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spokeAnd then they come to live in your head. o.o
Title: none yet
Author: Spoke = doomed
Fandom: Troopers
Warnings / Spoilers: The entire series possibly?
Summary / Blurb: Sleep deprivation and Peeps are crack? Names subject to change if/when necessary, author subject to fits of insanity and wondering where a certain redhead is
She heard someone yelling across the yard, and came outside into a scene of as near perfect silence as children between 5 and 10 could get. She had time to notice that Hanasaki-san, who was supposed to be supervising the yard, was in another corner entirely - and to figure out that the yelling she had heard must’ve come from the crowd gathered around Sanada Teru and the newest child…
She later estimated that the silence might’ve lasted 2 minutes before the scream from the other side of the yard broke their staring contest.
Teru turned to look and yell “Kyoko?!” which unfortunately gave the other boy an opportunity to deck him. Through the pandemonium following, she couldn’t have said what was louder, the cheering around the two boys trying to kill each other before she could pull them apart - or the laughter at the other corner, which she didn’t have time to look at.
When she finally managed to pry and threaten the two boys apart, she flinched at the bite marks on Teru. Never mind the unrepentant and slightly creepy grin from the new boy. “What happened here?“ She demanded, not really expecting an answer - Teru was making a name for himself in the stubbornly silent department. The other boy laughed softly while she tried to remember his name. “Right. If you don’t talk to me, you’ll talk to your parents. Teru, - Naoki!”
Grabbing an arm each, she began marching them toward the nurse, firmly ignoring the crowd as it shifted over to the tree, and the nasty suspicions she had about those bite marks. Let the nurse and the parents deal with them, and Hanasaki-san deal with the rest. She thought she’d seen an awfully familiar flash of dark blue in that tree...…
~~~
“How long you think we can stay up here?” He asked, peering around a branch. “Hanasaki-san looks pretty mad.”
The older boy snorted. “I can stay up here forever, they don’t know I’m here - remember?” He opened his eyes and regarded Jirou without moving. “You can stay up here as long as you like, though.”
Jirou sniffed. “Gee thanks. What is this, your tree?” He settled in as much as he could, and pulled Gumo out of his pocket, watching happily as she crawled around. “I don’t have anywhere to go, so they can just keep yelling. We like trees anyway.”
“We?” He’d closed his eyes again, and stared at Jirou’s lap. “Whoa. What is that?”
He held up his pet spider. “This is Gumo, she’s a wolf spider! Gumo, this is umm. I didn’t ask his name…” He looked away slightly as the other boy’s eyes rose. And looked back as he broke out laughing. “Hey!”
“You - you are a freak, know that?!” He choked out in gasps between the laughing. It took a minute for him to stop laughing, but once he had, he reached forward and touched Gumo very lightly as if petting her. “I’m Mutsuo …so what’s a wolf spider?”
“Means she chases things instead of building a web.”
They both flinched at the sudden shout from below. “Is that you up there?"
Title: none yet
Author: Spoke = doomed
Fandom: Troopers
Warnings / Spoilers: The entire series possibly?
Summary / Blurb: Sleep deprivation and Peeps are crack? Names subject to change if/when necessary, author subject to fits of insanity and wondering where a certain redhead is
She heard someone yelling across the yard, and came outside into a scene of as near perfect silence as children between 5 and 10 could get. She had time to notice that Hanasaki-san, who was supposed to be supervising the yard, was in another corner entirely - and to figure out that the yelling she had heard must’ve come from the crowd gathered around Sanada Teru and the newest child…
She later estimated that the silence might’ve lasted 2 minutes before the scream from the other side of the yard broke their staring contest.
Teru turned to look and yell “Kyoko?!” which unfortunately gave the other boy an opportunity to deck him. Through the pandemonium following, she couldn’t have said what was louder, the cheering around the two boys trying to kill each other before she could pull them apart - or the laughter at the other corner, which she didn’t have time to look at.
When she finally managed to pry and threaten the two boys apart, she flinched at the bite marks on Teru. Never mind the unrepentant and slightly creepy grin from the new boy. “What happened here?“ She demanded, not really expecting an answer - Teru was making a name for himself in the stubbornly silent department. The other boy laughed softly while she tried to remember his name. “Right. If you don’t talk to me, you’ll talk to your parents. Teru, - Naoki!”
Grabbing an arm each, she began marching them toward the nurse, firmly ignoring the crowd as it shifted over to the tree, and the nasty suspicions she had about those bite marks. Let the nurse and the parents deal with them, and Hanasaki-san deal with the rest. She thought she’d seen an awfully familiar flash of dark blue in that tree...…
~~~
“How long you think we can stay up here?” He asked, peering around a branch. “Hanasaki-san looks pretty mad.”
The older boy snorted. “I can stay up here forever, they don’t know I’m here - remember?” He opened his eyes and regarded Jirou without moving. “You can stay up here as long as you like, though.”
Jirou sniffed. “Gee thanks. What is this, your tree?” He settled in as much as he could, and pulled Gumo out of his pocket, watching happily as she crawled around. “I don’t have anywhere to go, so they can just keep yelling. We like trees anyway.”
“We?” He’d closed his eyes again, and stared at Jirou’s lap. “Whoa. What is that?”
He held up his pet spider. “This is Gumo, she’s a wolf spider! Gumo, this is umm. I didn’t ask his name…” He looked away slightly as the other boy’s eyes rose. And looked back as he broke out laughing. “Hey!”
“You - you are a freak, know that?!” He choked out in gasps between the laughing. It took a minute for him to stop laughing, but once he had, he reached forward and touched Gumo very lightly as if petting her. “I’m Mutsuo …so what’s a wolf spider?”
“Means she chases things instead of building a web.”
They both flinched at the sudden shout from below. “Is that you up there?"
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