Disclaimer: I do not nor will I ever own the 39 clues. I wish i did. But I don't.

Before Dan even had a chance to wake up, Natalie had already tied him up and duct taped him to the wall on the far side of the bedroom. She slid onto the bed on the other side of the room that had pink blankets and purple, plush pillows.

She took her purse that was lying face down on the floor and did a quick search through it to find if her makeup had lasted the trip. She signed in relief. It was all still there. Next she searched for her phone, which was now lying on the floor, peeking out from underneath the bed. She picked it up and raised it towards the ceiling. No bars.

Natalie brushed off her new dress. It was a silk lime green, strapless sundress with a tight, white ribbon wrapping around her waist. The dress came with a white headband that had a large flower in the corner of it right above the ear and some strappy brown sandals that were laced with gold threads. She smiled a bit when looking down at it. She got it as a gift from Amy on her birthday and thought that it matched Amy's personality perfectly when she saw it. Only Amy would get a dress that was that green.

Natalie moved over to her closest and studied her clothes. Whoever had placed them in this room obviously knew whom they were messing with because the closest held all of her favorite day dresses and even some new ones that she was unaware she even owned. Then she looked out of the closest to see Dan finally starting to wake.

"What the?" he asked shaking his head awake, "Am I on the wall?" Dan started to struggle through the tape and rope holding him back. "Yo Cobra! Get your preppy ass over here and help me out!"

Natalie scoffed. Lucians can get out of that sort of trap before they even get in. "I'm sorry Daniel, but you can get out yourself. Oh, and by the way the term is hot ass". Natalie sat back down on the bed and watched him struggle as she filed her nails.

"Well can you at least tell me how I got up here", he begged.

Natalie hid a small laugh under her breath and rolled her eyes at him. "How am I supposed to know?" she lied, "I only woke up a few minutes ago sprawled across the floor like some kind of animal. It nearly ruined the dress you sister got me".

Dan scoffed at her and continued to struggle from the bindings. After almost a full ten minutes Natalie got bored and set all her stuff onto the bed. "Hey, where are you going? Get me out of here!" Dan yelled at her as she moved towards the door. Natalie rolled her eyes and pulled a small knife from under her shoe.

"You know what? Never mind, I'm good, I don't need your help, you can go, I wont bother you again", he begged, obviously thinking that she was about to throw the knife at him. She smiled at his reaction; it was good to know that he was scared of her. She took the knife into right hand and aimed. She threw it straight and heard him gasp as his eyes shot closed waiting for the shot.

But it never came.

He opened his eyes to see the knife right next to him slowly sliding down, ripping the tape and the ropes slowly with a single, clean slice.

"Now that you are done crying for mercy, I'm in the mood for something to drink. Au revoir, paysan"(Goodbye, peasant).


Dan watched as the knife slowly released him. Natalie was the stupidest, meanest, brattiest, prep he had ever met. The only thing that kept her from being worse was that she was totally hot. Dan may have hated her, but he wasn't blind.

When the knife finally clattered to the ground, he slipped his body out and ripped the rest of his body from the tape. "Ow!" he yelled in pain. He was glad his head wasn't taped or else he would have been bald.

After throwing on a shirt that was not covered in duct tape goo, he ran a finger through his hair and followed the queen cobra out into the kitchen.

When he stepped through the door, he was welcomed with Natalie grunting in frustration and slamming her pretty, little head on the table. "What's wrong princess? Did you finally see your reflection in the mirror?" Dan joked.

She glared at him, her eyes red with rage. "I can't make this bloody machine from hell work", she said gesturing to the blender on the counter.

Dan attempted to stifle a laugh. It didn't work. "Ok, aside from you blender problem, I need to know where we are exactly".

Natalie gave him a strange look of confusion that quickly became a look that said 'you're joking right'. "We're inside the bunker you twit!" Dan was still confused. "You know, the one we locked Sinead and Hamilton up in only a few days ago". It took him a few seconds, but he seemed to finally understand it.

"What?! Why in the world are we in here?!" he yelled. One second he's playing baseball with Hamilton, the next he's inside a secret bunker with the Prada princess who can't even make a blender work.

Natalie rolled her eyes again. Dan honestly thought that they might fall out sooner or later. "If I knew, don't you think I would have told you?"

"No".

"You're right, I probably wouldn't".

Dan sat down on the table and stuffed the fruit that was sitting next to Natalie in the blender.

"What do you think you're doing?" she asked. This time it was Dan that rolled his eyes at her.

"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm showing you how to use a blender". He dumped in some milk and a packet of sweetener before pressing the start button. It didn't start.

"I told you it wouldn't work! The bloody machine hates me", Natalie scoffed. Dan looked around the corner of the table and raised an eyebrow at her.

"Did you plug it in?"

Natalie's face immediately flushed as she followed his eyes to the blenders cord swinging back and forth off the side of the counter. She picked up the cord and shoved it into the outlet. "Yes". Dan rolled his eyes again and pressed start.

After a minute he opened the top again and asked, "Is this good for you?"

Natalie dipped a small straw into the smoothie and took a sip. "It's not cold enough", she scolded him.

He rolled his eyes, "Then in that case get me some ice". She scoffed but went to get the ice anyway. When she got back he dropped a few pieces of ice in and pressed start. Then all hell broke loose.

Dan had forgot to put the top back onto the blender and all of the contents of the smoothie went spraying all over the place. By the time Dan stopped it Natalie was dripping wet with smoothie and smelled like fruit.

"Oops".

That's when Natalie blew. "You incompetent idiot! You ruined my hair! You ruined my dress! And you will pay!" Natalie grabbed the blender and poured the rest of the contents onto Dan's head.

Dan immediately jumped up and grabbed a handful of blueberries. He started to pelt them a Natalie who raised her arm in defense. Natalie grabbed two bananas of the counter and chucked one straight at Dan's head. He thrust his hand out and caught it before it touched him, and he lunged.

Natalie held her banana up like a sword and defended the blow. She grabbed a mango and started to put both fruits to her use. She used the banana as a sword and the mango to chuck at his feet. Her planned seemed to work until Dan picked up an apple and tried the same thing. They both jumped back at the same moment and Natalie finally noticed the damage they had caused.

The floor was covered with spilt milk and the walls and cabinets were dotted with fruits that were dodged by the other. Dan was covered head to toe in pink liquid with red strawberry colored dots covering his shirt. Natalie would have laughed, but at that moment a drop of smoothie landed on her nose and she looked at her hair.

It was ruined!

While Dan was now taking the time to look at his surroundings Natalie grabbed five kitchen knives and jumped on him.

In less than a second Dan was on the ground with two knives holding down his sleeves, two holding down the ends of his shorts, and one right underneath him lingering a little to close to his manly parts for his liking.

"I'm going to take a shower you little git", Natalie said while getting up and brushing the hair from her face. She started to head for another room on the other side of the kitchen. "You will clean this entire mess up and then remake me my smoothie. If I am going to be stuck with you for who knows how long down here you need to follow my rules. Do you know what the number one rule is, Daniel?"

Dan, who was now extremely scarred of her threats, slowly shook his head.

"The number one rule is", she paused for a dramatic effect, "don't mess with my hair".

Dan watched as she sauntered off into the bathroom before he noticed he was still stuck in her knives. "Hey!" he called to her, "how am I supposed to get out?"

He heard a faint, "Figure it out", before a door slam.

After maybe five or ten minutes of wiggling and struggling Dan had finally gotten out of the knives and placed them in the highest cabinet, which he knew Natalie was too short to reach.

He grabbed a mop from the closest and starred at it like it was an alien. He hesitantly dipped it into the weird bucket of water it came with and watched at the head of it plopped to the ground.

He let his eyes trace his surroundings before sighing and moving the mop back and forth.

"It's going to be a long day".

A/N Sorry for all those people who want super quick Natan, but thats not how it works. I want this to be at least realistic with the book, so for a while they will hate each others guts. But all together I think that it just makes it even better when they fall in love.