I binged watched the entire show from ep.4 onwards on the 16th and—...tumblr made me ship it.
This ship is the McHanzo of Camp Camp. It came out if nowhere, doesn't really make sense, and the ship has no real canon to sail on! And yet that shit is so fricking popular and like, everyone ships it and somehow makes it work.
Okay, so maybe it isn't to alike, since Max and Preston actually have interacted multiply times. So there is some canon to sail on, unlike McHanzo. And it kinda makes sense, but I still was very confused about why it was so...well, popular. Even other shippers were like, 'I don't know where this came from' or 'this is a total crack ship but I love it'
So yeah...I don't know. At first; Nerris, Preston, and Harrison were my favorite characters. Then I started liking Harrison less after his episode. He was put on 3rd favorite. Then it was me being indecisive of Nerris and Preston being my favorite character. Then I finished watching the last ep (S2EP9) and Preston was lifted to first place.
So I think that helped with me deciding I was going to ship this. Not sure if I'm going to be hardcore with this new ship or not. Regardless, the lack of stories on AO3 for this ship is just sad, so I wrote this. I hope it's good.
The fact nobody noticed them sneak into the counselor's cabin is an enigma in itself. Although this was good for them. No one would assume anything. And they could finally get away from the others. Their own tents lack a certain amount of privacy they could get here. Or at least more than the tents anyway.
"I don't know why, but I feel like David's going to walk in on us."
"Ok, first off, watch how you phase that. That just sounds real sexual."
The theater loving boy felt his cheeks warm up as his boyfriend pointed out how weird his statement sounded.
Max continued. "Second off, that idiot probably will, so don't jinx it. Do you know what I had to do to distract everyone?"
"No, not particularly." He shook his head and took off his shoes. They were going to cuddle in a bed. There was no need for shoes as of now.
"Good." Max took off his own shoes as well, putting them right besides the other's. "Because I sure as all hell am not going to pull off that..." He paused for a moment, not for dramatic affect. No, he hated when people did that. (Which surprised Preston, as he tend to do that himself. Double standards, maybe? But then again, Max hated a lot of things.) He paused to search for the right word in his head. "Stunt, ever again."
Preston raised an eyebrow. "What exactly did you do?"
"Not telling." Max bopped him on the noise, then told him to get on. Preston complied and scooted to the left, letting Max take the right section. They turned towards each other, both not exactly sure what to do next.
"Uhhh, are you going to take off your hoodie?"
Max raised an eyebrow. "I'll take it off if you take off that choker."
"It's called a 'Ruff', but okay." They both sat up to take off their respective article of clothing. Max mumbled something again about how sexual his remake was, and the other boy ignores that. He ripped opened the velcro that closed the ruff around his neck. He carefully sat it down on the floor, while the other just took off his blue hoodie and let it drop to the ground. The differences between them. Lovely. Laying back down his eyes darted back to the other boy besides him. "How long do you think we have?"
"I don't fucking know, just shut up and cuddle me."
"Will do, my lady."
"Call me again, and I swear to God."
"Sorry..."
They scooted closer, warping their arms around each other. Preston nuzzle against him, the other making a noise of protest that fell upon dead ears. Pressed against each other, they laid. Just enjoying each others company, because why not?
Over time it ended up with Preston laying on the bed and Max snuggling at his side. They talked about pointless things, like the other camper (mostly Max complaining), how bad the last theater went down (literally in flames), and just general things about themselves and each other. It was nice, a much slower pace that the out-right weird and wacky 'adventure' the campers always seemed to get in. And best of all, it was only the two of them.
Then the door slammed open.
The smaller boy sat up immediately. "Motherfucker—"
"Max, language! And what are you two doing in here?" David looked confused. But upon seeing the older boy, a thought formed in his head. "Awww, are you two-?"
"We're leaving. Goodbye." Max grabbed Preston's hand and dragged him out of there. David turned around to say something as they passed him, but the little boy swung the door shut in his face. Giggles erupted from the taller boy.
"You slammed it in his face, wonderful."
"I know," cue a grin, "he's not even getting out. Let's bail." They only took five steps before two voices were heard.
"Why are you two holding hands? Hi Preston."
"What the hell where you two doing?"
"Greetings Nikki. Max here—"
"No." Max let go of his hand and covered his mouth. "We were just leaving. Right?" He gave him a look and Preston just shrugged. The duo dashed off into the night–I mean, they headed over to the side and disappeared into the forest.
"Where the fuck did they go?" Neil asked, confused on how his friend and what he guessed was now his boyfriend(?) blended into the forest that quickly.
"I could track them down." Nikki fell to the floor and sniffed the dirt.
"Nah, I don't even want know. Beside we still need to steal back my–"
"Bird!" Nikki jump up after it, only to missed and fall back to the floor. "Oof!"
"Oh my God Nikki. It's just a dumb bird. Can we please just go get..." The green hair girl ran into the bush, trying to chase after the bird. "Why did I even bother?" He face-palmed and ran after her. "Nikki, get back over here. I need you to distract Nurf!"
So this took me like...4 days to write? And that's because stuff kept happening, so I didn't have enough time to write. Or post! Anyway, this is not that great, but it is my first time writing for these characters and this web series in general. So I might write more one-shots so, I can get more used to them. Also, I just never really write couple stuff. So I'm never really sure what to do.