As always, you all know what a terrible updater I am. But this story's different. It'll actually have plot this time, guys. Look at this and read it carefully, because such stories are endangered in my story drafts. But omfg thank you all for the favs, follows and reviews. I got an ah-mazing cover art to the fanfiction, but graciemanola who's on Deviantart. Check her out, yeah? T rated for a reason, just saying. Drinking happens, and yup..
Hiccup opened the classroom door carefully, the wood creaking slightly on its old hinges. He stuck his head around the door, surveying his surroundings; but there was no other evident signs of life. He waved Rapunzel, Jack and Merida out in a universal sign that the coast was clear.
"Let's try and find the stuff quick, before Mr. Black comes," Hiccup said in a hushed whisper as the three spilled out into the hallway.
"What's your rush?" Jack strolled easily to the side of the corridor. "Pitch usually takes his time when he leaves. At least two hours."
"You call him by his first name?" Rapunzel looked terrified at the prospect. Jack shrugged.
"Look, Frosty the snowman-" Merida exhaled, irritated. "We're only doin' this fer that stupid, ugly cat. So let's just find the stuff and have Hiccup clean it up."
"What would be the fun in that?" Jack grinned cockily. "Come on, Princess. Let's have a little fun."
"Don't call mah-"
"Jack, I'm with Merida on this one," Hiccup said. "Let's try and find the closet first?" Merida gave the brunette boy a strange look about his agreeing with her: equal parts triumphant and disgusted.
"Fifteen minutes," Jack declared. "That's all I'm asking of you guys before you clean that cat pee." Rapunzel was never one to say no, especially when the person talking to her sent that attractive smirk her way.
"Okay," Rapunzel let herself agree. "Hiccup, won't you...?" She set her green eyes on Hiccup's, her pretty face straining with hopefulness. How was Hiccup going to say no to that?
"Sure," he said finally. "Merida?" Merida, as usual, was the most stubborn out of all of them. She gave them all discontent looks, but didn't want to go back into the classroom alone. She would have the satisfaction of not breaking detention rules, but then again, when did Merida even care for rules?
"Ugh fine," Merida gave in. Rapunzel's face lit up. "Fifteen minutes, Frosty! Got it?"
"Got it," Jack complied, giving her a mock bow and enjoying the sputtering look Merida gave him. He gestured for them all to follow him, and the three dutifully followed the pale, blue-eyed boy.
"So what is it you want us to do for fifteen minutes?" Rapunzel asked curiously, as Jack lead them down another hallway.
"Illegal things," Jack said, unfazed. At his words, Hiccup made a girly squeaking sound that sounded unnatural and stopped in his tracks. Rapunzel also paused herself, but Merida halted angrily.
"What did ye say?" Merida prodded, asking furiously.
"Illegal things," Jack repeated. Hiccup and Rapunzel exchanged looks of terror while Merida just furrowed her brows and set her mouth in a hard line.
"We are not breakin' the law," the redhead snapped. "No way. Ah'm not gettin' mixed up in yer stupid-"
"Relax, eh, Princess?" Jack said, raising his eyebrows and continued walking, the others reluctantly following. "It's not like you're helping me carry a dead body or anything. It's harmless fun." At that point, Rapunzel got the distinction that Jack's idea of "fun" didn't match her own definition.
"Jack, w-we can't," Hiccup was red in the face. That shy, stuttering nerd from the beginning of detention was back.
"Calm down, will ya?" Jack said easily, stopping in front of a locker. He messed with the locker until getting the combination right, swinging the gray metal door on its hinges. Rapunzel looked away, covering her face with her hands. Whatever he was going to take out of that locker, she didn't know; all she knew was that she didn't want to see it.
"Ye've got tae be kiddin' mah," Merida's voice, while still biting, had the slightest hint of admiration. Rapunzel slowly peeked out from behind her fingers. Jack, with a beaming smile, held out a bottle of vodka. Hiccup avoided looking at them, and instead fixed his eyes on the floor uncomfortably.
"Anyone volunteer to go first?" Jack swished the bottle around, and the liquid sloshed in its glass confinement. "C'mon, take a gulp."
"Yer so stupid," Merida said hotly, but snatched the bottle from his hands. "If none o' these ninnies will..." Unscrewing the bottle, she tilted it to her lips and took a large drink, gulping it down.
"Impressive," Jack raised his eyebrows in approval. Merida removed the bottle from her lips, and let a gloating smile replace it.
"Stuff burns like hell," she said, and handed the vodka back. "An okay choice, fer a boy like yeh."
"Glad you approve, Princess," Jack said, and that glare returned to Merida's face.
"Shut. Up," the Scot hissed at him. "Are ye goin' tae take a drink yerself, or are ye goin' tae stand there?"
"Of course," Jack smirked, and took a swing from the bottle himself. The drink burned his throat, just as it had to Merida's. "Euch." Rapunzel and Hiccup just watched them, horrified at this.
"Care tae try, Haddock?" Merida snatched the bottle again, holding it to Hiccup's unsuspecting face.
"N-no thanks," Hiccup stammered. "I don't do that."
"O' course ye don'," Merida said knowingly. "But did ye ever try?"
"No," Hiccup said.
"So drink it," Merida said, shoving it towards his mouth.
"No!" came out of Hiccup's throat in a most childish manner. "That's harmful to my body."
"Yer such a nerd," Merida said, but she didn't snort like Jack did. Instead, she turned to Rapunzel. "How about ye, Blondie?"
"Umm, no," Rapunzel's face was aflame. "My mom wouldn't like that."
"Of course she wouldn', but do yeh want tae anyway?" Merida prodded further.
"No thank you," Rapunzel said quickly, but Merida just shrugged their rejection off.
"Yer loss," she said, and tossed it to Jack, who caught it nimbly. "How many can yeh take before loosin' it, Frosty?"
"Oh, so we're making this a contest," Jack's blue eyes sparkled in mischief. Holding the vodka back up to his mouth, he drank about a quarter of it, the clear liquid spilling through his lips, before he was forced to set it down and cough repeatedly.
"Yer okay," Merida said, unimpressed, "But watch this." Grabbing the bottle back, she downed about half like it was water. "Ergh!" Letting the bottle drop back into Jack's locker, the redhead coughed like Jack did and rubbed at her watery eyes. "Stuff's strong-"
"Have fun destroying your liver," Jack quipped, and Merida glared again.
"Look Frosty, yer fifteen minutes are almost up. Do ye want tae just argue 'em out?" she shot back.
"Fine, fine," Jack closed his locker again, sealing his liquor inside. "We might as well go look for these cleaning supplies."
"Good idea," some color seemed to return to Hiccup's face as he spoke with relief.
"But I need your help," Jack said, before they could speak.
"With what?" Rapunzel asked curiously.
"Yesterday, the Chemistry teacher took my phone," Jack said, "And I know for a fact that she keeps the phones she takes away in her desk drawer, and locks it."
"And ye want us tae break it out, don't yeh?" Merida crossed her arms.
"That would be ideal," Jack grinned.
"W-we should split up," Hiccup said. "You know, so we can do both things and then finish faster."
"Good idea, Hiccup," Jack said. "Want to help me break into the classroom?"
"Actually, since it's my cat, you know, I think I should go find cleaning supplies-" Hiccup said nervously.
"Merida-?" Jack turned to the redhead with a smile.
"Hell no. Ah'm goin' with Hiccup," Merida decided, grabbing the brunette boy's arm and causing said boy to blush fiercely.
"Punz?" Jack's smile made Rapunzel jump.
"Umm, sure," she said, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear nervously. Jack smiled broadly and reached out to take her hand before she could even register what was happening, and pulled Rapunzel in the direction of the classrooms. Merida did the same with Hiccup, and the four somehow managed to lose each other.
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Jack tried the chemistry lab doorknob, but it was no use; it was fastened shut. Grunting, Jack worked at the lock for a few moments with his fingernail before looking around for something pointy.
"Here," Rapunzel said, reaching into the long blonde lengths of hair and brandishing a bobby pin. Jack took it gratefully, stuck it into the lock, and wiggled it carefully. A click told him his efforts were successful, and the he pushed open the unlocked door. Rapunzel took a deep breath, braced herself, and followed Jack inside.
The chemistry room was dark. Running a hand along the wall, Jack found the switch and turned the lights on. Rapunzel inhaled a sharp breath as she remembered how morally wrong it was to sneak and steal from a place so sacred to her.
"She keeps them in her desk, I think," Jack said, and he moved towards the wooden piece of furniture. Rapunzel followed him again, but was still hesitant, clutching a strand of hair like her life depended on it.
"Here!" Jack found the drawer, but presumably, it was locked, and he looked around for the bobby pin Rapunzel had given him so that he could pick this lock too. Rapunzel, seeing as he couldn't find it, reached into her hair again for another one. The braids that ornamented her hair were falling by now, but she didn't care. Jack took it gratefully and wiggled it around in the lock until a click told them it was open.
"Got it!" Jack said gleefully, and yanked open the drawer. Rummaging around in the contents for a while, he came up empty-handed, but found something else that he liked by the way his face lit up.
"What?" Rapunzel asked, fearfully.
"Look at this," Jack said, and brandished a pink, frilly bra.
"Jack!" Rapunzel squealed, and covered her face as if she could unsee that. "W-what? Who- who's is that of?"
"Heck if I know," Jack said, and laid it on the desk. "But it's with the confiscated stuff that the chem teacher took, so it has to be a student's."
"Put it back!" Rapunzel said, flicking hair out of her face in anxiety.
"Alright, alright," Jack stuffed the undergarment back into the drawer carelessly. "Hey, look at this-!" He pulled something else out of the drawer, and Rapunzel was careful to avert her eyes this time.
"A note," Jack said, "But that's not what's weird about it. It's about who it's from that's funny." Rapunzel buried her face in her hands. And then,
"Is it dirty?" came out the blond's mouth, muffled by her fingers. Jack chuckled at Rapunzel's chastity, but shook his head.
"No, just look." Rapunzel looked, and Jack held out a piece of paper. The distinguishing scrawl of a girl's handwriting was scribbled all over the paper in this disgustingly girly letter. Rapunzel admired the calligraphy for about two seconds before beginning to read.
"Hi Macintosh. My mum wants me to go out with you for some reason, so here's your one chance. You can take me out Friday night at eight o'clock, or you can forget about dating me, got it?" Rapunzel read it, and her sweet voice just didn't match the hostile tone of the writing. "Signed, Merida-?"
"I know right?" Jack laughed at the prospect of Merida trying to be romantic. "She fucking tried to decorate it with hearts and some shi-"
"Jack, please," Rapunzel interrupted him. "I think that's sweet." She smiled at the paper fondly.
"Sure," Jack snorted like he didn't believe her, but didn't press on the subject and instead rummaged through the drawer again, still looking for his phone.
"Found it!" Jack smiled broadly, and held up a phone. Clicking the on button and seeing the wallpaper, his lips curled into a smile. "Oh, wait, this isn't my phone..." Rapunzel tried to take a peek at the screen, but Jack held it away infuriatingly and opened it up.
"Look at this, it doesn't have a password," Jack said, that gloating tone still in voice. "And it's got a picture of Punz right here as the screensaver..."
"What?!" Rapunzel's voice rang up a few octaves. "Give me that-!"
"Could this belong to your boyfriend, the leader of that motorcycle gang?" Jack said, swiping on the screen.
"Leave Flynn alone!" Rapunzel reached up for the phone, but Jack held it higher, still smirking. "JACK!"
"Calm down, it's just harmless reading," Jack said. "Of the texts you sent him." Mocking Rapunzel, he made his voice high pitched and girly. "Hi Flynn, Mother says I can't go out tonight. Maybe we can ditch first period tomorrow to hang out? Smiley face."
"Jack, stop reading those! They're private!" Rapunzel tried to grab the phone again, but only succeeded in throwing her arms around Jack's neck and clinging helplessly.
"He said, 'Cool babe, see you then.'," Jack said, forcing his voice to become deep and suave. "Do the two of you sext?"
"You perv!" Rapunzel took a final swipe for the phone, as Jack pushed her arms away and took a few steps to the right in an attempt to get away.
"Geez Sunshine, you've got quite a temper there," Jack smirked, and handed the phone to Rapunzel. "My phone's better than his though, so there's no way I would take his instead."
"Hmph," Rapunzel muttered, and clutched her boyfriend's phone to her chest protectively. Jack, after a few more moments of searching, came up with his own phone and grinned.
"Got it for real this time. Let's go find Merida and Hiccup," Jack said. "Take Merida's note too; let's tease her about it." Rapunzel couldn't help it, her annoyance at Jack was melting away again.
"That's so evil," she said, letting a giggle slip past her pink lips. "But fine." Jack reached for Rapunzel's hand to yank her in the direction of their fellow detention inmates, and she willingly let him clutch her fingers in his this time.
Right as they set everything in the room back in order, something came up to haunt them again. The familiar jingle of janitor's keys left Jack and Rapunzel to stare into each other's eyes again in horror.
"Shit, he's back early..."
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Wandering down the empty hallway, Hiccup trailed Merida, who was walking fast like she needed to get somewhere.
"Slow down, will you?" Hiccup quickened his pace.
"Ah don' 'slow down'," Merida said impatiently, and reached the first closet. Without waiting for Hiccup, she pulled it open to examine its contents. Hiccup came to her side moments later, only for her to slam the door shut.
"Hey!" Hiccup cried, as the door came close to hitting him. Merida just continued to walk, leaving Hiccup rushing after her again. Opening another closet, not finding it to her satisfaction yet again, she slammed it before Hiccup could even peer in.
"There's nothin' there," Merida said in exasperation, and continued with her fast steps.
"Still going fast!" Hiccup exclaimed, chasing the redhead furiously. Merida whirled around so fast at that point, Hiccup almost ran into her.
"And ye want me tae slow down fer yeh?" she practically yelled. Hiccup stopped in his tracks, blinking in surprise.
"I-" he began, but was cut off rudely.
"It's bad enough ah've got detention and got stuck with ye, and here yeh are, tryin' tae tell me to slow down?" Merida spewed angrily. "This is why ah don' hang out with the likes of ye!" Hiccup took a few steps backward.
"I-I didn't mean-"
"They never mean it," Merida hissed. "There's a reason yer a nerd, and ah'm a jock, okay? So don' get any ideas."
"Wouldn't dream of it," Hiccup muttered. "Honestly." Merida had heard him and glared hard, but just walked towards the next closet, finding it to her satisfaction when she looked inside.
"Hiccup!" Merida's harsh tone seemed to fade slightly as she called him over. "Yer cleanin' stuff's here." Hiccup pushed past the redhead into the closet, and Merida followed him, the door closing behind them with a click.
"Perfect. Paper towels and spray," Hiccup collected the items while Merida examined the various cleaning supplies in the closet. "Could you get that bucket?" Merida picked up a pale yellow bucket, her nose wrinkled in disgust. Hiccup just smiled broadly, and tried the doorknob. It wouldn't open. Hiccup tried it again. Still stuck. He yanked harder. Nope, not stuck; locked.
"Open the door Hiccup," Merida sighed, impatiently tapping her toes.
"Er- about that-" Hiccup winced. "It's kind of locked...?" That was all it took for Merida's face to turn red as her hair. Hiccup could've sworn that there was steam coming out of the redhead's ears.
"WHAT?!"
Some more Mericcup next chap, promise. Plus, I kinda like Jack teasing Rapunzel about her boyfriend so there will be some more about that. This story isn't FlynnxRapunzel, of course, but I do like the pair, so just know that there will be lots of different ships in this until my final two pairs. :)