Title: If Tears Should Fall
Author: Mandragoran
Rating: R (For violence)
Disclaimer: The Bikermice do not belong to me, they belong to other people other then me...the other mice characters belong to me though...please ask permission before using them...thanks
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"But...but.." Vinnie stuttered.
"Look at this," Jess said snidely "My brother at a loss for words. Well," She continued shaking her head. "I guess there's a first time for everything."
"But how did you get here?" Vinnie managed to say.
"Well, let's see, I took highway thirty-three. I think, or was that thirty-two..."
Vinnie gave her a harsh look and she smiled at him. "Don't tell me my little brother lost his sense of humor?"
"Little brother?" Charlie snickered behind him.
"One lousy minute and they never let you forget it." Vinnie rolled his eyes.
"Well, at least we can see who's got the looks of the family." Throttle said passing an annoyed looking Vinnie and extending his hand. "I'm Throttle. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Jess," She replied shaking his hand "and believe me the pleasure is all mine."
Throttle cleared his throat "You've already met Charlie, and that's Modo over there."
"Mame." Modo said
Jess looked past Charlie and stared at Modo. She looked up and down at him and raised an eyebrow in interest. "Hello there." she purred.
Jess turned to her left, surprising Throttle by putting both her hands on his chest and running her fingers through his tan fur. "If there had been mice like this on Mars I don't think I'd ever have left." She said toward Throttle a playful glint in her eyes. Throttle gulped uncomfortably, turning a bright shade of red. Charlie, unable to stop herself, burst out laughing. Jessie smiled and winked at her.
"Maybe later handsome." she said. Throttle gulped uncomfortably again.
"Jessie!" Vinnie hissed at her.
"Yes?" she asked turning towards him wide-eyed and innocent.
"Oh, never mind." Vinnie sighed
She moved towards him and Throttle quickly moved out of her way.
"Vin," Jessie asked "What are you doing here on earth anyway? I mean the company looks great but why didn't you come home?"
"I couldn't...I mean can't" He corrected "We got a stink face to take down here first."
"There's a Plutarkian here?" Jess asked surprised
"Two actually," Charlie corrected them both. "Don't forget Bree in Detroit." She reminded.
"And who's the other?" Jess asked turning back towards Charlie.
"Limburger. He's right here in Chicago." She answered.
"Limburger?" She twitched her tail "As in Lawrence Limburger? The same scum that was on Mars?"
Throttle nodded "That's him."
Jess didn't say anything, she just walked over to the open garage door and starred into the night.
"Those dogs are going to get cold soon if someone doesn't eat them." Charlie commented breaking the silence.
"Well," Modo picked up one and took a bite. "I'll just have to force myself to eat them."
"That'll be the day!" Charlie laughed
Jess thought back to the wars. She had many friends who had died in the resistance. Many friends. Jess remembered the hiding, the waiting, and the day the news came....
They had been camping in an old Freedom Fighter base after a surprise attack by the Plutarkians that had left most of the squad injured or dead. A young mouse, one of the ones that had gone out to find help had returned with news. Her voice had shook when she had told the terrible tale. The three leaders of the rebellion had been captured! The news came as a shock to all of them, especially Jessie. Her twin brother had been one of them. She had cried many nights for her brother she had assumed had been killed with the others. About one month ago she had found out the truth. He was alive and had been back on Mars! She hadn't found out till he had left again. They had gone back to earth and this time Jess decided to go find him.
Jess was snapped out of her memories by Charlie's voice. "Jess," she called, "Better come and get something to eat before these lunk-heads eat it all."
Jess reached up and brushed a stray tear out of her eye before turning around. "I'm coming." She walked over to the table and pulled up a chair between Modo and Vinnie.
"What's this?" She asked taking a hotdog and examining it.
"A hotdog." Vinnie explained between mouthfuls.
"Hotdog?" Jess said puzzled. She looked from Modo to Vin, to Throttle, and finally at Charlie. "Oh well, when on earth..." She took a bite of the dog.
"Well?" Charlie asked waiting for some kind of reaction.
Jess chewed slowly and swallowed "It's okay."
"Okay?" Vinnie acted hurt "It's awesome!"
Jess smiled "Okay, okay, it's awesome. Don't get your tail in a knot."
Charlie wiped her hands in the napkin by her empty plate. "well, I got to finish fixing your bike." She said pushing her chair across the garage floor and standing.
"Good idea." Jess said finishing her own hotdog. "He gets somewhat testy if not fixed in a hurry."
"Who?" Charlie asked
"My bike, my bike gets testy if not fixed right away."
"But you talk like it's alive or something?" Modo said
"Of course. Don't you?"
"Ya but..." Modo said confused
"What are you getting at sis?" Vinnie asked looking at her interested.
"Common little brother not you too?" Jessie sighed in frustration "Don't you know a bike with artificial intelligence when you see one?"
"Not possible," Throttle retorted "All other intelligent bikes were destroyed in the Plutarkian occupation of mars, except the three we have."
The bike by Charlie's side let out a series of loud beeps and gunned its engine. Charlie jumped in surprise.
"Easy Darlin'" Jess soothed "He didn't mean anything by it." She walked over to the bike and put a hand on its side. It settled down.
"Where did you get it?" Modo asked in awe.
"Near the end of the wars I found a nearly demolished bike. It was totaled, but the intelligence board was salvageable. I converted my regular bike to him."
"Intelligence board?" Charlie asked puzzled
"It's a computer board that provides the artificial intelligence to the bike." Throttle explained.
"You mean with one of those boards you can convert a normal bike to an intelligent one?" Charlie asked amazed at the concept.
"Ya but unfortunately when the Plutarkians realized that they couldn't control the bikes they started destroying them. These four are probably the only ones in the entire galaxy." Throttle finished sadly.
Charlie went back to work and finally took out the last ding in the fender. "There," she said running a hand along the back of it "Good as new."
"Impressive." Jess said admiring her work. The bike beeped in appreation. Jess chuckled "Looks like you made a friend for life."
Charlie laughed, setting her tools back in the tool box. the clock over the workbench chimed. "Looks like closing time."
"Ya, ya, we know Charlie-girl," Vinnie scarfed down the last dog "We're going."
"Jess," Charlie called to her "You can stay here with me tonight, I got a cot upstairs you can crash on. Better then listening to the guys snore." She grinned
"I don't snore!" Vinnie protested
"Ya, then you must sleep with a chain saw." Modo retorted
"Hey if anyone snores..."
The bickering started in the background.
"Well-if it's not too much trouble..." Jess said ignoring the mice and picking her backpack off the floor.
"That's our cue." Throttle said putting his helmet over his ears. He gave both bickering mice a poke.
"There's a great movie on TV anyway," Modo said roaring the engine of his bike. "James Bomb: View to Hurt"
"Oh Man!" Vinnie sighed rolling his eyes. "Not another one! Wasn't there one on last night?" he groaned
"What's James Bomb?" Jessie asked raising an eyebrow.
"He's only the most awesome human on the entire planet!" Modo beamed.
"Hey!" Charlie piped up
"Present company excluded of course." Modo said sheepishly
"Got that right!" Charlie smiled
The three mice finally ploughed out of the garage, and Charlie led Jess up to the room above the garage. While Charlie struggled to set up the old cot, Jess got ready for bed. She took a short night shirt from her backpack and laid it on Charlie's bed. Turning her back to Charlie, who was still fussing with the cot, she pulled off her long sleeve black shirt. Charlie chose that moment to turn around. She saw a long scar running from
Jessie's shoulder blade crossing her back to her hip.
"Oh my god." Charlie gasped, not meaning to say the comment aloud.
Jess quickly threw on the nightshirt and turned about to face a shocked Charlie. She smiled reassuringly. "It looks worse then it actually is." She threw the shirt in her backpack.
"It's none of my business." Charlie said quickly turning back to the cot.
"Hey it's not like it's some big secret or anything." Jess said putting her hands on her hips. "It happened during the wars."
Charlie turned around towards her as Jessie continued "Our squad was lead into a trap by the Plutarkians. A couple of explosive mines in the ground." Her eyes flickered with anger. "When the first mine in the ground went off, a whole bike was blown apart, along with its rider. There was a young officer no more then fifteen near him..." She broke off.
"So you saved him." Charlie finished amazed
"Ya," Jess said quietly "I got a piece of metal in my back for the effort too."
"It's amazing you lived." Charlie said shaking her head.
"Almost never," Jess shrugged her shoulders "But I'm stubborn." She smiled at Charlie. "Kind of like my brother, hey?"
"Got that right!" Charlie snickered. She walked over to the bed and plopped down on the mattress. "Has he always been that was?" Charlie asked curiously.
"Actually," Jess said thinking "He was tolerable when he was young, even kind of shy."
"Shy? Vinnie? We are talking about the same mouse here aren't we?"
Jess laughed and sat down on the cot. Reaching over she grabbed her backpack off the floor putting it in her lap. She rummaged for a few minutes and extracted a small book.
"What is that?" Charlie asked inching closer to the side of the bed.
"A photo album." Jess said getting up and sitting on the bed beside Charlie so she could see. Charlie looked at the pictures as Jess flipped through the album. There were lots of pictures of two white mice, one male, one female, that she guessed were Jess and Vinnie.
"Hey!" Charlie said pointing at Vinnie in one picture holding on to a small stuffed animal. "A teddy bear?"
"Ya," Jess smiled "He kept it with him till he was ten."
Charlie chuckled and Jess continued to flip through the book. Charlie noticed that threw the entire thing there was not one of them as teenagers, or adults. Only as children and they were always together. They were near the end when they came upon a picture of two older mice holding hands, both pure white.
"Who were they?" Charlie asked
"Our Parents." Jess replied softly running a hand across the picture. "They died while we were young."
"Sorry." Charlie said not knowing what else to. Jess sat looking at if for awhile before she shook her head as if to clear. She closed the book and placed it back in her backpack.
"So," Jess said getting up and stretching "What do you think of my little brother?"
"What?" Charlie asked surprised at the change in the topic of conversation.
"You mean to say my brother hasn't tried to put the moves on you yet?" She asked generally surprised.
"Often." Charlie muttered
Jess laughed "Yup, that's my bro. Did he succeed?" She asked
"Jessie! Of course not!" Charlie blurted
"Why not?" Jess continued to press
"It's just that...I mean..."Charlie stuttered "Ohhh I don't know!" She said exasperated
Jess laughed and Charlie joined in to after a moment.
"We better get some sleep." She finally said.
Jess gave a small yawn in reply nodding her head. Charlie got up from the bed and went into the washroom. Jess pulled back the covers on the cot and lid down.
"Charlie?" Jess laid her head on her hand.
"Ya!" Came Charlie's muffled reply.
"What are Throttle and Modo like?" she asked
"Oh their okay," Charlie replied "Throttle can be kind of serious at times but he's a fun enough guy."
"And Modo?" Jess asked propping her head on one of her hands.
Charlie came out of the washroom with a pajama set on, smiling. "You like him don't you?" she asked
Jess quickly lid back down on the pillow. "I hardly know him." She protested "What gave you that idea!"
"Just the way you looked at him is all." Charlie replied sitting on the bed. "You know he's not taken..."
Jessie blushed and turned away from Charlie embarrassed that she had seemed so obvious.
"You should go for it," Charlie continued "Besides I think he likes you too."
"Really!" Jess said turning back towards her, a little bit excited. "I mean...whatever."
She lid back on the pillow pretending the whole conversation was boring her.
Charlie stifled back a giggle and reached over the bed to turn out the light. "Night Jessie." She said clicking off the lamp. the room was engulfed in darkness.
Jess lay awake long after Charlie had turned out the light. Her mind was still going over the days events, she'd found him, she'd finally found him...but why had he not looked for her when he was back on Mars? Why? She finally fell asleep her exhaustion catching up with her, unfortunately rest was far from restful.
Author: Mandragoran
Rating: R (For violence)
Disclaimer: The Bikermice do not belong to me, they belong to other people other then me...the other mice characters belong to me though...please ask permission before using them...thanks
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"But...but.." Vinnie stuttered.
"Look at this," Jess said snidely "My brother at a loss for words. Well," She continued shaking her head. "I guess there's a first time for everything."
"But how did you get here?" Vinnie managed to say.
"Well, let's see, I took highway thirty-three. I think, or was that thirty-two..."
Vinnie gave her a harsh look and she smiled at him. "Don't tell me my little brother lost his sense of humor?"
"Little brother?" Charlie snickered behind him.
"One lousy minute and they never let you forget it." Vinnie rolled his eyes.
"Well, at least we can see who's got the looks of the family." Throttle said passing an annoyed looking Vinnie and extending his hand. "I'm Throttle. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Jess," She replied shaking his hand "and believe me the pleasure is all mine."
Throttle cleared his throat "You've already met Charlie, and that's Modo over there."
"Mame." Modo said
Jess looked past Charlie and stared at Modo. She looked up and down at him and raised an eyebrow in interest. "Hello there." she purred.
Jess turned to her left, surprising Throttle by putting both her hands on his chest and running her fingers through his tan fur. "If there had been mice like this on Mars I don't think I'd ever have left." She said toward Throttle a playful glint in her eyes. Throttle gulped uncomfortably, turning a bright shade of red. Charlie, unable to stop herself, burst out laughing. Jessie smiled and winked at her.
"Maybe later handsome." she said. Throttle gulped uncomfortably again.
"Jessie!" Vinnie hissed at her.
"Yes?" she asked turning towards him wide-eyed and innocent.
"Oh, never mind." Vinnie sighed
She moved towards him and Throttle quickly moved out of her way.
"Vin," Jessie asked "What are you doing here on earth anyway? I mean the company looks great but why didn't you come home?"
"I couldn't...I mean can't" He corrected "We got a stink face to take down here first."
"There's a Plutarkian here?" Jess asked surprised
"Two actually," Charlie corrected them both. "Don't forget Bree in Detroit." She reminded.
"And who's the other?" Jess asked turning back towards Charlie.
"Limburger. He's right here in Chicago." She answered.
"Limburger?" She twitched her tail "As in Lawrence Limburger? The same scum that was on Mars?"
Throttle nodded "That's him."
Jess didn't say anything, she just walked over to the open garage door and starred into the night.
"Those dogs are going to get cold soon if someone doesn't eat them." Charlie commented breaking the silence.
"Well," Modo picked up one and took a bite. "I'll just have to force myself to eat them."
"That'll be the day!" Charlie laughed
Jess thought back to the wars. She had many friends who had died in the resistance. Many friends. Jess remembered the hiding, the waiting, and the day the news came....
They had been camping in an old Freedom Fighter base after a surprise attack by the Plutarkians that had left most of the squad injured or dead. A young mouse, one of the ones that had gone out to find help had returned with news. Her voice had shook when she had told the terrible tale. The three leaders of the rebellion had been captured! The news came as a shock to all of them, especially Jessie. Her twin brother had been one of them. She had cried many nights for her brother she had assumed had been killed with the others. About one month ago she had found out the truth. He was alive and had been back on Mars! She hadn't found out till he had left again. They had gone back to earth and this time Jess decided to go find him.
Jess was snapped out of her memories by Charlie's voice. "Jess," she called, "Better come and get something to eat before these lunk-heads eat it all."
Jess reached up and brushed a stray tear out of her eye before turning around. "I'm coming." She walked over to the table and pulled up a chair between Modo and Vinnie.
"What's this?" She asked taking a hotdog and examining it.
"A hotdog." Vinnie explained between mouthfuls.
"Hotdog?" Jess said puzzled. She looked from Modo to Vin, to Throttle, and finally at Charlie. "Oh well, when on earth..." She took a bite of the dog.
"Well?" Charlie asked waiting for some kind of reaction.
Jess chewed slowly and swallowed "It's okay."
"Okay?" Vinnie acted hurt "It's awesome!"
Jess smiled "Okay, okay, it's awesome. Don't get your tail in a knot."
Charlie wiped her hands in the napkin by her empty plate. "well, I got to finish fixing your bike." She said pushing her chair across the garage floor and standing.
"Good idea." Jess said finishing her own hotdog. "He gets somewhat testy if not fixed in a hurry."
"Who?" Charlie asked
"My bike, my bike gets testy if not fixed right away."
"But you talk like it's alive or something?" Modo said
"Of course. Don't you?"
"Ya but..." Modo said confused
"What are you getting at sis?" Vinnie asked looking at her interested.
"Common little brother not you too?" Jessie sighed in frustration "Don't you know a bike with artificial intelligence when you see one?"
"Not possible," Throttle retorted "All other intelligent bikes were destroyed in the Plutarkian occupation of mars, except the three we have."
The bike by Charlie's side let out a series of loud beeps and gunned its engine. Charlie jumped in surprise.
"Easy Darlin'" Jess soothed "He didn't mean anything by it." She walked over to the bike and put a hand on its side. It settled down.
"Where did you get it?" Modo asked in awe.
"Near the end of the wars I found a nearly demolished bike. It was totaled, but the intelligence board was salvageable. I converted my regular bike to him."
"Intelligence board?" Charlie asked puzzled
"It's a computer board that provides the artificial intelligence to the bike." Throttle explained.
"You mean with one of those boards you can convert a normal bike to an intelligent one?" Charlie asked amazed at the concept.
"Ya but unfortunately when the Plutarkians realized that they couldn't control the bikes they started destroying them. These four are probably the only ones in the entire galaxy." Throttle finished sadly.
Charlie went back to work and finally took out the last ding in the fender. "There," she said running a hand along the back of it "Good as new."
"Impressive." Jess said admiring her work. The bike beeped in appreation. Jess chuckled "Looks like you made a friend for life."
Charlie laughed, setting her tools back in the tool box. the clock over the workbench chimed. "Looks like closing time."
"Ya, ya, we know Charlie-girl," Vinnie scarfed down the last dog "We're going."
"Jess," Charlie called to her "You can stay here with me tonight, I got a cot upstairs you can crash on. Better then listening to the guys snore." She grinned
"I don't snore!" Vinnie protested
"Ya, then you must sleep with a chain saw." Modo retorted
"Hey if anyone snores..."
The bickering started in the background.
"Well-if it's not too much trouble..." Jess said ignoring the mice and picking her backpack off the floor.
"That's our cue." Throttle said putting his helmet over his ears. He gave both bickering mice a poke.
"There's a great movie on TV anyway," Modo said roaring the engine of his bike. "James Bomb: View to Hurt"
"Oh Man!" Vinnie sighed rolling his eyes. "Not another one! Wasn't there one on last night?" he groaned
"What's James Bomb?" Jessie asked raising an eyebrow.
"He's only the most awesome human on the entire planet!" Modo beamed.
"Hey!" Charlie piped up
"Present company excluded of course." Modo said sheepishly
"Got that right!" Charlie smiled
The three mice finally ploughed out of the garage, and Charlie led Jess up to the room above the garage. While Charlie struggled to set up the old cot, Jess got ready for bed. She took a short night shirt from her backpack and laid it on Charlie's bed. Turning her back to Charlie, who was still fussing with the cot, she pulled off her long sleeve black shirt. Charlie chose that moment to turn around. She saw a long scar running from
Jessie's shoulder blade crossing her back to her hip.
"Oh my god." Charlie gasped, not meaning to say the comment aloud.
Jess quickly threw on the nightshirt and turned about to face a shocked Charlie. She smiled reassuringly. "It looks worse then it actually is." She threw the shirt in her backpack.
"It's none of my business." Charlie said quickly turning back to the cot.
"Hey it's not like it's some big secret or anything." Jess said putting her hands on her hips. "It happened during the wars."
Charlie turned around towards her as Jessie continued "Our squad was lead into a trap by the Plutarkians. A couple of explosive mines in the ground." Her eyes flickered with anger. "When the first mine in the ground went off, a whole bike was blown apart, along with its rider. There was a young officer no more then fifteen near him..." She broke off.
"So you saved him." Charlie finished amazed
"Ya," Jess said quietly "I got a piece of metal in my back for the effort too."
"It's amazing you lived." Charlie said shaking her head.
"Almost never," Jess shrugged her shoulders "But I'm stubborn." She smiled at Charlie. "Kind of like my brother, hey?"
"Got that right!" Charlie snickered. She walked over to the bed and plopped down on the mattress. "Has he always been that was?" Charlie asked curiously.
"Actually," Jess said thinking "He was tolerable when he was young, even kind of shy."
"Shy? Vinnie? We are talking about the same mouse here aren't we?"
Jess laughed and sat down on the cot. Reaching over she grabbed her backpack off the floor putting it in her lap. She rummaged for a few minutes and extracted a small book.
"What is that?" Charlie asked inching closer to the side of the bed.
"A photo album." Jess said getting up and sitting on the bed beside Charlie so she could see. Charlie looked at the pictures as Jess flipped through the album. There were lots of pictures of two white mice, one male, one female, that she guessed were Jess and Vinnie.
"Hey!" Charlie said pointing at Vinnie in one picture holding on to a small stuffed animal. "A teddy bear?"
"Ya," Jess smiled "He kept it with him till he was ten."
Charlie chuckled and Jess continued to flip through the book. Charlie noticed that threw the entire thing there was not one of them as teenagers, or adults. Only as children and they were always together. They were near the end when they came upon a picture of two older mice holding hands, both pure white.
"Who were they?" Charlie asked
"Our Parents." Jess replied softly running a hand across the picture. "They died while we were young."
"Sorry." Charlie said not knowing what else to. Jess sat looking at if for awhile before she shook her head as if to clear. She closed the book and placed it back in her backpack.
"So," Jess said getting up and stretching "What do you think of my little brother?"
"What?" Charlie asked surprised at the change in the topic of conversation.
"You mean to say my brother hasn't tried to put the moves on you yet?" She asked generally surprised.
"Often." Charlie muttered
Jess laughed "Yup, that's my bro. Did he succeed?" She asked
"Jessie! Of course not!" Charlie blurted
"Why not?" Jess continued to press
"It's just that...I mean..."Charlie stuttered "Ohhh I don't know!" She said exasperated
Jess laughed and Charlie joined in to after a moment.
"We better get some sleep." She finally said.
Jess gave a small yawn in reply nodding her head. Charlie got up from the bed and went into the washroom. Jess pulled back the covers on the cot and lid down.
"Charlie?" Jess laid her head on her hand.
"Ya!" Came Charlie's muffled reply.
"What are Throttle and Modo like?" she asked
"Oh their okay," Charlie replied "Throttle can be kind of serious at times but he's a fun enough guy."
"And Modo?" Jess asked propping her head on one of her hands.
Charlie came out of the washroom with a pajama set on, smiling. "You like him don't you?" she asked
Jess quickly lid back down on the pillow. "I hardly know him." She protested "What gave you that idea!"
"Just the way you looked at him is all." Charlie replied sitting on the bed. "You know he's not taken..."
Jessie blushed and turned away from Charlie embarrassed that she had seemed so obvious.
"You should go for it," Charlie continued "Besides I think he likes you too."
"Really!" Jess said turning back towards her, a little bit excited. "I mean...whatever."
She lid back on the pillow pretending the whole conversation was boring her.
Charlie stifled back a giggle and reached over the bed to turn out the light. "Night Jessie." She said clicking off the lamp. the room was engulfed in darkness.
Jess lay awake long after Charlie had turned out the light. Her mind was still going over the days events, she'd found him, she'd finally found him...but why had he not looked for her when he was back on Mars? Why? She finally fell asleep her exhaustion catching up with her, unfortunately rest was far from restful.
