Future Dragon: Rose Long (Season Three)
Disclaimer: I don't own AD:JL or any of the characters. Just my OCs and the story ideas.
Chapter/Episode 1: Husband and Twin
Rose was lying fast asleep on her bed, her marked hand, that was now wrapped in a bandage, was now resting on her human belly. As Rose was fast asleep, her head rolled to the side, she was completely unaware of the door, which creaked as it was opened, revealing Savannah, who was in her human form and fully clothed, smiling.
Quietly, Savannah started to walk over to Rose's bed. As soon as she reached the bed, Savannah leaned over and put her hand on Rose's shoulder. Almost immediately, Rose's eyes snapped open and she gasped, making Savannah gasp as well and jump back.
Breathing heavily, Rose stared at Savannah, and as soon as she recognized the younger woman, she sighed with relief. "Sorry..." Savannah apologized as she started to walk over to Rose again. "...I didn't mean to startle you."
"Savannah?" Rose asked tiredly. "What are you doing here?" As she asked this, Savannah squatted down at the side of the bed.
"Did you get your rest?"
"I was getting it..." Rose answered. "...You know, before you woke me up..."
"Didn't you get any yesterday?" Savannah asked, raising an eyebrow. "You had all day yesterday..."
"Joel kept me up for most of the day." Rose said.
"Well, that's unfortunate." Savannah said as she got back up to her full height by straightening up. "The thing is...I told Cherri that today is the day."
"The day?" Rose asked, raising an eyebrow as she slowly turned her head back to normal. "The day for what?"
"Well, I can see that you can still move." Savannah said, smiling as she put her hands on her hips. "So, why don't you get out of bed and follow me to find out?"
"Can I call my sister first?" Rose asked, slowly rolling her head back to the side. "She's probably worried to death about me. The only person whose worries could rival hers would be my husband."
Savannah just stood there looking at Rose for a few seconds before she finally nodded, smiling. "Yeah." She said. "Okay. Just give me a minute to get my communication device..." As she said that, she started to turn around, walking toward the door.
Rose watched wordlessly as Savannah reached the door, pulling it open and stepping out, closing the door behind her. As soon as Savannah was gone, Rose grunted as she slowly set her palms down on the mattress. Then, she grunted again, gritting her teeth as she slowly started to push herself up into a sitting position.
After about twenty-five seconds, Rose finally managed to achieve the sitting position, so she sat there, panting. Seconds later, the door to the room opened again and Savannah re-entered the room, holding her communication device. However, Rose didn't turn her head to the side to look at her, she just sat on the bed breathing heavily.
"Here." Savannah said, reaching Rose's side. Rose slowly turned her head to the side and slowly lifted up her hand and took the device.
"Thanks..." Rose said as she slowly turned her head back to normal.
Savannah watched as Rose slowly dialed the number into the device. When she was done, Rose waited, but after ten seconds, nothing had happened; neither Jake nor Daisy picked up. Instead, Rose could hear Daisy's voice: "Thanks for calling me. I can't talk right now, so leave me a message. I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can."
Sighing, Rose slowly turned her head to the side to look at Savannah, who lifted up her arms and tilted her head to the side, giving her a kind of shrug. "Again..." Rose said, in a rather disappointed tone. "...They didn't pick up again..."
BLACKOUT
2 Days Earlier
The sound of flapping would have been able to be heard if there were any people on the sidewalks. Thirty year old Jake Long landed on the ground in his dragon form. Immediately after, he reverted to his human form in a bright light. As a human, he was no longer wearing the robes of a Dragon Councilor, but was instead wearing his normal unzipped red jacket revealing a white shirt, along with a pair of jeans.
Quickly turning to the side, Jake could see the house where his wife was staying. "I'm coming, baby..." Jake whispered before he started to walk down the sidewalk.
Arriving at the house, he turned and started to walk up the steps, finally reached the front porch. Immediately, he knocked on the door, pounding his fist against the door three times. Then, Jake pulled his hand away and took a step back as he waited for the door to open.
It finally did a few seconds later, allowing Jake to see Daisy's worried face. Upon seeing the look on Daisy's face, Jake's eyes widened and his mouth started to gape open. "Is...Is ever...everything alright?" He asked her, taking a step toward her.
"She's gone..." Daisy said, her voice practically a whisper.
Hearing this, Jake could feel his heart drop into the pit of his stomach, his eyes widening as he stared at Daisy. "No..." Jake said, more to himself than to Daisy, shaking his head. "...No. Rose can't be-No!"
However, telling his self this was not nearly enough; Jake quickly found himself grabbing hold of his hair in his fists as he squeezed his eyes shut, trying to prevent tears from coming as he dropped to his knees. "No..." He muttered, lowering his hands and opening his eyes as the tears started to roll down his cheeks, only to see that Daisy was staring at him with a look of shock on her face.
"What...What are you doing?" She asked.
"You...You said that Rose is...Rose is dead..." Jake managed.
"No, I didn't..." Daisy said slowly, shaking her head. "...She's gone. Literally. She isn't in this house..."
"What?" Jake asked, his eyes widening. "She's...She's not...not here?" As he asked this, Jake slowly started to get to his feet, bringing up both of his hands to his eyes to wipe the new tears from his eyes.
Sighing, Daisy looked down at the ground briefly before she looked back up at Jake. "Come with me..." She said, turning around and walking into the house. Blinking, Jake watched Daisy briefly before he sniffled. Then, he started to walk into the house.
As soon as Jake was inside the house, he turned around and closed the door behind him. He then turned back around only to gasp as he saw that his young son was running/waddling toward him after coming down the stairs. "Daddy!" the three year old shouted.
"Jake!" Jake put a smile on his face as he squatted down and held out his arms, allowing his child to run into his arms. Jake then wrapped his arms around his son's back, holding him close. "Hey, how are you doing?"
"Fine." Jake Jr. replied. "Aunt Daisy seems stressed put."
"Yeah, about that..." Jake said. "...Why don't you go into the kitchen? Aunt Daisy and I need to talk."
"Is it about Mommy?"
"That it is..." Jake told his son. "...We won't take too long. You can wait for about five minutes, right?"
"Okay, Daddy."
Jake then stood back up as Jake Jr. turned and started to waddle/run into the kitchen. Jake then turned to the side and saw that Daisy was sitting on the couch, the look of worry back on her face. "Okay, she was gone when you woke up this morning?" Jake asked as he started to walk toward his sister-in-law.
"I guess..."
"You guess?" Jake asked as he stopped right at her side, his eyes falling on the floor, where there was a communication device on the floor, broken into two pieces, having fallen from the table. "What happened with that?" Jake asked, making Daisy turn her head to the side, looking at the device.
"Oh..." Daisy returned her head back to normal. "...I accidentally knocked that down when Jake Jr. woke me up this morning..." As she finished, she turned her head to the side to look at Jake. "...He wanted to know where Rose is. I was surprised to find that she was gone. I...I did call the police. I had just finished reporting her disappearance when you showed up."
Jake just stood in place, an unreadable look on his face as Daisy stared at him. "I'm not waiting for the police to find her." Jake finally said, starting to turn around. "I'm going out to find her..."
BLACKOUT; COMMERCIAL
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
"What?" Daisy's eyes widened, getting off of the couch as she watched Jake walk toward the front door. "The police will take care of it. I told them about her condition."
"You can't stop me, Daisy." Jake said as he reached the front door. As he reached the front knob, he turned his head to the side. "She could be in real danger. I'm going to find her and come bring her home. If anything, her condition might make it easier for me to find her."
Daisy just stood there for a few seconds before she finally sighed, reaching over to her left arm with her right hand and wrapping her fingers around her arm. "Jake, come with me." She said."
LINE BREAK
Daisy pushed open the door to Rose's room and switched on the light-switch as she continued walking in, Jake following her. Sighing, Daisy stopped in front of Rose's nightstand; as Daisy turned around, Jake realized that the bottom drawer was open.
"What?" Jake asked.
Daisy said nothing. Instead, she squatted down and reached into the drawer, pulling out a dog-tag attached to a chain with a "J", a "+" and a "R" on it. Seeing it, Jake's eyes widened. "It's...It's here?" He asked, getting a nod from Daisy. "But..." Jake stammered, taking a step toward his sister-in-law. "...She takes that with her everywhere. She...She always keeps it hidden under her clothes so it wouldn't...won't get lost or...or damaged."
"I know..." Daisy said as she started to stand back up. "...She wasn't here when I got home last night, so I thought that she had gone out to get some time to herself. When I woke up, I was surprised to see that she still wasn't home."
"Do you know if she ever came home during the night?" Jake asked, taking another step toward Daisy.
"No." Daisy shook her head. "That's why I looked around so see if there was a note or something. And I found this..."
Jake just stared at Daisy for a few more seconds before he turned around and started to walk toward the door. Daisy watched with a shocked look on her face, but her shocked expression was quickly replaced with a look of anger.
"Where are you going, Jake?" She demanded, taking a step toward her brother-in-law, putting her hands on her hips, the dog-tag running down her legs. "Are you leaving your wife yet again?"
Jake, who had stepped into the hall immediately froze at these words, and Daisy was quite positive that she could hear him growl. Slowly, Jake turned his head to the side to address her. "I told you not even five minutes ago." He said. "I'm going to go find Rose. She needs me. And I'm going to come bring her home..." Jake then returned his head back to normal and started to walk down the hall.
"Oh, so now you care that your wife needs you?" Daisy growled softly, narrowing her eyes.
LINE BREAK
Closing the door to Rose and Daisy's house, Jake quickly walked down the steps of the house. Upon stepping down on the cemented sidewalk, Jake turned to the side and quickly started to walk down the sidewalk, a frown on his face.
Unbeknownst to him, the door to Rose and Daisy's house once again opened as Daisy stepped out of the house, holding onto Jake Jr.'s hand.
Completely unaware of this, Jake continued walking, only to stop when he heard the sound of Daisy's voice: "JAKE!" Turning around, Jake's eyes widened as he saw Daisy running toward him, his young son waddling/running at her side as they were still holding hands.
"Daisy?" Jake asked, his eyes still wide as the now panting Daisy stopped in front of him. "Wh...What are you doing? You should be keeping an eye on Jake Jr."
"I'm coming with you." Daisy released Jake Jr.'s hand and crossed her arms. "First of all, she's my sister. Second, I'd actually like to see you actually put her before yourself..."
Jake stared back at Daisy with an unreadable look on his face. However, seconds later, he nodded once. "Fine." His tone was dark. "But my son is not coming with us."
"But where could we leave him?' Daisy asked, still not lowering her arms; her tone was quite critical and quizzical, like she thought Jake was not only a poor husband, but a poor father on top of it. "I'm not leaving a three year old toddler alone in the house."
As Jake could only stare at his sister-in-law, Daisy pressed again: "Tell me where your son can stay, Jake..."
LINE BREAK
Jake's fist made contact with a wooden door with a number 16 on it. After knocking three times, Jake stepped back in the narrow hallway next to his son and Daisy. Seconds later, the door slowly opened, and Jake could see his younger Haley Long. Haley's eyes were half closed and her long black hair was let down, her bangs came down, partially covering the scar over her eye; she was also wearing a white tank-top and a pair of green boxer shorts with dragon heads on them.
"Jake?" She asked, her voice a tired, raspy whisper. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with Rose?"
"I should be..." Jake said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out the dog-tag, holding it out for Haley to see. "...But she's missing. Daisy and I have to go find her. We'd really appreciate it if you could look after Jake Jr. for a few hours..."
"Jake..." Haley said as she brought up her hand to brush her bangs out of her eyes, her tone coming off as somewhat of a whine. "...I'm tired. Because of Sun, Carter and dragon duties, I didn't get into bed until three in the morning. Besides, I've got classes in a few hours..."
"That's fine!" Jake told his sister as he reached down and took his son's hand in his. "We won't be but a few hours. We'll be back in time for you to get to school."
"Jake, maybe you don't get it..." Haley told him. "...I am exhausted. I need to get some sleep or I'll fall asleep in one of my classes and get in some kind of trouble."
"You can still sleep..." Jake continued as he walked his son closer to the door. "...Come on, Haley. He won't be that much of a problem. Right, Jake?" He asked, turning his head to the side and looking down at his son. "You'll be good for Aunt Haley, right?"
Jake Jr. quickly nodded in response, making Haley close her eyes as she sighed. "Fine..." She finally answered, opening her eyes clenching her fists. "...But, Jake...if he keeps me from getting sleep, forget Rose's Huntsclan training, I think I'll be the one that slays you..."
"Sounds good..." Jake said as he let go of his son's hand, allowing Jake Jr. to waddle/walk over to his aunt. Sighing, Haley slowly turned around and walked back into her apartment, Jake Jr. following her inside. Seconds later, the door closed.
For a few seconds, Jake just remained in place, staring at the door. However, Jake quickly managed to turn to the side, as did Daisy, so the two of them were now facing each other. "Okay..." Jake said. "...Now that we have that taken care of, do we have any leads? Anyone who might know where Rose is?"
Daisy brought her hand up to her chin and held it there, narrowing her eyes as she tried to think. Finally, she brought her hand away from her chin and snapped her fingers. "What?" Jake asked. "You know where we can start looking?"
"Your sister's Dragon Student." Daisy said. "Rose told me that he skipped a grade or two or something like that..."
"So?"
"So..." Daisy rolled her eyes. "...So he attends the college that Rose works at..."
LINE BREAK
Carter Cromwell pushed open the doors to the campus and started to walk down the steps, reaching the sidewalk. However, before the teen could even make another movement, a red dragon tail shot toward his side and wrapped around his waist.
His eyes widening, Carter looked down, but before he could do anything to defend himself, he grunted as he was jerked to the side and then jerked back into the alley. Carter grunted as his back collided with the yellow scaly chest of a large red dragon.
While Jake unwrapped his tail from around Carter, he quickly put his claws over the boy's mouth and put his arm against his neck. Putting his mouth to Carter's ear, Jake whispered: "I'm not going to hurt you. Just...don't run away. I need to talk to you..."
Carter glanced to the side to try to get a closer look at Jake, but before he could, Jake released him, and Carter quickly stepped away, turning around with wide eyes to look at Jake and Daisy, who was walking up to Jake's side.
"What are you two doing?!" Carter demanded. "What the heck was that for?"
"I need to talk to you." Was all Jake said.
"You already said that." Carter crossed his arms. "What about?"
"Rose." Daisy said.
"What about her?"
"You know that today is when she gets sick, right?" Jake asked.
"Yeah..."
"Well, she's missing." Jake said. "I arrive at her house this morning and she's not there. What I wanted to know is if you know anything. Did she by any chance say anything to you? Carter, we need to know this. She could be in trouble..."
"No." Carter said simply, lowering his arms to his side. "I didn't see her yesterday. I know as much as you do."
"What?" Jake's eyes widened. "You didn't-"
"Don't make him repeat what he just said..." Daisy told him, cutting Jake off as she crossed her arms, her eyes darkening as she looked down at the ground.
Jake just continued staring at Carter, who had an unreadable look on his face, for a few more seconds. Finally, Jake sighed and lowered his head. "Alright." He said. "That's all we wanted to know. You can go now..."
Hearing this, Carter gave Jake a quizzical look, raising an eyebrow as well. However, the teen nonetheless turned around slowly and started to walk out of the alley, turning and starting to walk back toward the school.
As soon as Carter was gone, Jake sighed again as he lifted up his head. Then, he reverted to his human form. As the blue light faded, Jake turned his head to the side to look at his sister-in-law, who in turn turned her head to the side to look at him. "Well, that was productive." Jake growled.
"Shut up..." Daisy retorted in an exasperated tone. However, she then slowly turned her head back to normal, slowly sliding her hands into her pockets. "...What now?"
BLACKOUT; COMMERCIAL
BACK TO THE STORY/SHOW
Jake and Daisy were both walking slowly down the sidewalk, neither of them saying a word to another. Finally, Daisy managed to speak up: "Where exactly are we going?"
"I don't know." Jake answered darkly. "Looking for Rose..."
"Even though we have no idea as to where she is?"
"If we keep looking, we'll find her." Jake said, but then, after several more seconds of walking, he finally added on: "Eventually..."
"Yeah, by then it might be too late..." Daisy grumbled.
Hearing this Jake immediately stopped in his tracks and clenched his fists, growling as he quickly spun to the side, making Daisy jump to the side with wide eyes before she slowly turned around to face Jake, a frown quickly appearing on her face. "What was that for?" She demanded.
"What's your deal?" Jake demanded. "Do you have some kind of problem with me? Because you sure act like it!"
"Oh, do I?" Daisy replied sarcastically, putting her hands on her hips. "Well, let's see: you married my sister and you father her child. Yet, you don't do anything. Rose-your wife-barely sees you. Why? Because you're too busy playing Dragon Councilor." With this, she jabbed her finger into Jake's chest.
"Since when do you care?!" Jake retorted. "Huh, Little-Miss-I-Repeatedly-Tried-To-Murder-My-Sister-When-We-Were-Both-Kids?!"
Immediately, Daisy's eyes widened and her mouth started to gape, so Jake continued: "Look, I'm not perfect, but I'm doing my best. I care about Rose. I care about my son. So, don't you..." It was Jake's turn to jab Daisy in the chest. "...Tell me that I'm a poor husband and father. I'm trying to balance it out. It isn't my fault that Rose is sick."
As Jake lowered his hand, Daisy closed her mouth and inhaled deeply before letting it out. "I didn't say that it was your fault." She told him. "And it's also not your fault that she's sick. I never even tried to imply that..." She shook her head.
"You still act like a jerk whenever I'm around, though." Jake said, taking a step back.
"Jake..." Daisy narrowed her eyes. "...You just don't get it..."
"Oh, what don't I get?"
"I just told y-" Daisy started to say, but she stopped and her eyes widened as she heard the sound of growling. Both Daisy and Jake turned to the side to see three Hobgoblins coming toward them. The one in the middle was the tallest wore regular armor and a helmet and in his hands, carried something. The one to his right was the shortest, who only wore chest armor and a loin cloth. To the left was of average size for a hobgoblin and wore a duster, carrying a club in his hands.
Suddenly, a figure appeared to drop out of the sky, landing on its feet. Jake and Daisy could now see that the new arrival was also a hobgoblin. The newest arrival also wore armor but had a wizard's cap on its head, as well as long hair that went down the side of the head, looking somewhat like soggy pasta noodles.
"Hobgoblins..." Daisy muttered, taking a step back while Jake clenched his teeth.
"What do we have here?" The wizard cap-wearing Hobgoblin asked in a female voice. "Who are you?"
"I'm a member of the Dragon Council..." Jake growled through clenched teeth, clenching his fists. "...Look, I don't want any trouble. My wife is missing and I just want to find her. Please..." By this point, Jake was no longer speaking through clenched teeth. "...Just let us through. Let this end peacefully..."
By this point, the female hobgoblin was grinning cruelly. "Shouldn't all dragons know that we are not peaceful creatures? You're trespassing on our territory. We want a fight..."
With a grunt, the female hobgoblin jumped into the air and managed to flip backward and land behind the three others as the tallest hobgoblin revealed what was in his hand as he twirled his hand, a click being heard as a blade appeared out of two steel handles that were being held close together: a Butterfly knife.
The three hobgoblins then started to charge toward Daisy and Jake. While Daisy quickly turned and started to run away, Jake shouted: "Dragon Up!", waving his arms in front of him, Jake transformed into his dragon form in a bright blue light.
As the light faded, Jake flew into the air. "Yeah, let's see you punks fight me now!" Jake said, looking down at the hobgoblins, only to have his eyes widen as he saw that the three hobgoblins did not stop and just kept running, heading after Daisy.
"Huh?" Jake asked, but before he could swoop down, he was forced to look up as he heard a battle shriek. He could see the female flying toward him, having leapt off the ground. "Aw man..." Jake could only say, just before the female hobgoblin crashed into him, slamming both of her feet into his face, making Jake grunt and start to fall back.
With a grunt, Jake slammed his back against the sidewalk's cement, the female hobgoblin landing on her feet as Jake reverted to his human form in a bright blue light.
Now in his human form, the weakened Jake, managed to tilt his head back in order to watch Daisy run. "Daisy..." He managed.
Panting, Daisy continued to run down the sidewalk, with the three hobgoblins still running after her. With a grunt, the hobgoblin wearing the duster jumped into the air and flew toward Daisy, his duster blowing in the wind.
Finally, Daisy's eyes widened and she gasped as she fell forward onto the cement, the hobgoblin with the duster jumping off of her as the tall hobgoblin and the short hobgoblin ran up beside him.
"Daisy..." Jake managed again before his eyes started to flutter shut. Finally, Jake moaned before his head started to slide back to normal, the female hobgoblin staring at him with her hands on her hips.
"Wynne!" The female hobgoblin gasped as she glanced up, seeing the tall hobgoblin with the butterfly knife in his hand walking toward her.
"What?" Wynne asked.
"Amias managed to get the woman..." The tall hobgoblin told her. "...So...does that mean...?"
"Of course." Wynne smiled cruelly.
LINE BREAK
Wynne was still smiling as she stepped into a rather dark alley. Stopping, she turned to the side to see that Amias, the hobgoblin wearing the duster, and the short hobgoblin dragged Jake, who was lying on his stomach with his head lowered, into the alley by his arms, which were spread out. From behind, Daisy slowly walked into the alley with a worried look on her face and her hands raised up into the air, the tall hobgoblin walking behind her.
"Now what?" Asked the tall hobgoblin.
Wynne turned to the side and pointed out to a rather long and thick water pipe that ran up the side of the building, reaching to the roof. "Tie them up." Wynne ordered turning back to face her fellow hobgoblins.
"Are you going to help?" Amias asked sarcastically. "Or are you just going to slack off?"
"I'm not going to do either..." Wynne said, smiling as she put her hands on her hips. "...Just do what you're told, okay?"
Wynne then turned around as Amias, the small hobgoblin and the tall hobgoblin started to escort the prisoners to the side of the alley. Wynne walked further into the alley, stopping at a manhole with a plate over it.
Kneeling down, Wynne grabbed hold of the plate and easily lifted it up. Setting it down to the side, Wynne stood back up and jumped into the sewer, falling until she landed on her feet in a crouched position in the shallow water. Standing back up, Wynne turned to the side to see another hobgoblin wearing a brown tunic and brown baggy pants, kneeling down in the water, his head lowered.
"Brytt..." Wynne said, starting to trod through the water.
Hearing his name being called, the hobgoblin quickly got to his feet and spun around, allowing Wynne to see that there was a bundled up hobgoblin with a brown cap over his head. "He's asleep..." the hobgoblin, Brytt, said.
"That's good..." Wynne said as she continued walking toward her fellow hobgoblin. "...Brytt, come outside." As she said this, she stopped in front of Brytt. "You won't believe what I caught with the rest of the team."
"You caught something?"
"Come out and see for yourself..." Wynne grinned.
LINE BREAK
With Daisy and Jake pressed up against the pipe, the tall hobgoblin stepped away Jake, while Amias stepped away from Daisy. Daisy's hands were bound together with chains and her hands were hoisted up above her head as she stared at Amias with a rather scared look on her face. Jake, with his head lowered, on the other hand, had his hands locked behind the pipe, against Daisy's back.
Without saying a word, the tall hobgoblin knelt down and reached to the side, grabbing another length of chains. He then took the chains in both his hands and started to reach toward Jake's legs.
On the other end of the pipe, Daisy watched as Amias wrapped another length of chains around her ankles, binding them together. "Wh...What are you going to do with us?" Daisy managed to ask, making Amias look up to look her in the eyes.
"Don't ask me..." He told her.
Meanwhile, Wynne grunted as she crawled out of the manhole. Standing straight up, she turned around and reached down and took Brytt's hand as he offered it. Grunting, Wynne took a step back, helping Brytt get out. "Thanks..." Brytt said as their hands parted. "...So, what did you find?"
Smiling, Wynne turned around and stepped to the side, allowing Brytt to see Amias and the tall hobgoblin to see the properly captured Daisy and still unconscious Jake.
"We found these two..." Brytt turned his head to the side as the small hobgoblin walked up to his side. "...They were trespassing..." The small hobgoblin said.
"What are we supposed to do with them?" Brytt said as he turned his head back to normal.
"That's easy..." As Wynne turned back around, her hands on her hips, Brytt could see her cruel smile. "...We take our time to figure out how we can dispose of them. They ain't going anywhere..."
END FLASHBACK
LINE BREAK
Turning on the light to a room, Savannah walked into it, where there were several stacked cardboard boxes. Rose slowly entered the room, watching as Savannah stopped and turned, stepping up close to one of the piles, crouching down as she started to search through the boxes.
"Savannah, what are you doing?" Rose asked.
"Just a second, Rose..." Savannah said as she put her finger onto the boxes, starting to count each box as she went up the stacks in the pile. "...This will just take a few-AHA!" A smile quickly broke onto her face and Rose watched with a confused look as Savannah slowly pulled out a small box that was half-way down the stack; Savannah brought her free hand out and put it on the box that was right on top of the box she was pulling out so that the other boxes wouldn't fall over as she slowly pulled her box out.
"What's in the box?" Rose asked, watching as Savannah stood back up and turned to the side, holding the box at the bottom while opening the box with her other hand.
"You're about to find out, Rose." Savannah said with a smile on her face as she reached into the box and pulled out two pieces of clothing.
Dropping the box to the floor, Savannah took the clothes in both hands as she started to walk over to Rose. "Here." She said as she reached Rose, handing the clothes out to Rose. "Put these on."
Slowly looking down, Rose could see that the two pieces of clothing were a plain red cycling jersey and a pair of black running shorts. "Uh..." Rose managed as she slowly looked up at Savannah.
"Here." Savannah pressed, trying to get Rose to take them.
"Why?" Rose asked, slowly taking a step back.
"Why else would I be giving you exercising clothes?" Savannah asked. "Isn't it obvious? Cherri and I have both decided that if you're going to stay and help us find your parents' murderer, you're going to need to get back into shape..."
BLACKOUT; END EPISODE
A/N: Well, here is the Season Three premiere. What did you think? Did you like it? Tell me what you thought with a review.