Hello. This is my first post. I've got no idea where in the hell I might continue with this. It was just a totally random idea that I decided to choke out. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks for reading!

-Emira

It wasn't that Jimmy was jealous.

Well, no.

Actually he was jealous, but he was trying really, really REALLY hard not to be.

Cindy was turning 17 today. Her party was tomorrow, and he had wanted to give her his present early…yet as he walked over to her house, he could see her with a guy he'd never met before.

He was confident that Cindy was just as crazy about him as he was about her, but she was smiling at this guy on her porch. He didn't recognize him from the back, and she had this absolutely adoring look on her face and they were holding each other's hands and she threw her head back and laughed at what the stranger had to say just as his feet hit the sidewalk in front of her house.

Before he could do anything though, even open his mouth to speak, she had seen him. Cindy's smile amplified by a power of ten. She ran around the body of the boy she was talking to, and into Jimmy's arms.

"Happy birthday Cindy!" He squeezed her hard to him, and was very smug and felt very silly. She was his. All his.

"Aw thanks babe," she kissed the side of his face.

"I want you to meet Hans, my cousin. Hans!" She called to the stranger over her shoulder and now that Jimmy could see him without a veil of green, he noticed Hans was a spitting image of Cindy. It was like they had been cloned and while Cindy had been given breasts, Hans had been given jet black hair.

"Hans, this is my boyfriend Jimmy!"

"Oh yes, James,"

Hans had a clipped, light German accent, and very expensive clothing. He seemed quite out of his element on the lawn of a modest 2 story house. His smile was friendly though, so Jimmy and Hans shook hands and went about giving Cindy their full attention.

"Isn't it great? My two favorite boys here for my birthday!" she squealed girly like and did a happy dance.

Hans and Jimmy shared a look, before Cindy's mom came out of the house.

"Cynthia! Come inside and fix your cousin's room. I've asked you a dozen times,"

Cindy winced a little, but smiled at the others.

"Jimmy will you entertain Hans for a minute? Mother's on the war path," She ran inside.

Jimmy tried to start a conversation with Hans, but all that he got out was: "Well, uh, Hans, what do you uh…"

But Hans would have none of it.

"I'm gay." He interrupted.

A little shocked at the blunt proclamation and as confused as anything, Jimmy answered,

"Okay?"

"And Cynthia is very much in love with you,"

Jimmy wasn't sure where this conversation was going, but Hans had taken a step closer, and Jimmy didn't realize he had taken two back.

"Yes…?"

"She really has excellent taste," he continued while he ran his eyes over Jimmy's physique "and she tells me you're a genius with a big heart that would help a miserable wretch like me find someone."

Hans put his hand over his heart and sighed.

"Uh…"

"I have his picture, if that would make things easier,"

Not entirely sure how to handle someone who took stalking so lightly, Jimmy was unprepared for the face he saw staring back at him when he actually looked at the picture Hans had shoved at him.

"What?"

"What can I say? I met him at a country club over the summer. Sadly, I went back to Deutschland and he stayed here and I would just love to see him again,"

He vaguely heard the door close and Cindy walk up next to him.

"Jimmy, I know you don't have Betty Quinlan photos in your lab anymore, but I have every right to be concerned if you carry around Eustace Strytch pictures in your pocket."

"GAAHH!" Jimmy yelled and dropped the photo before leaping off the sidewalk and into the street.

Hans raised an eyebrow. "What? I would pay you handsomely of course…" he mumbled as he picked up the picture and lovingly traced the edges.

The seriousness of the situation hit him. His girlfriend's favorite cousin was smitten with Eustace Strytch, megalomaniac and royal pain in the ass. And said cousin of the girl of his dreams was asking for his help in tracking down said lunatic nemesis so that they could rekindle some summer love.

"Have you told her?" Jimmy asked Hans, pointing at Cindy.

Hans looked genuinely confused.

"That I'm gay? Of course."

"Jimmy," said Cindy. "I didn't think you were homophobic!"

"I'm not!"

"Then what's this about?" Cindy was getting mad. She had really wanted the two to get along…

"He's in love with Eustace Strytch!"

Her eyes nearly fell out of her head.

"What?"

"We met at a country club last summer. You told me Jimmy was a genius, so I asked him to find him for me." Hans looked between his cousin and his new acquaintance and his face adopted a pleading expression.

"I can't help but feel as though I'm missing something. Explain bitte!"

Cindy and Jimmy continued gaping.