Title: The Power Of Giggles - Part Quatre
Characters: JewWario, KittyMarie, Linkara
Pairings: KittyMarie + JewWario (Friendship), KittyMarie + Linkara (Friendship), Linkara + JewWario (Friendship)
Rating: PG-13 for language, obviously.
Summary: Linkara finds himself sucked into the ongoing war between KittyMarie and J-Dub.
Notes: Takes place a few hours after the third "Power of Giggles" story, which can be read
here. This was originally written a few weeks ago as a oneshot but never published online till today, when I found a way to incorporate it into the series. Also, the term "tickle tumble" - possibly one of my favorite terms for a tickle war - comes from Robert F. Kennedy.
"Hey, Kitty!" laughed Linkara, who was sitting on the now-infamous couch with JewWario. "You wanna come sit with us?"
Katie's eyes lit up. "Hell yeah!" she squealed, racing over and plunking down in between her two favorite contributors. J-Dub grinned and wiggled one of the hard plastic cat ears perched atop the fangirl's head. "You're so cute!" he teased.
"Linkara, J-Dub is crazy," Katie giggled.
"Well, so are you," Linkara pointed out.
J-Dub laughed. "He's right, KittyMarie. You are crazy."
Katie folded her arms in mock annoyance. "I prefer to be called silly, thank you very much," she drawled in her best impression of the Cinema Snob.
"Oh yeah, I remember! You looooove to be called a silly girl, don't ya, Kitten? Don't ya?" asked J-Dub, pulling Katie onto his lap.
"I do, very much," chuckled Katie.
Linkara smiled. "Almost as much as you like this?" he asked playfully, gently swiping his fingers across Katie's neck and underneath her chin. Katie's chuckles became slightly more manic, but not by much. "That tickles," she said to the comic reviewer.
J-Dub, who was still holding Katie, shook his head. "Amateur."
"What, you think you can do better?" Linkara asked, a slight tone of mock annoyance in his voice.
"Linkara, I can send this girl into giggling spasms just by saying her name. You can't even imagine what happens when I actually start tickling her. Also, comic boy, you don't seem to know where to tickle to get the best reactions from her."
Linkara rolled his eyes, but he was still smiling. "Okay then, Mr. You-Can-Play-This, if you're such an expert on KittyMarie here, then let's see you work your magic."
"You don't mind, right, Kitten?" J-Dub asked the fangirl. "'Cause I won't tickle you if you don't want me to."
Katie smiled broadly. "J-Dub, seriously. Have I ever turned down a tickle tumble before?"
"No," admitted her idol with a chuckle.
"And I won't now. Do your worst."
J-Dub propped Katie up against the arm of the couch. "Okay, Linkara, watch and learn. You start with her less ticklish spots and work your way toward her more ticklish spots. First you go under her arms like this." J-Dub swiftly dug his fingers into the soft skin under the arms of his biggest fan, provoking a barrage of giggles rivaling that at the end of Monsters Inc. "Noooooo!!!!!!" she cried. "J-Dub, my god, no fair!"
"Sometimes you get the J-Dub, but other times, the J-Dub gets you," her idol teased, imitating her. He moved his fingers faster, jabbing them into her sides like he was shaping cookie dough. Turning back to Linkara, he announced, "Then after you've got her giggling like this, you have to go for her ribs and her belly."
"Oh God!" squeaked Katie, half in panic and half in joy. J-Dub ignored this sudden outburst and poked his pinky into the fangirl's navel, wiggling it around faster than ever. Katie began to howl, causing the grins on her favorite contributors' faces to widen. Linkara then reached over and touched the tip of his index finger to the bottom of Katie's ribs. "Are you ticklish here, KittyMarie?" he asked, a devious sparkle forming in his eyes.
J-Dub nodded to Linkara. "She is," he responded. "She'll tell you that's where she's most ticklish, but I found out that's a dirty, dirty lie. Her ribs and her tummy do make her giggle like the silly girl she is, but if you really want to make her laugh, you have to........take off her shoes." He said the last four words in his low, smooth Jareth voice, causing the squirming, giggling girl in his arms to let out another shriek.
"Now, these cowboy boots? Cute, but in the way," J-Dub added, grabbing the heel of one of the boots and yanking it off. His smile widened. "You're not wearing socks?"
Katie couldn't answer, as Linkara was thoroughly skittering his fingers across her ribs. "Linkarahahahahahaha!" she cried. "Please, Linkara, please! Thahahahahahat tiiiiiicklesss!!!!!!"
J-Dub took the opportunity to begin pinching and playing with Katie's toes, making her already spastic laughter absolutely hysterical. "AH HEE HEE HEE HEE!!!!!! Not the feeheeheeheeheeheeheet! I TOLD you, just touching them tickles! I'm too ticklish! Oh my God!"
"She's right," J-Dub told Linkara. "Her feet are so ticklish, that if you just touch them, she'll die of the giggles in seconds. It's adorable how much she laughs." He winked at the fangirl and tickled the soles of her feet rapidly, threading his fingers between her toes and letting them wiggle over every inch of her most sensitive tickle spots. Linkara continued to attack at her ribs and belly, and her giggles began to bubble out of her faster than she could produce them in her little lungs.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Katie. She'd never laughed this hard in her life, but then again, she'd never had her three most ticklish spots tickled simultaneously before. "J-Duhuhuhuhuhb!!! Linkarahahaha! I'm gonna die! I'm gona dihihihihihihieeee!"
Eventually they let up, and Katie collapsed in J-Dub's arms and fell asleep almost instantly. "I think we wore her out," her idol teased, putting a protective hand on her back.
"Well, now I know how to cheer her up if she needs it," said Linkara.
J-Dub smiled, tucked a hair behind his fangirl's ear, and kissed her cheek. "Okay, but I always get first dibs on her."
"Deal."