#TK ‘Knuckles’ Pruitt oc

[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #25

[At a mission brief]

Leo: hey, I’ve got an idea-

Viper: no.

The Aviators:

Viper: oh, sorry, it’s a natural reaction. Please carry on LTJG. Wolfe.

Leo: so first we get some fuel in our jets-

Viper: Absolutely fucking not. Demerit. 

Crick: *bursting into the room and slams door shut clearly panicked*

Duckie: oh god what did you do?!

Crick: nobody died!

Duckie: WHAT KIND OF ANSWER IS THAT!

Tee: I have a question.

Duckie: yeah?

Tee: can a person breathe in a washing machine while it’s on?

Duckie:

Tee: obviously this is all hypothetical-

Duckie: WHERE is Cricket?

Leo: books are for nerds.

Duckie: *smacks Leo on the head with a book*

Leo: NOOOO!

Leo: MY HAIR!

Leo: DUCKIE WHHHYYYY

Leo: *sobs loudly* I LOOK LIKE TEE!!

Tee: HEY!

Leo: *sobs in corner*

Crick: *tries to slap Leo’s ass as he walks past by*

Crick: *misses, trips and falls*

Leo: *tries to catch Crick but overbalances*

Leo: *tries to hold a chair for support*

Chair: *breaks*

Leo: *falls on top of Crick*

Duckie: *watching* it’s like watching two animals do an out-of-sync and very destructive mating dance.

Pregnant Chloe: you think we have enough responsibility to bring a child into this bunch of people and raise it?

Tee: Chloe, your problem is, is that you still see us as those idiots we were at school, when we were young, stupid and mostly high. But look at us now!

Chloe:

Duckie:

Cricket:

Daisy:

Leo:

Duckie: Leo’s hair is shorter.

Teacher: Mr. Wolfe, Ms Pruitts, I know it seems worthless to even ask but, Did you spike the Snowball Dance punch?

Duckie: something goes wrong, you blame us…

Cricket: after all these years, where’s the trust?

[pause]

The Trio: yes, we did.

Crick: Duckie. Prince Charming loves you.

Duckie: yeah, I’ve heard.

Crick: so will you go out with him?

Duckie: of course not.

Crick: PLEASE, DUCKIE!!

Duckie: I’m not sorry.

Crick: you don’t understand what you’re doing!

Duckie: I’m saying no to going out with the most arrogant guy in town.

Crick: no, he’s holding my chocolates hostage until I get you to agree to date him. Duckie PLEASE!!

Whiskey: well, honestly my favorite chocolate is-

Leo: *puts a hand over her mouth* Whiskey no

[distant rumbling]

Daisy: you can’t just go around saying that word!

Chatter: she didn’t know Daze!

Daisy: but still!

[house shakes]

[Duckie & Tee walks in]

Duckie: ..she said it didn’t she?

Dragon: said what-

[door bursts open]

Crick: DID SOMEONE SAY CHOCOLATE?!

Leo: why did Wood search ‘pretty names for a baby girl’ ARE YOU PLANNING TO HAVE A BABY?

Duckie: not that I’m aware of no. Maybe I should ask him?

Duckie: *after a few minutes* no, but he said ‘we’re planning to have a niece’, so maybe you should ask yourself, are you having a baby?

Leo: am I having a baby?

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #26

Pretty Boy: excuse me, have you ever been arrested?

Duckie: yes.

Pretty Boy: I was gonna say ‘because it’s illegal to be this cute’ but now I’m curious.

Duckie: aggravated assault.

Beau: did you call your sister dumb tonight?

Duckie: no.

Duckie: i said, ‘are you dumb?’

Duckie: I was asking her.

Beau: do you think that was appropriate?

Duckie: very much so.

Duckie: *on the phone* and if I don’t get my money, I WILL call your probation officer, BITCH!

Rick: who are you talking to?

Duckie: Tee.

Leo: I hate it when people scream.

Crick: that’s not what you said to me last night.

Pretty Boy: *opens a window*

Pretty Boy: go and throw yourself out.

Pretty Boy: you call it a near death experience…

Leo: we call it a vibe check from God.

Ice & Slider: *eye twitches*

Beau: new rule: no animals in the house.

Crick: wow, you’re really gonna throw Duckie out like that?

Beau: *whacks Crick on the head*

Duckie: Cricket stop! I promised dad we wouldn’t do anything dangerous!

Cricket: *in a child’s wagon on top of a hill* I can’t believe you would just lie to our father like that.

Duckie: *laughs & hops in the wagon w/ her sister* I’m just kidding, he doesn’t give a fuck what we do now.

Duckie & Cricket: *after doing something dumb* don’t blame us! It was like 3 am, our brain cells were sleeping!

Tee: what brain cells?

Pretty Boy: I’m not gonna fight with you!

Duckie: why, because I’m a woman?

Pretty Boy: no, because you’re scary

Duckie: oh, alright.

Leo: your eyes are so beautiful.

Crick: *putting her glasses on* thank you. They don’t work.

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #29

Rick: why do you love me though, Backwoods?

Duckie: you know I married you for your money and military benefits, right?

Rick:

Cricket: yeah, Duckie and I saw two Naval Pilot idiots in the bar your first day here.

Duckie: we were like, ‘this is convenient.’

Cricket: and the plan worked.

Rick & Leo:

Duck & Crick: *high fives*

Crick: *dancing while very buzzed*

Duckie: *joins her sister, just as if not more buzzed*

Crick: *laughing w/ her sister as they dance*

Duckie: *shouting over the music* shots??

Crick: *nodded and being lead by Duck to bar*

[the sisters are downing shots at the bar then stumbling back to dance floor and clumsily dancing]

Rick: Wolfie, I’m going to cry.

Leo: me too man, me too.

Rick: … Wolfie, I’m crying.

Leo: *through tears* me too, man, me too.

Enemy: we have your son.

Crick: I don’t have a son.

Enemy: then who just asked for chocolate milk with a straw and made us cut the crusts off his PB&J?

Crick: oh fuck.

Enemy: what?

Crick: you have my boyfriend!!

[at Pretty Boy & Duckie’s wedding]

Duckie: where’s Leo & Crick?

Pretty Boy: idk.

Pretty Boy: hang on a moment.

Pretty Boy: *whispering* I wonder if Crick is single.

Leo: WHO SAID THAT ILL FIGHT YOU FOR HER HEART!

Pretty Boy: there he is.

Crick: Leo sit the fuck down or after this wedding there’ll be missing posters all over town for your ass!

Pretty Boy: and there’s Cricket.

[senior year]

Leo: I’m going to fill Mr. Lennox’s classroom with rubber chickens!

Duckie: no, you’re not.

Leo: awww, Duck, come on, you’re no fun!

Cricket: We’re gonna fill the classroom with REAL chickens. And Cows. Maybe some goats, too.

Duckie: this is why I love you.

Leo: you remind me of the sun.

Crick: why?

Leo: hot.

Duckie: *turning to Rick* you remind me of a garbage can.

Rick: … um why?

Duckie: trash.

Rick: why are we even dating?

Duckie: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Rick: aww that’s kinda sweet!

Duckie: I never said I was the other man.

Leo: that’s the Duckie I remember.

Leo&Rick&Crick: *comes up with a long and elaborate plan to escape the locked barn*

Rick: I tell you what, we are incredibly smart.

Duckie: *opens the door*

Leo: …how did you do that??

Duckie: it wasn’t locked.

Leo: right.

Duckie: hang on. Three of you in one stall and none of you thought to check the door?

Crick: it should have been locked.

Leo: you know what part of you I like the best?

Crick: my hair? my eyes? my chaos?

Leo: nope, nope, and nope! It’s your smile!

Crick: but how? Yours is more beautiful!

Leo: do you know where my smile comes from?

Crick: where?

Leo: from seeing yours. So your smile is the prettiest.

Crick: *forgets how to breathe*

Leo: hey Angel, in the mood to spice things up a bit?

Crick: I can’t eat spicy foods.

Leo: no I meant in the bedroom-

Crick: I can’t eat spicy foods anywhere, Leo.

Rick: Wolfie, are you ok?

Leo: nooooooooo

Rick: what happened?

Leo: Crick, she- she-

Rick: what did she do?

Leo: she did her chores in a bikini top.

Rick: ..and?

Leo: She did her chores in a BIKINI TOP Wood!

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #28

Crick: *to a pilot* I’m dating a pilot.

Merlin: oh! Iceman?

Crick: no, but he’s in his squadron.

Merlin: oh! Slider?

Crick: no, it’s-

Merlin: oh-oh! I know! Maverick?

Crick: if you just stop for a second-

Merlin: mmmh. Sundown?

Crick: no, I’m trying to tell you-

Merlin: Chipper?

Crick: no.

Merlin: Goose?

Crick: no.

Merlin: Sprawl?

Crick: no.

Merlin: Stinger?

Crick: no.

Merlin: Jester?

Crick: no.

Merlin: Hollywood?

Crick: ew, no. He’s dating my sister. It’s-

Merlin: *gasps loudly* ME?

Crick: what, no-!

Leo: no idiot, it’s me. *kisses Crick’s cheek*

Duckie: Penny for your thoughts?

Leo: *offended* my thoughts are worth more than a penny!

Duckie: no, they really aren’t.

Ice: *sneezes*

Leo: OMG the Iceman is dabbing!

Ice: I’m not, I just have allergies.

Ice: *about to sneeze again*

Leo: ooh he’s gonna do it again. Fuck it up Ice!

Beau: excuse me? I lost my daughters, Baylie & Amanda. Can I make an announcement?

Store Clerk: of course.

Beau: *leans into mic*

Beau: goodbye, you little shitheads.

Leo: a theif.

Ice: a thief.

Leo: a theif.

Ice: I before E, except after C.

Leo: thceif.

Ice: no.

[in the middle of a mission gone bad, pinned down by enemy fire]

Leo: are we dead yet?

Rick: no.

[a few minutes later]

Leo: are we dead yet??

Rick: look, if we die, I promise I’ll let you know!

Rick: I’m craving something sweet.

Duckie: *gestures to herself*

Rick: I said sweet, not spicy.

Leo: how come you’ve been so nice lately?

Duckie: what do you mean?

Leo: you’re just nicer than usual.

Duckie: I can punch you if you want.

Leo: every time I see Cricket, my heart clenches and I get all nervous.

Rick: that’s because you love her.

[later]

Crick: every time I see Leo, my heart clenches and I get all nervous.

Duckie: don’t get close to him again, you seem to have an allergic reaction.

Police: you’re under arrest for trying to carry three people on a single motorcycle.

Duckie: wait, what do you mean THREE?

Police: yes…three.

Duckie: oh, my God— what the fuck!?

Police: ma’am?

Duckie: LEO FUCKING FELL OFF!

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #27

Crick: *trips over air*

Leo: haha babe, you’re so clumsy.

[later, when Crick’s not around]

Leo: *punching the air* who do you think you are, who THE FUCK DO YOU THINK-

Crick: people always tell me I’m going to hell for being Bi, as if I’m not going to hell for all the other shit I’ve done.

Rick: when was the last time you got laid?

Leo: when was the last time you came home sober?

Rick: touché.

Crick: what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever had sex?

Duckie: I don’t think you’re psychologically prepared for this conversation.

Duckie: my Ma said, ‘If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?’

Duckie: Ma, I was the one with the idea, you birthed a leader, not a follower.

Teacher: now, what are the three stages of life?

Leo: birth.

Crick: what the fuck is this.

Duckie: death.

Leo: *whispering to the paramedic before he passes out* save me, but not enough that I have to go to work tomorrow.

Another pilot from a different squad: so, what’s it like to marry so far out of your league?

Rick: *taking the guy’s drink* it’s amazing, actually. I never thought I could be this happy.

Leo: what do you do for a living?

Crick: I try my best.

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #38

Rick: only geniuses can say these words really fast. Eye. Yam. Stew. Peed.

Ice: oh c’mon. No one’s falling for th—

Wolfie: IAMSTUPID

Chatter: anyone else d——

Leo: depressed?

Crick: dead?

Daisy: drained?

Duckie: disliked?

Chatter: …done… with their chores. what is wrong with you people?

John: so how did you guys get into a car accident?

Crick: well, we were driving, and there was a deer in the road that Leo didn’t notice.

Crick: so I yelled ‘Leonard, dear!’

Leo: *buried face in hands* and I responded with ‘yes, honey?’

Everyone:

Rick: mhm and on a COMPLETELY unrelated note, TK is in the hospital.

Chloe: what?

Leo: why are you hooking up the trailer and have your show number on?

Chatter: the favorite child does what she wants.

Duckie: are you thinking what I’m thinking?

Crick: get some Coors, our old red wagon, and make a water slide and then ride down all the hill?

Duckie: ok your thing is better, let’s do that.

Duckie: hey Pretty Boy, what are you eating?

Pretty Boy: a family-size bag of chips.

Duckie: that’s not family-sized… that’s regular sized…

Pretty Boy: everything is family-sized when you don’t have a family.

Duckie, Ruth, and Kat: Rick, nOo.

Pretty Boy: c’mon, Backwoods, let’s do something stupid!

Duckie: as far as I know, I already do.

Pretty Boy: you’re sitting here and reading, that’s not stupid?

Duckie:

Pretty Boy:

Duckie: you’re the something stupid Pretty Boy. christ.

[at some point at the O Club]

Rando: *pissed off* YOU SON OF A BITCH!

Wood: that’s surprisingly accurate.

Flyboys: *dying of laughter*

Crick: hey Duck, on a scale from 1-7 what’s your favorite day of the alphabet?

Duckie: purple.

Rick: ??? excUSE ME?

Leo: *takes a pull from beer* you get used to it.

John: guess what.

Leo: what?

John: no, you have to guess.

Leo: uh? I dunno?

John: your grandfather’s in a coma.

Leo: WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME GUESS THAT???

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #37

Leo: who the heck is Michael?

Tom: Commander Viper!

Ron: wait.

Ron: did you think his first name was Commander?

Leo:

Leo: no.

Duckie: damn, the power’s out.

Pretty Boy: don’t worry. I’ve got this!

Pretty Boy: *picks up Leo and shakes him violently, causing him to illuminate*

Duckie: wha-

Leo: I swallowed a flashlight.

Duckie: *on the verge of cardiac arrest* WHY WOULD YOU——

Leo: *after being knocked out* what happened? did I die?

Leo: *sees crick next to him* is this heaven?

Rick: *walks in*

Leo: oh no it’s hell.

Leo: don’t panic! I’m in charge

Tom:

Ron:

Charles:

Sam:

Pete:

Nick:

Marcus:

Jade:

Rachael:

Rick:

Rick: dude, I guess that’s why we’re panicking…

John: *walks in on the trio standing over a presumably dead body*

Trio:

Trio:

Duckie, Leo, and Crick: *in unison* he was like that when we found him.

[after the mission]

Mav: Leonard, your alive!

Wolfie: mentally, arguably. but physically? yes, I am.

Rando: so, what do your two fiends bring to the table?

Leo: well Duckie’s the brains, so she basically keeps us alive.

Rando: wait, so what does Cricket do?

Leo: the most important thing— she keeps me sane.

Duckie: what’s up, sluts? Guess who got out of prison again?

Dragon: sluts?

Whiskey: prison?

Ice: AGAIN?!

Tee: did you remember the gift for the staglings?

Chloe: the ‘staglings’?

Tee: you know… Bellamy & Boone? it’s like a duckling except it’s a baby stag?

Chloe: fawn. the word you’re looking for is fawn.

Tee: …

Tee: my word is better.

Duckie: I called you like fifty times! Why didn’t you answer the phone?

[flashback of Leo dancing to the ringtone]

Leo:

Leo: I didn’t hear it.

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #36

Ice: you have to pick your battles.

Slider: one of the battles that we picked was to stop Wolfie and Wood from running plastic tubes all over the basement and placing hamsters inside of them.

Goose: they were gonna call it Tube City.

Leo: hey mom.

Wood: hello my wonderful and most amazing mother.

Mav: ma! How are ya?

Goose: mom! :D

Ruth: *sighs loudly*

Leo:

Wood:

Mav:

Goose:

Ruth: hello my darlin’ sons.

The flyboys: !!!!!! :D

Wood: I wish I had a super tight-knit group of friends that I could fight crime with.

Wolfie: I wish I had a super tight-knit group of friends that I could commit crime with.

Chipper: I wish I had a super tight-knit group of friends.

Sprawl: I wish I had friends.

Merlin: I wish I could knit.

Wolfie: if I ate one Tidepod do you think it would kill me?

Wood: coward. eat two.

Ice & Slider: *rushing to stop them* what the fuck what The Fuck WHAT THE FUC——!

Leo: *says some shit in french during a fight*

Crick: OH NO DO NOT FRENCH ME RIGHT NOW, I DONT WANT YOU TO LOOK HOT WHILE IM TRYING TO BE MAD AT YOU.

Leo: *lowers his voice and swears in french towards Crick*

Crick: *giggles and blushes* okay I forgive you.

Duckie: okay, I’ve got a box. and we’re gonna put this things we love inside the box.

Leo: can I put Jack and Busch in the box?

Duckie: no.

Crick: can I put Jack and Busch in the box?

Duckie: no.

Rick: can I-

Duckie: no one can put the dogs in the box!!

Leo: *running into the barn* DUCKIE-

Duckie: *whispering* SHHH!! mana is sleeping.

Leo: *also whispering* oh sorry.

Duckie: *still whispering* what’s up?

Leo: *whispering calmly* there’s a fire.

Leo: I came up with a brilliant idea for a prank.

Crick: oooh, what is it?

Leo: we should kiss.

Crick: … I don’t get it.

Leo: think about it! Imagine Duckie or Daisy to come to the barn only to find us kissing the hell outta each other. You can sit in my lap and we’ll really just go to town. Duckie will be like ‘WHAAAAAAA’ and Daze might even faint!

Crick: oh, that’s hilarious! We totally should.

Duckie: *standing up from the table*

Daisy: what are you doing?

Duckie: *walking to the other table* leaving.

Duckie: *sits between Pretty Boy and Leo*

Chatter: you fucking dick!

Duckie: *pointing at Pretty Boy* his dick to be exact, but yeah thank you for noticing.

[leo & crick in the barn’s hayloft, kissing]

Tee: *climbs the ladder to the top and stops* LEONARD, I OH HI MANA, I JUST SAW RICK AND BAY AND THEY WERE KISSING AND— *realizes*

Tee: *shocked*

Leo: TK

Crick:

Leo: Tee, I can explain-

Tee:

Tee: MY LITTLE SISTER?! *screams at Leo*

Tee: *turns to Leo* REALLY MANA? MY BEST FRIEND?!

Crick: Travis-

Tee: Oh god. My biological and non-biological siblings. Ewww, that really sounds gross. *whines*

Tee: *mumbles as he leaves* both my sisters, I caught both of them kissing stupid pilots. how could this day get any worse?

Leo: sooo. wanna get back to it?

Crick: I thought you’d never ask.

Leo: *breaks the kiss* wait, did he say that Duckie was kissing Rick?

Crick: I think so, why? *scrunches eyebrows*

Leo: *scurrying to his feet* THAT BASTARD!!

Leo: *goes down ladder and runs off to where he last seen Rick*

Crick: *fixes hair and clothes* I guess I better go too.

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #35

Leo: how do you tell someone you like them without telling them you like them?

Crick: I don’t know. Just compliment them?

Leo: have I ever told you how nice your hair looks?

Crick: yeah, try that on them.

Leo: they’re really stupid though.

Crick: maybe just tell them you like them, then.

Leo: I like you, Amanda.

Crick: yeah, exactly like that!

Leo:

Duckie: *in the background* oh my god.

Crick: are Tee and Duck having a staring contest?

Chatter: tee is, but I’m pretty sure Duckie is just plotting revenge for something and forgot to blink.

Beau: where are Leonard and Cricket?

Duckie: they… went to the library.

Beau: you mean the public library, the one that closes at nine?

Duckie: …oh no, the other one.

Kat: look since you can’t say anything nice about TK, try saying the opposite of whatever you’re thinking.

Duckie: I don’t think that’ll work; but I’ll give it a try.

Duckie: Travis Kameron… is… my beloved brother.

Crick: see? It’s not that hard to say something ni— oh, you’re hurling.

Leo: *drunk af* Amanda.

Leo: *drunk af* Amanda, I like your name.

Crick: *even more drunk than Leo* thank you, I got it for my birthday.

Crick: can you believe my Pa said he doesn’t love me and wants nothing to do with me?

Beau: *moving the cattle* that’s not what I said.

Crick: then what did you say?

Beau: *not paying attention to his daughter* I said we’re not getting another dog.

Crick: that’s the same thing.

Ruth: tell me everything you learned at school this year.

Leo: learned about Naval Aviators.

Ruth: your class learned about Naval Aviators?

Leo: I learned about Naval Aviators.

Leo: I don’t know what everyone else was doing.

[HS cafeteria]

Duckie: *holding a piece of pizza* oh c’mon Mana, I know you like Leonard after all.

Crick: no I don’t. Cause if I did like him, I’d be a blushing mess whenever he looked at me, I’d mumble some words that don’t make sense and then I’d scramble away-

Leo: *exits the gym with a wife-beater tank and messy, wet hair*

Leo: Hey Crick! What are you eating?

Crick: *blushing* uh- I- leaving- class! *scurries away*

Duckie: *bites pizza while smirking*

Tee: c’mon Wyatt, repeat after me. I

Baby Wyatt: I

Tee: love

Baby Wyatt: love

Tee: mom

Baby Wyatt: mom

Tee: and

Baby Wyatt: and

Tee: dad

Baby Wyatt: dad

Tee: now full sentence. I love mom and dad. say it.

Baby Wyatt: oh god fuck my life!

Tee: OMG WHO TAUGHT YOU THIS??

Duck & Crick: *laughing in the corner*

Pilot: before we take off, pleas make sure all small items are secure.

Leo:

Crick: don’t you dare fucking say it.

Leo: I didn’t say anything.

Crick: I swear to God if you say it-

Leo: I haven’t said it!

Crick:

Leo: are you feeling secure?

Crick: FUCK YOU

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #34

Ice: I’m not sure what this sentence means.

Wolfie: ‘ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.’

Ice: you can read Latin?!

Wood: you can read?!

Wolfie:

Wolfie: that’s cold, Neven.

Rick & Duckie: Leonard, we would love, if you would be Amelia’s Godfather.

Leo: wow! But more like DOGfather am I right?

R&D:

R&D:

R&D:

R&D: Travis Kameron, we would lo-

Leo: hey NO-

Tee: *10* it’s time for bed, demon brats.

Cricket: *8 y/o, holding Jack* Ma says we can stay up as long as we want.

Duckie: *8.5 y/o, holding Busch* and that you need to leave forever.

Tee: …

Tee: what the hell, Ma?

Crick: look at that ridiculous guy in the princess dress.

Duckie: hahaha, who would be stupid enough to do that?

Duckie:

Duckie: ohmygod.

Crick: what?

Duckie: it’s Leonard.

Leo: *spotting them* Cricket! Duckie!

Duckie: no, no please don’t come over here.

Leo: *announcing to the crowd staring at him* these are my best friends!

Crick: I’m literally gonna die.

Duckie: you want me to kill you?

Crick: you’re a great sister, Bay.

Kat: Girls, did you buy the milk like I asked?

Duckie: even better!

Kat: *sigh* what did you do?

Duckie: *points to Crick*

Crick: *has a lead on a dairy cow that she’s walked/dragged into the house* Her name is Gloria.

Kat: I should’ve asked TK…

Duckie: *strolls in put together while fixing her glasses*

Duckie: forgive me for being late, I was doing other things.

Pretty Boy: *stumbles in with one shoe untied, shirt buttons uneven, and hair mused*

Pretty Boy: don’t call me ‘other things’!

[barracks, 2AM]

Leo: okay so olive oil is made from olives, right?

Rick: yeah.

Leo: then baby oil-

Rick: STOP

[on a pay phone]

Tee: Duckie found the cross bow.

Beau: oh fuck.

Tee: you and Ma should probably get over here.

Pretty Boy: if I have a daughter I’m going to name her Lizard and then she’ll get the nickname ‘Liz’ and everyone will be like ‘oh, is it short for Elizabeth?’ and she will have to say ‘no, my name is Lizard.’

Duckie: …I want you dead.

Crick: *crying at night*

Duckie: AMANDA

Daisy: ARE YOU OKAY

Chatter: IVE GOT CHOCOLATE

Chloe: IVE GOT HUGS

Tee: IVE GOT GUNS FOR WHOEVER HURT YOU

Kat: IVE GOT NICE COMFORTING WORDS

Crick: the tear hasn’t even hit the pillow yet wtf?

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #33

Tenn: *eating ice cream*

Tenn: my mouth is cold.

Mav: *smirks* want me to warm it up for you?

Tenn:

Tenn: *blushes* y-yes.

Mav: *hands Tenn a hot coco* Here!

Tenn:

Tenn: *dying inside*

Mav: this is what you meant right?

Tenn: s-sure, yup, definitely.

Crick: I guess it’s true what they say.

Crick: sometimes the ones we love the most… hurt us the most.

Leo: Cricket, for the last time, I’m sorry I ate your last piece of chocolate.

Goose: excuse me, Mr. Pruitt I have a question!

Beau: yea what is it, Nicholas?

Leo: don’t do this.

Goose: how do plants say hello?

Rick: please don’t.

Beau: plants don’t talk, son.

Goose: ALOE!

Kat: *holding in her laughter for dear life*

Leo & Rick: *groaning*

Beau: … *starts to chuckle*

Goose: told you I’d get him to laugh.

Older teacher: *sees the last names ‘Wolfe’ & ‘Pruitt-Neven’ on the list of names of students*

O.T: okay, it can’t be THAT bad, I mean, either I have two wholesome students who are sweethearts and will have excellent grades*

O.T.: or… I quit.

Leo: so Amanda… I’ve been wanting to tell you something for so long..

Leo: I really like you and…

Rick: *pretending to be Crick and using a fake girly voice* piss off, Wolfe. I’m really disgusted by you.

Leo: …

Leo: no, it’s not working.

Leo: Wood, you love me too much to pretend to hate me.

Wood: true.

Leo: Duckie! Come here and pretend to be your sister so I can practice!

Duckie: *from the next room* FUCK OFF, DIPSHIT!!

Leo: Perfect! You already know what to say!

[freshman year]

Leo: are you wearing makeup?

Crick: oh, it’s just mascara. Do you like it?

Leo: looks okay, I reckon.

[later]

Leo: *crying into Duck’s shoulder* it looked so good.

Duck: I know.

Leo: I’m so in love.

Duckie: I know.

Viper: I felt pity for one young adult runt ONCE and now I have TWELVE LIEUTENANTS living in my house and I ONLY KNOW HALF OF THEIR NAMES

Jester: Mike are you-

Viper: I THINK MORE KEEP COMING THROUGH THE VENTS

Jester: are you okay?

Viper: *shaking Jester* PLEASE MAKE THE LIEUTENANTS STOP WHY WONT THEY STOP

Beau: did you buy the eggs like I asked?

Crick: I found a much better alternative.

Beau: Amanda, what did you-

Crick: *holding up a chicken* Papa, meet Jake.

Leo: I am cool, I am badass, I am a cowboy, I am a rebel, I am a bull rider-

John: calm down you’re like 13, it’s just a Stetson.

Duckie: *explaining the impact of an incoming meteor to Chatter* imagine this coconut cream pie is the meteor and Dipshit’s the earth. Here’s what will happen!

Duckie: *pies Leo in the face*

Chatter: oh okay. But what if the meteor is more like a banana cream pie?

Duckie: *grabbing a banana cream pie* Observe.

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[callmemana]

Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #30

Leo: we have to cut it off.

Crick: no.

Daisy: there really is no other way. It’s stuck.

Crick: NO

Chatter: we’ve tried everything. Peanut butter, soap, it’s not moving.

Crick: I will NOT cut my hair off.

Leo: it’s only a few inches.

Crick: *imitates Leo* it’s only a few inches.

Crick: yeah, that’s not what you said last night.

Leo:

Daisy:

Chatter:

Leo: Chatter, get the scissors for me, will you?

Crick: Duck, would you say I’m a hard worker?

Duckie: absolutely. You make everything much harder than it needs to be.

Leo: including me.

Duckie:

Crick: *blushes*

Pretty Boy: *high fives Leo*

Leo: *smirks*

Duckie: damn it Dipshit. You stole my burn!

Daisy: *wearing sunglasses & sipping on a mocktail* bc your childhood best friend and girl you’ve had a crush since forever is dating someone else & I enjoy the drama.

Leo: you want me to come home? why now?

Duckie: someone said you sound like an owl.

Leo: who?

Duckie:

Leo: who?

Duckie:

Leo: WHO?

Duckie: *falls on the ground from laughing*

Leo: WHOOOOOO?!?!?!?!

Rick: hey Leo- woah, are you okay?

Leo: *laying face-flat on the floor* living is a curse and existence is a punishment.

Duckie: Crick went on a date with some guy.

Crick: *walking in* worst. date. ever. It was so damn boring!

Leo: *getting up* Life is a gift and existence is a blessing!!

Kat: Beau annoyed me today so I told him I can’t wait to see what he has planned for our special day tomorrow.

Ruth: there’s nothing special about tomorrow?

Kat: no, but there is something special about watching the color leave his face as panic takes over.

The Wolfe & Pruitts when Wolfie’s gone for a few years:

Leo: GUESS WHO’S BACK BABY!!

Crick: *sarcastically* I am guessing you. All he’ll break loose?

Leo: yes, I’ve missed you too Angel. Now gimme some sugar!

Tee: LEONARD! *runs to Leo*

Leo: TRAVIS KAMERON *tackles Leo*

Squirrel: sometimes I think they’re dating each other rather than us….

Crick: YOU THINK??

[children 12 y/o]

Cricket: *exists*

Leo: this means nothing. I’m twelve, im sure these feelings will fade.

[10 years later]

Leo: any day now.

Leo: *planning an escape from family dinner* so at exactly 8 o’clock we all need to say we’re going to the bathroom.

Cricket: it’s that a little weird?

Leo: not in this town, Angel.

Duckie: can I ask you something?

Crick: sure.

Duckie: *points to Leo trying to jump over the fence and face-plants* why?

Crick: *points to Rick trying to look into the horizon w/o sunglasses when his sunnies are on the top of his head* then why?

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Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #31

Chatter: hey, wanna play a game?

Rick: uh, sure.

Chatter: it’s called Leo vs. Crick vs. Duckie.

Daisy: Chatter and I will take turns giving you a Leo quote and you’ll have to tell me if he’s talking about Crick, Duck, or himself.

Rick: ok, this can’t be so hard. I’m his best friend and pilot. We’re very close, practically brothers.

Daisy: okay, ‘you are my one true love.’

Rick: fuckin’ A.

[when Rick went to Leo’s hometown]

Duckie: how long have you been a cowboy?

Rick: what time is it?

Duckie: it’s 3am.

Rick: about seven hours.

Ruth: you lied?

Leo: we may have.

Ruth: you may have or you did?

Duckie:

Crick:

Leo:

Ruth:

Leo: we may have did.

Chatter: Ma, Leonard isn’t talking to me.

Ruth: enjoy it while it lasts.

Beau: you four. explain. now.

Rick: it was Leonard.

Duckie: it was Leonard.

Cricket: *slowly* it was Leonard.

Leo: it was Leonard.

Beau: …

Leo: shit.

Crick: Duckie is choking, I need to call 911 but the 9 button isn’t working!

Leo: turn it upside down and use the six!

Crick: genius!

Duckie: *stops choking momentarily* what the fuck

Duckie: maybe you should wait on the tattoos. You’re too young to do it legally anyway, and your Ma-

Leo: relax, it’s on my skin. What’s she gonna do, take my skin away?

Duckie:

Leo:

Leo: yeah, I’ll wait.

Daisy: *reading local gossip blog*

Headline: BREAKING: Leonard Wolfe and Amanda Pruitt reportedly spotted sharing a kiss.

Daisy: okay? They’ve always done that. Get better stories.

Leo: *in the Wolfe’s fam house* not a single drop of coffee in this house.

Chatter: Ma hated caffeine.

Leo: She hated children too, yet here we are.

Leo: so, do you know what the best part of being a virgin is?

Chatter: what?

Leo: no, I’m asking.

Chatter: fuck you.

Rick: are you in love with Cricket?

Leo: *sweating* …no.

Rick: when why do you draw ‘L+A’ in hearts everywhere?

Leo: it stands for lassos and Angus beef.

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Duckie & Cricket’s Midwestern Dumbassery: #32

Pretty Boy: I know you’re working but I was just calling to see if you still love me bc the way you put on your shoes this morning looked angry.

Duckie: ….

Pretty Boy: also can you bring chicken nuggets?

Leo: Daisy… I think… I think I might have a crush on Cricket…

Daisy: well, congrats! You’re officially the last one to know!

Leo: fuck me.

Crick: if you really want me to.

Leo:

Leo: what did you say?

Crick: you heard me.

Beau: my daughters are at that very special age where a girl only has one thing on her mind.

Leo: boys?

Beau: chaos.

Crick: *to Leo* why do you always let me win when we race up the stairs? You’re faster than me.

Leo: I like seeing you smile when you win.

Crick: *to Duckie* does he stare at my ass?

Duckie: yes he stares at your ass.

Wolfie: hey guys, I’m playing anagrams what words can you make with i, t, n, l, c, b, o, s, m, h, e, p, and r?

Wood: hope?

Mav: hit?

Slider: phone?

Ice: can you use a letter more than once?

Wolfie: yeah.

Ice: incomprehensibilities?

Wolfie: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING M-

Wood: you’re incredibly idiotic, your skin is scarred and you wear a stetson.

Wood: I know what you are.

Wolfie: say it. say it loud.

Wood: *leans in close* a cowboy.

Wood & Wolfie: *cracks up laughing*

Whiskey: why’d I ever let you two watch Twilight?

[in a bar fight]

Rando Drunk: *throws a punch at Leo*

Duckie: *tackles Leo to the floor to avoid him being hit*

Leo: that was rude. Next time, a simple ‘duck’ would work.

Duckie: if I had just said ‘duck!’ I can guarantee that your response would not be to get outta the way, you’d yell ‘goose!’

Goose: you bitched?

Leo: *pointing at Baylie* dis a duck.

Leo: *pointing at Chloe* dis a squirrel.

Leo: *pointing at Amanda* dis a Cricket.

Leo: *pointing at himself* disappointment.

Crick: *crashing through the wall* N O

Pretty Boy: *says something egotistical*

Dragon: Richard Neven, always having to be on top.

Duckie: *starts laughing in the corner of the room*

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Whiskey Bottles & Wild Flowers: Cricket

Amanda ‘Cricket’ Pruitt was the youngest in the family and born the same year as Baylie, her sister and best friend. It was hard on Beau and Katherine having all three children under five, but they made it work. And as soon as the girls could walk and talk, trouble could always be found.

It only got crazier as the girls got older. At eleven, after TK had done it first, the girls followed his lead and hopped on a hog’s back and rode it around the barn. When they turned fourteen, the girls stood on their horse’s back for the first time, scaring the shit outta Leo. He still gets worried that Duckie and Cricket’ll fall off and break something.

Mischief was one of the girls’ favorite past times, and would recruit Leonard to join in too. The friends had lots of fun jerryrigging a sled to the back of a side by side after it rained and taking turns driving around the pastures and over hills to try to slide the passenger off, riding a horse backwards, going frog gigging at midnight (the best time if you asked them), and going to corn field parties during the summer.

As the three musketeers got into high school, relationships changed and feelings got hurt. It was mostly Leo doing dumb shit and the two idiots pinning after each other that caused the most damage. It didn’t matter though, they always made up and went back to as if nothing had happened. The first big fight that the friends had, was at Prom. It lasted for weeks before he apologized for what Macy Jensen did.

The next big fight was started because of a pact they had made the summer before senior year, agreeing to stay the whole year. Amanda only needed one class left, but it was full until the last semester of school, so she couldn’t graduate early. As for Leo and Duckie, they had taken the class the semester before and could if they wanted too. Long story short, Leo broke the pact and then got the hell outta dodge to basic for the Navy. It hurt the girls as they dreaded walking across that stage without their other friend.

After high school, Duckie and Cricket didn’t go off to college, like their parents would’ve liked, they wanted to stay to help out on the ranch. Even though both were kind of mad at Leo for leaving so abruptly, they still wrote weekly letters to him. The girls started to realize that Leo never wrote letters back to them, so they thought it was because he was busy. It shocked them to know that his family were receiving letters from him, but not his best friends.

As the years went by the letters slowly stopped being sent to Leo, it’s not like he’d ever respond anyway. When not helping around the ranch, Cricket took up bartending at the local watering hole known as Jack’s. There’s always good peoples around and great tips offered. Cricket sometimes flirt with some of the young guns if they come up to the bar, but mostly acts friendly and welcoming.

It was surprising to hear that Leo was coming home and bringing a friend. The girls, especially Cricket, didn’t expect to see him ever again. He was a big shot RIO in San Diego now, no way would he wanna come home to a sleepy town. The first day back, when he surprised his friends, Cricket was madder than a bull seeing red! How could he just mosey up to the door and walk in as if nothing had happened, like he didn’t ignore Duckie and her for years! Even as she sat on her bed, she could hear all the chatter from the kitchen.

After being told that it was actually her parents taking the letters and he’d been holding out for Cricket all these years, their friendship started back up where they left off. You could probably call it puppy love, young and sweet, innocent flirting and touches. You would think that Leo and Cricket would jump the gun and go right into a relationship, but they’d been apart for so long they wanted to learn about each other again.

Even with his fellow aviators in town and staying on the ranches, he stayed his goofy self. The pilots saw a different side of him, the easy going one, the one that’s always up for trouble. They shared stories about Leo, and so did the Wolfe’s and the Pruitt’s. It was one of the best nights that they had since Leo came home. Duckie and Cricket even met some of the greatest people, that they would form a strong bond with, Whiskey and Dragon.

While the aviators stayed, they helped around the ranches. After breakfast the second day, Leo brought down one of his cowboy hats from when he was a toddler and put it on Bradley’s head. He was the cutest little cowboy, and a big help to Cricket and Duckie. When the work day was over, Leo picked him off of the horse he rode in with Duckie and the boys headed for the barn. Later, when asked to get the men for dinner, they saw Leo teaching Bradley how to rope with a cow skull hung from the wall.

The whole week that the pilots visited, the days were always filled with laughter. Bradley spent most of his time with Duckie and Cricket, he said it was ‘to learn how to be a real cowboy’ and when Leo asked ‘then why not me?’ Little man stood straight up and said, ‘cause Uncle Leo, you been outta the game too long!’ Leo pouted pretty much all day, which made it even more funny to the others. It wasn’t all work, the adults had games and activities on slow days around the ranch. Beer, Bourbon, and Whiskey were gone by the end of the week too, which they mixed in with the fun.

The last days that the group were here, the Wolfe’s brought out the big guns, Ruth’s great grandma’s famous homemade chili with all the fixin’s. Great Grandma Thatcher liked her chili spicy, so Ruth fixed a special batch just for Bradley and anyone else who couldn’t take the heat. It was very amusing to watch as the pilots took their first bites, only to quickly swallow and chug their cold beers. Cricket always ate the chili from the not too spicy pot, knowing that she’d never finish her bowl if she couldn’t feel her mouth. Rick’s face turned red, but didn’t want to seem like a baby, so he kept eating. Cricket thinks it was to impress Duck, but by the way she was smirking, it didn’t work.

It was a couple of days later that Leo and Cricket finally said their true feelings towards each other and agreed to go on a date before he had to go back. During said date, someone had made a hurtful comment about Cricket, and Leo saw red. It ended up in a fight, that Cricket had to pull Leo out of to stop. The drive home was silent, the only noise was the radio. The next day, after going over to the Wolfe’s ranch to say sorry, she found out that the man in question had left.

Cricket stayed in bed days afterwards, heartbroken and guilty. Seeing that her daughter was sad, Katherine tried to convince Cricket to take a leap and go visit him in San Diego. After many days of nonstop pestering from her mother and Leo’s, Duckie and Cricket hopped on a plane and went to their boys. They had exchanged numbers with Dragon and Whiskey, and had gotten his off-base housing address from them.

Once they landed, they headed to their best friend’s and waited on the porch swing for him to come home. They could recognize the sound of Leo’s old Chevy truck anywhere as it came down the road and stopped in the driveway. He launched out of his truck and hugged the girls tightly. When he finally let go, he gently grabbed Cricket’s face and gave her a kiss. Leo gave Duckie one more hug before she left to go find Rick’s housing and visit him. Finally alone and not fighting again, the new couple went to dinner to officially finish their first date.

Cricket and Duckie went home after being in San Diego for two weeks, but are in constant contact with their boys and the others. Every couple of months, Duckie and Cricket hop on a plane and visit, which are some of the best weeks that the group have all together. After this pattern going on for a year, the boys finally asked Duckie and Cricket to move in with them. It was one of the best decisions they ever made, the boys got to see their women every day and anytime they wanted instead of only reuniting every couple of months, but Leo knew that the ranch needed the girls more at that time.

It had been a little over four years together and they still acted like it was puppy love. A few months earlier, they had been to Rick and Duckie’s engagement party. It was so beautiful, it’s hard to believe that Duckie didn’t like him at first. She still calls him ‘Pretty Boy,’ but now more as a pet name then anything else. Leo had acted weird that night at the engagement party, so it wasn’t as of a big surprise when Leo asked Cricket to a date night the following week. The couple went to a fancy restaurant with a dress code and Leo had been so nervous he was sweating bullets all night.

After dinner, dessert came to the table and while Cricket was distracted by her favorite sweet, which couldn’t possibly been served here, he carefully got on one knee and took her hand. Tears were already falling from her eyes as she realized what was happening, Leo swallowed a lump before saying some romantic, or as romantic as he got, speech and held the beautiful ring to her finger, waiting her answer. Cricket pulled him up and said, ‘finally you dumbass!’ Before smashing her lips to his. It was certainly a night to remember.

Leo and Cricket got married the next year back home in the Wolfe’s barn, it was a gorgeous wedding and reception, definitely a western wedding with lace and warm tones. Duckie was the Maid of Honor and the Bride’s Maids were Whiskey, Dragon, and Carole. The Best Man was of course, Rick, and the Groom’s Men were Ice, Ron, Charles. Little Bradley was also in the wedding party, being the ring bearer. He looked so adorable in his suit. After the wedding, the couple couldn’t be more thankful for that visit and all the meddling.

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Whiskey Bottles & Wild Flowers: Duckie

Baylie ‘Duckie’ Pruitt was a very thoughtful, imaginative, and an overachiever child, and these traits only grew with age. If Duckie thought of something and wanted it enough she would make it happen. She was a hard worker, stubborn as hell, and wasn’t the most graceful child, always getting hurt one way or another. Throughout her younger years, the Pruitt family had to make trips to the hospital to help reset one or more of Duckie’s broken fingers.

Duckie was an overachiever from an early age too. She was the only child in her school to read 1,000 books in one year, which awarded her an award and metal. Of course Leo and Cricket had made fun little quips about her reading so many books between the trouble they caused together. Duckie also helped start three charities at her school and still donated to them every year. As did her family and the Wolfe’s, proud of their daughter and family friend.

Growing up in the middle of BFE, there wasn’t a lot to do during the long summer days when it was too hot to do any ranch work. So the Three Musketeers would go down to the Walnut tree between the two families’ lands and by a creek bed, hammers in hands,smash the walnuts for a snack or for fun, then afterwards jump into the nearby creek to wash off the juice.

Another fun little memory was during the summer that the girls’ turned eleven and saw The Amazing Spider-Man for the first time at Leo’s house at a sleepover. A week after, when they all were hanging out in the barn, Bay had gotten bit by a spider! Of course, them being children, had convinced their minds that Duckie would be Spider-Man (or Spider-Girl) by the next day just like the movie. Leo and Cricket argued who would be ‘Uncle Ben’ and ‘Aunt May’ to Bay, even though neither wanted to die the tragic ways the characters did. So when it was a couple weeks later and still no powers (they tried) like Peter Parker, they sadly gave up that dream.

It was weird in high school, between the obvious love that her sister and best friend had for each other, the hard AP classes she took,the Volleyball team, and ranch work. It was a lot of work to stay afloat with all of the activities each one of the friends did, but they all made it work. Duckie graduated in the top five students and could attend any schools she wanted to, if she pleased. After school, the Pruitt girls just wanted to stay home and help around the ranch, but also wanted a job off of the ranch too. Duckie took classes in high school that counted as college credits, so that helped shave off years on her nursing schooling. After four years she had accomplished her nursing degree and worked for the city’s hospital.

Duckie was devastated when she heard that her parents were taking their letters they’d written to Leo. She didn’t know if they read them or not, but if they did, they wouldn’t be surprised about the contents (being for Leo to finally man up and say something to Cricket). It was still her private conversation to Leo thought. Duckie forgave him quickly afterwards, she doesn’t really hold grudges for long. When she met his pilot thought, that was a different type of grudge. Duckie didn’t hate him, per say, but she didn’t exactly like him either. The man had a big head, and who wouldn’t with the callsign ‘Hollywood’.

Rick would flirt with Duckie non stop every time they were near each other, and Bay didn’t like it. She would NOT be one of his belt buckle notches, that was for damn sure. He slowly realized that maybe she was different than the other women he had success with. He tried a different tactic and after a while won her heart. Rick was usually the one to intimate hugs or kisses in other relationships, but didn’t want to go too fast with Duckie. It was a surprise to both of them that day in the woods when Duckie grabbed his face and kissed him. After dinner, Rick went to the Pruitt’s ranch and officially asked Duckie to be his girlfriend, which after she cracked a joke said yes.

They kept it a secret for a while before telling the others, Rick and Duck both knew that Knuckles, Leo, and Cricket would have their asses. Cricket didn’t really trust Rick’s intentions with her sister. Leo knew Rick and what he did with his conquests, and didn’t want Rick hurting Leo’s ‘sister’. As for Knuckles, he just didn’t like any of his sisters’ boyfriends. Beau & Katherine were over the moon that Duckie had finally introduced them to one of her boyfriends and that they just adored Rick from their first meetings.

When Leo and Cricket went of their first official date, Duckie and Rick helped out with everything. From the flowers, reservations at the restaurant, to the clothes, and hair styles. Afterwards, they went out too, on their own little adventure to get to know one another more. It ended pretty early when Duckie got a phone call from a crying Cricket. When Duck got home she held Cricket as she vented about how awful the night was to Duckie and the dogs. The next day, when Duck went to see Rick, she found out that the Flyboys had left without telling their girls.

This information made the girls upset, mostly Duckie. How could that egotistical bastard just up and leave without telling her? Of course he’d do that, she’s known from the start what kind of man he is. Leo had told her his buddy’s history and his tricks. She was mad, no doubt, but she could tell that he’d changed for her, in little ways. So it didn’t take much convincing for Duckie to take a trip to San Diego, it was Cricket that needed to be reasoned with. She was packed and plane ticket paid for within three days, while it took Cricket to change her mind. Duckie wanted nothing more than to see her boyfriend and kick his ass for leaving suddenly.

Once they left the airport in their destination, the sisters rented a truck and drove to fighter town to see their flyboys. First stop being Leo’s, where the two dumb lovebirds reunited and forgave each other, then Duckie took the truck and arrived at Rick’s off-base apartment. The weeks they spent together went by fast being held in each others arms, but the girls had to go back to their ranch and jobs.

Duckie was devastated when she had to leave, but started to plan her and Cricket’s next visit soon after. Work days were often boring and slow, occasionally someone with an interesting case would show up and bring smiles to the nurse and doctor’s faces at how ridiculous the patients’ story was. After shift, she would call Rick (at a decent hour) and tell him about her patients of the day, unless she was working at the ranch, then tell him about the trouble she and Cricket got into. The phone calls were always filled with laughter and smiles on either side as stories were shared and ‘I love yous’ told in between. Jack and Bush often said their ‘hellos’ too.

When Rick and Leo had asked the girls to move in with them, Duckie had jumped at the idea! Within a couple of weeks, Duckie was packed and put her three weeks into work. Cricket took less time, but didn’t want to leave without her sister, so she waited for Duckie. When they drove the thousands of miles to their new homes, it was sad for both girls to not be with each other every second of every day, like they had been able to back home. Day by day, it got easier for them, but it still took a while for them to get used to it just being themselves and their boyfriends. Cricket took a job at the bar, the O Club and Duck went to work at the hospital.

After a couple of years together, Rick, Leo, and the girls had made a surprise trip to the Pruitt’s ranch. The girls were oblivious about the real reason for the visit, but a month later when Rick proposed to Duckie, it was pretty easy to guess. At the wedding, Duckie’s Maid of Honor was of course Cricket, and her Bride’s Maids were Quinn (Wolfe) Henderson and Rebecca Wolfe. As it was said before, Rick didn’t have the best relationships with his family. It’s been years since he’s seen or talked to someone sharing his last name, he refuses too. For his guests, it was just his aviator friends and their wives or husbands and all of Duckie’s family and friends.

The wedding was beautiful, with a color palette of peach, sage, and gold. Her dress was lace, tight to the skin, off the shoulders sleeves, and a sweetheart neckline. The bouquets were peach roses with succulents and gold ribbon tied in a bow around the stems. The bride’s maids’ dresses were peach with an accent of gold somewhere on their person. The men wore light grey suits with a white dress shirt, and sage green tie. Their boutonnieres were a single peach flower with small succulents accompanied by it.

The church was beautiful, behind the alter was a stain glass window telling one of the many stories from the Bible, the Minister’s voice boomed with the microphone he held and the speakers around the room caught every crisp word spoken as the couple said their vows and ‘I Do’s’. The reception was equally as beautiful as the church, colored in the same color palette and natural light streaming in from the ceiling to wall windows. The cake was tall to be able to feed all of the guests, and had more than one flavor (because the newly weds couldn’t just pick one).

The best part of the night was when Duckie threw the bouquet and Chatterbox caught it. Duck doesn’t think she’s ever laughed as hard as she did when Leo chased his little sister around, trying to grab the flowers from her. He kept saying, ‘Not while I’m still kickin’ is my kid sister getting married before me!’ Becca would dodge and weave between guests as she ran to their parents to hide and tattle. It was nothing but what she imagined her wedding to look like, and couldn’t be more happy with all of the decorations, cake, and other things that could’ve just as likely gone wrong.

Duckie and Rick’s first dance started out slow, before another song was remixed into it and the couple did a dance that would put every other wedding that year to shame. When it was time for the father-daughter dance, it was filled with whispers and tears. The song captured their relationship perfectly and you could tell by just listening to the lyrics. Since Rick didn’t have any family come for him, Katherine and Ruth came up to him for his mother son dance.

Both women saw him as a son since the first day they met him and wouldn’t change that for the world. When both dances were done, Leo clapped Rick’s shoulders and said, ‘Welcome to the family, you can’t leave now’ but Rick would never dream of it, he left the love that each family held for each and every member and was happy to be able to be apart of that now and forever. Even if in a couple of months he’d also be related to his back-seater by marriage and have to see his ugly mug every holiday instead of just on base.

It was a few years later that Rick and Duckie had kids of their own, Amelia Jean and Addison Kate Neven. Amelia was born a year and a half before Addison, not wanting to go through the hardships of what her parents did with Cricket and herself. Duckie and Pretty Boy thought hard and long for the perfect names for their gorgeous daughters, and kept them a secret for the whole pregnancy until the delivery.

Duckie was adamant about no one but Rick in the delivery room until afterwards, and when the Wolfe and Pruitt clan could heard those strong lungs scream, they all felt unremarkable joy! After the nurses cleaned and printed the newborn babe, Rick called in the first two to meet the new addition to the family. Leo was first inside the door, his new wife, Cricket, a close second behind tears already in the waterline of her blue eyes.

Duckie smiled tiredly, ‘Crick, Leo, meet your niece, Amelia Jean Neven. Cricket, do you remember our pact from when we were kids?’ Cricket smiled softly, ‘yea, when we have kids, we would name them after the first letter of our sister’s names. So, Amelia, the A’s-the A’s for me?’ The small nod from the exhausted Duckie was all the confirmation Cricket needed to jump up and hug both new parents.

When the second little bundle of joy came into the world, it had been a little bit different this time. Duckie had some complications during the natural birth, so they had to give her a C-section. After the anesthesia had worn off, Rick called for the two best friends again first. Leo and Cricket huddled into the room and crowded the baby, cooing and making faces at her.

‘Do you wanna know your new niece’s name?’ Of course that got an excited head nod from them, ‘Ok, say hello to Leandra Hayes Neven!’ Leo’s eyes got wide and he started to cry, swiftly going in to hug Duckie and Rick, with giant smiles on their faces, but Cricket held back her smirk. ‘For realzies though, meet Addison Kate!’

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