Innoverse here, with a little drabble-like thingy dedicated to the brotherly love of the Stoll brothers. Kind of a song fic, but I couldn't resist adding the song pieces. Every time I hear the song Playground by Sia I think of the Stolls.

Enjoy! Reviews are appreciated.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Stolls or Playground.

- Partners in Crime -

Most believed that the Stolls were just two idiots who ran around, being idiots, and just making everyone's day that much harder. That they just lived for the next prank, and that was all that they did. But, in reality, the Stolls weren't idiots. How could an idiot come up with all the glorious pranks that these two mastered? Or, how could an idiot escape flocks of angry campers after said pranks without serious injuries time and time again?

And they didn't just care about the pranks. They cared about each other, too. If you ever looked close enough, you could see just how protective Travis was of his younger brother. Sure, they fought and teased each other like regular siblings, but they still loved each other. They had feelings too, and would help each other through various hardships—Connor might never admit it to his face, but he wouldn't have been able to march into the Second Titan War without Travis. And Travis might try not to think about it, but he wouldn't have either without Connor.

They supported each other, whether it be in mischief (more often than not), with girls (maybe Connor didn't think that crushing on Katie was a good idea for Travis, but he helped him nonetheless), or with just living in general.

They were good people, but they just liked to... spice things up a bit.

~ I don't wanna grow old,

Bring me all the toys you can find ~

"Travis!" Travis looked up from the book of bad riddles he was studying, trying to devise a plan to annoy the most people possible with it. He saw his brother running into the Hermes cabin, grinning from ear to ear. He was holding a box of something suspicious... just Travis's kind of thing.

"What do you have there, dear brother?" he asked, setting the book of riddles down.

Connor's eyes glinted excitedly. "I just went to visit a buddy in the Hephaestus cabin... and I had him... uh, make a few toys for me."

Travis raised his eyebrows. "Get over here! I want to see!"

Connor practically skipped over to his brother and plopped the box down in Travis' lap, removing the cover and tossing it onto the bed. Travis looked confused at first as he stared into the contents on the box, before realization crossed his face.

The Stoll brothers shared identical grins. "The Athena cabin will never know what hit them."

Two hours later, nobody was around to witness the victory high-five as the normally calm and collected Athena campers ran around in the commons area, being chased by tiny spider automatons.

~ You don't wanna grow up,

You can be my partner in crime ~

Yes, the Stoll brothers would always be partners in crime.