Disclaimer: I do not own Totally Spies. R&R.
CH. 1 NEW FRIEND
"What do you mean I'm getting transferred, Steve!" yelled Lance.
"WOOPH's upper believes that you aren't stable with your teammates dead so they're having you transferred to my friend Jerry. He is going to assign you to his top spy team. Do you have any questions before you get going?"
"Yes. Where am I going exactly?"
"Beverly Hills," He replies as he hits a button on his desk opening a door to a hanger with a black jet spy plane in it.
"What about my stuff?"
"Don't worry about it. It's going to be brought over after you meet your new team."
Sam, Alex, and Clover are sitting on the couch, watching TV, when the seat of the couch disappears and all three girls go sliding down a WOOHP tube. They land in an awkward way on the couch that sits in front of Jerry's desk.
"What's the mission, Jerry? We're ready." said Clover.
"No mission right now. I brought you here to meet your new teammate. His name is Lance Johnson and he was transferred here to work with the three of you."
"Is he cute Jerry?" asks Clover looking around for him.
"How should I know, Clover, I'm not gay, and he hasn't landed yet."
"When is he supposed to be landing Jerr?" asks Sam
"Right now." says a deep voice.
The three spies turn around to see the man that just spoke. The spies' jaws drop to the floor. Lance was about six-three with glasses, dark hair and dark blue eyes, he was wearing a black T-shirt and light blue jeans.
"Hello, I'm Lance. Very nice to meet you." As Lance gives a low bow to the group. "I suppose you are Jerry?"
"Yes, I am, Jerry. These are your new teammates: Alex." Lance goes and shakes her hand. "Clover." Lance does the same again. "And Sam." Sam tries to shake Lance's hand but Lance bows and kisses her hand, then rises back up. "A pleasure to meet you Sam." Sam's face bursts into a blush and says, "The pleasure is all mine."
"Spies, Lance will be living with you. We have made your basement into a living area for him and have added a subbasement for Lance to do other work. Lance, your stuff has just arrived at the house and they are unloading your car."
"Jerry, tell them if they put a scratch on my car I'm going to kill them."
"Ok, lets get going so Lance can unpack. The new school year starts tomorrow." says Alex.
"Ok then, spies have fun." says Jerry as he hits a button and sucks the three girls and Lance back the way they came.
The four of them came up and out of the couch and land on the floor in a pile of tangled limes with Lance on the bottom, Sam on top of him, Alex on the side of Sam, and Clover on the top of the pile.
"Clover, get your butt off of my face!"
"Sorry, Alex."
Clover rolls off the pile and then gives a hand to Alex to help her off of the other two. Clover and Alex turn around to see Sam and Lance's lips on each other's. Sam was finally able to get off of Lance.
"Lance, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen." says Sam, getting off of him. Lance smiles and says, "actually this was one of my better WOOHP's"
Clover and Alex start to giggle. Sam blushes a dark red and then Lance gets up from the floor. Lance takes a quick look around the living room. It had beanbag chairs, a couch, a coffee table, on the opposite wall was a plasma TV with a fish tank next to it, and a couple stylish 1960's pictures. Lance turns back to the girls and says, "It's a very nice place you have here, girls."
"Thanks, we try" answers Alex.
"I would like to be the first one to welcome you to Beverly Hills" says Clover.
"Thank you"
"Hey, can you three tell me where I can find the basement door so I can grab a clean pair of clothes? Where is the bathroom anyway?"
"Sure, Lance. The basement door is the first door on the left and the bathroom is the second on the right" says Sam
"Thanks" as Lance starts for the basement closing the door behind him. "I call dibs! He is a totally hottie."
"Hey, I can hear you and I'm not into blonde girls like you, Clover." Clover looks down in shame.
"Clover, I think he is into our Sammy?" Says Alex
Lance walks back into the living room. "Hey do you three want to go out to grab some dinner after I finish getting cleaned up? So that we can get to know each other a little more!" asked Lance.
The three girls nod their heads in agreement. "Ok then" Lance turns and walks to the bathroom.
Thirty minutes later Lance walks out of the bathroom. "Ok ready to go then?" asks Lance. "Yeah." answered Alex as all three girls get off the couch and head for the door. "We'll take my car, but someone will need to give me directions to where we're going. Where are we going any way?" asks Lance.
"We are going to the Groove it's a shopping mall. They have good food there." says Clover.
"Ok then let's go."
The four of them walk out to see Lance's car, which was a sleek sports car. The three girls just stare at it. Sam is the first to manage to speak. "Lance, I love the dark blue and white striped paint job."
"Glad you like it. I did it myself. So are you girls just going to look at it or are you going to get in?"
The three girls climb in and Lance says, "Buckle up." Lance slams on the gas. They go flying back into their seats from the speed of the car.
"Here we are" says Sam "this is the Groove."
The four of them hop out of the car and start for the entrance of the Groove. The four make their way to the food court passing different shops. Clover runs shop-to-shop looking at the windows displays.
"So Lance why did WOOHP transfer you here?" asks Sam. "I'm sorry Sam but I don't feel like talking about that right now if that's ok with you." answers Lance.
"No problem, but can you tell us about yourself a little?" asks Sam "Ok shoot your questions and I will do my best to answer them." answered Lance.
"Ok me first" Clover said.
"Ok shoot."
"Lance do you have a girlfriend?" asks Clover.
"No I don't" replies Lance.
"Why not?" inquires Alex?
"Because in my line of work I'm likely to be killed and I don't want someone's heart hurt because I died. My missions are a lot different than the one's you are probably used to. The people that I go after are the type that pulls gun out and shoots at you."
"You have been shot at Lance?" asks Sam in a worried voice.
Lance's face becomes grim as he says. "I've lost count of how many times I've been shot at and some have hit me, too. Lance lifts his left sleeve of his shirt to show his left upper arm. The three girls look at his arm and to see a scar. "Got this when I was pulling a friend out of the line of fire."
"Ok my turn." says Alex.
"Ok go."
"What type of girls are you into Lance?"
"What is this? A dating service or what?" said Lance. Sam giggles a little.
"Just answer Alex's question will you?" said Clover.
"Ok fine I like girls that are smart and are able to handle herself and I prefer red heads, will that suffice as an answer?" asked Lance.
"Yes, that will do," answers Alex and Clover together.
"Ok, Sam your turn, what is your question?" asks Lance.
"Do you have a mom, dad, sisters, or brothers?"
Lance's eyes dilate and his body shudders, slowly his eyes come back into focus and he says "I'm sorry Sam, but I can't answer that question either." Lance says in a plan toned voice
"Why not?" Interjects Clover "that wasn't that hard of a question."
"I just can't ok, says Lance and besides I don't know you three that much yet." answered Lance but I will tell you when I'm ready, is that ok with you Sam?"
"Yeah that's fine I understand you that you don't want to talk about it."
That night Sam was laying in her bed thinking about Lance and what he had said at the Groove. "I like girls that are smart and are able to handle herself and that he preferred red heads." Was that a hint to me that he was into me or was he just saying it in general? Why is it that I can't sleep and school starts tomorrow too? I guess I'm going to get some coco to help me sleep. Sam gets up and leaves her room and heads down the hall way towards the kitchen passing the basement door. A deep scream erupts from down stairs. "Lance!" Sam hurdles out of her bed and bounds to Lance's room and opens his door. Sam quickly walks up to the side of Lance's bed. Lance had tears on his face and he was whimpering in his sleep. He was having a nightmare. Sam shook Lance's shoulder until Lance sat bolt upright, grabs his glasses, then turns his head to see Sam looking at him with concern in her eyes.
"Are you ok Lance?"
"It's my past haunting me again." answered Lance.
"I don't understand, no normal nightmare should make someone like you cry and whimper like that. What happed I swear that I won't tell Alex or Clover."
"Ok, I trust you. When I was thirteen a man named Zero killed my parents and my two brothers and my little sister and made me watch him do it. Sam cups her mouth with her hands.
I was in my room when I heard crashes and screams coming from the living room. I went running out to the living room and I saw my father being shot in the head by Zero. My older brothers came running out to the living room only to be shot in the chests. My… mother was crying… and trying to stop Zero and protect… my little sister at the same time. Zero just laughed at my mother, grabbed a wire from his pocket, and strangled her. My… sister… was screaming when Zero strangled my… mother. Zero took his gun and told my sister… to sleep well then he shot her, too. Zero walked up to me and said that he was only doing his job. He then grabbed me, tied me to a chair, and gagged me. Then he just walked out of the house.
"I… can still hear and see my mother… and sister… screaming when I close my eyes." Sam just looks at Lance.
"WOOHP spies showed up five hours after he had left. WOOHP said that if I joined them that I could learn how to stop people like Zero. So I joined WOOHP!"
Sam was finely able to uncup her hands to say "Oh my God Lance, I'm… so sorry. That's what you meant when you said that your past was haunting you. You were recalling that terrible memory in your dream weren't you?" asked Sam.
"Yes." answered Lance wiping a tear from under his glasses.
Sam, now sitting on Lance's bed, holding his hand. Lance moves towards Sam giving her a hug "Thank you for listening to me Sam it mean's more to me than you know." Lance lies back down on the bed, quickly falling back to sleep, Sam looking down at Lance now sleeping.
"He is so cute when he is sleeping." Thought Sam her eye's closing and the darkness of sleep overwhelming her. She lies down and she snuggles under Lance's arm, which curls, around her waist.
Next CH. Coming soon