Love Child Chapter 1: Part 1, a london's burning fanfic

LONDON'S BURNING
Love Child ~ Part 1

Main Characters: Adam, Hyper, Hi-Ho, Sally.
Disclaimer: Characters belong to LWT. Although part of this fic is based on a real life event, this story and the characters portrayed are fictitious. I would just like to add the message that hoax calls cost lives – think before you dial.

Elaine had been trying to think of ways to improve her profits in the Oliver Twist. Adam had suggested she should host a quiz night, only because he thought he would have an advantage with the Blue Watch team. Elaine, however, had other ideas.

"I thought you said you had a secret weapon!" Hyper was complaining as Adam took his place with the Blackwall team.

"Yeah, yeah," Adam grinned. "She'll be arriving shortly."

"Oh, it's a she is it?!" Sally grinned.

"She's a genius."

"Oh yeah? And how did you manage to pull her?!" Hyper questioned.

"I didn't pull her actually!" Adam admitted. "She's just a friend!"

"Yeah, yeah," Sally continued to wind him up.

George entered the pub, with his fiancée, Andie. They joined the Blackwall team, who were huddled around one of the long rectangular tables.

"'Ere," someone from Shadbrook yelled over. "I thought we wasn't allowed to bring partners!"

"What difference would that make to you?" Hi-Ho commented. "You haven't got one!"

"Ah shut up," the Shadbrook guy muttered.

The lads' attention was momentarily distracted by the arrival of Rachel Harrison, a tall striking young woman, with dark tanned skin and sun-bleached blonde hair flowing over her shoulders. She grinned at Adam.

"That's your secret weapon?" Hyper asked.

"Yeah," Adam couldn't see a problem.

"Adam," Sally started. "She works at Shadbrook!"

Adam shrugged and tried to pretend it was news to him. "Does she?"

Sally rolled her eyes, Hyper grinned.

"Oi Kiwi," the Shadbrook guy yelled over again as Rachel joined the Blackwall crew. "Ain't you at the wrong table?"

Rachel looked over and grinned. "I want to be on the winning team," she spoke with a New Zealand accent. "Although I could just play on my own, I'd beat the lot of you!"

"Cheat," the Shadbrook guy moaned.

"Shut up Noddy, and where's that pound you owe me?!" Rachel went over to the Shadbrook table to demand her money back.

"Do we need Shadbrook playing for us?" Sally questioned.

"Well, er..." Adam started. "Yeah! I'm sure she'll be loyal to Blackwall!"

"How do you know?"

Adam just grinned.

"Did you pay her?!" Hyper questioned.

"No! She just owes me a favour, that's all," Adam tried to get out of explaining the details of the nature of his relationship with Rachel.

"What are you two whispering about," Rachel had joined them again, after going to sort Shadbrook out.

"Nothing," Adam grinned. "Can I get you a drink?"

"I thought that was the bribe, I'll play for you if I get free drinks all night!"

Hyper and Sally glared at Adam, who tried to get out of it.

"Yeah, it's just er... Where's the Guv...?"

"Don't change the subject, Adam," Hyper warned.

Adam glared at Rachel. "Now see the trouble you've caused, you've only been here two seconds."

Rachel grinned and shrugged. "You said you wanted some brains on your team!"

Hyper and Sally went back to glaring at Adam.

"Oh yeah, what else did he say?" Sally wanted to know.

"Can I have that spade back? I can dig my own holes thank you," Adam told Rachel.

He knew they were just winding him up.

Soon the quiz was well underway. Rachel had settled herself in the corner with an Archers. She lounged back on the long cushioned bench, looking a little bored as the others huddled together trying to figure out the answer to the question they had just been given.

"Hold on..." Recall looked deep in thought as he consulted his infamous memory bank. "I'll have it in a minute..."

"We don't have a minute," Hyper reminded him.

Recall sat, scratching his chin, his brow furrowed.

Adam shook his head. "What's the answer Rach?"

They all turned to her, except for Recall who was still racking his brains.

"I thought I was answering the hard questions!" Rachel complained.

"Um, this is hard!" Sally replied.

"The capital of Uruguay is not difficult!"

"Not for you maybe," Hyper replied. "Mr Memory Man seems to be having some technical difficulties."

"Paraguay!" Hi-Ho suggested.

"No, Hi-Ho, that's a different country!" Hyper replied.

"Oh yeah?" Hi-Ho asked. "Then why do they have the same football team?!"

Hyper just shook his head, not bothering to explain the ethics of Latin American countries to Hi-Ho.

Rachel rolled her eyes as if the answer was blindingly obvious. "Montevideo."

Adam frowned. "Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"I've never heard of it!"

"Just write it down," Sally urged as Elaine, the Quiz Master, was about to move on to the next question.

"Well I would if I knew how to spell it!" he moaned.

"M – O," Rachel started slowly as if they were insulting her intelligence. "N – T – E – V – I – D – E – O."

Adam scribbled the answer down. Even though his mum had organised the quiz, he hadn't been able to see any of the questions, let alone the answers. She had kept them well hidden, even Recall hadn't had the privilege. She reckoned she wanted to keep everything fair.

"Staying on the subject of capital cities..." Elaine started.

Recall groaned, it wasn't his strongest subject as he had just proved. He decided he would put his slight memory loss down to old age!

Elaine continued with the question. "What is the capital of Ecuador?"

"What?!" Hyper asked. "How are we supposed to know that?!"

"More to the point," Hi-Ho asked. "Where is that?!"

"Yeah," Shadbrook joined in, obviously having no idea as to what the answer was either.

Elaine just shrugged, not wanting to give anything away.

Hyper turned to Adam. "Did she make these questions up?!"

"No, I think she's been watching too much Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!" Adam grinned.

"I couldn't get on that," Rachel spoke up.

"No? They probably saw you coming!" Adam joked.

"Right," Rachel pretended to be hurt by the remark. "I'm not telling you the answer now!"

"Ahh, come on..."

She was saved as her mobile phone rang. "Sorry," she didn't sound at all apologetic as she stepped out from the table to take the call.

"What about the answer?!" Adam turned to her.

She shrugged. "You'll have to wait."

"You don't know do you?"

She just smiled at him and leaned over to whisper something in his ear.

"What?" he asked. "How do you spell that?!"

She winked at him and left him to figure it out for himself. "Hello?" she spoke into her phone as she stepped out of the pub.

"What was the question again?" George was asking.

Hyper shrugged. "Doesn't matter cos no one knows the answer!"

"It would help if I knew what the question was!" George protested.

"Nah it wouldn't, mate," Hyper replied.

"What did she say?" Sally asked Adam.

"I dunno, Kit-o, or Quit-o or something! Don't ask me, I've never heard of the place!" Adam replied.

"It's the name of a dance track isn't it?" Hi-Ho asked suddenly.

They all turned to him.

"You what?!" Recall asked, not having the first idea about modern music.

"I'm sure it is," Hi-Ho was adamant.

"Well that doesn't help us here does it?" Hyper pointed out.

Hi-Ho shrugged.

Fortunately for them, Elaine had decided to move away from the capital cities topic. Instead she was asking about Music. Adam grinned.

"Oh yeah this one's easy," he was scribbling an answer down before anyone else had time to blink.

Sally snatched the paper. "Give me that," she looked at his answer. "That's not right!" she argued.

"Yeah it is," he argued back.

"Um, guys," Rachel had returned from her phone call. "I'm gonna have to leave you to it... Sorry," she sounded more apologetic this time.

Adam looked up. "Everything all right?"

"Yeah, well it will be! Chloe doesn't like her babysitter!" Rachel smiled. "Good luck with the quiz!"

"Uh yeah," Adam replied. "I think we'll need it!"

"We do if you keep writing down the wrong answers!" Hyper agreed with Sally.

"What was the question?" Rachel asked as she picked up her jacket.

"Who won the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest," Adam replied. "I suppose you know!"

Rachel grinned. "It isn't what you've put down!"

"Hey, I thought Ireland always won!" Adam argued.

"You're so right there!" Hyper grinned. "But we do have to give someone else a chance occasionally!"

"You mug!" George glared at Adam, who shrugged.

"Ok, you know who it wasn't, but I don't suppose any of you know who it was!" Adam challenged, looking around the table.

"Estonia..." Recall suddenly yelled out, then quickly looked around to make sure that none of the other teams had overheard!

"See," Rachel told Adam. "I think he's recharged his batteries, you don't need me."

"Oh, you never know..."

"See you around, Adam," Rachel left the pub.

"Oh well, there goes our hope of winning," Sally watched Rachel leave.

"Really?" Hyper asked, grinning. "And I thought you were getting jealous there for a minute!"

Sally glared at him.