A/N: You Don't Need To Take Any Notice Of This, This Is Entirely For My Benefit. You Won't Know Why Until Some Time. - Different Fic And Everything. Okay Carry On.
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Walking In A Winter Wonderland
Chapter Ten: Mysterious
Once everyone was warm and satisfied Jack stood up once again. "Okay since the orienteering took only two hours and it's now three in the afternoon I've organised for us to do some snow tubing."
"Go outside again?! We've only just warmed up!" Sam groaned.
"Don't worry, you can just be extra clean by tonight what with all the baths some of you are having." Jack grinned. "Come on then. We'll go to the slope where Mike will be waiting to teach us how to snow tube safely."
Dan inwardly groaned, he had been pretty sure that Honey had been experiencing some feelings towards him but if she spent time with Mike maybe she'd swap who she liked again. However once they'd gotten up the where the slope was Honey had eyes for only one man and it weren't Mike. On the other hand Mike had eyes for one person too …
"Honey is it just me or is Mike checking Jo out?" Sam muttered to Honey.
"I thought he was too!" Honey exclaimed loudly so everyone turned round to look at them. Honey went red and looked down at the floor while Sam giggled at her. Jo wandered over.
"What you two been whispering - although honey actually needs to work on the whispering - about?" Jo asked.
"Nothing!" They both said rather quickly.
"Oh come on, you can't push me out. What is it?" Jo whined.
"Promise you won't get mad?" Sam asked.
"I promise." Jo said, eyeing them suspiciously.
"Well we think Mike is eyeing you up." Honey admitted.
"What?!" Jo laughed.
"He is, we're telling you!" Sam insisted.
"He is not!" Jo laughed, but the more she thought about it the more she seemed to notice it. It worried her, a lot.
They walked up to the top of the hill and after Jack and Gina had gone down Mike turned to the rest of them. "Right you can do what you like, this isn't very dangerous but be careful anyway. Your bosses seem content to keep this safe but y'know safe isn't always fun."
They all laughed, didn't they know what with their exciting and occasionally dangerous jobs. Some sat normally in their tubes while going down, others went on their stomachs, some on their backs. Smithy decided he would be different and stood up, he went surfer style down but tripped at the end and landed with a thud in the snow. He stood up and raised his hands in the air laughing as everyone cheered for him.
Emma lingered around the back not going down at all, even when Mike announced that it was a competition for who could stay standing on their tube for the longest amount of time and they had to partner up with someone who was about the same build as them on the opposite team.
As the teams got into pairs and readied themselves Gina walked casually over to Emma. "Emma are you okay?"
"Yes Ma'am, sorry Ma'am I just …"
"Please stop with the Ma'am." Gina laughed. "For this week I am plain old Gina."
Emma smiled, she found her easier to talk to when she wasn't her superior. "It's just, well I'm a little scared."
"Of the slope? Of hurting yourself? Or heights? Of the speed?" Gina asked.
"The height, heights make me feel queasy." Emma admitted.
"You don't have to do it, but if you do then you might just be conquering another fear. For the first couple of times why don't you keep your eyes shut tight? It's all over in a couple of seconds and you never know you might enjoy it." Gina suggested.
Emma nodded. "Yeah okay. Thanks … Gina."
Emma walked over to where her partner, Jo, was waiting patiently. Emma looked back at her boss. She wasn't too bad actually.
Gina walked over to where Jack was at the back. "What was that all about?"
"Emma was just a little queasy about the height. And I think we buried the hatchet." Gina smiled.
Jack grinned. "That's great. I'm glad some people can be grown up enough to bury their hatchets." Jack said nodding his head in the direction of where Phil and Stuart were stood glaring at each other. "Honestly, you'd think I was their head master rather than their boss."
Smithy and Zain both stood on their tubes and set off. Zain kicked and straight away lost balance. He went rolling down the hill instead. Everyone roared with laughter as he stood up and fell back down, too dizzy to walk.
Stuart and Phil both went down but got to half way and started bashing into each other instead. This threw them both off balance and they both slid down without their tubes.
Next went Jo and Emma, kept her eyes shut tightly but fell off and tumbled down the hill. Gina looked extremely concerned, but Emma stood up in a laughing fit. Having not had that much fun for a long time.
Honey and Dan both went together. Dan moved closer to Honey and gave her a push, they both landed on the snow. Honey landed under Dan and after slapping him playfully a couple of times they ended up kissing. Everyone cheered them on until they went on kissing a tad bit too long.
"Alright calm down you two!" Phil shouted laughing.
"Shut it Serge, we had to put up with you and Sam!" Dan laughed before he carried on kissing.
Phil looked up and his eyes caught Sam's sad ones. He felt a pang of guilt, had he really put that sadness in her once sparkling eyes?
Sam and Nikki started up their own one, crouching low to the tube. They were still on their feet after all! After a couple of moments Nikki began to lose balance so grabbed hold of Sam who was close enough to reach. They balanced themselves out and slid right the way down to the end.
"Teamwork from opposing teams! I'm impressed!" Mike laughed.
After that Lewis and Dianne then Jack and Gina copied their technique for the safety of it. All making their way fully down.
After that Mike just said they could have fun sliding down the slope with or without the tubes which everyone took for granted and began to slide down with out tubes or pushing others down on their tubes while they stayed on their stomachs.
Honey went down on Dan's lap in the tube and as Sam watched she felt regret, a couple of days ago that could have been her and Phil together like that too. Phil was having the same kind of regrets and was watching Sam looking at them sadly. He guessed Jo could also sense her sadness as she suddenly bounded over and pulled the blonde over to the slope. They went down together pulling gangster poses. Honey ended up taking a picture of them like it.
As Jo made her way back up to the top of the slope with her tube under her arm Mike caught her up. "How about you sit on my lap?
"No thanks." Jo said.
"Okay so I may have come across arrogant by saying that but c'mon give me a chance." Mike begged.
"Sorry no can do." Jo replied.
"Ah c'mon why not?" Mike asked.
"Well for one you're about fifteen years younger than me and two I'm gay." Jo trudged up the slope on her lonesome as Mike stood there looking gormless.
After playing on the slope for a while and getting colder Jack and Gina called them back to a group and they all went back to the lodge together.
They were well fed at dinner and sat together in the lounge, all of them talking and joking. The main topic of conversation was about the instructor that fancied the lesbian.
"Can you lot p-lease stop cracking jokes at my expense!" Jo laughed.
"No it's funny." Sam giggled.
Jack stood up and everyone fell almost silent.
"Hang on we're not doing something else tonight are we? Because every time you stand up like that it's to tell us we're about to do something." Honey said, she was yet again sitting on Dan's lap.
"No not tonight, actually I'm going to tell you what we're doing tomorrow. Well kind of. One of you will be going solo. Three will be in a team with one leader. Seven will be defending." Jack said mysteriously.
"You've missed out three people. There's fourteen of us here and you've only got eleven." Sam said.
"Well I won't be playing, I will be observing." Jack replied. "And the other two is a mystery."
"Do we get any other information or it that it?" Dan asked.
"That's it, for now. Oh you should know though, there will be roleplay involved."
With that Jack went off up to bed.
"I'm scared!" Zain said like a little girl and everyone got back into the happy mood rather than the confused mood.
Emma turned to Gina. "D'you know what'd going on?"
Gina shook her head. "Only what you lot know."
"Has he just creeped anyone else out?" Sam asked, many people answered with a yes. "Oh good, not just me then."