First fan fiction and of course it's for my favourite show growing up! This story will almost certainly have adult themes and such that will require an M rating so I'm just gonna rate it as that now even though the first chapter is pretty tame. I'm going to try and make this story comprehensive so it might be a bit slow, just giving you all a warning now so you don'y yell at me later. Please enjoy reading and reviews would help me greatly.

I don't own the rights to Captain Planet or any of its characters. This is made purely non-profit for my own literary benefit.


"Bozhe moi!" Linka exclaimed, "honestly Wheeler, can't you just sit still for one minute?"

"Sorry babe," Wheeler had been moving about on the couch all evening. He could never sit still while watching the television.

"I think we may have to ban you from watching movies with us Wheeler if you can't stop distracting all of us," Kwame stated in a serious tone, but he grinned when Wheeler spun his head around and seemed shocked at what he'd said.

"..or rather, annoying Linka enough that she distracts all of us," little Ma-Ti had laughed when Linka shot him a glare and of course she couldn't maintain any anger towards him.

"Hey! I'm sitting on this couch too and you don't hear me complaining," Gi had raised her voice over the others and when they'd quietened down, so did she, "now can we all sit back and watch the rest of the movie before we miss any important scenes."

"That sounds great," Wheeler said while clenching his fist and pumping the air in some sort of victory sign. Gi snorted before she laughed out loud and the others joined in before they were interrupted.

"Planeteers, there's an eco-emergency. Please come to the Crystal Chamber immediately!" they all heard the familiar and motherly voice of Gaia in their heads at the same time and collectively had groaned when she'd finished. It seemed that eco-emergencies always happened whenever it was movie night!

Kwame and Ma-Ti stood up and headed towards the chamber and Gi followed soon after. Linka stood from beside Wheeler but before she could turn to walk from the couch he grabbed her hand and pulled her back down to the couch next to him.

"Wheeler, let go of me," she tried to push away from him.

"Come on, babe," he started and moved his face towards hers, "just one kiss, whaddaya say?"

She made a disgusted sound before pushing him back roughly and standing up indignantly, trudging off to the other Planeteers. "In your dreams, Yankee!" she yelled before slamming the door behind her. Wheeler could hear her speaking Russian to herself until she was outside hearing range and knew that she was cursing at him.

If only you knew how right you are Linka, he thought to himself. Ever since meeting her, he had known that he had strong feelings for Linka. At first it was infatuation but as time went on and they grew to know each other better, it became much more than that. Their personalities seemed to be completely opposite, Wheeler being spontaneous and extroverted while Linka was calculating and introverted, but that didn't stop the feelings from growing stronger and stronger every day. Wheeler had tried to get her to like him by doing the only thing he knew how, trying to impress her with jokes and by showing off, but these had never worked on her. He didn't know how to get her to like him back, and it was almost painful to be so close to her all the time without her reciprocating his intense emotions.

Wheeler shook his head, his red hair shaking and that seemed to discard some of his worries. He stood up and began walking to the Crystal Chamber to meet with Gaia and the others. When Wheeler had entered the chamber, Gaia began explaining what the emergency was.

"Now, there's no need to panic Planeteers but there's a very serious and immediate concern that I must bring up with all of you." She paused and the Planeteers started to get a little anxious.

"Gaia, tell us what is the problem and we will fix it right away!" Kwame was always the most eager to discover whatever disaster may have struck. Out of all the Planeteers, he was the one that took his responsibility as a Planeteer the most seriously.

"Is Skumm back to his old tricks?" Gi had asked. Verminous Skumm hadn't been heard from for almost a year, even though he was the only eco-villain that wasn't currently incarcerated.

"No, nothing like that," Gaia had laughed and everyone had been taken aback, surprised by her sudden change in demeanour, "next week is your 7 year anniversary as Planeteers and I know that none of you have remembered. This is simply unacceptable and I implore you all to get together and decide on some way that you will celebrate. I am going to give you some.." she had paused before continuing, "..time off and I expect that you will have an amazing event ready to celebrate your milestone."

Everyone carefully looked sideways at each other. They didn't know if she was being serious or if she was having a joke. No-one said anything for several seconds until Wheeler spoke up, "so, there's no eco-emergency?"

Gaia had laughed at him gently, "not today Wheeler, and not for the rest of this week for any of you. Almost all the eco-villains are under arrest and catastrophes around the world are becoming less and less frequent every day thanks to your hard work and dedication. It's only fitting that you get a well deserved break and spend some quality time with each other without the worry and responsibility of saving the world at any moment."

The Planeteers all looked at each other again. Kwame seemed a little lost, unable to comprehend what had transpired. Gi was deep in thought, no doubt planning on the celebration at hand already. Wheeler was ecstatic and he couldn't keep the smile from his face. Linka, however, seemed unhappy. Ma-Ti could feel all of their emotions and he himself didn't know what to feel.

Wheeler turned towards Linka and noticed her mood first, "Hey, Linka, what's wrong?"

She seemed to jump when he said her name, as if waking from a daydream. "Oh, I'm just a little worried about what would happen if an emergency did happen during the week. What would people do?" In truth though, that wasn't what she was worried about. Gaia had spoken to her and her alone, saying that this celebration is for you Linka. She wasn't sure about what Gaia had meant by that and wondered what she could mean.

"Hey, I'm sure that nothing will happen. It's been months since a serious emergency and the ones that we've helped with could've easily been handled without us. Don't you worry, babe, everything's gonna be fine." He leaned over and hugged her around her shoulders. He thought for a moment that he may have been a bit too forward and inappropriate in embracing her but his fears washed away when he looked down and saw that she was looking up at him, smiling. He gave her a big smile back but he could tell that something wasn't quite right from the sullen look on her face but he released his grip from her and walked over to Gi, "Hey, Gi. What have you planned out for us?"

She seemed startled, "what makes you think that I've got any ideas?"

Wheeler, Ma-Ti and Kwame all laughed before Kwame explained, "this is exactly the kind of thing that you are always begging for Gi." Gi was notoriously trying to celebrate absolutely every event that she could. Everyone's birthday, christmas, hallowe'en, easter, you name it, she wanted a part in everything!

"Yes, well, I may have a few things in my head right now," she chuckled to herself, "and I must be honest in saying that I am really looking forward to some of those ideas."

Gaia interrupted them again, "go now Planeteers, and enjoy some time to yourselves." And she disappeared before any could respond. They knew that they could still talk to her. She was, of course, always listening but whenever she did leave they never felt the need to thank her or say goodbye. She would have known exactly what they felt and it was unnecessary.

"This is fairly odd," Kwame was the first to speak after Gaia left, which had been several minutes by now.

"I think it's fantastic! I've been looking forward to taking some time off to relax for ages now," Wheeler stretched his arms out, wishing to start his holiday as soon as possible.

"Yankee, you are on a constant holiday around here," Linka made fun of Wheeler's well known phobia of doing housework. He was going to reply sharply but simply laughed in response. He knew as well as they did that he did as little work as possible due to his laziness. It's not that he didn't want to help out, it's just that he'd not been raised to take care of his household in that kind of way.

A few moments later, the Planeteers starting making their way back to their huts to retire for the evening. It was almost midnight and they were all tired, and tomorrow was sure to be a long day as well.

"Goodnight everyone!" Ma-Ti said aloud. His hut was the closest and he broke from the others first. Everyone called back out to him and this continued on until Wheeler and Linka were alone, their huts the furthest from the Crystal Chamber.

"Goodnight Wheeler," she said softly, without looking at him before proceeding towards her door.

"Linka, wait," he called out and took a few steps towards her. She stopped and turned around, looking up and into his eyes. He really was quite handsome. Originally, she thought he was just an arrogant and self-centred American but he had shown her quite often that he could be sensitive and caring given the right situation. His blue eyes seemed like a vortex, sucking her into them and making her forget some of her problems when their eyes caught sight. His red hair had darkened as he'd grown older, a much more mature look, and his attitude on missions and around the Island had matured proportionally. His body was in good shape, he worked out almost every day, giving him strong and defined muscles. He runs every morning before breakfast and swims before lunch to keep fit. Linka didn't like to admit it but she had feelings for Wheeler that she couldn't explain, feelings that didn't make sense given the frustration that he made her feel most of the time.

"Da, Wheeler?" she asked him. She took a step forward so they were standing right in front of each other. She could smell his aftershave and could see his chest rising and falling from each breath. The closeness felt a bit more intimate than it probably should have been.

He reach forward and gently put his hand over her shoulder. "Linka, are you feeling okay? You seemed upset in the Chamber before and I hope that it wasn't because I had tried to kiss you earlier. I was only kidding around and if I made you uncomfortable then I truly am sorry for that. I.. I don't really know how to control my actions sometimes and I act impulsively. Sometimes I am grateful but other times I am not. In this case, I wish that I hadn't..."

She put her finger up to his mouth, stopping his from continuing, "Yankee, don't you think that I'm used to your inappropriate and childish advances towards me?" she stopped and saw him flinch back a little, feigning being hurt, "but please, don't blame yourself. I know you're a nice guy and I know that you wouldn't intend to hurt me."

Wheeler sighed out of relief. He dropped his hand from on her shoulder. He had felt guilty about her mood, thinking that he'd been the one to make her feel the way he'd seen her feeling. "If you're not feeling 100% do you want to talk about anything? You know, to make you feel better."

Linka giggled to herself before answering him, "Wheeler, why can't you be such a nice guy like this all the time?"

"Well," he put his hands behind his head, "it's very tiring to be such an amazing guy so sometimes I gotta mix it up a bit to keep people alert and on their toes." Back to the same old Wheeler.

Linka started to turn away in anger. She had thought he was being serious for a change but clearly he was just an immature kid still. She felt his hand on her forearm and turned back around to face him. She looked up and his face was again serious, "I'm sorry Linka. I act immature when I feel uncomfortable. I've grown up and learned to behave the way I do to keep people from getting close to me. I know that it's stupid but that's how I am. It's getting pretty cold out here, so I'm going to head off to bed for the night okay? I'll see you tomorrow Linka."

She seemed startled at his change in demeanour again. In all the time she'd known him, he'd never opened up to her about his feelings like he had. Sure, she'd heard about how beautiful she was and how much he loved her but he'd never spoken to her so seriously before. This was the kind of Wheeler that she found fascinating and attractive and she wished that he'd be like that more often.

She'd been thinking to herself for a while and noticed that Wheeler had already turned around and was several paces away from her. She stepped forward and called out to him, "hey Wheeler." He stopped immediately and turned his head. She raised her hand slightly, "Goodnight."

Even in the darkness, she could see his smile and she couldn't help but smile back. "Spokoynoy nochi," he responded in a fairly terrible Russian accent but Linka beamed at him anyway. She was always impressed when he tried to learn some phrases but he really was hopeless at learning her language. He raised his hand to his mouth and blew her a kiss. He would often do such a thing to annoy her but this time she felt a little differently about it and she raised her hand and swiped at mid-air, apparently to grab the kiss that he had blown to her. She clenched her fist and held it against her heart before turning around and heading inside to go to bed.

She closed the door behind her and fell back against it. Her heart was pounding against her chest harder than she ever thought possible. She could feel her head throbbing. What had she done?! She'd flirted back with Wheeler! In a completely unambiguous way. There was no other message that Wheeler could have made from that other than that she had feelings for him. She flicked her light on with her other hand and looked down at her clenched fist. She slowly opened it up and saw nothing in her hand but she imagined his kiss flying out of her hand and up into the air all around her before flying straight to her cheek. She put her hand up to where the kiss had landed and felt warm under her fingers. She closed her eyes and shook her head, moving forward and preparing for bed. She could not wipe the smile from her face the entire time.

Wheeler stood motionless for a moment before slowly turning around and making his way back to his hut. His mind was scattered, had she done what he thought she had? Surely not. She'd never shown any interest in him before so he must have misinterpreted her gesture. What other reason could their be though? He opened the door to his hut and closed it behind him, flicking his light on and almost tripping on a used shirt that he'd carelessly discarded on the ground several days or weeks prior. He would only make her angry if he brought it up again, so he decided to just try and forget about it. If she did love him back then he'd wait until she said so. She had a very short temper and it seemed that whatever Wheeler would say to try and calm her down would only exacerbate her anger, and that would only become worse if he tried to talk to her about her emotions. I'll only talk to her about it if she is the one to bring it up, he thought to himself. He threw himself on his bed and fell asleep almost instantly.


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