Looking For Someone, Pt 2

Rating: PG-13 for some language and sexuendos.
Summary: You meet the guys in Genesis at a record party, and general chaos insues.


I



“Wait!” I said looking around panicked, “Where’s Phil?”

“He was just here,” Steve said looking around.

“Didn’t he push you into the moat?” Tony asked and looked up.

“The moat’s that way Einstein,” Peter said and I hit his arm.

“This isn’t funny. He could be seriously hurt,” I said and started outlining the lines in my palm with my forefinger.

“What are you doing?” Tony asked and took both my hands in his. He looked at my palms, almost expecting to find something there.

“It’s a nervous twitch. When I get anxious or something like that I start going over all the lines in my hand. I don’t know why, I’ve just always done it.”

“Awww how cute,” Mike said sticking his head on Tony’s shoulder.

“Oh...go find Phil or something,” I said and Tony squeezed his nose, pushing him away.

“It really is quite cute, in an odd sort of way,” Tony said looking into my eyes, “at least you don’t bite your nails.”

“Hey, there’s nothing wrong with that,” Steve said and put his hands in his pockets. We all laughed, but we were stopped short by a loud thud from inside the castle.

“What if that was him?!” I said nervously. Tony was still holding onto my hands so I became even more anxious as I couldn’t outline anything. He noticed how twitchy I had become and he took his thumbs and traced the little lines in each hand. I began to feel a lot better.

“Well, I believe we have two options,” Mike said and held up two fingers. “One,” he held up one finger, “is the most logical one. We go inside, regardless of legal-ness, and look for ol’ Phil. Or, number two,” he still held up one finger until Peter nudged him and the other finger went up, “we look for another drummer, namely Peter since he already knows all the songs.” Everyone looked back and forth between each other. We all knew what had to be done. Well, at least everyone except Steve. As we started walking into the castle, Steve was heading in the other direction.

“Dude, where are you going?” Peter asked and grabbed his arm.

“I thought you wanted to play drums,” was all he got to say before Peter dragged him along the moat one more time.



II



“Look, a note!” Tony said as we walked through the gate.

“What does it say?” I asked. Tony looked at me like he was thinking “well that’s what you do with a note”, but he blinked a few times and smiled so it was all ok.

“It says, ‘Hey Bob, I’m leaveing early tonite. Can you please lock gate for me. I will still bee hear in the morning to open up. Thanks, George.’” He cringed and read it to himself again.

“What’s wrong?” Peter asked.

“This guy cannot spell anything to save his life.”

“So this Bob guy obviously left without locking up, never seeing his note,” Steve concluded.

“Well he did leave it in a shadow,” Tony said sarcastically.

“Look, here’s a map. It says what parts of the castle are normally locked to the public. Now we know where he definitely WON’T be,” I pointed out. The map didn’t really help much as there were only two parts of the castle that were locked.

“He could be anywhere,” Peter said and shook his head, “maybe I should polish the old drum kit, just in case.”



III



“Oh come on guys, Scooby Doo did it all the time!” I pleaded. I was trying to convince the guys that we should split up so we could cover more ground in less time.

“I actually see what she’s talking about,” Mike said.

“But there’s five of us,” Peter said and waved five fingers in the air.

“And there were five in Scooby Doo too,” I pointed out, “Daphne and Fred were always together, and Thelma was with Shaggy and Scooby.”

“So let me get what you’re tying to say,” Mike said, “Daphne, Fred, Thelma, Shaggy and Scooby,” he said as he pointed to me, Tony, Peter, Steve and himself respectively.

“Yeah, basically,” I said and linked arms with Tony.

“So we should meet back here at 11.30. That gives us 45 minutes to look around. Ok?” Peter said and looked at his watch.

“Yes Thelma, I mean Peter,” Steve said and laughed.

“Heh heh very funny,” Peter said and grabbed my wrist, “ok, you have the same time as me. go by your watch. Now, there’s two ways to go at the end of this hall, left and right. We’ll go left.”

“What do we use for lights?” Mike asked

“There are light switches in all the rooms, I remember,” Steve said.

“Just when WAS the last time you were here?” Tony asked and looked right into Steve’s eyes.

“I told you, when I was a kid......ok it was a few weeks ago. The girlfriend wanted to check it out, so I went with her,” Steve said and shifted his feet.

“Awww how sweet,” I said and pinched his cheeks.

“Ow, that’s hurts man!”

“Love hurts,” I said, and Tony reached over and pinched both of my cheeks.

“Will you two please just get married and have eight kids and get it over with!” Peter said.



III



“So...how tall do you think this is?” I asked Tony as we went up the stairs.

“Well, it’s probably three without the towers. God knows how tall those are.”

“Wait, why isn’t anyone searching the ground floor?”

“They are, don’t you remember them telling us that just before we left?”

“No,” I said, “I was too busy loosing myself in your eyes.”

“You are so adorable.”

“Yeah,” I said fluffing my hair, “I know.” Tony took my hand and we walked up the rest of the stairs. At the top, there was a room directly on our right. Tony went first and pushed it open. The light switch was easy to find and light quickly filled the room. It was a gorgeously huge bedroom, go figure.

“Look at the size of this bed!” I said as we walked in. There were paintings on all four walls and a large window with deep crimson curtains. The bedspread was the same colour as the curtains with a drape around the perimeter of it.

“Its huge!” he said and we walked over to it. He pulled back the drape and sat down. He patted the bed next to him and motioned for me to sit down. I did, and the bed was very soft and comfortable.

“Do you think we’ll ever find Phil?” I asked Tony as he put his arms around me and pulled me close.

“I’m sure we will. He probably just wandered off and is thinking the same thing about us.” He stroked my hair and I looked up at him. I couldn’t believe this was happening. There must have been thousands of girls in the world who would’ve killed to be where I was. We just stared at each other for a while before he finally inched closer to my face and kissed me. Sure, I’d been kissed dozens of times before by various boyfriends, but nothing was like this. He was soft and gentle, yet powerful. Just as I was really starting to enjoy this, the door to the room slammed shut.



IV



“Someone left the window open,” Tony said as he walked over to the curtains flailing about the window. The wind was really blowing hard, which explained the slamming door. I was still sitting on the bed, but I decided to get up. It was probably a sign that we should be looking for Phil, not making out on some dead king’s bed.

“We should probably keep looking,” he said when he saw me get up. Thankfully, the door opened up just fine and we went out into the hallway. Holding hands the whole time, we searched half of the floor before I looked at my watch.

“Hey, it’s 11.27. We should probably get back to the rest of them,” I said and turned around.

“Yeah, they probably found Phil a half an hour ago and we didn’t know,” he said and put his arm around my waist as we walked back. We reached the stairs just as Peter was yelling “Where the hell are they? I said 11.30! I swear if we have to go looking for those hormonal -”

“Hormonal what?” I asked as we descended the stairs.

“Erm,” he said, “Nothing, never mind.”

“That’s what I thought. Find Phil?”

“Does it look like it?!” Mike exclaimed and threw his hands in the air. Suddenly, we heard what sounded like a car horn out in front of the castle.

“It’s the police!” Steve said and ran into the shadows.

“How do you know?” Tony asked and pulled him from the corner.

“Guess?”

“Let’s go see. If it is the police, we’ll just explain that we were going to have a picnic and we lost one of our friends and went looking for him, finding this completely open,” I explained to them.

“Perfect, say exactly that,” Peter said and we all went outside.



V



“You’ve been here HOW LONG?!” Peter yelled into the open window of his trusty van.

“The whole time,” Phil explained, “I realised that I had some of my girlfriend’s hair pins in my pocket, so I ran over to the van to try and pick the lock. I was gunna surprise you lot and drive up with it. By the time I got it open, you were gone. I figured you’d come running out looking for me.” We all stood staring at Phil, mouths wide open. I was the first to speak.

“Yeah we went looking for you, INSIDE the castle. We thought you were like, kidnapped or something!”

“Well, at least we found him in one piece. Come on, let’s go home.”



VI



“So, where are we going?” I asked, again on Tony’s lap in the backseat of the van. Only this time, Phil was driving and Tony would occasionally kiss me on my lips or neck, depending on how far he felt like stretching.

“Well, we were gunna go back to the party, get into our cars, and go home. What about you?” asked Peter.

“Well, I really don’t wanna go home. My brother will give me the Spanish Inquisition -” but I was cut off by the whole van saying, “NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!”

“Ah, I love that show,” Steve said took off his glasses to clean them. Mike let out a gasp and said “I’ve never seen you without your glasses!” Phil looked in the rear-view mirror and commented, “dahling, you’re gowgeous.”

“Yeah,” he said putting on his glasses again, “I know.”



VII



“Where you off to?” I asked Tony when we got out of the van.

“Home. Well, it’s home to me. it’s just a little flat uptown. Erm, do you wanna come? I can pull out the couch.”

“How big is your bed?” I asked biting my lip. He turned bright pink, looked away, shuffled his feet and smiled. I swear he was the most adorable thing I’d ever seen.

“Well, it IS a king sized.....”