“’Tis only so much teachin’ I can be doin’ with a student who’ll nay listen t’me! Th’lad has an obsession with th’musket, always has! Why be stabbin’ when ye can be shootin’?!” Alfred winced slightly. He wasn’t hiding, was he? It was a good thing, the shock on Arthur’s troops’ faces when his men came screaming out of the trees just like his auntie and his natives had taught them, wasn’t it?
“It’s because you treat him like some weak pansy-ass child! You’re backing down with him!” Gilbert ran a hand through his hair, dislodging until then unnoticed snowflakes. “Coddling, that’s the fastest way to make boys go soft. It’s a good thing he’s not Mattie, kicking the British Empire in the shins, he’d have been beat to hell within a week!”
The reverberating crack of flesh hitting flesh rang through the cold winter air long before anyone registered the flat of Brigid’s hand making bruising contact with Gilbert’s cheek. Even from where he was hiding Alfred could see the fury his aunt was well known for flash in her eyes. “Don’t ye e’er be talkin’ ‘bout me Maitiú like that e’er again, Gilbert Beilschmidt, Kingdom o’Prussia! That wee lad has th’potiental t’be th’best fighter ou’o’all o’us, aye e’en better than ye!”
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Date: 2010-11-03 06:42 am (UTC)“It’s because you treat him like some weak pansy-ass child! You’re backing down with him!” Gilbert ran a hand through his hair, dislodging until then unnoticed snowflakes. “Coddling, that’s the fastest way to make boys go soft. It’s a good thing he’s not Mattie, kicking the British Empire in the shins, he’d have been beat to hell within a week!”
The reverberating crack of flesh hitting flesh rang through the cold winter air long before anyone registered the flat of Brigid’s hand making bruising contact with Gilbert’s cheek. Even from where he was hiding Alfred could see the fury his aunt was well known for flash in her eyes. “Don’t ye e’er be talkin’ ‘bout me Maitiú like that e’er again, Gilbert Beilschmidt, Kingdom o’Prussia! That wee lad has th’potiental t’be th’best fighter ou’o’all o’us, aye e’en better than ye!”