Chapter 28

Art awoke to find Seiji lying in his arms. The morning sun was pouring thrugh the blue canvas of the tent, and as he pushed open the tent flaps, the contrast made the world outside seem even more warm and orange. He tied back the door, leaving the sunlight flooding in, glinting on the knives still tied to Seiji's wrists. He wrapped his arms around the younger boy, gently kissing his neck, "Wake up Sei," he muttered,

"What the?" Seiji rolled over, into Art, "mmmm" he muttered, as he buried his face in Art's chest, "Where are we baby?"

Art laughed, "Baby?"

"Oh shut up." Seiji scowled, but slipping his arms around Art's waist all the same, "God I want you," he muttered,

Art grinned, "That's cause you've forgotton something, or maybe someone,"

"What?" Seiji glanced out of the door of the tent for the first time, and caught a glimpse of the other tents, and remember with a horrible shock where he was, "Oh Gods, Amber."

Art laughed and brushed a stray strand of hair out of Seiji's eyes, "I might have to go away for a little bit today,"

"Mmm?"

"Can I trust you?"

Seiji laughed evilly, "Have you ever been able to trust me?"

Art smiled, and rather sweetly kissed Seiji on the cheek, "I shouldn't, but I do."

Everyone else started to wake up, but in the sleepily lazy way that one tends to when camping, staying lying in bed, chatting amougnst themselves, sleepy conversations, with very little apparant meaning.

Eagle woke up, and glanced across at where Matt lay, just half a metre away, nose deep in a book.

"Morning," Eagle grinned, happy just to be close to Matt,

Matt looked over and grinned, "Morning Eagle. Sleep alright?"

Eagle grinned to himself, "Yeah, you?"

Matt folded down the page of his book, and closed it, still keeping his thumb marking the page, "Thanks,"

Eagle frowned, "What for?"

"Being so forgiving," Matt blushed slightly, "I was an absolute bastard to you, thanks for not doing the same to me."

Eagle laughed, "Oh Matty," he sighed, "I will always love you," he pounced on Matt, grabbing him around the waist, "You muggin," he grinned.

Laughing, the two boys wrestled each other.

Raven unzipped the front of her tent, sticking her head out, leaning her chin on the palms of her hands. She grinned across to where Alex lay, in almost exactly the same position, grinning back at her. No words were needed, they both lay there, grinning and blushing as an uspoken bond passed between them.

The twins woke up, still wrapped up in each other's arms. Gently Fergie stroked his brother's cheek, "I'm sorry Tor,"

Tor wrapped his arms around his twin, "Yeah, I'm sorry for ignoring you."

"And screwing an English girl?"

Tor laughed, "Yeah alright, I'm not going to stop screwing her though."

"Mmm" Fergie kissed him, "As long as you don't stop screwing me."

Tor's hands started to slide down his brother's body, "Hell no."

Art prodded Seiji in his all to visable ribs, "You gonna cook us breakfast?"

"Why me?"

Art laughed, "You'd trust one of that lot to cook for you?"

Seiji laughed, "Alright then, find me some clothes."

Art hunted around the tent, and eventually found him a pair of jeans, "I think these are yours," he laughed, "But it'll be funny if they aren't."

Seiji sighed as if he was far more mature than Art, actually, even though he was a good 7 years younger, this was probably the case. He pulled on the jeans, which were his after all. He scrambled out of the tent, and proceeded to relight last night's fire.

Once they saw Seiji up, the others slowly started to get up. Except for Amber who scrambled out of her tent faster than lightening to sit next to her favourite person. "Morning Seiji."

"Morning," Seiji grunted.

"Sleep well?"

"Mmhmm." Seiji tried not to look at Amber, "Am, go and fetch me some water would you."

"Sure!" Amber got up, glad to help and started to bounce off, she paused, "Uh, where from?"

"Go that way," he pointed East, "About a hundred paces, actually," he laughed to himself, "You have really small steps, about two hundred paces, you'll find a tap."

Art frowned slightly, "How do you know that?"

Seiji shrugged, "I know these things."

Art pulled on his trousers before getting up, "I hate you Seij, you know that?"

"Yeah, course you do." Seiji grinned as he felt Art's arms wrap around him. He felt Art's warm breath on his neck,

"You are absolutly gorgeous," Art muttered.

By this time, pretty much everyone else was up, most of the guys (except Ash,) were, despite the cold, sitting there without any shirts on. I thought at first this might have been because they wanted to impress the girls, and then I thought about who was there, and realised that it was more likely they wanted to impress each other *nudge nudge*.

Amber had returned with the water, and set it down beside Seiji, sitting as close to him as possible without seeming needy, and every other glance directed at him.

"Whatcha cooking Sei?"

Seiji shrugged, "I was gonna boil some water for teas and coffees actually."

"Oh you star." Mara got out of the tent, "I geniunly don't think I could live without coffee." She laughed, and then her happiness fell, as she glanced around and saw that the only two people who hadn't got up, were the twins. She glanced over towards their tent, and then regretted it. "Art," she whinged, "The twins are all over each other."

"Hmmm," Art looked up, "You know, normally I wouldn't do anything about that, but I think they are being a little harsh on you." He got up and wandered over to the twins tent, kneeling down in the entrance, "Hmm hmm," he coughed

Fergie looked up, and grinned at him, "Hey Art."

Art laughed, "Well at least I know which one of you is which now," he said, realising that when the twins weren't wearing different clothes, it was really hard to tell them apart, "I don't think Tor would greet me that ecstatically,"

"Damn straight," Tor grinned, sliding his hands down Fergie's chest

"Fuck off." Fergie sat up, pushing his brother away, "What is it Art?"

"Actually, I wanted a word with Tor."

"What now?" Tor scowled at Art,

"About you're girlfriend?" Art grinned evilly, "You two are being really unfair to her."

"I guess," said Tor reluctantly, he turned and smiled at his brother.

Fergie sighed, "All right then, but you owe me mega time now, and you still owe me from last time." He pulled on his jeans, stepping out of the tent, and shivering slightly in the cool october air. He walked over to Mara and put his arms around her, "Baby I'm sorry," he muttered, kissing her hair.

She looked up into his sparkling green eyes, a gentle hand stroking his cheek, "I just," she frowned slightly, "I guess I'm just a little confused," she slipped her arms around his waist, "I really like you, and I thought you liked me, but then theres Fergie aswell, and," she sighed, "Oh I don't know."

Fergie smiled, kissing her, "I do really like you," he blushed slightly, remembering he was meant to be being Torlike, "The thing with my brother...well, it's complicated, it's a twin thing, and I don't expect you to understand,"

She grinned, "Just be understanding, yeah?"

Fergie laughed slightly, "I know it's really harsh, but we will try and be well behaved, it's just weird, cause it's normally just the two of us."

"I know," said Mara and hugged him tight, "I just think you're gorgeous."

From the tent Tor shouted something in Gaelic. Fergie grinned, "I'll be back in just two seconds," he smiled, and kissed her again, "I think you're beautiful."

A memory came rushing back to Mara, "You know, you're very beautiful." Fergie had said that, not Tor, "Hey!" she called out.

Fergie stopped and looked back, "Yeah?"

"What's your brother's name."

"Uh? Tor?" said Fergie, without thinking, then realised, "Shit!" he laughed, diving into the relative safety of the tent.

Mara stamped her feet, "I HATE YOU BOTH!" she screamed.

"Someone shut her up, please." Ally scowled.

Mara scowled at him, but within seconds felt warm arms around her, and a soft Irish voice in her ear, "I really am sorry this time."

She turned and scowled at the twin, "But how do I know who you are?"

The boy laughed, "Ok, so I'm Fergie."

"ARGH!"

"Hey," He caught her by the wrists, "Tor'll come and talk to you if you want, but he won't say he's sorry."

Mara scowled, "Can I scream and shout and hit him, and tell him I hate him,"

Fergie shrugged, "Sure, but he still won't apologise."

Her scowl deepened, "He said sorry to you."

"That's different, he's my twin."

"Fine, well can I atleast talk to him?"

"Sure." Said Tor, getting up finally, and walking over to Mara.

Fergie let his brother's girlfriend go, and went back to the tent,

Mara turned to Tor, anger in her eyes and started to beat her tiny fists aimlessly on his chest, "I HATE YOU!" she cried repeatedly, trying to hurt him.

Tor smiled faintly, "Shut up Mara," he said softly.

She didn't hear him over her yelling.

Tor put a gentle, but forcefull hand on the back of her neck, and pulled her towards him, kissing her. "I said shut up," he said as he eventually released her.

Mara blushed bright red, "An apology would be nice."

Tor shrugged, "Sure it would, you gonna say sorry?"

"Me?" Mara stamped her foot again, "What have I got to say sorry for?"

Tor laughed, "For trying to cause me pain, by repeatedly hitting my chest? What have I got to say sorry for?"

Mara frowned slightly, "Uh, well Fergie screwed me."

"That my fault?"

"Well, I guess not, but it is your fault that you slept with him last night, and not me."

"Yes?" Tor raised his eyebrows, amused, "And is that something to apologise for?"

"YES!"

Tor laughed, "Well...I won't say it in English, but I might say it in gaelic for you."

Mara looked up at him, delight in her eyes, "You would?"

Tor shrugged, "Sure," he said, followed by something in Irish.

From the tent, Fergie burst out laughing, "Nice,"

Mara turned to him, "What did he say?"

Fergie laughed, still slightly annoyed at Tor, and therefore very happy to get him into trouble, "He said you have nice tits."

All the guys laughed at this. Mara sighed, giving up, she slipped her arms around Tor's waist, gazing up at him, "Well atleast it was a compliment."

"You should really stand up for yourself you know," Nienna reprimanded her, "We have few enough girls as it is."

"Oh yeah," Art looked up, remembering something he'd been meant to tell them weeks ago, "We've got some new kids coming after half term, two girls and a boy."

"Oooh!" Ash squealed, "What are they like?"

Art shrugged, "Dunno, never met them, I just know one's from America, one of the girls, and that's it."

"Aw, I wanna meet them," Ash pulled a sad face.

"You will do soon, don't you worry."

"Are they fit?" Ally laughed

"Apparantly he is." Art grinned, "Sir doesn't really comment upon the appearances of girls that much."

For the rest of the morning the guys just hung around, chatting and drinking tea, speculating about the new kids.

"Hey Seiji," Amber grinned

"What?"

"Can I peirce your nipple already?"

"NO!" Seiji yelled, hugging his arms protectivly to himself, "No more pain please Am."

"Aww," Amber sniffed, "You're so mean."

Art grinned, "And it would make you look so cute."

"It would hurt," Seiji scowled, "Don't you care for my feelings?"

Art shrugged, "I care for your body much more." He grinned as he started to slide his hands down Seiji's trousers.

"That's so shallow." Nienna huffed, "Men are so annoying."

"Yeah." J pressed a finger to her lips "They really are."

"Nah," Art grinned, "Women are annoying, thus why I sleep with men."

"Boys actually." said a voice from over head.

"Ouch!" Art looked up, "That hurt."

A tall man swung down from the branches above, his long black cloak making a swishing sound as he jumped down.

As he hit the ground. Seiji, scowling, sank to his knees.

"Hello Seiji," the man smiled

"Master." Seiji scowl darkened.

Art looked up at the man, and grinned, "Shinza," he nodded in greeting, and then, "My my you're looking hot today."

Lord Shinzaburo laughed, "Thank you Art," he turned to Seiji, "You can get up now Sei,"

Seiji scowled even more, "Master."

"Actually," Shinza turned back to Art, "It was you I'd come to see."

Art sat up, "Oh really? I'm honoured, any particular reason?"

"Yeah," Shinza laughed, an evil glint in his eyes, "I was bored." He held out his hand to help Art get up, "Shall we walk?"

Art laughed as the older man pulled him up, "Certainly." As they sauntered off into the woods, Art turned back to his sister. "Oh Amber?"

"Yeah?"

"Don't touch him."

"Awww," Am sighed as her brother walked, off. But, as soon as Art was out of sight, she wrapped her arms around Seiji's waist, "You still love me don't you."

Seiji peeled her arms off him, "Yeah alright."

Amber hugged him again, tighter this time, "Can't I just give you a hug."

"Am please, you're so cute, and I really do like Art."

Amber sniffed, blinking back tears, "So you don't love me then."

"Oh Amber." Seiji smiled, wrapping his arms around her, "I'm sorry, of course I like you too."

"Sucker," Amber mouthed, so nearly everyone except Seiji could see. She turned to him, batting her long dark eyelashes, "Love you Sei."

"Mmmm," muttered Seiji, burying his lips in her hair, "You're gorgeous

"What about Art?" Mikey grinned, playing devils advocate.

Seiji blushed, "Yeah, well, he's the most gorgeous,"

Amber punched him in the stomach, "Bastard."

"I like you Am, but not in that way."

"Sorry," Amber smiled sweetly at him, "Didn't mean to hit you so hard."

"S'ok."

Amber grinned, "I'll kiss it better."

Seiji laughed, "No Am, you're just too tempting."

A few minutes later Art and Shinza returned. "Um guys." Art grinned, "Would you mind awfully, if I kinda left."

"No." said Ally, a touch too quickly.

"So I could kinda go off and come back," he glanced at his watch, "Tomorrow morning maybe?"

Seiji scowled, "So I guess you love Lord Shinzaburo more now."

Art knelt down beside Seiji, kissing him on the cheek, "Still love you baby,"

Seiji raised an eyebrow, mimicing Art earlier that morning, "Baby?"

"Oh shut up." Art laughed, "Seriously though, I'll be back in the morning." He kissed Seiji, before standing up.

"Art." Seiji grinned up at him, "If you're going to go off with shinza...yeah?"

"Yes." Art scowled, knowing what was coming.

"Can I screw your sister?"

"No."

Seiji grinned, "Thanks, I will."

Art laughed, "I know you would whatever I said." He grinned, taking Shinza by the hand.

"We going?" Shinza asked.

"Thought so." said Art, and they started to walk off together.

"Hey Art!" Seiji called. He grinned as Art turned back, "Miss you."

"Love you too." Art smiled

"Baby." They laughed together.