Road Trip
Disclaimer/Author's Notes: Kim Possible and all the characters of the show are owned by the Disney Company. Original lyrics to the songs referenced in this story and the music are the property of the respective authors, artists and labels. All other characters can be blamed on the author (he, however, is not responsible for all of their actions at all times, being barely responsible for himself most of the time).
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A/N Forward:
A bit of a surprise for Jocelyn, and a Fannie adventure for all...
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P1, C1 –Sweet Tea Surprise
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"Morning, Joss," Dr. Wade Load smiled as his monitor snapped on to show Andrea Jocelyn Possible, his BFGF, pulling her coat from her closet. She smiled as she turned around and faced her camera mounted above her monitor.
"Morning, Aggie: were you checking me out, again?" Joss asked, and Wade grinned at her from her wall-mounted monitor and winked.
"Always, Joss: always" Wade said with a devilish grin. "You give me so many reasons to, Sweet Tea," he added, and Joss blushed.
"Joss, are you busy this weekend?" Wade continued and took a deep drink of his ice water as he talked to Joss while he simultaneously checked the status of Kim and Ron's latest mission: Dementor was in custody now, and they were headed home from Austria.
Joss looked down from the monitor above Wade's head and smiled. "Yeah, Wade: I'm free, but I'm not inexpensive by any means," Joss laughed, and Wade laughed with her. "What's up?"
"I have a little surprise for you," he grinned.
"A surprise, for me?" she asked excitedly. After the Lowardians had wreaked havoc around the world, Wade had been busy on several projects, not the least of which was working with Dr. Elizabeth Director-Possible (Slim Possible's new bride of only months, and Joss' new 'Momma2') on getting the collapsed GJ tube network back on-line.
"It's just a little something I thought you'd like," Wade grinned.
"I'll be on the 10:43 AM Escape flight coming in, Wade," Joss announced after a few seconds of checking flights and seat availability.
"Great; I'll see you at the airport, then, Saturday morning. TTFN, Sweet Tea."
"Later, Aggie," Joss joked back and cut the connection on her PosComm, disconnecting her computer and monitor feeds. She sighed as she leaned back in her chair. After she'd made a fool of herself last year, and even though Wade had assured her that he was, indeed, in love with her and her partner 'for the long haul,' Joss still had an occasional twitch in the back of her mind.
'How he could love me, after what I put him through, I'll never know," she sighed as she reached over and picked up her framed picture of him, his smile seemingly looking directly at her. She hugged it, and then she kissed the picture. "I love you, Wade," she said simply as she stood, put the picture back on her desk, grabbed her books and her coat, and headed downstairs for school.
Wade smiled after she cut the connection. He reached over and picked up the model and held it in his hands, turning it from side to side.
"I think she'll like it," he grinned, then laughed. "Oh, yeah, Wade: This will be a BIG surprise."
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Joss walked down the mini-jetway into the Middleton International Airport.
"Joss!" She looked up and started to walk faster as she saw Wade with his hands behind his back.
"Wade," she grabbed him and hugged him, and several people coming off the plane applauded. Joss looked up and blushed.
"Miss Possible, Dr. Load," one gentleman, wearing the dress uniform of the Royal Australian Army, walked up to them and offered his hand. "Colonel Jason Ernest White, of Her Majesty's Australian Army Intelligence Corps, on detached duty to Global Justice. I just wanted to say thank you for everything you've done and for your help in our recovery and restart, after the invasion."
"Trust me, Colonel: I had a vested interest in doing so," Wade laughed as he shook hands with the Colonel. "I had a couple of friends 'up there,'" he pointed skyward, "that I wanted to see again.
"That," Wade pulled Joss closer to him, "and I had to see this vision of loveliness once again," he grinned as Joss blushed.
"Indeed, sir," Colonel Wright smiled. "Miss Possible, perhaps we will see you and your Dr. Adams at the conference this summer?"
'My Dr. Adams?' Joss giggled inside.
"I'll take my leave; I just wanted to offer my thanks," Colonel White snapped a salute, turned sharply, and headed to baggage claim
"Now, you need to come with me," Wade took Joss' hand and led her through the terminal to a door on the west side; Opening it, the air rushed in as they stepped outside; waiting for them was an airport electric cart. Wade smiled and indicated to Joss that she needed to get in.
Joss sat, and Wade went around to the driver's side and got in.
"You need to put this on," he handed her a blindfold, and she laughed.
"Are you kidding?" She looked up into his face and saw the twinkle in his eyes.
"Part of the surprise," he explained as he took it back and placed it over her eyes, tightening it to make sure she couldn't see out. He turned her head to face his and waved his hand in front of her eyes; getting no reaction, he leaned in and quickly kissed her.
"HEY!" Joss smiled.
"Just thought you needed it," he replied as he started the cart and pulled forward, heading away from the terminal.
Joss had no complaints about the kiss, and she smiled as they drove./
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Wade turned into a small opening in a front of the massive hanger wall; the wall contained a single, closed door.
"This building is secure; please provide identification," the voice announced. "Failure to do so will result in immediate incarceration.
"It's me, Wade-J," Wade announced with a chuckle.
"I know: I needed to make sure you were on your toes. Hello, Joss: love the new eyewear," Wade-J joked.
"Hello yourself, Wade-J: any hints?"
"It's bigger than a nano-tick," he replied with a chuckle as Wade's cart pulled into the hanger and Wade-J closed the door behind him.
Wade stopped the cart and turned off the electrics, then stepped out and went around, taking Joss' hand and helping her out of the cart. He led her a few feet from the cart, and they stopped. He spun her around once and pointed her toward the middle of the hanger, hit the remote that closed the vents that allowed light into the hanger, and turned off all the lights except for one tiny light shining down on the two of them.
"You can take off the blindfold now, Joss," Wade announced, and Joss reached up and removed her eye-ware.
Her eyes adjusted to the dark quickly, and she could see something in front of her, but she couldn't tell what it was.
"What is it, Wade?" her voice echoed throughout the hanger.
"I hope you like your 'little something,'" Wade smiled as he hit the lights.
Joss almost wet herself.
'Ah should'a known better when Wade said 'little,'' she grinned as she looked at the 'hanger filler.'
It was a jet aircraft: that was obvious by the engines, but it was like nothing she'd seen before. Oh, the jet was big, but it looked sleek and functional, but something looked different. The engines…and the mountings…that was it.
"A jump jet?" She asked, and Wade smiled; he knew she was brilliant, and this just re-confirmed another reason that he could hardly wait for her to graduate from college so he could officially ask her….
"Very good, Joss: it's a combo jet: built for transport, but it can be converted to executive, when we need it," Wade replied.
Joss loved the paint job, but she gasped when she looked at the tail: painted on the tail was the BlazeIT! logo.
"Wade…" her voice trailed off as her tears overtook her face.
"Joss, would you like to look inside the BlazeIT-1?" Wade asked her, and she threw her arms around him and hugged his neck, soaking his right shoulder as she sobbed.
"Wade…," she finally pulled back and looked into his smiling face with her tear-streaked one, "after everything…you still did this?"
"Joss, what happened to us was our way of finding out just how much we meant to each other," Wade replied, wiping tears from his own eyes. "We both made mistakes, and we learned from them," he added.
"But," Joss started, and Wade hushed her with a kiss.
"No 'buts,' please, and thank you," he added, straight-faced, and Joss couldn't help but laugh as she hugged him again.
"Just say 'Thank you,'" he suggested.
"Thank you," she replied with a smile.
"Now, my queen,", Wade smiled, "would you like to see the inside of your new flying chariot?" Wade asked, and Joss nodded vigorously. He took her hand and walked her over to the boarding ramp, where they walked up the incline to the doorway of the plane. He explained the plane finish, designed for hypersonic transport, and the special engine mountings, designed for VTOL as well as hypersonic travel.
Joss stepped through the doorway into the jet and laughed: the first wall she saw was grape-colored. The thoughts going through her mind matched the expression on her face.
"Sorry, Sweet Tea, but I just couldn't resist," Wade laughed as he moved past her and clicked a switch, changing the wall tint to a neutral shade of beige. Joss laughed and swatted at him, but missed.
"Wehl, you certainly took your own sweet time gittin' here, Sweet Tea," Joss almost fell when she heard her father's voice, and she turned and looked into the cabin:
The seating was definitely not standard commercial aircraft seating: the seats were in groupings of five and six, surrounding tables that contained enough network and voice communication connections to run a Global Justice sitch.
That was good, because Dr. Elizabeth Director-Possible was sitting in one of the very comfortable-looking chairs, talking on a phone plugged into one of the desk outlets. She looked up at Joss and waved, then indicated that she had 2 more minutes on the phone.
"In this configuration, Joss, we can seat 55 people comfortably as well as carry luggage averaging 250 pounds per person," Wade explained, and Joss dropped into one of the comfy leatherette swivel chairs.
"This entire interior is built on a platform that can be easily removed for a mission; that would allow us to move 120 fully-equipped team members in and out of a Search and Rescue sitch," Wade continued, and Joss looked up just as Betty ended her call.
"Well? What do you think, daughter?" Betty laughed. "I think your BFBF-almost-fiancée did well, don't you?" she smiled, and Joss glared.
"How did y'all keep this from me?" Joss ranted. "I never expected anything lak this," she continued.
"Well, we are an intelligence organization among other things, daughter," Betty replied, "and we do have some, on occasion," Betty continued with a grin as Joss' steam level dropped down to a mid-range bubble.
"And, the best part, Joss?" Wade grinned, and Joss leaned forward to stare into his eyes.
"We're going to use this for a Road Trip to get cpneb and his friends for the Fannies," Wade smiled, and Joss's grin grew huge.
"Neb's coming back?" Joss asked excitedly, and Wade nodded.
"Uh, huh," he grinned, and Joss grinned even bigger.
"Somethin' tells me that mah daughter has a little crush on our friend," Slim smiled, and Joss blushed.
"Not like that!" Joss protested, and Slim laughed. "He was so nice last year, and he's been so nice to us in telling our story, Daddy!" she continued, but the red remained on her face and in her cheeks.
"'Joss, and 'neb-by, sittin' in a tree," Wade started, but Joss' glare and Betty's laugh stopped him.
"That sounds like something Star would say, Wade," Joss glared, and Wade smiled, saying nothing.
"Yeah, right," Slim laughed. "It's all right, Sweet Tea: 'neb would never do anything to you like that: he's a father, just lak me; besides, he knows about Tornado," and Slim laughed even harder.
"Who all are we picking up, Wade?" Joss asked.
"Well, Sweet Tea, we're making a semi-global 'quick run,'" Wade pulled out a map and sketched out the route. "There's quite a few friends of 'neb that you know already."
"Like King? He was a riot last year with his daughter emulating him."
"Yeah, we'll be picking up King in Yellow, but we'll also pick up some others like the writing team jakt: ja, and kt; KimRon PosStoppable, Akinyi, Twila and her date, and Ace," Wade continued, and Betty laughed.
"Don't forget PRT and Sir Sebastian, Wade," Betty added, "and whitem, Ran, Mikey, and Star."
"Star?" Joss looked excited, and Wade laughed. "I almost forgot about him and Cajun," she smiled. "This should be a really good Fannies this year."
"I'll get 'neb set up with an unlimited NationalExpress Card so 'neb and 'his ladies' can shop here if they need to," Wade added, and Betty laughed.
"'neb and his ladies,'" Joss snorted, and Wade laughed again.
"Somebody's jellin,' and it should be me jellin' with you and all your men," Wade grinned, and Joss took on her Kim aspect:
"I am NOT jellin'! I just don't think that 'neb should be here with-" and Wade finished her sentence.
"-with someone besides you, right?" Wade smirked, and Joss blushed.
"Well," Joss grinned, "He is kinda cute, for an older guy," and Wade rolled his eyes, drawing a laugh from Betty and Slim. "Besides," she continued with a smile, and Wade winced, knowing what she was going to say next, "Tara did compare him to an older 'you' last year, remember?" Joss laughed as Wade blushed.
"That reminds me, Sweet Tea: we do have one more pickup, and this one is going to be a bit different: It seems that I have to pick up my daughter," Wade waited for the explosion, but Joss only grinned.
"Who's her mother?" she asked, and Wade blushed. Slim and Betty laughed at Wade's twitching in his seat.
"Well, she's my adopted daughter, at least in that 'verse," Wade said with a smile.
"Who's the mother, Wade?" Joss pushed again, and Wade's smile disappeared completely.
"tara," Wade mumbled, and Joss grinned.
"Tara, huh? So, it looks like you finally got you a MHS cheerleader, huh, Wade?" Joss' eyes twinkled with her laugh, and Slim laughed as Wade stood and ran to the rear of the plane.
They all heard the door slam, and then they heard Wade burst into laughter: long, hard, waves of laughter.
"This is certainly going to be an interesting Fannies award ceremony this year, it seems," Joss remarked dryly, and Slim chuckled.
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Author's afterward:
The Australian Army colonel's name has a link back to Australian military history; the late Reverend Arthur Ernest White, a Church of England clergyman and padre, 44th Battalion, First Australian Imperial Force, was the person who held the first Dawn Service on ANZAC day in Australia. The link to the story is here: http://www.army.gov.au/history/Historyofdawnsvc.htm. Enjoy your read, and enjoy this story as we begin our trip to Middleton for the 3rd Annual Fannies.
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Next, on Road Trip
P1, C2: A little planning goes a long way
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Thank you, to all of you, for supporting us on this new journey.
Thanks again for reading, and please review.
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2008.01.10