Chapter Ten

"The base" is... is... it's... it's a hill. With a hole in it. No, I'm being seriously here. It's a medium-sized hill... with a hole in it. And all the Pruss ex-soldiers all walk on in like it's a fucking palace or something, dragging us with them. We've all stopped struggling by now. A while back I pretended I had to tie my shoelace- it's funny because my shoes don't have laces -and grabbed my knife and tried to stab the guy guarding me. I did manage to stab him too, but he just stood there and looked at the dagger- and it's not exactly small -protruding from his shoulder as if it was a fly, and then he laughed heartily, grabbed the knife and tucked it into his belt.

Now I know what everyone meant by fucking bears...

"Welcome to our awesome base!" the albino guy calls once we've all crawled through the small tunnel into the interior of the hill. It's only once we're inside that I realize how few Pruss there really are here. The albino and four others, to be exact, and as far as I can tell, the albino is their leader, which just shows how smart they all are. Definitely not smart enough to raid the castle of Supein, even if they pretended to be Schwiiz soldiers and invaded with them. Oh lord, and we were actually captured by these little fuckers? We're nearly as bad as they are-well, no, no one can be that bad...

"This place sucks," I tell them after looking around. It's a good thing there are only eight of us, otherwise I'm pretty sure we'd be forced to sit in each other's laps, and that would be extremely awkward.

"No it doesn't!" one of the Pruss says. "It's great! One of the greatest places ever!"

"It's not great!" someone else corrects. "It's AWESOME!" A cave-wide cheer goes up, which is surprisingly loud considering there are only five people cheering, and then somehow a tankard of beer appears in each of their hands and they proceed to get incredibly drunk while we just sit in the corner, tied up and lonely. And hungry. Fuck them! I settle down against the rough, uncomfortable dirt wall so that I can sulk. The loss of my small dagger pisses me off, and the fact that we've been captured and haven't escaped yet! Plus, I'm a bit worried about Antonio. His wound got bandaged a while back but he still looks pale and tired and has fallen asleep on my shoulder. And I'm NOT BOTHERED BY THIS, FUCK YOU ALL!

Lili looks absolutely astonished by all of this, and after a moment or so I realize that it's because she's never actually seen alcohol before... and she especially hasn't seen a bunch of random Pruss soldiers, who are supposed to be extinct, getting completely drunk. I wonder if I should cover her eyes or something, but then I grin evilly and decide I'll let her watch these guys drink themselves into oblivion while I let Antonio sleep on my shoulder- not that I like it or anything.

I change my mind when one guy attacks another and they start furiously making out, and trying to rip each other's clothes off. Sure, Lili looks totally fascinated by all of this, but... what if... they actually go at it? (My eyes' virginity!)

"Oi! Get out of here, stupid assholes!" I yell at them. Instantly, they stop their furious makeout session to look up at me accusingly, like I've just done something absolutely terrible. I hold my ground.

"You fucking heard me! I don't want to see you fucking bears fuck each other, not thank you! Get the fuck out!" I point to the little hole we all had to crawl through and smirk at them. "Go into the tunnel. It'll be good practice for later."

The room instantly bursts into raucous laughter, most of it emanating from the albino, who also shoos the other two out. They glare at me, but do as they're told, and I flick them off on the way out.

"I like you!" shouts the albino guy, and suddenly he's sitting right in front of me. I lean back a bit, because his breath smells like fucking beer- ew, why would you drink beer when there's a such thing as wine -and tell him to go fuck himself outside, or, if he's not man enough for that, to watch the other guys fuck each other. He bursts once more into uproarious laughter, then plants a hand on my shoulder and asks me to fuck him. I slap his hand away and kick him in the balls. Then he grabs me by the collar and reaches forwards like he's going to kiss me. I try as hard as I can to squirm away but the stupid dick is having none of it, and he's just about to get a kiss when Lili suddenly shoves him away dramatically, then jumps backwards as if she's expecting him to attack her. He just looks at her in shock, like he can't believe anyone would try to do that to him, and I turn to Antonio to make sure he's not dying in his sleep.

"Hey!" I yell at the albino. "What your goddamn name?!" Might as well get that over with, since I don't want to just call that guy "albino" for the rest of our captivity.

"Gilbert!" he says, instantly going back to his normal, cocky self. "But you can call me Awesome!"

"Che. Not gonna happen. Just go somewhere else so I don't have to look at your stupid face anymore," I say meanly. He deflates just a little, then he pops right back up again.

"I'll leave if you kiss me!" he states dramatically, striking a pose which I suppose is supposed to seem sexy or something. It's definitely not. I've see Antonio with his shirt of. There's not much sexier than that except perhaps Antonio with no clothes on at all... not that I would, em, like that or anything...

"I wouldn't kiss you for anything," I tell him snappishly.

He leans towards me with a coy smile, and I lean away with a grossed-out look. "Not even if I promised you... freedom?" he whispers breathily, leaning forward even more and kind of backing me into a corner. His face gets closer and closer and I get even more freaked out with every shortening of the gap.

"D-depends on what kind of kiss," I stammer, cursing myself inwardly.

"What do you mean? Isn't there only one kind of kiss?" he asks, brows furrowing in confusion. I roll my eyes.

"Um, no! There's tongue, and then there's no tongue! I will not kiss you with tongue if only I get to be free, so you're going to have to free Lili and Antonio as well if that's what you want."

Lili gasps and I turn to see that she's looking at me as if I've just done the most awful thing ever, and then I realize she thinks it would be like cheating on Antonio for me to kiss this stupid prick. It's not really, though, because it would be for his own good. I doubt that we can get proper treatment for his wounds here with all these fucking heathens.

"Don't worry about it, Lili." I say with a wave of my hand. "It doesn't mean anything except freedom from these asshats."

"I am not an asshat!" Gilbert says, insulted.

"Fine then. Asswipe." I say, looking mercilessly into his blood-red eyes, which are strangely attractive... well, no, not really, but they're a little weird.

"I'm not an asswipe either!" he insists.

"Fine then. Asshole."

"I'm not an- you know what, I'm just gonna leave it. So, I only get tongue if you all get to go free? So be it. You're all officially free. Now get over here and let me kiss you."

"Eeeewww..." I say. I didn't actually think that he'd say yes, and now I have to actually kiss him! Color me fucking disgusted! I lean slowly forward, lips curling in disgust, and press my lips against his. He leans closer to me and deepens the kiss. I try to pull away, but he's having none of it. He grabs my face and pulls me closer, and then suddenly he's jerked away from me. I quickly wipe my mouth on my sleeve and turn to see Antonio glaring at Gilbert with undisguised hate. Oh shit, Antonio had no idea what we were doing! Did he think we were actually kissing?! I mean, we were, but not in that way!

"A-Antonio-" I start, but before I can say anything he gets to his feet and quickly crawls out of the stupid little cave. Lili follows him, looking over her shoulder at me like she's saying, "I told you this would happen."

"Oh shit," I mumble, starting to rush after them. Gilbert catches my wrist, though, stopping me. I turn to glare at him.

"Be happy!" he says with a smirk. "The Awesome Me is coming with you!"

"What?" I yell, jerking my arm away from him. "There is no way in hell you are coming!" I quickly exit the cave, hearing his footsteps follow me and ignoring them. I have to find Antonio and tell him what was actually going on because, well, I don't want him to think that I was kissing Gilbert because I like that stupid idiot, and no other reason!

"Antonio!" I start to call, but then I hear unpleasant noises coming from the bushes to my left and remember that- oh, gross, those two Pruss soldiers I kicked out! They're right over there! I quickly move to my left to try to get away from those flat out awkward noises, and crash right into Gilbert. I whirl around and shove him away.

"Would you leave me alone?!" I ask frustratedly. "I'm looking for Antonio, dammit!"

"Well then, I'll help you look." he half-whines. "I'm awesome at everything, so I'm sure I'll find him for you,"

"No!" I start walking fast into the forest, away from the two Pruss and their awkward noises. I just hope Antonio went this way as well. How did he manage to get so far ahead of me? Fuck! If only we were still back at the castle then I could just order someone else to find him! Ugh, speaking of the castle, I'm fucking hungry... What I would do for some pasta right about now...

"Antonio!" I shout, cupping my hands around my mouth. I don't know if that will help, but it's worth a shot, right? "Antonio! Lili! Where are you?" I try my best to ignore the footsteps behind me that signal that Gilbert is still following me, fuck him.

"Where the fuck are you!" I shout, waving my hands around frustratedly. I sit down on the ground with a humph and try not to cry. Crying is what Feli does, not me. I haven't cried for a long, long time, and I'm not about to change that! Fuck it all!

Gilbert sits down next to me and says nothing for a while, which is good, because if he speaks I will bite him.

"You know how Pruss went to war with Austri?" he says suddenly. I tense up, ready to attack, but decide to at least let him finish his story before I bite him.

"Sure, sure, whatever," I prompt.

"I was one of the soldiers, ja?"

"Ja- I mean, yeah?"

He smirks at me before continuing. "Well, I met this guy. He was an Austri soldier, in name, but really he was a musician." His voice takes on a tone I've only heard from my brother before, and that's only when he's speaking of pasta.

"He was perfect. You should have seen him. He had the prettiest skin, and dark hair and these gorgeous purple eyes. He kinda looked down on everybody else, but I still loved him."

I sigh. "Your point, please?"

"Well, one night I walked in and found him having sex with another man." I gape at him, mostly because I don't understand how he can say that so offhandedly.

"What did you do?" I ask, getting more into the story than I would like.

"Well, I did what anyone would do," he says.

Kill them both? I think.

"I went and had some epic sex with his sister, Elizaveta."

My mouth falls open and I realize how much it would hurt me if Antonio had revenge-sex with mio fratellino. Mostly it'd hurt, though, because poor fratello is an innocent virgin and that would just be really awful for him.

"It really was epic, though. I'm not sure how she managed to get laid at all with an overprotective brother like that, but she knew some stuff about it!"

This is starting to get uncomfortably detailed.

"And then I left the village and joined the Pruss army so that I could try to kill Roddy the next time I saw him."

"You hold grudges like a girl," I tell him flat-out.

He sneers at me. "At least I don't look like one." he says.

"I don't look like a girl!" I shout.

"I was talking about your boyfriend," he smirks.

"Excuse me?" I say in my most dangerous voice. "What did you just say, you maggot-ridden piece of toad-wart?"

He looks at me like he can't believe that I've just said something that the "awesome" him doesn't understand.

"Tonio does NOT look like a girl!" I state primly. "He looks like one of the hottest beings I've ever seen in my life, and he's DEFINITELY male."

"If you say so..." he says doubtfully. "But my Awesome is telling me otherwise."

"Well, your 'Awesome' can go shove itself up your ass for all I care."

He grins at me and slings an arm around my shoulder. "Y'know, I think we're going to be great friends!"

A/N Sorry for the later-than-Judgement-Day update! *sobs in corner* Yeah, sorry, I've been taken by a new story of mine (one I haven't posted- I know, I'm a jerk) and, well, I just wasn't really FEELING this chapter, y'know? I know, bad excuse. WELL SORRY! I'll just blame it all on my new baby cousin. She was born one day after my birthday, not ON my birthday, so it sent me into a horrible bout of depression! (Just kidding. But that's the story I will stick with to save face.)

Anyways, dunno when the next update will be, so... just... uh, check your alerts, I guess? And yeah. Bye.