pick up some daisies. They wandered past the garden and gaga ball pit. The smell wafting from the dining hall was making his mouth water.
Eggs… Sausage… Coffee…
Ludwig pushed through the doors, closely followed by Feliciana. They walked to the big double doors. It was already noise, about half of the 50 councillors had arrived and Alfred was one of them (So you know the noise was unbearable). They walked to the end of the breakfast line. His nose had been right. Amelia had cooked breakfast too, so you know it was good. Ludwig got his meal and headed to the center table, Feliciana following closely behind, where the rest of his cabin was already sitting.
"Ciao guys~ I'm sleepy." With that she laid her head down on the table and promptly started snoring. Ludwig rolled his eyes, as Gilbert poked her in the face.
"God damn it Feliciana, the fucking kids came today, and you decided that today would be the fucking greatest day to go out early with the potato bastard." Lovina poked her twin in the face with a fork.
"Damn fool…"
"Oh Lovi, don't be that way… I'm sure she just wanted to make a good impression…"
"A good impression!? A fucking good impression? On the fucking potato whfhakfjajgh" Antonio shoved food in her mouth.
"Lo Siento, She is crabby, when she does not have coffee." Ludwig rubbed his face, pushing his glasses into his slicked back hair. He was getting stressed, but he didn't have to process that because someone gave him a hearty slap on the back.
"Don't worry kleine bruder, they will love you." Ludwig looked his brother incredulously.
"But they will still love the awesome me best." Ludwig shook his head and continued eating. Just then Alfred, who looked disheveled as always (more now), yelled
"The buses will be here in one hour."
There was genral panic and a mass exodus of the dining hall. Tamaray was a mess. Ludwig was just getting his shirt on when he heard humming. "Ludwig~" He pulled his shirt on just as she walked through the door. He smiled lightly as she hugged him.
"Come on Feliciana, lets meet the campers."
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Madeline was excited, this is what she had been looking forward to since learning about camp. The moment you meet your campers. Luckily for her Sakura (who she quite liked) took the liberty to explain how the day would go. First meeting at the buses, then flag ceremony, then sorting into units, and then the rest of the day was devoted to decorating cabins, getting to know each other and setting up units. Her thoughts were cut off by the honking of a horn. A bus had arrived pulling a large trailer. The councilors were standing in a semi circle, with Alfred at the center (he got to welcome them since he had been going to camp the longest, age before beauty). Slowly the bus doors opened and a blonde bullet shot out and jumped into Alfred's arms.
"Hey Louis!" He picked him up and settled "Louis" on his hip before turning to the small crowd of people standing in front of him.
"Welcome to Camp Clearwater! Come on, don't be shy, find your old councillors and say hi, greet your friends and prepare for the best summer of your life!"
If his words didn't propel the children forward, then it was his hollywood smile.
Madeline stood off to the side and observed the interactions. Alfred seemed to be very popular with the 7-9 year old range, they crowded around him, hanging on his every word. Antonio seemed to be the same but for a different reason, he seemed to exude happiness and also had an unending supply of sweets.
Next up was 9-11 who all seemed to like Arthur, Heracles and Gilbert. Arthur because… He was Arthur, half magical, the other half mad and that seemed to sit well with them. They seemed to like Heracles because he was laid back, but imaginative (philosophical) and Gilbert because he was awesome, full of energy and ADHD just like them.
All she could tell about Francis and Elizaveta were the sex appeals of both genders.
Sakura seemed to attract the smaller, quieter kids. Chun-Yan had a small group around her that was steadily growing, the ones closest seemed to be other siblings two asian girls; one in green and one in pink and four boys; one who smiled a lot, another that reminded her of Alfred, one that was emotionless with huge eyebrows and one that had was playing with a deck of cards.
Another thing she realized in this time was that Feliciana and Ludwig were exact opposites, all the kids loved Feli, they gathered around as she talked with her hands and laughed at jokes that weren't funny. Ludwig on the other hand stood off to the side like her, eventually though, a little girl tugged on his pants and he looked down and smiled, lifting her up. What surprised her the most was that the two least likely people had the smallest kids wrapped around their fingers. Ivan was kneeling on the ground with two little kids sitting in his lap listening to another tell a story, there was about ten more surrounding them. Lovina, near by, was also on her knees, but she was in the middle of a huge group hug. She looked exasperated, but slightly excited at the same time. Madeline was pulled out of her observations, by a tap on the shoulder.
A very tanned girl about 13 looked at her and said "Hi I'm Abby Jackson and you must be new." Madeline was stunned by her bluntness, but shook the hand anyways.
"Uh.. yeah. I'm Madeline Williams." She smiled like a cat.
"I've been going here for years. I'll show you the ropes." Madeline laughed.
"Well, I think I would like that." Abby was gone when she opened her eyes. She returned a moment later dragging two people with her.
"This is Emma and Maddie." Both girls waved.
Madeline smiled, just as Ivan noticed Abby. "привет Кристина вы готовы , чтобы начать?"
Abby smile creepily. "Конечно, я Иван , я победит в этом году." Needless to say Madeline was very confused. Maddie stepped into to explain
"Every year they have a prank war and taunt each other in Russian." Madeline nodded.
This place just keeps getting stranger…
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Lovina was uncomfortable, given the fact that she had just spent 15 minutes in a group hug, this should not be surprising. Now she was doing flag and they had decided to make her flag bearer. So, there she stood at the front of the line, with all eyes on her as she muttered swear words while carrying the flag of the United States of America. She walked in her fucking short shorts and tank top, while carrying the fucking flag of the United States of America. She sighed.
Deep breaths, this shit will be over soon, then I'm going to kill the tomato bastard who keeps "accidentally" touching my butt, let's get this done…
She straightened and walked with purpose towards the flagpole.
The rest of the ceremony was done in about five minutes, as she and the councillors retreated to the back as Mary took the reigns. "Hello Campers!"
"Hi Miss Mary!" She smiled.
"Are you guys ready for a great summer?" There was a loud chorus of yeses, yeahs and yays. One that sounded suspiciously like a 'hell yeah!' Coming from Alfred's direction.
"Are we ready to meet our counselors and find our cabins?" Even louder this time. She laughed and held up her hand, in return everyone else did as well.
"Then I'll get to it..." She pulled out a binder and shuffle stuff around. Lovina was hoping that Mary had done as she had asked. Chun-Yan wanted to work with younger kids, while she the opposite and they had decided that they would switch off every two days.
"Aha! Starting with unit one. We have Chun-Yan, come on up!" The short Asian girl walked to meet Mary. "Her campers will be Elianna Locola,Oz Honmyr, Andrew Kleschult, Adily Honmyr, Connor Hall and Connor Welsh." The young ones rushed up and gathered around Chun-Yan.
"Now councillors, once you have your unit please collect their stuff and take them to their cabins. After they have there areas set up take them on a tour and show them their units." Lovina closed her eyes until the new girl was called.
"Madeline Williams, you're the councillor for Unit 8, with Chris... " "Abigail!" Someone shouted. "Okay, Abigail Jackson, Emma Tarlton, Madeline Lamwers, Bernardo Klein, Caleb Huang, Per Swenson, Phoenix Bradley, Lexie Leick, Samuel Rodgers, Scott Kaufman, Niamh Gerdes, Kate Lee, Helen Zhou, Anika Dahl, Tatsuhiko Suziki and Marco Nie." Madeline stood with a quiet smile as they each introduced themselves, she was so shy. It would be a miracle if she lasted a week. Lovina sighed
Poor Maple Bastard...
She tuned out until Unit 10 was called. "Now for Unit 10, your councillors will be Lovina and Chun-Yan who will switch off every two days."
Lovina stood next to Mary. "You guys are the only ones left, but I will still call your names. We have Michelle Lau, Samantha Rodregez, Brian Fangoria, Tim Markolav, Mya-Li Zuckerman, Chika Hana, Layla Cornburrow, Joey Lexington, Madison Smith and Sebastian Sedmack." They all gathered around Lovina. "Ciao. I'm Lovina Vargas, I will be one of your councillors. How many of you have been before?" Every single hand was in the air.
"Okay, so I'm guessing a tour is not necessary, then let's get to our cabins," she set off towards the road into resident camp.
"Luckily for you guys, you're old." Sarcasm dripping from her words.
"And your cabins are way back in the woods." Everyone sighed except Samantha, who laughed. They walked over to the welcome center and they sorted through the remaining items. Lovina laughed as they struggled with their stuff, finally deciding to help Hana. They got all the way back to Aintree, to find that Unit 9 already there.
"Hi Sorella! We decide that the boys are on the left and girls are on the right, does that sound okay?" By this time Feliciana was hanging on her arm.
"Well, Why the Fuck not?" Feliciana gasped.
"Lovina Language!" Lovina rolled her eyes. She turned to her campers.
"Does anyone care?" They looked at her and shrugged.
"See?" Feliciana glared at her.
This was going to be a long fucking summer…
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Ivan was happy, very happy. This year he got to work with Chun-Yan. With his little Yan-Yan. Even though he had to deal with Lovina every two days, Chun-Yan made it worth it. Speaking of her, she was just walking into Fern Hill, one of the newer units at the back, with a metal room, home to Unit 2.
She glided gracefully towards him, "Ni Hao Ivan, I was wondering if you could introduce me to your campers?"
He smiled "Of course! We have Maggie King, Charlie Welsh, Archer Souder, Petra Sedlaczek, and Henry Honmyr." Chun-Yan smiled and waved, before turning to Ivan.
"I have a proposition to make, since your Unit has 5 kids and mine has 6, and basically have the same schedules and are both in Lochbrae, we could just join Units?" She asked weakly.
He laughed. "Da! That sounds like a great idea! But do you want to use Fern Hill, or your Unit?"
Not even a moment's hesitation "Yours for sure, ours has holes in the roof." He nodded and she turned to the kids.
"What do you guys think? Do you want some new Friends?" There was a chorus of yeahs and she laughed. "Then I'll be right back." She turned and flew back into the woods.
A few minutes later she returned with Unit 1. As soon as they realized who was in Unit 2, they stampeded forward and hugged friends and family. After everyone was settled, dunk bags were set up, sit-upons taken out, 11 smiling faces beamed up at the two councillors.
"So how do you all like our solution?" There was a cheer and Chun-Yan smiled,
"Well we have a few things to do today. First of those would be to decide what we want to cook two days this week…" Ivan pulled a list from inside a folder.
"Some of our choices are Ham Au Gratin, Taco's in a bag, Hobo Stew and Hot Dogs." There was instant chatter.
"Hey Ivan, do you think it's a little noisy here?" Chun-Yan winked and said awkwardly loud.
"Oh Yes, I agree with you…" The noise dropped suddenly.
"Okay, we are going to close our eyes and raise our hands for which ones you want, you get 2 votes."
In the end, they would be having hot dogs and tacos. Chun-Yan laughed. "Well now that that's settled, let's setup our camp!"
The kids cheered. Ivan watched as the smaller Asian put them to work. Gathering twigs, stringing rope, until Ivan noticed something quite interesting. Addy was crying on a stump, off from everybody else. A little boy was sitting next to her, holding her hand, while another noticed Ivan watching and ran over. He tugged on the councillors shirt.
"Someone hurt Adily." The little boy grabbed his hand and tugged him over. The little mixed race girl was using her fluffy hair as a curtain. Ivan pushed it back.
"What is the problem подсолнечник?" She looked up at him and rubbed her eyes, before looking at Ozzy, the younger turned to Ivan.
"Kayla pulled her hair and made fun of her…" Ivan looked at Addy who burst out.
"She called me a half breed puppy." She started crying again. Ivan's eyes hardened and he turned to Henry.
"Its because she was adopted…" Ivan picked up the little girl.
"She is so silly!" Addy looked up at him incredulously and the tears began to fall faster. "How could she not notice beautiful you are!" The little girl looked at him with hope in her eyes.
"If you feel bad that you were adopted, just remember this. Your parents chose you, but Kayla's parents are stuck with her." Addy giggled. Ivan set her down, and Ozzy instantly hugged her.
"Kayla's parents are stuck with her…" He whispered and they fell on the ground laughing. Ivan smiled and looked down at Henry, who looked back and smiled. He watched as a Chun-Yan set a hand on Addy and Ozzy's shoulders.
"Hey we're going to play a game, do you want to play?" The 5 year olds nodded and grabbed her hands.
She walked past Ivan and winked, making a blush creep up his neck.
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Sneaking out at night, was just as easy as ever. So easy that in fact Gilbert was whistling as he wandered through the forest to their spot. He wandered down the now well worn path. He came to a huge willow tree, pushing past the long leafy branches to a small clear occupied by a bench. On that bench, was a teenage girl.
Damn it! She beat me here…
Elizaveta looked up at him with her big green eyes.
Fuck, she's hot…
"Hey liebe…" He said creeping up behind her.
SMACK!
A frying pan smashed into his face.
Where the fuck did she even get it?
"Oh it's just you…" She said, nervously rubbing the edge of her frying pan.
"Verdammt woman! That is going to leave a mark on mein Awesome face!"
"Awesome? Really Gilbert? You never change." She shook her head and sat back down on the bench.
"What do you mean? I am the same man you fell in love with." He sat down next to her and pulled her close. She sighed and rested her head on his chest. He set his chin on her head. They stayed silent for a moment, but only for a moment, silence doesn't last long with Gilbert. "So… Uh… How was your year?" She laughed.
"You should have seen my boyfriends face, when I broke up with him on the last day of school. It was like he expected us to get married or something. We only dated for six months." Gilbert pushed back and looked at her.
"Some people do get married after dating for six months." Elizaveta laughed and looked at him.
"Oh wait, you're serious. If he had asked me I would have said no. He was too much of a prick." Gilbert smiled with a little bit of relief.
"What was his name?" "Oh Vladimir Anton, he was from Romania." They laughed.
"So did you have any school year flings?"
"Two, the first one was short like a week, but the second was like yours, honestly on the last day of school, I thought she was going to kill, but instead, she just Bitch slapped me, and it hurt…" The hungarian patted his face,
"Well if you had come here with her, I would have done the same to you…" Gilbert looked at her funny. He took her face in his hands and kissed her, long and sweet.
"And why the hell would I do that?" She sighed and stood up stretching. Gilbert joined her and twirled her. She hummed and they waltzed. In a Disney esque fashion, the small enclosed space seemed to light up. His hand rested on her hip and hers on her shoulder. They spun, and twirled and dipped as the night progressed.
Elizaveta laid her head on his chest. "How long are we going to do this?"
He looked down at her. "What do you mean birdie? The dancing, or this?" His eyes swept the area and her before looking back into her eyes.
"This."
He spun her.
"As long as I know you love me…" Her eyes twinkled.
Perfect...
"By the way how long have we been doing this?" Elizaveta's eyebrows scrunched together. "Hmm… I think, I think it was our 10th grade summer."
"Shit that's a long time." Gilbert murmured. "Yes, yes it is."
Eventually they stopped dancing and sat down. They stayed that way for a while, just enjoying each others warmth. The crickets sang and the breeze made the branches move, only making their spot more peaceful. It was a good place to hide from the drama of camp, to truly appreciate the "Magic" of the outdoors. But as was mentioned before, silence can never last long around Gilbert. He stood up and looked at his watch.
"Shit! It's 12:30!" The hungarian jumped up. She looked worried.
"We should probably head back." He said rubbing the back of his neck. She smiled and kissed him. "Yes, that would be good."
He smiled. "Ich Liebe Dich mein schatz. Same time tomorrow?"
She nodded, before kissing him once more and going out the opposite way he had come in. He turned out the lantern hanging out the tree.
After one last look around, he left, already anticipating tomorrow.
Translations:
Lo Siento = I'm Sorry
Kleine Bruder = Little Brother
привет Кристина вы готовы , чтобы начать = Hello Christina, are you ready to start?
Конечно, я Иван , я победит в этом году = Of course I am, Ivan, I will win this year.
Ni Hao = Hello
Da = Yes
подсолнечник = Sunflower
Liebe = Love
Ich Liebe Dich mein schatz = I love you, my Sweetheart
As for Camp food, Thats some of my favorite!