Fanfic: The Rule 1/?
Title: The Rule 1/?
Author/Artist: jencatd
Prompt: Fight (for mission_insane
Character(s) or Pairing(s): America, Australia, England, New Zealand
Rating: PG
Warnings: None?
Summary: There is only one rule when Australia and New Zealand fight, and now it has been broken.
Next part: Part 2
“Oh man, this is so unfair!” America’s voice rang out from the speakers of England’s laptop which was sitting on a table in Australia’s living room. He, Australia, England and New Zealand had just heard the results of the Fifa World Cup votes for hosting rights to 2018 and 2022’s tournaments, and America had immediately video called England on Skype to complain about the results. “How did Russia and Qatar end up winning the hosting rights?”
“I really don’t know, Alfred.” England sighed. “My country’s bid was excellent, but somehow Russia won the vote in the end.”
"It's a conspiracy, that's what it is!" America said.
“Excuse us, guys.” New Zealand said as he led Australia out of the laptop webcam’s line of sight. Australia had taken missing out on the hosting rights harder than the other two, and was crying and clinging to New Zealand who’d come over to watch the second Ashes test with him and England. "Come on, James, it's not the end of the world."
“All right.” England said and turned his attention back to the laptop. "Alfred, not everything that goes wrong is a conspiracy. We just lost out, that's all."
“But it’s not fair, Will.” Australia said, and New Zealand rubbed his back. “Everyone was so excited about this, and I thought we had a really, really good chance!”
“I know, I know.” New Zealand said. He could tell just how badly Australia had wanted this since it was rare to see him get this upset over losing anything. He didn’t even get upset when “OneAustralia” snapped in two and sank at the America’s Cup back in the ‘90s. He did glare at New Zealand for pissing himself laughing over his team’s misfortune, but that was about it. “You did your best!”
“But my best wasn’t good enough.” Australia said. “I feel like I’ve let everyone down!”
“It’s okay!” New Zealand said. “You’ll get to make a bid again, and you’ll get another chance to be voted in as host in the future.”
“But it’s not the point! We could’ve put on an awesome World Cup.” Australia said. “Why didn’t they choose my country?”
“I really don’t know, but it’ll be okay!” New Zealand said. “You have the Cricket World Cup in 2015, so look forward to that!”
“Not the way my team is going these days,” Australia said. “We’ll be lucky if we win this Ashes series.”
New Zealand said nothing, and kept comforting Australia. He really needed to snap out of this before the three of them left to go to the Oval and watch the second Ashes test, but how? New Zealand thought for a moment and grinned. There was more than one way to sort out an upset Australian, and this upset Australian was getting his shirt wet. Any more of this crying stuff and he’d have to go change!
“Bro.” New Zealand said. “You know what?”
“What?” Australia didn’t even look up.
“You cry like a girl.” New Zealand said and Australia stopped crying.
“Y-you take that back.” Australia’s voice shook a little. He still looked a bit tearful as well, but this was for his own good.
“No way!” New Zealand grinned. “James is a gi-irl, James is a gi-irl.”
“I am not!” Australia’s voice seemed more steady this time. “Take that back, Will!”
“Neh! James cries like a girl!” New Zealand said and Australia blinked away the last of the tears.
“You take that back, Will, or I’ll...” Australia said.
“You’ll hit me with your handbag?” New Zealand smirked. “Make sure you take out the Chihuahua first.”
“Chihuahua? Right, that’s it!” Australia yelled. “Like I’d own a dog like that!”
Unnoticed by England and America, Australia knocked New Zealand to the floor and the two of them started kicking and punching each other. New Zealand had just gotten in a really good hit when they started rolling around and managed to get into the laptop webcam’s line of sight.
“Whoa!” America said. “Will and James are fighting again! Artie, move the laptop so I can see the fight!”
“Oh for goodness's sake.” England said, and picked up the laptop so America could get a better view. The two of them stared at the younger nations who were yelling something about not owning a bloody Chihuahua among other things, and England was sure he heard New Zealand saying Australia cries like a girl over the noise of the two of them punching and kicking each other, and occasionally swearing after kicking the furniture when they missed. The two of them then rolled against the couch, and were stuck there for the moment which made it easier for them to punch each other.
“Artie, why are they fighting?” America said. He sounded like he was really enjoying watching his younger brothers fight even though he’d probably seen it a million times before and this fight was relatively tame compared to some of their brawls at world meetings.
“I think William said James cries like a girl.” England said and New Zealand and Australia immediately stopped fighting.
“Did you hear that?” Australia said.
“Yup.” New Zealand said.
“Did he?” Australia said.
“He did.” New Zealand said.
“That’s what I thought.” Australia said as the two of them separated from each other and got up. They walked over to England with what looked like a mischievous grin on their faces.
“Yessss!” America said softly then quickly covered it up with a cough before England could notice.
“Yup.” New Zealand said and took the laptop off of England. “He broke the rule.”
“Artie, you’re coming with me.” Australia said and placed a hand on England’s shoulder.
“What for?!” England glared first at Australia and then at New Zealand with all the indignation he could muster. “William, give me back my laptop.”
“You broke the rule.” Australia said as England tried to reach for his laptop, but New Zealand kept it out of his reach.
“Rule? What rule?” England said as Australia manhandled him out of the living room. “I have no idea what you’re talking about, James!”
“Ignorance of the rule is no excuse for breaking the rule!” Australia said.
“Unhand me, James!” England said. “We’re going to the cricket today, and we don’t have time for this kind of nonsense!”
“Artie, we have all the time in the world.” Australia said from the hallway. “Will, do the honours since you’ve got his laptop!”
“Yeah, sure Bro!” New Zealand said, and turned the laptop around to face him. “Sorry, Al, but we’ve gotta go.”
“But Will, I wanna see what happens!” America said. “Can’t you let a bro have first look?”
“Al, you know how this works.” New Zealand said. “What happens will be revealed later on.”
“Aw, come on!” America said. “I made him break the rule, so why can’t I get first look?”
“Because.” New Zealand said. “You’ll see at the same time as everyone else.”
“Awww, all right.” America sounded a bit disappointed. “See ya later, Will!”
New Zealand closed the Skype program after the call ended, and loaded Firefox. He laughed when he realised just how easy England had made this for him. New Zealand expected that he’d have to sit there trying to guess England’s password (it was probably teaandscones or something similarly silly), or hack into it with a forgotten password request. Fortunately for him neither option was necessary. England had made Facebook his homepage, and set it for auto-login. Who would've thought England would be a Facebook addict? New Zealand noticed he had a few Friend Requests sitting there, but those weren’t his business. All he needed to do was update England’s status. He sat there staring at the homepage for a moment. He was used to updating Australia’s Facebook status with this, but updating England’s with this was something new. New Zealand rapidly typed in the words, pressed enter, and the status update was done.
“Arthur Kirkland broke the rule.”
Before New Zealand shut down Firefox he saw “Alfred F. Jones and 99 other people like this.” instantly appear under the status update.
“Will!” He heard Australia yell from elsewhere in the house as he shut down the laptop. “Are you helping with this or not?”
“I’m on my way, bro!” New Zealand said, and put the laptop back down on the table before leaving the living room.
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Author's Notes: Human names for Australia and New Zealand.
Australia: James
New Zealand: William
Author/Artist: jencatd
Prompt: Fight (for mission_insane
Character(s) or Pairing(s): America, Australia, England, New Zealand
Rating: PG
Warnings: None?
Summary: There is only one rule when Australia and New Zealand fight, and now it has been broken.
Next part: Part 2
“Oh man, this is so unfair!” America’s voice rang out from the speakers of England’s laptop which was sitting on a table in Australia’s living room. He, Australia, England and New Zealand had just heard the results of the Fifa World Cup votes for hosting rights to 2018 and 2022’s tournaments, and America had immediately video called England on Skype to complain about the results. “How did Russia and Qatar end up winning the hosting rights?”
“I really don’t know, Alfred.” England sighed. “My country’s bid was excellent, but somehow Russia won the vote in the end.”
"It's a conspiracy, that's what it is!" America said.
“Excuse us, guys.” New Zealand said as he led Australia out of the laptop webcam’s line of sight. Australia had taken missing out on the hosting rights harder than the other two, and was crying and clinging to New Zealand who’d come over to watch the second Ashes test with him and England. "Come on, James, it's not the end of the world."
“All right.” England said and turned his attention back to the laptop. "Alfred, not everything that goes wrong is a conspiracy. We just lost out, that's all."
“But it’s not fair, Will.” Australia said, and New Zealand rubbed his back. “Everyone was so excited about this, and I thought we had a really, really good chance!”
“I know, I know.” New Zealand said. He could tell just how badly Australia had wanted this since it was rare to see him get this upset over losing anything. He didn’t even get upset when “OneAustralia” snapped in two and sank at the America’s Cup back in the ‘90s. He did glare at New Zealand for pissing himself laughing over his team’s misfortune, but that was about it. “You did your best!”
“But my best wasn’t good enough.” Australia said. “I feel like I’ve let everyone down!”
“It’s okay!” New Zealand said. “You’ll get to make a bid again, and you’ll get another chance to be voted in as host in the future.”
“But it’s not the point! We could’ve put on an awesome World Cup.” Australia said. “Why didn’t they choose my country?”
“I really don’t know, but it’ll be okay!” New Zealand said. “You have the Cricket World Cup in 2015, so look forward to that!”
“Not the way my team is going these days,” Australia said. “We’ll be lucky if we win this Ashes series.”
New Zealand said nothing, and kept comforting Australia. He really needed to snap out of this before the three of them left to go to the Oval and watch the second Ashes test, but how? New Zealand thought for a moment and grinned. There was more than one way to sort out an upset Australian, and this upset Australian was getting his shirt wet. Any more of this crying stuff and he’d have to go change!
“Bro.” New Zealand said. “You know what?”
“What?” Australia didn’t even look up.
“You cry like a girl.” New Zealand said and Australia stopped crying.
“Y-you take that back.” Australia’s voice shook a little. He still looked a bit tearful as well, but this was for his own good.
“No way!” New Zealand grinned. “James is a gi-irl, James is a gi-irl.”
“I am not!” Australia’s voice seemed more steady this time. “Take that back, Will!”
“Neh! James cries like a girl!” New Zealand said and Australia blinked away the last of the tears.
“You take that back, Will, or I’ll...” Australia said.
“You’ll hit me with your handbag?” New Zealand smirked. “Make sure you take out the Chihuahua first.”
“Chihuahua? Right, that’s it!” Australia yelled. “Like I’d own a dog like that!”
Unnoticed by England and America, Australia knocked New Zealand to the floor and the two of them started kicking and punching each other. New Zealand had just gotten in a really good hit when they started rolling around and managed to get into the laptop webcam’s line of sight.
“Whoa!” America said. “Will and James are fighting again! Artie, move the laptop so I can see the fight!”
“Oh for goodness's sake.” England said, and picked up the laptop so America could get a better view. The two of them stared at the younger nations who were yelling something about not owning a bloody Chihuahua among other things, and England was sure he heard New Zealand saying Australia cries like a girl over the noise of the two of them punching and kicking each other, and occasionally swearing after kicking the furniture when they missed. The two of them then rolled against the couch, and were stuck there for the moment which made it easier for them to punch each other.
“Artie, why are they fighting?” America said. He sounded like he was really enjoying watching his younger brothers fight even though he’d probably seen it a million times before and this fight was relatively tame compared to some of their brawls at world meetings.
“I think William said James cries like a girl.” England said and New Zealand and Australia immediately stopped fighting.
“Did you hear that?” Australia said.
“Yup.” New Zealand said.
“Did he?” Australia said.
“He did.” New Zealand said.
“That’s what I thought.” Australia said as the two of them separated from each other and got up. They walked over to England with what looked like a mischievous grin on their faces.
“Yessss!” America said softly then quickly covered it up with a cough before England could notice.
“Yup.” New Zealand said and took the laptop off of England. “He broke the rule.”
“Artie, you’re coming with me.” Australia said and placed a hand on England’s shoulder.
“What for?!” England glared first at Australia and then at New Zealand with all the indignation he could muster. “William, give me back my laptop.”
“You broke the rule.” Australia said as England tried to reach for his laptop, but New Zealand kept it out of his reach.
“Rule? What rule?” England said as Australia manhandled him out of the living room. “I have no idea what you’re talking about, James!”
“Ignorance of the rule is no excuse for breaking the rule!” Australia said.
“Unhand me, James!” England said. “We’re going to the cricket today, and we don’t have time for this kind of nonsense!”
“Artie, we have all the time in the world.” Australia said from the hallway. “Will, do the honours since you’ve got his laptop!”
“Yeah, sure Bro!” New Zealand said, and turned the laptop around to face him. “Sorry, Al, but we’ve gotta go.”
“But Will, I wanna see what happens!” America said. “Can’t you let a bro have first look?”
“Al, you know how this works.” New Zealand said. “What happens will be revealed later on.”
“Aw, come on!” America said. “I made him break the rule, so why can’t I get first look?”
“Because.” New Zealand said. “You’ll see at the same time as everyone else.”
“Awww, all right.” America sounded a bit disappointed. “See ya later, Will!”
New Zealand closed the Skype program after the call ended, and loaded Firefox. He laughed when he realised just how easy England had made this for him. New Zealand expected that he’d have to sit there trying to guess England’s password (it was probably teaandscones or something similarly silly), or hack into it with a forgotten password request. Fortunately for him neither option was necessary. England had made Facebook his homepage, and set it for auto-login. Who would've thought England would be a Facebook addict? New Zealand noticed he had a few Friend Requests sitting there, but those weren’t his business. All he needed to do was update England’s status. He sat there staring at the homepage for a moment. He was used to updating Australia’s Facebook status with this, but updating England’s with this was something new. New Zealand rapidly typed in the words, pressed enter, and the status update was done.
“Arthur Kirkland broke the rule.”
Before New Zealand shut down Firefox he saw “Alfred F. Jones and 99 other people like this.” instantly appear under the status update.
“Will!” He heard Australia yell from elsewhere in the house as he shut down the laptop. “Are you helping with this or not?”
“I’m on my way, bro!” New Zealand said, and put the laptop back down on the table before leaving the living room.
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Author's Notes: Human names for Australia and New Zealand.
Australia: James
New Zealand: William